Despite Being an Extra, I'm the Villain's Childhood Friend - Chapter 41.1
Chapter 41.1
“You’re quite malicious for your age.”
“A mage is also a heretic. Shouldn’t everything come at a price?”
“….!”
Every magic has its price.
No mage could escape this basic principle.
Gerald, who had been caught off guard by this, was speechless for a moment before letting out a hollow laugh. He had been looking at Robert with eyes full of disbelief, but soon, he began to laugh out loud.
“Hahaha! Ahahaha!”
“….”
“Aren’t you funny?”
He stopped laughing abruptly and grinned, looking amused. Robert, on the other hand, watched him with wary eyes.
Gerald muttered to himself, his face twisted into a sinister expression.
“He’s so funny. As if the Order of Knights would target a seven-year-old.”
He chuckled as if he found it cute, then dipped his quill in red ink before he graded the paper with a flourish. Izeline’s attention, which had been anxiously focused on Robert’s future, naturally shifted to the test paper covered in red marks.
The future was important, but so was the present.
“Oh…”
And then, an exclamation escaped her lips as she looked down at the paper.
‘Ninety points!’
Her spirits, which had been low until just a moment ago, soared as if they were flying through the sky at the high score she had never received before.
She turned her head with a satisfied smile and saw Michael’s lips twitching ambiguously. She wondered how many points the talented sub-male lead got? At the thought, she lowered her gaze with curiosity and saw a more generous score than she had expected.
A faint smile spread across her lips.
‘He’s just writing gossip, so of course he would fail.’
She comforted Michael, who was trembling with the ten-point test paper, with her eyes and then turned her head in the opposite direction.
The atmosphere was completely different.
Robert’s sullen face was reflected in her green eyes. His seemingly indifferent but wary eyes seemed to be filled with a dangerous question as if asking what this score meant. As if drawn by a magnet, Izeline’s gaze also turned to the same place.
And soon, she too had the same question as Robert, and held her breath quietly.
* * *
Liberal arts classes always ended with a mountain of homework.
A heavy silence hung around the three people as they walked along, each carrying a thick book in their hands. Izeline sensed a subtle tension between Robert and Michael, and she moved her legs slowly as if she were tiptoeing.
‘Ugh. I can’t breathe…’
It was all Robert’s fault.
Who would have known that he would write such a dangerous answer on his test paper? What was even more problematic was Gerald’s evaluation.
“You there.”
As they reached the second floor of the stairs, Michael, who had to go up one more floor, turned around as he stepped onto the stairs.
Izeline, who had secretly hoped that they would naturally part ways in the silence, felt her breath catch in her throat.
The boy who had greeted her cheerfully when he had returned from the academy just a few hours ago had been giving off a cold vibe ever since he had heard Robert’s answer. Although she had known it from reading the original story, she couldn’t believe that he could give off such a cold vibe.
Even though he had the same face, she couldn’t believe that he was the same cheerful, pretty boy she knew.
Robert turned his head with a sullen expression and asked curtly.
“What?”
Seeing that he had a face as if he had done nothing wrong, Michael’s face grew even more complicated.
“What, you say? Is it really because you don’t know? Are you going to take me hostage?”
“It was just a test answer.”
“Do you think that makes sense?”
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