Chapter 47: How to keep butterflies from landing on flowers

Kim Hayeon didn’t know, but the words that Lee Seorin uttered caused a huge stir among the surrounding kids who were listening.

‘Invited to the palace?’, ‘To the Second Princess’s palace….’, ‘Surely….’

Lee Seorin was famous for never inviting anyone other than relatives to her palace.

Considering that other members of the royal family held banquets at least once a year to show off their power, she could be said to be a very unusual figure.

It was even stranger since she was the Second Princess, and her succession rights were quite high.

Even though she was born to a concubine, if you exclude the children born to the legal wife, she would be the next to sit on the golden throne.

Even if it was only an honorary position compared to the past, society didn’t run on money alone, so the popularity gained by sitting on the emperor’s seat was incomparable to anything else.

Perhaps the only thing comparable is the president.

However, even the president changes every five years, and if the people don’t like him, he goes down, but unless he makes a really big mistake, the throne that he can sit on for the rest of his life was quite attractive.

Even the children of collateral branches were sticking their heads out here and there in the hope of a chance, so her mysterious behavior was hard for those around her to understand.

Because of that, at first, rumors circulated that there was something wrong with her face or personality, but that was simply dismissed by the children who attended the same school as Lee Seorin.

A leader who smiles kindly at everyone, does not hesitate to do dirty work, and always takes the lead in solving problems.

Nevertheless, she was always humble in her interactions with the students, so the students who had been with her in school could not help but be fascinated by her.

Of course, on the contrary, there were those who were jealous and envious of her perfectness…but they couldn’t even say it out loud.

Usually, the popularity gained at school was not directly connected to social popularity.

However, Aria Academy, where Lee Seorin attends, was a school where the daughters of the most influential figures in this country or the daughters of large corporations were abundant.

The popularity gained in such a place is more special than anything else.

Lee Seorin became the student council president in the first year, and now that she is in the third year, the support for her, whether inside or outside the school, was quite high.

So, the people around her could not help but react sensitively to her reaching out for the first time.

“How about it?”

As if urging for an answer, at Lee Seorin’s words, everyone’s ears perked up.

“…I don’t have any clothes to wear to a place like the palace yet. It would be nice to go if I get clothes later.”

“Hoobae-nim is mischievous.”

Kim Hayeon said it in a roundabout way, saying that she was speaking politely, but those who didn’t know about Kim Hayeon, a few of them, were inwardly shocked at the words containing the meaning of refusal.

To refuse the princess’s invitation!

There were many people who would drop everything and go to the palace right now if they heard Lee Seorin’s words, and the question of who this student was, who refused that, grew.

And, on the contrary, the reactions of those who knew about Kim Hayeon were divided into three categories.

Number 1 was the resigned reaction of ‘That one is at it again.’.

Number 2 was the absurd reaction of ‘I thought maybe, but she really does that to the Student Council President too.’.

Number 3 was the reaction of ‘As expected, the prince was the one who had the initiative in the relationship.’.

Among them, the reaction that Kim Hayeon would be most absurd to hear, number 3, was a group that had recently emerged, and the nickname ‘prince’, which refers to Kim Hayeon, was also a nickname that was born recently.

Kim Hayeon and the kids around her didn’t know, but after Kim Hayeon had her chin grabbed by Lee Seorin when she was commuting to school, a coupling of Kim Hayeon and Lee Seorin began to emerge among some students.

Th-That. You know. When there are only women, there will inevitably be a small number of people whose ‘that’ related delusions run wild.

Besides, this country legally recognized lilies.

It wasn’t that girls dating girls were arrested in the country Kim Hayeon was in, but what does it mean that marriage between women is legally recognized?

It means that the act of generating extreme frictional heat that melts the glaciers that polar bears sit on is socially recognized.

Therefore, there was no hesitation in connecting Lee Seorin and Kim Hayeon.

It’s just a delusion anyway. As long as you don’t say it face-to-face, there’s no problem.

Even if the other party is mixed with a princess, no, rather because it was a princess, those delusions spread endlessly and shared.

First of all, the one that gained strength at first was Lee Seorin taking the offensive.

Of course. It was Lee Seorin who approached first and grabbed her chin.

Besides, it was hard to imagine the Student Council President being on the receiving end of someone.

However, after Kim Hayeon grabbed Lee Seorin’s chin in the board game experience, the situation changed.

After someone saw that scene and muttered ‘Prince….’, the delusion that Kim Hayeon took the initiative began to spread.

Thus, Kim Hayeon became the Student Council President’s only ‘prince’.

Of course, whether it was ‘only for the Student Council President’ was a matter decided only within the Student Council President’s faction, and the opinions of the Disciplinary Committee President’s faction, which boasted a similar number, or the very small number of transfer student factions were not reflected.

However, the nickname ‘prince’ spread widely. They just don’t use it in front of her.

“Student Council President. Even so, such a sudden invitation….”

Baek Ahra supported Kim Hayeon from the side.

Even though she said she didn’t want to be bothered, she ended up interfering, which was her nature.

“Hehe. I was joking. Well, there’s no need for you to come all the way to the palace to see my appearance.”

Baek Ahra was at a loss for how to react to her words, which she laughed meaningfully, covering her mouth with one hand.

Rationally, it was right to just let those words pass, but the fact that she had a crush, not a crush, on Kim Hayeon, no, she liked her, but she didn’t want to admit it….

Such, the complex and subtle Baek Ahra now had lost her sharp judgment.

And, the emotional part filled that empty space.

Ah. Should I just draw a line with the Student Council President like Sejeong and growl, I’m thinking about that….

“That’s true. There’s no reason for Hayeon to go all the way there to see the Student Council President’s face.”

Crack. Nom.

Yoon Sejeong, who boldly poked and ate the fried chicken with a fork, was a general in terms of form, but after taking off her glasses, her appearance reached the celestial realm, so even that looked like cuteness.

‘What on earth is she going to do?’

Baek Ahra regained her spirit as she looked at that figure.

Sejeong had already noticed that she had feelings for Kim Hayeon that went beyond friends.

But.

It was another story for Lee Seorin, a princess, to be out of her sight.

In this school, a transfer student is at the bottom.

They came in with their heads to fill the lack of money, so they could be said to be the resources of this country, but in the end, the young ladies will be in a position to use those beings after graduating from school.

Even if there is no commoner and noble on the surface, as long as the fundamental form of people using people does not change, there will inevitably be a difference, and the young ladies in the flower garden firmly believed that it was the difference that divided transfer students and enrolled students.

Therefore, it was because Baek Ahra reacted lukewarmly in the first place when Kim Hayeon bullied Yoon Sejeong in the original.

If Lee Seorin, who is at the top of those young ladies, shows discomfort, it was clear that the people around her would isolate Yoon Sejeong.

So Baek Ahra could only be restless, watching her childhood friend who was bumping into her without looking back.

“….”

Lee Seorin looked at Yoon Sejeong, who responded to her.

Her eyes were still smiling, but Sejeong felt a different kind of pressure than before.

A gaze that seemed to read everything about her.

Only then did her head cool down and she thought that she was too rude, but it was impossible to retrieve the spilled water just by that.

Three seconds.

It was the time Seorin stared at Sejeong without saying a word, and it was like a billion years to Sejeong, who was facing her.

In the end, it was Sejeong who averted her eyes, and Lee Seorin smiled brightly at her.

“I felt it in the morning too, but Sejeong Hoobae is quite pure.”

“Pure…you say?”

Her tongue was twisted.

“Yes. Really. I hope we can get along in the future.”

Seorin didn’t say anything else, so Sejeong couldn’t figure out whether that was to make fun of her or to praise her.

‘She’s a really transparent person.’

If Kim Hayeon is a questionable person who makes me want to know more, Yoon Sejeong is the opposite.

A person whose emotions and actions are revealed so transparently.

To the point where I don’t need to use my abilities.

‘Maybe, if I hadn’t met Hoobae-nim, I might have been interested.’

However, now all I want is Hoobae-nim.

It’s good to get along with the people around me, but that’s it.

‘…I should increase the time I have personal meetings with Hoobae-nim.’

Just one Monday is not enough.

There are so many competitors around, and even the signs were unusual.

‘Even though I said it was a joke.’

Still, I should invite her to the palace.

And put some saliva on her.

A lot.

That way, butterflies won’t stick to the flower anymore.