Murmurs.

The murmurs mixed into the tense reactions following my greeting.

I just said hello. Why are they acting like this?

Everyone seemed to either break out in cold sweat or have their tension spike even further.

Damn it.

“Sigh...”

Flinch.

Even my sigh made them flinch. Seeing that made me feel like I was about to let out even more sighs.

‘What the hell? I haven’t done anything, and it already feels like everything’s going south.’

I was used to wounds like this. Maybe it felt worse because it had been a while.

‘I wanted to approach this normally, …