Helmut: The Forsaken Child - H.F.C Chapter 207 (Part 1):

It seemed that the swordsmanship department had wrapped things up for now, but it wasn’t over.

Back in the dormitory, Helmut faced the same question from Sian.

“Hey, Helmut. What’s going on between you and Charlotte?”

His eyes were filled with curiosity. Helmut was starting to get tired of this question.

Asuka, who had been looking a bit off since earlier, suddenly kicked the ground.

“I’m heading in first.”

After he curtly said that and disappeared, Sian hummed.

“Is it a love triangle?”

“It’s not like that.”

Helmut cut him off firmly. Maybe Asuka was interested in Charlotte.

As far as he knew, Asuka never really talked about Charlotte or tried to speak to her.

While the swordsmanship department students would chatter about Charlotte, Asuka never joined in.

Sian smirked and added, “You’re too conspicuous. Especially now that the qualifiers are approaching. Your stories have even reached the magic department.”

“The magic department?”

Helmut furrowed his brow as he chewed on those words.

Alea was surprisingly well-informed about rumors. She might have heard something.

Helmut had told Alea he was looking for his parents, but he hadn’t mentioned Charlotte. That she might be related by blood.

That was just speculation.

‘It doesn’t matter.’

Alea had been engrossed in the dungeon recently and probably wouldn’t care about such trivial matters.

Helmut didn’t feel the need to explain it.

She would understand it was a misunderstanding. He had already told her that Charlotte was just a junior.

However, that night, Alea seemed strangely cold when they met at his door.

Her face was cold, and her responses were terse.

Helmut unconsciously asked if something bad had happened today.

Alea smiled slightly. It was a chilling smile.

“A very bad thing indeed.”

Then she asked,

“Don’t you have something to tell me?”

“Something to tell you?”

Alea knew about Helmut. She was sharp and observant but could be incredibly dense in some ways.

The gap was so large that sometimes he needed to speak plainly.

“Yeah, like the rumor that you’re interested in some junior girl?”

‘She was concerned.’

Helmut briefly denied it.

“You know it’s a misunderstanding.”

Alea crossed her arms.

“A misunderstanding? How would I know? You didn’t say anything.”

Helmut thought she would understand even if he didn’t say it, but he didn’t realize that some things need to be spoken out loud.

Thinking she was just angry, he denied it again.

“…It’s a misunderstanding.”

“Do I have to ask every little detail to know if it’s a misunderstanding or not?”

“We talked, I looked at her, and that’s how the rumor started.”

Helmut felt that Alea was sharp today.

Shouldn’t it end if it’s a misunderstanding? He started feeling a bit down. Didn’t she trust him? What about all the secrets they shared?

Helmut didn’t understand that trust and feelings could be separate. He had never faced such a situation.

“The reason doesn’t matter. The rumor is out there, and I find it unpleasant.”

“Even if it’s not true?”

“Even if it’s not true. Everyone will think there’s something between you and Charlotte.”

Charlotte herself would likely make a serious face over such rumors.

Helmut sighed lightly.

“What do you want me to do?”

So he understood why Alea was upset. He didn’t know how to fix it, though.

“They say you were the one who approached her first?”

“She greeted me.”

“Just because she greeted you? You don’t do that to anyone else. Why is she different?”

Suspicion filled Alea’s eyes. Fortunately, she was the type who didn’t have much patience for letting her imagination run wild.

She was the type to directly ask for an answer.

Helmut, who wasn’t good at guessing people’s feelings, found this easier.

“Charlotte is related to me by blood… probably.”

A sister or cousin, something like that. Alea looked shocked.

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