Young Master, Please Put Some Pants On! - Chapter 58

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Chapter 58

Just thinking of Vivian’s face made her spine chill and her heart beat slowly and heavily.

However, she soon shook her head vigorously and chased away the impure imagination that had bloomed in her mind. This was Vivian, whom she had known for years. The idea that he would be connected to Revolity was utterly absurd.

‘That can’t be. Revolity doesn’t make money.’

Thinking this way brought her relief again. There was no way someone who worked tirelessly, saying time was money, would engage in something that didn’t earn a single penny. She even felt guilty for having suspected him, even briefly.

She was thinking she should write another letter soon when she clenched her fist.

“Mellis!”

“…Arsian?”

A carriage stopped in the distance, and Arsian approached her with a bright smile, waving his hand. Her confusion at the sudden encounter was brief, as Kermanomon’s displeased low voice rang in her ears.

“Why is that bastard here?”

Kermanomon, who had approached her side at some point, was openly expressing his displeasure. A meeting between Kermanomon and Arsian! As the scene she had only imagined unfolded before her eyes, Mellis felt cold sweat trickling down her back.

“Ah, Your Grace is here as well.”

“Duke Ferzen, what brings you to this place?”

“I was on my way back from visiting Marquis Astina. It’s not like I came somewhere I shouldn’t be, so aren’t you being a bit too sharp with me?”

However, Arsian showed a nonchalant attitude, smiling brightly despite Kermanomon’s cold treatment.

“Garulus, how are you?”

“Ah, I’m fine.”

When had he talked about kicking Arsian’s butt? Garulus also seemed anxious about whether he might say something, rolling his eyes nervously and watching Mellis’s expression.

Regardless of the people around him, Arsian turned his gentle gaze toward Mellis, his original purpose.

“Mellis, have you been well?”

“Yes… Have you been well, Duke Ferzen?”

This was the first time facing him since learning his true identity. Arsian frowned with disappointment at the stiff title that came from Mellis’s mouth.

“Duke? Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten the promise you made with me back then?”

However, instead of answering, Mellis showed an awkward smile. As if she could forget his request to call him by his name. It was just that now, knowing he was Duke Ferzen, the words wouldn’t come easily.

“It’s a bit disappointing that you’re suddenly creating distance like this.”

“Well…”

Moreover, Kermanomon was listening to this conversation right beside them. Of course, Arsian wouldn’t commit the outrageous act of suddenly revealing he was human, but this situation was inevitably uncomfortable.

She was trying to calm her pounding heart and hesitating when Kermanomon, who had positioned himself behind her, lowered his head and whispered in a low voice.

“Is that fellow making you uncomfortable?”

His quiet baritone resonated distantly in Mellis’s ears.

After being dazed by that whisper for a moment, Mellis came to her senses a beat late and spoke with a calm smile.

“It’s not that. Your Grace, may I have a brief conversation with the Duke?”

“Alright, I’ll be nearby, so if anything happens, call me immediately.”

Even then, he didn’t erase his suspicious gaze and watched the two of them for a long time until the moment he left.

Confirming that he had moved away, Arsian smiled sheepishly.

“I’m sorry. I was so happy to see you that I ended up being rude. I didn’t mean to put you in a difficult position.”

“It was more surprising than difficult. I couldn’t call you by your name, and Your Grace was watching from right behind me.”

“Is my being Duke Ferzen a problem? I just wanted to become good friends with Mellis. People who treat me normally even after knowing I’m a half-blood are very rare.”

A bitter emotion spread across his face as he lifted his lips in a forlorn smile. Only then did Mellis recall the conversation she had shared with him in the library.

‘Ah, he was surprised when I brought up Vivian.’

Thinking about it that way made her heart soften again. Vivian had no one else at the Academy who could be called a friend except for her.

Of course, it hadn’t been that way from the beginning. At first, thanks to his cheerful personality, people were constantly by his side.

However, somehow the fact that he was a half-blood spread throughout the school, and once the rumors spread, people naturally began to distance themselves from him. Even friends who had been with him just the day before started ignoring and avoiding him.

It was during that time that Vivian and Mellis became close. Mellis, who was also neglected by her stepmother, didn’t have a single friend either.

‘Well, if I think about it, at first I just needed someone to eat with…’

Hadn’t Vivian said that Mellis was the only person who approached him first after the rumors spread? Remembering those thoughts, Mellis felt sorry for rejecting Arsian’s proposal.

“Are you really sure it’s okay for me to address you casually?”

“Of course. I was the one who asked first.”

After hesitating for a moment at his eye smile, I eventually curved my eyes and nodded.

“Alright. But I’m not sure if being friends with me will be any fun. I don’t have many friends to begin with, and I usually just stay within the Ducal Residence.”

“That’s fine. I’m thinking of starting as friends, but I don’t plan to end it there.”

At his nonchalant attitude, Mellis, who had finally lost her words, pressed her lips tightly together. Strangely, she always felt like she was being swept along frantically by Arsian.

How should she put it—it was a skillfulness that always seemed to naturally draw the flow of conversation toward himself. Just looking at how he didn’t panic in front of Kermanomon earlier showed that.

“Oh right, are you feeling alright? I heard there was an accident at the hunting festival.”

“Yes. Fortunately, the Grand Duke saved me, so nothing serious happened.”

“That’s a relief. If I had known about it at the time, I would have rushed over to heal you right away.”

At Arsian’s words, Mellis suddenly remembered something she had forgotten.

“Um, Arsian. There’s something I’d like to ask you about.”

“What is it?”

Mellis briefly recounted what had happened at the hunting festival. The light that flowed from her body the moment she was saving Garulus, hearing later that Garulus’s wounds had disappeared, but being unable to use healing power since then.

Arsian listened to her story with a troubled expression, concentrating intently.

“Hmm, just from hearing this story, it does seem like you manifested healing power. You said you’ve been able to sense Mana Flow Reading since you were young, right?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“Like magical power, healing power in particular has many variables depending on the situation. In my case, I’m sometimes affected by the weather too. It’s likely that some situation at that time coincidentally aligned with Mellis’s manifestation conditions for that moment.”

“Ah…”

It was a plausible theory. If that were the case, then not being able to use the power since then would make some sense too. The situation at that time, huh. Mellis, who had been searching her memory for a moment, swallowed dryly.

‘S-surely falling into the lake isn’t the manifestation condition, right?’

If that were the case, her body would probably crumble before she could even learn healing arts. While she was caught up in this rather serious worry, Arsian let out a small laugh.

“Would Mellis have another occasion to fall into a lake? It wouldn’t be such an absurd condition, so don’t worry too much.”

“Huh, how did you know?”

“Everything shows on Mellis’s face. Since it’s definitely not a common case, I’ll seek some advice about it too.”

“Yes, thank you!”

As she offered her thanks with a light nod, she felt an inexplicable sense of pity in his gaze.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“It’s nothing, just. I thought you must have felt frustrated being alone all this time. You said Garulus is the only person at the Ducal Residence who knows Mellis’s secret, right? There’s no way Mellis would have confided such things to that young child, so you must have been suffering alone inside. Of course I’d feel sorry for you.”

At his words, Mellis couldn’t give any response. He was the first person to understand her inner feelings without her having to say anything.

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