NOVEL NEXT chapter 11
3. Before the start begins – 05
“…Do you mean that Count Cernard sent a document that they want to cancel Sarah’s engagement to me? That is quite surprising.”
It was a pretty surprising fact. So, about the fact that Sara and I broke up our engagement 5 years earlier.
To my great regret, I had no feelings about the fact that my engagement to Sarah might break. In fact, it was even more strange if I said I felt different. It’s been 5 years since it’s been a long time since I’ve been in the middle of a long time, but wouldn’t it be funny to make a fuss now? Now, in this place, I was not a child who was swayed by my own emotions. In other words, the current Cain von Estel was a seasoned regressor who had gone through all of the prenatal battles over a period of 10 years.
“Well, if you want to break off the engagement, wouldn’t it be okay to accept it? There’s not even one woman in the world, Sarah, so I don’t think there’s any reason for us to cling to it.”
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My father’s face started to grow a little strange at my answer.
“…Well, you’re quite determined. I thought that if you were the usual you, you wouldn’t know what to do and would maintain an indecisive attitude.”
“It’s true that I’m an indecisive person, but I’m not a pathetic person to the point of clinging to people saying they hate us.”
At my firm answer, my father sighed and burst into laughter.
“You speak very fluently. In the few days I haven’t seen you, my mouth has become very liquid. I heard that the cause of this breakup was entirely on you, but I have no idea where the hell your dignified attitude came from. .”
“…what the hell are you talking about?”
“You think I have no ears to hear?”
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My father raised the corner of his mouth to one side and gave me a mysterious smile.
“I heard everything. Sarah came to this place, and it wasn’t enough that she was greeted on the bed, but she was accompanied by another woman on the bed? I’m really curious to see what you think.”
“…..”
I have nothing to say. Honestly, if I’m making excuses here, I just have a hunch that I’m really going to be a son of a bitch. No matter what anyone said, Arya was lying on my bed, and Sarah’s witness to it was inexcusable.
“To begin with, the situation is completely misunderstood. Arya and I have no relationship whatsoever. In the first place, I’m not crazy enough to face my fiancee with another woman in bed.”
At my excuse, my father raised his eyebrows upward.
“Wait, who the hell is Arya?”
“…the explanation will be quite long.”
Saying that, I told my father what had happened on the day I returned to the past without adding or subtracting an inch. That day, when I woke up, a mysterious white-haired woman was lying on my bed. It’s really funny, but that the woman was suffering from amnesia, and Sarah witnessed it by chance. As it turned out, she was a woman with a natural talent for magic, so she didn’t instinctively use magic to hide in my room. It was revealed without hesitation.
“It’s a really funny story. It even feels a little bit nasty.”
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My father’s first words after hearing all of my words were just like that.
“But I don’t think it’s an excuse. It’s too porous to be called an excuse, and it feels ridiculously contrived. If you’re really going to lie, why don’t you come up with a perfect excuse?”
The look of my father who shrugged his shoulders and said that seemed to really believe my explanation. It hurt my heart a little to see my words trusted with inference about the situation, not faith in father and son.
“Well, it would be fun to question you like this, but let’s put that aside for now. I didn’t bring you here to talk about it.”
The face of the father who had been talking like that changed to a serious expression in an instant.
“I will ask you one last time. Are you confident that you will not regret your engagement to Sarah, even if it ends like this?”
At first glance, it sounds like a threat, but I rather smile and smile.
“Didn’t I tell you? I mean, I don’t want to cling to that place now.”
It was a long time ago that the lingering attachment to Sarah had already been burnt to black five years ago.
“…hmm.”
“The fact that Count Sernard sent such a document proudly must be proof that the other side also made their own calculations. I don’t like the fact that I sent a letter like this without any discussion with you in the first place. Engagement between families is not child’s play, and the fact that they unilaterally announce the breakup just because one case has been caught seems to show their true intentions.”
“Inside?”
“I don’t even know what they’re really thinking about. But isn’t an engagement between families something that can be easily decided and broken off? It even makes me think that their intentions weren’t in my engagement to Sara in the first place.”
“…umm.”
At my words, my father only lets out a groan, but does not say anything. It was a random statement to convince my father, but as I spoke, it somehow felt like a plausible explanation.
Five years from now, even when I broke off the engagement with Sarah, Count Sernard and Sarah did not show any reaction. He didn’t show any excitement about breaking up. As if, from the beginning, engagement with me was not a consideration for them.
Even if they didn’t know it, it was clear that the Count Cernard family also had an ulterior motive, contrary to what it seemed from the outside. If so, it would be the right decision to tie the knot at this opportunity rather than trying to force the engagement and dragging it along.
“…You seem to be quite determined. Well, you’re right. Actually, this document isn’t really sent to promote your marriage breakup. I’m angry at your behavior to the point of pushing for you and Sara’s breakup. It’s a notification from Count Sernard’s own way to say that it happened. However, it seems that it’s also true that they have no regrets about their engagement, enough to send a formal complaint like this to a misunderstanding between a man and a woman. It seems to me that their behavior is the breakup of your and Sarah’s marriage. “
After sighing for a moment, the father looked at the carefully folded letter in his hand for a moment.
Jjiik-
The letter was torn in two without any regrets. It couldn’t have been a bolder and prouder attitude.
“Okay. You said your decision was right, but there’s no need to have any regrets anywhere. I liked Sarah, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I’ll be dragged around by them as a daughter-in-law. The Duke of Estelle is such a pig. I will clearly show the world that I am not a weak family that is dragged around by pups.”
At the same time as the shredded letter fluttered quietly on the floor, my father lifted the overcoat that had been draped over the chair and looked straight at me.
“So you should prepare too. I’m planning to go straight to the island and have an audience with His Majesty the Emperor. I had something to tell you anyway, and I think it would be fine to take this opportunity to share the story of you and Sara’s breakup.”
“…Yes? What?”
“Did your ears get clogged? You said you were going up to Jedo. To explain to His Majesty about the marriage breakup.”
“Why do you say you’re telling His Majesty the trivial details of me and Sara’s breakup?”
“A trivial story? You’re saying all sorts of funny things.”
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My father looks at me blankly, as if looking at something stupid.
“Did you really think that His Majesty had nothing to do with the engagement of the heir to the 4th duchy of the empire? It seems that His Majesty was also secretly involved in this engagement. That is why we must report to His Majesty after the fact. Other than that, there are various reasons why I can’t talk to you, so don’t talk and follow me.”
Unfortunately, my father’s explanation didn’t reach me very much. Because at this moment, there was only one element filling my head.
The only enemy of the current imperial family. Princess Iris el Devhard.
One of the existing masters of the empire, and at the same time a woman who claims to be my swordsmanship teacher in the future.
The damn woman who drove me to hell in the name of ‘training’, and occupies a position that is tantamount to a devil for me.
It turned my insides upside down throughout the expedition, and after returning, I was faced with an unprecedented crisis that I might face the woman I swore never to face again for the rest of my life.