The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

49 – A Strange Day

After training with Lakar, I headed to the club room. Kane, Aria, and Luna were gathered on the bed and playing board games or something.

As I was sitting on a nearby sofa, watching the members play and organizing my plans for the future, Aria suddenly asked.

“But aren’t we doing club activities? We just did a treasure hunt and played after that.”

I sympathized with Aria’s words, stroked my chin, and thought about whether there was something worth doing in a club activity.

“For now, nothing has been decided yet, so everyone is taking a break. I’ll think about it.”

Aria made a disappointed expression at my words.

“I want to do something fun like a treasure hunt….”

When she was contemplating whether to check her setting book to see if there was anything worth doing in club activities, seeing Aria speaking in a sad voice, she felt an unusual gaze staring at me, not knowing why.

Turning her head to look at Luna, Luna naturally lowered her head.

Is it because of my mood… ? Scratching the back of my head, I continued to think about club activities.

*

The next day. The club room was much quieter than usual.

While eating lunch. Aria said that she has a lot of assignments today and that she can’t come to the club room, and Kane also said that she will be away for a few days because she has an alchemy experiment. Lacard also said he was going to meet her fiancé, Elena, so only Luna and I were guarding the club room.

If it hadn’t been for the curfew, we could have found out about stone prickly disease from Lawton. When you are thinking about the next messiah club activity while organizing things such as rice cakes and special events hidden in the academy in the setting house, leaving behind a little regret.

Suddenly, Luna, who was quietly reading her book across from her, moved to the seat next to me without saying a word.

“Lo, Ross.”

Let’s look at Luna’s voice breaking the silence to see what’s going on. Luna rolled her eyes and seemed to gather her thoughts, then she whispered in a low voice.

“How is the combat department class… ?”

Come to think of it, since I decided to let her go, Luna hadn’t spoken to her first. Could it be that she mustered up the courage and approached me first when we were alone? Knowing Luna’s shy personality, I felt proud of Luna who had the courage to approach her first, so I couldn’t help but smile at her.

Opening the back page of the notebook she was contemplating about club activities, she kindly explained to Luna, who gave her courage, about her combat class class along with her drawings.

“… And there is a separate physical training room in our combat unit dormitory.”

When he was drawing a picture and explaining how big the training room was and full of the smell of sweat. Suddenly, as Luna leaned her upper body toward me and looked at her notebook, I felt something soft on her forearm.

Unbeknownst to me, I instinctively swallowed the dry saliva and continued the explanation as if nothing had happened.

“That’s right.”

“Yeah, that’s right….”

It was a very awkward situation as I could still feel Luna’s warm body temperature on her forearm. I carefully pulled out my forearms that were touching as if I was tidying up my clothes.

After the explanation, a strange silence squeezed between us and boasted of its presence. I wondered if there was anything more curious about Luna’s gaze that kept looking at me for some reason.

Puzzled, I followed his gaze and raised her head to the ceiling, and as always, I saw a twinkling star and a large moon.

“… ?”

When I lowered my head again, Luna looked up at the ceiling with a face that looked a little red for some reason. I wondered if I had missed something, so I narrowed my eyebrows and checked the ceiling, but there didn’t seem to be any major problems.

When the meaningless action was repeated three times, Luna, who for some reason let out her deep sigh, wiggled her fingers and pursed her lips. I pushed the chair back with a gurgling sound and left the club room as if running away, saying that I would go to the library.

“What… ?”

Looking at Luna’s back, wondering if it was because she didn’t like the way the ceiling looked. Aria, who said she was busy, suddenly appeared in the club room.

“Lo, I see only Ross?”

She nodded her head, thinking that there were many people who reacted strangely today to Aria’s relieved expression as she said that.

“Yes, everyone went because they were busy.”

When I put my notebook in the space storage and I think I should go back to the dormitory soon. Arya came closer to me with a strange expression on her face.

“That, Ross…. There is something I would like to discuss….”

Consultation? It was completely unexpected, so I was a little embarrassed, but Aria’s worried expression made me knock on the chair next to Luna where she was sitting.

“Okay, sit here.”

Sitting in her chair, Aria didn’t have a bright expression as usual, but an expression that looked like she was in serious trouble. Maybe you want to leave the club?

She said Arya often had a hard time in class, but she could have judged that she couldn’t combine class and club activities in the future.

I had never imagined parting with her members, so I looked at Arya with a bit of fear.

“Ross, what do you think?”

“What… ?”

Please, I hope I’m wrong, I’ll ask carefully. Arya closed her eyes tightly, and she spoke in a voice full of emotion, like a sinner making confession to a priest.

“A woman… liking a woman….”

I hoped my predictions were wrong, but I didn’t want them to be this wrong. I was shocked by Arya’s words, but thanks to her indomitable courage, my expression did not change.

I can’t believe Arya…. I thought she was a lesbian Of course, since it was a character without any setting, it was not without the possibility that she was gay. However, she got along well with Kane, and I expected that the two of them would date later…. For a moment?! If you’re a woman… Arya takes Luna… ?

Come to think of it, the two were quite close. I thought it was just a group of female members…. Was it because Aria took care of Luna not because she was a member of the same club but because she had a heart?

I answered in a slightly nervous voice.

“If you like each other…. Will it be okay?”

Still, I can’t hurt Aria, who is consulting with me, so let’s answer as carefully as possible. Arya lowered her head and said, “I see….” She muttered.

“That, Luna….”

When Luna’s name came out of Arya’s mouth, I nervously grabbed my pants.

She pursed her lips for a long time, not knowing what to say, before ending her conversation with a sigh, “Oh, no nothing.”

“My, see you tomorrow!”

Seeing Aria leave her club room while saying that, I couldn’t help but wipe her face away from her sudden appearance of a rival.

***

A corner of a huge library. A secret meeting was taking place in a place where romance fantasy books that men do not approach are gathered.

“You mean it failed?”

“Yes….”

Seeing Luna’s downcast expression, Flavia sighed. She, too, was not an easy opponent. From the time she threatened to marry her brother, she thought she wasn’t a regular bet, but she never thought it would be this much.

“Hmm, should I take a different approach?”

Flavia put her hand on her lips and pondered. What will she do to attack Ross?

“Ah.”

There was one thing that came to mind. Ross she was looking for some books in the library with herself.

The titles of the book are quite…. It was lewd Flavia tells Luna to wait a moment, and she finds the book she bought and retreads her memory, coming up with the title of her book.

And she finally recalled the title of the book buried in her memory, and Flavia returned to Luna with the book.

“Luna, this is Ross’ favorite novel.”

“Yes… ?!”

Seeing the title of her book, Luna, whose face turned red, shouted loudly in her panicked voice, hurriedly shut her mouth at the gaze of the people around her.

“This was the book Ross had been looking for in the library for days.”

Luna carefully took the book Flavia held out to her and stroked the cover of her book with a trembling hand. Unlike the luxurious cover, the title of the book is vulgar….

[Curse of bondage ~ A new life of conquest, summoned to another world and accompanied by a hidden s*x slave, Yea.]

She was a Luna who never imagined that the Ross she knew would read a novel like this, so she looked at Flavia with a little disbelief. Flavia shook her head as if she wasn’t lying to that gaze.

She “Promised to keep it a secret from Ross…. She tells me because she believes that if it is Luna, she will keep the secret.”

Flavia’s serious voice made Luna realize that this was true.

After gulping her saliva and reading the prologue of her novel, Luna covered the book with her face flushed red. For Luna, who had never even imagined kissing her, this novel was such a great stimulus.

When she sleeps holding hands, she knows that having children is a lie from her parents’ confession before she came to the academy, but…. Luna was a little bit interested in this book, which made her want to read the next one even though she was shy.

“If it’s hard, don’t overdo it.”

“Oh no! I-I’m going to borrow this book….”

Seeing Luna’s sincerity towards Ross, Flavia nodded her head and gave advice in a small voice.

“Luna, at first I was reluctant to do naughty things, but I was with Roel on the academy rooftop….”

As the night went on, the conversation between the women deepened.