Putting Ruslan's plan to feed fairy berries required several steps.
The first and most important task was to find where the fairies were trapped, the secret garden. Unfortunately, I don't know the exact location of the Secret Garden.
Ten years passed, and the biggest problem was that when writing the novel, the location of the secret garden was vaguely set near the magic department library.
This means that you have to thoroughly search the entire Department of Magic before entrusting the mission to Asti.
It gave me a headache, but I couldn't help it.
It certainly won't be easy to find, but since I received a certain amount of Asti's power and gained a magical eye that can see the flow of magical power, there is a possibility that I can find it more smoothly than I thought.
But on the other hand, there was a possibility that even if one had magic eyes, it would still be difficult to find them. The fairies trapped in the secret garden did unimaginably mischievous things and kept them hidden so thoroughly that ordinary magicians would not dare to find them.
wait for a moment, Asti is not an ordinary magician, right?
Maybe I could get Asti to do that.
I was worried needlessly. I just feel like I wasted my time. Asti will definitely be able to find hidden traces of the fairy.
You have to give orders. There is a place where fairies are hiding near the Department of Magic, and a crack appears there.
I will then provoke Ruslan's group and lead them there while Asti opens the rift.
It was simpler than I thought.
The problem was... how to stimulate them.
First, let's think about it a little.
While Asti was sleeping in the bed next door, I thought about a solution all day, but I couldn't think of a suitable way. How could I provoke them? I couldn't provoke them like any punk could.
This is because my father gave me a strict order not to cause any more trouble at the academy. The greatest power that allowed me to develop this story was the power of the Lancel family, but if I lose the power of the Lancel family, the plans I can make will be limited.
Provoke them without causing a scene? how?
No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't come up with an answer, so I sighed. right. They will do something anyway. Ruslan was already glaring at me, so I knew something was going to happen in the next fencing lesson.
Then I had no choice but to make that person even angrier.
...that's what I thought. But, as always, the situation exceeded my expectations.
All the thoughts that were tangled in my head were completely useless the next day.
why? Because those people came to fight me first. I thought Ruslan was going to bother me during fencing class. What is this? Surprisingly, it was not Ruslan who blatantly chose to fight.
It was Aris.
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Perhaps it was because of yesterday's shock. Arias' mind was confused.
Frax's eyes are like indifferent glass beads. His eyes, which she thought would shine with deep desire and obsession, were instead looking at her indifferently.
The reason Aris was mentally confused did not lie elsewhere. It was because of Frax's attitude of looking at her as a complete stranger.
why. she recited.
If he cared enough about her to want to rape her and couldn't suppress that desire, then what did that indifference mean?
It'll be okay. At that time, what I said to Ruslan suddenly came to mind.
Would it be okay? does not make sense. Rather, his indifference only hurt her more. So she couldn't be okay.
A presence as natural as breathing suddenly disappeared completely from her life. Aris simply could not accept that fact. She couldn't accept the fact that her friend, who had always helped her and watched over her, would never come back.
Why did this happen?
And why did he suddenly show such indifference to her?
She couldn't even feel the subtle kindness towards Ruslan. What filled her mind now was not Ruslan, the object of her affection, but Frax, who had sinned against her.
Frax, Frax, Frax. The boy promised to always by her side.
The boy who cried and laughed with her since she was a child and shared all of her childhood memories.
She couldn't accept the fact that the boy might be gone forever.
At first she thought it would be okay. There was Ruslan, there was John, there was Diana. She thought that just making new memories was enough.
But the moment Frax's sunlight-like eyes looked like glass beads, she knew something was very wrong.
Moreover, she came to the conclusion that there was nothing that could fill the hole in her chest.
It cannot be cancelled. Because Frax tried to offend her first, their relationship deteriorated beyond repair.
No matter how many new memories she accumulated, the happy memories that were always in the back of her mind were bound to appear before her in a distorted form.
She had to bury them. Aris were recited continuously. Only then could she move forward.
But maliciously.
In her distress, she desperately tried to push away her thoughts about Frax, but could only stare blankly at the unexpected sight she encountered at the noisy academy gate the next day.
Because... Frax, who had been harassing her all last night, was getting off the Lancel family's carriage, escorting a certain girl.
And that girl was someone she knew very well. Asti is a timid girl who doesn't get along well with others.
Why did she get off the Lancel family carriage?
And why was Frax escorting her with a smile on his face?
She felt her hands shaking. she suddenly realized
Because there was one thing.
The reason why Frax looked at her with indifferent eyes yesterday was probably because someone else had already entered his heart.
Frax clearly sinned against her.
But that doesn't mean Aris isn't at fault either.
She did not explicitly break off her relationship with Frax. Knowing his feelings, she tried to subtly give him some space and keep him by her side.
Because she needed him. If she really cared about Frax's feelings, she should have done so so that he would not harbor any lingering feelings for her.
But she unknowingly tied him up. She said many times that Frax would always remain her friend, justifying the oath he had made when he was a child.
And foolishly, he continued to watch Arias' side. Her heart was rotting without her knowledge. In the end, his unavoidable desire led him to make the wrong choice, which led to his destruction.
In such a situation, it was natural for Frax to let go of any lingering feelings he had toward her.
The indifference in his eyes effectively meant that he would no longer keep her in his world.
Arias felt like her heart was being torn apart. It was very painful for her to see the smile that was always directed at her change into a different smile.
Aris's gaze turned towards Asti, who was crouching among the gazes around her.
She could not understand why Asti accepted Frax's favor despite knowing what he had done to Arias, and her shy smile disgusted her. It seemed like everything was Asti's fault.
It was an absurd and contradictory thought, but she felt it slowly creeping up on her.
The place next to Frax was originally her seat. Although not a lover, he was someone who should always remain a friend. Our always stable and peaceful daily life would have continued.
The possibility that Frax might have reacted differently to her if Asti had not existed stimulated Arias' impulse.
Aris's gaze and Asti's red eyes met in a precarious tug of war.
The red eyes contained a strange mockery.
'This boy was yours all along!
As she said that, Arias couldn't hold back and moved her feet in front of them.
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In front of me, Aris looked at me with a very fierce and raised gaze.
"Well done, Mister Lancel. After you did that to me, you are going to set a new goal."
A cold voice penetrates my lungs. A chill settled around us.
Thank god. There's no need to provoke... But why? This scene was not in the original. Where did it go differently? After the attempted r*pe incident, Arias reacted to Frax with complete indifference.
Now that I was involved in the storyline, and now I had the upper hand over Asti in the contract, it was foolish to expect everything to go the same way as the original. So, I was looking for ways to strengthen the main character as much as possible to fit the original story.
But... this situation was unexpected. Because even I couldn't imagine Arias fighting with Frax at the academy gate.
Anyway, now that the situation was like this, I thought it best to intensify her hostility towards me even more. The more hostility she has toward me, the faster she will grow.
"What does that have to do with you?"
Did you expect me to speak in that voice? Even Asti was startled by the completely emotionless voice, and Aris' body violently flinched.