Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 53

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Chapter 11. The Villainess Has Grit (2)

 

Isn’t that nothing new?

 

Lloyd declared without a moment’s hesitation.

 

‘Well, that’s true.’

 

Of course, Shane also knew that Edelaine had her peculiar sides. Even those aspects were unbearably adorable to him.

 

But the strange parts Shane was talking about were facets he had never seen before. He couldn’t explain where or how they were different. Lloyd left him alone, unable to find the words. The bastard had loyalty to his master but no courtesy toward people.

 

Shane couldn’t bring himself to open the door and enter.

 

Two days ago, he had also stood in front of his bedroom for a long time, but then and now were different.

 

Back then, he couldn’t move because he didn’t want to cling to her, or because he didn’t want to lose all his cards while begging for love. If he took even one step, he felt like he would break down the door, rush in, and prostrate himself at Edelaine’s feet to plead.

 

Please, couldn’t you love me?

 

Why am I the only one who can’t have it?

 

But now, his feelings were like facing a disaster or calamity he didn’t know how to handle.

 

Shane grasped the doorknob and opened the door with a sigh.

 

“You’re here?”

 

Edelaine greeted him brightly. Shane spoke in a slightly deflated tone.

 

“Edelaine… You shouldn’t eat snacks while lying in bed.”

 

“Ah, okay. Sorry.”

 

“You’re not sorry at all.”

 

Instead of answering, Edelaine grinned while still lying down. Then she spread both arms and said.

 

“Since you’re here, you should hug me, Shane.”

 

“Weren’t you the one who was supposed to hug me?”

 

“Yeah, but I don’t want to get up.”

 

The bedroom was almost unchanged except for the bed covers being slightly more disheveled.

 

Edelaine hadn’t even come out of bed, let alone left the bedroom.

 

‘Did she sleep a bit more?’

 

Instead of scolding Edelaine for her incredibly lazy remark, Shane approached her as if enchanted and embraced her. Edelaine put her weight into hugging his neck and burst into laughter.

 

“Why do you look like that?”

 

“Edelaine, you know the door isn’t locked, right?”

 

She hadn’t even locked the door.

 

The window was open too. While not just anyone could come and go, Edelaine could go anywhere she wanted if she chose to.

 

Yet Edelaine hadn’t taken a single step outside the bedroom for two whole days.

 

As if trying to prove her words that she wouldn’t run away.

 

“I know I can leave. But I’m too lazy to move.”

 

“If you just lie around, you’ll get bedsores.”

 

“…Shane, you’re unexpectedly practical…”

 

When Edelaine looked at him as if she couldn’t believe this was the same person who had tried to confine someone in a windowless room, Shane smiled softly.

 

“Even if you’re confined, you should ask for walks.”

 

“That was just so I wouldn’t worry people…”

 

She didn’t really mean she wanted to take walks.

 

“Come to think of it, until a few months ago, I lived barely moving at all.”

 

Edelaine closed her eyes as if recalling the not-so-distant past and released Shane’s neck that she had been hugging. Shane, who had been bending down to make it easier for her to embrace him, straightened his upper body and said.

 

“What about meals?”

 

“When you lie around all day, you surprisingly don’t get hungry.”

 

“I’ve never just lain around.”

 

“Trying it once wouldn’t be bad.”

 

“Once might not be bad, but… lying around for three whole days doesn’t seem very fun.”

 

“Not if you’re just lying around.”

 

Edelaine pressed around her eyes firmly. Her drowsily blinking eyelids and sleepy gaze told him she had been sleeping until just before he arrived.

 

Shane held Edelaine’s chin and neck area, fixing her face so she couldn’t avoid him.

 

“Your under-eyes are dark, Edelaine.”

 

Fatigue had gathered around her eyes.

 

It was better than five years ago, but it was severe for having lost sleep for just two days. She looked like someone who had been tormented all night.

 

Shane unconsciously kissed under her eyes. Edelaine lowered her gaze and said.

 

“Maybe it’s because I slept too much…”

 

“Are you uncomfortable sleeping with me?”

 

“No, rather the problem is I can’t sleep without you.”

 

“What do you mean, when you tossed and turned all night.”

 

“I just had strange dreams…”

 

Instead of giving a long explanation, Edelaine sat up.

 

“I’m hungry.”

 

“Seeing my face must have given you an appetite.”

 

Her intention to change the subject was so obvious it was just cute. Shane played along appropriately.

 

“I didn’t know, Shane. Ever since I was little, my hobby was eating while looking at your face.”

 

“You’re talking about very old times.”

 

“I guess I realized it was rude to treat someone’s face as entertainment and fixed that habit.”

 

“You avoided me after suggesting we break off the engagement.”

 

“Exactly. It would be very rude to treat the face of someone who’s not even my fiancé as entertainment.”

 

She had definitely learned from Lloyd watching his master. Edelaine, who had countered every single word, grinned as if she had won.

 

To find even this childish side cute, he must be crazy.

 

Shane became curious about where his own limits might be.

 

Why did everything seem fine, why couldn’t he dislike anything?

 

At this rate, it would be fine even if Edelaine killed him… Shane, who briefly imagined it, ended up laughing. If Edelaine filled her head with enough murderous intent to want to kill him, that would be fine too.

 

If she would never forget him and remember him while suffering for the rest of her life.

 

That wouldn’t be bad.

 

“Hey there, cute one, I’m bored, want to kiss?”

 

“…”

 

“Should I hug you?”

 

“…”

 

“Or should we sleep together…”

 

“Your seduction is like an old man’s, Edelaine.”

 

“I should have tried seducing someone before…”

 

Edelaine wrinkled her nose bridge awkwardly.

 

“So, did it not work?”

 

“…It worked.”

 

Being smitten was his crime. He was always the weaker one.

 

Ever since he fell in love with Edelaine, it had always been that way. He didn’t dislike it. That was always the problem.

 

Shane pulled Edelaine’s nape toward him, kissed her forehead, and said.

 

“Let’s go have a meal.”

 

“That’s bothersome. Can’t I eat here?”

 

“No. You need to get some exercise too.”

 

“What? I thought you were going to confine me!”

 

“I gave up on that. Confining you is useless anyway.”

 

“Oh…”

 

“Why, are you disappointed?”

 

“…”

 

“You used to beg me to let you go.”

 

Could the saying “if pulling doesn’t work, try pushing” be applied here?

 

Shane had no remaining options.

 

He thoroughly realized that Edelaine was the one holding the knife handle.

 

Then at the very least, he shouldn’t be hated.

 

‘How pathetic.’

 

With such half-hearted confinement, unless he thoroughly spirited her away, Edelaine could escape from him whenever she set her mind to it.

 

It wouldn’t be that difficult.

 

To pin down and bind those frail arms and legs, hide her away completely in a place where barely a sliver of light entered where no one would know, and dye her body and mind with only himself so that the will to escape couldn’t even sprout.

 

But that would be meaningless.

 

Shane desperately wanted Edelaine to love him. To say he didn’t want that would be a lie. He couldn’t help but want it.

 

‘If she were to disappear forever before my eyes or try to die, that might be different, but…’

 

At least he had bound her in a superficial form, so he had no choice but to believe in even a fragile promise.

 

I’m only loving you.

 

Even staking my entire life, doing just that one thing is this difficult.

 

Shane said.

 

“Do whatever you want, Edelaine. I won’t get tired of it anyway and I’ll keep chasing after you.”

 

“I said I won’t run away.”

 

“Well, who knows.”

 

Edelaine was looking at him with an expression that was hard to describe.

 

Shane grabbed Edelaine’s two hands and lifted them up high. Edelaine was pulled up weakly.

 

She really had no energy.

 

Shane secretly furrowed his brow.

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