episode_0116
by fnovelpia
Beatrice wandered around the garden frantically.
The mansion’s garden was like a giant maze, connected to the vast meadows of the estate.
Cold raindrops fell on both cheeks, and before I knew it, I could hear the sound of raindrops, the sound of rain soaking the ground.
She walked briskly in uncomfortable high heels, sometimes stumbling and sometimes breathing heavily.
Then finally, the man I had been looking at from afar appears.
A man wearing a comfortable shirt that you don’t usually see.
“Carl Mayner!”
Her screams were mixed with the sound of the rain.
Only then did Karl stop walking.
But I don’t look back.
I was anxious and nervous.
Swish- The sound of my heartbeat was louder than the sound of the rain.
There are so many things I want to say and ask, but I can’t think of anything. My head is just blank as my heart pounds.
“Stand there.”
I approached him, talking to him, afraid that he would go away.
All Beatrice could see was his broad back.
It felt like the high, broad back was blocking her, like an insurmountable wall.
So it seemed as if they had predicted that they would never be able to overcome the wall and be together.
“Knife…”
I tried not to show my anxiety and reached right behind him.
Carl slowly turned around at the sound of Beatrice’s voice coming from right behind him.
“……”
He had a hard expression, and his golden eyes were shadowed as he looked down at Beatrice.
What I see is Beatrice getting drenched after being drenched in rain.
“How did you get here…?”
Beatrice asked cautiously.
I didn’t know what to say first.
Since I didn’t have enough time to think about how to start a conversation, I just expressed my confusion.
“…’How?’ Beatrice, if I were you, I wouldn’t be wondering that.”
“?”
The lips of the sword opened.
His voice was as cold as his gaze.
“You should have asked why I came first.”
He still looked down at Beatrice.
Her disheveled hair was now wet, sticking to her neck and collarbone from the raindrops.
Raindrops flow down the pure white skin.
The thin dress was also completely soaked and clung to her skin, making her body curves stand out.
In a word, it is brainwashing.
“Or, it doesn’t matter to you because it’s not that important to you?”
That’s why I feel resentful.
“That, that’s what……”
“Because it must have felt like I was there to bother you.”
When I think about all the indiscriminate temptations I’ve had with that beautiful and desirable body, my breath catches in my throat and my head gets hot.
Carl put his hand on his forehead and then swept back his bangs to straighten them out, because they were about to fall down again due to the rain.
His forehead is exposed, so his eyes are more clearly visible.
Beatrice is captivated by his intense eyes and strong eyebrows.
At the same time, I felt embarrassed. Because I felt like all my mistakes and lies would be exposed under his gaze.
“Why… did you come?”
Beatrice said, clutching the hem of her dress tightly with her fingertips.
My shoulders were hunched. No matter how hard my heart beat, no matter how much heat I generated, I couldn’t help feeling cold because of the rain.
“I was worried. I came here with all sorts of excuses, but in the end, the conclusion was the same. I came because I was worried about you.”
“?”
“But I guess I didn’t have to worry. Ha, really. What a pitiful thing to do.”
Karl spoke in a self-mocking voice at the end, looking at the garden beyond Beatrice’s shoulder.
Beyond the garden full of green plant walls, I gazed at a man out of sight. Charles II, one of Beatrice’s men.
Beatrice, who noticed where Karl’s gaze was directed, opened her eyes wide and approached Karl.
“Oh, no…! That guy has no—”
She tried her best to deny it, almost pleadingly, but she was speechless and that was about the limit.
Moreover, as she tried to approach Karl, his cold gaze was fixed on her again, so she had no choice but to stop.
“Beatrice.”
I lower my head, not having the confidence to look into those eyes filled with anger and contempt.
Carl’s gaze moved from Beatrice’s frightened face to her breastbone.
The daring silk dress was soaking wet, revealing her alluring figure.
The pounding head and the adrenaline rush from anger fuel Carl’s instincts.
He wanted to talk to Beatrice as a rational and reasonable intellectual.
But I couldn’t stand the absurd and disappointing sight of her being held in another man’s arms, and I didn’t want to hear her anymore.
So I keep looking at that beautiful woman’s body. Even at this point. It’s annoying.
“Now I understand, why he had to use the teleportation station to get home. It makes sense when the other person is the king. After all, that bastard would have paid the station fee”
“……”
“But Beatrice… You really couldn’t stand it that much?”
Contempt appears on Karl’s face and raindrops run down.
“Did you like that guy so much that you even abandoned the academy to come back?”
“No!”
He screams to shake off his worst fear of being hated by the sword.
Beatrice’s voice resonates through the raindrops.
“I have nothing to do with that son of a bitch. He just came here and started… me…!”
Beatrice raised her head, her lips trembling as she spoke with difficulty.
Carl looked at her with narrowed eyebrows.
I barely raised my head, but the more I looked back, the more shameful and embarrassed I felt.
First, it was humiliating to be held in that guy’s arms, and second, it was the fact that Karl saw the sight.
And more than anything, I realized that I was most embarrassed about being so restless right now.
“What the heck?”
“…No.”
So Beatrice didn’t want to say any more.
Because being pressed against a man, having his arms wrapped around my waist and hugging me, and having my hand placed on his chest without me knowing, all felt equally humiliating.
Especially, this cannot be said about a knife.
“This is the second time I’ve seen you today. You’re really nothing, and you just happened to show up in a situation where I could’ve misunderstood you.”
“……”
Beatrice looked up at the sword.
The raindrops running down her cheeks from her blue eyes sometimes looked like tears.
The sword faced its opponent, its trembling lips and anxious eyes begging him not to ask any more questions.
“Haa……”
Carl let out a deep sigh.
The heat is rising.
Is it burning inside?
Even though I’m being hit by the cold rain, my body is feeling warm.
Anxiety, anger, resentment, sadness, regret, etc… all kinds of emotions intersect.
Instead of focusing on Beatrice’s dress, which naturally caught my eye, I tried hard to meet her face, especially her eyes.
“Then why did you come to the territory? Are you going back to the academy?”
“…Yeah.”
“Tell me what happened that made you come all the way to the estate over the weekend. I’ll believe you when you say you didn’t come to see the king.”
The sword reaches out and points across the garden.
It was an irreverent gesture, but his status as the Grand Duke of the Empire was not inferior to that of any king of a continental country.
There is discomfort in Carl’s voice, but also a coercive force.
His words had a resonance and a stickiness that made you want to be honest and ask for forgiveness.
So Beatrice naturally opened her mouth.
“That’s……”
But I couldn’t think of anything to say to explain it properly.
‘Actually, I’ve been having a hard time lately, and I’m worried and in pain, so I wanted to stay in the territory for a while to gather my thoughts. I wanted to give up revenge, forget Theo, and live as the real Beatrice de Dahlia.’ There are no words like that.
untruth.
The most deadly poison in a relationship that started with lies is the truth.
Beatrice couldn’t tell Karl the truth.
She simply swallowed the deadly truth inside herself. Until she was completely consumed by it. Until she was consumed by its venom.
Looking at Beatrice like that, Karl felt an irresistible urge.
Even though I instinctively knew that saying this would end their relationship, I couldn’t bear it.
Because I was so anxious in front of this lovely and dangerously alluring woman that I could hardly live.
I should have asked this in advance, but I’m going to ask something I had kept hidden.
“Theo.”
“!?”
Two distinct words came out of Carl’s mouth.
Even that was something I was afraid of and couldn’t ask first.
“Just now…what, what did you say…?”
Beatrice’s blue eyes shook with great anxiety.
The color drained from her fair and beautiful face, making her look pale.
“You came back because of Theo?”
“Huh…!”
Beatrice covered her mouth with both hands that had been holding the hem of her dress.
I suddenly gasped for breath and heard a clicking sound in my throat.
Her large eyes were wide with astonishment.
I managed to catch my breath and spoke with my trembling hands slightly released.
“You… You…! Hey, since when!!”
How long have you known Theo?
Beatrice thought about many things in an instant.
Could Beatrice’s identity have been revealed in the original novel she had not read?
If not, was there even a story about Theo? Is that why you’re asking this?
If you know Theo, how much do you know?
When the name she had decided to forget suddenly came out, Beatrice could barely stand due to her rapidly increasing heartbeat and nervousness.
“Did I get it right?”
Carl smiled bitterly.
He looked at Beatrice with a trembling face.
“I should go and check it out while I’m here. What kind of guy is he?”
“?”
He exhaled deeply as if relieved, approached her, and spoke.
“Let’s see what kind of guy got you into this situation.”
Because I couldn’t stand the really petty and childish feelings that were coming to me.
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