Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 48

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Chapter 48

Kaisis’s heart pounded violently.

If she stays by my side, will this woman die like Rone too?

What if Rene doesn’t wake up either?

In the past, and this time too, Kaisis couldn’t protect anyone.

It seemed that people who gave him their hearts or stayed by his side became endangered simply because he was an evil dragon.

If Rene also ended up like that woman…

His hands trembled uncontrollably.

Kaisis gripped his own hands tightly.

No. That won’t happen. Rene will open her eyes.

Even as he muttered to himself like self-hypnosis, his anxiety wouldn’t easily fade.

Kaisis felt his chest tighten with anxiety as he muttered.

“If only I had transformed into a dragon.”

He could have dealt with such magical beasts much more easily.

When being chased by the magical beast, he had almost unconsciously transformed into a dragon.

However, Rene held his hand as if telling him not to, and Kaisis had no choice but to suppress his will according to Rene’s wishes.

If the evil dragon that the Empire was desperately trying to catch appeared, and if that evil dragon was Rene’s escort knight, Rene would surely be suspected of hiding the evil dragon.

Then Rene would become a traitor to the Empire and subject to execution.

“Why can’t I spread even one wing in front of you?”

All of this was ultimately because of the false accusation of being an ‘evil dragon.’

Even though he had burned the enemy country under a spell.

Even though he didn’t want to harm humans.

Rather, it was the humans who had tortured and oppressed him.

If he couldn’t clear the stigma of being an evil dragon, he couldn’t protect Rene for life.

Therefore, Kaisis resolved to clear the false accusation of being an evil dragon.

And until he cleared that false accusation, he would keep his distance from Rene.

Rene must not be executed because of him, so it had to appear as if he had used Rene to find the dark mage.

The unknowing Rene had to become an innocent count’s daughter who was deceived by an evil dragon.

Kaisis’s eyes grew cold.

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“Where is this…?”

When I came to my senses, I saw an ornate ceiling. It wasn’t my room at the Count’s mansion.

I reflexively tried to sit up, then frowned at the pain I felt in my back.

Ah, right. I was injured.

As I lay back down, someone opened the door and entered.

“You’re awake.”

It was Kaisis.

I smiled brightly at Kaisis with joy.

“Kaisis, you’re not hurt anywhere, right? By the way, where is this…?”

“I’ll call the doctor.”

However, Kaisis cut off my words and went back outside.

What? Somehow Kaisis seems to have become cold.

Left alone in the room, I looked up at the ceiling painted with ornate murals and carefully looked around.

Seeing how ornate it was, it seemed to be a guest room in the Imperial Palace.

While I was looking around, Kaisis entered with a doctor shortly after.

The doctor examined my condition, then said fortunately there was nothing wrong and left the room.

“Kaisis, I must be really strong. I’m fine even after being attacked by a magical beast.”

Normally I would have heard something like “How admirable,” but Kaisis remained silent.

What did I do wrong…?

Kaisis checked the room with an expressionless face, then looked at me.

I smiled with joy at seeing his face properly after a long time.

“I’ll be waiting outside, so please call if you need anything.”

Kaisis spoke to me in a stiff voice.

Moreover, using formal speech when it’s just the two of us?

I was so flustered I couldn’t say anything.

After Kaisis left like that, the door burst open shortly after.

“Rene!”

It was Louis Sauver.

Since Louis Sauver and I had been on cold terms until the hunting competition, I felt awkward, but suddenly tears began to well up in Louis Sauver’s eyes.

“Louis Sauver, are you crying?”

Then pearl-like teardrops began falling one by one.

No, even crying is pretty, but why are you suddenly crying?

“Rene, after you collapsed, sob, I really regretted it a lot. I should have just told you everything honestly.”

Louis Sauver really began crying his heart out.

When the tears flowed uncontrollably, he took out a handkerchief from a small bag he brought and wiped his tears.

Looking at this, he was exactly like a romance novel heroine.

I newly felt that Louis Sauver had adapted well to the romance novel world.

“Sniff.”

Ah, no. Louis Sauver, why are you suddenly blowing your nose into the handkerchief?

Anyway, except for blowing his nose, he was a perfect heroine.

“Then do you feel like telling me now?”

Louis Sauver slowly nodded at my words, then began to open his lips.

“…I learned swordsmanship all to protect you. Because you kept getting into danger.”

At Louis Sauver’s unexpected confession, I looked at him with wide eyes.

After that, Louis Sauver confessed everything – the reason he learned swordsmanship and tried to become a Sword Master, the reason he couldn’t tell me the truth, and so on.

Louis Sauver, who had been crying and talking for a while, seemed to calm down and hiccupped.

“From now on, hic, I’ll listen to you well. So don’t get hurt, hic, anymore.”

Louis Sauver…

As I looked at Louis Sauver with moved eyes, he continued speaking.

“So what I wanted to tell you while apologizing, hic, was information about the necklace, hic.”

Necklace?

When I looked at Louis Sauver in surprise, he looked around and gestured for me to come closer.

Even though it’s just the two of us here…

When I approached, Louis Sauver spoke in a very small voice.

“Do you remember when I said a necklace disappeared from our house before?”

“Come to think of it, I did hear you say a necklace you received as a gift disappeared… There was nothing else besides that.”

I nodded as I recalled what Louis Sauver had said.

Wait, but this necklace came up when we were talking about dark magic circles. If it’s something like that, it would be good for Kaisis to hear it too.

“Could Kaisis listen too?”

“Of course, if that’s what you want.”

I asked Louis Sauver to call Kaisis, and Kaisis entered the room with the same cold expression.

Louis Sauver continued with a serious expression.

“From what the maids said, that necklace was one that Beat-, ah, no, that I wore every single day without fail. But whenever I wore it, I would cause a commotion.”

“…’Beatrice’ caused a commotion?”

“Yes, I’m not that kind of person, so I thought something was strange. So I looked into that necklace. As you know, I have no memories.”

According to the information Louis Sauver had gathered so far, that necklace was a gift Beatrice received from the Crown Prince.

After wearing that necklace, Beatrice often became violent.

And at the Spring Welcoming Party – the very day Louis Sauver possessed her – she was also wearing that necklace, and while Louis Sauver briefly removed it because his neck felt stuffy, the necklace was stolen.

“This made the Crown Prince very suspicious. So when I met the Crown Prince at the hunting competition, I asked him where he got the necklace he gave me as a gift. Then the Crown Prince said he’d tell me if I beat him. And he suggested we make a bet.”

Louis Sauver suddenly gritted his teeth as if he was angry just thinking about it again.

Only then did I realize why Louis Sauver had made that bet with the Crown Prince.

Now all the puzzle pieces finally fit together.

Thinking about all the hardships Louis Sauver must have endured, my heart ached for no reason.

“Beatrice, you really went through so much….”

As I looked at Louis Sauver with tears welling up in my eyes, tears also formed in his eyes.

While we were looking at each other with such affection.

“So, where did the Crown Prince say he got that necklace?”

Kaisis’s sharp voice cut through the atmosphere.

“I don’t know.”

Huh? He doesn’t know? But that’s the most important part?

“A magical beast suddenly appeared, so I forgot all about the bet and everything.”

Louis Sauver scratched the back of his head sheepishly and laughed.

Just as Kaisis was about to get up with a sigh, I spoke up.

“Come to think of it, I saw something strange at the Hunting Competition too.”

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