Resetting Lady - Chapter 67

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03. Story of love

“Thanks to Lord Raymond, it’s nice to come out during the day like this. I thought I was going to die from just working this time.”

“I’m glad I could be of help. Taking care of a lady’s troubles is a man’s reward.”

“That’s a wonderfully exemplary answer.”

He had promised to be more honest. At Karen’s retort criticizing his mechanical correct answer, Raymond stopped writing and looked up at Karen. So Raymond showed his slightly displeased expression directly to Karen as he spoke.

“Actually, I’m not particularly happy about it. I think people need to be busy to avoid doing useless things. If you too could learn the joy of labor and the nobility of daily life, you could live a more wholesome life.”

Raymond’s nagging was long. Karen had said she would give him some of the money she won from Baron Ain if he wanted it, but Raymond had promised not to touch that money. Then he shouldn’t care how it was spent, but he seemed displeased with spending it on strange things. At his lengthening lecture, Karen waved her hand dismissively.

“Stop it, you’re worse than Dulan. Are you scolding me for extravagance? I said I’d give it to you if you wanted it.”

“I could understand if it were dresses or jewelry, but honestly, the things you’re buying are, well. Honestly, I can’t understand them at all.”

Raymond was organizing a list of items Karen had purchased. Karen could tell he was sighing as he looked at that seemingly endless list. She pointed with her finger.

“You’re ignoring history. They’re antiques.”

“Those things, well. They have no value. Antiques should have proper worth. Those aren’t even things you could resell.”

Karen was buying up anything that might have even the slightest connection to her ancestors. And she didn’t hesitate regardless of the price. Naturally, money flowed out like water. Raymond was pointing this out.

“Did you learn this from Mr. Verdick? Oh, I wasn’t trying to criticize. As I mentioned before, my situation is a bit special, right? So I’m buying up anything that might be related.”

“…I understand. A lawyer will visit the mansion this afternoon. He said to please make half the payment amount in installments. The mansion will go to auction. Baron Ain is now bankrupt. I hope he doesn’t hang himself.”

The schedule was tight. Karen moved her fingers as she counted the days. It seemed like the day she would die would come faster than receiving the rest of the money from Baron Ain.

“Tell him he can take his time. It would take over a year to dispose of all that, and I don’t have time until then.”

“That will be a comfort to him. Though it might earn some half-hearted resentment.”

Raymond’s expression wasn’t very bright. Karen lowered her head to look at his face. This was the first time even for Karen to win this much money. Since Raymond had invested a large sum, Karen was able to obtain considerable wealth.

“Oh my, it was Lord Raymond who told me to do it. Do you regret it?”

“No, it’s just… I didn’t know you’d win that much.”

Karen had stayed up two nights worrying about how to seduce Raymond. He treated Karen with suspicious eyes and a slippery tongue. Winning a fortune at gambling only made him more cautious, it didn’t make him fall in love.

‘Maybe I should have acted more like a madwoman to gain more sympathy.’

Karen sat on the ladder and let out a sigh. Karen decided to use the fortune she won gambling to trace her bloodline.

‘If Mother was like me, what about Grandmother or Great-Grandmother?’

The situation wasn’t easy enough to stay by Raymond’s side relying only on Dulan. And she couldn’t quite figure out how to seduce Raymond either. If she had known it would be like this, she should have lived virtuously from the beginning. But if she hadn’t committed murder, she wouldn’t have gotten answers this far.

‘I don’t like those eyes.’

She wanted to stab them out. Karen had such thoughts while looking at Raymond’s frowning eyes. Raymond always treated her with a gentle smile.

The fact that he was now looking at her suspiciously was quite uncomfortable and awkward. Raymond’s greatest virtue had been his consistency, but his current attitude came across as discomfort rather than fresh stimulation.

‘I wish I could just quickly commit suicide and start the next life.’

The problem was that suicide was also impossible at this time. She could only die at the last chapter of the book. Before that, she had to survive somehow. Also, she needed to get answers from Dulan, so that was also a problem. Problems either way. Karen looked down at Raymond’s head from the ladder and sighed deeply.

“You promised to believe me, didn’t you?”

“…Yes, I understand.”

Raymond and Karen left Verdick’s mansion and came to stay at Countess Elba’s mansion. Even though it was called a mansion, since they used the annex, they could enjoy a somewhat independent life. Countess Elba smiled wickedly saying “young men and women should live separately,” but sexual contact was still a distant story for them.

“Anyway, please tell Dulan later that you love me. It seems like he still has lingering feelings.”

“…Yes.”

“You promised to believe me.”

“…Yes.”

“Please fix your expression.”

“…I understand.”

Raymond answered while gripping his pen tightly. His face twitched. Even though he had decided to believe her, he seemed to want to express somehow that Karen’s words were absurd.

“So… um… yes… Living again, and love… that… might solve it. Perhaps I’ve been such a scoundrel, falsely treating you, Karen, all this time… that could be it. So… um… I should love you… and in front of Priest Dulan… confess… I suppose.”

Raymond forced himself to finish speaking. His face looked like it might convulse.

“You look like you might cry during the confession.”

“…I’ll try my best.”

Whatever expression he made, she was doing her best in her own way. Starting from all sorts of trivial things. Getting plenty of sleep, and in her spare time, looking for materials. And she had someone to help her. Raymond was helping her. Whatever his true feelings might be.

Raymond’s eyes were different from before. For now, there was doubt about whether the previous him had really loved her, but certainly the Raymond she had seen until then had softer eyes and couldn’t take his eyes off her. Perhaps it was the look one gives to a cute puppy.

“The book… Living again… Yes… I believe it.”

Karen sighed while looking at Raymond’s face. As expected, he must have been like this inside in the past too. Appropriately coaxing and soothing. Thinking about it made her want to throw the book at his face.

“Please bear with me.”

“What?”

“That book right now. You were about to throw it at my face.”

“You know me well. Catch it.”

Karen threw the book down to Raymond below the ladder. The heavy book fell into Raymond’s hands. The old smell of the musty book rose up. Raymond frowned at the unfamiliar scent. The book’s title was written in a foreign language, but it wasn’t a very unfamiliar language. Raymond looked at the title and said.

“It’s a history book.”

“It’s closer to miscellaneous chatter with various things mixed together rather than history.”

Karen answered Raymond and gazed at the vast mountain of books. The 5th floor of the Royal Grand Library. Karen had never come up here before. She had read books at the Grand Library when bored, but the 5th floor required permission to enter.

She hadn’t known Raymond would be helpful in this way. For entry permission. Karen held the ladder and looked down at Raymond’s head. It looked good as a target. Shiny and round.

“Then how about we start by investigating the materials?”

It was Raymond who suggested the library. This was a different direction from before. When Karen confessed that she lived a repetitive life, the past Raymond who had been her lover would comfort or soothe the anxious Karen. But Raymond, bound by duty and contract, tilted his head and gave a different answer.

“I think we should start by going to the library.”

“The library…? I’ve been there a few times for fun.”

“Rather than that, let’s look for more materials. If what you say is true, it would be better to investigate your bloodline. Even if not, it will be entertaining.”

But there was something Karen and Raymond hadn’t thought of.

“…There aren’t many records of women.”

“At least it’s fortunate you’re not a commoner.”

So even though Raymond and Karen had been stuck in the library for a week, they hadn’t gained much. Records usually followed fathers, not mothers. Why did she have to be born a woman of all things. Karen felt like crying.

“See, buying those portraits was more helpful. People pay more attention to pretty faces.”

The portraits she bought despite Raymond’s silent protests were better for learning about Karen’s ancestors. Raymond nodded too. Small wars were too frequent on the continent, and records disappeared constantly.

Though they gained access to the Grand Library with Raymond’s help, even there, satisfactory records were far too few. Sometimes all records disappeared completely after marrying and going abroad, and sometimes names were erased after marrying commoners. The records about Carla Archduchess, her great-great-grandmother, were the most meaningful.

“Mother and Mother’s mothers were all beautiful.”

Karen’s mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother. All those women had red hair and were all devastatingly beautiful. So it was easy to obtain portraits of those women. Countless painters had left behind their faces. But in the end, that was all.

“Though I’m the prettiest of all.”

“What tremendous confidence. Anyway, fine. Let’s go.”

Raymond answered curtly. Raymond pushed aside the list and picked up the stack of books Karen had handed him. It was to borrow them since they couldn’t possibly read them all there. Karen glanced at his face and complimented him.

“Lord Raymond is handsome too.”

“…Thank you.”

“Don’t you think what attractive young men and women should share is love?”

“…”

Raymond, maintaining his silence, was already walking far ahead, ignoring Karen’s words. It seemed like a long road ahead. Karen hurried after him with quick steps, sighing deeply.

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