The afternoon class passed by in vain.
And then, the club time that followed.
The daily routine continued naturally, like flowing water, but today’s routine was quite different from usual.
“……Princess.”
“What’s going on?”
“Why did you follow me here?”
Because Layla had come to the club room where Tinia and I always quietly read books.
After hearing what I said, Layla made a face as if she was wondering what nonsense I was talking about.
“Following you? I was just a legitimate student of the academy, so I applied to join this club and joined.”
“…… Senior Tinia.”
“That’s right, I was surprised at first too. I didn’t know that Princess Layla would join our club herself.”
Tinia nodded, personally confirming that Layla’s words were true.
“…….”
“I brought a book like this because the club president told me to bring a book to read before we started. Is there another problem?”
As soon as the afternoon class ended, Layla waved a book that she assumed she had borrowed from the library in front of me.
Hmm.
They say that if something is too absurd, you will be speechless.
I don’t know who first discovered this fact, but it was a fact that I could relate to very well.
I am speechless.
This situation is just so absurd that I am speechless.
As if she had read my expression, Layla looked at me with a slight frown.
“A new club member has finally joined, but his expression is so gloomy. Does club president Lian Trice always have that kind of expression?”
“He’s not usually bright, but today he’s even worse than usual.”
“As the club president, I’d like to ask you to say something sharp.”
“Okay. Junior Lian?”
Tinia smiled brightly as if she had found a good opportunity after hearing Layla’s suggestion.
“…”
“Junior Lian?”
As I was caught in a trap where I couldn’t refuse, I could only answer weakly.
“……Yes.”
“The answer is a bit late today.
No matter how comfortable I am as a senior, he must be the club president.”
“…”
“Anyway, this isn’t important. Could you tell me why your expression is so bad right now?”
That was Tinia’s way of speaking.
Very polite, but more than anything, it was a way of speaking that looked into the essence.
Instead of blaming the other person for the reason herself, she encouraged the other person to say the reason herself.
It was fun to see Damian suffer in the original.
But when I entered Tinia’s club and experienced it myself, it was the most difficult way to adapt to.
“…I’m sorry, Princess. I didn’t control my expression well.”
“I accept your apology.”
Layla nodded with a slightly angry expression.
“Good. Today, as the club president, I think I protected the peace of the club.”
Tinia was making an expression that seemed genuinely happy and excited.
It was truly a fantastic combination.
Could there be a combination that would drive the person next to her crazy more than this?
‘……There’s no way.’
There probably wasn’t.
Because in the original, the two’s compatibility was a combination that the original’s fans really liked.
Tinia, who always made a fuss and laughed loudly.
Layla, who sat quietly next to her and looked at her as if she found it funny.
It would have been a sad scene if it was left out of the episode where Tinia appeared.
It was a very touching scene that only the main character, Damian, died in the middle of them.
“…”
And, even more so for those who knew about the changes in their relationship afterwards.
It was just amazing.
For me, who knew exactly what the future would be like for the two, it was incredibly amazing.
It had already been a long time since they had deviated from the original path.
The first meeting between Layla and Tinia had not originally happened this quickly.
After the midterms.
After the finals.
If it had been like that, then Layla, who had definitely become interested in Damian, would have met Tinia, Damian’s club senior.
Roughly speaking, it would have been at least two months.
Their first meeting had been brought forward by at least two months.
‘……Because of me.’
And it was because of me.
The current me had acted differently from the original Lian Trice, and the original had changed.
As I said before, I was just amazed by this.
That it had changed.
It was amazing that the content of the original had changed because of me.
Of course, I wasn’t afraid of this.
I wasn’t afraid that a future I didn’t know about might come.
If I had had that kind of fear, then my past self wouldn’t have lived so diligently.
It was natural.
All those efforts were acts of changing the original.
In order not to follow the predetermined future.
After all, it was the original villain extra’s effort to avoid meeting the predetermined villain’s ending.
I just gave up.
Because I was tired of the reality that didn’t change no matter how hard I tried.
……The reason for the limited-time sentence I received at the hospital, which was a year at most.
It wasn’t a predetermined ending.
I just gave up in despair because the ending wasn’t much different from the original ending.
“Anyway, Your Highness, you originally had a club, didn’t you?”
“Now that I think about it, that’s true. What happened to the student body you were originally in?”
I had given up on it, so now there was no way I could be afraid of the original’s changes.
Layla, who was questioned by both of them at once, said in a confident voice that there was no need to worry about that.
“There’s no need to worry about that. As you all probably already know, there’s no problem at all with students joining multiple clubs.”
“Hmm, but doesn’t your highness have work to do in the student affairs department? What happens to that work?”
“Of course, I’ve already finished it all. The reason I was able to join here in the first place is because I finish the work assigned to me faster than anyone else.”
“Oh…”
Tinia looked at Laila with an expression of admiration.
I sighed deeply as I had expected the answer to the question I had asked just in case.
It’s not working.
Do I have no choice but to accept it?
In fact, if you think about it a little, there was no harm to the club from Layla joining.
It was a club that was already in danger of being shut down because there were only two members.
With Layla, a new member and the first princess to enter the academy, everyone’s attention was drawn to her.
At least the danger of being shut down was gone for now.
Considering the value of Layla’s name, it’s true that there’s no chance of it being abolished in the future.
The club chosen by the first royal blood who entered the academy.
There’s no benefit to the academy from abolishing such a club.
‘……Haa.’
However, my head hurts because it seems like I’m getting increasingly involved in various incidents.
I can’t figure out Elena.
Layla suddenly started taking an interest in me.
‘…….Why did I do that earlier.’
I’ve already gotten involved with Ellis too much.
Late regret.
Is there a word that can describe what I’m doing now more accurately than that?
It was literal regret.
Regret that comes later because I did something I didn’t have to do.
Something felt strange.
My judgment, my thoughts.
No, everything, including me, felt strange.
If it had been before I was sentenced.
If the situation had happened before I was sentenced to death, would I have acted the same way?
I probably wouldn’t have.
I would have been so obsessed with changing my current image that I wouldn’t have even thought about getting up.
Because I was given a terminal diagnosis.
I knew that my end was already decided, so I committed this act.
“……Haa.”
“Junior, I told you not to sigh.”
“……I’m sorry.”
Even though I knew this fact, I still didn’t understand.
Layla, who must have been completely unaware of my troubled mind, opened her mouth with a calm expression.
“It would be understandable to sigh. The situation earlier was a bit surprising to me.”
“Just now? Did something happen to Junior Lian in class today?”
“If it was surprising, it was surprising, and if it was amazing, it was amazing. But I won’t tell the club president.”
“……Huh? Why?”
A very curious expression on her face suddenly cooled down after hearing Layla’s words.
Layla smiled as if she found Tinia funny and continued speaking.
“The club president is a third-year senior. You don’t have to know about what happened during the second-year class, right?”
“……I’m the club president of the princess and junior Lian?”
“Then there’s no need to know more. The club president probably has his own secrets.”
“…”
“Then I think it would be better to think of it as covering up the club members’ secrets for now.”
Tinia had a dumbfounded expression.
I, who heard that together with her, also had a dumbfounded expression.
Suddenly now?
You were having fun just now, and now you’re keeping a secret?
Giving a disease and medicine.
It was the old saying that meant taking victory once again this time.
“How about this? Maybe I can help you.”
“……Yes?”
Layla, who had been looking straight at me, made a suggestion to me.
“I will personally help you do well on your midterm exams.”
“…”
“And in exchange for my helping you, you will tell me one thing I am curious about.”
An offer that is so clear in its intent, yet not easy to refuse.
That was the offer that the Imperial Princess Layla von Pelias had made to me.
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