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I had heard about the “dragon-possessed” students from Ms. Rolendria. It turned out they were closer to me than I thought.
Rudina, who hadn’t done anything wrong, ended up as a hostage, and was led into the Royal Class dormitory flanked by Charlotte and me, her escorts.
Her face was pale, and she couldn’t say a word. She didn’t even ask how we knew it or what was going on. Her expression spoke volumes—she looked as though she were envisioning her own imminent death.
Charlotte glared at me as I watched Rudina, whose soul seemed to have been sucked out by my mere words. Charlotte was silently cursing me with her eyes: ‘Why did you have to say that!’
“… Well, these things can happen when you’re young.”
“…”
“I was like that too when I was younger! It’s okay!”
“…”
No matter how much I tried to comfort her, Rudina could not recover from her shattered mental state.
“Look, it was just the two of us, Charlotte and me, who saw you. We’ll keep it a secret, okay?”
“…”
Rudina moved listlessly as if she were a kite with its string cut. It seemed like my words weren’t reaching her ears at all.
The thought that this kid who’d skipped a grade was actually part of a club for students with dark middle-school syndrome and was putting on such an act left me on the verge of laughter.
“Gosh, pfft! No, I mean… Sorry. It’s not that I found it funny… I laughed because something tickled me all of a...
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