episode_0011

‘That’s…Eugene…???’

Jeanne d’Arc de Selle d’Orléans, the second daughter of the Duke of Orléans, had eyes of disbelief.

The day after Eugene Schneider returned,

she opened the shower room door and

doubted whether the naked man in front of her was really Eugene Schneider himself.

Two days after that incident,

Jeanne looked at Eugene, who had changed into formal attire and appeared before her,

and was once again emitting suspicious eyes.

However, her current gaze

showed a significant difference in nuance compared to her first suspicious glance.

‘He’s so cool and handsome…’

The man in front of her,

was disgustingly cool and handsome.

‘He just wore neat clothes and slightly brushed back his hair…and he changed that much…?’

After returning from his pilgrimage, Eugene’s hair was somewhat shaggy.

His eyes were half-covered,

a nerdy look that was the charming virtue of a pilgrim.

Therefore, to see Eugene’s eyes properly,

one had to get close to him like Charlotte did at their first meeting after his return.

Of course, Jeanne also recognized Eugene in the shower room interview because the distance between them was close,

and she recognized his eyes and shape of his eyes enough and recognized him in the changed appearance.

However, at that time, Jeanne’s gaze was stolen by Eugene’s muscular nude body.

As a result, she couldn’t fully appreciate Eugene’s eyes under his shaggy hair in its natural beauty.

In other words, with no expectations for Eugene’s face at all,

Jeanne got to see his fully set-up visuals.

Eugene Schneider appeared with his hair casually swept back

and wearing formal attire befitting a grand aristocrat,

highlighting his impressive height of 190CM

and the frame of his broad shoulders.

Eugene’s radiant face, revealed on that foundation,

added the crowning touch to the perfect physical canvas.

In detail, it was Eugene Schneider’s 21-year-old sculpted beauty with bold features added to his existing sickly, beautiful boy face.

You could say it was the beauty of a slightly decadent sculpted man.

“Is it strange? Jeanne, your expression is not good? Hmm…the size of the formal attire seems to fit well.”

Fuss! Fuss! Fuss!

However, Eugene Schneider, with an expression of uncertainty,

touched and smoothed his formal attire here and there as if tidying it up.

The reason was that Jeanne, who had been waiting for him with her arms crossed as if to give a very cold assessment,

suddenly closed her mouth.

From Eugene’s perspective, since there was absolutely no time for setting up,

he gave up on having enough time to self-evaluate and came out with only a manual-level hairstyle.

Therefore, he wondered if his current appearance

was too lacking to go out as the face of that important bazaar.

So, the moment Eugene’s hand was about to go to his hair, wanting to pay a little more attention to his visuals,

“Ah, no, it’s okay…I was too nervous about the bazaar, so I think I got dizzy for a moment. That’s why.”

Swish!

Jeanne came out of her daze and stretched out her right hand to stop Eugene from touching his hair.

‘It’s perfect, what are you going to touch more…don’t ruin the artwork, you idiot…’

She managed her expression and made an amazing excuse, but

Jeanne was still floundering from the beauty high of Eugene’s beauty that had made her body stiff.

“Is that so? That’s a relief then.”

Smile!

Eugene Schneider, who could never know Jeanne’s state of mind,

simply smiled brightly at her words that it was okay.

“Le, let’s prepare to leave, there’s no time now.”

Swish…!!

Jeanne almost desperately looked away from Eugene Schneider, who was sending out a killer smile full of crazy beauty.

It was Jeanne’s appearance of almost forcibly pulling her dress and turning her body and head as if she was in a hurry.

It can be said that it was a reaction that was not like her.

Eugene Schneider’s evaluation criteria,

Jeanne is the type whose inner thoughts are well revealed regardless of her intentions.

Furthermore, if she foolishly gets caught,

Jeanne’s daily life is to try to cover up the situation with overreactions, leading to a troll-like act and decorating a tragic finale.

On the other hand, pretending to be innocent like a nine-tailed fox like now is far from her behavioral algorithm.

‘Why is this happening…!! This isn’t it…!! There’s no need to get this red…!!!’

Hwaaa…!!

However, it was enough.

Jeanne’s subconscious

couldn’t help it because it was an explosive emotion she had never felt before.

Jeanne d’Arc de Selle d’Orléans’ cheeks, flushed like carrots,

as the smile of the sculpted, decadent handsome man, Eugene Schneider, struck her heart with a feeling she had never felt before,

the heart of this unmarried young lady of marriageable age was pumping blood like crazy.

‘He’s just Eugene…! That Eugene who used to joke around with me like a brother…!’

Jeanne d’Arc de Selle d’Orléans valued Eugene Schneider.

She was truly happy that he filled her deficiencies.

So, she wanted to keep him by her side for the rest of her life.

Although she was an unrelated older sister,

and a somewhat clumsy older sister, she sincerely wanted to play the role of an older sister and rely on each other.

The beautiful boy Eugene Schneider, who was shorter and weaker than Jeanne herself,

warmly stimulated her ordinary maternal instincts and protective instincts.

That’s how it was, but now she is losing her mind over Eugene’s appearance, who has transformed into a macho sculpted handsome man.

In other words, Jeanne had always thought that the feelings she felt as an older sister

were her true feelings for Eugene, which certainly did not allow a single grain of doubt.

That’s how it was, but in front of the throbbing of the opposite sex that suddenly soared as if denying those long-held feelings,

the normally opinionated tomboy Jeanne does not even have the ability to operate the same algorithm as usual.

Clatter, clatter, clatter, clatter,

Night fell and the Orléans family carriage headed to the bazaar venue.

When social gatherings led by the Orléans family are held, the event is held at the main mansion in case the imperial family attends.

On the other hand, when only nobles participate, it is held at the Orléans villa, which is a certain distance away.

The carriage that Eugene and Jeanne are in is heading to that villa.

Glance…! Glance…!

Jeanne d’Arc de Selle d’Orléans timidly glanced at Eugene Schneider, who was sitting next to her.

“What’s wrong, why are you doing that, is there something on my face? You’ve been looking at me like that since earlier?”

Eugene felt Jeanne’s gaze while looking out the window on the opposite side and reacted.

However, apart from Jeanne’s unusual appearance,

Eugene also had a rather nervous expression because it was a social gathering that he was going to after a long time.

“It’s, it’s not that. I just thought you looked surprisingly good with your hair up…so do that usually…”

Jeanne, who seemed to have recovered a lot of her mentality from earlier,

directly mentioned Eugene’s beauty.

“Is that so? Hmm…you used to get angry when I put my hair up, saying that it made me look taller, and you would press it down with your hands.”

Eugene Schneider showed a nonchalant reaction to Jeanne’s words.

In the past, the height difference between Eugene and Jeanne was consistently about 3cm to 4cm.

Jeanne, who always wanted Eugene to be shorter than her,

felt that Eugene looked similar in height to her when he put his hair up or brushed it back,

so she insisted that it didn’t suit him.

Eugene already knew the true meaning behind Jeanne’s tomboyish behavior since then,

so he is not only nonchalant but also mentioning it in a meaningful voice.

“Now you’re much taller than me anyway.”

Swish…!

Jeanne, whose pathetic heart was blatantly exposed,

turned her head slightly towards the window as if avoiding Eugene’s gaze, perhaps because she was embarrassed.

“But, you still remember those words now? It was a word I said about 10 years ago.”

Glance…!

Then, she had a subtly tempted expression

and looked at Eugene Schneider again.

Eugene Schneider remembers her old words that were nothing special,

Jeanne, who is in a state of confusion due to romantic feelings,

can’t help but be more moved.

“What’s so new about it, I usually remember other things you said well too. That’s why you always asked me when you wanted to check something.”

It was clearly a special event for Jeanne, who was in a state of emotional turmoil,

but for Eugene, who was not, it was just an extension of the image he had shown so far.

Therefore, he reacted as if it were nothing.

“Re, really?”

Swish,,,!

Jeanne’s head, feeling embarrassed again, turned reflexively towards the window.

“Jeanne, you look good in dresses like that too. So wear them often. You look even better because your chest is big and the shape is pretty.”

Anyway, Eugene, who was happy to receive praise from Jeanne,

praised her appearance in a dress befitting a noble young lady after a long time as if returning the compliment.

“Pe, pervert! What’s with the sudden talk about breasts!”

Swish…!!

Then Jeanne covered her full cleavage with her silk-gloved hands, blushed, and showed a shrill reaction as if startled.

“….”

However, Eugene rather had an even more dumbfounded expression.

“Why are you talking about breasts? Last year, when I turned 20, you sent me a letter boasting about your breasts getting bigger to someone who was piously performing the pilgrim’s path.”

Eugene had a good reason to do so.

Eugene did not perform the pilgrim’s path while receiving the letter offensive from the Orléans family mother and daughters.

All four mothers and daughters composed the contents of their letters in accordance with their individual personalities,

and among them, Jeanne sent a considerable amount of obscene talk.

The reason Jeanne gave was that

her younger brother, Eugene Schneider, was now an adult, so he needed sex education to fully understand the existence of women.

Then, she kept talking obscene things, saying that it was right for her older sister to teach him.

‘At that time, I had just remembered my past life where I lived to 30, so it was even more absurd. A 20-year-old brat giving sex education to an uncle who knows everything. You really didn’t know anything.’

Recalling that time, Eugene slightly shook his head in disbelief.

‘Ah, damn…that’s right…Jeanne…you crazy woman…’

Bewitched by Eugene Schneider’s decadent sculpted handsome charm,

Jeanne had a severe confusion in her head

and had forgotten her past misdeeds.

Then, at Eugene’s point, her wretched deeds were reminded as clearly as possible,

and the perverted unmarried woman Jeanne d’Arc de Selle d’Orléans became mute and condemned her past self.

“By the way, how should I introduce myself? Would it be safe to introduce myself as Eugene de Selle d’Orléans?”

Outside the window, the scenery closer to the villa, the location of the bazaar, began to appear.

Then Eugene mentioned a more essential topic.

“Ah! That’s right. I didn’t tell you that in advance.”

“It’s understandable that you forgot since we don’t usually pay attention to it.”

Jeanne reacted with an ‘ah!’ to Eugene’s words,

and Eugene expressed that it was nothing to be concerned about with a more serious expression than before.

Eugene came into the Orléans family as Antoine’s adopted son,

but he is still using his previous father’s surname.

‘If you don’t want to, you don’t have to use the same surname as us. What’s important is not the surname but the heart that cares for each other. Just like I truly regard your father, Ulysses Schneider, as family.’

It was Antoine de Selle d’Orléans’s measure to prevent a situation where Eugene, who had lost his father and was emotionally unstable,

would experience identity confusion.

He thought that he would make a decision when Eugene was to officially stand in front of people.

However, since then, Eugene has experienced an unstable growth situation,

and as a result, he had no chance to stand in front of people.

However, as Antoine said, there were no problems created by the difference between the names Schneider and Orléans within the Orléans family,

so it became fixed in its current form as time passed.

“Our family members don’t care at all, but that may not be the case for people outside. Of course, I don’t know how many people still have that impression since Father has worked hard to fix it since then.”

Jeanne carefully told her thoughts.

Although he has lived within the Orléans family for 12 years,

today is finally the day Eugene will stand in front of people.

It is difficult to say for sure, but Eugene thinks that mentioning his father’s surname, Schneider,

would ruin the atmosphere of the Duchess’s important bazaar.

So, Eugene told Jeanne that he should introduce himself as Eugene de Selle d’Orléans first.

“Um, I’m asking just in case…is it okay for you to say these things now…?”

After that, Jeanne had a rather indifferent expression

and asked Eugene Schneider, who was listening to her,

with a rather worried feeling,

and with a feeling that Eugene’s current indifference was unexpected.

“I have to shake it off now. I’m an adult now.”

Then Eugene answered with an open-hearted voice.

‘Is this also thanks to the memories of my past life? That I can make this attempt.’

Eugene Schneider himself

is also a little proud of his current appearance.

Although it was 12 years of being passive in the trauma in his childhood,

he feels that he has definitely taken a step forward now.

“From the image of our father who died as a demon swordsman.”

Eugene Schneider’s father, Ulysses Schneider,

once revered as a sword saint,

ended his life as a demon swordsman who massacred innocent people.