CH 154

[Confession]

Even though the party hadn’t started yet, the participating students were already making a commotion.

The reason being, there appeared a person that took the attention of all the students.

It was—

“A-a girl…?” Tayte muttered quietly.

Yes.

A girl.

A beautiful girl with long blonde hair clad in a dress and wore light makeup.

No wonder the students’ attention was focused on her… she looked so beautiful and graceful like she had come straight out of painting.

—But.

But.

She looked kind of familiar… or rather, as I had expected, she was—

“Ah?!” Tayte seemed to have realized it, too.

Tayte and I made eye contact and decided what to do next.

“Let’s approach her,” our gazes said to each other.

Making our way through the crowd of students that gradually grew bigger, Tayte and I arrived in front of the girl.

“Ah.”

Upon spotting us, the girl involuntarily leaked her voice.

Now that we saw her up close… our suspicions turned into convictions.

“Is that you… Jarvis?” I said slowly.

In response…

“I knew it, you’d know right away.”

…Jarvis honestly admitted.

And at the same time, the surroundings grew noisier.

“J-Jarvis?!”

“You mean the Jarvis?!”

“You’ve gotta be kidding me?!”

“I-I can’t believe it…”

Shock.

Confusion.

Disbelief

Their reactions varied, but…

“I-I know! You are cross-dressing to prank us, aren’t you?” A boy shouted as though he couldn’t accept reality.

Certainly, seeing the situation, it wouldn’t be weird for him to think that way.

…But he was wrong.

Tayte and I knew Jarvis’ true gender, and we had been keeping it a secret until now. There was no way Jarvis would take the risk of being exposed and appear in front of the public dressed the way she was just for a prank.

Moreover, her eyes and actions at the tournament had been filled with unwavering resolve.

All things considered, Jarvis…

“I’m sorry. Everyone.” Jarvis suddenly apologized.

The surrounding people became even more confused.

Was she… truly going to come out here?

As everyone was focused on Jarvis and what she was going to say…

“Jarvis!!”

…a roar echoed throughout the venue.

“That is…” I murmured.

An elderly man made his way toward us, every step he took brimming with anger. You could tell from his outfit that he was a noble—he was most likely…

“Father…”

With that one word from Jarvis, their relationship was revealed.

I knew it… he was Jarvis’s father.

“Why are you wearing such an outfit?! Don’t you have any awareness as the eldest son of the Lekrust House?!”

“No, I don’t.”

“W-what?!”

Jarvis faced her father head-on.

“I’m not your ‘eldest son’.”

Jarvis’s words caused even more confusion among the surroundings.

“Jarvis… don’t tell me… you?!”

Ah, she kept her father in the dark, after all.

So…

“Today, I… have come here to confess the truth!”

My prediction was spot on.

Jarvis was going to reveal her true gender, which she had been keeping a secret.