The Circumstances of Being Chosen as the Villainess’s Favorite - Chapter 5

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Chapter 5

I got up from bed disheveled and replied indifferently.

“Guests? I told you before to refuse all guests, didn’t I?”

“Yes, that’s true, but… they forced their way in.”

Amy continued hesitantly.

At the same time, I realized who had come to visit.

People who could naturally force their way into the Ansi Viscount’s Townhouse.

The people I had given such rights to until now were…

Only two.

“…Seraphina and Gregory?”

At my cold question, Amy outside the door answered frantically.

“Yes, Miss.”

Well, I wanted to kick them out immediately.

‘But that wouldn’t be right.’

Even excluding the Lopez Baron family, which only had the hollow name of a baron family.

Well, it was true that the Gusto Count family had higher status than the Ansi Viscount family.

It would be troublesome if they picked a fight for no reason.

Then…

“I’m not feeling well, so I don’t have the strength to go down to the reception room.”

After thinking for a moment, I replied bluntly.

“So if they really have something to say, tell them to come up to my bedroom.”

By the way, meeting others while in nightclothes is a privilege of those with higher status.

‘They’re such insignificant opponents that there’s no need to even dress properly to meet them.’

Something like that, I suppose?

In other words, it was a situation their pride could never allow.

“Then I’ll convey that message.”

I heard Amy’s footsteps moving away from the door.

Listening quietly to that sound, I smiled coldly.

‘So, will those two really come to see me?’

Honestly, I thought they wouldn’t crawl up to my bedroom because of their pride.

“Larite, what kind of rudeness is this?!”

Gregory, who had rushed over eagerly, glared at me with both eyes.

“Not even changing clothes, but receiving us while lying in bed!”

That’s right.

I didn’t even get up from bed!

Leaning against the soft pillow, I put on a pitiful expression and looked up at the two of them.

‘Seraphina, you’re not the only one who can act, you know?’

I can do it too.

“But… you came even though I said I was sick, didn’t you?”

“What?!”

“I thought you came to visit me while I was ill, so I was truly grateful…”

Visiting the sick.

At those words, Gregory and Seraphina’s faces turned red and blue.

I laughed to myself.

Why else would I have made the excuse of being sick?

It was all to use it like this!

“I thought you came without even making an appointment because you were worried about me.”

“…No, that’s…”

“So I felt sorry that you’d make a wasted trip, and called you to my bedroom… *cough*.”

I deliberately coughed loudly for them to hear.

By the way, I’m perfectly healthy right now.

For several days I’d been staying in the townhouse, eating my meals properly, snacking when bored, and sleeping well.

Perhaps because of that, my face was now as smooth as a peeled egg…

“Anyway.”

*Ahem*.

Gregory cleared his throat and raised his voice unnecessarily.

“Do you know how much trouble we had after you left the picnic like that?!”

…What am I supposed to do about it?

When I looked at Gregory with that meaning, Gregory stiffened his neck and continued.

“I’m really disappointed, I’ll have to reconsider our engagement too.”

“…”

However he interpreted my silence.

Gregory’s shoulders grew more and more tense.

“I can’t maintain an engagement with such an ungraceful woman anymore!”

Ah, is that so?

“I’m going to tell Father too! Do you understand?!”

Gregory, who had shouted majestically, sneakily checked my expression.

I was… just dumbfounded.

What on earth is he thinking?

Did he really think that if he spoke strongly,

‘*Sob sob*, I was wrong! Please forgive me just once!’

…I would cling to him saying something like that?

‘No, the old me might have done that.’

After being solemn for a moment.

I dropped my shoulders and opened my mouth.

“I was actually thinking a lot about what happened that day.”

“Thinking a lot?”

“When Seraphina fell, you took very good care of her, Gregory.”

Then Seraphina glared at me with fierce eyes.

It seemed that shameful position came back to her mind.

Well, that’s not my concern, is it?

“Actually, if it were me, I would naturally help my fiancée up if she were kneeling in front of another woman…”

“Th-that’s because Sera is my childhood friend!”

“Yes, yes, I understand. Since you’re childhood friends, it’s natural to think of each other specially.”

I nodded while pretending to look dejected.

“It’s just that, well, I realized how narrow-minded I am.”

“…What?”

Gregory suddenly looked at me with a suspicious expression.

I met that gaze with a melancholy look.

“Gregory, you said you wanted to reconsider our engagement?”

“N-no. That’s…”

“I actually already sent a letter breaking off the engagement to the Gusto Count family.”

Toward the stunned Gregory, I generously added.

“Of course, I understand that you haven’t confirmed the letter yet. You must have been busy taking care of Seraphina all this time.”

“Wait, what are you saying right now…”

“Come to think of it, Seraphina’s condition was a bit strange. How tired must her legs have been to mistake properly tied shoelaces as being untied?”

I shrugged lightly and looked at Seraphina.

“But we were sitting all day having a picnic… it’s strange to feel like the laces were coming undone. There might be something wrong with your feet, so how about seeing a doctor?”

Seraphina’s face hardened.

At the same time, Gregory shouted.

“Larite! What on earth have you been saying this whole time?!”

“I’m saying I won’t thoughtlessly interfere between you two anymore.”

I smiled benevolently.

“You’ve said it until your lips wore thin, haven’t you? That friends should naturally wish for each other’s happiness.”

“Larite!”

“So I want to wish for your happiness too. Seraphina, I hope you’ll be happy with my fiancé. Oh, wait.”

My smile deepened slightly.

“Is it ex-fiancé now?”

“Stop joking around…!”

Just as Gregory was about to raise his voice again.

“L-Lady Larite!”

Amy came running toward me in a hurry.

I asked with a puzzled expression.

“Amy, what’s wrong?”

“A letter!”

Amy held up a letter triumphantly.

On the envelope made of stiff, high-quality paper, a family crest was stamped in red wax.

A rose and a sword.

The family that used those two as symbols was none other than…

“A letter has arrived from House of Claudius!”

What?!

I opened my eyes wide.

I stared down at the letter in a daze.

On the elegant envelope’s exterior, written in graceful handwriting,

[Evangeline von Claudius.]

was the signature that remained.

That’s right.

The sender of the letter was Evangeline, the one and only noble lady of House of Claudius!

“…”

“…”

Seraphina and Gregory also looked at me with dazed faces.

House of Claudius was such a distant, star-like highest noble family after all.

“…Lady Claudius?”

After a moment of silence.

Seraphina was the first to speak.

“Why would Lady Claudius send you a letter?”

Oh, this is a bit suspicious.

True to being the female protagonist who received everyone’s favor, Seraphina usually thoroughly managed her pure and pitiful image.

Things that could harm her image—that is, saying unpleasant things—she would push off onto others entirely.

Until now, only Gregory had raised his voice at me, while Seraphina pretended to be fragile and stayed a step back, as you could see.

But this time she even directly questioned me.

She must be really curious about what’s written in this letter, I suppose?

Well, it’s not like I have any obligation to answer her.

“Who knows? I don’t know either.”

I shrugged my shoulders smugly.

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