Did she really just get played that badly?!
“Wait a second, Kipling, don’t actually take your clothes off! Eulie is messing with you!” Yuriko shouted hurriedly.
“Eh?”
Nomili looked up and glanced around.
Yuriko looked relieved, while Kalmira was covering her face, too embarrassed to watch.
Eulie, on the other hand, looked like a mastermind whose plan had succeeded; her smile was brighter than ever.
When Nomili looked up again, Olesia Wyndham, who was beside her, looked away and let out a helpless sigh.
She had been played?
In an instant, a massive wave of shame washed over her.
Nomili’s face turned beet-red at a visible rate, and tears began to well up in the corners of her eyes.
“Just you wait!”
The white-haired girl ran out of the classroom, sobbing.
Yuriko, who had been a mere spectator and had even tried to warn Nomili at the end, felt completely framed.
She hadn’t done anything; Eulie was the one behind it all.
Why was she being held responsible too?
Watching Nomili run out, Olesia shook her head helplessly and said to Yuriko, “As you can see, Nomili is a very simple girl. I hope you won’t take it to heart.”
“Haha, I can see that.”
Yuriko could only offer an awkward laugh.
Even without Olesia saying anything, she wouldn’t do anything to Nomili.
After all, bullying an idiot only led to a guilty conscience.
‘Is this really a senior student of Shengxiu Academy? Why is she so dim-witted?’
Hwanling scratched her chin with a small paw and said to Yuriko: ‘That’s perfectly normal, meow. Even near-perfect beings like the Saints have flaws, let alone a mere student.’
‘Oh? There’s gossip about the Saints? Tell me, what are their flaws?’
Yuriko gently pinched Hwanling’s tail, causing the creature’s fur to stand on end.
Hwanling swiped Yuriko’s hand away with a paw, then jumped off the desk and ran away.
‘You touched my tail without permission again! I’m not telling you anything!’
Well, she was angry now.
Seeing Hwanling suddenly bolt, Olesia asked, “Your cat ran off. Aren’t you going to chase her?”
“It’s fine, she’ll be back in a while. But more importantly, Wyndham, aren’t you going to chase Kipling? She seemed to be crying when she ran out.”
Olesia shook her head.
“Don’t worry. Nomili isn’t that fragile. She’ll be back once she vents her emotions.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Nomili poked her head through the classroom door.
Seeing that Olesia was still with Yuriko, she stormed back in huffily and hid behind Olesia, glaring at Eulie and Yuriko.
It seemed she vented her emotions quite quickly.
“Hmph! I can’t let a person like you stay with my Sister. Who knows if you’ll trick her into doing something strange!”
Nomili said, staring intently at Yuriko.
“That’s so unfair! The one who bullied you was Eulie. I didn’t do anything!”
Yuriko felt completely wronged.
Did she really look like someone who would seduce girls?
At most, she would just intimidate some innocent girls into working in her shops.
“Yuriko, your words hurt me so much. I clearly did that for your sake—”
Eulie immediately put on a look as if she were about to burst into tears.
‘You’re the culprit, what are you sad about? The only ones who got hurt here were Nomili and me!’
“I don’t care! You two are in it together. You might even team up to defile my Sister!”
‘Who would defile your sister?!’
Yuriko was speechless.
She really hadn’t done anything, right?
“That’s enough, Nomili. I believe they aren’t those kinds of people. Don’t be so rude to your classmates,” Olesia interrupted.
Olesia’s words were effective.
At the very least, Nomili obediently shut her mouth after she spoke, though she continued to glare fiercely at Yuriko.
Eulie was the one who did the bad deed, yet Yuriko was the one drawing all the aggro.
Who could Yuriko even complain to?
“I’m sorry you had to see that. I originally intended to bring Nomili here to apologize to you, but it seems things didn’t quite go as planned.”
Olesia certainly hadn’t expected that her simple intention of bringing Nomili to apologize for the incident during class would turn into this.
“I appreciate the gesture. I’m not actually angry with Kipling. In fact, seeing how hard she works to protect you, Wyndham, makes me feel a bit envious. You two have such a great relationship,” Yuriko said, choosing to speak against her true feelings.
She really wasn’t angry with Nomili.
After all, Nomili’s attack power was too low to even break her defense.
However, the latter half of her statement was pure fabrication; she wasn’t envious of such a relationship at all.
“Wow, Yuriko is so broad-minded—” From behind, Eulie chipped in with what sounded like a compliment at an inappropriate time.
Yuriko’s eyelid twitched imperceptibly.
Only Eulie knew how much sincerity was in that “compliment.”
Yuriko, at least, felt there wasn’t a shred of it.
“Hehe. Then I’ll thank you on Nomili’s behalf for your generosity.”
Olesia smiled, her expression as dazzling as a shining star.
Now that the apology was settled, Olesia prepared to leave with Nomili.
Fortunately, Olesia was only here to apologize.
If the school’s top student had come to pick a fight, Yuriko wouldn’t have known how to handle it.
Eulie poked Yuriko from the seat behind her again.
Yuriko turned around helplessly, wanting to hear what her classmate was trying to pull now.
“Hey, Yuriko, weren’t you just asking about the Star of the Academy? The person with the best chance of winning that title is right in front of you. Why don’t you ask her?”
The voice wasn’t loud, but at this distance, Olesia and Nomili definitely heard it.
They paused in their tracks and turned their gazes toward Yuriko simultaneously.
‘My little ancestor, I beg you to just shut up!’
If she weren’t concerned about her image, Yuriko would have sealed Eulie’s mouth right then and there to stop her from causing more trouble.
“Ruri, are you also interested in the ‘Star of the Academy’?”
Olesia walked back.
She seemed to have some interest in the topic.
At this point, it was impossible for Yuriko to say she had no interest in the title.
So, she held up two fingers, narrowing the gap between them, and said, “Just a little bit.”
“Ho ho, is it really just a little bit? You were just asking Kalmira about the requirements to become the ‘Star of the Academy’ earlier. You actually intend to compete for it, don’t you—”
‘Eulie!’
Yuriko screamed internally.
Why did Eulie have to say exactly what Yuriko didn’t want her to say?
“Haha, Wyndham, don’t listen to Eulie’s nonsense. I only asked out of curiosity.”
As a new student, it wasn’t wise for her to appear too aggressive.
If she provoked Olesia’s resentment, the other girl might find ways to hinder Yuriko’s popularity within the academy.
“Eh? But your surname is ‘Ruri,’ just like the previous Star of the Academy. That’s a rare surname. Could it be that you’re Lady Ruri’s younger sister, and you’ve come to compete for the title too?”
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