Chapter 74 Cheap But A Trick Indeed
"What do you want?"
"What do you mean by what do we want, huh? You know exactly what we want!"
"Sorry to say this, but I have absolutely no idea what's this about."
"Now, now, don't try to play innocent here. We are talking about how you keep sticking to Leon all day, like a maggot!"
"Yes, that's right! You walk along with him all day like you're his pet or something!"
"Yeah, you better start keeping your distance!"
"That…I mean, we are friends so I am usually with him. Isn't that normal?"
"Friends, huh? Don't try to fool us. We all know that you're trying to make him fall for you because he is famous and it'll be good for your reputation in the academy and all."
"Just because you're from a high-ranking family, doesn't mean you can do anything you want!"
"Like any other girls, we have our rights and feelings too. But because of people like you, we don't even get the chance to talk to him!"
I watched quietly as the quarrel continued. At a slight distance from me, four girls were arguing among themselves. And three of them were ganging up against the remaining one.
The lone girl who was being targeted had long red hair that came down to her waist. Her face was well proportioned and her eyes were dyed with the shade of brown.
She was someone I knew. Or rather I should say, instead of knowing her, I knew about her. There's a difference between the two.
She was Ellyn; the first official member of Leon's harem.
Right now she was being targeted by three other girls, and I knew those three also.
A while ago—when I was stalking Leon, I saw these girls were also stalking him. Though when I was about to end the trip for that day and leave, I heard them badmouthing Ellyn as she was having lunch with Leon in the cafeteria.
After that, I looked into them and did a little research. I found that the name of these girls are Seiren, Alada, and Wrena, and they were class A students—the same as Leon and Ellyn.
The trio was in love with Leon, well, that isn't unusual considering that guy's protagonist's perks but these three were the most aggressive ones than the other love birds. A bit on the yandere side you can say I think?
But Ellyn was a thorn on their side as she's with Leon almost all day, there is a reason for that but it doesn't matter to them. Ellyn is also from the Rosenberg family—the second in position after the royal family, and she has also built a fan following of her own in the academy.
Going up against her was difficult so these three teamed up to try and take Ellyn down. After that is done, it'll be a game of who wins Leon first among the three.
That's why they were targeting Ellyn. Verbally abusing her in front of the other students to create pressure on her. It was a cheap but indeed a trick to intimidate someone.
But it seems like that didn't work on Ellyn here. The reasons were simple, first of all, due to being a character with close to no personality in the novel, the personality she got after becoming real in this world was similar to one of those cliché noble girls.
Hence they were not doubting her, the booing and doubting questions she should've got were not present here. The key point to this intimidation trick; is to embarrass and make fun of the other person in front of a crowd so that the crowd will give them a negative response and begin doubting your target.
The key point was invalid.
"But, ah, I can't understand why you're blaming me for all this. If you want to talk to Leon then just do it. You don't have to wait for me to leave him. I have some reasons to be with him, but you also have the will and right to do what you want. Look. I won't stop you if you were to talk with Leon or even date him, so go for it."
"Trying to play nice, huh? Well, I can understand, since we are surrounded by many students right now."
"It's just like Seiren says. I'm sure you would've given us a different kind of answer if we were alone."
A bit later, the three girls left—leaving some sarcastic comments behind.
Since the show was over, I focused on my sandwich again and began eating the third piece out of five.
'These things are good. Definitely better than the cup noodles I used to make for myself in my former life.'
The type I was eating was a vegetarian sandwich. After the two slices of bread were the layer of thinly sliced cheese, the second layer consisted of most vegetables like cucumber and tomatoes, then after the layer of a sauce was the potato stuffing.
I ate something light for breakfast and these things definitely fulfilled my needs.
'Well, that's the cafeteria of the top academy for you.'
As I savored my meal, something I wanted to avoid happened.
Someone came and took the seat in front of me. The other two seats were still empty, which was a relief for me, but still.
I preferred to eat alone in peace.
I raised my eyes and looked up to see the face of that person. I know I will still be ignoring them but having checked what they looked like can't hurt. What if it was someone I knew?
The possibility of that being true is relatively low as Anya is the only person in this academy I know well, and she was the one then she would've started a conversation by now.
Hence I took a look.
'Dang. It's not someone I know but it isn't a stranger either.'
Ellyn was the person sitting in front of me. And I kind of knew about her because of the info I have of the novel so she wasn't a complete stranger.