Mad Rosetta - Chapter 71

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Mad Rosetta

Episode 71

What to Be Careful of During the Hunt Isn’t Just Beasts (2)

“Sister…”

“…”

“Sister, you take it for granted that Lord Cessia is by your side.”

“That’s what an engagement with a Benatra means.”

“And you have no anxiety whatsoever that someone might steal him away.”

…How did she manipulate this child?

Odette seemed angry at me for dismissing Cessia’s affection as worthless.

The Cessia she wants no longer exists in this world.

Not even knowing that, when she should be bowing her head and coming in submissively, Odette struggles desperately to revive her dead pride.

‘Is she so furious that her judgment is clouded? Or was I wrong to think you weren’t stupid…’

Whatever the case, I was already a master at tormenting your mind and body.

“If such a day comes, it won’t be that he was stolen, but that I discarded him.”

“…”

“Because of this incident, Fordicus will have to watch my mood even more than before. Far from bringing up breaking the engagement, it wouldn’t be enough even if we demanded compensation from our side.”

“…”

“Let’s say we break the engagement. Fordicus, who has fallen out of Benatra’s favor, would inevitably have to lower his standards in the process of finding a new marriage partner… Then the House of Montague’s position would narrow in an instant.”

“…”

“You didn’t really think he was unaware of these problems while playing love games with you, did you, Bonita?”

Along with saying there’s a limit to acting naive, I turned my back on her.

“Come to think of it now, you’ve ended up quite pitiable too, Bonita. You’ve been caught up in the most lowly scandal in high society.”

“…”

“Such people are, how should I put it… So-called mistresses.”

“…”

“Unwelcome guests, concubines. Or parasites… Well, these kinds of labels follow them around.”

So it would be best to earnestly pray for Fordicus’s interest to cool as quickly as possible, I was about to continue saying.

“…Huh?”

Whether I was roughly pushed, or my body lost its balance.

Such thoughts flashed through my mind in an instant.

The moment I realized I was about to fall into the lake and hastily turned my body, she was there before my eyes.

Odette, stretching both arms toward me while glaring with a truly chilling expression.

‘…That crazy bitch.’

Falling into the water with a ‘splash’ happened in truly an instant.

‘Crazy, she’s crazy!’

After playing with fire, now she’s trying to make a water ghost.

No matter how much I flailed, there was no way I could get back to shore.

Since it happened so suddenly, I had no time to steady my breathing, and I only felt chilled as I gradually sank under the weight of my rapidly soaking dress.

The day was particularly cold, and the water seeping into the hem of my dress was ice-cold, making my whole body stiffen.

Cold, and suffocating.

Why do I have to suffer like this again?

Did I provoke Odette’s anger too much? Even if she couldn’t control her rage, how could pushing someone into a lake without warning be something a human would do?

‘Anyone, anyone please save me. Please…’

Unable to even think such standardized thoughts, I just struggled desperately to live.

Forget about opening my eyes, the pain when I reached my limit from lack of breath was more agonizing than anything I’d endured so far.

I’m dying.

At Odette’s hands, as always.

Sinking helplessly to my death.

* * *

“…Ah. Ah, aah…!”

Suddenly coming to her senses, Odette looked at her own hands that had instinctively pushed Rosetta at the ripples lapping at her toes.

“You, you’re the bad one… That’s why you, to me, ah. I, I should call someone… It’s, it’s actually better this way, better.”

Even though she clenched her violently trembling hands desperately, she couldn’t calm down at all as she looked around frantically and muttered like a madwoman.

Since she hadn’t planned to commit such an unplanned act, she tried to check if anyone had seen.

Before she could take a few steps, she turned around, her face pale at the rustling sound from the forest.

“…Bonita?”

“…Lo, Lord Cessia? That is, I, since when-“

“What are you doing here?”

Her panic was brief.

Even though Sing asked with a serious expression as if something was suspicious, Odette’s eyes were directed at the horse he had brought.

‘Th, thank goodness. He didn’t see.’

At his appearance as if he had just arrived to water his horse, Odette’s face momentarily brightened.

However, she immediately approached Sing, sobbing in a voice trembling with fear.

“Th, that is, Sister Rosetta! Sister lost her footing and, sob… In, in the lake…”

Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Odette was too busy pointing at the lake to see his expression.

To the extent that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call it terror…

The face of a man gone pale with fright.

A familiar red cloak fluttered in the vision of Odette, who was crying about what to do.

“…Lo, Lord Cessia! Wait, kyaah!”

Due to Sing jumping into the lake without a moment’s hesitation, she desperately called out his name.

But he had already disappeared underwater along with bubbles.

Only the cloak he had torn off lay scattered at Odette’s feet.

She felt the gradually creeping anxiety throughout her body, but it didn’t take long to face an even greater fear.

With splashing sounds, he emerged onto shore not even a few minutes after entering the lake.

‘…She must be dead, right?’

Carrying Rosetta in his arms.

In her anxiety, she swallowed dry saliva and looked down at Rosetta’s face, which was pale blue and motionless as if dead.

“…Rosette, open your eyes. Hm? Come to your senses.”

Sing called to Rosetta with bloodshot eyes.

When there was no response even after grabbing her shoulders and shaking her, Sing put his ear to her nose.

…This can’t be right, it’s strange.

Sing looked down at her, who didn’t even twitch, thinking her body was too cold.

“Sob. Lo, Lord Cessia. What should we do, what-“

At his frozen appearance like someone who had lost their mind, Odette again moistened her voice with tears.

But she couldn’t continue speaking.

“Rosette, Rosette, please.”

“…Lord Cessia?”

“You, you can’t go like this. Rosette! Please, please!”

Once, twice, three times…

Because he began pressing Rosetta’s chest forcefully dozens of times.

Putting his mouth to hers to breathe air in, then compressing her chest again…

Watching him desperately clinging to a woman who seemed obviously dead, Odette thought.

‘Why?’

You said being with Rosetta was suffocating.

You said if you had met me before sister, I would have been the one you asked for engagement.

But why does the man before my eyes look so desperate?

Thinking this, Odette’s anxiety reached its peak.

How many times did he repeat pounding Rosetta’s chest and breathing into her?

“…Cough, kerhuk! Cough…”

When water suddenly gushed out with a “wah” from Rosetta’s mouth, who they thought had died from violent coughing, Odette’s anxiety finally became reality.

Conversely, because of Rosetta who had briefly opened her drowsy eyes only to close them again, Sing had to carry her in his arms and run frantically.

Odette was left behind in that spot.

“Medical tent, medical tent! Someone has drowned!”

The hunting festival became complete chaos because of him bursting out of the forest carrying Rosetta, his face drained of all color.

His voice was very loud as he delivered the detailed situation while completely soaked.

People gradually gathered near the medical tent barracks due to this extremely tumultuous incident.

“Cessia, Lord Cessia! Wait just a moment…!”

It was the moment when Odette, who had finally caught up to Sing by pushing through the murmuring crowd, was gasping for breath and trying to grab his sleeve.

That was contempt.

As if he knew exactly who had committed this crime. His action of flinching in surprise and holding Rosetta even deeper in his embrace contained fear directed toward Odette.

“What should we do… What on earth is all this commotion about.”

“On such a cold day, will the Princess be alright?”

It was around the time various conversations were taking place while watching that strange scene.

The cautious voice of a young lady, as if hesitating whether she dared to bring up such words, pierced people’s ears.

“Surely she suggested going for a walk to the lake…”

“…”

“Didn’t Princess Bonita call the Princess out…?”

Silence.

Odette, who had been frozen in considerable shock at Sing’s incomprehensible reaction, slowly looked around her surroundings.

Eventually, their gazes were no longer at the level of petty criticism directed at a young lady…

Odette had to thoroughly realize this.

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