I Possessed The Villain’s Childhood Friend

85 – Charm

When I first met senior Ike, he looked at me with very cold eyes.

At that time, we didn’t even know each other, so why the hell did they look at me like that?

At first, I wondered if I had come to warn you of something because I was a special student from a commoner.

But that doesn’t mean I didn’t find those eyes particularly offensive.

Apart from being cold, there was no feeling of ignoring me or anything like that.

Rather, the senior had a look on his face that showed various complex emotions, and I was interested in why the first person I met looked at me this way.

‘Ms. Michelle. In the future, please take good care of me.’

And the senior she saw right before they parted ways was making a sad face for some reason.

‘Yes, I look forward to seeing you in the future too, senior Ike!’

For some reason, I had an intuition that I would have known this senior for a long time.

And the next day.

Before the first class started, three classmates came to me while I was sitting in the classroom.

“Are you Michelle, the special student this time?”

“Yes, I am Michelle.”

“Ms. Michelle. Do you know what you did and what the situation is?”

I couldn’t help but tilt my head at her question.

It was as if I had done something wrong.

“What does that mean?”

“Ha ha.”

The red-haired classmate standing in the center sighed loud enough for everyone around him to hear.

“You will remember the senior who came to visit you yesterday, right?”

“Ah, Senior Ike? After the entrance ceremony, he came over and we had a little chat.”

“You don’t know what kind of person that senior is?”

To me at the time, senior Ike was simply a senior with a strange first impression.

There’s no way I, a commoner, knew about the nobles’ case in the first place.

“Ha ha.”

I nodded her head obediently, and she let out another big sigh and glared at me, squinting her eyes.

“That senior is now famous for having the worst reputation in the social world. She says that talking to her is enough to cause problems. But there’s no way you know that, so we’re here to teach you.”

“Worst reputation?”

No matter how common I am, I know what position the Axus family is in the Astraia Empire.

The second son of such a family has the worst reputation among nobles.

To be honest, I didn’t understand.

“Yes. So, it would be better to pretend that I never had a conversation with that senior. If he calls you back later, I recommend ignoring him.”

When I think about it now, I think that at that time, in her own way, her classmate came to her aid before she got caught up in something bad.

So she must have had a good laugh and a good way to get over it.

But at the time I didn’t do that.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can do that.”

“What does that mean?”

“That’s literally it. I come from a merchant family. Of course, I don’t have any talent as a merchant, but I know that being a merchant is a job where you have to read and follow the flow.”

“… Now I briefly explained the trend of the social world.”

“Yes. Thank you for that But do you know what the family motto of the Basil family is?”

The red-haired classmate shook her head.

I looked at her like that and answered her lightly with a smile.

“No matter how much you go against the flow, you shouldn’t miss the person you need. That is the family motto of the Basil family.”

“In other words, does that mean that the seniors I briefly met yesterday are more important than us who will be together for the next three years?”

“Well, you could look at it that way.”

The reason I refuted them head-on was simple.

“Because at least senior Ike didn’t look down on me.”

It was not a simple story of high and low gaze.

Although Ike must have felt complex emotions and a sad expression for no reason, at least I didn’t think that she was looking down on me.

But they were plainly looking down at me so that anyone could see.

To put it simply, he was condescending as if he was bestowing grace.

No matter how well intentioned you approached me, I wasn’t a good person enough to be swayed by the words of an opponent who clearly showed that tendency.

“… That word. I think you’ll regret it soon, but I get it. You say you choose the hard way yourself, but I don’t think you have the will to stop me.”

With those words, they left.

And ever since then, I’ve become a nobody among my freshman classmates.

I never thought I would be so openly isolated.

To be honest, it made me laugh.

I guess it was fortunate that there was no bullying or tearing books.

Because it was all about treating me innocently as someone who didn’t exist.

But for me, who likes to hang out with people, that alone was hard enough.

What should I do?

The conclusion that came after such consideration was simple.

Go directly to the person who provided the cause and ask them to fix it.

There was no need to hesitate.

In the first place, they are treated as people who are not already among their classmates, so how is it?

I don’t even think that we should be friendly.

With that in mind, I went to senior Ike and told him.

‘Please take care of me because I became alone just because I had a conversation with my senior.’

And the senior thought about it for a long time, and finally nodded her head.

In the end, I only hung out with my seniors in Arcana.

Belongs to what is commonly referred to as ‘His Highness Leon’s clique’.

A place that is considered an object of malice to first graders and an object of indifference to second and third graders.

But if there was one thing I felt while hanging out with the seniors, it was that the relationship between the seniors was far from the cliques that the aristocrats spoke of.

To be honest, the atmosphere of this place, starting with the crown prince, senior Leon, and senior Sofia, a commoner special student, was not very different from my friends in the neighborhood before entering school.

Because he treated me kindly, without any reproaches, even for me, whom I suddenly became compatible with.

‘If there is anything uncomfortable, tell me honestly.’

In particular, Sophia-senpai, who was a special student for commoners just like me, was so kind and kind that I thought that if there was a saint, she would be this person.

As the days went by, the thought that these seniors couldn’t be the worst grew stronger, and before I knew it, I was waiting for the time to spend with the seniors and cherishing the relationship.

★

“Is that true, Ms. Michel?”

“… Yes, Reina-senpai.”

Reina and I were taken aback by the fact that she was isolated because she rejected her classmate’s invitation, not because she simply talked to me.

“Why? At the time, Ike and you were the only ones I had spoken to once. Ruining the relationship with the classmates you will be living with for 3 years just because you don’t want to throw away those ties….”

“Miss Michelle, is this something the family ordered you to do? Did you hear an order to establish a link with the royal family or the second duke?”

“A. It can’t be. As your seniors know, I don’t even have the talent of a merchant, so I can’t entrust such an important job to a daughter like that.”

That was right.

Michelle is the daughter of a merchant family, but as a merchant, she was vulnerable to calculating profit and loss, one of her essential skills.

I always asked for help because there were many things I didn’t understand in economics.

But the reason she asked this question was because she suspected that Michelle might be passing information to Avatar without knowing anything about it.

“So, then ho, by any chance, did you fall in love with Ike at first sight?”

Then, suddenly, in a low voice that you wouldn’t hear if you didn’t listen to her, Reina made her shocking statement.

That too with a very serious, cold expression.

But senior Andrew and Michelle seemed to have heard that.

Senior Andrew started laughing while holding her stomach and covering her mouth, what was so funny about it, and Michelle opened her mouth with an awkward smile.

And I sat quietly under the pressure of not being able to say anything for some reason.

“Um, I’m sorry, Reina-senpai?”

“Yes?!”

“I’m really sorry, but senior Ike isn’t my taste at all….”

“… Is that so?”

“Yes. I also think that senior Ike is a good person, but he is so reticent and blunt, he is the complete opposite of me, so I don’t think he looks like me.”

“That’s right.”

I don’t know why, but the two of us talked without asking for my opinion, creating an atmosphere where I differ.

In the meantime, senior Andrew is out of breath laughing.

Why did the story suddenly turn like this?

I couldn’t understand.

“Anyway, the reason I turned down the stories of those classmates was because I just wanted to.”

Fortunately, the strange atmosphere quickly dissipated thanks to Michelle, who quickly returned to the original topic.

“I didn’t want to decide on other people’s impressions by listening to other people’s gossip. I didn’t like talking to someone I met for the first time with gossip.”

“Ms. Michelle….”

Reina looked at her Michelle for a moment, stunned, as if she was moved by the words. Michelle, as if she was embarrassed by that, blushed again and lowered her head.

“That’s why I thought Miss Michel was great.”

After the conversation ended like that, senior Andrew, who had stopped laughing, opened his mouth again.

“Because it is not easy to reject a flow that has already been created. Even if you are stared at by others, I think it is great to have the courage to oppose it when you think it is wrong.”

“Huh huh hmm?”

The corners of Michelle’s mouth twitched at the transparent praise that didn’t even detect the slightest lie.

“So please take care of me, Ms. Michel.”

“Sah, I feel a little rushed, right? I, me too, please take good care of me.”

And Reina, who was looking at the two of them, suddenly looked at me.

“Oh, Ike. Well, I think Ike’s taciturn side is attractive.”

She said that with a kind expression on her face.

… We’ll ask later what that means.