Love Letter From The Future

1. The First Letter (55)

The second year at the academy was, in name and reality, the most lively year. It was thanks to the fact that it was a time to enjoy leisure after graduating from school.

In the first year, they were ignorant and hardened when only seniors met them. However, after about a year, he had finished adapting to the notorious academy life, and he did not prepare for practice in earnest like a 3rd grader or go on a dispatch like a 4th grader.

It was a time when most of the time was wasted on entertainment. There were a lot of friends living within 10 minutes of leaving the room. It was obvious what those young people were doing.

We get together to chat, drink, plan trips, and go out on the town to play.

Anyway, as long as it was fun, I would do anything. Also, when you hang out, you will naturally form a group that you often hang out with, and it was around this time that the group with whom you would spend your academy life together was decided.

That’s why friendships were so important. So, among the sophomores, the speed at which rumors spread was extraordinary.

Some of the departments said that these days, the relationship between someone and someone, and the relationship between someone and someone who seemed to get along well was actually awkward.

It is information that seems trivial at first glance, but it was the most important story for the second year students of the academy. One of the main reasons for attending the academy was because of personal connections.

An academy diploma guarantees a stable job, but networking guarantees success and honor. It was only natural that the academy, where talents from all over the continent would gather, would produce the highest ranks of each country every year.

In order to properly utilize the framework of solid academic ties, it was most important to form personal connections.

Occasionally, there are students with particularly poor sociability, such as ‘Yurdina’s Slut’, but except for those exceptional cases, the majority of academy students were active in social activities.

The monthly dance was also part of such activities. Aristocrats gain political alliances and talented people there, and commoners secure friendships with nobles that they can never get outside the academy.

In order to grasp the chain of such complex human relationships, no matter how trivial information was missed. They were only adults, but they were not ignorant of the physiology of society to that extent.

So, there was a rumor that everyone in the second year of the academy knew about.

The relationship between the two flowers of the Faculty of Swords, Celine Haster and Seria Yurdina, is not particularly good.

The cause was pretty obvious. It was evident from the fact that Celine, who had a beautiful appearance that did not suit a lower aristocrat, had never been in a relationship. Contrary to her lively personality and harsh tone, she was unexpectedly single-minded.

It was also well known who the opponent was. The protagonist of that romance was Ian Perkus, a man who has recently emerged as the hottest topic in the academy.

Celine was also the reason why Ian had never confessed even once, even though he had a smooth appearance. It was because she didn’t feel the need to push against him, since she openly kept him in check.

Celine was as good in human relationships as she was in appearance. There was no reason to be hostile to her, who had her own influence in women’s society.

The same was true of high-ranking nobles. Would a young lady from a high-ranking family want to gossip with a low-ranking noble to seduce a lower-noble man?

Even if he did, it would be a laughing stock even if he won, and a laughing stock even if he lost. High-ranking aristocrats are supposed to hang out with high-ranking nobles, at least not so long ago, for a man named Ian Percus, that didn’t exist.

However, no matter how extensive and dense the chain of human relationships is, there are always exceptions.

‘Yurdina’s slut’, that is, Seria Yurdina, belonged to that exception. She was the one who never formed a human relationship in the first place. He didn’t know anything about the relationship between Celine and Ian.

Even if she knew, there was a good chance she wouldn’t have cared too much about it. At first, it was a relationship that started out of pure admiration.

However, as time passed, Seria began to follow Ian around, and it was only natural that Celine’s judgment would be twisted the more it did.

Recently, as rumors spread that a strange current was flowing between Seria and Ian, the conflict between Celine and Seria became more and more clear.

That’s right, if a woman who always had a cold complexion smiled brightly whenever she stood in front of Ian, everyone could not help but think like this.

‘Ah, that’s a big deal.’

It was like two butterflies attached to one flower. It wasn’t common, but it wasn’t rare either, so everyone knew how it would end.

A mud fight was about to begin. As always.

Even without that, it was Celine and Seria who were in a close relationship. At that time, rumors began to spread that would make the two of them uncomfortable again.

Rumors about Delphine Yurdina and Ian Percus.

It was said that Ian had seen Delphine naked, but as with all widespread rumors, speculations varied as to the cause.

Among them was the story that Ian was Delphine’s mistress. It was a rumor that Elsie Rainella talked about and got into trouble, but because of that, there were more people who supported the hypothesis.

It was inferred that since it was a fatal shame for a noble, he would have stepped out to shut his mouth.

Of course, it was a rumor, but just hearing such a rumor was enough reason for Celine and Seria’s faces to grow cold.

Because of that, sophomores in the fencing department always felt like they were walking on thin ice.

Celine showed off that she was in a bad mood. He still seemed cheerful in conversation, but that was it.

Even from the gloomy atmosphere, it was clear that her mood was low.

It was the same with Seria. She used to wear an expressionless face, but from one day, those aquamarine eyes started to get entangled with soggy emotions.

Her cold eyes and the way she silently wielded her sword were to the point where even a slight hint of life could be seen. Seria’s mood seemed to be the worst for anyone to see.

It explodes just by touching it. Celine and Seria were now walking time bombs.

It was only a matter of who would light the fuse, and all sophomores in the fencing department agreed that one of them would soon explode.

Then the day came.

Unlike the ‘Swordsmanship Training’ and ‘Swordsmanship Practice’ lectures that 2nd and 3rd year students take jointly, it was a mandatory lecture prepared only for the 2nd year.

It was a lecture born from the idea that the 3rd graders can train more autonomously, but the 2nd graders need to supplement the absolute amount of training.

It was a lecture that every sophomore in the swordsmanship department had to take. So, during the swordsmanship training lecture, the famous two flowers of the Swordsmanship Faculty could not avoid encountering each other.

Celine and Seria, those two time bombs.

All students who knew the situation held their breath. He seemed worried that there might be sparks. Unexpectedly, however, the class went smoothly.

Celine and Seria just stared at each other. If our eyes met by chance, Celine snorted coldly and looked away. Seria also glanced at Celine with nonchalant eyes, then swung her sword again.

That moment, which would have passed safely at this rate.

“Pak,” the wooden sword pierced next to Seria. It was a sword that came out of nowhere.

At once, the atmosphere cooled. Seria’s cold eyes turned to the place where the wooden sword flew. There was a woman with a pale complexion.

The two of them were sparring as if they were joking around, and the wooden sword seemed to bounce off, but it was clear that it was a mistake, even if it was unintentional. Even more so, the person who made the mistake was also a problem.

It was one of the lower nobles who mocked Seria’s mother in the past, and one of those women who had stopped being threatened by Thean.

“… … Oh no! This was unintentional!”

Seeing Seria’s cold stare, the woman shouted, wondering if there was a corner to be stabbed.

Even so, Seria was sensitive. There was a good chance that he would fall for this. Because she had a history of making mistakes.

I heard someone swallowing dry saliva. The onlookers looked nervous, hoping that the time bomb would finally explode. Seria stared at the woman without saying anything for a moment.

But even that was short-lived, Seria sighed in irritation for a moment and said.

“… … apologize.”

“Yes?”

Seeing Seria’s cold voice, the woman inadvertently asked a blank question. Then Seria’s eyes sank even colder.

“You should apologize, if you have done something wrong.”

At that resolute tone, the woman trembled as if she had been electrocuted. And he started nodding his head vigorously. At first glance, it seemed servile.

However, it was an inevitable choice for her as she didn’t have the confidence to deal with Seria from the front. It was a suicidal act to fight against Seria, who had both skills as well as the background of the Yurdina family.

Even more so when I’m not in a good mood like now.

“Yeah, right! Mi, I’m sorry… Because I’m a bit clumsy… … .”

The woman then approached the hesitant Seria. Then, watching Seria’s eyes, he carefully picked up the wooden sword she had dropped. Seria was watching the amount she was doing with cold eyes.

After retrieving the wooden sword, the woman hurried away from Seria. Only then did Seria’s cold gaze stop. As if she wasn’t interested, she looked away again.

The woman let out a sigh of relief. So did the onlookers. If there was a difference, it was that the latter half contained regret.

It was a situation where someone had to light a fire to end it. If they had to blow it up, at least it was better if it wasn’t them. If the victim disappeared, it was a situation that they could not help but regret.

Still, it wasn’t bad that the lecture time passed smoothly like this. The bomb will explode one day, and it couldn’t be better if they weren’t around.

That moment when everyone tried to turn their eyes again.

“… … hey.”

Seria, who was about to swing her sword, stopped moving. Her dark blue eyes slowly turned to the back.

Standing there was a beautiful girl holding a canteen and drinking water. Black hair neatly tied back, and brown eyes.

Only then did the onlookers recall the existence of a time bomb they had forgotten about. Yeah, there wasn’t just one ticking time bomb.

Celine Haster. She poured water from the canteen into her mouth a few more times, then said with a faint smile.

“Let’s do it with a smile… It was a mistake, why are you giving me such a rating?”

She was also one of those in charge of the center of the female group among the lower nobility of the second year.

Naturally, the group included the woman who had made a mistake with Seria.