Chapter 46: Extras add the princess to spend lunch time.

The dining hall was crowded with students lining up for lunch, with no room to even set foot.

There were always a lot of students, but the seats were occupied, but today, unlike usual, the seats were almost full.

Of course.

Normally, I would have arrived at the dining hall much earlier and taken a seat, but for some reason, I was a little delayed.

Still, fortunately, I managed to find a seat.

“Student Council President! I have prepared a seat here!”

“…Thank you. But, weren’t you in the middle of eating lunch?”

“No, we just finished eating, so don’t worry!”

To be precise, I was given a seat thanks to the princess’s power.

No, would the word yield even be correct?

Yeah. This was a kind of ‘seat insertion’.

Following ‘sleeve insertion’, it’s ‘seat insertion’. How far will humans evolve….

The girls, who stood up from their seats with plates that looked like they hadn’t eaten much, quickly scattered to find empty seats.

It was literally instantaneous, so for a moment I was under the illusion that there was no one here.

What did I just see?

“Anyway, even though I tell them they don’t have to do this….”

Sigh.

Lee Seorin sighed softly and placed the plate containing her lunch on the table.

It seems that she is habitually subjected to seat insertion.

Well, regardless of Lee Seorin’s complicated feelings, I liked the seat.

The window next to the table let in just the right amount of sunlight, and the green, lively tree beyond it was enough to refresh me just by looking at it.

Besides.

‘It’s exactly six seats.’

Me, Sejeong, Seorin, Ahra, Sohee, Jia.

I needed a seat for six people to sit together, and fortunately the number of seats was right.

…I didn’t know that Ahra would suddenly join us.

While lining up for distribution, the one right in front was Baek Ahra and the Disciplinary Committee members.

Still, I thought they would sit separately because they had companions, but when she saw us with the Student Council President, she opened her eyes wide and asked her companions for permission and came to us.

-…Student Council President. May I join you?
-Oh my. Don’t you have companions?
-It’s not often that I have the opportunity to share lunch with the Student Council President.

The reason for such words was simple.

The Student Council President was always crowded with people.

When it wasn’t crowded, it was only when she asked them to step back or when the bodyguards directly blocked them, so there were even people who called the sight of a group of people moving ‘the Pied Piper Princess’.

That’s why she preferred to eat lunch alone, but sometimes when she gave a seat next to her, there was a fierce underwater battle for that seat.

Of course, in most cases, the vice president took that opportunity.

‘Come to think of it, I don’t see her at all.’

In the original, she almost always appeared next to Lee Seorin, but I don’t see her at all.

Is she deliberately leaving her out?

…Anyway, that’s why even the Disciplinary Committee President doesn’t get the lunch ticket with the Student Council President easily.

Therefore, it was a good opportunity for Baek Ahra to build a friendship with Lee Seorin, who is a princess.

Even though the aristocracy has disappeared in this country, Baek’s family has produced key figures in the country, so they have many opportunities to meet and talk with the royal family, so there’s nothing bad about becoming close to the royal family.

Baek Ahra must be thinking the same thing.

…That’s what I thought, but she was looking at us, especially me, with a strong gaze.

It looked like the eyes of a mother watching over a child placed on the water’s edge.

‘Should I not go to the Disciplinary Committee room after school?’

I had a strong premonition that I would be bothered.

One of the reasons I avoided Baek Ahra was that.

She was certainly a good-natured person, but Baek Ahra was a troublesome person from my point of view.

“Well, anyway, let’s sit down with a grateful heart.”

Thud.

Saying that, Lee Seorin took a seat first.

The rest of us, including me, followed Lee Seorin’s actions and put down our plates together.

Fzzzt….

Of course, we didn’t just plop down our plates right away.

There was a conversation of glances to decide the seats for a moment, and as a result, the seats were decided like this.

In front of the table, in horizontal order, Ahra, me, Seorin.

Behind the table, Sohee, Jia, Sejeong.

The biggest influence on the seating arrangement was, surprisingly, Sohee and Jia.

While Lee Seorin and Yoon Sejeong were sending me intense glances to come to their side, Sohee and Jia naturally chose the seats farthest from Lee Seorin and sat down.

So there were three seats left.

I ignored the glances of the two and tried to take the seat next to Jia, but….

Unfortunately, Baek Ahra naturally took my plate and placed it next to Lee Seorin’s seat, so the seat was confirmed.

Before I could even say why. Baek Ahra sat down in my seat, so Yoon Sejeong took the one remaining seat, crying.

‘…The seating is really strange.’

It’s strange that I’m sitting between Baek Ahra and Lee Seorin, and it’s quite strange that Yoon Sejeong and Lee Seorin are sitting facing each other.

Especially the latter gave me a strange feeling, as if a scene I had seen in a comic had popped out into reality.

‘The atmosphere between the two of them wasn’t like this in the original.’

It was more gentle, more like being embraced, I guess?

At least it was definitely different from now, where they seem to be at odds.

…I don’t know, I don’t know.

Siblings fight sometimes.

I want to think that the comic was too fantastic.

Anyway, it’s not my fault.

Poke.

“Ouch.”

Suddenly being poked in the side, I looked to the side, and Baek Ahra was shaking her smartphone at an angle that only I could see, for some reason.

Then she quickly touched it with one hand, and it looked like she was sending a message, so I also opened my smartphone.

[How did you end up having lunch with the Student Council President]
[No]
[You don’t have to answer]
[Anyway, it’s fine that you’ve become close to the Student Council President, but don’t do anything rude like you did before?]
[Because it’s tiring for me]
[I’ll be watching]

After that, the messages that came like a storm stopped, and when I looked up, Baek Ahra made a small X mark with her slender finger.

The action was somewhat cute, so I smiled without making a sound, and Baek Ahra avoided my eyes, which were meeting.

It was definitely an action that went against the manners of dealing with people, but that figure looked like a scene from a refreshing youth drama.

If a beautiful girl does it, is that kind of action all a picture?

Anyway….

‘What was the action I did before?’

Rude behavior.

Honestly, there are too many, so I don’t know.

In fact, I think I’ve already crossed the line, but rather, the friendship is getting stronger because of it, so isn’t it okay?

‘Well. What would a stiff Disciplinary Committee President girl know.’

‘A brilliant flower that bloomed on a cliff, but never breaks in a storm’, or something, she’s being praised from the side, but in fact, Baek Ahra only had followers and no one she had even a personal acquaintance with, except for me and Yoon Sejeong.

In other words, when it comes to socializing, I was much better than the young lady of the Baek family.

After finishing that arrangement, I shrugged my shoulders towards Baek Ahra.

In short, it meant, ‘I’ll take care of myself, so don’t worry and watch.’

Whether that meaning was conveyed well or not, Baek Ahra wriggled her eyebrows, which matched the color of her hair, and sent an even sharper gaze.

…Was it conveyed well?

Tap tap tap. Baek Ahra sent a message again.

[Can’t you see that all the students are paying attention to this side right now?]

[What can I do? It’s easy to get attention when I eat with you, but how exciting would it be if the princess was added to that? I would glance too.]

When I sent a message so that Lee Seorin next to me wouldn’t get caught, Baek Ahra was making a subtle expression.

It was the expression that people usually make when they understand rationally, but find it hard to accept emotionally.

The reason why I hadn’t had lunch with Baek Ahra since I was introduced to her by Yoon Sejeong was because of that.

I was known as a delinquent and Baek Ahra as a Disciplinary Committee President with a bad relationship.

But suddenly, the two of them are eating together with a transfer student?

It was easy to become the gossip target of the whole school.

…Well, I had a colorful history to care about that.

In the first place, rather than what other people say about me, I was more concerned about the other person involved, so it was better not to make stories that would be needlessly distorted.

‘Jia and Sohee also had that happen before….’

When I was in middle school with me, they were plagued by all sorts of false rumors.

Now that I’m in high school, the rumors about the two of them have been diluted, but still, when I think about that time, I can only feel sorry.

Baek Ahra put her smartphone away, and she just rolled the innocent broccoli with a fork, perhaps not finding anything to refute.

“Disciplinary Committee President…no, should I call you Ahra Hoobae?”

And, Lee Seorin, who saw that figure, spoke first.

“Yes. Call me as you like.”

“Hehe. Ahra Hoobae has too much strength in her shoulders. Right now, I just want to build a friendship, so please treat me comfortably.”

Here it is.

The ‘please treat me comfortably’ attack from a person who clearly has the initiative in this situation!

“…Yes, then, I will. Student Council President.”

“Sunbae.”

“…Sunbae-nim.”

“That’s nice.”

Lee Seorin, who heard the word Sunbae from Baek Ahra, smiled and elegantly put a bite of food in her mouth.

I watched it directly from the side, and it looked like a picture, so I stared at it blankly, even though it was rude.

“…? Hoobae-nim. Is there something on my face?”

“No. I just felt that the way Sunbae eats is full of elegance….”

Then, Lee Seorin smiled.

“If you come to my palace later, you can see it as much as you want, what do you think, Hoobae-nim?”

…Hmm. Is that, simply an invitation to play at the palace?

I wanted to ask.

But. I didn’t have the capacity to handle the aftermath, so I didn’t ask.