77 – Summer Vacation – 10
It’s no exaggeration to say that Cordelia is having the most fun of her life right now. She enjoys the celebration with the person she likes. How many more happy things can there be?
“Where do we go next?”
“It’s okay to look around, and the main event of the day is the fire ceremony anyway.”
“The burning ceremony?”
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Mikhail’s face was stained with bewilderment. Isn’t it too extreme to be an event of a festival celebrating the harvest? In an instant, in his mind, the crying sinners tied to the cross and the local people enjoying watching it were replayed. There is no such thing as madness.
At Mikhail’s easy-to-understand reaction, Cordelia smiled and explained the burning ceremony.
“It’s not about burning real people. It’s burning a big scarecrow.”
“But why burn?”
“A long time ago, even before the Empire entered, there was a tyrant who ruled this region. The people who lived in this area could not stand it and rebelled against the king. After a long fight, the people decided to burn the tyrant and seek the protection of the Empire. The one who led the people at that time was the ancestor of our family.”
Cordelia memorized the origins of the burning ceremony without interruption. As she heard, it turned out to be a fairly traditional event.
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Mikhail admired. It was not that she admired the origin of the name of the burning ceremony, but admired Cordelia for explaining the origin of it smoothly and effortlessly, just like her teacher.
Actually, Cordelia didn’t know the truth last night either. She said there was a reason why Cordelia couldn’t get up properly this morning. She studies about the festival until late at night, and plans a course for where to stop. This is because she prepared to act as a de facto guide.
So before that? I just moved as my eyes took me, as my feet went. I visited every year at least a delicious store, but I had never planned anything else beforehand. The exact origin of various events? Couldn’t you have known that?
“Well then, let’s just look around freely. It looks like there are quite a few things to see here and there.”
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Mikhail suggested. It was the first day for Mikhail to see, so there was nothing to see as great as he thought. I just said that there were quite a few things to see, just to say hello, but it felt like a large-scale college festival.
Shops and a handful of ordinary people set up street vendors on their own streets, and others enjoy it. The burning ceremony hadn’t even started yet, and although they said there was nothing to see on the first day, the scale was very large and ordinary.
Seol-ah felt the same way. At first, she wasn’t expecting much. That’s because there was a description related to the festival in the original work, and nothing special happened there either.
Still, it wasn’t bad. The atmosphere of the festival itself made people quite excited, and it was also fun to see Cordelia, who would have been able to fly off without wagging if she had a tail.
“Then let’s go this way next! This side, um, sells clothes and accessories.”
Cordelia took the lead. In Mikhail’s opinion, probably none of the four would buy cheap clothes in a place like this, but it’s always fun to punish like-minded people. She just decided to follow along without saying anything.
Hestia laughed as she saw her clumsily taking the lead. When she saw Cordelia exert her will, she felt several emotions cross within her.
The reason why Hestia stays still despite Duke Deneb’s various tricks. The reason Cordelia was excited she kept making her plans late into the night.
It was all because of what Hestia said in her bath on the first day.
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“Everyone likes Mikhail, right?”
“What… Coke! Go? Coke!”
Cordelia gasped and coughed violently, probably taken aback by Hestia’s sudden bomb declaration.
Lily also clenched her fists. She tried to figure out what the hell she meant by saying that, but she couldn’t figure it out no matter how much she thought about it.
“I don’t really want to question either of you.”
Hestia’s expression was calm without any particular change. Just like having a normal conversation. It was natural for Hestia to ask, since she didn’t ask with any special intention.
From her point of view, it was virtually confirmed that they both liked Mikhail, and the current question was purely because she wanted to hear their thoughts clearly. What if you can’t confidently reveal your heart here? If he didn’t like it, he wouldn’t even give it a chance.
“Then why are you asking?”
“I want to make sure.”
Hestia firmly replied to Lily’s words.
“Yes. I like you.”
“Lily?!”
Lily also said firmly without losing. Only Cordelia, who hadn’t properly grasped the situation yet, wondered what the hell was going on, what the hell did Lily mean by liking Mikhail too, she was confused.
“What about Miss Cordelia?”
“No wait…. Because it was too sudden.”
“Miss Cordelia. Be honest. Miss Cordelia likes Mikhail, right?”
“That, ah, yes.”
Cordelia, weighed down by Hestia’s words, made a few strange noises, and eventually she admitted.
“That, sorry. I didn’t mean to do that either….”
She was Cordelia, who used her energy in front of Michael and openly said that he would have an affair with her, but when she was caught by Hestia, she had to struggle with indescribable guilt.
“No. It’s not something to be sorry for when people like people.”
Hestia said calmly. Cordelia, who had closed her eyes, knowing of course there would be reprimands from her, opened her eyes with a whimper. Lily also looked at her with her bewildered expression.
“How did you know that?”
Cordelia asked cautiously. Lily looked at Cordelia with a puzzled expression. No, then, did you think that Hestia would not know anything about her teasing like that?
“I don’t know how to show off like that. Ms. Lily was a bit long-winded.”
“How did I know?”
Lily asked. As she tried to be careful, she was a little surprised. Where did she come from?
“Smell. When Mikhail started using perfume, strangely, they both smelled the same. That’s when I was convinced.”
“Oh.”
I was caught off guard that I liked this man, that we shared the same smell, and that he showed off a little.
Cordelia and Lily shut their mouths and bowed their heads as if they were sinners.
Hestia opened her mouth.
“Why is that? Did you think I would get mad at these stray cats?”
Leaving aside her anger, Lily was about to tell her that she had once been angry when she had been drinking.
“Actually, I thought about it a lot. It wouldn’t matter if the two of them were completely strangers, because they are also precious friends to me and Mikhail. I was wondering if it could be solved by just pushing it away and forcing me to close my mind.”
Lily swallowed her saliva at her meaningful words.
“You mean, you thought of another way?”
“It’s not so grandiose that it’s another way.”
“Then what?”
“Ah, before that, let’s make sure we go. No matter what, I’m Mikhail’s wife, and I’m her first wife.”
Hestia was going to leave the nail firmly planted here. She did it for no other reason, but because she didn’t want to compete with them. No matter how hard the two of them attack each other, in the end, for Mikhail, the best is himself. She didn’t want to fight with her friends for nothing, with consequences she couldn’t change.
Cordelia and Lily exchanged glances with each other a few times, shaking their heads. After all, her Mikhail’s official betrothed was her, and her Mikhail’s favorite was also her. It was true that she was being pushed aside, whether for cause or merit.
“Now tell me the truth. What do you want to do?”
“I like Mikhail. However, I like both of them. To the point where I don’t want to get away with it like this.”
The two were taken aback by Hestia’s sudden confession.
“That, me too. I like you.”
“Me too.”
“So I thought. Let’s just leave it like this.”
Lily couldn’t hide her embarrassment from her face. What the hell did she skip a few courses in the meantime?
“Leave it like this?”
“I mean, I won’t stop you two from trying hard to appeal to Mikhail. We don’t want to fight with each other.”
“And what if Mikhail chooses me?”
“It can’t be, can it?”
Hestia tilted her head at Lily’s words. It made Lily feel even worse. I don’t know if she’d rather have laughed or been angry, but her behavior just now seemed so innocent that she didn’t understand Lily’s question. No matter what, she seemed convinced that Mikhail would never betray Hestia herself.
“Well, after you get married… ?”
“Well, I’ll leave it up to Mikhail’s choice. What I wanted to say was that I’m Mikhail’s chief, so let’s not fight for nothing, and if we keep that, I won’t stop you from doing anything.”
Cordelia thought. With this, I have nothing to lose, right? In the first place, she was the one who had no intention of overtaking Hestia and taking the position of her vassal. She only got her affair, which she was trying to commit secretly, recognized by the official. Is it an affair that happens with recognition in the first place? Put the problem aside for a moment.
Lily didn’t want to turn down Hestia’s offer either. It was because she didn’t want to fight or distance herself from the other two, aside from the fact that she was going back to her original world, or the weird bet she had with him before.
Well, that’s it, and to be honest, I felt a little bit afraid of Hestia, who casually brings up such a story.
“Then I assume everyone agrees. Shall we tell you a new story?”
“A new story?”
“We seized such a good opportunity.”
Hestia started talking on a new topic.
“We kind of um… To commemorate the signing of the agreement, set a period and make some concessions to each other.”
According to her words, Cordelia is at Cordelia’s house this week, Hestia is at Hestia’s house for the next week, and Lily is left naturally for the last week. It was to make some concessions during the fixed period.
“I like us, but why is Ms. Hestia doing that?”
Lily asked. True to her words, Hestia had no reason to give this opportunity. If she stays anyway, most of her time will go back to her.
“I want to give you a chance. It’s like saying it with my own mouth, but Mikhail likes me a little too much. I think if we didn’t have something like this, every promise we made would be the same.”
Hestia herself was in denial, but she also had a sense of enjoying a kind of thrill. This is a tightrope with her trust in Mikhail as a safeguard.
From Hestia’s words, both Lily and Cordelia felt confident that no matter what the two of them did, they would not be able to defeat them. To be honest, I was very embarrassed by that certainty without a single doubt,
“Do you like it?”
“No.”
“No.”
To be honest, I didn’t want to turn down this offer.
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