Chapter 233 [Love Triangle Battle (2)]
The expression of the young lady who was happily chatting with Ethan across the table quickly hardened. It didn’t take long for her to notice the drink poured on top of her head.
“Kya, kyaaaaa?!”
The unnamed young lady, belatedly sensing the sticky liquid flowing on her face, stood up covering her head with her palms. However, a sharp alcohol scent was already wafting from her crown.
“Li, Lilith…?”
And Ethan was also flustered by my actions, his pupils trembling.
He, too, seemed bewildered by my behavior, which differed from the original plan of me chasing away the young lady who approached him unknowingly and starting an argument with Ethan.
‘It might be a bit different from the original plan, but I guess I’ll just go with this.’
At the point where I had already poured the drink in my hand over the young lady’s head, it became impossible to chase her away ‘moderately’. The only fortunate thing was that I poured white wine instead of red wine, so her clothes weren’t dirtied, I guess?
Thinking that I couldn’t handle it if I poured the remaining red wine glass too, I just drank the contents of the other glass.
‘Somehow it seems oddly orange for a red wine… but it’s probably similar enough.’
So, holding an empty glass in each hand, the unnamed young lady with alcohol poured on her head glared at me… ah, it’s annoying, so I’ll just call her the white wine lady from now on.
Anyway, the white wine lady, emitting a smell of white wine from her crown, glared at me and shot back in a sharp voice.
“Wh-what are you doing?!”
“What.”
“……What, you say?”
“Oh, you heard well.”
Until just now, I had only been looking at the side profile of the white wine lady, but facing her head-on, the pig intestines she had tried to shove at Ethan earlier stood out even more on her face. [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]
Fucking bitch. Even if I set the stage for you to seduce, you should have kept some boundaries. How dare you try to put your saliva on someone else’s property.
No, Ethan isn’t my property, but anyway.
‘Why is my head so hot… Is it because of the alcohol…?’
Even so, Lilith’s body shouldn’t be as weak to alcohol as Agnes’s or Natalie’s. No matter how strong the wine is, it’s all the same, and there’s no wine strong enough to get drunk on just one glass.
But was there such a strong wine among wines? I couldn’t see the name of the alcohol when I casually brought it earlier, but I think there was something written about a brand or something.
Anyway, thinking that I couldn’t have gotten drunk because of the wine, I roughly wiped my mouth and met eyes with the white wine lady in front of me. After all, to start a full-fledged love triangle battle with Ethan, I had to drive this lady away first.
“Wh-what kind of rudeness is this?! H-how can you be so brazen after pouring a drink on someone’s head…!”
“Ah, sorry. My hand slipped by mistake.”
“B-By mistake?! You call that a mistake?!”
“Yes, a mistake. Just like it was a mistake for you to shove your pig asshole-like lips at Ed, this was a mistake too. Right?”
“Pig ass… Ha-have you finished talking?!”
Why do noble women’s arguments always have the same repertoire wherever you go? I almost yawned at the outdated expression I had expected.
Still, my original plan to spread rumors about the discord between Ethan and me was going well in any direction. The gazes gathering on me in this commotion could be felt from all directions without even having to turn my head.
I felt sorry for the white wine bitch who unintentionally became a sacrificial lamb, but since she made a move on Ethan first, it was ultimately her own karma.
“Shut your mouth. The pig shit smell is overwhelming.”
“Don’t slander me! F-first of all, why have you been using such foul language from earlier?! How can you call someone sh… poop mouth! Aren’t you ashamed as a noble young lady who doesn’t even keep basic manners?!”
“Then, is it polite to babble about whose breasts are firmer to a man who clearly belongs to someone else?”
“…Ha! So you didn’t even know the kind of place this exchange meeting was from the beginning! Well, with that dirty personality, I guess that’s why your fiancé showed his face at such an exchange meeting.”
I actually DO know. I’m well aware that in this exchange meeting, which is blatantly made for the one-night stands of these somewhat lacking noble men and women, being a bit vulgar is more attractive when it comes to seducing the other party.
Saying things like “I’m surprisingly amazing when I take off my dress” in front of a man you like, or a young nobleman saying “I’m good at horseback riding, and I can ride a horse for six hours a day” in front of a young lady, was the extent of toned-down ways to appeal one’s charm. Some even more excessive bastards, like that woman just now, would even offer their bodies upfront.
In that sense, the actions of that white wine bitch towards Ethan weren’t particularly unacceptable at the exchange meeting, but that wasn’t really the reason I got angry in the first place. [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]
I was planning to let her seduce Ethan to some extent for the sake of the plan, but that mouth…
She just had to shove it at Ethan, that fucking bitch.
…For some reason, my head isn’t clearing up. Maybe I’m too excited from getting too immersed.
“I understand why Young Master Blackwood would get tired of a woman like you. What’s the use of being pretty and having big breasts? Your manners and personality, which a noble young lady should have above all, are a mess. From what I hear, the Rosewood family is barely a baroness family, it’s laughable that a mere baroness’s daughter is pretending to be the fiancée of the Blackwood Ducal family…”
Crash!
“Kyaaaaaah?!”
“Ah, sorry. I didn’t hear that. Can you babble that again? As you said, I’m from a family without roots and haven’t learned manners, so I can’t control my emotions well, you know?”
The white wine lady, startled by the broken glass right below her feet, took a slight step back, and I still had one more empty glass in my hand.
“So, why did you try to touch another woman’s man’s lips? If you had just done it moderately and left, I wouldn’t have gone this far. Why did you put that dirty fucking mouth on my…”
“Ha, d-do you think anyone would be intimidated by this?! And I don’t understand why Young Master Blackwood’s lips are yours! It seems you’ve managed to hide that violent personality well until now, but now there are so many people here to prove your ill-mannered character! Perhaps Young Master Blackwood will use this opportunity to break off the engagement with you…”
“You’re asking why Ed’s lips are mine? Want me to show you why?”
Grab!
“Mmph?!”
Finally responding to the drunk woman’s request to show whose lips Ethan belonged to, I pulled Ethan’s body towards me and blatantly overlapped our lips right in front of the drunk woman.
Smooch, smooch.
“Mmph, slurp, mmph…”
Fearing she might claim it was just a peck if our lips only touched briefly, I engaged in an intense kiss, openly intertwining our tongues.
I swallowed Ethan’s lips with mine, licked his lips with the tip of my tongue, and exchanged saliva and breath that had gathered in our mouths in an explicit kiss.
Fortunately, Ethan seemed to understand my intention and was actively embracing my body and wrapping his lips around mine, so I could see from the corner of my eye that the young lady’s expression was hardening in real time.
After about a minute of this demonstration, the chattering drunk woman fell silent, and Ethan’s lips and mine were moistened with sticky saliva.
“Lili, it smells a bit strong. Was what you just drank not wine but bran…”
“There, you saw it? Now you know whose lips Ed’s belong to.”
“……”
“If you understood, get lost right now. If you shove that asshole-like mouth at Ed one more time, I’ll make you eat pig shit.”
The young lady, who had frozen with a bewildered expression, hurriedly came to her senses and moved away from Ethan and me as if running away.
“F-fine! If I talk to a violent woman like you any longer, even my manners will be questioned! G-go ahead and lick or suck each other for the rest of your lives!!”
“Wha, what…”
Lick or suck each other for the rest of our lives…? Did she really just say that?
Maybe she wasn’t such a bad person after all? I might have done something a bit harsh to someone who didn’t know the situation. Still, she seems like a nice girl for a non-virgin.
As the unnamed young lady disappeared with some incomprehensible words of blessing, I immediately felt all sorts of gazes gathering around Ethan and me.
‘…Ah, right, the plan.’
Although it had changed a little… no, completely deviated from the original plan, I had somehow succeeded in drawing attention and causing eyes to focus on us. My impulsive actions had caused more of a commotion than planned, but as long as the result was good, it was all fine.
Now, if Ethan and I could act out a love triangle battle in this state and I could become temporarily isolated, all preparations would be complete…
“……”
“Lili?”
“……”
“Your face is red, are you perhaps drunk…”
Swish! [Only on Galaxy Translations! / Axiomatic]
“D-don’t come closer!”
Fuck. Why is this suddenly happening?
It was already hard to think straight after downing that glass of wine earlier, and suddenly having Ethan’s face thrust in front of me was very flustering.
‘Maybe it’s because we just kissed, but it feels even more…’
Although it was to prove my relationship with Ethan to the white wine lady, perhaps doing such a blatant kiss was a bit of an overreach.
No, to be honest, I didn’t really care how it looked to other people. I was just embarrassed to face Ethan for various reasons.
But I had no choice, right? She was the one who first tried to shove her lips at Ethan as she pleased, so I couldn’t just sit there and endure it.
It was also a crisis situation where I might have suddenly lost Ethan’s lips to a woman whose name I didn’t even know and who might not have even existed in the game…
“……Ah.”
Right, that’s it. Come to think of it, I had something to say to Ethan.
My flushed face cooled down as if hit by cold air, and my cleared mind analyzed the accident that almost happened in that situation just now.
“Ed.”
“Yes, Lili.”
“Just a moment, I want to ask you something.”
“…What is it?”
“Earlier, when that lady tried to shove her lips at you while I was gone…”
“……Yes.”
“……Why didn’t you avoid it and just stood still?”
I wasn’t really asking because I was curious.
I just thought that starting with this conversation might be better for plausibly instigating discord between Ethan and me than the topic we had planned beforehand.
“Lili? What are you suddenly saying…”
“…Answer me seriously, Ed.”
It was just, only that kind of question.
T/N
Hello! Axiomatic here.
What the hell is Lilith doing now?!?! She is off the chain…
Also, I don’t really drink often, so I looked it up and found out that brandy is 35-60% ABV.
That’s really strong.
See you in a bit for the bonus chapter!