The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

39 – Misunderstanding

After the fireworks show to mark the birthday of the Emperor, Luna and I held hands and looked at each other in silence.

It wasn’t a setting like a romance novel hero who was insensitive about the current atmosphere, but it wasn’t that he didn’t know.

If I wrote this scene as a novel, it would be a man driven by mood kissing a woman. It would have described the sweet situation of being a lover with a woman who accepts it.

But I didn’t do anything and went back to the ballroom with Luna.

It wasn’t that I didn’t have feelings for Luna, but now I also have feelings for Ellie.

Of course, I fully understand that it’s not what I wanted, it’s the remnants of the emotions Ross left behind.

Under the influence of Geass, being unable to betray Ellie’s faith, being Luna and her lover could have many problems.

There was also a feeling of not wanting to hurt Luna, but the biggest reason was anxiety.

An uneasy thought that he might have misunderstood Luna’s feelings. I couldn’t approach it because I was worried that my hasty confession would alienate us or interfere with club activities.

Of course, even with the difference in status, I was still Roel’s burden to people, ‘Ross’.

Although I drew attention for a moment because I received an apology from the imperial family, my image at the academy was still not good.

If I hadn’t met Lakar and Group 19, I would have been eating alone and spending time training.

The image of being admitted to a special school without any talent and thanks to Roel was what everyone in the academy, except for the club members, thought of as ‘Loss’.

The reality was that professors, who at first glared at me because I was Roel’s younger brother, now stopped paying attention to me.

I was not sure about her confession because of the inferiority complex that Luna could not like me like that.

To finally get rid of anxiety and confirm Luna’s feelings. I chose to go back a bit.

She masturbated saying that she still had enough time to confirm Luna’s sincerity, and ran away in fear of failure.

The heated atmosphere at the ballroom where Luna and I came back had subsided and a calm atmosphere continued.

After dancing for hours, the prom was about to end.

Watching people leave her seat one by one, I went around looking for her members with Luna.

I found Arya dozing drunk at a table in the corner, and Lacar talking to Kane with her fiancé.

Let me and Luna approach the table. Lacard and Cane welcomed me.

“Where have you two been?”

To Kane’s sudden question, I answered as if making an excuse.

“I was watching the fireworks show outside.”

“Oh, that’s right. I didn’t see that.”

Kane put on a sad expression.

While Lakar’s fiancée and Luna were saying hello, someone stabbed me in the back.

When I turned around, I saw Ellie puffing out her cheeks with a disgruntled look on her face.

“Ross, where have you been? You’ve been looking for a long time!”

When I said sorry to Ellie, who grunted with a disgruntled expression, Ellie, who had pursed her lips pretending to be pouting, turned her gaze to her team members.

“Are they friends?”

I asked if it was so strange that I had a friend, eyes like obsidian shining.

“Yes, the members.”

“Buwon?”

Seeing Ellie staring at me with her questionable face, I remembered that she had never said anything about the club, so I scratched the back of my head and replied.

“Yes, I made a club.”

“What?! You should have said something important like that!”

A smile caught my lips involuntarily at the sight of Ellie, who was startled and shook her body greatly.

“Ross is the general manager…. I really didn’t expect it! What kind of club is it? No, explain everything on the way back!”

Saying that, Ellie pressed her arms against me. The blush on her face must have been that she had a little drink while I was away.

It was the atmosphere that everyone was going home after the prom. As I had to bring my partner, as is the tradition of the ball, I greeted the members.

Let’s look at Luna, who is left alone again, helpless, unlike Kane, who supports Aria, and Lacar, who arms her fiancé.

Luna smiled approvingly, she said hello to me and left the ballroom alone.

I left the ballroom with Ellie, feeling the pressure on her chest at that sight.

“I never thought Ross would form a club. It’s not like Ross, I didn’t expect it!”

At Ellie’s words, I smiled and asked.

“What do you think of my image?”

“Umm, are you more depressed than now and bothered by everything?”

After saying that, Ellie gave a pretty smile and put her weight on me as if she were clinging to me.

“Still, I feel much better now than before. Should I be like everyone else?”

I was a little taken aback by Ellie’s words, and smiled awkwardly.

As expected, Ellie had a sharp corner, befitting a quick-witted setup.

“Oh, do you remember the last time we went to the city together because we wanted to attend a prom?”

The past story of Elly and Ross never appeared in the novel, so it didn’t appear in the setting book. If I replied that I remembered roughly, I nodded my head, thinking that Ellie would talk alone due to her personality.

“Yeah, I remember.”

Ellie was about to say something but fell silent at my answer. Ellie, who seemed to be thinking about something, looked at her with a puzzled face, and Ellie shook her head as she let go of her arm that was hanging from her.

“I was thinking about something else for a while~ Let’s go!”

The sun again When Ellie smiled brightly and nodded her head and explained about her club as they headed towards the Ministry of Magic dormitory. Ellie, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked.

“Right, I heard that Master will stop by the capital soon. Do you want to have dinner with Master after a long time?”

At Ellie’s question, I thought of Ellie’s teacher in her mind.

From nob le mt l dot com

Nelson was the teacher who would bring Eli’s talent to fruition, but it was a witch named Helena who discovered Eli’s jewel.

She is only mentioned as Ellie’s childhood teacher, but she does not appear in the novel. She is a person who knows neither her personality nor her appearance.

Thinking that Ellie’s childhood friend, Ross, and her mentor might not be strangers, she thought that a meal would be fine, so she nodded her head to Ellie.

“Good.”

She replied with a smile because she was more delighted to have a meal with Elly than the anxiety that Ellie’s teacher would doubt that I had changed.

Ellie, who had her arms crossed, gave her body a big jump, and she suddenly stopped her steps and stared at me with her strange eyes.

“Why is that?”

Feeling puzzled by Ellie’s sudden behavior, let’s ask. Ellie replied with her puzzled expression as if making excuses.

“Oh no, I’m thinking about something else for a second hehehe…” .”

Ellie scratched her head, letting out her stupid laugh, then took her steps again.

As she arrived in front of the Ministry of Magic dormitory, Ellie untied her arms.

“Thanks for taking me there, Ross. Oh, shall we dine together on the weekend? You promised the other day.”

I was delighted with the sudden offer, but there was a prior commitment. She had decided to explore the island for the weekend with the Messiah Club members.

“Do you think Sunday evening will be all right?”

I thought that by then she would come back from the island, so let’s say that. Ellie gave her a small nod and she suddenly pursed her lips and stared at me.

“To the capital…. There is a mutton restaurant, is it okay?”

Did it look like you were contemplating what to eat? She nodded her head, raising the corners of her mouth thinking she was cute.

“The lamb is good.”

My answer wasn’t the right answer, and for some reason, Ellie put on a cool expression for a while and then quickly managed her expression.

“Lamb… Good? Ok, see you on sunday Thanks for being my prom partner today, Ross.”

Saying that, I looked at the back of Ellie as she turned around and entered the dormitory, and I stroked her chin.

“Shouldn’t I have said lamb wasn’t good enough?”

Thinking that the next time we meet, we’ll just have to change the menu, and I feel a bit uncomfortable as I move to the Combat Division dormitory.

*

“Ellie! Did something happen with your partner?”

Her roommate, Joel, glared at her eyes, wondering what happened to her partner, but Ellie sat down at her dressing table, looking tired and removing her makeup.

“No big deal~”

“Really~?”

Ellie shook her head at Joel’s question, and Joel looked sullen before turning her attention to another roommate who just entered.

When your roommates start talking about men in loud voices. Ellie erased her makeup, sorting out her doubts that filled her head.

‘Ross is strange.’

With her make-up removed, Ellie lay on her bed, holding her forehead, recalling her doubts about Ross that had been running through her head since earlier.

It was her own slip of the tongue that started her doubts. It is true that she was going to go to the city to join Ross and her prom, but Ross was annoyed and did not go because she was late to join Roel.

It reminded me of it belatedly. As she was about to correct her slip of the tongue, Ross replied that he remembered.

I tried to move on thinking that I might have been mistaken in Ross’ answer. Her suspicions continued to creep in, so Ellie tested Ross one more time just in case.

It was the teacher who deliberately ignored and cursed at Ross in order to separate her from her side, telling her to stay away from her childhood friend who was struggling with an inferiority complex unlike her talented self.

Because of Master’s attitude, Ross doesn’t even want to see Master’s face. He didn’t come near him when he was with Master.

Ross made a face that seemed like he would get hives just by talking about Master, telling him not to talk about it any more.

Ross casually accepts his offer to have dinner with Master… ?

Something was strange. After Ross entered the academy, though he knew he had changed. It was more like he had forgotten his bad memories of his master than that he had changed.

So I finally asked to test it. Let’s eat mutton, a food Ross never eats….

Hide your trembling heart and say that. The answer from Ross….

“The lamb is good.”

It was an answer that would never come out of Ross’ lips.

When Ross’s parents secretly slaughtered a sheep they had been raising for Roel’s birthday and served it as food. It was Ross, who had been unable to eat for several days and was moaning.

After that, Ross, who vomited at the smell of mutton… Do you like lamb?

This was so strange. Like someone with no memory

I felt something foreign about that thought.

If Ross really can’t remember the past… ? I had seen it in a romance novel that my roommates loved. If you lose your memory due to a big shock or an accident….

Then everything was explained. Saying yes to the proposal to have dinner with Master, smiling and responding to the proposal to eat lamb… Entire.

Is it because the bad memories of the past have disappeared? Unlike before, it could be because of that that he and Roel got along better.

Reaching the conclusion of her doubts, Ellie muttered to herself in shock.

“Ross was fooling everyone….”

Ellie raised her hand and cupped her face.

***

On the way back to the Combat Division dormitory, I found Rosalyn sitting on her bench.

She seemed to be waiting for Roel to return after the prom, as Eli was also next to her.

“Hello.”

Let’s get closer to the thought of saying hello at least once we met. She must have been surprised by the sudden appearance, Rosalyn turned to me, her body visibly flinching.

“Lo, that’s Ross…. Did you go to the prom? You look great today.”

Seeing Rosalyn stuttering as if she was surprised, I nodded her head with a sense of embarrassment, and Ilya, who was next to her, stared at me with her eyes shining.

“Hello.”

I didn’t expect that Ilya would greet me, so she looked at me with a slightly dumbfounded face and hurriedly nodded her head.

“Oh, yes. Hello.”

I wonder if that was the end of it, when she turned her gaze to Rosalyn, thinking, with her little mouth shut, Roel turned her head to her ona.

Her entire body felt as if her strength was rapidly draining away, and at the same time, her legs gave out and she fell forward.

As Rosalyn screamed in embarrassment, she quickly turned her head to prevent me from falling forward, and Ilya looked at me with her strange eyes in her arms.

“Lo, Ross! Are you okay?!”

I wanted to tell Rosalyn that even empty words were okay, seeing Rosalyn asking that question with an expression that looked like she was going to cry any second, but it was so hard that she couldn’t even breathe properly.

It was incomparable to her magical exhaustion. Could it be that there was poison in the food at the ballroom?

With my consciousness gradually receding, I managed to confirm the message that floated in front of my eyes.

[A restriction has been activated.]

The moment I saw it, I squeezed out the last words of my strength.

“L, Ellie….”

Then I lost my mind.