Let’s Tame The Crazy Heroine - Chapter 53

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Chapter 53

If the Duke comes to like me, his feelings for Beatrice will disappear too, and then his favorability will decrease…

As I stared at the Duke in confusion, the Duke looked at me with a sad expression.

No, sir, when you make that expression, you’re devastatingly handsome since you’re the male lead and all. But why are you making that face at me?

Since I couldn’t let the Duke’s favorability drop any further here, and above all because it would be troublesome if the world destruction gauge rose, I hurriedly tried to leave.

“If you’re not going to invite him, I’ll be going now.”

As I hurriedly got up from my seat, the Duke grabbed me.

“I will invite Duke Decartes.”

Then he looked at me with rather tender eyes.

“In return, could you spare me some time?”

It would be troublesome if his favorability dropped further here…

But it would also be a shame to miss this good opportunity to investigate Iban.

After pondering for a moment, I soon nodded and took the Duke’s hand.

“If it’s just for a little while.”

When I accepted, the Duke smiled brightly and said he would give me a tour of the Duke’s Mansion.

As the Duke and I left the reception room, Kaisis followed behind us like a shadow.

The Duke’s Mansion was spacious.

Even more so than Count Sauver’s Mansion.

Well, he is a duke after all. In a way, it was natural.

I walked around with the Duke and toured the Duke’s Mansion. There were many fascinating places in the Duke’s Mansion.

From the greenhouse where I had that blind date last time, to the private dome where he raised ornamental birds.

I looked around with wonder, and each time the Duke smiled gently and led me along.

“This time I’ll show you the pond.”

There’s a pond inside the manor too?

As I followed the Duke’s steps, before long a large pond came into view.

The surroundings were beautifully decorated with stones and bushes, making it look more like a lake at first glance rather than a pond. Ornamental fish were swimming inside the pond.

“Wow.”

As I peered into the pond and let out an exclamation, the Duke smiled and knelt down.

“Would you like to dip your hand in once?”

“My hand? Is that okay?”

“Of course.”

With the Duke’s permission, I carefully dipped my hand into the pond.

Then the ornamental fish approached my hand as if curious. The sensation of the fish brushing against my hand was fascinating.

“It’s amazing.”

“If you’d like, you can come visit anytime to see the ornamental fish and birds.”

The Duke smiled gently and brushed away the strand of hair that had fallen across my cheek.

Startled, I got up from my position, and the Duke straightened his knees as well.

Then he fixed his gaze on my back.

“By the way, is your back alright now?”

“Ah, yes…”

He must be referring to the wound I got at the hunting competition.

“It’s almost completely healed now.”

“You don’t have any scars left, do you?”

“There’s a little scarring, but it’s fine.”

Anyway, I was planning to save money and run away to live quietly by myself, so it didn’t particularly matter whether I had scars on my back or not.

However, for some reason the Duke looked at me with a pained expression.

“It must have hurt a lot.”

“It’s all in the past now.”

When I shrugged and said this, the Duke looked at me as if seeing something remarkable.

“Lady Sauver, you’re truly strong.”

Huh? Me?

As I blinked, a breeze carrying the scent of flowers blew from far away.

When my hair became disheveled because of it, the Duke reached out and tucked my hair behind my ear again.

No, why do you keep making unnecessary physical contact since earlier…

As I looked up at the Duke in confusion, the Duke looked down at me with a gentle smile.

“I respect you.”

That’s when it happened.

I could see Kaisis’s face in the distance.

The Duke was right in front of me, but I could only see Kaisis.

Kaisis’s expression was darkly hardened.

Why does he have that expression?

Is he angry at me again?

But why? What did I do wrong this time?

* * *

A few days later, a letter came from the Duke.

“Miss, a letter has arrived.”

I received the letter from the maid, checked the sender, and hurriedly tore open the letter.

The Duke’s letter was concise.

It said that he had invited Iban, but Iban declined, saying he was in the North.

If Iban wasn’t attending the ship party, my plan to investigate Iban was as good as ruined.

After pondering, I soon recalled the necklace that Louis Sauver had told me about before.

That one, he definitely said the Crown Prince gave it as a gift, right?

Since it’s come to this, I’ll have to ask the Crown Prince about the necklace’s origin at the ship party.

Last time Louis Sauver tried to reveal the necklace’s origin through a bet at the hunting competition but failed.

At least I should find out.

I opened a book to read while eating cookies during the remaining time.

Once again, a maid knocked on the door and announced Louis’s visit.

“Miss, the young Count has come to see you.”

Why is that bastard here?

I already felt tired, but I told him to come in for now.

Perhaps because the wound on my back wasn’t completely healed yet, my body felt sluggish.

I got up from my chair and prepared to meet that Louis bastard.

As soon as Louis entered the room, he looked at me and growled.

“People are going around saying you have sacred magic power or sacred power.”

“Yes, well…”

“Did you know you had special powers?”

No? I didn’t know?

When I shook my head, Louis snorted.

“You’re lying.”

I’m not lying, you bastard.

“If you had such power, you should have prevented the monsters from appearing in the first place. You couldn’t even do that one thing and caused that chaos at the hunting competition?”

Well, I told you I didn’t know.

When I let out a deep sigh, even that seemed to irritate him as Louis raised his hand.

Then he struck my cheek with all his might, making a sharp slapping sound.

My head turned and the sharp taste of blood spread on the tip of my tongue.

That bastard really…!

That’s when it happened.

“Louis Sauver.”

Suddenly Count Sauver entered.

Count Sauver saw Louis’s hand raised toward me, my head turned to the side, and my reddened, swollen cheek, and frowned.

“Did you just hit your sister?”

Louis closed his mouth with an expression of dismay.

Only at times like this does he stay quiet.

Why don’t you try babbling the same way in front of the Count?

“Rene, are you alright?”

The Count asked, looking at me.

How could I be alright? I was slapped out of nowhere—how many people would be fine after that?

I remained silent.

Then the Count changed his target and looked at Louis with flashing eyes.

“Louis Sauver, why did you hit your sister?”

Louis couldn’t say anything.

He was babbling just fine a moment ago. Look at him clamming up now that the situation’s turned against him.

* * *

When Louis said nothing at all, the Count frowned.

Rene’s expression after being slapped was remarkably calm.

As if this kind of thing had been happening for a long time.

That expression bothered him.

“How long has this been going on?”

When the Count asked coldly, Louis fell silent again. Rene did the same.

Louis remained silent to get through this situation, but paradoxically, this silence gave the Count certainty.

Certainty that this kind of thing had been happening very frequently for a long time.

The Count’s hands trembled.

All this time, even though Louis treated Rene coldly, he thought they were getting along well enough in their own way.

After his wife’s death, Louis had been struggling greatly, so he knew that seeing Rene, who looked exactly like her mother, was painful for him.

Still, he thought that as time passed and Louis pulled himself together, he would get along well with Rene.

Since it was true that he had been strict only with Louis, he had just watched Louis’s cold attitude toward Rene.

Thinking that things would be fine someday.

But…

“Louis Sauver. I’m confining you to your room for the time being. Go to your bedroom and reflect.”

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