Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 39

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Chapter 39

 

Seeing Rene and Kaisis close together, Shamal couldn’t help but think he needed to separate them immediately.

 

“The one I like is Beatrice…”

 

He remembered the first time he saw Beatrice.

 

The woman walking through the garden under the sunlight—she shone like a jewel.

 

Beatrice smiled at me, a mage whom no one paid attention to, and spoke kind words to me for the first time.

 

That smile and those words made my heart race, even though they probably meant nothing to Beatrice.

 

Since then, Shamal lingered around her, hoping to see Beatrice’s smile even once more.

 

Kind words and smiles.

 

And himself, who had been saved by them.

 

So the one he liked had to be Beatrice.

 

Because she was the person who had saved him.

 

“I like Beatrice.”

 

Shamal muttered as if brainwashing himself.

 

“The one I like is Beatrice.”

 

* * *

 

Days continued of learning magic from Shamal, strolling through the garden with Kaisis, and falling asleep after checking the world destruction gauge with an anxious heart.

 

Despite my worries, peaceful days continued without incident.

 

“You will go on a matchmaking meeting.”

 

Louis’s absurd order came down.

 

Louis, who had barged into my room without warning, suddenly thrust some documents at me.

 

“This is your matchmaking partner.”

 

“What?”

 

Louis looked somehow displeased.

 

I was so bewildered I couldn’t continue speaking.

 

Suddenly, a matchmaking meeting?

 

Of course, Rene was at an age where he should be getting married, but still, a matchmaking meeting out of nowhere?

 

Standing there dazed, I had no choice but to open the documents at Louis’s urging, and I couldn’t help but be shocked.

 

The portrait enclosed with the documents was definitely…

 

“His Grace Duke Wischurs?”

 

“That’s right. He’s your matchmaking partner.”

 

So that’s why you had that disgusted expression.

 

Louis probably had no intention of setting me up with someone as good as the Duke for my matchmaking partner.

 

He must have been planning to marry me off to a man from a humble family and kick me out.

 

But why is he telling me to have a matchmaking meeting with the Duke?

 

“Why suddenly a matchmaking meeting with His Grace the Duke…”

 

When I asked while placing the documents on the desk, that bastard Louis crossed his arms and sneered.

 

“Lately you’ve been sticking close to your escort knight.”

 

“Well, he is my escort knight.”

 

“It’s common for ladies to have affairs with their escort knights. When a noble lady has an affair with her escort knight, it brings shame to the family. Considering that mother died giving birth to you, you must remember that you shouldn’t do anything that would harm this family.”

 

So he’s misunderstanding my relationship with Kaisis as that kind of relationship and arranged this matchmaking meeting?

 

Because I shouldn’t dare tarnish the Sauver Family’s name?

 

I looked at Louis with an incredulous expression.

 

Even though Kaisis and I had grown much closer lately, we weren’t that kind of relationship.

 

Most importantly, we were bound by a contractual relationship, even if we didn’t talk about it to each other.

 

Now we had grown much closer, but frankly, after 21 days when the contract ended, what Kaisis would do with me was in his hands.

 

Of course, given the current situation, the probability of Kaisis killing me was slim.

 

As I looked at Louis with a bewildered expression, Louis said something fiercely.

 

“I hope you won’t defy my words.”

 

Then he snorted and added.

 

“If you really hate it, try doing what you want for once. Of course, if you’re still intact by then.”

 

Louis left only those words and stormed out of my room.

 

I stared at the spot where Louis had left in disbelief, then held my head.

 

Oh, my head.

 

A matchmaking meeting with the Duke, who was not only one of the male leads but also someone close to the ‘real’ Rene.

 

Just thinking about it gave me a headache.

 

* * *

 

After leaving Rene’s room, Louis gritted his teeth while suppressing his rising irritation.

 

His footsteps in the hallway were particularly fierce.

 

Mother’s death, the family becoming cold—it was all because of Rene Sauver.

 

Thinking that way made him feel better.

 

If Rene Sauver hadn’t been born, mother wouldn’t have died, and if mother hadn’t died, Count Sauver’s Mansion would have been filled with laughter like before.

 

But everything changed after mother died.

 

Father became cold as ice, and young Louis, who still needed his mother’s love, had to survive alone in loneliness.

 

Moreover, as if trying to forget his grief, father pushed Louis even harder to raise him as his successor.

 

Dawn training, etiquette education, successor lessons.

 

On days when he made even the slightest mistake, sharp scolding would fly his way.

 

Since he was the only one to carry the family, he followed his father’s cold discipline without complaint.

 

But what about Rene Sauver?

 

Father demanded nothing from Rene Sauver.

 

Even if she did nothing, even if she couldn’t do anything, he just left her as she was. Incompetent and useless.

 

Young Louis hated that even more.

 

I had my happiness stolen after mother died and lived suffocatingly to become the successor.

 

He knew it wasn’t Rene Sauver’s fault that mother died. But he couldn’t bear it unless he blamed her.

 

Incompetent and useless Rene Sauver.

 

A lady who grew up like a hothouse flower, knowing nothing.

 

Rene Sauver was also responsible for what he had become.

 

If that girl had been even slightly useful, he wouldn’t have felt this way.

 

So shouldn’t Rene Sauver also bear some responsibility?

 

The price for taking away everything that was mine.

 

* * *

 

After Louis left like that.

 

While I was worrying, Kaisis opened the door and came in.

 

“Master, you seemed anxious. What’s wrong?”

 

“Ah, Kaisis.”

 

I had been holding my forehead due to a headache, but when I saw Kaisis, I lowered my hand.

 

As I was about to roughly explain the situation, Kaisis’s gaze turned to the Duke’s portrait on my desk.

 

“Isn’t this man the Duke? I think I saw him at the swordsmanship tournament.”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

“Why is this man’s picture here?”

 

“…I suddenly have to go on a matchmaking meeting with the Duke.”

 

“A matchmaking meeting?”

 

When I nodded, Kaisis’s face seemed to darken.

 

“Are you going to marry this man?”

 

“What? No?”

 

When I shook my head urgently, Kaisis’s eyes became a bit sharp.

 

“Doesn’t going on a matchmaking meeting mean you’re going to get married? That’s what humans do.”

 

“Generally yes, but I have no intention of marrying the Duke.”

 

“Why?”

 

Well, because the Duke is a male lead who will end up with Beatrice. The Duke probably isn’t coming out because he likes me either.

 

-I couldn’t answer that, so I vaguely deflected.

 

“I know who the Duke likes. He doesn’t love me, so we can’t get married.”

 

“Who does this man like?”

 

“Unc-, I mean, Beatrice.”

 

“Beatrice, you mean that human I faced off against at the swordsmanship tournament before.”

 

“That’s right.”

 

“This man has quite peculiar taste too.”

 

Haha, is liking the female protagonist really such a peculiar thing?

 

I grabbed my throbbing head and smiled awkwardly.

 

Kaisis quietly looked down at me like that, then soon rang the call bell to summon a maid.

 

Then he instructed the maid to bring painkillers.

 

I took the painkillers the maid brought shortly after and fell into thought.

 

Why did the Duke want to have a matchmaking meeting with me?

 

When we met at the expedition ceremony last time, the Duke had said that something about me had changed too.

 

If he was coming out to confirm that, it would be quite dangerous.

 

If the Duke continued to suspect me, and if he ever found out my true identity…

 

I had to prevent that at all costs, no matter what it took.

 

I earnestly recalled Rene’s setting from the original work and Rene’s appearance remaining in my memory, making thorough preparations to be reborn as the real Rene.

 

* * *

 

The next day, the maids dressed me up with all their might as I went to meet the Duke for our matchmaking.

 

This must have been Lewis’s order too.

 

I sighed with a heavy heart and left the room.

 

Kaisis was waiting in front of the room.

 

“Kai, let’s go.”

 

But for some reason, unlike usual, Kaisis stood still and didn’t move.

 

When I looked at him with a puzzled expression, Kaisis was staring intently at my face.

 

What? Is something strange?

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