The Reason I Got Engaged to My Ex-Boyfriend - Chapter 57
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Episode 57
Chad continued with a bright smile.
“But you could think this much, right? Huh? Something’s suspicious here? If we dig well, we might find new clues?”
Though he was speaking in his characteristic bright tone, I felt like it was somehow getting sharper and sharper.
After that, Chad continued his explanation while showing me documents one by one.
‘To summarize…’
Cael did not commit suicide.
Seria must have been involved in that incident, even if indirectly.
Enrif also had suspicious points, threatening everyone who tried to investigate Cael’s death.
‘This isn’t something I need to worry about.’
From a political perspective, aside from being engaged to a noble family heir, I was just an ordinary count’s daughter. That’s why I was so powerless when I was attacked.
Even if the Crown Prince’s faction threatened the Arviente Duchy, it might be right for me to stay still.
‘But…’
I kept having such thoughts.
If the Crown Prince really committed such an inhumane act of killing his half-brother out of greed for the throne, wouldn’t he also be involved in the murder cases sweeping through the capital?
Intuitively, I felt like all the incidents surrounding the capital were tangled together.
‘…For now.’
I couldn’t just stay still in such a suspicious situation.
From that evening, I spent all night organizing and pondering over various incidents.
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A few days later, at Piache Lux Boutique.
“…Sigh.”
Diana sighed while organizing the messy table.
‘This is really too much!’
Just a week ago, Diana had been working as usual.
That particular day, Chris was being especially annoying, gradually getting on Diana’s nerves. Diana couldn’t hold back and screamed at him.
They were bickering loudly like that for a while.
“…”
Mary had appeared at some point and was looking at them both with a coldly hardened face.
The atmosphere was quite serious, so Diana, startled, quickly shut her mouth.
Were we being too noisy…?
“Chris Moore.”
Mary called Chris with an angry face.
It was so frightening that even the other employees who had been chattering tactfully shut their mouths.
Of course, the bewildering moment didn’t end there.
‘No, no. What on earth is that guy thinking…!’
In a situation where he should be keeping as low a profile as possible, Chris swaggered up in front of Mary.
Since Mary and Chris went outside leaving only an awkward atmosphere behind, Diana didn’t know exactly what conversation they had.
However, she knew that Mary was angry about Chris’s bad behavior and his tormenting of Diana, the youngest, and that Chris, who got angry in return from the subsequent scolding, wrote his resignation and left.
“…”
It spread throughout Boutique Street in less than half a day, and was probably an episode that the entire Empire knew about by now.
Diana, who had somehow become the cause, thought ‘The Owner really is on my side. The best!’ on one hand, but also felt sorry for Chris.
So she resolved to visit Chris’s house later to comfort him…
‘How could he change jobs to that place of all places…!’
Chris had transferred to Seria’s boutique.
As soon as Diana heard that news, she was stunned.
Everyone knew that Seria and Mary were on bad terms privately, and especially Chris, being Mary’s closest associate, would know well how much Seria had tormented Mary.
But just because he had a falling out with Mary, he went and clung to Seria’s side…
He’s really a bad guy. This traitor.
“Haah.”
Sighs kept flowing out.
Mary comforted Diana saying it wasn’t her fault, but that made her feel even more gloomy.
Most of all…
‘Why isn’t the Owner showing up?’
Mary consistently came to work unless there was something major. She was an owner who cared for her people and was very affectionate, even if she pretended not to be.
But even such Mary had been hard to meet for the past few days.
So she was very worried and a little lonely.
“What, don’t tell me she didn’t come today either?!”
Diana snapped to attention at the sharp voice she heard.
It was Yudite White.
For some reason, Yudite had been visiting Piaceroux like a daily routine lately, looking for Mary.
And it was always the boutique employees’ job to appease that annoying troublemaker and send her away.
“…You there!”
Oh no.
It seemed Diana was the one who got stuck with that role today.
‘It’s okay. I’m a proper employee who has even dealt with a duchess.’
Not knowing that the duchess had been quite softened by her affection for Mary, Diana gathered her courage.
“Um, what can I help you with?”
“Mary! Mary Blin! Why isn’t she here today either? Where did she go! Hurry up and bring her!”
“…”
She’s really very angry.
“The Owner decided not to come in for a while due to personal matters. If you have any business, shall I relay it for you?”
“What? To rearrange the clothes hangers?”
“Excuse me?”
“?”
“?”
Unfortunately, Diana only knew that Yudite was Mary’s academy classmate and rival boutique owner, but had never properly dealt with her.
They couldn’t understand each other’s words and just tilted their heads for a moment.
Yudite snapped sharply again.
“Never mind, are you going to keep making me come here for nothing? You should at least tell me when she’s coming back.”
“We don’t really know that either.”
“What? Really, then find out somehow. Don’t you know who’s standing in front of you right now? I’m Yudite White.”
“Yes, I’m Diana Valders.”
“…”
What kind of kid is this? Does she think I’m trying to exchange names right now?
Yudite, who had muttered in a dumbfounded voice, got irritated again.
“Ah, forget it. Where’s Chris Moore? I should at least meet that commoner and ask, this is frustratingly hopeless!”
“…Chris quit his job.”
“…Ah, right. No, why is everyone I’m looking for gone? Why did everyone disappear except you?”
“…”
That’s what I’d like to know.
How did things end up like this?
Diana felt dejected at Yudite’s words, which precisely pointed out the truth she had been avoiding.
Feeling her eyes suddenly grow hot, she bit down hard on her lips.
Then Yudite shouted with a flustered expression.
“What! Why, why are you crying? Stop it right now!”
“I’m not crying…”
Though her trembling voice already proved she was choked up, Diana held back her tears as a proper employee.
“Ah, I don’t know, I don’t know! I’ll come back tomorrow, so find out when I can meet Mary by then!”
Perhaps embarrassed at having made a young employee cry, Yudite hastily ended the conversation with a reddened face.
Having left Piacce Lux empty-handed once again today, Yudite’s expression was not good.
‘She said she would definitely explain what happened.’
The memory of that night was still vivid.
After being beaten up for carelessly provoking Mary at the observation tower, Yudite was working alone at the boutique, cooling her anger.
And finally, the moment when Ransel and Mary came, followed by sturdy men in robes visiting the boutique…
‘Why did I do that?’
It was amazing that she had found such courage, but she couldn’t believe she had made that decision for Mary’s sake. Why on earth did I?
If she could meet Mary again, perhaps she could understand the reason.
She had tried to meet Mary with that feeling, but…
‘Where the hell did she go!’
She hadn’t been able to find even a trace of Mary for several days now.
Surely she wasn’t avoiding her on purpose. At this point, hadn’t the Colonel confined her somewhere? Wasn’t he being obsessive, worried she might run away to Languilden again?
Having thought that far, Yudite sighed and kicked a pebble with the tip of her shoe.
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