Chapter 17

Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi

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“Did I tell you to bully the kids?”

“Julius…!”

“Angelina, don’t blame me for your meanness.”

The Count had a great complex with the Countess. In reality, he would have been in danger if he hadn’t been helped by the Countess’s family, and it was amusing that he shifted the blame to Angelina for fixing it. Is it low self-esteem?

As a result, the relationship between the couple was as it seems now. They never mix like water and oil.

“I beg your pardon?”

Besides, the Countess could not bear her children. It was natural for her to say that she could not have children. Angelina had no choice but to be hated by Julius even more though that didn’t mean that she didn’t try her way to have a child.

“I thought you wouldn’t know how to relieve stress on your children because you can’t give birth?”

“How could you tell me that—!”

But, perhaps, seeing this now, she really wondered if the Countess couldn’t bear children. What if truly the Countess had a body to bear children, but the Count didn’t want to see his children in her…?

“Don’t approach Elysia anymore.”

“I—!”

If the assumptions were real, it was understandable that the Countess hated Elysia and Edward to death.

“Just pay attention to Rowena.”

“Julius!”

The Count, who was coldly told to take care of Rowena, didn’t look like a normal husband. In the first place, the Count and Countess were not an ordinary couple. No matter how few noble couples were on good terms, they were not as bad as these two.

“Stop it, both of you. Aren’t you here to tell me something?”

“….”

It was pathetic to see the Countess, who could not say anything, only biting her lips and staring only at the Count.

Maybe, that image could be her future self… Herself looking at Damon.

“I heard that you kicked out Countess Arianne.”

“Angelina…! Are you saying that you placed Countess Arianne to Elysia?”

“You don’t care about it!”

“I am Elysia’s father!”

As soon as the Count heard of Arianne, she wondered why he was so angry. Elysia couldn’t help it because she didn’t know the details of social life.

“If it’s Countess Arianne, she’s the Empress’s closest confidant.”

“What about that? If she could be educated by such a person, it would be an honor to be Elysia.”

“Everyone knows that the Imperial Family and Grand Duke Raphael are not on good terms! Now, you seem to have made Elysia in trouble.”

This fact was hidden.

It was something she didn’t know at all.

Elysia knew that the Imperial Family and Damon were not on good terms, though she did not know that Arianne was the Empress’s person. And, she never thought that Angelina would have anything to do with the Empress’ side.

“It was the work that the Empress did personally take care of, so how do you say no?”

“Is it something the Empress took care of? Giving her education from a maid? You must not have known that this was to make Elysia ridiculed.”

It was the first thing she had ever heard of that Arianne was a maid.

In this era, it was rare for a maid to become a nobleman. It was right to see it as impossible. Nevertheless, she was a noblewoman from a maid… This meant that she was given the position by the Empress herself.

“Now, Countess Arianne is the Empress’ full-fledged handmaiden. What an honor it is for her to be the handmaid of the Empress, Julius, you do not know.”

“I don’t know? She must have been planning to make Elysia a laughing stock.”

Elysia glanced at the Count’s face with a cold look, thinking since when had he been a loving father to his daughter.

“What about the past? The current position is important! Right now, Arianne holds the top spot in the social world.”

“That’s why you can’t do it. So, that’s why father-in-law still cannot close the vulgar business.”

“That vulgar business saved you! Don’t you know?”

A sigh escaped Elysia’s lips.

She had no reason to watch the couple fight anymore. Even if she kept watching, it seemed that important information had already been released…

The Count and Countess stand opposite each other.

“Stop it, both of you. If it was because of Countess Arianne, she didn’t seem to want to teach me. So, I said that, and she was gone.”

“Take your hands off Elysia already!”

Hearing that, she grinned bitterly at the Count’s attitude of reproaching the Countess. The words quickly became elated by her words because he seemed to be claiming ownership.

“What do you want to ask for someone to get married with one month left?”

“That… It’s because you didn’t teach Elysia on time.”

“Don’t say anything to me! You are the one who made me like that, Julius!”

Only moments after, the two started fighting again. It made sense why the couple had never been together. The Count and the Countess were truly opposites. In a way, it may be more of a relationship than water and oil.

“Do not approach Elysia at this time. This is the head’s order.”

“Preparation for marriage is originally prepared by the mistress of the family!”

The Countess was one who took great care of her beauty. She was more attentive because she was ignored by the Count because she had common brown hair and brown eyes. She felt very young for her age.

It also looked even worse because she was tormenting Elysia with a venomous face.

But, the Countess’ appearance screaming as if begging to the Count now made her look old all over again.

She didn’t know why the Countess wanted so much and clung to the Count. Putting her bad feelings aside and looking at him objectively, the Count belonged to a pretty good-looking appearance. He has fine silver hair and sapphire eyes.

Despite his age, his sharp appearance still seemed to be able to resonate with many women.

“If you don’t want to play with Grand Duke Raphael, you’d better listen to me.”

At Julius’s cold words, Angelina didn’t say anything.

Elysia watched silently as she trembled with her fists clenched.

***

In the end, it was the defeat of the Countess.

No one in the room grabbed Angelina, who was leaving in anger. Even though Elysia would not catch her, of course, the count didn’t even show any sign of wanting to catch her. The man her husband was truly merciless.

“When Madam Arianne returns, you must never deal with her. You might as well listen to me.”

“But, as Mother stated, if I reject madam Arianne, I will have no one to take over my education now.”

What Angelina said was not wrong at all. Her preparation period was only one month, so there would be no one to take over the basic education for her in a time that was too short.

If she wasn’t prepared enough, she wouldn’t know what kind of sparks would set on Damon. Fortunately, Arianne had a huge backing called the Empress, so she could stand up proudly like that.

“That…”

“I don’t care. Even if Madam Arianne is from the Empress’s side.”

“Even if we can be hated by Grand Duke Raphael?”

“Yes.”

It was a marriage that started with hatred from the beginning anyway. Rather, it was right to learn and use what was to be learned. Elysia, who seemed to be thinking about something.

Then, she opened her mouth.

“You are so strange.”

“If you were going to be hated for something like this, you would have been hated in the first place.”

The answer was already in his words.

From the moment they first met, she might have been hated. In the first place, it was impossible for Damon Raphael to have a favorite human. No matter how much she tried, there would be neither woman nor man in his eyes.

And, it was Elysia who knew that better than anyone.

“Just know that you don’t have to do whatever the Countess wants. If she wants to use you to do something… Don’t think about it.”

Pretending to be a good friend, the Count was still a bystander who had left her and Edward in the abyss.

“I can help you.”

“I don’t need help. I’m sure Your Excellency needs help, not me.”

“If this is the case, it won’t be strange if you get divorced at any time.”

When Julius said that she would never know when she would get a divorce, she snorted out loud inside.

That was the ending she wanted the most. She wondered that the best thing for her was to get divorced safely from Damon. If that happened, it was rather welcome. No, she was hoping for divorce at all.

“It does not matter.”

“…Think again.”

The Count, who tried to entice her with a kind face, also left, and Elysia was finally left alone in the room.

She knew the Count didn’t give up at once. Julius was a man who persistently wanted success. He couldn’t miss this great opportunity. Perhaps, it was to reassure her that he had stepped back now.

“…Your position was bigger than I thought.”

Muttering so, she stared at the justaucorps, which was curled up at the bedside.

The justaucorps seemed to still smell Damon’s scent even after she had washed it clean.

Slowly, she quietly closed her eyes at the scent that spread softly in her room, feeling seduced by the alluring scent.

Now, in a month, she will become Damon Raphael’s bride.

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