Resetting Lady - Chapter 258

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Special Side Story 2

7.

“Principal, what on earth happened? No matter what, for a child to disappear from school!”

The principal, Raymond’s former teacher, frowned. No matter how outstanding Raymond was, or how he was a nobleman with connections to the king, to the principal he was just one of his former students.

“Count Seyertes, isn’t it you who raised your daughter too recklessly? Disappearing from school without notice! You know well that during wartime this would be punishable by death!”

“What are you saying? Is this wartime? We simply sent our child to school.”

“Countess, but this isn’t an ordinary school.”

“Karen. Just a moment.”

Raymond took Karen’s hand, realizing that talking here would only lead to an argument, and bowed his head. He too was a graduate, and having participated in the construction when Rebecca enrolled, he knew well what the situation was like.

The school was surrounded by dense forest, and even the nearest town was half a day’s walk for an ordinary person. It was because Rebecca was so fleet-footed, not a security problem with the school.

As Karen said, the school couldn’t be entirely without responsibility, but if they made a mistake, even the hard-won admission could be lost. No, not just Rebecca, but future admissions might become permanently impossible. Raymond frowned. His daughter causing trouble seemed to be several times worse than Karen and Raymond combined. When he caught her, it might be better to ban her from going out entirely during vacation.

“Where was Rebecca last seen?”

“She disappeared this morning, so we don’t know the exact details yet either. Wait in the town and we’ll tell you as soon as we find out.”

“No, let’s move together. Who was the last person with her?”

“A student named Betty, her roommate. Shall I bring her?”

“Yes, please.”

The roommate came in.

Compared to Rebecca, she seemed quiet and timid. Betty bowed to the Count and Countess and sat before them.

“Betty, thank you for coming. When did you last see Rebecca?”

“About two hours before midnight.”

“Do you know why she went out?”

Karen asked.

“I don’t know exactly, but… I…”

“Please tell us.”

Betty glanced at both of them, then answered carefully.

“She said you two were getting divorced…”

“No!”

Both shouted simultaneously.

Betty’s eyes widened in surprise.

“But yesterday she received divorce papers from you two. Rebecca was greatly shocked when she saw them.”

“No, that’s why we immediately sent a telegram saying it was wrong…”

“Ah.”

Betty recalled the telegram she had left on her desk. She should have delivered it right away instead of going in to study. Betty bit her lip tightly.

“She seems to have left… before seeing it.”

It was just a document written as a prank. Something she was going to throw in the trash immediately. The letter she had intended to send to her daughter was just a heartfelt letter about how much they loved their daughter and how much they expected from her.

“Rebecca…”

“Karen.”

Raymond took Karen’s hand as she turned pale. Karen’s face was almost stricken with terror. Raymond whispered softly to Karen.

“It’s okay, Karen. Rebecca is a strong child.”

“I… I played such a prank…”

“Don’t think about it anymore. Rebecca will surely be safe and sound.”

Raymond embraced Karen and thought about where the missing Rebecca might have gone.

Naturally, the most likely place was home. However, since the telegram Rebecca received mentioned that they were coming here, she probably didn’t go home. Was there anywhere else she could go? Raymond thought of Lord Hyer, who was Rebecca’s maternal grandfather. That was the only place Rebecca could reasonably go.

Just as Raymond was about to get up to write a telegram from the school, someone urgently knocked on the principal’s office door.

“What is it? If it’s not really important, later—”

“A telegram has arrived from the royal palace!”

* * *

【Don’t scold her too harshly. And don’t get divorced.】

It was a brief message sent by Louis.

Raymond felt deep relief that they lived in an age of telegrams. Just twenty years ago, without telegrams, they would have had to run carrying letters, and he couldn’t imagine how they might have missed each other then. Long live the new technology of the new era. Raymond felt such relief inwardly while greeting Rebecca with a stern face.

“…”

“…”

Rebecca squeezed her eyes shut and bowed her head.

The top of her head stung terribly.

Raymond and Karen looked at each other and kept their mouths shut, wondering whether they should feel relief first or scold her. They were angry at Rebecca for acting on her own, but it was also true that the wrong telegram had arrived. Karen sighed deeply and then spoke to Rebecca.

“Rebecca, first of all, we’re not getting divorced, but… even if we were to divorce.”

“Divorce is impossible.”

“If—hypothetically—such a thing were to happen.”

Karen glared at Raymond as she continued.

“Please don’t do dangerous things. How could you run through the forest alone at night like that? And barehanded at that.”

“But if I had taken weapons, it might have become more serious…”

Taking a gun would be desertion.

Rebecca looked aggrieved in her own way, but Karen pulled Rebecca’s cheek.

“That’s why I’m telling you not to wander around carelessly. You knew for certain that we were coming today, didn’t you? You should have talked to your parents first, not run off like that!”

“Yes… but I couldn’t help it.”

“Couldn’t help what? I didn’t know you would act so recklessly without thinking. Mother never did such—”

“Ahem.”

“Well, not since I was 18—”

Karen gritted her teeth.

She couldn’t bring herself to say she had lived quietly. If Karen had had the same physical strength as Rebecca, she would certainly have caused incomparably more trouble than in the past. Karen suppressed her anger by gripping Rebecca’s shoulders tightly, conscious of Raymond who kept clearing his throat behind her. It was sad that her past wasn’t respectable enough to lecture her child.

“I think I couldn’t control my emotions more because of the fight during the day.”

“Fight? With whom?”

“With the upperclassmen…”

Rebecca wanted to confess all about the upperclassmen’s bullying. The nightly harassment that kept her from sleeping, making her do their homework, carelessly gossiping about her parents, and even putting animal carcasses in her food. But Rebecca bit her lip tightly. She didn’t want to quit school.

“Rebecca, if you want to quit, you can quit anytime.”

“I don’t want to do that.”

Rebecca said firmly.

Raymond shrugged behind her as if there was nothing to be done.

“Then you have to fight and win.”

“I won. Against seven people.”

“Then that’s settled.”

“…Yes.”

Rebecca nodded.

The upperclassmen’s low-quality bullying was certainly difficult, but compared to news of her parents’ divorce, it was nothing. They say hardship is overcome by greater hardship. When Rebecca realized the divorce was a misunderstanding, she was simply overjoyed. Seeing her daughter grinning broadly, Karen also smiled with a slight sigh.

“Um, let’s go to the capital together this weekend. I have business there too.”

“That’s great. Make sure to get permission from the principal before going out on weekends.”

“Yes…”

Raymond gave Rebecca’s forehead a sharp flick.

Rebecca rubbed her forehead and stood up to be with her parents.

“Come to think of it, Rebecca, you’ve made many friends already?”

“Huh?”

“Seven people, did you see that play too? The Nightmare Seven Ladies, I mean. Seven women form a villain club together and go around beating people up, and then—”

“What seven people?”

“You said with your own mouth that you beat seven people?”

“Ah… I… I beat up seven people.”

Rebecca awkwardly scratched the back of her head.

Karen and Raymond’s eyes widened.

“By yourself?”

“Yes.”

“How could you hit delicate women, Rebecca!”

Rebecca was momentarily flabbergasted and shouted.

“Mother, this is a military school! And I’m a woman too, you know?”

“Anyway! For you to hit another woman, Mother is disappointed!”

“They were all men!”

“Did you hit weak men?”

“No!”

“Then that’s fine!”

“Yes!”

However, Karen added one more thing with an angry face.

“From now on, don’t go around alone and fight in groups too! Women need to have many friends!”

“…Yes.”

Karen was extremely displeased with Rebecca’s lack of friends. As a prominent figure in social circles who now maintained friendships with countless noble ladies, it seemed to her as if there was something wrong with her daughter. However, Rebecca was becoming strong enough in her own way. Following behind Karen, Raymond whispered quietly to Rebecca.

“Well done. If you hit them, you must have had a reason. I got into a lot of fights when I was your age too.”

“You did, Father?”

“I was too handsome, you see. I’m sure it’s because you’re too outstanding as well.”

“Wow, tell me more about that story.”

“Sure, sure, let’s talk as we go.”

Raymond patted Rebecca’s back as they headed toward the carriage.

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“Does it look strange?”

“No, it’s cool. But… does that uniform really fit you?”

“Yes!”

Rebecca nodded and smiled brightly.

It was a black dress uniform, sharply pressed with knife-like creases.

“The Sovereign specifically asked me to serve as an escort at this ball!”

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