And I continued to paint in my free time every day, hoping to reach a level where I could paint a portrait of you, the black-masked one, as soon as possible.



[Claude’s POV]

“Hey, Sufia. Would you like to go to the cafeteria with me?”

“No, thank you. I have some important things to do.”

I was careful not to irritate her as much as possible, so I asked gently, but after glancing at me for a moment, she looked away disinterestedly and went back to drawing.

As royalty and an heir to the throne, my invitation to a meal is something the opposite s*x were dying to get their hands on.

I thought that she was probably just embarrassed for a moment, but I decided to talk to her further.

“Is that the thing… that you ought to do? To draw the picture of that strange man? Drawing such a picture is not something you should be doing at lunchtime, or rather, I don’t think you should do anything while eating. If you continue this behaviour, I may become disillusioned with you.”

“Ha, is that so? Then please let yourself be disillusioned. Besides, I went to the trouble of making sandwiches so that they are easy to eat with one hand, so there is no point in going to the cafeteria.”

This b***h, let me teach her… No, if I get mad and lose my temper here, I’ll be just like that trash, Kaisar.

If you can’t control your emotions, you are no different from a monkey.

I took a deep breath and calmed down for a moment.

“No-no, you should definitely eat lunch with me at the cafeteria instead of such a tasteless-looking sandwich. Even if rotten, a dish served at an aristocratic academy is so good that such things are no match. The people who cook them are from among the best cooks in the Empire, so you should just give it up already.”

“I am aware of it, as I have been there myself. I also believe it to be an insult to call someone’s dish ‘such things.’ So, if you don’t have anything else to do, why don’t you just leave me alone and go somewhere else?”

This b***h is just taking advantage of me when I’m acting nice to her?

You are a lowly nobleman who can’t even be my fiancée, and I was only being nice to you for the sake of f*****g you. And what is that attitude of yours?

“Hey. Are you still bitter about that day? Those words didn’t come from the heart. You know what they say, if you want to deceive your enemy, you must first deceive your allies. It’s true that what I said and what I did at that time was objectively the worst thing I could have done, but please consider the reasons I did it.”

“I see… Do you mean to say that you didn’t mean to sacrifice me to the bandits when you offered me to get r*ped in exchange for your life? With the facial expression of a demon while shitting and leaking from all over your body?”