Avoid Yandere Constellation - Chapter 29

It is said that hard work does not betray.

Whether that’s true or not, my savior, Professor Byrne, declares the end.

“We’ll call it a day here. Thank you for your efforts. This is the end of today’s training.”

I-I’m saved.

I stop running, relieved that it’s finally over, and then my legs give out and I collapse to the floor.

That was hard!

[Goddess of Destiny says you worked hard].

It’s awkward coming from someone who’s obsessed with me every day.

I want to answer her, but I can’t, so I just shake my head.

What’s going on? Why is it so quiet around here?

When I looked around, I saw something unexpected.

There are a lot of knight wannabes, so I thought that even if I couldn’t do it, I would still be able to do it half the time.

But contrary to my expectations, there were only five people left on the school grounds right now, including me.

And among them, except for Eileen, there are quite a few gasping for breath.

What the.. is this? Am I more physically fit than I thought?

It was just when I was questioning myself that a quest completion message flashed in front of my eyes.

[Endure the long run! You have completed the quest].

[400 points as a reward].

400 points….. I can’t believe I ran myself to death to get this……

Somehow I feel like I’ve lost, even though I’ve clearly gained.

I brushed the system message aside and got up to get some water.

I walked over to the water bottle.

What is this? Why do I feel stares?

I continued to feel the stares and looked around. Most of the students on the grounds are staring at me, mouths agape.

I guess I have good physical strength after all.

I thought they were just giving up due to a lack of willpower, but judging by their reactions, it seems that’s not the case.

The doping effect is definitely good.

Of course, it’s not like I didn’t do a lot of stamina and strength training, but even so, if it wasn’t for the Exp Potion, I would never have made it to the end.

If it wasn’t for that, I would have just given up halfway through.

But I’m still surprised to be in the top 10.

Most of the kids who dropped out at the beginning were not knight wannabes. But all of them are knights, except for those running guys.

So they must have been training together every day. But the only ones who made it to the end of the run were me.

Hmmm. Well, perhaps it was due to a mistake in the initial energy balance.

No matter how much health you have, if you don’t control it well in the beginning, you’ll run out of energy quickly.

Thinking about it like that, it’s not strange that I managed to make it to the end.

Rather, the ones who didn’t control their stamina were the monsters.

I drank the water in one gulp, convinced.

Gulp! Gulp!

Wahh! …. Finally, I feel alive!

It was like being in the desert and not having water for days and then finding an oasis and drinking it. Of course, I’ve never had that experience, but I’m just saying.

Anyway, I downed the bottle of water in one gulp and wiped my mouth once with my arm . Then I stumbled into the shower to wash off the sweat.

***

Meanwhile, that time.

Constellation sipped her refreshing orange juice and stared at the screen.

“Hmmm…… something off?”

The Kane she knew would never have gone on such a long run.

Granted, she’d only known him for nearly a month, but she could tell by his behaviour so far.

Basically, Kane is sleepy, lazy, and good at acting crazy.

And the best of all is, of course, his acting.

Let’s think about his performances so far.

The way he made the drunken holy water look like a potion. The way he acted as if the Constellation had actually descended, just those two things alone make me cringe.

The pretense he showed yesterday, the self-deception, saving Kim Soo-yong’s life and then casually leading him to the culprit being the Church, as if he was genuinely worried about him.

Don’t even get me started on his acting skills. He is pure human trash.

The problem is, you can’t call it evil. What he does is waste that can’t be recycled, but when you think about it, his actions have done as much damage as the Church.

Potions scams are common in this world.

Not only that, but aside from the potion scam, all of his targets so far have been people who have tried to harm him, and even when called “evil,” he has done nothing to deserve it.

In other words. His behaviour may be trash, but he doesn’t go around mocking and killing innocent people.

And it has its moments.

For some reason, in contrast to his usual slothfulness, he trains hard every day and is infinitely nice to his people.

Not to me, of course.

Anyway, he ran the entire fitness test that wasn’t training, nor was it beneficial.

… Why? For what?

Apart from Kane, normal people tend to do things based on profit and loss.

The rest of the guys, except for Kane, must have thought it was training.

No, not just them, but all the wannabe knights probably thought so.

But most of them may have run hard, but not hard enough to the point of death.

Hmm .. But Kane wasn’t like them.

He literally ran himself to death.

There’s no reason to run like that for no gain.

.

.

…

Suspicious.

Did Kane run because he thought it was training?

That would make sense, but the thing is, he looked like he really didn’t want to run.

It was like, ‘Do I really have to go through with this?’

Judging by his reaction, it’s not like that.

I don’t understand it no matter how much I think about it. There must be a reason, but I can’t find it.

“And here I thought, that there’s no human being who I can not understand .”

I’ve seen a lot of humans, but never one that I fail to understand and is unpredictable.

I can’t even begin to guess.

***

Eileen stares at Kane blankly.

Jenny nudges her in the side with her heel, smiling sheepishly.

“Very. You’re just making a face like you’re in love?”

“Uh, huh?! It’s not like that!!!”

Eileen shouted, breaking away sharply at Jenny’s question.

“Hmph. Well, I think you’re in trouble, Eileen?”

“Huh? In trouble with what?

“Now. Looking at the faces of most of the girls here, it looks like a few of them have a crush on Kane.”

At Jenny’s words, Eileen’s head snapped up and down.

True to her word, the girls blushed a little and glanced at Kane.

Seeing that, Eileen made a face of panic.

Jenny smirked widely before continuing.

“Definitely. It’s just that Kane had a weird personality in the first semester, and his looks are great. Aren’t you going to lose him like this?”

“Ugh! He’s the one who broke up with me in the first place…. I-I don’t like him..”

“Well, at least you’re finally admitting it.”

Honestly, it had only been a day since school started, but she was in denial.

She told her that she was falling out of love with Kane and that she was just being a little bitter.

But as Kane continued to show her a different side of himself, she couldn’t really deny it.

Eileen wiped the sweat from her brow and sulked.

Jenny saw the look on her face and smiled smugly.

“Don’t worry, sister, I’ll help you.”

***

“Phew, after exercising and taking a shower, it sure feels good.”

Feeling refreshed, I walked to the cafeteria at a leisurely pace.

As expected, the academy cafeteria was spotlessly clean.

It was similar to a mansion dining room.

Seeing this, I realised that the restaurants in the third world are amazing.

Some places treat soldiers who protect the country like a dogs, but this place is like a high-class restaurant, even though it’s just a student canteen.

Let’s look at the menu.

Tonkatsu, beef soup, beef steak, vegetable salad, ramen, etc.

There was a lot of food on the menu.

But.. why is there ramen?

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with ramen.

But the fact that the word ramen exists in the game world is absurd.

I’m pretty sure the creators put it in because they wanted to eat it while making it.

Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense.

Anyway, should I eat ramen ……?

Honestly, it’s not that the food served by the David family is bad.

To put it bluntly, it’s melt-in-your-mouth delicious.

I probably wouldn’t even be able to eat it on Earth.

But.

Even with such fine food, my taste buds have already been tamed by MSG.

Not only that, but I’m Korean before I’m Kane.

Noble food that is served like a foreign country may taste good, but it doesn’t bring back memories.

So when I was trying to decide what to eat.

The students nearby stare at me and gossip.

What are they talking about with such a surprised look on their faces?

Curious, I turn up the volume.

“Did you hear, Kane had a physical fitness test today?”

“What?! Isn’t that bullshit? How can that bastard do that against aspiring knights? Isn’t he doing it from behind?”

Shiva, no, you bastard!

If you guess Kane’s behavior so far, it’s not unreasonable to think like that，but isn’t it too much to say I win in reverse?

I immediately want to tell him no, but I’m afraid I’ll be the only one who looks like an arsehole; if I do, so I just prick up my ears and listen.

“I thought so too at first, but then all the kids in gym class today said it, and I saw their reactions, and it looks like it’s not from the back, but from the front.”

“Crazy. He was so weak in the first semester, wasn’t he?”

The classmate in front of him nods.

“I know. Why did he come to the canteen anyway?”

“Oh, yeah. Normally, he wouldn’t come to the canteen because it’s dirty or the food is inferior, but today, he came because of what?”

“I mean, normally he’d be eating at his mansion, not here, or sitting alone drinking.”

I turned the volume back down, thinking there was no point in listening to any more of this conversation.

[Goddess of Destiny also agrees with them].

Constellation is having the same reaction as them, so it’s true.

Kane, this bastard needs to serve in the army to come to his senses.

He just needs to eat army shit to realize, “Ah–… I’m a lucky man”.

Forget it, what’s the point of thinking about it, let’s just order.

“I’ll have a ramen, please.”

“Y-yes.”

In response to my order, the lady at the restaurant nodded, looking nervous and flustered.

I walked over to an empty table and sat down.

Hmmm. I wonder if they serve kimchi and pickled radish?

Or at least ramen as I know it, right?

I felt a little ominous, but still, my mouth watered at the thought of eating ramen after so long.

As I wipe the saliva from my mouth, someone sits down in front of me.

It was none other than Jenny and Eileen.

I thought I was just going to sit down and eat ramen in peace.

In fact, eating with Eileen in front of me would make any other male student envy me.

But from my point of view, I was only concerned about eating ramen with or not Eileen in front of me.

They avoid my eyes, as if they know they’re in an embarrassing situation.

Jenny scratches the side of her head and laughs awkwardly.

“Ahahaha. Come to think of it, I’m not hungry. You two have a nice meal〜”

With that, Jenny stood up from her seat.

Seeing this, Eileen looks at Jenny, wide-eyed, as if she didn’t expect it.

The look in her eyes seemed to say, ‘I thought you were going to help me?’

Jenny shrugged it off and scurried away at the speed of light.

Eventually, it was just me and my ex-girlfriend at the table.

[Goddess of Destiny asks why this bitch keeps following you around].

Ah. You were there too.

Anyway, it’s a bit of a stretch to include her, since she’s not directly sitting at the table.

Well, I had something to say to Eileen about this, so it’s good, though the timing is off.

“I’m sorry.”

Eileen’s shoulders flinch at my sudden apology, as if she wasn’t expecting it.

“W-why the sudden apology?”

“I’m just talking about the breakup during the school holidays, and I know you must have been going through a lot at the time, and I’m really sorry that I just said and left it at that.”

Eileen bowed her head deeply when she heard the reason for my apology.

“No. At the time, all I was thinking about was breaking up with Kane, and I honestly don’t deserve an apology from you for what happened…… Hey. Do you feel the same way now as you did then?”

Her head is down, so I don’t know what her expression is.

But I can tell by the tremor in her voice.

–I’m sorry. I’m thinking the same thing now.

“Well, yeah.”

For some reason, I find myself dumping Eileen once more.

But I can’t help it.

Honestly, I find her to be an attractive woman, but if I make the mistake of accepting her, it could be very different from the original.

No, it’s actually quite different now.

In the original story, Eileen has to go through life at the academy with a face that looks like it’s about to die because Kane is dead.

However, unlike in the original, I survived and am living a good life Thanks to the butterfly effect.

But I can’t help this part.

Honestly, I intend to keep up with events, but that doesn’t mean I can’t die.

Anyway, even though it’s different from the original, I still have to follow it as closely as possible.

If I change completely from the original, I’ll have to die multiple times to find out information about the future.

Damnit. That’s no good.

We stared at each other, neither of us saying anything.

After a few seconds of silence, someone else approached us.

Oh. Is it Jenny?

Rejoicing at the thought of a saving hand, we turned our heads.

But it wasn’t Jenny. It was Ogtin.

He even approaches with a frown on his face, his eyes full of fire.

He stops in front of me and slowly removes his gloves.

What? No way, It couldn’t be, isn’t that a cliché? I’m not going to accept it anyway, you madman!

But Ogtin ignores me and throws the glove at me.

“David von Kane, I challenge you to a duel!”