Twenty minutes later,
“Are you sure you still want to keep me company here? I am fine with being left alone.” A chestnut brown-haired girl said softly. She was already sitting on the bed and looked worried, as her friend was still in the same room and had not left yet. As soon as possible, Aileen shook her head, which made the Chosen One unable to understand the mindset of the interlocutor, who was hard to reach.
“Yes, I am sure that I will accompany you. Sam, Aiden, and Adaline are not here anyway, so why rush off?” The young girl rejected the advice given by the first daughter of the couple, Tristian Varden Writh and Lavena Isolda Keira. Alexa could not force Adaline’s twin sister and was forced to let her stay longer in the infirmary.
“Okay, if you say so. I just did not want to bother you. Don’t you have to miss class just to keep me company?” Alexa asked, raising one eyebrow. That short-haired girl nodded, which made the messenger of Goddess Magia feel guilty for inconveniencing her new friend.
“Why did you do it? The four of you brought me here, and I am already happy. I did not want to trouble you, Aileen.” The hazel-eyed girl was grateful and, at the same time, saddened to be receiving so much attention from the person sitting not far from her.
“It is okay. I do not mind to do that. I can’t leave you alone because it is possible that while I’m gone, there could suddenly be another child who comes here and then does something bad without anyone knowing. No. It is better to wait here than to let that bad event happen. Preventing evil is better than finding a way out.” The one-hundred-and-sixty-five-centimeter-tall teenage girl remained firm in her stance, which made Alexa salute and confused because what the other person was doing was not easy.
“Thank you so much for waiting for me earlier. I do not know how I will repay your kindness.” Sir Elmer Louis Writh and Madame Phoenix Lily Katira’s granddaughter felt indebted to Aileen. However, the girl who was the same age as her only smiled, which calmed her heart.
“Hey! Do not be like that! We are friends, aren’t we? So, what I did was very normal. You do not have to think anything strange. I wonder how your condition is? Are you still in pain?” Aileen deliberately diverted the conversation by asking about Alexa’s current condition because she did not want the virgin to keep prolonging the same topic.
“Let me see.” After finishing that short sentence, the young lady touched the face area, then both hands and the chest. However, there was no pain like before she slept, as if the Healer had magically removed all the pain. Aileen only observed what Alexa was doing and did not intend to ask her.
“It is quite impressive. I already feel better, as there is no more pain. Madame Ethnia is really great.” Alexa answered Aileen’s question while holding the areas of her face and hands that had returned to normal. In fact, the bruises that had appeared had disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened to her.
“Great! I am glad that you have recovered. So, do you want to go home or stay here? I suggest you meet Madame Ethnia first so she can check your current condition.” Aileen said, pointing to a door in the medical room. Alexa turned to the direction that her friend had told her.
The hazel-eyed girl could only nod as she had yet to decide what to do. Meanwhile, Aileen glanced at Alexa and the girl had not responded to her words. The atmosphere in the room was quiet again, as the conversation between the two young women was paused for a few minutes due to the silence of the Chosen One.
“Alexa? Are you okay?” Aileen could not stand the silence between them, so she took the initiative to address the other person first. The name’s owner immediately snapped out of her reverie, so the sharp-nosed girl turned to her friend, who had been waiting for a response.
“What was wrong with you? If you are still not feeling well, then you would better rest. Do not worry. I will accompany you here.” Aileen did not want to worry about what had happened to Alexa. She chose to just let her friend rest so she would not get too tired.
“I am sorry… I was very sleepy.” The girl, who was of noble descent, felt bad for Aileen, but the other person did not want to make a fuss about it. That teenage girl with a mole on her nose smiled sweetly as if she understood what had happened to her.
“It is okay. You must take some rest.” Just as the young woman finished saying that, a sudden knock on the door distracted the two people there. Without hesitation, the green-eyed girl immediately got up from the chair and walked towards the door. At the same time, Alexa just watched Aileen’s movements, as if afraid something would happen to her.
When Aileen arrived at the door, she opened it without hesitation, and there were three familiar figures, which made her smile widely. “You have finally come! Come on in! I have been waiting for you!” said Aileen excitedly.
“Thank you,” Samuel said as if representing his three friends, and then they entered the medical room.
A silver-haired young man stared at the bed where someone was sleeping. Without mentioning a name, he already knew who the girl was and was eager to get to her. Meanwhile, Sam and Adaline followed Aiden and Aileen to close the door.
I am glad that the four new friends are here. They are very kind, and I hope someday I can repay Sam, Aileen, Aileen, and Adaline because they have done a lot of good things without being asked. Hopefully, we will still be good friends when that time comes, Alexa hoped silently.
“Alexa, how is your condition now?” asked Aiden, matter-of-factly. The boy deliberately asked this question as soon as possible after he had arrived near the girl, who was still sitting on the bed, looking pale.
“I am feeling much better, just need to rest a bit,” Alexa replied, forcing herself to smile.
“Have you eaten anything?” Adaline asked this time, which left Alexa speechless for a moment. The girl seemed to be trying to think of something related to her friend’s question, and after remembering it, she looked at the face of the interlocutor, who was similar to Aileen.
“No, I did not eat anything, Adaline. When Odessa hurt me, I did not have my lunch.” Alexa answered honestly, much to the pity of her four new friends. A red-haired man handed the chesnut brown-haired girl two slices of bread and Adaline handed her a bottle of milk. Their behavior stunned the Chosen One, as she did not expect them to do this to her.
“We brought food and drinks for you. Yeah. I know that it is not much, but it should care for your hunger and thirst.” Samuel explained, even though Alexa didn’t ask him for information. The young lady took their gifts well, her eyes glazed with tears.
“T… thank you, Sam and Adaline.” The one-hundred-and-seventy-year-old girl was almost unable to speak because of the emotion evoked by the attention of her two friends. Aiden just watched the opposite sex’s attitude, which was still not completely recovered.
“You are welcome. You have to eat now so you do not get a stomachache.” Aiden said to Alexa, bringing her attention to him. The skinny man just wore an expressionless look. Alexa stared at the faces of her four friends in turn, and she could not put into words the excitement she held in her heart.
“Okay. I will eat now. Once again, thank you for you, Aileen, Sam, Aiden, and Adaline.” That beautiful girl began to eat a loaf of bread in silence. The three teenagers who had just arrived were watching the target, so Alexa was reluctant to look back at them.
“Aiden. Did you tell the teacher that I will not be able to attend class because I am with Alexa?” The short-haired girl’s question distracted the namesake’s concentration. The boy nodded as he had indeed relayed his good friend’s message to the teacher who had taught them.
“Yeah, I did it. Do not worry. You will not get punished.” Aiden replied to the opposite sex, which made the virgin very happy. Meanwhile, Adaline started staring at Samuel, so he did the same to her.
“Did you hear the detention room rumor, Sam?” Adaline asked seriously. She did not blink, which confused the other person. Meanwhile, Alexa could only be a faithful listener to her friends’ conversation, as the girl had to finish the bread Samuel had given her.
The young guy with many freckles on his face immediately frowned. He was confused by the meaning of Adaline’s question. “What kind of rumors are you talking about? I do not get it.” Samuel asked the woman with long, black hair for an explanation.
“Before going here, I went to the rest room and I heard someone saying that she heard a scream loudly but could not find the source of the sound.” The oval-faced girl provided the additional information requested by that young man, so their conversation soon caught the attention of Aiden and Aileen. They also listened to their friends’ conversation with great curiosity, as Adaline’s description was very interesting.
“Really? Did Odessa and her friends fight each other in the detention room? Perhaps they were put in the same room by Madame Loiston?” Samuel could not find an answer to Adaline’s question and could only come up with a few questions. Aiden could not help but laugh, finding everything his roommate said funny.
“Is something funny, Aiden?” Adaline accidentally looked at the gray-eyed man, and he shook his head.
“Before we left here, I told you about the detention room underground. I will bet you guys forgot about it.” A young man who had a small pentacle-shaped birthmark in the center of his back deliberately reminded his three friends, while Alexa, who did not know anything yet, became curious.
“What was going on there?” asked Alexa, who had just finished a piece of bread.
Aiden looked up at the questioner, and his gaze made Alexa blush. “So, I have long heard that the detention center underground is actually-”
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