Mad Rosetta - Chapter 15

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Mad Rosetta

Episode 15

Let’s Look at the Discarded Trash Again (5)

At that moment, I could feel the attendants around us exchanging glances with each other.

Cessia also expressed bewilderment at Odette mentioning my partner.

“Rosetta’s partner? What are you talking about?”

“Oh, actually I’ve decided to attend this banquet together with Bonita. It was only confirmed about three days ago, so I’m just mentioning it now. As you know, my house arrest was only recently lifted.”

“….”

“That’s why I’m saying this, but I have no intention of asking you to go with me. I don’t want to burden you either…. There are plenty of knights.”

“Ha! There’s no one who doesn’t know that you and I are engaged, yet you’re going to a banquet with another man. What will people say behind our backs?”

Seeing him scold me with his face completely twisted, Cessia seemed very displeased with my attitude.

If I were the fiancée he knew, I should naturally try my best to please him and ask him to attend together as my partner, but since I acted as if it didn’t matter either way, he had no choice but to react like this.

The proud Cessia was someone who would achieve what he wanted even if it meant looking down on others.

Since I knew this fact all too well, I no longer wanted to do things the way he wanted.

“Only those with nothing to do gossip about such things. Do I need to react to every word that will die down once we get married anyway?”

“…You’d better value your reputation, Rosetta.”

“If that’s really how you feel, then let’s go together. I’d also prefer having you by my side, so I have no particular complaints.”

“….”

“If you give me your measurements, I’ll have clothes tailored and sent to you.”

“…I’ll do that.”

Look at that expression like he’s trying to hold back a sneeze!

The atmosphere had strangely shifted as if he had ardently courted me and I had accepted his request, so he must be feeling conflicted.

I lifted my teacup feeling as if my chest had completely cleared.

【Keu, darling. Now that I see it, fighting seems to be your calling. I praise you greatly.】

Sing also waved his thumb in front of my eyes, telling me to take responsibility for making him fall for me once again as if he’d had a good drink.

Haha, your darling’s crazy charm isn’t over yet.

“Since we’re talking about reputation, I also have something I want to say.”

“Hm?”

“Fordcus, no matter how much you cherish Bonita like a sister, don’t send her personal letters.”

At those words, Odette jerked her head back to look at me.

I had been pondering this the whole time.

How should I reveal the fact that all the letters coming to me were being delivered to Odette in a way that would make her most flustered, troubled, and caught off guard?

“If you had sent this get-well letter directly to me, I would have naturally replied…. What if rumors spread that Bonita, who doesn’t even have a fiancé yet, is exchanging letters with a man?”

Her face turning pale was what mine used to look like.

Odette sobbing in the chaos around us, the sharp gazes of Cessia and the attendants who blamed me.

…And me, coming to my senses.

I knew better than anyone the face of someone whose crimes had been fully exposed.

“…What are you talking about?”

At my reproachful statement, Cessia slowly looked at Odette and asked.

Strength entered the tip of Cessia’s jaw as he spoke each syllable as if chewing on them.

His eerily cold voice sounded like the cry of a beast ready to bite someone at any moment.

– “Lovely Bonita. I’m delighted to have you, who truly suits being by my side.”

The loving gaze from that day was nowhere to be found.

Cessia’s gaze blatantly pursuing Odette was exactly like a parent about to scold a child.

Letters, Bonita, and rumors.

Words that could provoke Cessia gathered together, heightening his sensitivity to the maximum.

I had a duty to ensure his anger at having his dignity undermined was properly directed at Odette.

“When you said you were coming to visit, Bonita was so excited…. I was a bit surprised to hear that news. I didn’t know you two were such close friends.”

You two exchanged letters, didn’t you?

Moreover, you let your sister bring news of your fiancé’s visit?

As I reproached them with many implications, Cessia’s stern expression showed no signs of softening.

Though it was only a few words, if he wasn’t stupid, he would have sufficiently grasped what kind of situation this was.

As Sing said, even if Odette and Cessia had exchanged letters using my health as an excuse, what was sent was sent.

‘Now that I’ve revealed that Odette has been intercepting letters…. Cessia will probably be on edge wondering if even their privately exchanged letters will surface.’

Letters are a means that can contain private matters or discuss important issues between noble houses.

As such, if they leaked to the wrong places, it could cause big problems.

“…That’s quite strange.”

My proud fiancé, who was excellent at maintaining appearances, glared at Odette once again.

As if suppressing his anger, he put force into each word he spoke.

“I clearly wrote your name as the recipient when I sent it. How did the letter end up going to Miss Bonita….”

“….”

“I think some explanation is needed, Miss Bonita.”

Oh, so cold, so very cold.

From this conversation alone, even the attendants could sufficiently deduce that private correspondence had passed between Cessia and Odette.

Of course, Cessia seemed intent on cutting off Odette at this moment to eliminate the impression that he was a man who had been flirting with his fiancée’s sister.

As long as a rift formed between the two of them, that would be good enough.

That was about all I wanted, so I simply watched those who had stabbed me in the back.

“Sob….”

With her face turned pale, Odette hung her head low.

When sobbing sounds came from the top of her head, I quietly clicked my tongue as if I had expected this.

She was a child who always pitifully wiped away tears first whenever she was in trouble. I was getting a bit tired of it.

“Bonita, lift your head.”

“Woo, sob. I have no face to show Cessia-nim. I’m the one who caused trouble, aren’t I?”

Look at this shameless sister. Then do you have the face to look at me properly?

I didn’t want to keep watching Odette’s pitiful performance of shedding tears toward Cessia.

So I tried to scold her that crying wasn’t the solution to everything, but I couldn’t.

“Miss Bonita, please stop crying. This isn’t something worth crying over.”

Because of Cessia gently comforting Odette.

At his only gentle voice, Odette raised her head with tears welling in her eyes.

I could read a glimmer of hope toward Cessia in her eyes, but that was only momentary.

“B-but….”

“We just need a detailed explanation and measures for why Miss Bonita did such a thing.”

“….”

It was a smile as warm as the blazing sunlight.

He urged in a low voice and gently pressured her.

I was so surprised by his appearance that I had to swallow a hollow laugh inwardly.

Cessia was truly someone who could abandon anyone if it meant preserving his own face.

“Cessia-nim, I… that is, I just….”

I could see Odette’s fingertips trembling at Cessia’s coercive attitude.

To think that two people who had acted as if they couldn’t live without each other would break apart so futilely. It was simply laughable.

“You’d better speak properly, Miss Bonita. Misunderstandings could arise when admitting wrongdoing.”

“….”

“I’m simply asking how the letters I sent to Rosetta ended up going to Miss Bonita.”

Ah, what a cowardly rejection that was.

He must know well enough that Odette had feelings for him.

For the sake of his social dignity, Cessia buried the letters they had sent to each other and only brought up Odette’s wrongdoing.

Her expression was turning red in real time, representing her feelings.

【It must be quite humiliating.】

I thought Sing’s expression was quite apt.

Yes, it would be humiliating.

My sister Odette, who had always been elegant and noble wherever she went, seemed to have no immunity to situations where someone cornered her.

Everyone had spared no praise for her refined character, and all the people of Benitra had given her boundless love as if tending to a single daisy flower.

Moreover, this humiliating situation where a man she harbored feelings for turned his back on her, unwilling to see even the slightest harm come to himself, was something Odette could never have imagined.

Truly selfish, cowardly, and heartless—that was exactly what my fiancé was.

“I’m, I’m sorry… I’m sorry. It’s just that Sister Rosetta’s health isn’t good, so. I was only trying to help.”

“…You’re saying you received the letter on Rosetta’s behalf because her health isn’t good?”

“Yes, yes! That’s right. I was going to read it directly to her.”

Odette quickly agreed as if she had found a ray of hope.

At this, I smiled quietly.

It was like watching someone cut off their own limbs to save their neck.

“Oh my. Since it started from good intentions, how upset you must be about how this turned out… In that case, it would be best to severely punish the attendant who delivered the letter to you.”

“…What?”

As if it were the natural thing to do, Cessia presented his solution without changing his expression in the slightest.

At his words, Odette’s complexion, which had briefly brightened, hardened helplessly.

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