chapter 7
7 – no guess.(2)
“So, the lady’s fiancé, Prince Damian… Hmm? Lady? Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”
“Ah, ah?…I’m so happy. I’m so happy. Haley.”
The warm southern sunlight comes through the window of the wagon.
Along with him, Haley’s chatter made me laugh out loud. It was a scene that was repeated again after several decades in the past life that had returned once, but the news Hailey told me was enough to bring a smile to my lips.
“Lady. Do you know that you’ve been a bit strange these days? When you first heard about the engagement in the castle, you had a blank face, but now you have a happy expression like a person who has reached the world. Are you not sick by any chance?”
“No. I’m better than ever. You should be happy to marry such a good person.”
“I-I’m still engaged, ma’am.”
Haley rested her chin on my answer and said with a deliberately anxious face.
“Hmm… I guess Prince Damian said something good for no reason. Lady, you can’t be so nervous. They say people have to judge by looking at the real thing. Rumors may sound like a nice person, but the truth may be completely different! How can my lady be so naive?”
Haley’s needless worry began. Before, I think he kept giving me compliments from Damian at this time, but it was probably to reassure me, who was nervous at the time. Now that I’m showing a relaxed side of myself, on the contrary, I’m probably worried.
But I know now better than anyone else in the world that what Hailey fears won’t happen. Even though he was only far away from the nearest side, I had watched ‘him’, not Damian, for decades, so I guess I didn’t know his temperament.
Naturally, Elena recalled her past with him.
However, within a moment, it frowns and shakes its head, burying the memories that come to mind once again in the sea of memories.
There were definitely happy times and memories that Elena couldn’t replace with anything she fell for him, but whatever those memories were, in the end, it was a failed life.
Instead of being next to him, he jumped out of his own way and had him taken away by someone else, and at the end of several incidents, instead of entering the vacant seat next to him again, he had to let him go due to his own fault.
‘No, it was wrong from the beginning. So I just have to go back and start again.’
When he made his first return, he shouldn’t have identified him with the Damian he knew.
Even if it wasn’t so, he used all kinds of measures to get away from him, but to break the engagement with a punch at the first meeting was like throwing away the opportunity he was given himself.
If it wasn’t for that, if she hadn’t thought of him as Demian from the beginning, she would have been able to connect with him.
But now, unlike in the past, you don’t have to wander about your feelings, and you don’t want to leave him like before. The information I have and the relationship with him are different from the starting line where I stand with the other guys. Defeating here is something that cannot be achieved unless I run away myself like before.
‘Wait for Damian. There won’t be any more mistakes.’
He knows now what he is worried about.
He didn’t know that before, so he couldn’t understand why he was trying to get away from him, so he resented it, but now he knows what it is and realizes that this Elena Edelweiss is a woman who has the ability to put away everything that worries him.
He killed a god and even went against the principles of heaven. However, it is only about the deterrence of fate derived from the natural law. If you are aware of what it is, there is nothing to be a problem. Even if things go wrong, it’s just a matter of getting rid of the obstacles.
Now all you have to do is think in advance what kind of happy life you will live with him.
“Haley?”
“Yes? Miss, why are you calling me?’
“How many children would be good? After all, one is too few? Hmm… At least three? No, four would be enough?”
“Oh my God. What did I just hear?”
Elena, who speaks with a smile, and Haley, who looks tired of seeing her owner like that.
Afterwards, a serious family plan flowed from Elena’s mouth, and while Hailey listened to it calmly, she was just confused by the sense of difference felt on her skin, along with the question of whether it was the Elena she knew.
It was to the point where I wondered if the invitation from Count Krauss might have had a brainwashing spell cast on it.
While the two were talking like that, time passed and the carriage carrying the two arrived at Count Krause’s castle.
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Does the world look different if you change your mindset?
At first, the castle of the count family, which was just hateful, now feels like a friendly home to return to after a long time.
In the first life, it was a torture chamber where Damian gave him all sorts of scars, and in the second life, it was the house where ‘he’ stayed with his lover, and it was a space that gave both frustration and pain just by looking in the direction of this castle.
Isn’t it really funny that a place like that feels like home just because you’ve changed your mindset?
As in the past, I was guided and slowly walked towards the room where he was. It didn’t feel as tense as before. Rather, I felt relieved, as if I had found a place to belong.
Did you say that a house where someone lives has the body odor of the person living in that house? It was a castle that was too huge and inhabited by many people to simply call it a house, but even so, his traces were felt here and there.
As I followed his subtle scent, it was sure to be the same as the place the attendant was guiding me to. Being in front of the door to my room like that, I realized that my hands were shaking at some point.
‘Beyond this door lies the ‘he’ I know. Not Damian.’
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My body was reacting automatically to his body and presence, which I hadn’t felt in a long time. I hurriedly cover my laughing face with both hands to calm my excitement.
woo woo woo woo woo…
By taking several deep breaths, you can calm down your rapidly beating heart. He touched his loose face here and there and returned it to its original state, then looked at Hailey.
“Haley. How am I right now? There’s nothing strange about it, right?”
“The strangest thing right now is the young lady’s spirit… well, her face is as beautiful as usual!”
“It can’t just be beautiful! It has to be the best in the North, no, the best on the continent!”
Haley then said, covering her mouth with her hand, as if a little disgusted by my words.
“Eh. Miss. Aren’t you ashamed..? The lady is that pretty, but no matter how much you say it yourself…”
Because you told me this before!!!
I had no choice but to trim my hair a bit and signal to Haley that she was ready. Haley nodded at my signal and knocked a couple of times to let those inside know that I had arrived, then carefully opened the door.
Previously, as soon as he opened the door, he had lunged at him and punched him in the jaw. Thanks to that, we immediately broke off our marriage without even talking about it, but if so, how would he react if he went back to the original Elena Adelweiss normally?
When the door opens, black hair, like the darkness of the night, contrasts with her.
The person sitting in the chair was wearing a uniform with the family pattern engraved with gold thread on black fabric that matched the color of his hair. Obviously, even when the door was opened, it seemed to explode like a volcano, but at some point it was neatly captured and made him a noble nobleman.
His sharp, dragon-like eyes stared at me, and we soon met our eyes.
It is always a beautiful color to look at. When I saw Demian in the past, I didn’t think anything of it, but now I felt it as bright and warm as the sun floating in the sky.
How many minutes has it been since we met eyes? As if the time that seemed like an eternity to me was actually just an instant, less than a minute had passed on the clock on the wall.
He smiled softly at me.
Have you ever seen something like this before? Of course there were many He always gave her that face when he was with his lover. He never smiled at me like that, except for that one time before he died in my arms.
But now, that smile naturally turned toward me. This alone seemed to compensate for all the emotions and suffering I felt before returning.
Soon after, a soft voice came into my ears.
“Nice to meet you, Lady Edelweiss. I am Damian Krause, the eldest son of the Krause family.”
The moment I heard this with that smile, it felt like my heart stopped. The head has already given up on normal thinking. The head, which had been stripped of reason and only had instincts, continued to create imaginations filled only with my own desires. Fortunately, the intellect who had reached divine status prevented me from doing it with my body.
I can’t imagine how he would look at me if I revealed it without filtering.
However, one thing is certain, as the head, which is mixed with reason and desire, decides.
Now I was so happy with just a formal word he said to me.
Isn’t this a very easy woman? me.