Thought It Was ‘The End’, Only to Return to a Changed Genre - Chapter 70

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Chapter 13. The Villain is Half (9)

Edelaine ran over and threw her arms around Shane’s neck.

Shane lowered his waist and offered his neck to make it easier for her to cling to him, frowning slightly. His skin had grown cold from standing outside.

“Instead of waiting inside.”

“I wanted to see you quickly.”

“You would have seen me when we got home anyway.”

Shane smiled as he gently removed the arms that were clinging to him.

Edelaine pouted with a displeased expression.

“Even when I tell you…”

“Sorry. I’m happy that you waited for me.”

Shane stroked Edelaine’s cheek and nape with his thumb. Edelaine shrugged her shoulders and burst into laughter, seemingly ticklish.

“Something good must have happened.”

“My husband’s face is so handsome that I feel good every time I see it.”

“Look all you want.”

“I’m too embarrassed to look directly…”

Instead of scolding her for making such a fuss now, Shane pulled her away slightly.

“Didn’t you say Her Majesty the Empress called for you?”

“Yes, together with mother… She asked who I thought would be good as a bride candidate for His Highness Edwin.”

“So, do you have anyone in mind?”

“I’m not sure. On the surface, they’re all pretty and kind… In the end, we’ll have no choice but to choose based on conditions.”

Edelaine shrugged her shoulders.

It was a reasonable opinion.

Above all, Edwin himself had no intention of marrying.

Shane led Edelaine into the building while subtly twisting the corner of his mouth.

Edwin getting on his nerves was nothing new.

Usually he was careful not to irritate Shane’s temperament, but Edwin was someone who showed no restraint when it came to his own ambitions and desires. Even if it involved his relative and friend’s wife.

“I’m not saying I’ll do anything about it, so there’s no need to glare.”

“Then should I be happy? Hearing such nonsense.”

“If Edelaine hated you like before,”

Shane’s expression hardened sharply.

“If she ran away avoiding you, I would have taken her without hesitation.”

“…”

“I said there’s no need to glare. At this rate, you might try to cut off my neck.”

Instead of answering, Shane fixed his gaze on Edwin’s neck. Edwin clicked his tongue in disgust, reading that look.

“What a bastard who doesn’t even get jokes.”

“Should I laugh at your trashy jokes too?”

“…”

“It’s not even a joke anyway.”

“I won’t deny it. It seemed like you’d figure it out quickly anyway if I tried to hide it.”

“How about at least pretending to deny it.”

“What for. You already look like you want to pluck out my eyes because you find the way I look at her irritating.”

“…”

“You should try pretending to deny it too…”

“…”

“And we call this brotherhood.”

Edwin burst into hearty laughter.

If he had been casually hitting on Edelaine out of light interest like he used to do with this woman and that woman, Shane would have been annoyed but would have definitely just given him a clear warning.

If Edwin had any sense left, he wouldn’t seriously anger Shane over mere interest.

But the words about not doing anything seemed to be read as meaning that was his true feelings.

“When Edelaine’s affection for you fades, that would be my opportunity. I think it’ll come before I die.”

But since Edelaine didn’t want that, he couldn’t do anything, and Edwin added that he was also enjoying such helplessness. His hobbies were truly nasty.

A sadist choosing to enjoy powerless love – he had to be a pervert.

Edwin mocked the irritated Shane and said.

“Look at this. You can’t say that Edelaine will only love you. Is it okay to show such an opening?”

“Shane?”

Shane blinked once. Edelaine was holding his arm and looking up at him.

The one person he had loved his entire life.

My special person…

To Shane, only Edelaine was still special.

His emotions grew only toward Edelaine, like water flowing down a predetermined path.

The trigger was merely the beginning. As time passed, Shane grew to like Edelaine more and more, falling for her anew each time.

The way she looked at the other person while speaking, her habit of holding hands when showing care, the comfortable air that flowed when they were together, the face that smiled mischievously as if she couldn’t help it, the refreshingly wide curve of her lips.

The emotions that were good, special, and so lovely he didn’t know what to do with them accumulated and settled, taking their place at Shane’s foundation.

This love was Shane Blancarde as a human being itself.

Edelaine blushed and pressed her body close.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Because you’re beautiful.”

Light platinum hair, an elegantly extended long neck, sharply upturned eyes, a straight nose and small red lips.

How perfectly beautiful Edelaine’s face was, how harmonious her refined eyebrows and cheekbones and delicate jawline were, and how mysterious and lovely her green eyes sparkling with vitality were…

Shane could have talked about it all day, but Edelaine disliked such things.

So he didn’t voice it and just looked at her. As she often did.

Then Edelaine would insist, “What I do is appreciation, what you do is compliments. It’s different.”

Even the way she sometimes made nonsensical things sound reasonable was cute and endearing.

Well, it would be harder to find parts he didn’t like…

If someone else had said this out loud, he would have mocked them as stupid. But when it came to Edelaine, it wasn’t stupid talk because it was real.

‘This is pretty stupid too.’

Perhaps that was the essence of it.

The essence of a person loving another person.

Something worth becoming stupid for.

“Shane. I have something to give you.”

“What is it?”

Love makes a person want to be tender.

Because someone is good, lovely, and you want them to be happy, you become able to willingly endure even if you’re hurt or uncomfortable.

Without Edelaine, Shane would have become a human incapable of showing even minimal kindness to anyone.

Edelaine thought it admirable that Shane had saved people in danger and kept him as an adjutant, but originally it was because of something Edelaine had said.

Because he heard Edelaine’s voice saying, “Of course you should help.”

It was because he wanted to receive praise from her, and because he didn’t want to be scolded.

Because Edelaine was someone who would be sad over just such things.

“Her Majesty the Empress gave me cookies. I tried them and they were so delicious that I thought of you.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Want to try some?”

“Feed me.”

Shane smiled and opened his mouth, saying “Ah.”

Edelaine smiled prettily and took out a cookie, putting it in his mouth. Then she watched with expectant eyes as he chewed and swallowed the cookie.

Shane swallowed everything she gave him without leaving anything, wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth with his thumb, and grinned. The face smiling with curved eyes was one that Edelaine loved enough to be mesmerized by.

Edelaine blinked.

Shane also loved Edelaine’s fan-shaped eyelashes, the color and moisture of her eyes mixed with green and light brown, enough to lose his mind. That’s why he could be generous.

“I like anything you give me, Edelaine.”

“Uh….”

“Even if it kills me.”

Edelaine, who had drawn in a breath, flinched in surprise and stumbled backward.

Shane grabbed poor Edelaine’s long neck with one hand and pressed her against the wall. Her small body floated in the air, struggling. The hands tapping against Shane’s hand that firmly gripped her throat were pathetic.

“But you’re not real.”

“Save, save me, huk….”

“It was quite enjoyable.”

He picked up the fountain pen that had been placed on the desk and stabbed it straight into her throat.

He could be lenient because she was wearing Edelaine’s skin, but it was difficult to endure the disgust because she was clumsily imitating her.

With a gurgling sound of boiling blood as the last noise, her head fell back.

The bright platinum hair turned black and changed into a completely different appearance. Shane, who had taken out a handkerchief to wipe the blood from his hands, paused for a moment.

An ominous premonition struck him, and he began running before he could think.

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She knew the moment she took a sip.

Edelaine put down her teacup. Then she grabbed Edwin’s wrist as he was lifting his teacup. Just from one sip, cold sweat was already beginning to form.

“Don’t drink it, this….”

Edwin, who had been looking at her questioningly, widened his eyes. His face slowly tilted.

This taste that made her tongue tingle first.

It was poison.

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