I Thought Your Friend's Sibling Wasn't a Girl? - Chapter 40

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Chapter 40
Olivia had spent the entire day in a whirl of activity.
“Hello, everyone! I’m Olivia. It’s a pleasure to meet you!”
“Ah……. So this is that person.”
“I’m sorry?”
“It’s nothing, never mind. Well, I’ll be going.”
In any case, she was introduced to the other members.
“This is the Training Ground. And over there you’ll find the dining hall and storage.”
“Really? Can we use those too?”
“While you’re here?”
She learned the layout of the order’s facilities. Their final task of the day was to locate the workspace they would use during their internship.
“Panya, Olivia! We have our own desks! Can you believe it!”
“Bennett. Please, a little composure. You’re embarrassing us!”
“How could this not be important? Olivia, don’t you think I should be excited?”
“……Well. Wow, they even put our names up here. That was fast.”
“You’re all too much.”
In any case, Olivia now truly had a place in the Luxs Knights Order. She couldn’t help but feel moved.
After a hectic day like that, quitting time arrived before they knew it. The three of them walked slowly toward the Academy, facing the sunset that dyed the sky gold.
“The Luxs Knights Order seems like a decent place, actually.”
“Though there are some odd people there, I’ll admit.”
“That’s……true enough.”
They still felt distant from the senior members. The seniors had reacted to Olivia as if she were some kind of monster, fleeing and keeping their distance.
“Olivia, um, are you all right?”
Panya asked carefully. He’d noticed how the members treated Olivia differently from the others. But Olivia was an exception.
“What? I’m fine. Why?”
“Hmm. That’s good then.”
Their behavior was certainly strange. Others might have been hurt by it. But…….
“The seniors seem to be singling me out, but honestly, I’m used to this much.”
“……For some reason, my conscience is bothering me.”
This kind of ostracism? Olivia had experienced it before.
When she’d first transferred to the Knights Department. What’s more, they were younger, so they’d been even more wary and dismissive of her.
“Even with these troublemakers, I eventually became close.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Compared to back then, this is something I can definitely handle.”
“……I really am sorry.”
“What? I’m telling you I found it easy to adjust because of you.”
“Should I get on my knees?”
“Stop it.”
Right. What was there that she couldn’t do? Thinking back to the prejudiced looks that had rained down on her then, this too was something she could push through.
The first time was hard; the second time was easier. Olivia clenched both her fists and steeled her resolve.
That was when a truly nasty voice came from behind them.
“Hey, what’s this? Aren’t these the Luxs Knights Order dogs?”
The three of them spun around quickly toward the sound.
A man with a malicious sneer covering his face——let’s see, one, two…….
“Unbelievable. There’s three of them.”
“Since when does the Luxs Knights Order strut around so boldly? Huh? His Majesty won’t be pleased about this.”
Red uniforms. The Lumen Knights Order. But why on earth were they here?
“Why are you suddenly doing this?”
“Suddenly? That’s what we should be asking.”
“I’m sorry?”
“What wind blew you all out here so confidently, I’m asking?”
Was this street private property? That couldn’t be right. Then what was this situation?
Olivia took a breath, composed her expression, and spoke.
“Sir.”
“Sir? Did you just call me ‘sir’? The world’s ending, truly.”
This was unprovoked harassment. They were being harassed by members of another order for no reason.
And in a situation like this, it was better for Olivia to step forward than the other two.
“I apologize. I didn’t know we weren’t allowed to pass here. If you tell me the reason, I’ll make sure to correct it next time.”
“The reason? You don’t know? Wow, what nerve.”
“So if you would just tell me the reason——”
That was when a voice Olivia had heard many times today sounded again.
“Right. Why shouldn’t they? I’d like to know too.”
Golden hair drenched in sunset, yet beneath it, cold blue eyes like winter frost.
Their former “instructor,” now a senior of the three, was approaching with a twisted smirk playing at the corners of his mouth.
“S-Sir Aiden Oblivion.”
“I’m genuinely dying to know.”
With his appearance, the atmosphere transformed. The men seemed to falter before Aiden’s presence and dared not speak carelessly.
“Why aren’t you answering……? I’m asking you to speak.”
Tap. Aiden touched one of the men’s chins with the hilt of his sword.
The sunset cast deep shadows across Aiden’s face, and from him emanated an aura far more dangerous than before.
“Don’t want to tell me, is that it?”
“Uh, u-uh…….”
His voice was languid, his movements unhurried.
There was nothing explicitly threatening about him. And yet the men stood rigidly pale, like butterflies caught in a spider’s web.
“That’s really disappointing.”
“Aaaah!”
The three men immediately turned and ran. They bolted without looking back, as if Aiden were about to claim their very lives.
Aiden watched their fleeing forms for a moment, then shrugged and turned a question toward the three.
The mood lightened instantly.
“Anyway, there are really a lot of strange people in the world. Wouldn’t you say?”
“Sir.”
“You three should head back now.”
“……What on earth was——”
“Nothing serious. Just madmen doing mad things.”
Aiden waved his hand dismissively, ushering them away.
But as Olivia turned back toward the Academy, an unresolved question lingered in her mind.
‘His Majesty will be displeased, they said?’
Then did the Emperor’s tacit approval lie behind how they treated the Luxs Knights Order?
Olivia’s eyes grew dark with doubt.
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Time passed swiftly.
Two weeks had already passed since the Interns joined the order. The members of the Luxs Knights Order were slowly adapting to the situation they faced.
Such as the unfamiliar faces that had appeared in the order, or the noisier morning atmosphere than usual.
Another morning arrived. The members had gathered in clusters from early on, gazing at something.
“Huh? The sword tip seems to be dropping?”
“Aaaagh!”
“If you have the breath to scream, keep that sword straight, straight!”
The three Interns of the Luxs Knights Order were swinging their blades, covered head to toe in dust.
Normally, the members would have been doing their morning training at this time, but overwhelmed by those three’s momentum, they’d shifted training to the afternoon for over a week now.
Thud!
“Uagh!”
“Ouch. That one’s Bennett, right? Looking at him, he seems the weakest of the three.”
“Even though he’s the biggest.”
Bennett, with his lanky frame, collapsed to the side after three hours of unbroken training. Nick and Kunta, who had been standing nearby, quietly approached and dragged him to the side.
The training continued throughout all of this.
“How much longer is he going to keep this up?”
“No clue. The madman’s stubbornness is out of control.”
To them, what Aiden was doing seemed excessive. Aiden had always had something of a mad streak, but since the Interns arrived, he’d gone completely unhinged, frothing at the mouth like a wild animal.
The members had even tried to stop him. Of course, it didn’t work.
“Unless you’re helping, get out of here.”
“Is this guy actually insane?”
“Or do you want to join in and take some hits too?”
The memory of Aiden turning back with that sinister grin still gave Gerard chills. He trembled and looked back outside again.
Thump!
“Oh no, Panya!”
Yet another person collapsed. Aiden clicked his tongue once, then issued a cold order to those standing nearby.
“Move him to the side.”
“Seriously, Aiden! Move him? That’s too harsh.”
“You want to do the training instead?”
“……I meant move him so he doesn’t obstruct the training! Come on, Olivia, you’ve got this!”
Panya’s lips moved weakly as he lay collapsed. Even in his exhaustion and daze, there seemed to be something he absolutely had to communicate.
“What’s he trying to say?”
“His lips……. Cra, zy, psy, cho……. Hmm. I see.”
True to being Olivia’s teacher in crude language, Panya’s vocabulary was quite rough.
The order members looked at Panya with slightly awkward expressions, then nodded.
“Well, he’s not wrong.”
Look at him——two people have collapsed and he hasn’t even blinked. They knew he was that kind of person, but they never expected him to go this far.
“That’s all you see?”
“Huh?”
“In my eyes, that one looks even more impressive…….”
At Ruca’s words, all eyes fixed on a single point.
On one person standing there, cold sweat pouring down, face pale as death, yet eyes burning with vicious determination.
“A stubborn one through and through.”
As if acknowledging this one fact, all heads nodded in unison.

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