I’m Done With Unrequited Love - Chapter 19

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Chapter 19
Let us turn back time to before that incident occurred.
That day, Kiara appeared in the Dining Room.
The reason Kiara, who had held firm for four days, changed her mind was simple enough.
Fidellia had come down and asked her directly.
Kiara was still upset, but she wasn’t going to avoid Fidellia forever, and she did want to reconcile, so she made her way to the Dining Room.
Though the cat she’d brought went straight to Rene, and that pettiness flared up again, sending her back to her room.
‘I shouldn’t have gone down at all!’
Kiara huffed indignantly toward Sanna’s room, hiding herself beneath the quilts, and recalled what had happened in the Dining Room.
It had started well enough.
“Oh, hello. Kiara……”
“……”
She had ignored Rene’s greeting, but she hadn’t acted angry.
For that alone, Kiara thought she was showing remarkable patience.
She still disliked Rene, after all.
Most of all, that bright, innocent face—the kind that looked ready to cry at the slightest provocation—was sickening to her.
Hadn’t she cried that way on the very first day?
‘I can’t stand weak things.’
In the back alleys, kids like that become easy prey.
Every time Kiara saw children surrounded by groups and tormented, she’d gotten fed up, exasperated wondering why they didn’t even try to resist.
Rene was exactly that type.
‘Predictable. Rolled around in the streets until she somehow made it here.’
And then, by luck, she’d caught Fidellia’s eye.
‘Someone like that should be unique to me.’
But Kiara had tried to hold back.
‘I’m not stupid.’
Did throwing a tantrum solve everything?
No.
So Kiara’s petulance was the sort of thing that should have been temporary.
She knew that eventually she’d have to get along with Rene.
But still.
“Oh! Kitty!”
“Huh……!”
When the cat in her arms suddenly leaped down and settled on Rene’s lap, she couldn’t hold back anymore.
On top of everything else, with even Sanna fawning over Rene these days, the one thing she’d trusted—her precious cat—had abandoned her too!
She felt as though her heart would break. Never in her life had she felt this way before.
Fidellia had followed her all the way to her room to console her.
She said the same thing every day: wouldn’t Kiara forgive her anger and get along with Rene, that she herself was sorry, that she’d buy her anything she wanted……
Until now, Kiara had ignored it.
If she just stayed buried under the quilts in silence, Fidellia would eventually give up and return to the Annex.
But today was different.
‘I’m so sick of this.’
Even the cat had done it. It had left her arms because it liked Rene.
Fidellia knew nothing and just repeated the same words every single day.
She couldn’t take it anymore, so she shot up from the bed and shouted.
“You go stay in the Annex with her, Fidellia! You’re always with her now, and you like her more than me anyway, don’t you? Sanna’s the same way! Even my kitty! I’m sick of all of it! Just go away!”
And then Fidellia.
“……”
Fidellia simply looked at Kiara in silence.
Kiara realized her mistake a beat too late.
Fidellia was kind, but sometimes she was frightening. Especially when expressionless.
She had never shown anger before, but Kiara understood instinctively.
If Fidellia ever became angry, it would be absolutely…… absolutely terrifying.
Having thrown a tantrum and shouted like that, perhaps this time she really would be angry.
At that thought, Kiara’s mind went white with fear.
But after a long silence, what came from Fidellia was.
“I’m sorry.”
“……”
“I wasn’t paying attention. I didn’t realize you were feeling that way.”
Fidellia stepped closer to Kiara.
“I thought your feelings were just hurt. I imagined that given time, it would smooth over naturally…… but I was wrong.”
She tidied Kiara’s tousled hair with her fingers and met her gaze quietly. Those brown eyes, which occasionally gleamed with coldness, had never once lost their warmth when they fell upon Kiara.
“You must have been upset. I’m sorry.”
…….
Kiara pressed her lips together tightly.
She didn’t want to cry, but tears spilled out anyway.
“I’ll carve out more time from my research so we can spend it together. You’ll compromise too, won’t you? Rene said she wants to spend more time with you. All right?”
…….
Kiara’s head dropped onto Fidellia’s shoulder.
That was the thing—when Fidellia came at her like that, Kiara had no choice but to relent.
The child instinctively understood that her guardian was an indifferent person.
She also knew that becoming a special exception for such a person—that this person was her most beloved—was a stroke of great fortune.
Especially for someone like herself, who had known nothing but misfortune her whole life.
So if there were secrets she kept hidden, if there were genuine feelings she might not even know she possessed, the thought was terrifying—the fear of being abandoned.
And so, inevitably, any tantrum or stubbornness beyond a certain threshold made Kiara deeply anxious.
‘What if she grows tired of me and thinks I’m a nuisance?’
Thus Kiara’s capacity for stubbornness also had its limits.
Currently, she had already reached that ceiling.
It was evident in how she’d avoided the Dining Room for days, stayed away from Fidellia—barricading herself in her room even as she worried Fidellia might lose faith in her.
But there was no helping it.
A child cannot always endure.
In short, Kiara had been both venting stress and suffering from it simultaneously.
So when Fidellia came with a sincere apology, Kiara could do nothing but accept it.
She could only pretend to yield and agree.
It was too much strain to hold out any longer.
Truth be told, Kiara herself had wanted this for some time.
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The rash began to appear on Rene’s body shortly after.
A servant knocked and hurried in, bringing news to Fidellia.
“Disaster! Rene, she……!”
The Mansion erupted into chaos.
Hives breaking out on the child’s body without warning!
“It’s not a Contagious Disease, is it?”
Sanna and I were in the room next to Rene’s.
And Kiara was there too.
When the first hives began appearing in the Dining Room, I swiftly isolated Rene in a room in the Annex. It was a precaution against any unforeseen circumstance.
Sanna and Kiara followed behind me for some reason.
But in truth, the circumstances of this matter were clear.
“It’s probably just a Cat Allergy.”
Since Rene hadn’t eaten anything—ruling out food allergy—and the rash had appeared right after she held the Cat, the cause was evident.
“Well, that’s a relief in a sense…….”
Sanna couldn’t hide her anxiety, gnawing at her thumbnail.
“If the Allergic reaction is severe…… she could die, couldn’t she? What if that happens? What about Rene…….”
“Hush. Don’t say such things in front of the child.”
“But I’m worried!”
“For it to become that serious, something would have gone wrong long ago. Right now Rene only has hives, so she’s fine.”
“That’s fortunate, then…… though I wish I’d had experience with such things. I’m completely ignorant about medicine, you see.”
“So am I.”
That was a lie.
The truth was.
‘I do have medication I prepared.’
Diphenhydramine, a first-generation Allergy treatment drug.
But Rene’s body was still growing, and I couldn’t administer it hastily to a child’s system.
It was quite difficult to watch the child suffer in itching while holding the means to relieve her.
As a temporary measure, I gave her Bee Pollen, which has antiallergic properties.
That is, bee pollen.
Knowledge from my past life proved quite useful in moments like this.
“Oh! Kiara, didn’t you say you wanted to see Rene?”
“Um, well, I did…… but…….”
Kiara glanced at the door.
“Not now. Let’s meet another time. You’re going to keep us apart anyway.”
……
Sanna looked lost, uncertain how to respond.
But there was no other solution to be found.
“Once Rene feels better, I’ll call you back. Is that all right?”
“Yes.”
Kiara nodded readily, which was unusual for her.
And so I sent Sanna and Kiara back to the Main Building.
Neither of us had any idea what extraordinary event was about to unfold that afternoon.

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