101 – Third-rate Play – 10
Hestia quietly returned to her original seat as if nothing had happened. Even though everyone present saw her ugliness (of course, she looked extremely cute to me, but objectively, ugliness was correct), she kept her mouth shut and calmed down, as if she really intended to remain ignorant.
Of course, if you look closely, there are many signs that she doesn’t have her Adolescent Dementia, such as the redness of her earlobes, the twitching tips of her eyebrows, and the constant fidgeting of her hand on her lap. Was proving
After that, after a brief discussion, we decided on several important issues and left.
The most important thing about Lisa’s treatment was to let her go freely. Precisely in a state of freedom with restrictions.
As much as she was doing these things in the back world, she said that she had made a hole in her back in case she didn’t know. Of course, the expression on her face when she said this was quite bitter. She must have been quite shocked by being abandoned by Wilhelm. To us, Wilhelm was the scum of the world, but he wondered if he was a benefactor to someone, so he felt strange.
Well, that doesn’t change the fact that Wilhelm’s personality was shattered. Furthermore, considering that he was the one who tried to take down the limbs he valued himself so much with his own hands, he doesn’t feel particularly guilty. However, I just thought that I should live a better life in the fact that I could look like an enemy to someone.
Of course, as I said before, I didn’t just let her go. Naturally, she put some restrictions on her actions. Hestia went through a complicated process that I couldn’t understand, and then she stepped back as if she was relieved. She asked if I couldn’t use magic that interfered with people’s minds, and she said that it was okay because what I just used was not one-sided interference, but a mutual contract.
After that, her long and complicated explanation of her Hestia followed, but in the end, the important thing about her is that we can’t abandon her, and she can’t betray us either. I want to know what kind of restriction this is, but we have no reason to cut her out in the first place, so if it is her one-sided restriction, it is her restriction.
After Hestia’s explanation, she heard it and thought she was strange again. This time, she asked Lisa why she didn’t sign a contract like this with Wilhelm. She put on a sh*tty face at my question, but she just answered meekly, probably because she agreed to cooperate anyway. It was because Wilhelm had never asked for such a contract, and from her point of view it was naturally much more comfortable not having a leash to restrain her. Come to think of it, it was natural. Sometimes a relationship bound by grace can be stronger than a contract. The only thing that was a little creepy was that Wilhelm was fully aware with his head of what he couldn’t understand with his heart.
After that, Lisa took a snarky attitude, as if she was done, and then she disappeared into the darkness. She pondered for a moment how the hell was she capable of such a skill, but she soon decided she’d just hit it off. Even thinking about such things in a world like this only hurts my head.
After that, she safely returned to the Countess without any special incident. The count had a lot to say on his face, but since he would have been very surprised at first, he said nothing and said to take a good rest. In fact, Cordelia and Hestia went back to their rooms that way saying they needed to rest. It seemed that he was very tired as the tension was relieved at once.
Of course I was tired too, but I couldn’t fall asleep right away. Because there are guests to wait for.
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A late night when everyone in the castle would have fallen asleep except for the rats in the warehouse. I yawned at the tearing of my mouth. I felt like I wanted to just lie down and fall asleep, but I was sitting in a chair and chasing sleepiness.
At the time when I was agonizing over the sweet temptation to just sleep, I felt a presence on the other side of the door. People came to my door and stopped.
-Smart
“Come in.”
The door opened almost simultaneously with the knock. Thanks to that, my answer looked like a greeting to the other person. This shameless guest even said hello, saying that he had come in casually.
“Yes. Came in.”
“If you’re going to open the door before you even get an answer, why the hell are you knocking?”
The customer I was waiting for was Seol-ah. She shrugged her shoulders at my question.
“Do you think it’s easy to come all the way here while avoiding the eyes of others?”
“Yes. Thanks for your efforts. But it looks like you managed to come without anyone noticing.”
“You should rest when other people rest too. Besides, I’m sure no one cares about where I’m going because everyone is busy with work today, right? To be honest, I was tired too, so I just wanted to lie down and rest.”
After listening to it, I decided not to say anything more about knocking because it was true. She waited for my answer, and it would be a headache if someone saw her waiting in front of my door at such a late hour.
She glanced at me and very naturally ran to my bed and lay down. The bed swayed and shook once. I pinned her down on her bed, waving her legs up and down at her.
“Hey, hey. Wake up. You’re just lying on a man’s bed somewhere.”
“Is it okay to sneak into your room at such a late hour?”
“This is business.”
It’s embarrassing, but it’s unavoidable right now. Other than this late hour, it would be a long way for the two of them to talk while avoiding the eyes of others.
Seol-ah nodded at my business answer, then let out a snort and rubbed her face against her bed. I got up and grabbed her by the nape of her neck and lifted her up.
“I think I’m going to fall asleep because I’m like this.”
“I told you not to lie down, so let’s get one more drink.”
“How are you? Aren’t business friends friends? It’s okay if you go to my room and sleep.”
“Before Friend, I was a body with an owner. Would you like your boyfriend’s girlfriend to jump into her boyfriend’s bed?”
“Oh, sunflower”
“What is a sunflower?”
Seol-ah made a fuss about her all over the place, talking about sunflowers and all. But I didn’t like that story very much. Now, there are too many sins accumulated so far to say shameless things like sunflowers. I stopped talking nonsense and got her up.
“Since I became a friend among business friends, I have to do business now. Wake up soon.”
“Yes. Is it okay to just sit on the bed?”
“That’s about it.”
Seol-ah got up from her seat with a pouting expression as if she didn’t like something. She brushed her blonde hair through her slick.
“What shall we talk about first?”
“That woman who is Lisa, what is she?”
There were a lot of things I wanted to ask, but this is what I was most curious about. What was the identity of that woman, why did she clenched her teeth and defended herself like that?
“As you might have guessed, this is the kid from the original story. It comes out after things go well with Lily and Wilhelm, but even then, Lily secretly collects things that were abandoned by Wilhelm and uses them until the ending. His main purpose is to go behind the scenes to women who are attacking him out of jealousy.”
“Wait, Lily reaps what Wilhelm threw away?”
From the start, she couldn’t stand the content she couldn’t understand and tackled it. Aren’t Lily and Wilhelm lovers in the original work? But does it make sense to secretly reap her lover’s abandoned men? In the first place, Wilhelm in the original work is a male protagonist, but he just abandoned his subordinates who thought of him as a benefactor?
Seol-ah twisted the ends of her hair with her fingers, as if it was embarrassing to explain the darkness of her feminine fantasy with her own mouth.
“That… , In romance fantasy novels, which are mostly preferred by women, the character of the male protagonist is not such an important issue. After all, there is a trend that readers only need to treat the female protagonist well, so it’s not that strange. In the first place, Wilhelm is a popular character who is obsessed enough to beat up even the female protagonist if he goes wrong, so isn’t there a big problem?”
“Okay, take a breath. After all, there’s nothing strange about it, right?”
“If you keep it short, it will be fine.”
At first, her excuse, which started out as if she was shy, stuttered, eventually degenerated into something close to rap. I got fed up with her momentum and cut off the conversation roughly. In the end, if you sum it up, Wilhelm is originally that kind of kid, and that kind of appearance is a character that was attractive, so there is no problem. It’s something I can’t quite understand, but I decided to understand it roughly because the person who read it was like that.
I decided to ask a few more questions while I was away.
“So what is he really like?”
“What have you heard so far… ?”
Seola looked at me with an absurd expression. I hastily added an additional explanation.
“No, not that way. Judging from what you’re talking about, you must be older than us. Did you look young? I don’t know if it’s fair to say that it was for a while, but you looked very young anyway.”
“I don’t know about that. The author didn’t give much explanation. The MacGuffin? Something like that.”
“Isn’t that too appropriate?”
“How can it be that it’s originally a novel like that?”
It’s funny to ask more if you don’t know. I decided to stop asking more about her identity. To be honest, whether she looks like a 10-year-old kid or an 80-year-old old woman, what does that have to do with me?
“But it is a little strange. Originally, the time when Lisa was abandoned was a long time later than now? It was abandoned much sooner than the original.”
“Is it true that it was abandoned in the first place?”
“That’s for sure. It is almost identical to the description in the original. Giving wrong information and putting them into difficult operations. If I hadn’t recognized it, I would have either run away or rot in prison for the rest of my life.”
“Then why was it abandoned earlier than the original…. Hasn’t it just become more temperamental because of us?”
Seola laughed at my joke-like answer. This, too, is too sparse at the moment. It seems like they just keep going over and over again because there is no information, but there really is no information. It’s still unclear why we came to this world in the first place, or what they want from us. If there was even a quest window, there would be no wish.
However, the status window or something like that didn’t appear even though I cried for almost 30 minutes right after I came to this world. I decided to throw away my lingering attachment to something I couldn’t have for no reason, and decided to think about my next plan.
“Then next. How are you going to use the cards you picked up like that? Did you collect it because you had something on your mind?”
“Huh? Uh, uh Of course, of course not! Uh. Have a plan there is not therefore….”
Seola looked visibly taken aback by my question. Her pupils jiggled, her fingers fidgeted, and her legs began to tremble. The bed was shaking because of it. I hope this reaction I threw out a word with a puzzled expression.
“No?”
“Yes. Sorry.”
I let out a deep sigh as it was. Sometimes, even Seol-ah can be said to be improvised. There are times when she moves without any countermeasures. Like how you set the mood earlier, you seem to be pretty smart usually.
Seol-ah started to tell stories that she didn’t even tell me, wondering if my feet were numb at my sigh.
“No, but I mean, I really didn’t have any thoughts. The princess could come to the academy from next semester at the earliest, and then there would definitely be an opportunity to strangle Wilhelm. For that time, at least one hand is more….”
“The princess?”
“Huh? Don’t know who He’s Wilhelm’s brother.”
I’ve definitely heard of Hestia before. As Wilhelm’s younger sister, she gave up her claim to the throne. Seol-ah continued her explanation of her, who understood her silence within her as her affirmation.
“In the original story, she was pushed by Wilhelm and is said to be a woman hiding her claws? She gave up the right to the throne once she gave up, but she was ambitious, aiming for the position of female emperor at any time. So in the original work, Wilhelm’s final boss? A kid who feels the same way. But now our enemy is Wilhelm, and the enemy of our enemy is our friend….”
“No, wait.”
I’m confused because there are so many stories that I can’t hear right now. If it’s the princess, isn’t she younger than Wilhelm? Why is it next semester and not next year? The final boss on Wilhelm’s side, does that mean there’s a final boss on my side too?
“Why are you telling me such an important story in the first place?”
“Uh… , hehehe?”
She stuck out her tongue and nudged her own head into her fist.
I couldn’t stand it and fed the chestnuts with all my might to her forehead.