38 Past Life, D 141

(Celes) LEo yOu aRe liKE mY sIsTeRR.

(Leonora) cElEs yOu tOo, wAitEr AnOthEr rOuNd !!!!

Me and my best friend were enjoying the good life, until that pair of siblings found us.

(Maxwell) we finally found them, Bruno, take Celes, I have something to do.

(Celes) bUt wHyyYyy, wE aRe dRiNkiNg qUiEtLy.

Bruno, a muscular giant and the king's bastard son, carried Celes like a sack of potatoes and carried her out of the tavern.

For his part, Maxwell, his middle brother and crown prince, approached the waiter and gave him a bag of coins.

(Maxwell) take, but I want one thing to be clear, neither I, nor my brother, nor Miss Kinner, have ever been here.

The waiter nods but gives me a look, to which Maxwell responds.

(Maxwell) She doesn't matter.

Maxwell turns his back on me, and leaves the tavern, I stayed, and spended the rest of the night trying to convince people to buy me a drink.

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I'm not really sure how, but I woke up in my room at the academy, my head felt like it was going to explode, but today is a school day and sadly I am obligated not to miss again or I will be expelled, that's why I have a bowl of water and a soap bar. Then, I proceed to clean myself the best I can.

I open my closet, and inside there were only two dresses and my school uniform, counting the one I'm wearing, those are my clothes.

I felt very happy about that, it's more clothes than I have had in the last couple of lives, if I continue to progress, maybe in the next life I will have 4 dresses.

I take my bag with the school books, and I get ready to go out, before I take a look around, in my room there was a bed, a table with a storybook, a box with various everyday objects, and my closet with my clothes, that's it, home sweet home~

She came to class and I sit all the way down, I look for Celes, but I think she couldn't get out of bed, heh, newbie, she has still has to learn how to drink.

The class progresses without problems, but as always the teacher who obviously noticed my hangover, keeps asking me questions to see if I am paying attention, I really don't need to pay attention, I have taken this class at least 100 times, so I have basically memorized the entire school program , that's why my grades are perfect, and technically I'm the best student, that's the only reason the school tolerates me, but this is my last year, in three more months, I will have to leave campus , and my parents have disinherited me, so I have nowhere to go.

I was happy about that, usually they would have already expelled me at this point, if I continue this way, maybe I´ll be able to finish the school year.

Classes go on and the teachers continue to parade in front of me, by lunchtime my head had finally stopped hurting, but I was starving.

I arrived at the school cafeteria, it was a huge room, very clean and well lit. A very large group of smiling chefs serve the young people of the nobility who attend the school, I wait until the queue of students decreases and I get in line, when I arrive in front of them, their smile disappeared, I for my part smiled from ear to ear.

(Leonora) Good afternoon! the usual please.

Some time ago I reached an agreement with the manager, so now I have free food, that's why on my tray they put a couple of hard breads, a glass of water, and leftovers from yesterday's lunch.

I was happy about that, usually the leftovers are for the guard dogs of the academy, so today I can have a real feast.

I sit in a corner of the cafeteria and I get ready to eat, I was enjoying my food when I felt that something hit me on the head, when I looked I saw that someone had thrown me a half-eaten hamburger.

I felt happy about that, now I have dinner, I looked around me and I saw a group of students who laughed, I think it must have been one of them for which I am about to thank them.

(Leonora) hey !!! Thank you very much mysterious strangers !!!

They burst into laughter after listening to me, to which I can only think, what a nice group of people.

I continued my lunch, when a very downcast Celes entered the cafeteria and sat across from me.

(Celes) good morning Leo... God my head is killing me.

(Leonora) good afternoon Celes, it's past noon.

(Celes) gods, don't remind me, I missed all the classes of the morning.

(Leonora) don't worry, I didn't take notes, but I can tell you everything we saw in those classes.

(Celes) thank you Leo, you saved my life.

It was at that moment that Celes noticed my lunch and made a disgusted face.

(Celes) Leo, how many times have I told you to order whatever you want from the cafeteria and charge it in my name.

(Leonora) I don't need to, I also don't want to give you more trouble, there are already many people who say that I only take advantage of you.

(Celes) Let other people speak what they want. Also, it is my fault too, you know I am the reason your family disinherited you.

(Leonora) Don't feel bad about that, me and my family never had a good relationship to begin with, and if I didn't marry Count Lucius, they would have choosen another nobleman for me to marry, I don't care at this point.

Celes was silent, not knowing how to answer me. For my part, I took some napkins and started to wrap my dinner.

(Celes) what is that Leo?

(Leonora) my dinner, isn't it great? someone gave it to me.

(Celes) You dropped it on the ground?

(Leonora) no, that's how it was when they gave it to me.

(Celes) who gave you food that has fallen to the ground?

(Leonora) hmmm I don't know, I felt something hit me and then I saw it lying on the floor.

At that moment, that group of students burst into laughter again.

(Celes) give me a minute Leo.

Celes got up and walked over to them, and I could hear loud bangs and the sound of chairs and tables breaking, I just continued my meal until Celes returned.

(Celes) put that in the trash, we'll go to eat when school is over.

(Leonora) is not good to waste food, if we were locked in a dungeon or at the top of a tower, we would beg to be able to eat something like this.

(Celes) Heh, that´s weird way of looking at things.

At that moment, called by other students, a teacher came running and stopped dumbfounded when she saw the cafeteria. Half a dozen students were unconscious and at least a third of the cafeteria was destroyed, before even asking what had passed, he just hurried to scream.

(Teacher) CELESTIA DE KINNER, TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE !!!!!!!

(Celes) I'm being called Leo, try not to get in trouble.

(Leonora) okay!

Celes left, escorted by the teacher. I was finally able to finish my lunch.

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Finally, the classes for the day were over, so I hurried to go to the second-year restrooms, there I found Celes with a mop and a bucket, I took another mop and got ready to help her.

(Leonora) and how was it?

(Celes) the good thing about being unexpellable is they can't expel you, I only have to clean the bathrooms for two weeks.

(Leonora) hmm only two? When you blew up the abandoned dormitories they gave you a month, and those were about to be demolished anyway.

At that she stops and looks at me seriously.

(Celes) Leonora, let's get out of here, there is nothing that interests us anymore.

I smiled and rested my hands and chin on the mop pole.

(Leonora) hmm, tell me what happened?

She sighs and shrugged.

(Celes) my parents were at the principal's office, it seems they were called before I destroyed half the cafeteria.

(Leonora) and what about that?

(Celes) the same as always, they threatened me, and told me to stop hanging out with you, they say that you are a bad influence.

(Leonora) hmmm, maybe they're just worried, they all think you have a great future ahead of you and they must be afraid that I'll get in the way.

(Celes) they have invented that, my future is mine, and I decide what to do with it, and if I want to be with my best friend, it's my decision.

(Leonora) hmm, so I'm changing the story... Okay, I think the time has come.

(Celes) What are you talking about, Leo?

(Leonora) nothing special, but we have to finish school, it's necessary for your future.

(Celes) I already told you, no one here can teach me anything anymore, I'm just wasting my time.

(Leonora) and what about Johan's mother? Marquise Johansen swept the floor with you the last time you've met.

(Celes) I can't stand that woman, I hate the way she treats you.

(Leonora) bah, don't worry about me.

Celes looked at me seriously again.

(Celes) if I don't care about you, who will? I don't understand how you don't mind the way everyone treats you.

I smiled and answered

(Leonor) Celes, I am the witch, my whole life has been like that, I'm used to it, someone told me once to just stop trying, that my life would be happier that way.

Celes approached me and slapped me, it seems that she has already learned to control her strength well, in other lives a similar blow sent me straight to the infirmary.

Celes burst into tears and hugged me.

(Celes) don't say that, if you talk like that it hurts me, don't you understand?

I kept smiling as I hugged her back, I think im starting to be a threat.

In silence we finished cleaning the bathrooms, and we each went to our room.

(Celes) Leo, I want to take a bath and rest a bit, then we can go to eat as I told you.

(Leonora) don't need it, I brought my dinner.

I said that while showing her my burger wrapped in napkins.

(Celes) Leo, I threw that in the trash bin...

(Celes) yes, and I got it out of there.

Celes sighed, and a fireball appeared in her hand, and with one shot she had to throw the burger out of my hand.

(Celes) I'll pick you up in a bit so we can go eat.

Celes turns around and goes to his room, I for my part look at the burger burning on the floor.

Oh well, I wanted to have a last dinner but....

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I go into my room and put my bag on my bed, I go to the box with my things and I start looking, it was not difficult and I finally found what I was looking for, meanwhile I thought about the game.

Because the first part was a success, the studio decided to create a sequel, but in the middle of development, they were bought by a larger company and forced them to change the game to be more in line with current trends.

The sequel ended up being a kind of open-world RPG with a social simulator, but the studio had never done anything like it and the sequel was a fiasco that almost made them go bankrupt.

The worst thing was that it did not respect the development of the characters that won in the canonical end of the game, but that in the end was good for me, since that allows the characters to grow without the need for me to give rise to the events of the first game. .

But if I live more than necessary, it is likely that the things of the second game will not happen as they should, and unfortunately, the world depends on it.

I took what I had taken from the box, and put it on my bed, then I sat down and began to write a letter, it was just one line, I was never very good with words and a simple "this is the only way" will suffice.

While I was writing I thought about Celes, she is the protagonist of both games, at first I avoided her but if I have the oportunity to know her since childhood we always end up being very good friends, she is a wonderful person and I know that the world will be safe with her.

But my very presence is a threat to the world.

Celes has to develop her skills, otherwise she will not be ready to face the final boss of the second game, and for that she must train with Eris and have a good relationship with the capture targets, but being my best friend, she is cold with the capturing targets who didn't like me because I was a bad influence on her, not to mention that she hates Eris, because of the way she treats me.

But we have reached a point where my presence threatens to change history to a dangerous point, which is why I took the rope from my box and tied it to a ceiling beam.

While I was working I remembered how this life had been, in this life I was not sold, nor did I become the concubine of a rich and disgusting old man, in this life I did not spend years locked in a dark hole where sunlight never came, in this life I was not stoned to death or executed for crimes I did not commit.

That made me happy, in this life I spent several good years with Celes, whom by chance I met one day when I mistakenly made my father angry and threw me off a moving carriage, and since then we have been good friends.

I put the rope around my neck and kept thinking about my best friend, I do this for you, so I won't be a bother, I'm not sure if after my death the world continues without me, but in the game there were several save files and It would break my heart that in a file the bad ending was reached because of me.

I kicked the bench where I was standing and the rope tugged at my neck, in my final moments I continued with a smile, this had been a good life, I just wish the next one is like it.

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