I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

3. Before the start begins – 01

“Ummm…”

Eyes open. Consciousness rises upward. When I come to my senses, I realize that I am not lying on the ground, but in a room.

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Birds were chirping through the windows. A gust of wind comes through the window and brushes my forehead. It was a warm, warm spring breeze.

“…..”

raise your body The touch of the soft blanket runs down your body. Looking at it, he realizes that he is lying on a soft bed.

“…bed?”

For some reason, my head was pounding and I couldn’t make a normal decision. I involuntarily grab my head and examine the room in which I was lying.

“…ah.”

The composition of the room is simple. But at the same time, it was also quite luxurious. I could tell by touch that the bed I was lying on or the duvet cover were of high quality, and the rugs on the floor and the curtains hanging on the windows were lavishly embroidered with two-headed dragons flying in the sky. The two-headed dragon flying in the sky is the symbol of the Duke of Estelle.

“…..”

Overall, it was a very familiar room. No, it wasn’t just a familiar room, it was a room I knew well. Yes, that was natural too. Because this was the room I used until I became the head of the Estelle family.

“Is this my room?”

Scared to draw such a conclusion, I burst out laughing. It’s really nonsense. You can understand where I am in the world, but I know very well that the fact that I am lying in my room is really nonsense. Because my room, or rather, the nature of the Duchy of Estelle, was lost to history after colliding with Bianca’s magic.

“…Damn it, really.”

Looking back, it’s not a laughing matter at all. Bianca Because of that damn woman, the castle that had been in existence for a thousand years collapsed in an instant.

The witch has been subdued. After inserting the sword into the witch’s heart and confirming that she is dying, the winter that swept across the continent will now disappear. And, since the emperor and his superiors had spit it out, the honor of the Duke of Estelle, who had fallen to the ground, would be restored to its original state, and the deprived title would be restored.

But then what? The Duchy of Estelle itself, which I was supposed to rule over, had been shattered. No matter how many times he rolled his head around, he could not come up with any sharp measures to reestablish the duchy of Estelle.

But going to Bianca and holding her accountable for this situation is nonsense. Aside from the fact that Bianca’s sabotage was an accidental act inevitably caused by the battle, the difference in power between the two of us can only be described as vast.

While on the bed, thinking deeply about how to revive the Duchy of Estelle, he realized that a loud voice was coming from outside the door.

“… Mr. miss. no. The Little Duke hasn’t woken up from his bed yet…”

“…Okay, sister. My brother is still a patient. Without any notice in advance…”

“…wasn’t… his fiancée? Visiting the hospital while engaged…”

It was so far away that I could hear the words sparsely, but I could still make out what they were talking about. And if my predictions are correct, I have a hunch that the current visit must be an unpleasant situation for me. What should I do? Indeed, the moment I was contemplating what to say while looking at her face to face for the first time in a long time-

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“…Cain.”

But the next moment, I couldn’t help but stiffen my whole body as I looked at the face of the woman who entered the room without any message. While receiving a shock so intense that all the thoughts that had been in my head until now were blown away.

“…Sarah?”

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Sarah Cernard.

She is a woman who decorates a page of my youth and at the same time my first love.

And the woman who was my fiancee in the past.

Yeah, what are you hiding? I loved Sarah It was the first love of my life. Even though it was a political engagement, the fact that I loved Sarah was an unshakable fact. Well, at least that was until she unilaterally destroyed the engagement.

In fact, if only in terms of rank, Count Cernard’s family had a slight lack of a sense of being betrothed to a young prince of the Estel family. Count Sernard’s family had a short history of being newly incorporated into the nobility through commerce, while the Duke’s Estelle was a venerable family that had preserved their lineage for more than a thousand years since the founding of the empire.

But then what do you do? Count Sernard was one of the most wealthy families in the Empire, and the Duke of Estelle was one of the most miserable families in the Empire. Thus, a strategic betrothal relationship was established. The Countess of Sernard is for their ‘rank’, and the Duke of Estel is for their ‘wealth’.

And I couldn’t hide my joy when I heard the news that the engagement had been made with Sarah Cernard, the daughter of Count Cernard. It was because I wasn’t bold enough to keep a calm expression even after hearing the news that I was getting engaged to Lady Sernad, who was one of the most beautiful in the empire.

However, all those expectations were shattered after meeting her in person on the day of the engagement. Because Sarah didn’t show the slightest sign of liking me. It’s not that I’m good at reading women’s minds, so I was able to grasp that. It’s just that Sarah was looking at me with an expressionless face throughout the engagement ceremony. As if he was not interested in himself, who is currently engaged, let alone in me.

She always kept an expressionless face. No, to be precise, he didn’t show a single change in his face in front of me.

As the story progressed at this point, there was something I could realize even if I wasn’t aware of it.

Sarah Cernard doesn’t like Cain von Estel. No, I have no interest in Cain von Estel. For her, being engaged to me was a kind of duty. She had no interest in the human Cain von Estel, who was not to be betrothed to—

Eventually, the relationship between the two of us broke down. To be a little more precise, the engagement broke up first before it broke down. About five years ago from now, Count Sernard canceled my engagement to Sara and promoted her engagement to the Duke of Tournigen.

So she became a woman who left an indelible mark on my life, but at the same time she became a woman who would never appear again in my life. Yes, it’s really unbelievable, except for this moment where I’m in a situation where I feel like I’m back in the past.

“…Cain.”

I had never imagined that I would be reunited with her again in this way. To be honest, seeing her face to face just makes me feel uncomfortable. That’s what the world is like in the first place. If the man from the past and the woman from the past meet face to face again, all that remains is a mess.

“Cain!”

I was able to come to my senses only when I heard her voice calling my name. Her lapis lazuli-like blue eyes were staring straight at me. Her face is clearly younger than the last I remember of her. Only then could I be sure. I don’t know if this is a dream or a fantasy, but it seemed clear to me that I was currently in the past. It also seems to have been 10 years ago, when Sarah often visited the Duke of Estelle.

“…Were you sleeping? The sun is up in the sky, what the hell are you doing? Even if it’s just a formal engagement, you know for sure that I’m visiting the Duke of Estelle, but there’s no need to greet me on the bed. I think.”

“Sarah, that’s what you mean…”

“And what about that woman? Did you, by any chance, sleep with a woman? Even though I had a fiancée, did you not tolerate the bird and put another woman on the bed? Really?”

“…What?”

I instinctively looked around at Sarah’s incomprehensible words. there was. Next to me, I see a woman with white hair who is soundly asleep.

“…..”

“…Ugh.”

A white-haired woman who just tosses and turns on the bed, perhaps because the bed feels quite uncomfortable. Looking at the face of a woman I had seen many times, with a slightly different meaning from Sara, I felt familiar somehow, but rather, I felt a chill run down my back.

Not good. What the hell is this woman and why is she lying on the bed is the second question. What I have to prioritize right now is the fact that a mysterious white-haired woman is lying on my bed with Sarah in front of me.

So, although I know very well that I am not guilty of anything, if someone I don’t know sees it, there’s room for misunderstanding.

…yes, like-

“…Cain. I believed in you. Even though we’re like a shell that ended up getting engaged without even having a mediocre exchange, I thought that there was still a level of trust that we had to keep between each other. But looking today, It must have been a simple misunderstanding on my part. To you, it was just a story that the woman I was was an insignificant woman who would welcome other women lying on the bed.”

Seeing Sara frown at me even slightly, I cautiously open my mouth.

“Hey, Sara…”

“why?”

“Can I just say one thing?”

“What? An excuse for this situation?”

After saying that, Sarah snorted for a while, then looked at me with a cold sneer on her face.

“Okay. Let’s try it. Surely it’s not a banal excuse that you and her have never met each other?”

“…..”

I feel there is no point in telling the truth that this white-haired woman really is a woman I don’t know. It’s the first time I’ve ever felt that the world was so full of absurdities.

“Cain, I came here because I had something to say to you, but I guess today wasn’t the day. I’ll stop going back today. Oh, before that, there’s something I want to tell you.”

Sarah looks at me with an extremely cold gaze that has never been seen before and turns her head away from me.

“A man like you is the worst. Really.”

bang!

Saying that, Sarah slammed the door shut with a loud noise and left the place.

“… Damn it.”

I thought it would be better if it was a dream. All the unreasonable situations I’m going through right now are all.

It was the beginning of a shitty day that could be called the worst day of the week.