‘Knock-knock’
I was happily pretending to be asleep when somebody knocked the door. I checked time but it was only 6 o’clock so I ignored the knocks.
‘Knock-knock-knock-knock-knock’
[Just who is so restless this early?]
‘KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK’
It was more like kicking now so I finally slimed out of the bed and prepared to give an uninvited guest a dummy shell from 76mm gun.
I opened the door and…
“Oh, did you already wake up? Then how about we…~”
‘SLAM’
‘Knock-knock’
I opened the door again.
“So, as I was saying, I…~”
‘SLAM’
‘Knock-knock’
In the end I listened to her rambling.
Charlotte ‘kindly bestowed’ me an ‘opportunity’ to have a breakfast together. After I pointed out that it is still early morning I gently rejected her offer with a rephrasing of ‘go die in a sewer’ before gently slamming the door again. This time she understood that she was too early and returned to her room.
When it was an actual time to go and have a breakfast she did not appear so I hurried to leave the room before she shows up.
“So you are saying that she started harassing you as well?” Lilith was not surprised to hear about that.
“You mean she did it before?”
“There was one time when she had some issues with her parents and thus for some time she lived in my dormitory. As you can guess right after she decided to approach me all kinds of bad things started happening: she was showing up early in the morning to take me somewhere, despite my refusals; she was harassing me and my friends to make me serve her; she was constantly mocking me, my manners and my dresses… I can only pity you…” (L)
Later that day we were having the practice classes. I notified the teacher that I will attend with a ‘friend’ and that I shall accept no refusal. It didn’t take me long to find Charlotte. She was gossiping with her lackey girls. I did not hesitate to approach her.
“Miss Charlotte, do you have some time to discuss a certain thing?”
“I will talk to you later, wait here!” Charlotte said something from the crowd of girls.
“Oh my, I see that Miss Charlotte is a tad busy. I shall visit you later then.” Charlotte immediately appeared outside of her group.
“Ho-ho-ho! You arrived on time. If you really want to talk to me then you will have to show that you are worthy of my attention! We will talk as soon as you prove your…” (C)
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“Oh my, it appears that my offer shall be refused. Very well, I shan’t occupy you any longer.” As I started turning to leave she became agitated.
“W-w-wait! I-I I did not order you to leave! As I was saying, I am interested in finding your worth to me so I suggest we go and talk together.” I wonder if it is really that hard to just say ‘Yes, I want to know you better’. It’s not like she will be considered weirder.
I led her to the firing range. While she was not understanding why I led here exactly here, she will understand in a moment.
I deployed the guns and used both abilities to reload them.
The historical moment in my life as battlecruiser: I finally reloaded all the damned guns without exploding, having fires or other issues! Each of 8 big tubes is clogged with a shell and powder bags. Is that how the pure bliss feels like?
“Watch carefully, Miss Charlotte. This is what happens to those who interrupt my morning sleep.”
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
Of all training dummy shells only one hit the target. That magically protected reinforced target was… I’ll just say all that remained is the stick where the target was attached.
I looked at Charlotte and for a minute she just stood in a stupor. Then she blinked and turned toward me.
“This is… This is… THIS IS SUPER COOL!” What…?
Instead of making her understand that I am the last person whose sleep she would want to bother, I actually turned her into my fan?
“So that’s what happened?” I decided to consult with Xera.
“Yes…”
“And why are you asking me?” (X)
“Because you are the perfect person to advise me on this.”
“Ha-ha, I never thought you want an advice how to make a noble become your friend!” (X)
“No, I want an advice how to be so repugnant to make her want to stay as far away from me as every other being stay away from you.”
“Do you really mean this?” She clenched her fists with a smile of rage.
I only giggled with a smile.
“And the answer is?” (X)
“I didn’t mean it. It’s just another one of my stupid jokes.” I really didn’t mean it this time.
“Ok, why not you give her an opportunity? She might not be that bad. While she was acting on Milady’s nerves, she still somewhat tried to be friendly. Maybe you will actually find her nice to you and stop clinging to Milady?” (X)
With this I decided to give Charlotte one last attempt at redeeming herself in my eyes.