Chapter 234: Ah, do you really mean it?
"What are you saying?" Clarissa asked and they all turned to find her with an angst expression on her face. "Why are you speaking like that? Alice, what are you planning?"
Alice glanced at Clarissa. It looked like she was still mad at her with hatred, and maybe seeing her friends with her was fueling it more.
Did she think her friends were betraying her by going to her enemy? She couldn’t tell. These sorts of things were way more complicated than she thought, and she didn’t even have the energy to think things through.
How to handle this?
But before she moved, Steph and Maki got up, shielding Alice from Clarissa.
"No, Clarissa, what are ’you’ planning?" Steph asked. "You almost put everyone in danger earlier and you still feel Alice is the one planning something?" She folded her arms. "Be reasonable and reflect on what you did."
A soft mutter escaped Clarissa’s lips on her friends’ apprehension,
"What?"
Alice looked at the ’shields’ in front of her and wondered if this was okay.
"You heard us." Maki shipped in. "Ever since Alice resumed this class, you’ve been hard on her toes. She never spared you a glance but your hatred for her keeps growing. We ask you why because we care about you but you don’t even answer us. It’s like we’re some strangers to you."
"N-no, that’s not..."