Chapter 11

“Lady Selina!”

“Oh my, Miss. Are you alright?!”

Wait. What’s going on?

As my vague hair bleeds again, I realized that my hands were covering Aiden’s mouth for too long.

I’m sorry, Aiden. But I washed my hands earlier.

As the location was located, users soon flocked to the surrounding area.

As if I was sitting on the floor, I tapped Aiden’s shoulders, meaning that he should move to a delicate posture that supports my back.

After all, the terminal spicy noodle does not go anywhere.

Aiden, who understood my signal, lifted his hand from my back and lifted me up.

“It’s okay. I got dizzy for a while and stumbled. I didn’t get hurt because Aiden caught me. Thanks Aiden.”

“…No, I just did what I had to do.”

Aiden replied with a big smile. No matter how much I look at it, his acting skills seem to have fallen a lot compared to before.

Fortunately, there seemed to be no one who had seen me slipped and almost fell. It was a very crazy day, and it was thanks to the concentration of the people in the banquet hall.

It’s not a big deal, and there’s nothing to be fussed about it. There’s nothing to say to those people who are used to it. Then they all returned to their positions.

But even after everyone left, Aiden still covered my shoulders and supported me.

Seeing that he do his best to support me even when no one is present, it seems that the acting is a bit of a method.

I just said that his acting skills seemed to have fallen…

As expected, this man is a professional.

I arrived in front of the visit while I was wondering whether I would have to relax my legs a little more according to Aiden’s acting.

“Then, Miss. I will send maids to redo your clothes again. Please rest a little until then.”

Aiden bowed his head and opened the door.

Up until now, he had an awkward smile, but now it was a sloppy smile.

“Aiden.”

“What?”

“I told you that if you use the black magic again, I will cut your tongue.”

Ah… even after taking Aiden’s groaning, his pale face turned blue.

It looks like his face was hardened because of this.

As I had guessed, I nodded and stepped up to Aiden.

“But I’ll let you go.. Instead, you should properly keep it a secret. Let’s just assume that I was dizzy.”

“Yes…?”

Life is like this. It’s been a long time.

This is what a boss should do. No matter what nonsense it is.

Actually, I mean, isn’t it the level of getting him out of the water and then told him to give me the bundle?

No, more than that.

It’s the level of threatening with a gun while giving away the bags he have.

“Promise.”

Instead of a gun, I put my little finger out.

Aiden, who looked down at my finger blankly, immediately erased his polite face and then hesitated to put his finger on my finger with a smile again.

“I promise.”

Okay, if you don’t, I’ll really cut your tongue. Actually, I’m scared to cut it…

Anyway, I stopped talking and nodded satisfactorily and told Aiden to go out.

At my words, Aiden closed the door, bowing his head at me… and then opened it again.

Huh? What is it?

Aiden stood outside the open door

Strangely, there was impatience and anxiety on his face.

Maybe there was a bug outside. In the book, Aiden hated bugs

When I wandered around to see the bug and catch, I heard the sound of footsteps ringing in the corridor beyond the door that Aiden had opened.

Heering that the footsteps were getting louder, it seemed to be coming this way.

“What are you doing?”

The cause of footstep’s voice was very, very familiar.

Oh, I feel dizzy.

“No… nothing. Then I will call the maids. Please talk.”

The anxiety and worries that stood on Aiden’s face with the appearance of an uninvited guest disappeared.

Contrary to my feelings that weren’t refreshing at all, Aiden greeted the other person with a refreshing tone then left in a hurry.

“Lady Selina.”

Leaving a tiring man to me.

“Yes, Sir Lucas.”

“Slowly the banquet hall… But what’s wrong with your dress?”

What a sight. That’s harsh.

How the hell is my ‘form’… Well, it’s bad.

The appearance of myself in the mirror was not a neat appearance as before.

It was clear that a dress was difficult to wear and difficult to manage after wearing.

Perhaps it was the aftermath of the uprising earlier, the hem was flickering and the bird was caught strangely. My well-groomed hair was scattered.

Maid… Sorry.

Looking at the time, less than an hour left before the engagement ceremony.

“That’s right. My appearance is not really good.”

“So that’s why you said you were sending maids.”

Oh, come to think of it. Aiden said he will be sending maids.

Even Aiden seems to need the help of the maids.

I didn’t need to call people by pulling the string on purpose, so I just stood still.

I’m sorry to be sorry, and I’m not confident in handling the dress, so it’s clear that just standing and waiting will help.

“You’re not going to sit?”

“I don’t have the confidence to sit down. Oh, Sir, please sit down.”

“Okay. Then, I’ll sit down.”

Along with the answer, I could see the tea table chair behind me and quickly seated in the mirror.

It was obvious that Lucas was firmly determined not to see the pretending ‘go’ in me.

No, I’m too determined. People are so extreme.

I have never read in any novel that usually a lady is left standing up and a knight goes to sits.

Wait… But that is about other novels… This is… Wait, did Lucas do this to the female protagonist?

Obviously, it was the same with the female protagonist that Lucas abandoned the ‘faking’…

“Can I ask what happened to your dress?”

“What if I say no?”

Lucas shrugged without answer. The tail of his mouth was still like a villain.

Oh, I’m tired.

He did not act computationally on the female protagonist. Frankly,  it means ‘friendly’ without faking.

Without reconsidering something and hoping for a profit, Lucas whispered love to Ariel and acted affectionately.

Of course, that wasn’t what I wanted, but…

I told him not to act because I didn’t like to move while he’s calculating me, but Lucas gave up the faking which is hard to calculate him because he became a calculator himself

It’s not that it’s complicated to beat the complicated calculations, but I’ll beat the calculations in the fastest way possible.

Ah… maybe… I was confused with another novel?

As I glanced at Lucas, he was still smiling at me with a relaxed expression.

Yeah. Maybe I got confused with another novel.

Honestly, I read more than 10 books of this similar novel to my brother…

He was a kid whose aptitude had to be read until he was thirsty for the genre that he was stuck in once.

The reason I remember this book is that it was the last romance book I read, and it was a book where the story passed by in only one volume.

Besides, it was a very insignificant book full of useless masses.

Well, thanks to this boring book, my younger brother declared this to be the last romance…

No, that’s not what matters now.

It’s important to note that this person, who I told  to stop acting right now could have been mistaken for another person.

If not… Is he a person who is honestly very different in love and other relationships?

For example… Friendship?

“Sir.”

“Yes.”

I turned my body in the mirror and looked back. My eyes met with the purple pupils that is still looking this way and smiling.

“Are you my friend?”

“What?”

“Are you my friend?”

When it comes to friendship, I remembered a youth novel I read to my brother.

Their friendship goes beyond frankness… Yes, these days, it was fact violence itself.

His attitude toward me resembles that.

If that’s really the form of friendship… Then Lucas feels a friendship with me?

That was the most likely thing.

Otherwise, his unfamiliar honesty has not been explained other than that.

At my question, Lucas shut his mouth and put his gaze into the air, as if he was thinking something. I could see his hand tapping his chin.

Soon after my worries were over, his eyes turned to my face again.

“It looks the same.”

You think it’s the same?

“Friend…It seems like you wanted a friend. Of course, if the Princess wants to.”

Lucas lowered the hand on his chin and took my hand.

My hand, which was grasped by his hand, slowly rising, and his eyes gradually lowering his eyes, quickly made contact, and Lucas’ lips briefly touched the back of my hand and then fell off.

He won’t stand at all.

The biggest problem is…

“I don’t want it.”

I have no more intention of being friends with Lucas. I can’t think of any further relationships.

It’s not that I have a long life.

Absolutely not. In anyways, no.

First of all, I have no intention of making friends with anyone.

I’m going to die soon.

In the first place, there were two things I tried to choose for Selina.

1. At the age of 23, when I die in illness, I’ll make people mourn my death.

2. Or I will choose to kill myself rather than dying from illness alone.

After a quick KO, I chose number 2. My choice remain unchanged.

In the second choice, no friends were needed.

“Are you taking revenge?”

Lucas put my hand back and smiled a little.

Revenge.

It  only makes sense when it has a big place in my mind.

“Then interpret it as you please.”

“Then the friend gives up…”

Knock. Knock.

“Miss Selina, I’m here to check your dress again.”

Outside the door, the maid’s voice interrupted Lucas.

Lucas got up from his seat, cleaned up his tailcoat from top to bottom, and corrected his posture.

A polite, friendly gentleman character itself.

Well, I can wait for him to get into position. I know how important it is to be polite to this man.

However, he slowly walked to the door. He was laughing at the time he was idling while waiting.

After reaching the door, I  looked back to see if Lucas had finished setting himself up.

At the same time, a secret, joyful, whispering voice echoed in the rooms.

Only me and Lucas can hear it in a small way.

“Then… let’s have her dear friend’s biological brother.”

Click.

It was so absurd that my hands were tired without my knowledge.

At the same time, the doorknob on which the hand was placed turned lightly.

Suddenly, I lost my temper because of the opening door, so I ran out.

I like I was running at the fastest speed in my life.

Fortunately, I didn’t not fall and stumbled and touched the opposite wall with my hand…

Oh, I should have fallen.

A group of maids standing in the door opened their eyes wide and looked at me, making a whistling sound at once and rolling their lips inward.

.. Again, the good thing about power is that I can behave like that guy who squeezes in the room and laughs…

People without power have to close their eyes and hold back their laughter like the poor maids next to me.

I’d rather laugh.