It’s Trouble Because Unrequited Love Is So Fun - Chapter 34

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Pasan stared intently at Serenthia.

 

The woman I loved long ago. But the woman who lied to me.

 

The possibility that she might have actually loved me.

 

The possibility of a passionate love.

 

If there was even the slightest possibility of that, he would accept it even if this woman’s words were lies…

 

Pasan caught his breath for a moment, gritted his teeth, and muttered.

 

“You asked me to become your godfather.”

 

Serenthia smiled brightly and nodded her head.

 

Looking at her, Pasan thought.

 

“I love you more than anyone in the world!”

 

…That love, it wasn’t a lie?

 

His eyelids trembled.

 

“The reason you went this far must be to ask me to take you as my goddaughter, right?”

 

***

 

After going through the procedure to verify the authenticity of the will.

 

And so, that night I gained a godfather.

 

‘Honestly, it was a gamble. …A gamble I created based on rumors I learned about Chairman Pasan before my regression.’

 

But fortunately, that gamble worked splendidly.

 

And right now, at this very moment.

 

Mother, Veronica Rosemary, looked at me.

 

She always looked at me like I was an insignificant insect, and whenever I saw that look in her eyes, I would stiffen my shoulders and bow my head to her.

 

But now it was different.

 

“…You’ve grown a lot. Serenthia.”

 

Her eyes twisted. Like a woman who hadn’t obtained any of what she wanted, her lips were rigidly set with impatience.

 

“Well then, please take care on your way in.”

 

She stared at me intently. Then she slowly muttered.

 

“…You don’t need to fill the soul stone?”

 

I smiled slightly and nodded at her.

 

“Of course. It doesn’t matter.”

 

Given Mother’s tendency to enjoy causing trouble, she looked like she wanted to grab and shake me. But just then.

 

“If you want to pay for that dress, shouldn’t you hurry and get in the carriage now?”

 

The cute baby black panther, no, Lady Isidel opened her mouth and stared at her intently.

 

She even made a gesture of wielding a whip of love as she drove Mother away.

 

And Veronica, my mother…

 

Though she had an expression of being hit, she still held her chin up haughtily.

 

“…Let’s see how well you live, Serenthia!”

 

Running away with her tail between her legs when I haven’t even properly gotten my revenge yet.

 

“Yes, I’d love for you to watch closely.”

 

The blood relationship with her still remains, and my trauma that makes my whole body tremble when I see her also still lingers.

 

No one knows that I actually grew up being beaten by her.

 

So it’s certainly not a perfect victory.

 

But just landing one hit, this moment alone, made me smile a little.

 

However, I hardened my expression.

 

I still had something left to do.

 

Namely, meeting Chairman Pasan who took on the role of godfather!

 

***

 

“…I only cooperated this once. As a godfather.”

 

“Ah… I know.”

 

“My opinion that Lady Serenthia is unsuitable as Grand Duchess hasn’t changed.”

 

“It doesn’t matter. Have that opinion as you please! It’s your opinion, Godfather. I can’t do anything about your feelings!”

 

It wasn’t wrong, but suddenly he was at a loss for words. Pasan quietly recited.

 

“…So please don’t stay too close to Lord Raphael for too long.”

 

What was his reason for opposing the marriage between Raphael and Serenthia? It seemed like Serenthia triggered Raphael’s rampage.

 

And even though Serenthia had made Pasan her godfather, that suspicion itself hadn’t changed.

 

Serenthia asked directly.

 

“Why?”

 

“You’ll hear this story directly from Lord Raphael someday. …Probably.”

 

Serenthia didn’t understand Chairman Pasan’s words exactly.

 

But ‘don’t stay too close for too long’…

 

‘No, I don’t want to do that.’

 

She slowly recalled what Raphael had said in the past.

 

“Stay by my side.”

 

“…What?”

 

“You have to be next to me.”

 

The voice that had spoken so desperately.

 

More than anyone else’s advice, his voice from that time was her guiding star.

 

Serenthia had a thoughtful look as if chewing over something for a while, then opened her mouth.

 

“Anyway… I’ll try.”

 

After a brief silence, a new topic arose between the two.

 

Because Serenthia brought up the next words with sparkling eyes.

 

“But, not as a goddaughter but as the human Serenthia, may I ask one favor?”

 

She handed him a safe and smiled slyly.

 

It contained all of her and the design fees she had received for designing buildings previously.

 

It was something that only Chairman Pasan could do for her.

 

***

 

A day later.

 

Chairman Pasan tore a teleport scroll and came to the southern seaside.

 

In front of the West Villa at the southern seaside.

 

He checked the ‘villa transfer contract’ handed to him by the masked man and chuckled.

 

‘I have no idea why she wants to buy this villa. It looks very fancy on the outside, but… it’s not for parties either.’

 

Anyway, the seal was stamped, so was it fortunate?

 

Serenthia had thoroughly exploited the fact that he was the chairman of the Council of Elders, a retainer of the treasury, and willing to do dark deeds.

 

“May I ask one favor?”

 

“Please speak.”

 

“Please buy a villa with my share of the ! But under someone else’s name that ‘I can use’.”

 

Remembering the debt of obtaining the will for her, he granted Serenthia’s request.

 

He purchased the southern villa using the fake identity of a man in his twenties.

 

It was a very clean money laundering method.

 

Then he recalled what he had asked Serenthia.

 

“What’s the reason?”

 

“To torment my parents. That was a villa my mother really wanted to buy.”

 

Well, wasn’t that too shallow a reason?

 

If you think about it that way, there are countless ways to get revenge.

 

So he didn’t think that way.

 

‘She’s just making excuses.’

 

But going as far as laundering the name registration, there must be some other reason…

 

‘…Surely it’s not for living alone after a divorce later.’

 

Generally, thoughts don’t flow that way.

 

But Chairman Pasan had the tragic narrative of ‘a wife who escaped through death.’

 

So his mind naturally had to reach extreme directions like ‘Is this a villa for living after divorcing Raphael later?’

 

But he quickly came to his senses.

 

‘I’ve become too sensitive. Thinking about her…’

 

The current Serenthia loved Raphael so much, there was no way she would try to run away.

 

‘…But she ran away too.’

 

As he recalled that long-ago lover he had cherished, suddenly…

 

“Haah…”

 

He gazed at the seashore for a long while, lost in thought, then slowly closed his eyes.

 

It was a deep night where his heart ached and throbbed as thoughts of her came flooding back.

 

***

 

“But Serenthia, why did you really buy that villa?”

 

Back in the guest room.

 

Serenthia, who had changed into her slip, was lying in bed waiting to fall asleep.

 

At the question from Squirrel, who was moving her body like she was running on a wheel by the window frame, she shrugged her shoulders.

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