I’m Done With Unrequited Love - Chapter 29

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Chapter 29
Wasn’t that precisely what was happening?
The Emperor had clearly decided to take revenge on me.
A whispered conversation reached my ears with startling clarity.
“What on earth happened while I was in the Powder Room? Why are Ernan and the Marquis Jonas’s daughter standing together like that?”
That’s right.
I was now standing face to face with Ernan in the middle of the First Hall!

That remark from Emperor Bruno had been the spark.
Before I could even respond, the Emperor ordered an attendant to bring Ernan. It was Sarubia who cleared away the people gathered in the center of the hall and positioned us opposite each other.
‘Sister and brother as a matching pair……’
By the time I registered what was happening, it was already done.
“Fidellia.”
Ernan extended his gloved hand toward me.
I found myself curious about what he thought of this bizarre turn of events.
Did he find it amusing, still being drawn into such situations even after I’d declared an end to my infatuation?
Or perhaps he was simply irritated by it all.
He might have felt nothing whatsoever.
With Ernan’s characteristic indifference, that last possibility seemed entirely plausible.
But the next moment, I decided his thoughts were no concern of mine.
After all, he was someone I’d never see again once the Coronation Ceremony ended.
“Yes, Ernan.”
I placed my hand atop his.
Suddenly, I understood something.
Though his face—beautiful enough to rival the goddess of beauty herself—was inches from mine, I felt nothing but cool indifference.
* * *
At the Coronation Ceremony that day, I danced not only with Ernan but with Siren as well.
Despite his claim of rarely having danced before, Siren made not a single misstep.

‘Had he said something like that?’
Both involved the use of the body, so there were bound to be similarities.
Sensing that I hadn’t fully grasped his point, Siren added:

With that, everything fell into place for me.
‘Of course. Experiments always require the proper sequence.’
After dancing a few more times and politely deflecting the advances of several other nobles, I said goodbye to Siren as I climbed into my carriage to return home.
The days that followed.
I didn’t set foot outside the Mansion in the Capital. For a while, I paid no attention to gossip from the outside world and simply went about my days.
Playing and eating with Sanna and Kiara made time pass in an instant.
‘Within a few days, the foreword should be finalized.’
Emperor Bruno had allegedly declared that he would put a stop to the foreword’s publication.

According to the news Pippin brought me, that was the case.
Now the only remaining engagement I had in the Capital was a lecture at Romen University, which I’d arranged with Siren.
And today was the day.
“……Therefore, it is extremely difficult to discover DNA in plant fossils. Since I’ve been conducting research on plants recently, I thought today I might discuss plant DNA.”
I was standing on the stage of the Great Hall at Romen University.
I’d always been in the position of auditing lectures, so giving one felt like a new experience.
‘Even up until last year…… I could have done it anytime.’
In fact, I had once worked briefly as a research professor at Romen University after receiving my Doctorate Degree.

It had been the Chancellor’s proposal.
I couldn’t deny that it had been a fairly attractive option for me, someone who hadn’t yet decided on a career path after my doctorate.
So for a year, I’d done nothing but eat and research at the Research Institute at Romen University. I only commuted to the Institute itself and didn’t teach any classes separately.
As a result, I didn’t know exactly what level the undergraduate students here were at.
‘I suppose I’ll be able to find out once this lecture is over.’
Siren had said that at the time, before he’d entered graduate school, he’d had no opportunity to meet me.
Siren Marko, who had even graduated early just to join the lab where I worked.
He’d said he’d become like a cotton candy raccoon washed away in water because I’d resigned just barely before him.
I couldn’t help but feel a pang of sympathy.
‘And now that I’ve missed him, his advisor’s in this state. All the more reason.’
I spotted Siren sitting far back, his eyes bright with anticipation fixed on me. Then I tried to gauge whether my lecture might be sharp enough to flatten his advisor’s nose.
‘Well.’
Somehow it would work out.
“Those of you devoted to biology should know the varieties of plant DNA well enough, if you’ve studied diligently. What’s the difference between nuclear DNA and organellar DNA? Yes, that’s right. It’s the difference between being inside the nucleus or outside it. Organellar DNA—that is, cellular organelles—divide into two types: cpDNA and mtDNA, which…….”
I sketched diagrams on the board and wrote out the explanation in my usual rambling way.
“……and so, up to this point should be common knowledge you’re already familiar with.”

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