Chapter 17 (1/2)

A woman’s gossip was a terrifying weapon. The incident between Isaac and Kaizen had spread across the entire Campus within hours. Some of the colleagues and seniors of Kaizen in the 2nd Military School rose up to defend him but faltered when the girls in favour of Isaac clashed against them.

Not only were they inexperienced in dealing with the girls, the rumour about Isaac’s background had begun to change. After the shameful display of running with his tail between his legs, it was now Kaizen who was labelled the fool of the Rondart Family and that Isaac was mislabelled as such because of his birth and the lack of support within the family. With such rumours taking shape, the students who tried to defend Kaizen stayed quiet to avoid being grouped together with Kaizen.

In fact, some of the students were enraged at Kaizen. All of the girls began treating the students in the 2nd Military School as insects, and the boys were mad that Kaizen had destroyed their chance at romance before it even started.

While the Campus was in a turmoil with this incident, Isaac himself was enjoying a leisurely life within the port lodge. The Student Council investigated what had occurred on the day of the incident and placed him under house arrest.

Isaac welcomed this decision. As someone who found just walking to the Campus from the port bothersome, he now had a reason to stay at home. But it didn’t take long before the peace was broken.

“Don’t you guys have cla.s.ses to attend to?”

“What, is that the first thing you say to your cute Hubae?”

Disappointment was clearly visible on Reisha’s face. She came to visit Isaac early in the morning with a large fish in her hand. Next to her was Kunette, who was quietly staring up at Isaac.

“What are you here for? Students are banned from entering the port, you know.”

“That rule only applies to the students of the Campus. They said that College students are exempt from that rule.”

“Really? Then why did they never… I guess there is no point in them coming here.”

The College was an inst.i.tution for the gifted, and it held the responsibility of a.s.signing the most tremendous amount of work to challenge them in any way possible. Kunette and Reisha would be the only people who’d have the time to visit the port to play in the entire College.

“… Isaac, I want honey.”

“Hm?”

Kunette began tugging on Isaac’s pants as she asked for the honey. It seemed Kunette’s goal in this visit was the honey.

“Then why don’t we have some honey tea?”

There was nothing special about the honey tea. Calling it tea was overselling it; it was just a spoon of honey mixed in warm water. But Reisha headed to the kitchen instead and decided to make sas.h.i.+mi for herself with the fish she had just caught and Kunette simply heated the honey itself and started devouring it with her spoon.

At this point, Isaac didn’t care what Reisha and Kunette were doing. He wasn’t one to feel loneliness, for he never really cared about having social contact. For Isaac, these two were just entertainment if they were around and nothing more.

“Do you not like honey?”

Reisha seemed to have a mixed feeling to Isaac’s question.

“Rather than hating it, I just find honey made by humans bland.”

“Bland? The honey?”

“… Elven honey, tasty.”

Watching Kunette, who was obsessed about honey, talk in a lucid state seemed to give credence to Reisha’s words.

“Hm, I’m starting to get curious as to how they taste?”

“Ahem! If you really, REALLY want it that badly, then I just might try extra hard to ask for some from home.”

“No thanks, I’m not that desperate.”

Sadness enveloped Reisha’s face as her somewhat arrogant att.i.tude was cut short by Isaac’s remark, but then she quickly perked up again.

“Oh yea, I heard you did someone in already. That’s too bad! If I was there too, I would have f.u.c.ked him up good along you.”

“And where did you learn to speak like that?”

While Isaac was baffled by Reisha’s crude choice of words, the door opened without a knock and a boy came barging into the lodge.

“Hey! I didn’t think you’d come to visit me personally? Should I say it’s been a while, brother?”

“Don’t act so friendly, trash.”

Kainen’s rudeness quickly came into Reisha and Kunette’s attention. Reisha jumped off her chair while Kunette began to growl with her fangs in plain view. After a quick loathing look at the two, he turned back at Isaac to continue his words.

“Are they your new guardian angels since Mazelan Sunbae is gone?”

Isaac stopped Reisha and Kunette, who tried to speak against Kainen.

“These two aren’t very useful as guardians.”

“Huh? Sunbaenim!”

“… I’m useless?”

Isaac quickly calmed down the two from crying before looking back at Kainen.

“So why is someone so n.o.ble visiting a piece of trash like me?”

After a brief pause and a cold look, Kainen smirked at Isaac’s question.

“Family business.”

“Family business… Is it because of Kaizen?”

“No. I’m just here because the name I’d forgotten had begun to come to my ears lately. It really is strange. Your personality is completely different from back home. It’s as if you’re a different person.”

The two stared at each other, neither yielding an inch.