Chapter 45: Incomprehensible Girl

When the skinny old man came out, I immediately called Cordelia, who was sitting staring off into nothingness, lost in thought.

I called her again and again, but she seemed to have disconnected from the world. Only when I poked her ribs with my pencil did I finally get her attention.

I saw her give a little jump of surprise, albeit with a completely flat expression, which I found odd.

Despite the startle, her face didn’t change,

She usually looks natural when she is at rest, but when she speaks or participates in class, it feels odd and somehow amusing.

However, that was not the point. I can admire the qualities of the girl who will belong to my harem later.

Now there is something more important to do. Now that I have gotten her attention, I picked up the unfinished conversation from before.

“So, you want me to betray my mistress, the lady of the Silvercrest family, to be your servant, right?”

Although I was determined to pretend to be her servant, I wanted to know her intentions clearly.

“Yes (ㆆ_ㆆ)”, she replied in a calm, cool voice.

’No, don’t answer me with a simple yes. I want to know why you think I would accept. Where are the benefits…’

Now that I was having a direct conversation with her, I wondered what kind of person she really was since this side of her my alternate self couldn’t get to see.

Honestly the impression I have gotten so far, is that she was the epitome of icy cold beauty.

Unlike Elena, who acted this way on purpose to maintain her professionalism as a servant, and send me her love signals (you’re only fooling yourself),

It came naturally to Cordelia as if that characteristic existed only to describe her.

“Well, I mean, I was rash a moment ago and now that I think about it, there’s no reason to betray my mistress and the family that raised me is there? “,

I tried to pretend to back out so she would tell me what she was offering in exchange for my loyalty.

Being from that family, I felt she would have the confidence to bribe me, and make sure I was really on her side.

At that moment, her eyes, which, although they looked at me seemed to be looking at something else, focused on me and looked directly at me, I felt as if they saw my soul.

If it wasn’t because I saw her state, I would think she had an inspection skill like mine, so invasive were her beautiful grayish eyes .

As I waited for her answer, which took a while, I guess she is thinking the many things she can give me, or so I thought, but her answer was something I did not expect.

“If you don’t, you will suffer.”

’Wait! what!?, now she threatening me?’

I didn’t understand anything anymore I thought she would start listing several reasons why following her was better than Seraphina but just a threat came out of her mouth.

’what kind of thought process does she have? What kind of personality does this girl have?’ I honestly don’t understand what’s going on in her head

…. or am I the one that’s wrong,’

I was so confused I was starting to doubt myself, I needed clarification.

“Let me see if I understood. You want me to serve you, that is, to be your follower in the academy and abandon Seraph… I mean, Miss Seraphina, and if I don’t, will you mess with me?”

“I won’t mess with you.. you’ll just suffer.”

For a moment, I saw her eyebrows contract at the sound of Seraphina’s name, and it was the first time she broke her indifferent expression she’d had since I met her a few hours ago.

’besides Isn’t it the same?’

How will she make me suffer without messing with me? Not to mention that , she doesn’t seem like she means it, rather it seems like she’s repeating something she was told to say or that’s the impression she gives from her lack of emotions when saying things.

Still, I didn’t want to give up and kept trying to have a coherent conversation

“Wouldn’t it be better to convince me with benefits or something?”

“Ohh!, uhmm…, you’ll get benefits.”

’What is it about this girl? She’s nothing like anything I saw in my alternate self’s memories, she seems like an airhead who doesn’t really think about anything.’

Let’s calm down and think calmly and break this girl down to understand her.

First, for some reason she hates Seraphina .

Second, she is cold and indifferent by nature and acts that way towards everyone else even her love interest , maybe because of her blessing.

Third, she has feelings for me, though I don’t know to what degree, as I can see her state.

Fourth, she looks and acts like an airhead but she’s not, since in the memories she was someone who plotted in search of Seraphina’s downfall and made many devious plans to humiliate me and make me look bad, so she must have a lot of common sense, even if it doesn’t look like it.

Even breaking things down a bit, there were a lot of things that didn’t add up, so I had to try something. I looked back and, luckily, William was gone.

Apparently he went somewhere, maybe to the bathroom? ’ well never mind so it’s much better that way’.

I gave a small nod to Silvia, as our gazes met, and then closed my eyes for a moment.

A few seconds later, I opened them and turned my attention back to Cordelia and spoke.

“Miss Cordelia, why do you want me to be your subordinate?”

I hadn’t asked the reason because I assumed it was because I was Seraphina’s servant, but I wanted to see her answer.

“Because you are strong and m-she told me to get close to you.”

“Who is she?”

“…”

’Come on, answer me, don’t be silent.’

I already feel a little exhausted from talking to this girl. There’s kind of a wall in our conversation, but now at least I know it’s not just because I’m Seraphina’s subordinate.

I wondered how she knew I was strong and then I remembered that there are some of her family among the instructors, so I guess she means them.

At that moment my Doppelganger appeared along with Elena.

I called them myself a moment ago and now I want to see Cordelia’s reaction to my female self.

It was then that Cordelia, noticing my doppelganger approaching, turned and faced her, after all they have to go through her to get to me.

At that moment, her indifferent and naturally cold face had a big scowl on it was something that didn’t seem possible, considering the most I saw in these few hours a waggle of eyebrows.

“What are you doing here, what do you want?”

she began to speak normally no longer had the flat tone of before but one that clearly expressed caution and an offensive coldness, directly to my doppelganger.

Now that she wasn’t looking at me, I focused my focus on controlling the doppelganger and spoke.

“I’ve come to ask my subordinate to run an errand, miss…”

I spoke politely while pretending not to know her name.

“Cordelia, that’s my name remember it. Besides, you know this academy doesn’t allow subordinates.”

’But if just a few moments ago you wanted to make me your subordinate.’

She certainly now had the aura and personality of my alternate self’s memories. I wanted to see more to understand the extent of her hatred and personality that I still don’t understand.

“ah!, my mistake. Jojojo, I mean, I want to ask my friend for a favor, you know, we’ve been friends for a long time.”

“you lie.”

“What, excuse me!”

“I mean it’s a lie, he’s not your friend. I’ve only been with him for a few hours and he’s already cursed you out more than 10 times, saying things like you abuse him and give him meaningless orders.”

“…..”

’Excuse me! When did I ever curse myself? I don’t remember that happening’.

I was baffled by the lies out of nowhere, the more I talked to her the more confusing it all became. What does this woman want to achieve? Does she want to separate me from Seraphina with such silly lies.

’No, wait, if the two of us were really master and servant, that would create some doubts. Is that what she wants?’

’How can your personality be so different from just a moment ago?’ Taking my silence as doubt towards cristian, she simply continued to lie.

’’So you can stop approaching him. From now on he’ll be my subo…. friend. He said he wants to be with me from now on.”

’Hey, you almost said subordinate and who wants to be with who, I haven’t given my acceptance yet, you haven’t given me benefits,’

..

“Hey! Looks like there’s an argument going on, looks like those two girls are fighting over that guy over there.”

“wow! I didn’t think I’d see that on the first day”

“I’d also like the girls to fight for me, how unfair, the guy isn’t even that good looking.”

“eh!? what happened a fight, my money’s on her silver haired one,”

“you idiot they both have silver hair”

“look well one of them has purple tones in her hair, you idiot”

“the black-haired one is included?…my money’s on her, she looks dangerous.”

“yeah right it gives you a feeling that it will attack you, at any moment”

..

’hey Elena she could be many things, but she’s not dangerous…hummm, , you know what, you’re right she is dangerous, but only to me so you don’t have to worry ’

It seems The conversation was beginning to draw the attention of the rest of the people in the classroom and I didn’t want to draw attention to myself like Seraphina, so, completing what I came to check, it was time to withdraw.

“I see, I’ve understood a lot of things, so you never considered me your friend, did you? That’s a shame to hear. I hope you’re doing well with your now true friend.”

Dramatically, I cut ties with myself to gain Cordelia’s trust so I would have a chance to understand her better and then withdrew ignoring that they were starting to bet on who would win the fight.

’And they are supposed to be the future of the kingdom,haa~. what a disappointment…., although I would also bet on Elena, if I were in they place’.

By the way, all this time, Elena seemed impassive behind me and said nothing, she just watched the act in front of her, maybe that’s why she looked dangerous like a panther stalking its prey, but she was just watching that I didn’t do anything to tarnish my name.

Once I retreated I returned my consciousness to my original body, I made a face of disbelief and it was, in a sense, half real.

I couldn’t believe how her changed simply by talking with me having the appearance of Seraphina.

“You are now my subordinate,”

And that was the first thing she said, as she turned his face back to me, which was again indifferent, but with a small trace of pride for accomplishing his task and no trace of remorse for lying a few moments ago.

I think I’m going to need more time to understand this girl. I’m simply going to resign myself to being her servant for now and see what happens.

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