Eula's World Comes Crashing Down... / There's Something Wrong with Everyone's Perspective

And now, these two best friends were publicly executing her together.

"Oh my..."

"Th-this... is this really something I should be hearing?"

Though Lisa and Noelle reacted differently, both stared straight at Eula.

"No! Nothing of the sort!" Eula finally realized she needed to deny this with all her might. "It's complete nonsense!"

"But Captain Jean wouldn't make unfounded claims, would she?" Noelle took Jean's side.

"I don't think Jean would lie about something like this," Lisa said, unsurprisingly taking Jean's side as well.

"Eula, your face is so red... It's okay! Eula! I support you!"

One of her closest friends, under the banner of supporting her, had also taken Jean's side...

Eula's world came crashing down...

Eula genuinely wanted to grab Amber by the collar and slap her dear friend twice.

Who told you blushing meant your heart was racing?

I'm overheating! Overheating!

"It's okay! Eula! I understand everything!"

You understand jack shit--!

Eula glared furiously at Amber, but Amber seemed to take it all as shyness.

The reason these two had become friends was not because they shared some kind of "resonance of the heart."

It was because one was cold on the outside but warm within, while the other neither cared about rumors nor minded pressing a warm face against a cold backside.

In other words, straightforwardness beat tsundere.

But at a time like this, the very root of their friendship made the misunderstanding utterly impossible to clear up.

"We'll all support you!"

"Who wants your support?!" Eula's mind no longer knew which matter it should deal with first.

Yesterday's forced-kiss incident?

Jean asking for a marriage-alliance position?

Or Amber, that troublemaking instigator?

Calm down... Eula, calm down. Don't let this mess throw off your rhythm.

"Quiet--! First--"

Wait, was she really going to explain the forced