Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 113

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Epilogue 2. Forget Love, I’ll Just Make Money (4)

They say position makes the person, and that saying was no exception for Genevieve.

Even when she was revered as a Saint, Genevieve had been afraid of Shane, but after becoming Pope, the scales were gradually falling from her eyes.

The scales that made Shane appear as an inhuman monster.

So this person can also soften like that when happy, he was human after all.

Once the monster began to look human, she could gradually look up at Shane properly or talk back to him.

Even before the murderous glare that seemed ready to kill her, Genevieve only twitched her well-shaped eyebrows.

The expedition they had departed on after a long time ended briefly, lasting about ten days.

Since they would soon have to depart on a long-term expedition that would take at least six months to a year, they had hurriedly finished up and returned to spend as much time as possible within Delmez.

Just because she had become Pope didn’t mean she could abandon the Saint’s duties, so it couldn’t be helped.

Since he was investing all his remaining free time in Edelaine, he was quite displeased to have his path to her obstructed.

With a crooked mood, she looked at Shane and tilted her head as she asked.

“If it’s about Lady Edelaine, shouldn’t Your Excellency know better than I do?”

“…”

“Unlike Your Excellency, I don’t live with Lady Edelaine.”

Shane frowned.

“Nor do I spend all day prying into Lady Edelaine’s affairs and following her around.”

“Your tone is insolent.”

“I didn’t say anything wrong, so I won’t apologize.”

“What use would your apology be to me anyway.”

“Exactly. In any case, I’m not hiding anything. Especially not about Lady Edelaine. ‘We’ promised not to keep any secrets when it comes to Lady Edelaine.”

The ‘we’ that Genevieve spoke of didn’t refer to just two people.

Genevieve would never group herself and Shane alone as ‘we’. That would be too creepy.

Especially after hearing about the novel from Edelaine, they had come to loathe each other even more.

Originally, Genevieve had feared Shane, and Shane had resented and been jealous of Genevieve, but after learning the truth that they were destined to be husband and wife and their roles, they treated each other almost like insects.

Me with you?

Really? Why?

Not only standing side by side, but even being in the same space was so disgusting they couldn’t bear it.

It was terrifying to imagine what Edelaine might have thought seeing them merely existing side by side all this time.

Only after Edelaine repeatedly told them that she wouldn’t misunderstand even if the two of them were embracing now (Genevieve clasped her hands together and desperately begged them not to make such assumptions, while Shane sulked and spent an hour gnawing on Edelaine’s arm) could they finally exist in the same space.

‘We’ referred to the kidnapping group.

Shane, Genevieve, and the Bertrand Family.

Edwin and Lucian were not included.

“If anyone’s hiding something, it would be Your Excellency.”

Genevieve jabbed.

She was referring to what Shane had orchestrated at the Emperor’s secluded villa with Edwin, Lucian, and Jeff. After becoming Pope, Genevieve had gotten her hands on incomparably more information than before.

It was countless information she hadn’t known when she was a ‘Saint’.

It was chilling to think that all the hints the dead Pope had occasionally dropped came from that information. If the Pope’s scandals that couldn’t be covered up despite having so much information were that bad, how terrible must the real truth have been.

‘Instead of praying like she’s supposed to.’

Shaking off her thoughts, Genevieve said.

“I don’t know anything, and I haven’t even met Lady Edelaine yet. Would you please step aside?”

Shane irritably ran his fingers through his hair.

Looking at his anxious eyes, something must have happened.

Genevieve said.

“Why don’t you just ask her directly?”

Since confessing her secret, Edelaine hadn’t hidden anything.

Saying she had been too frustrated and exhausted from hiding things, she answered anything when asked.

“She says she has nothing to hide when asked.”

“Then she probably has nothing to hide, right?”

Genevieve, who would believe it even if Edelaine said alcohol was water, tilted her head.

“Fine, just go.”

“Ah, yes…”

Leaving behind the sensitive Shane, Genevieve shook her head.

It’s natural that a sane person can’t understand a crazy person, so the fact that I don’t understand him means I’m still sane.

Indeed, being in love wasn’t very healthy, either mentally or physically.

Genevieve clenched her fist and made a resolution.

Since I have Edelaine as family.

Forget love, I’ll make money like crazy and spend it like crazy!

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Edelaine is hiding something.

Shane noticed sharply.

There weren’t any clear signs.

It was just very minor changes and intuition. Choices she wouldn’t normally make, the changed temperature in her gaze, subtle expressions – that was all.

Guessing that Edelaine was hiding something based on such clues might be speculation.

But Shane had already learned the lesson that when it came to Edelaine, he couldn’t miss even the slightest sign.

Even when Edelaine had started avoiding him for unknown reasons, he had never once suspected that she would actually leave his side.

The engagement was solid, and since Edelaine didn’t actually hate him, he believed she would eventually come to his side.

Why had she suddenly changed?

Was it childish spite or whim, or had she been influenced by some storybook and wanted to live freely exploring the world…

Even if he had dug deeper, there would have been no way to discover that she was a reincarnator who remembered her past life, and that this world was inside a novel.

‘A romance about a Saint and the men who love her, was it?’

Setting aside that Genevieve was cynical about love, he couldn’t understand what was so good about such writing that she would spend time reading it when she had a fiancée named Edelaine and was brazenly cheating with another woman.

The ‘guardian’ Duke and Prince Edwin who protected the beloved Saint, and even the mage Keith.

The twin mage who had pushed the blame onto his twin and hidden beside the Emperor.

That man who had blocked Kaitlyn’s eyes and ears so she couldn’t see her surroundings was at least more clever than his sister.

It was strange that such a cunning person had died so futilely.

Edelaine had taught him that death should be questioned.

Jeff had demanded the body from the Brubein Royal Family, and the coffin they showed was empty inside.

‘I thought so.’

That man, who had judged that the Kingdom of Brubewinn had no future, had already secured a position next to the Emperor. And he had tried to shake the Saint, the Prince, and even the Empress by using his twin. In that process, it didn’t matter if his twin died and the kingdom was destroyed – he just needed to inflict damage.

From beside the Emperor, while nurturing his ambitions.

That mage was also originally destined to love Genevieve.

Genevieve might have vomited.

Even Shane felt like he might retch.

Shane had used Kaitlyn to find that man. Keeping Kaitlyn alive had been for that purpose from the beginning.

He interrogated Kaitlyn and found clues in her memories. That was Edwin’s specialty.

In Kaitlyn’s memories, that man was already beside the Emperor.

After that, the story moved quickly.

Since he was beside the Emperor, it took nearly a year, but Shane personally cut that man’s throat and eliminated future troubles.

Because of this man’s existence, Edelaine had to be pursued by death.

‘Stories’ were supposed to end with the death of the ‘villain’.

The villain Edelaine in the novel was destined to be killed early on.

Shane had learned.

To protect Edelaine, he couldn’t carelessly overlook even the most trivial problems.

Even if it seemed like speculation, he had to prepare. Fortunately, being thorough and persistent in digging deep was Shane’s specialty.

If neither Genevieve nor Lloyd knew… was there really nothing happening?

‘That can’t be.’

There were definitely changes. She woke up an hour later than usual and left more than half of her meals uneaten. She would look at him as if she had something to say, but when asked, she would mumble evasively.

Her darkened green eyes held worry.

Shane made plans to track Lucian’s whereabouts and strengthen the security around the Manor.

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