Episode 18

The way he rolls his feet is somehow like a squirrel whose acorns have been taken away.

"I'm not comforting you!"

"Even if it's okay."

Felix said, restraining the corners of his lips that kept rising up.

"Anyway, let me explain this one thing. … … I didn't use my feet when solving problems."

"I, I know!"

Lucy shouted out with a really sad expression on her face.

Felix finally covered his face with his palms and bowed his head. Because he couldn't hold back the laughter that flowed out. As his shoulders shook, Lucy asked in a more bewildered voice.

"Elder! Are you crying... … ?"

Lucy slowly approached him.

"really… … Are you really crying?"

Felix said with his head bowed and purposely weeping.

"… … okay. As you said, I am a dumb crybaby."

"Yes? I didn't say that!"

"I'm a troll claw."

"Why are you saying that all of a sudden!"

"I'm a midge worm that can't even be used as bait."

"No!"

Suddenly, Lucy's hand gripped Felix's cheeks and lifted his face. Felix was startled and lowered the hand that was covering his face. His eyes widened.

"Don't say that, senpai!"

Lucy said as she covered his cheek and wept.

"Senior, I'm not a midgeworm!"

Felix stopped breathing, forgetting to tease her.

"uh… … ."

"If you live, you might get a score like that!"

"I… … ."

"You can do well in the next exam!"

After finishing speaking, Lucy took a small breath while still covering Felix's face with both hands. Her emerald-colored eyes were moist.

"Why… … ."

Felix slowly exhaled the breath he had been holding back and opened his mouth.

"You want to cry… … ."

mislead people.

"Ah!"

Only then did Lucy realize what she had done, and withdrew her hand in amazement. But before she could step back, Felix snapped her wrist.

"… … Then you help."

Felix said softly. His voice was strangely warm.

"I think I can do it if you watch from the side. Let's study for the exam together."

Lucy opened her eyes wide as Felix's large hand held her wrist.

"I won't interfere with your studies."

When she didn't answer, Felix added quickly.

"No?"

He anxiously waited for Lucy's reply. After a while she nodded slowly.

"really?"

Felix, who was stunned when his consent fell, asked again with an expression of disbelief.

"… … Yes, we are together."

Lucy answered with a trembling voice.

A bright light appeared on Felix's face.

is this a dream

What a Library Day with Lucy Keenan... … No, studying for the exam!

This gave him an opportunity to get closer to Lucy.

"I… … Elder. But please let this go."

Lucy, whose wrists were clasped in his hands while Felix rejoiced, said cautiously.

"Oh sorry."

He blushed and put his hands down.

"Then we… … ."

'When do we meet?' The moment you want to ask a question.

Crackle, clap!

Suddenly, the doorknob turned loudly.

"Lucy! Are you inside?"

Someone knocked on the door and asked. It was Colin's voice.

"Why is the door like this again? Because it's a breakdown if it's too late!"

Colin said angrily from the other side of the door.

Felix's expression wrinkled harshly.

"Why are you here again? Clean the bees."

He spoke dissatisfyingly towards the uninvited guests who had been chasing them all the way to the library.

"Felix-senpai! Are you really like this?"

As soon as he heard his voice, Colin immediately expressed his sadness.

"How can you leave me alone? If the 'real Adrian sunbae' hadn't come and saved me, I might have really cleaned the hallway!"

"It's a shame."

Felix replied in a sullen tone.

leech-like child. The atmosphere was good.

"Colin, I think the handle is broken. Adrian-senpai knows how to open it, can you call me?"

Lucy approached the door and said to the other side.

"Huh? You can just get out of that hole!"

Colin said in a bewildered voice.

"Wow, what hole?"

Suddenly, Lucy stuttered as if embarrassed.

"I don't know what you're talking about. Can you call Adrian-senpai quickly?"

"What are you talking about! The hole we came out of the last time we were trapped!"

Colin's suffocating voice rang straight in from the other side. Lucy's face lit up like a blush in an instant.

"That, well… … . Was there anything like that?"

"what the! Lucy, is there something wrong with your memory?"

Colin said, 'This hole!' I heard footsteps walking somewhere. Soon after, Colin's head popped out of the corner. There must have been a small ventilation window that Felix had not noticed.

"Lucy! Felix-senpai!"

With his head sticking out of the hole, Colin gave them a mischievous smile.

"Wow!"

Soon he began to crumple himself into the hole.

"Look, you can come out like this!"

"Pi, Felix-senpai can't go there!"

Lucy shouted bluntly at Colin, who was procrastinating like a snake to get out of the hole.

"Oh, is that so?"

Colin used the dragon in the hole and looked up at Felix, who was much bigger than him.

"Anyway, it would have been better if you came out and called someone. Felix-senpai would be unreasonable, but if it were you... … Oh wait!"

Suddenly, Colin made a strange expression.

"Why are you so tight?"

Colin, half of his shoulder out, wriggled to get the rest of his body out. But no matter how hard he struggled, his shoulder didn't move in the hole.

"Yah… … Lucy! Help me! My shoulder must have been stuck in the hole!"

He asked for help with a puzzled face.

"Felix-senpai! Don't look like that, help me!"

Lucy looked down at him and sighed deeply.

"I can't live."

As she muttered a little, as she was about to step forward to help Colin,

"Lucy."

Felix stopped her.

"Yes?"

"Stand back for a moment."

Felix said, pointing away from the door. At the sudden instruction, Lucy withdrew with a puzzled expression.

"What, why don't you help me!"

Ignoring Colin's prompting, Felix shook the locked door a few times. The hinges vibrated vaguely.

Soon he wanted to take a step back, and then he kicked the door hard with his foot.

bang!

The loosely attached hinges fell off at once, and the door leaf flew into the hallway. White dust rose from under the door that had fallen on the floor.

"what! What does this mean?"

Colin's frightened voice flew in.

"Connor, I'll call someone, so hold on for a second."

Felix said to Colin.

"Yeah? What does that mean?"

Colin asked, struggling.

"Are you going to leave me alone again? Isn't it?"

As if he had sensed the danger of being left alone, his face was stained with embarrassment.

"Let's go first."

Felix ignored Colin's words and led Lucy.

"Lucy! Don't leave me!"

Colin's pathetic cry echoed through the library.

"I'm sorry, Colin… … ."

Lucy, with a perplexed expression on her face, was led by Felix's hand and followed the library.

* * *

When Colin's voice could no longer be heard, Felix stopped. After the noisy interrupter disappeared, I was finally able to have a conversation with Lucy.

"Then, when will we see you at the library?"

he asked Lucy. It was meant to set a time limit so that she could not change her words.

Lucy thought about Felix's question quite seriously.

"How is your weekend?"

she suggested

"From this weekend, Mrs. Erin has decided to take over all the work of the library. Book members also have to prepare for midterm exams."

"okay?"

Weekend library day... … No, study for the exam.

Felix was very satisfied.

"Good weekend."

He answered, hiding his expression so as not to show his liking too much.

"Then, are you going to see it in front of the library at ten this weekend?"

"Yes."

Lucy answered.

A satisfied smile crept up on Felix's face.

* * *

After finishing the last class, Felix whistled and returned to the dormitory. Adrian, who was always at the academy until later, for some reason greeted him in his room.

"You look good. Anything good?"

He looked at Felix's bright face and asked.

"No, not really."

Felix quickly hid his expression and answered briefly. He didn't want to tell Adrian what happened with Lucy as much as he did.

"Spicy."

Adrian looked at his older brother and smiled softly. But the next moment, with a shadow over his face, he picked up a letter from the desk.

"I don't mean to ruin your mood."

Carefully speaking, Adrian handed it to Felix.

"Your father sent you a letter."

At those words, Felix's expression, as he slowly took off his uniform, hardened. His mood, which had soared high in the sky due to his promise with Lucy, quickly dropped to the bottom.

Felix accepted the letter. The envelope was stamped with the familiar Berg family crest. He ripped open the envelope with his disrespectful hand.

In the letter, a short sentence, 'This weekend, attend the opening ceremony of the port of Libourg' was written without saying goodbye.

"ha… … ."

Felix took a deep breath as he shook his head with one hand. Then he threw the letter on the desk like throwing it away.

"What is it?"

Adrian picked up the letter. After a while, when he checked the contents, his forehead was also wrinkled.

"Libourg port… … . After all, he did it."