115 – Villainous Lady (1)

For a moment, no words came out of my mouth.

It happened too suddenly, but at the same time it was absurd.

I’ve been here to meet Elena more than once, but at least there’s no one here who doesn’t know that I have a fiancé. I never thought that I would openly confess in a place with so many people.

No, it would be more accurate to say that I never thought that I would receive a confession from someone else in the first place.

Confessing to be a lover to someone who already has a crush on her was an act that did not make sense to me based on my common sense. I’m not saying this because I was worried that Elena would receive such a confession from other people in the future, but that’s because she’s special, isn’t it different from me?

If I called all the people of the world one day and told them that Elena was the most beautiful, they wouldn’t be surprised.

because that’s true

That’s the truth when I look at it objectively, not because I’m stuck.

Shining white hair resembling starlight and fair skin like snow. Her transparent purple eyes were incomparable to any other jewel, and her face was so beautiful that it made me think that God put the most effort into making human beings.

His appearance is such that the word Gyeonggukjisaek (傾國之color) immediately comes to mind.

In fact, if you look at who the characters who fell in love with her in the original work were, it wasn’t particularly wrong. In the first place, isn’t the name of the novel ＜The Princess is Loved＞?

There was a precedent in the original work before, so I was vigilant in case of an emergency, but who would have thought that I would be the target of that incident on the contrary.

It wasn’t that I had a complex about my appearance or that I underestimated my self-worth, but I always considered Elena’s case to be special.

From the point of view that I am Elena’s lover, just as I, Damian, became a wall for men approaching Elena, I also built a wall called Elena. I mean.

At most, the only thing that comes to mind is my status as Krause’s heir, is that enough?

Since it was our family that wielded power comparable to that of the royal family only in the south, it was easier to think that the power of the family was the purpose. I don’t know if it’s right to count it as a charm if my background is also a charm.

It was an unexpected situation, so I hesitated a little, but in the end, I decided what I would say.

“I will refuse.”

“Well?”

“I have a fiancée, and I am her lover. That should explain it. Let’s go.”

“Wait a minute!!”

I had no desire to continue talking here.

It was because people’s eyes were focused, and there was no reason to talk further.

It may have been a romantic surprise to others who do not know the circumstances, but to me it felt like being struck by lightning from a dry sky. The name and the face, the person I met for the first time today suddenly says that I like him, but isn’t it more strange that I’m not surprised?

Since the original purpose was to meet Elena, now that Elena is in the garden, I didn’t want to show a misunderstood appearance.

She is… very sensitive to this. Even though I sometimes teased him about being jealous, I don’t want to go to the point where I’m serious about this.

Thinking that the best option would be to finish the conversation quickly and leave, I ignored the girl who was talking to me and moved on.

“My story is not over yet!!”

The face of the girl who stood in front of me with a face full of confidence was not the same as before. He looked embarrassed, perhaps not knowing that he would be rejected like a knife. What kind of confidence was that…Did I look like such a promiscuous man?

Despite my refusal, the girl reached out to me to stop me. I didn’t want to be caught by her and repeat the same story as before, so I tried to cut off that hand a little harder this time.

If we don’t do this here, this could happen again in the future.

“What?!”

But my hand never went up. Because before she could reach me, her hand was blocked by another.

“stop.”

In the end, what I feared happened.

***

A cool voice like the north wind and cold snow pierced my ears. Her voice used to make my heart flutter more than the spring breeze, but now it’s colder than any winter wind.

The girl who met Elena’s eyes was completely at a loss as to where the momentum from earlier had disappeared. Not just that girl, but everyone around her. Her unfiltered emotions made those around her feel intimidated as if they were standing in front of a beast.

Even I, who are accustomed to the lives of monsters, startled and flinched, but what about children who have little resistance to such things? Everyone was speechless and mute under the weight of Elena’s spirit.

The girl’s body, held by Elena’s hand, was trembling like an aspen tree. Elena seemed unwilling to stop pressing her, although the pale color of her face indicated that her condition was not normal.

Elena pulled her hand towards herself and made eye contact with her at a distance close enough that their breaths could touch each other.

“The conversation ends here. Do you understand?”

“…”

“answer.”

“Yes…”

As if trying to completely imprint fear on herself, Elena didn’t let go of her hand right away even after hearing the girl’s answer. It was only a few seconds, but Elena’s actions were enough to push the girl’s spirit to the limit. When Elena let go of her hand, she collapsed helplessly like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

There was no one to hold her as she collapsed to the ground.

Elena looked down at the fallen woman for a moment, then turned to me. Elena’s eyes looking at me were as warm as usual, but there were traces of emotions that could not be blown away.

I tried to move my mouth to say something, but I stopped because I thought it would be an excuse no matter what I said now. Originally, excuses were made by the person who made the mistake to avoid it, but the current atmosphere was like that. Should I say it’s a dangerous atmosphere where you feel like you’ll explode if you say a word wrong?

I’ve never seen Elena so angry, so there’s something about it.

Elena came up to me without saying a word and took my hand, but the fact that she held it tighter than usual gave me an indirect idea of how she was thinking about the situation. I held her hand and walked as Elena led me.

When we arrived at a deserted place, Elena let go of her tightly gripped hands and this time embraced my body instead of her hands. Just like before, the pressure on my body was no joke, but it seemed like they were trying to prevent me from going anywhere else.

As if to let me know that this wasn’t just my feeling, Elena buried her face in my chest and said to me,

“You can’t go.”

Although many of the preceding subjects were omitted, I seemed to understand what Elena meant by this to me. That’s why I was trying to get out of here quickly. If something like this happens again after that, then I should leave without saying a word.

“Where would I go if I go? I’m here. I’m not leaving anywhere.”

To reassure Elena, I put my hand on top of her head, as I always do.

If Elena had been in the same situation as me, I might have drawn the sword right away, like the last time I saw Richard for the first time in the North. So, it’s not that I don’t understand Elena’s feelings right now, but I need to calm down a bit.

As a person with experience, I know how messy my brain can get at this time, so I spoke to Elena and slowly brought out the anxiety in her heart.

“Don’t worry. I will never leave you.”

“…”

“Hmm, I guess you don’t believe me?”

“No…”

After a while, Elena slowly let go of the arm that was holding me. What do you mean by calming down? He still didn’t let me go, but that was a good thing.

Elena kept burying her face in my chest, but judging by the redness in her ears, she seemed to be belatedly feeling ashamed of her behavior. It was definitely a very different look than usual, but there was something to be ashamed of, I was just cool.

To be honest, I was a little surprised when Elena showed up and got angry, but I felt good.

Because the reason she was angry was because she loved me, I could feel once again that her feelings were not different from mine.

“It was great.”

Having said that, for some reason, Elena pounded my chest with her small fist.

Of course it didn’t hurt.