82 – Summer Vacation – 15
“Oh Cordelia, I just wanted to ask you something.”
Cordelia froze at Mikhail’s voice. He radiated the sweltering warmth characteristic of someone who had just come out of a bath. He talked to Cordelia as if it was a good meeting.
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Michael didn’t know, but it wasn’t exactly a coincidence at the right time, but Cordelia was looking for him. That’s why I froze in surprise when he spoke to me first.
Befitting Cordelia, who is shy in strange parts, she hesitated before telling her why she had been looking for him.
Cordelia pretended to be as nonchalant as possible and answered in a calm voice as if they had met by chance.
“Are you going to ask?”
Cordelia found him for no particular reason, but because of the promise she made on the first day of the festival. He asked if it was a pity that he couldn’t finish dancing, and on the last day he made a promise to light a small bonfire and dance until he got tired of it.
Cordelia, who firmly believed in the promise, was upset when Mikhail went to wash her face without saying anything, even though it was the last day as promised. Mikhail was thinking about the promise, just like Mikhail, but he was thinking about it only for a little while before going to bed, not like Cordelia, who was thinking about the crazy dance party from the early evening until just before bedtime. In the end, the thoughts of the two diverged.
Anyway, Cordelia hid her heartache and focused on Mikhail’s words.
“Isn’t there something I’m saying with respect?”
“Yes.”
“Are you uncomfortable?”
Cordelia’s brain stopped momentarily. A question came up that she hadn’t expected at all. Honorifics, what kind of nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden? She asked the reason for the question with a creaky gesture.
“Why all of a sudden?”
“No, not for any particular reason. That, the duke….”
“Dad what?! Did you say something strange again?”
Cordelia jumped up when the name of Duke Deneb came out of Mikhail’s mouth. She was not alone in her displeasure with her own father, who had been trying to entangle himself with her Mikhail without face for a week.
She wouldn’t listen no matter how much she told me to take care of it. To be perfectly honest, she didn’t feel too bad, but what she didn’t like was what she didn’t like. As befits her stubbornness in strange places, she wanted to win her love with her own strength. Besides, it was more embarrassing than I thought that her parents would constantly interfere with her love life.
Not even the Duke of Deneb did that. If the Duke put pressure on Mikhail in all directions, the Duchess would call Cordelia every night and give her special lectures on love.
“Cordelia, okay? Men find it attractive when a woman sometimes shows a 180-degree change from her usual appearance.”
“Is it effective?”
“Why would your father have a crush on me? I still don’t have that common mistress.”
“No, in the first place, my mother must have only met her father as a man.”
The Duchess laughed at Cordelia’s words.
“You have to see for yourself how many men lined up to dance with this mother at every prom.”
Despite the true meaning of the Duchess’ words, Cordelia was a pretty good student. It’s not because of her performance, but in the sense that her learning attitude is good.
“But Mom, why are you suddenly teaching me this?”
“Oh my, this one. Since your engagement has been cancelled, shouldn’t you go and pick it up quickly if there’s a decent guy at the academy?”
She said this, but Cordelia noticed that she had Mikhail in mind. She grumbled that Cordelia would take care of herself, but she couldn’t deny that her mother’s advice had been of great help, even if she didn’t know her father.
Actually when she shows a little different look than usual, like when she did her dance on her first day even though she ended up in a mess. Cordelia felt that the look in Mikhail’s eyes was a little different than usual.
To Cordelia, it wasn’t the kind of look you’d call falling in love yet, but it was different from her usual look at a simple friend.
While Cordelia was thinking to herself for a while, Mikhail’s answer came back.
“It’s not even that strange… , I asked if Cordelia was uncomfortable.”
“Are you uncomfortable?”
“No.”
“Then what does it matter?”
I was a bit surprised just now, but that was because it was a very unexpected question. The content of the question itself was nothing to worry about. What is this issue to worry about? Cordelia, frankly, had no idea what her title was. The important thing is that it’s not a trivial thing, whether it’s respectful or half-hearted. On the contrary, she was taken aback when Mikhail made her come out so cheerfully.
“No, that…. Didn’t she prefer honorifics before?”
“Before?”
“Isn’t it when you fought with me?”
As soon as Cordelia heard Mikhail’s words, her face blushed. God, what did she say? Then, is it because of what happened back then that she insisted on using honorifics? She struggled with shame. It was because you in your delusion used honorifics, because you couldn’t say it even if your mouth was torn.
“Ah, ah, ah! That! No, not really…. Just, uh… , Nothing.”
“Is that so? Then is it okay for me to do whatever is convenient for me?”
“Yes.”
Cordelia nodded her head, and as if Mikhail had been waiting for her, she poured out her short words.
“Then I’ll do it in short. I am more comfortable with this.”
“Looks like you waited.”
Her delusion of having a secret tryst with Mikhail, which was embarrassing to even mention, had long since been abandoned anyway. When she was caught by Hestia, it was not easy for her to have such a delusion. The delusion was different from the reality, and the guilt was greater than the sense of immorality.
But she had no intention of giving up on Mikhail. In the end, this guilt was strangely justified by saying that it didn’t matter as long as the relationship was officially recognized by Hestia. This way of thinking was further strengthened by the fact that Hestia really admitted that she would not care what Seola and Cordelia did.
In the end, the important thing was that Cordelia didn’t care at all whether Mikhail used honorifics or rude words.
Cordelia put aside the issue of titles that were not particularly important, and she waited for Mikhail to come next. However, no matter how long he waited, Mikhail only blinked his eyes without asking any further questions.
“Is that the end?”
“It’s over.”
Cordelia was going mad and about to jump. Could it be that she forgot in that atmosphere that she had promised to dance? Nonsense. You speak so kindly? If I say this first, wouldn’t it look like something I’ve been waiting for? In the end, she couldn’t stand her, and asked if she had anything more to ask, and looked at him.
“Mikhail, do you have anything else to say?”
“Let me tell you…. Ah.”
As if he just remembered Mikhail, he opened his mouth.
That’s right. You remembered! Cordelia’s nerves turned to his voice.
“I think I will have to leave early tomorrow morning, so I will sleep in tonight…” , What is it, where are you going?”
“Huh.”
Before Cordelia could finish what Mikhail said, she just turned around. She tried her best to let out a snort, pretending to be upset, but in fact she looked like she was on the verge of tears.
‘Bad bastard…. Only me every day….’
She gritted her teeth and held back the cry that seemed to leak out at any moment. Everything was meaningless and stupid. She knew that Mikhail did not see her as the opposite s*x ‘yet’. Still, I didn’t know that I’d completely forgotten even the promise we made together.
He felt so miserable that even the moment when he did his best not to let his pounding heart be seen, it was just empty words and an innocuous scene to him.
Of course, if Mikhail knew this, she would have been dumbfounded, asking what the hell she was talking about, but she had no way to know that, as she had already entered the misfortune heroine mode.
Cordelia lifted her head and ran down the hallway, trying to swallow her welling tears.
“No, I was going to ask you to do the dance we promised at the time.”
When she left, Mikhail’s empty monologue lingered.
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“Stop, stop, stop.”
“Miss Cordelia is also Miss Cordelia. Then, if I see her coming to Hestia with me, I should say that her tendons are thick.”
Hestia slowly stroked the head of Cordelia, who was crying profusely. Seol-ah stood next to her and said a word as if the sight was absurd. The biggest reason for Hestia is that Mikhail came to me saying that he was miserable because he didn’t seem to look at him at all. Hestia laughed bitterly at Seol-ah’s words.
“I don’t think Miss Cordelia was such a teary-eyed person.”
“Really? I thought I cried often. I don’t think I’ve cried this often before.”
In Seol-ah’s eyes, Cordelia was the owner of a child-like pure sensibility, and she laughed and cried well. Hestia shook her head at Seol-ah’s words.
“I think it used to be the opposite of now. I cried often, and I depended on Miss Cordelia a lot.”
“Really?”
Seol-ah gave a look of surprise. I don’t know what the relationship was like in the past, but Hestia, who cries often, and Cordelia, who is reliable. I couldn’t imagine it as it is now.
“Right. Sniff. Hestia used to cry often.”
“Have you all cried now?”
“Yes. Big!”
Cordelia interjected, sniffing her nose. After she cried a lot, she felt that her resentment had subsided a little.
“Then why now….”
“Because the person who was the biggest cause of my tears became the person who supported me.”
Hestia answered Seol-ah’s careful question without hesitation. Cordelia and Seol-ah’s eyes became sullen. If we leave it as it is, we will have to listen to her endless bragging about Mikhail. Cordelia and Seol-ah quickly exchanged glances. After several communications went back and forth between the two, Cordelia stepped in.
“Anyway, I am very disappointed in Mikhail.”
“You still like it, right?”
“Yes.”
Cordelia didn’t say anything at Seola’s mischievous question, and her face blushed. In fact, the reason why she cried so sadly was because she resented her foolish self for not being able to give up her feelings for Mikhail even after being treated this way, although it only stood in her imagination.
But no matter what, she throws her body to save herself this time, injures herself, even carries herself on her back with her body, and even whispers such kind words to her.
“By the way, this is strange. She’s not one of those empty talkers Mikhail wouldn’t even keep. Maybe she was a little misunderstood.”
“Is that so?”
Cordelia jumped up at Hestia’s words. If her tail was on, she probably would have been wagging wildly.
‘No matter how easy it is, isn’t it?’
Seola thought. As soon as she heard that Mikhail might not have forgotten the truth, she looked so happy that she didn’t know what to do.
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“Miss Cordelia? Are you there?”
“Uh. Why?”
“That, Archduke Sirius called me to come out to the courtyard for a moment.”
“Really? Tell her she’s leaving right now!”
The timing was as if he was listening to the three of them talking. At the sound of Michael’s call, Cordelia ran away at such a speed that she couldn’t even see her feet. Her friends, who had been comforting her until now, seemed to be nowhere to be seen.
‘Honestly, I’m envious.’
Seol-ah sighed as she thought of her turn, which was two weeks away.
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