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Erhi was completely frozen and stiff as a statue. After getting beaten by the Orbis Class and complaining about it, his mental state had been shattered by his classmates from the Royal Class.
Considering Erhi had been the ringleader when it came to bullying Scarlett, he had no right to complain even if he ended up as a permanent punching bag. But then it wasn’t really my place to say that.
“Why are you suddenly pretending to worry about him? And I really didn’t hit him!” I explained.
“Sure, sure.”
“I’m telling the truth! I really didn’t hit him!”
No matter how much I insisted, though, no one believed me.
Anyway, I was somewhat dumbfounded because I never expected Harriet to try to stop me after seeing what I was doing. The three hopeless idiots had already sneaked back to their rooms, so it was just Harriet and I left in the lobby.
“Why would I worry about them? I just don’t want to see you acting like that. It’s annoying.”
So it wasn’t about the kids that were being bullied, but about my actions themselves. That was kind of sad in its own way.
Harriet’s personality had changed so much that she couldn’t be compared to her character in the original story. The Harriet who despised commoners and did not consider those of low status as humans seemed to have disappeared completely.
It seemed that being involved with me had forcefully wiped out her passive disdain for commoners.
“What is it this time?”
“What do you mean?”
“Why did you act out again? What got on your nerves this time?”
“Oh.”
Harriet seemed genuinely curious about the reason, and believed that I wouldn’t have done it without cause.
“It’s nothing much. I just asked him where he got beaten up and why.”
“… Got beaten up?”
“Yeah! I’m telling you, I didn’t beat him...
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