Resetting Lady - Chapter 182

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Karen looked up at Raymond’s profile.

“Baron… Did you resolve things well with your brother?”

“Yes. I resolved it well.”

Karen seemed to have been worried about it after all. He recalled what he had said to Karen when he was 117.

The words he had said to Karen that he couldn’t trust what she said. That she knew nothing. That she didn’t even know his brother would die. That she didn’t even know about herself. So he could love her.

Karen seemed to have been bothered by the fact that Raymond hadn’t mentioned his family to her at all since then.

“I sent my brother to the hospital.”

Karen’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Isn’t that… too harsh?”

Most hospital wards were terribly inadequate. So families with means would keep patients at home and have doctors visit them instead.

Perhaps she thought it didn’t match his past consideration for others.

But Karen only knew part of Raymond. Though she wanted him to walk a better path, the method of yielding to everyone was not a better path for Raymond at all.

“This was my best option.”

If Baron Seyertes was left alone any longer, he would cause others to die. And he would die soon. He thought it would be more sinful to just leave him knowing that.

There was no way for him and his brother to reconcile completely. The Baron had lived lazily, corrupted by drugs for far too long. It would be worse to let him continue holding his noble title.

“Karen, rather than becoming friends… perhaps some other method might be better. You said you have a lot of time, but practically speaking, it’s not really that much. Time overlap is only possible between the two of us, and Miss Isella has no choice but to know little about you.”

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“Why did you say such things?”

Sion scratched his head as he watched Raymond sitting slumped with a gloomy expression.

“What on earth could be the problem?”

Raymond muttered as he stared gloomily down at his glass in the dark tavern. Sion found it difficult to react because he couldn’t adapt to Raymond’s suddenly changed appearance. He ordered his own drink and asked him.

“Are you drunk?”

“No.”

Raymond’s stamina was remarkable even in his drinking capacity. Even when malicious superiors made him drink by the crate, Raymond’s complexion never changed. There was no way he could be drunk when he hadn’t even finished one glass.

‘It would be better to see him drunk instead.’

Sion Electra was uncomfortable watching Raymond being depressed. But he didn’t want to display the admirable friendship of comforting him either.

‘I need to go meet Miss Isella soon.’

The cause of Raymond’s depression was Isela Evans, whom he was currently courting earnestly.

“Um… Lord Raymond, may I take my leave now…?”

“Why on earth does Miss Isella act so coldly toward Karen?”

“…”

It didn’t seem like he would let him go.

Sion wanted to escape from Raymond who was holding onto him and pouring out his lamentations, but realizing it was impossible, he sighed.

Raymond had been very depressed lately.

“I want to become friends with Isela Evans.”

Though he didn’t like Karen paying attention to Isella, he tried to understand. The cause of her behavior ultimately lay with Raymond himself.

And considering the persistent connection with Isela Evans, her opinion about wanting to get along better was somewhat understandable.

“Why…”

But the fact that Isella showed no signs of becoming close to Karen made Raymond depressed. While Karen herself was only slightly dejected, Raymond’s heart felt like it was being torn apart watching it.

He felt like taking Karen to gatherings of renowned ladies in high society and begging her to become friends with others.

Of course, he refrained knowing that if he did such a thing, Karen would want to smash his head, but in any case, Isella’s behavior toward Karen lately seemed extremely unreasonable to Raymond.

“Why is she acting like that when I’m not even between them?”

Raymond remembered the past Isella and Karen. Isella always had her guard up against Karen. No matter how much Karen accommodated Isella and worked diligently, no matter how miserable she became, Isella was rarely satisfied.

Isella thought Karen was the reason Raymond didn’t love her. So Raymond thought it would be fine if he broke up with Isella properly, even in a way that would tarnish his own reputation.

“Count Sion, are you spreading rumors about me well?”

“Every time I meet Miss Isella, I spend an hour badmouthing Lord Raymond.”

Sion answered immediately.

“Would you like to hear the details?”

“…No.”

Sion Electra’s words were probably true. The problem was he was too enthusiastic about it. Recently, even a letter had arrived from Count Fankair. It was a letter containing advice about whether Sion’s behavior was too dissolute.

“…Continue.”

“Understood. I’ll continue working hard.”

“…Right.”

The more his reputation fell, the more it would help Karen. In many ways. But Raymond was on the verge of falling into depression because he found Isella’s behavior toward Karen disagreeable and worrying.

Even if he had broken up with Isella, even if Isella didn’t know about his relationship with Karen, even if there was Sion who catered to his preferences, the relationship between Isella and Karen was another matter entirely. It was indeed impossible for Karen and Isella to become close friends just because Raymond stepped aside.

Isella basically didn’t like women her own age very much, and Karen also had almost no friends around her. Moreover, perhaps because of her long experience serving as a maid who catered to Isella’s moods, Karen continued to express goodwill through submissive behavior toward Isella.

But to Raymond, that looked like entering into a hierarchical relationship below her, not a friendship. It was behavior that showed hierarchy even more blatantly than his relationship with Sion.

When he saw Isella leave Karen with the luggage and go off to play with Sion, Raymond was so angry he wanted to challenge Sion to a duel.

“What’s wrong with Karen…”

“That’s one thing and this is another. Do you know what excessive self-consciousness is? She can dislike her regardless of Lord Raymond.”

“Shut up, Sion.”

“Yes, then may I take my leave now?”

“Don’t go, Count Sion.”

“Ah, what do you want me to do? The relationship between Miss Isella and Lady Karen Hyer is something they have to work out themselves.”

“Why does Isela Evans act so coldly toward Karen?”

Sion clicked his tongue as he looked at Raymond, who seemed beyond depressed and ready to melt into the floor. No matter how much they say love changes a person, Raymond had changed far too much in such a short time.

Was it because this was his first romance? He seemed to have become strange far too quickly. Just a few months ago, he had been an extremely cold superior, so how did he end up like this? Sion clicked his tongue.

“You’re drunk, Lord Raymond.”

“As I said before, I’m not drunk, Count Sion.”

“You look no different from being drunk. Would you please let me go now? I also need to meet Miss Isella.”

“Why does Isella…”

“Please stop. And Miss Isella is currently seeing me. If you say anything more negative about her, I won’t stand for it either.”

“If you won’t stand for it… Ha.”

Raymond straightened his posture. His single eye gleamed in the dark shop.

“Count Sion, are you really with Isella…?”

“Please consider my feelings watching my former fiancée right in front of me. Miss Isella isn’t a good person… but she is a charming person. Her actions must have their own reasons.”

“How unexpected. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been very pleased with your relationships with women from before.”

Raymond straightened his posture and looked at Sion with unfamiliar eyes. Sion handed him a bottle while responding with a displeased expression.

“As I told you before, my love is always sincere.”

But Sion’s words weren’t very convincing considering his history with women. Sion and Raymond got along well in some areas, particularly in combat, but they didn’t get along very well when it came to interpersonal relationship issues.

“…Well, I’m not in a position to say anything.”

“I’m glad you understand.”

“Then as your life’s savior, let me make one request. I’d like you to help improve the relationship between those two.”

“No, I refuse.”

Sion was horrified by Raymond’s request.

Isella and Sion had only just begun their relationship. And he was supposed to talk about Karen to Isella? Mentioning another woman in front of the woman he was seeing was unthinkable.

Since Sion was more desperate and skilled than anyone at pleasing women, such a mistake was absolutely out of the question. The problem was that the person making the request was none other than Raymond.

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