CH 35

Chapter 35:

Leon stared still at Janice.

Their body odor and the pitch of their voices were completely different.

Listening to the voice, the woman in front of me must be the woman we saw downtown.

Did they say the princess?

His eyes soon turned to her wrist.

“There’s a pattern.”

“Ah……… I got it recently.”

Leon can’t take his eyes off at Janice’s words.

“But you hurt your wrist……?”

Janice tilted her head, looking at Leon’s wrist wrapped in bandages.

Blood was coming out.

Without realizing it, she reached out and grabbed Leon’s hand.

Tak.

“……Sorry. I don’t like people touching my body.”

“I’m sorry.”

Janice wrapped her hands around her with a pang of pain.

I guess I was being rude.

She blushed with embarrassment.

But she couldn’t see Leon’s expression. Because the mask was still covering his face.

“Why are you wearing a mask?”

“It is my duty, to answer that…….”

Why, I feel pain in my chest every time I speak harshly.

Leon frowned.

As expected, she is an annoying woman.

“May I take a look at your wrist for a moment……?”

He held Janice’s arm simply to confirm.

Wouldn’t there be a bit of color?

However, she also showed only a vague pattern and had no color.

“……What’s wrong with it?”

Janice asked Leon with a cringe.

He put her hand back in place.

“Nothing. I wonder what the pattern looks like.”

Janice nodded softly at Leon’s words.

Patterns are a novelty to others.

Indeed, most people were not interested in their own patterns.

“Well, then, I’ll go ahead.”

“Oh, yes… I must have interrupted you.”

Janice shivered in the cold.

Leon stared at her quietly and moved away.

“I think your clothes are wet, so you’d better go in quickly.”

He uttered one word and passed Janice.

It’s like he doesn’t really care about her.

Janice bit her lip at Leon’s attitude.

Why is it hurt?

As the cool breeze get in the wet dress, somehow her heart felt frozen.

* * *

Seriously! Why are you looking for me?

I’m having a headache because of Delther and Janice who are stuck in the house.

Edgar was looking for me in the morning, so I went to the office without being able to do anything.

It was fortunate that I hadn’t seen the faces of Delther and Janice since morning.

But that doesn’t mean it’s good to see Edgar’s face.

“I’m not trying to talk about useless things again.”

I nervously kicked the door of the office.

Edgar sipped the tea calmly, even as I was huffing.

That attitude that I expected! I really don’t like it!

That’s annoying!!

“Can you not call me in the morning? Why do we start our day by looking at each other’s faces?”

Edgar didn’t even respond to my words.

He just shook his head at me and asked me to come close.

“What is it this time?”

“Look at this.”

I read down Edgar’s papers. Why are there so many?

The white one is the paper, the black one is a letter.

Along with the provisions, information was written in a stream.

“I told you I wouldn’t do it.”

I put the papers down on the desk and looked at Edgar.

I was about to die because he kept telling me to take over his business.

“Look, you’ll need it.”

“Then why do I have to do this? I have no intention of doing the information business anyway.”

“I know. I don’t even intend to give it to you. But you still have to pay for the meal, right?”

Oh, my.

That’s your purpose?

How old are you?

Well, how much money did you put in?

“…..Jerk”

I murmured softly. That’s right.

“I can hear you.”

Edgar put down his teacup and smiled with ease.

“If I do what you tell me, will you do what I want?”

“If you are good at work.”

What?

I never thought he’d listen to me.

Then I’ll change my mind a little.

“Well, let’s do the mining business.”

“I don’t want to.”

What? You said you’d do it.

I put my hand on my waist and frowned at Edgar.

“Well, I won’t do it either. Was there anything that didn’t go well because you did what I told you to do?”

Edgar laughed at my dignified appearance.

Don’t you want me to talk again.

“Oh, there is. Your marriage.”

Marriage talk?

What are you talking about? There’s still a little time left until I become an adult.

I crumpled the paper in my hand without realizing it.

“I’ll take care of my marriage. You’re not trying to be a father now, are you?”

What’s wrong with him?

Edgar is too clingy today.

I really don’t think I can live properly.

Edgar rose from his seat at my words and came up to me.

He recited slowly, bowing his head and looking at me.

“Of course not. Unless you’re trying to do it with a weird guy. I’m telling you to meet me on a business basis. It’s over when both of you have patterns anyway.”

Is marriage that simple?

You’re using me for work because I don’t show any signs of having a pattern.

“……What if I say no?”

“Why don’t you try?”

Shaking.

My blood pressure went up. I bit my lips tightly and got my breath straight.

“Are you going to risk Leon again?”

“Anytime if your weakness is him.”

Oh, my.

Until the end. He was dirty and cheap.

You must be thinking of using me somehow until Leon passes.

Everyone in the house knows that I think Leon is special.

“Just in time, an investigation came out from the royal family. If you throw Leon, he would be a pretty good bait.”

“……Sneaky.“

“I’m sure they didn’t know you were this kind of person.”

Edgar had nothing to say.

What can I say if I know everything.

“I got it. I got it. I got it…….”

I had no choice but to go to the position Edgar said.

It’s a meeting on the premise of marriage.

I hated it terribly, but I couldn’t.

I asked, half giving up.

“So when is that?”

“Today.”

“What?”

Isn’t that crazy?!

At the same time, the captain knocked on the door.

“Well, Count. The promised guest is here.”

“Just in time. You’ll have to go straight to the drawing-room.”

* * *

I came to the drawing room without a single defiance.

Perhaps because he was the son of a Duke, he was quite neat. 

He looked at me quietly and took a sip of tea.

“It would be nice if the two of us could have patterns together”

Yeah, no doubt.

Don’t you know that we are using each other because the pattern doesn’t appear?

Are you stupid? or thoughtless?

I drank tea with a languid look on my face.

“Is that so? not me.”

Confused by my answer, he smiled awkwardly and continued to ask questions.

“I heard you’re going to inherit the information business. The place run by the Velois family is quite famous among the nobles”

“Really? I didn’t know. And I have one thing to correct.”

“Yes, go ahead.”

Will I take over the information business? Besides, what’s it got to do with you?

I frowned and soon rubbed my thumb and index finger lightly.

You like money, don’t you? Me too.

“I have no intention of inheriting information business. Besides, my goal is to earn a lot of money and live happily ever after”

“Oh, if it’s money.”

“No, not your money, but mine.”

The only thing this guy had was the title of duke, honor. That’s why he wanted Velois’s wealth.

That was the purpose of this marriage.

“So don’t dream in vain and go back. We won’t have the same pattern anyway.”

The family that Edgar asked me to meet was a very close family to the royal family.

What he wants is information that can catch the royal family’s weakness. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you’re going to use me in the long term, you should at least say what you want.

It doesn’t end well when it comes out like this.

Knock, knock, knock.

“I’ll give you more tea.”

Huh?

It’s not the voice of the Head staff.

I looked at Young-sik with a serious face and turned to the tea-pouring attendant.

“Uh……”

Why is Leon pouring tea?

Where’s the Head staff……?

I was afraid of Leon’s eyes as he poured tea for me, so I bowed my head without realizing it.

My face is going to get pierced.

“It’s a tea that calms you down. It smells good, so it’s good to open up to each other.”

“The Velois family’s attendance is excellent.”

The duke’s son looked at Leon with a satisfied look.

“I couldn’t see you since morning, so I looked for you…… You were here.”

“Oh….did you?”

I felt cold sweat dripping down my back.

Why do I feel guilty?

“Oh, my lady, I’m sorry. I spilled the tea because I was not used to it.”

“It’s alright if I wipe it…huk!”

Leon immediately raised my hand that splashed with tea and took it to his mouth.

Lick.

His eyes licking while the back of my hand were too suggestive.