Not a Villainess but a Maid

#063 2nd year seniors

“… “Not that woman.”

Citrine’s expression hardened and she glared at Emerald.

‘Do these two people know each other?’

Seeing that Emerald called her chairman by the nickname Rin, I thought she was only an acquaintance.

I asked Citrine with a puzzled expression.

“What do you mean… ? “This person can’t do it.”

Citrin remained silent despite my questions.

She turned her head as if she didn’t want to look in this direction anymore and said.

“… “Everyone get out.”

“… Yes?”

“Get out.”

It wasn’t the usual Citrine grumble.

He had a seriously angry expression on his face, so I flinched without realizing it.

In the end, Ruby, who was watching, spoke to us.

“… “Let’s leave first.”

In the end, we came to the student council room and were kicked out again without even knowing what was going on.

When I came out, Emerald spoke to me with a troubled expression.

“I expected it, but I didn’t know Rin would be so angry… “

“What happened, Chairman and Emerald?”

When I asked a question, Emerald, who had been smiling just a moment ago, looked slightly worried and finally opened her mouth.

“Hmm, it’s a little complicated so to speak. “Me and Lynn have been best friends since first grade.”

“… “You didn’t look like that at all just now, did you?”

Citrine’s eyes looking at Emerald, let alone a best friend, were like looking at a enemy of Cheolcheon.

“I’m a little… Something happened that made her angry. “I understand why Lin does that.”

It seemed clear that there was something complicated between the two.

Furthermore, if this situation continued, it would have been impossible for Emerald to join the Free Activities Club.

“Do you think you can solve it?”

“I think it might be difficult… “I’ll give it a try!”

Emerald excitedly opened the door to her office and shouted.

“Lin, talk to me… “

“Get out!”

The cup thrown by Citrine flew toward the open door, hit the wall, and shattered.

Books, pencils, and all kinds of objects flew in like bullets, impeding access.

‘This is not something that can be solved with words…’ !’

I hurriedly closed the door, and only then did the situation calm down a bit.

“Did you see it? “Conversation probably won’t work.”

It was a truly hopeless situation. In order to prevent the destruction of the club, new members are absolutely necessary, but Citrine refuses the emerald.

In the end, we had no choice but to return to the club room without much success.

***

After that, I visited Citrine with Emerald every day.

I expected it to resolve as time passed, but that wasn’t the case at all.

Every time we visited, more and more items came, and eventually they even locked the door according to the time we arrived.

‘If you keep doing this, you won’t really end up in ruins…’ ?’

As this situation continued for five days, I too was getting tired.

Meanwhile, Emerald had completely immersed herself in the atmosphere of the club and was doing well.

Starting the next day, Emerald, who had brought a lot of yarn, sat quietly during each club class and moved gracefully holding her crochet hook.

I asked her as I was looking at her in fascination.

“What are you looking at?”

“I’m knitting gloves. “Doing this makes me feel at ease.”

After concentrating on knitting for a while, she lifted her two pairs of gloves and looked at them closely.

Her gloves, which she had been knitting for four days, felt like they would be completed in just a little while.

“It will be completed soon?”

“… Huh. “I’m almost done.”

Emerald continued to stare at her gloves, then removed her needle nose and picked up her new yarn.

She then left her gloves unattended and began to knit new ones.

Feeling puzzled by her appearance, I asked.

“Aren’t you going to finish it? “I thought I was almost done.”

“I usually quit right before completion.”

“Why? What a waste…”

“It feels empty after it’s finished. “I don’t like that feeling.”

‘…Is it meaningless?’

He was an unusual person in many ways. I can’t believe I’ve done all the knitting but haven’t finished it.

Anyway, I couldn’t just waste time like this.

If we don’t convince Citrine during the remaining time, this is the end of the club and everything else.

In the end, I decided to ask Emerald directly.

“Emerald. “Please tell me what happened with the chairman.”

“… Sorry. “I wasn’t talking the whole time.”

She seemed hesitant, but she eventually opened her mouth.

“Actually, I used to belong to the student council together with Rin.”

“Student council?”

“Okay. “When I was in first grade.”

“… “You didn’t fight, did you?”

“No, I think we actually got along well. “I still like that kid.”

“But what happened…?” “

She answered with a slight shadow on her face.

“… I left school and left Rin behind. “Things got a little messy after that.”

“You left?”

“There were some circumstances. “Because it’s personal.”

Then, Emerald lowered her head with a sad expression.

“It would be better to hear the rest from Citrine. “I have no right to talk about this…”

She looked like she wouldn’t talk any more.

Emerald was a member of the student council. This is a truly unexpected fact.

In the end, it seemed like I had no choice but to mediate between the two to some extent.

… Because of this, it feels like I’m caught between two seniors.

‘First, let’s go to Citrine.’

With that thought in mind, she walked towards the student council room where Citrine was.

When we arrived in front of the door, as expected, the door was locked.

“Chairman, I’m here. Amber.”

“… Alone?”

“I am alone.”

After waiting a bit, the door creaked open and Citrine’s yellow eyes appeared through the gap.

“Come in.”

It had been five days since I entered Citrine’s office.

These days, my alertness has become stronger and I haven’t been able to clean it, so my office is very dirty.

“I probably didn’t come here to clean… Why did you come?”

She felt like she would be kicked out again if she said she came here to persuade her, so she deliberately changed her words.

“Um… I wanted to see the Chairman… ?”

“… “How can you not tell a lie properly?”

“… “

She had figured out her intentions anyway, so she told her straight away.

“Chairman.”

“Why?”

“Emerald, you said you were originally a member of the student council. Is that true?”

At my words, Citrine slightly opened her eyes wide and then lowered her head and asked.

“… “Did he say it himself?”

“Yes. “I heard it for the first time today.”

“… Just sit down. “Let’s drink something and talk.”

It was my job to pour the tea, but today, for some reason, Citrine took care of bringing the tea cup.

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She naturally poured coffee and offered it to me.

“You should drink it too. “It’s mildly burnt so one drink will be fine.”

“How many drinks do you drink, Chairman?”

“… “I’ve never counted them all.”

Even without asking, I knew that I drank it to a dangerous degree, judging by the speed at which the coffee grounds were gone.

Citrine looked at the smoke rising from the freshly poured coffee, and then she opened her mouth with a complicated expression.

“Emerald is… “He was my first and last friend after joining the academy.”

She says that because of Citrine’s harsh tone and her unique, prickly personality, no one approached her first.

“All I have to show off is memorization. “At the beginning of the semester, she couldn’t adapt and spent her time in the corner looking at books.”

Citrine sitting quietly in the corner. I have a hard time imagining it.

“It’s kind of cute. “You are a quiet chairman.”

“You say the same thing as that woman. “Does she really mean it?”

“It’s true.”

“… Phew.”

Citrine shook her head as if she was dumbfounded by my words, took a sip of her coffee, and then opened her mouth again.

“… Anyway, Emerald helped me a lot to adapt to the academy.”

“How did you help me?”

“What… There are many things. “We eat together and take classes together.”

“Before that, did you always do it alone?”

“Yes. A few people approached me at first, but they all ran away. “Whenever I open my mouth, everyone gets scared.”

“… Ah.”

I guess he was fooled by Citrine’s cute appearance and tried to talk to her, but was shocked by her harsh mouth and ran away.

“But that Emerald girl was a bit strange. “As soon as we met her, she tried to hug me all the time, and she threw a bunch of curses at me.”

“… So what happened?”

“Then… “In fact, they made a fuss about how cute it was.”

I could roughly imagine what the situation was like.

From Citrine’s perspective, she must have seemed very different.

“After that, we became friends and got along well. “We did everything together.”

“… From what I’ve heard so far, it doesn’t seem like there’s any problem?”

“It was like that. “Until I joined the club.”

Just as I was worried about my club at the beginning of the semester, Citrine also had a similar time.

“Honestly, there was no club I wanted to join. “No matter what I did, I looked bored.”

“But, the president, you were also a member of the student council last year, right?”

In response to my question, she was silent for a while and then spoke with a gloomy expression.

“… Actually, I joined the student council because Emerald asked me to join.”

“What…?” ?”

“Honestly, I wasn’t interested in being the president or anything. “Because I just wanted to follow him.”

She joined the student council simply at the recommendation of her friend, and before she knew it, she had risen to the position of student president.

“… It was just nice to see that the harder he worked, the happier he was. “That’s it.”

As I listened to her story, I asked with a questioning look.

“By any chance, did you run for the presidential election?” ?”

“… That’s right. “Emerald told me to go out.”

“… Oh my god.”

“After working so hard, I was elected student council president… “She left school without saying a word to him.”

“He left… ?”

“Okay. “The day after I became president.”

It is said that Emerald left school without even having a chance to share the joy of her victory.

“At first, I just thought something was going on at home. So I just waited. Tomorrow will come. “I thought it would come the next day.”

Citrine was now staring at her own coffee cup with her head completely lowered.

“But when I came to my senses, the first semester was already over.”

“… “

Only now did I understand why Citrine had such an expression on her emerald face.

I thought she had completely left without any contact, but she suddenly showed up again in her second semester, so I was completely upset.

“I’m still a little… I need time to think. “Besides the fact that she showed up again, her mind is so confused.”

Citrine said silently, looking at her floor.

“… I’m sorry, but please wait a little longer. Amber. “It’s so hard to just look at him now.”

“… All right.”

Citrine, who told me everything, looked more depressed than usual.

I felt like I needed to take a little more time and watch to resolve the tension between the two.

“Then I’ll leave now, Chairman. “Let’s talk again next time.”

Before I got up from my seat, I drank the remaining coffee in my cup in one gulp.

“… !”

Her tongue trembled, her throat became dry, and her head tightened.

“Kek… “I use this a lot!”

“What? That can’t be possible. “Give it to me.”

Citrine looked inside my coffee cup with a puzzled look on her face and she said.

“… Oh sorry. “I gave you the coffee I was trying to drink.”

“Yes… ? “Has the glass changed?”

If citrine is the coffee you drink, it would definitely be a caffeine bomb mixed with water and coffee powder in a 1 to 9 ratio.

Is that why it was written like that? ?

She looked at me with her salty face and said.

“I already drank it, so there’s nothing I can do about it. Try it. “You will be able to sleep in about three days.”

“… Ah.”

Today was the beginning of a sleepless night.