Chapter 21 : The Villainess’s Unexpected Stalker (2)

A feeling as if floating in the sky.

This is a dream. To be more precise, it is a lucid dream, also known as a lucid dream by another name.

In front of me, I could see my childhood self.

The Solark dukedom, called the Golden.

Eclair Solark.

My childhood self was loved and hated by the people around me due to my immature side.

I liked to lead the children and liked to receive attention even more.

Then one day, I attended a party hosted by the magic noble family, the Terez dukedom.

That day, I dressed up as much as I could and got off the carriage and went to the banquet hall and was greeting the other children.

In the distance, I could see a girl I had never seen before, looking around cautiously in the corner.

She was wearing ragged clothes with messy hair that didn’t even make me think she was a noble, but then, by chance, someone took a picture of me with a camera, and the girl was also photographed.

And soon after, that girl was being led away by the maids, and after seeing her disappear somewhere, I didn’t see her anymore.

After receiving the photo, I asked the lady of the Count’s family, who was known for being well-connected. Who was the child in the photo?

Then, the lady of the Count’s family looked around at others and whispered in my ear. She said she was the lady of the Terez dukedom.

There’s no way. That the lady of the dukedom was walking around like this? And that girl wasn’t there when Duke Terez was introducing his family earlier.

Was it from that time? I became interested in that girl.

I have to get what I’m interested in by any means necessary to feel satisfied.

I attended all the parties hosted by the Terez dukedom, no matter what. To meet the girl.

But from some point on, the girl became strange.

I didn’t see her being timid while looking at others, and she started going around dressing up as much as possible, to the point where it wouldn’t be strange if she was called the princess of a country.

The change wasn’t just that.

The Terez dukedom also formally introduced the girl to the nobles and began to establish her position.

I approached the girl and greeted her for the first time.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Eclair Solark from the Solark dukedom.”

“My name is Aria Terez.”

When I shook hands and grabbed Aria Terez’s hand for the first time, it was small and soft.

Aria Terez, a small girl who was about a head shorter than me due to her smaller height than her peers.

She had a mysterious feeling that stimulated my protective instincts and made me want to protect her when I looked at her.

It was only a moment before I fell for that girl.

I recalled Aria every day and collected photos one by one, and before I knew it, I had collected so many photos of the girl that they filled the room.

Then one day, I heard shocking news.

That she was going to the far south, leaving the dukedom for some reason.

As soon as I heard that news, I ran to the Terez dukedom, but it was already too late.

After hearing the news that the girl had left, I couldn’t see her for a long time.

Just like that, I forgot about the girl in my memory and was living when I reunited with her again on the day of the academy entrance ceremony.

She had changed 180 degrees.

White skin visible along with flowing black hair, attractive eyes that seemed suspicious.

A tight chest that couldn’t even be compared to before, along with a slender waist. Even her smooth legs.

She had a face and body that could captivate the eyes of all the students in the auditorium.

I wanted to greet her with joy, but I didn’t have that kind of closeness or reason.

Face is very important in noble society.

While I was looking at her from afar, I listened to her speech after she entered as the top student, and it was the best I had heard her voice in a long time.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Aria Terez, and I entered the academy as the top student this time.”

It was a charming voice that made me feel healed just by listening to it and made me want to listen to her voice all day long.

That was until just now.

A huge amount of mana gathered, and along with the worry that I should spread a barrier at that moment, a huge fireball smashed the roof, turning the entrance ceremony into a complete mess. She was saying ‘Please take care of me in the future,’ nonchalantly.

It’s certain that she changed while I didn’t see her. A lot.

“Umm.”

When I opened my eyes and looked at the ceiling, I could see a pure white ceiling.

While looking at the dormitory ceiling, I got up, thinking that I had woken up from a dream.

“Are you awake?”

At that time, I heard a voice. It’s Aria.

When I looked at Aria with dazed eyes, she smiled brightly and looked at me.

“Are you still here?”

“Of course. I’m not heartless enough to leave a sick friend alone, right?”

I asked her, who was smiling, if we were really friends.

After listening to my words, she thought for a long time, and then grabbed both of my hands tightly.

“Wh, what….”

She opened her eyes and looked at me.

Is this what it feels like to stare into the abyss?

Every time I looked into her eyes, I felt like I was looking at something very deep.

And she told me.

That we were friends.

She was looking at me while smiling like usual, but I got goosebumps.

“Oh my, you sweated a lot, so your clothes are all wet.”

With those words, she told me to wait a moment and left.

I wanted to grab her hand and tell her not to go, but I couldn’t.

Because she will come back.

And soon after, as I expected, she came back again.

With clothes to change into and a towel.

And then she said something unexpected.

“Take them off.”

At those words, I stopped for a moment and looked at her with trembling eyes, and she looked at me, smiling, and said.

To take them off quickly.

Now that I think about it, I remember her taking off my clothes and wiping my body even in my dream, was that really a dream? My memory is getting hazy.

I had no choice but to follow her words and unbutton, and I could feel her staring at me.

“You, aren’t you staring too much?”

“Me? No way. There’s no way I would have strange thoughts about a patient, right?”

“Wipe the drool coming out of your mouth and say that.”

“Huuup!!”

I chuckled at her, who was hurriedly wiping the drool from the corner of her mouth, and unbuttoned and sat down, turning my body away.

It’s too embarrassing to show the front. It’s also embarrassing to show my back, but I can put up with this much.

Was it just my imagination that she sighed with pity at my appearance? It’s not my imagination.

“Aren’t you being too obvious?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. Take them off quickly.”

“Ugh, I know. Don’t rush me.”

I took off my clothes and was using the wet clothes to cover the front when she snatched the clothes away.

Along with the blanket.

In an instant, there was nothing I could use to cover myself, so I was covering my chest with both hands when her touch reached my back.

“Heeuk!”

“J, just a moment!? Don’t make weird sounds!”

“I, it’s because your touch is lewd!”

A tingly sensation could be felt every time her touch reached me, so I was trembling and holding it in when I heard her voice very close. As if she was whispering in my ear.

“I’ll wipe the front too.”

“N, no, I’ll do it!”

“Really? That’s a shame.”

After receiving a towel from her, who was openly regretting it, and wiping my body, I was finally able to put on clothes. Seriously, I can’t let my guard down.

She was saying that she was going to change the wet blanket and went outside, and because I was worried that she might hear my pounding heart, I curled up for a while when she said to me, after coming back into the room.

“Are you hurting somewhere? Why are you like that?”

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

As soon as I said that while fanning myself, I felt her touch.

She put her hand on my forehead and was checking my temperature, and my temperature was rising more and more because of that.

“Hmm, I thought your fever had gone down, but when I look now, it’s rising again. Should you sleep a little more?”

“Y, yes, I will.”

The blanket that she brought back smelled fresh and somehow had her scent on it.

To the point that I wanted to treasure it forever.

”
Since I didn’t have a spare blanket, I brought my blanket. Is it uncomfortable?”

“Th, there’s no way it could be uncomfortable. Th, thank you.”

Somehow, I thought that Aria’s scent was deeply embedded in it, it was her blanket.

It would have been even better if she had brought her pillow as well.

No, that’s greed. More than that, is there a way to keep this blanket without using it? Accidentally spill a drink…. then she’ll take it back.

My head doesn’t work today for some reason. Do I still have a fever?

I was lying on the bed and covering myself with the blanket when she was smiling and nursing me, is this heaven?

At that time, she took something out of her pocket.

“Now that I think about it, I found something like this.”

I know best what that is in the world.

And that this place is hell, not heaven.

“Shall we talk about this?”