Chapter 71

“Louise!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Bang bang bang!!

Late at night, when there were few maids in the corridor, I was knocking on Louise’s door.

It was really an extremely urgent matter!

By the way, how long have I been knocking on this door and she still hasn’t opened it?

This is driving me crazy.

“Hey!!!”

“Fuck! It’s 1 AM!! You crazy bitch!”

As I was about to knock on the door again, Louise finally opened it.

She could have come out sooner.

Anyway, I immediately entered Louise’s room through the door she opened.

It was the kind of conversation that couldn’t be had outside, so it couldn’t be helped.

Louise was looking at me like I was a complete lunatic, but it couldn’t be helped.

It was an extremely urgent and serious matter.

“Hah… So, what’s the matter this time?”

“Kyle suddenly confessed to me!!”

“…”

As soon as Louise asked what was going on, I immediately blurted out the main topic.

I’m still in shock.

Kyle liking me, it really doesn’t make sense!

“He suddenly took me to the Grand Temple and confessed to me?! Kyle!”

“And?”

“And??”

“And”? While a friend is talking about something extremely serious, to answer so casually…

That’s too much.

I thought she was my closest friend.

“No, what am I supposed to do about you receiving a confession?”

“Help me!”

I really needed help.

I was someone who rarely ever sought help, but this situation was one where I had no choice but to seek help.

Really.

“I mean, Kyle suddenly confessed to me?! What should I do?!”

“Can’t you just accept it?”

“No!”

How can I just accept Kyle’s confession?

I don’t even like Kyle.

No, to be precise, I don’t like him romantically.

I like him as a younger brother and as a person.

There’s no particular reason to dislike him.

“Then just reject him.”

“No, he’s suddenly saying strange things…”

Regardless of accepting or rejecting, Kyle’s words were really confusing.

If I reject him, that should be the end of it…

“He suddenly said he’s going to make me see him as a man!”

“Yeah, so?”

“And then he looks at me with really strange eyes, smiles whenever he sees me, anyway it’s really strange? What should I do?!”

“He’s always been like that.”

“What are you talking about? When has Kyle ever been like that?”

The usual Kyle was never like that.

He was always a good kid.

He always showed the image of a solid young man.

Even when making eye contact, it was just normal, and during conversations, he didn’t laugh too much, just at an appropriate level.

Absolutely!

He was never like today.

“Whew…”

“And he said strange things to me? He said I suddenly seduced him! That doesn’t make sense, right?”

“…”

“I really feel wronged… I’ve never done anything like acting like a female…”

“…”

Louise’s smiling lips completely fell, and she was now looking serious.

Why is she being so serious?

Was there a reason to be serious in the current conversation?

“Hey, do you like Kyle?”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

I asked just in case, but she suddenly answered with a swear.

No, if that’s not it, why are you being so serious?

I really couldn’t understand Louise.

To be precise, is it women in general that I don’t understand?

I don’t know.

“But why are you being so serious? Are you angry?”

“You… do you really not remember what you’ve done?”

“Me?”

What have I done?

I seriously thought about what I might have done.

“Hmm…”

What I’ve done to Kyle…

What could there be…

Waking him up every morning?

That’s something I’ve been doing since he was 12.

Helping him change clothes in the morning?

That’s something a servant naturally has to do.

Buttoning up his clothes when they’re disheveled, fixing his necktie – those are things a servant does.

What else?

“First of all, you pressed those huge tits against him.”

“Breasts? Why breasts?”

Doesn’t this world prefer breasts that are just right rather than ones that are too big?

Looking at how popular people like the Imperial Princess are, it seems that way.

And seeing how those bitches made a huge fuss about large breasts, it was clear that having large breasts was perceived as a bit of an issue.

So why are breasts being brought up?

Besides, I’ve never pressed my breasts against Kyle?

“Hah… you really are a crazy bitch.”

“No, why are you cursing and making a fuss?”

“Do you think men aren’t interested in those big tits of yours?”

“Isn’t that how it is?”

“?”

Back at the boarding school, men would run away when I got close.

Wasn’t it because they disliked my large breasts?

They would even escape to the bathroom where I absolutely couldn’t enter.

“I don’t know where your common sense went wrong… Men absolutely loooove tits?!”

“Huh…?”

“Men like breasts in general, so why would they dislike large ones?”

“Um… but aren’t these too big?”

They seem as big as a head.

No, the head is above the neck, and the breasts are below, so it’s not exactly comparable…

“No matter how much they like them, aren’t these too big?”

“No, they absolutely love them.”

“…Um…”

I feel like my common sense is being shattered right now.

The common sense I’ve known since adolescence is broken.

I had firmly believed that since my boarding school days…

It wasn’t true?

“You said you bathed with Kyle every day when you went to the capital before, right?”

“Right?”

“Each time, didn’t you wear just a towel like when we went to the hot springs?”

“Yeah? I couldn’t wear formal attire while attending to him in the bath, right?”

“You crazy bitch! If that’s not seduction, what is it?!”

“Um…”

That’s… true.

I had nothing to say.

In a world that likes large breasts, if that’s the case…

“You’re right.”

Fuck.

This is all due to the remnants of my boarding school days.

Anyway, that’s it.

I have absolutely never seduced Kyle.

There was just a misunderstanding.

“Let’s just go to sleep… It’s 1 AM now… I have a class tomorrow morning…”

“…Okay.”

So I was kicked out of Louise’s room and trudged back to my room.

Normally, I would have walked neatly with click, click sounds, but I didn’t have the energy for that.

I was mentally exhausted.

“There’s no way I… seduced him…”

I am not a female.

Absolutely not…

“He probably just feels that way because I was the woman around him during puberty.”

Yes, it’s probably just a misunderstanding from that time that has continued until now.

If I reject him a few times, he’ll find someone else on his own.

Someone who’s really proper, not someone like me.

To begin with, isn’t it strange for the Northern Duke to marry a commoner?

“Right, I should pair him with the Imperial Princess.”

If it’s the Imperial Princess, the most popular woman in the empire, she might be able to captivate Kyle.

Even I thought it was a very good idea.

“Hah.”

This is driving me crazy.

I couldn’t help but feel crazy.

How could I be indifferent after confessing to someone I’ve liked for years?

It was an earlier confession than I expected, but…

I still think it wasn’t bad.

If I hadn’t brought it up, she really wouldn’t have had any thoughts.

Still, after confessing, she was different from usual.

Although she tried to act like usual, she was extremely embarrassed.

That point was lovable, but I didn’t mention it out loud.

If I had mentioned that out loud, she would have been embarrassed.

Of course, I want to see more of that side of her too.

“No need to push too hard from the beginning.”

It was enough to have seen her embarrassed face.

From now on, I’ll be able to see many more different sides of Miss Sofia.

“The ring… that’s a shame.”

It was made beautifully, but it can’t be used right away.

It might be good to make one more of the same kind.

“After all, wedding rings need to be worn by both parties.”

Given Miss Sofia’s personality, she probably wouldn’t like wearing multiple rings, so it would be good to use this as a wedding ring.

I could even add some lettering.

Like Miss Sofia’s name and my name.

Or a phrase.

“Heh.”

To be honest, what I’m doing now is also laughable.

I’ve confessed and been half-rejected, yet I’m thinking about wedding rings.

But I couldn’t help thinking about it.

I’m considering marriage with Miss Sofia.

And rings are an essential element for marriage.

“She’s probably having strange thoughts again right now.”

I confessed sincerely today, but she’ll probably be having strange thoughts again.

Since she’s always been like that, she probably is today too.

It’s not a bad thing.

She must be confused and urgent enough to have strange thoughts.

Because of my confession.

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

The very fact that she feels confusion from someone she had been looking at indifferently until now means she’s seeing me from a new perspective, different from before.

To be honest, I don’t think I’ve come this far solely on my own strength.

Louise and Her Highness the Imperial Princess have been a great help.

And thanks to several women who were targeting Miss Sofia.

I had a bad feeling from the first meeting, but they showed too much interest in Miss Sofia over the past few years.

But thanks to that, I was able to get closer to Miss Sofia.

Miss Sofia saying she would quit her job was also one of the triggers that made me speed up.

“Well, if we get married, she’ll quit working at the castle anyway, so it should be fine.”

It wouldn’t make sense for the Duke’s wife to work.

In accordance with Miss Sofia’s wishes, she can quit her job.

“I want to see her soon.”

I was looking forward to tomorrow morning.

For Miss Sofia, having to face someone who confessed to her from the morning would be extremely burdensome.

And I wanted to see Miss Sofia soon.

Miss Sofia troubled because of me.

Miss Sofia confused because of me.

Miss Sofia trying to calm her heart because of me.