Chapter 99 (1/2)
This wasn’t right.
As I walked down the corridor my chest couldn’t contain the irritation that was welling up.
For the last three years I have been killing myself every day.
I ceased contact with Michelie, forced myself even though I wanted to apologise to her, stifled my love of Michelie, all to live this selfish life.
It might seem like it’s been a fun life, but it is just compensation for cutting myself off from Michelie.
And the result has been the betrayal of the people closest to me.
No, betrayal or whatever you want to call it, objectively they didn’t mean any harm, but betrayal is betrayal. Establishing the fanclub etc, they never asked my permission. If I had known about it in advance I would have never permitted it. In the first place why are people even joining this thing? My Behaviour should have been, for a high class Duke’s daughter, absolutely unacceptable. Was it Catalina? Did she pointlessly manipulate my public image?
“Dammit. Don’t be so efficient at such weird things honestly…..!”
As the questions in my head swirled and fought, I didn’t even try to calm my mind.
When I checked, those two had already left the academy under suitable sounding pretenses. Rona had returned home for a sudden matchmaking appointment, as for Catalina it was said that her older brother is on death’s door.
To go that far…Especially Catalina. A guy like Geist, full of life, don’t jinx him by pretending he’s on the verge of dying. Even if you don’t get along with your sibling, don’t just try and kill them off to get out of school!
They’re excuses are blatant lies, but it’s not like I can easily prove it to the administration. I considered going home to check, but that would just be a waste of time.
I should just abandon those two. They were the closest thing I had to friends, but they acted behind my back and then ran away like this in the end. Thinking about it, It’s time to cast them away.
I need to fix this situation pronto though. Just where did my oh so beloved Destiny run off to? I need to get things back to how they should be.
As my thoughts went in that direction, I slammed into another problem.
Endo as he is now, hasn’t he grown a bit too much?
Endo Edward from Destiny Labyrinth was exactly as he was all those years ago when I met him. Back then only his body had grown, he still had the brains and emotional maturity of a toddler. By interacting with Michelie he was supposed to mature and learn about life. That was how this storyline was supposed to go!
But Endo as he is these days? He just has too much common sense!
I had thought it was fine since it meant he wasn’t as annoying as he used to be…but now that it’s come to this, I can’t ignore his difference from his original character. What caused this? Just, but, what can I do now? I don’t think I can make him revert back that much now that he’s matured this far.
“….No, things will work out.”
As weak as I am right now, I could only give myself encouragement.
I am Christina Noir. To perform my role in fate’s script, I was bestowed genius intelligence. To someone like me, nothing is impossible!
So stop hesitating Christina. Anything you can use, use. Just like Christina Noir the evil villainess.
Everything up until now, let’s just pretend that none of it happened. Everything is still going to work out just as it should. This is not the time to be impatient and rush. I just need to slowly and calmly undo each of my errors one by one.
And in order to do that, I headed towards a certain class’ homeroom.
It was not my own class, rather it was a class full of students who had only just entered the academy.Everything will be fine. I had already checked that neither Charles or Michelie were a part of this class.
It was a small class of only ten people. To give each student a great quality of education the Academy had low teacher to student ratios. I looked over the short heads to find the person I needed.
“I’m so happy you’ve called by Lady Christina!”
“Eep!?”
Sure she screamed in my ear, but I can’t believe I, of all people, jumped in surprise.