Chapter 34 – I Won’t Stop Them From Coming but No Reunions (1)
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Today has been an extremely long day.
There was one more big schedule in the afternoon.
After leaving the palace in a carriage provided by the queen, I headed straight for Rapone Street.
Last Sunday.
Ashley was waiting for me when I returned home from the adventure.
“Honey… I miss you.”
“Hello lady. Long time no see. What happened to our house… ?”
“Go, why are you suddenly using honorifics? Are you trying to draw a line while treating others?”
“The day I filed for divorce and left the court. At that time, the young lady told me to treat her according to her status.”
“Ha, don’t! I must have been crazy! Treat me as usual! Please!”
I put the luggage I was carrying on the living room floor and unfastened the button that was fastening my neck.
“Why are you here?”
“You said it in the letter. Tomorrow there is a party to officially announce that our family is freed from the curse. On the spot, I will reveal all the details of how devoted you have been to lifting the curse on our family. So that you don’t feel unfair.”
“Do I have to go?”
“You must come. In fact, it’s like a seat for you, not our family.”
In this world, it takes years to spread a single news.
Even if they live in the same royal capital, there are many cases in which they receive news from several months late.
There are probably still people who believe that I was defeated by Vera.
People who think they’re still lame.
Because of this, I had to find a place like a social gathering or a large event and spread it to people.
It’s hard to find the Lafone family again, but I have a good relationship with Heirger, the head of the house, and I thought that I should just participate in the event to correct false rumors and enjoy the glory.
“Okay. I’ll go.”
So the present.
The wagon in which I was riding rode vigorously along Lafone Street.
***
“Please come again next time!”
“Yes! Take care!”
“Take care!”
“Good bye.”
Late afternoon.
Sophia left her clothing store with her daughters.
It was a family shopping trip after all.
“Mom. Aren’t the underwear you just bought too hot? Why buy red?”
She asked as her 18-year-old daughter walked arm in arm with her mother.
Sofia’s eldest daughter, Selma, was born when she was 17 years old.
She was a child with excellent cooking skills, enough to become a restaurant chef at a young age.
“What’s up? Mom should have at least one underwear like this.”
“Do you have a boyfriend?”
“Boy friend? Hey boy, where’s your mom’s time to get a boyfriend? I always go back and forth between home, guild, home, and guild to work.”
Interrupted as her second daughter, Susan, followed.
“Mom. If you get a boyfriend, don’t ever bring him home. If you’re going to live together, go out and live.”
Her second daughter, Susan, is 17 this year.
She is looking everywhere for a job these days.
She was living a part-time job cleaning the corpses of her widows.
“You guys, go out and bring one man at a time. It was a big deal because there were no men in the family, and it seemed like you guys were becoming bosses. How do you behave like a man and get married?”
“Since there are no men, we do the nailing and carrying the heavy loads.”
“You have to have money to get married.”
“Uh? Look at that mom!”
A mansion located in downtown.
A number of carriages were lined up in front of the gate.
The surrounding streets were also crowded with people dressed in fancy clothes.
Selma and Susan stopped and exclaimed.
“There must be a party today.”
“I envy you. I want to go to a place like that too.”
Sophia, along with her daughters, stared blankly toward her front door.
Suddenly, a person popped into her mind.
‘This is Rapone. The house where his ex-wife lives… ‘
In an instant, the surroundings became noisy.
A splendid carriage was entering while receiving the fervent gaze of the people.
“And… ! Aquinas is here too!”
“This is Aquinas!”
“Congratulations on the 2nd place mentioned by the queen last week!”
Adventure Empress Aquinas.
Until the reappearance of Naru, the most popular hero in the kingdom!
The great person had attended the party of the Lafone family.
When a celebrity appeared, the aristocrats became even more excited.
“Today’s party must be fun!”
“I will definitely talk to Aquinas!”
Unlike other carriages that have to wait in line, Aquinas’s carriage passes through the front door quickly.
Aquinas, in an evening dress clinging to his body, was sitting with his legs crossed, showing off his beautiful legs.
“… A moment ago. I was a little shocked Doing a ceremony with the queen.”
A middle-aged gentleman sitting diagonally across from her low words let out a short sigh.
“I didn’t know that Naru would meet the queen so soon.”
“I guess I should have taken on the queen’s request too.”
“It’s a bit unfortunate, but in the current situation, it’s a bit like leaning completely toward the Queen, who is known to be ruthless. I couldn’t help it, even for reputation management. Because it is good to have a good image between good and evil as a hero from ancient times. In addition, rather than being friendly with any particular political force, it is good to be active as you do not get involved in political strife by treating both left and right equally and walking the path of neutrality.”
“Then, when the queen completely drives away the opposition to her and officially takes the throne as queen, we will be neither one nor the other. If that happens, the patronage of the nobles who came to me will slowly move to Gangnaroo one by one.”
During the last two years of Naru’s downfall, she has been treated as the ultimate hero.
Her honor, glory, and various benefits she enjoyed.
I didn’t want to miss anything.
‘In the world I live in, she’s already a queen.’
People shout in unison.
It’s called Aquinas, the Empress of Adventure.
However, Na-ru Kang, the fallen king, reappears and has been threatening the throne he has occupied for the past two years.
‘It’s annoying.’
The option of getting rid of him in a way like assassination was not considered at all.
Just like a hero, like an adventurer, and fair and square, I only have the will to trample on my skills.
‘Naru Kang.’
Aquinas let out an ambitious laugh.
Let’s stick together soon
I will accept the same request you will take on in the future.
And let’s compete.
Who is superior and faster.
“Im here.”
The carriage stopped.
Aquinas tidied up his elegant hair and waited for the door to open.
“Naru Kang didn’t come either, right? You were here before.”
“I’m divorced, would you like to come? The Rapone family will not come because they sponsored us.”
“Aha, I can tell by looking at the sponsorship. As a sponsor, you should take good care of it. I’m tired, but I have to go through these places. So that the sponsors are not upset.”
Soon the door opened and the butler of the Rapone family greeted Aquinas politely.
Elsewhere, Alicia’s gang in beautiful dresses strolled lightly through the garden.
Alicia and her two female students like her maids who hold her up.
“Oh, party, fancy party! For me, this fancy party suits me much better than the stuffy school life!”
“Because Alicia-sama shines the most at night.”
“I’m envious that you get attention wherever you go.”
Alicia headed for the hall where the banquet was being held with her bright smile on her face.
She exuded her youthful freshness, and men stared at her enchantedly as she and her friends passed by.
There was also a man looking back at her as she walked with her lover.
“Everybody eat a little bit of cake. Fatten up.”
“Oh, I’m craving cold set cheesecake today.”
“Remember that you have to go to the academy tomorrow too. Do you want to ruin your clothes with belly fat sticking out overnight?”
“It’s all here. Everyone, manage your facial expressions like a young lady.”
As I entered the hall with a high ceiling and a gorgeous chandelier, I heard sweet music and people talking.
Alicia grinned and picked up her drink from a passing servant’s tray.
“Do you like it.”
“After the important presentation of the Lafone family, there will be a ball where men and women dance, right?”
“Are we here to meet men? I just came to enjoy the atmosphere.”
“I am most excited when guys ask me to dance at a party.”
“Did you hear the big announcement from the Lafone family?”
“Well, I don’t know. When the time comes, you will find out.”
“I heard from my parents that I was freed from the curse.”
“The curse of the Lafone family? Not terrible I don’t know how to live without seeing rivers and seas all my life.”
Alicia happily lifted her glass and took a sip of her drink.
At the same time, the butler who was outside entered the hall, and she called out loudly that the building should leave.
“Lord Naru, son-in-law of the Rapone family, has arrived!”
Alicia’s eyes widened and her ears snapped open.
“Me, Lord Naru?! Coke! Coke! The naughty assistant professor? Coke!”
People who were crowded in the hall split into two sides and a path was made in the center.
Soon, a neatly dressed Naru appeared.
As he walked in, people smiled and looked at him with interest.
“Sir Naru! I saw the ceremony with the queen today! You are amazing!”
“Ohh, is Lord Naru here too? Didn’t you say you were divorced?”
“Look at your legs! You are walking properly!”
***
As expected.
I was very interested.
I can’t help it because Ashley and her divorce are in progress.
It’s a bit burdensome.
‘Let’s finish the event quickly and leave.’
Ashley, who was talking to her people in the distance, said that as soon as she heard that I had arrived, she grabbed the skirt of her voluminous dress with both her hands and ran quickly.
“Honey! I’m here?”
An infinitely kind smile, as if taking care of the West carefully.
What is honey
Suddenly, I remember her screaming like a bug.
The days when I endured all kinds of humiliation.
‘Marrying someone like you is the biggest mistake of my life! Don’t touch my body! Get out!’
Whoa.
As I return to the forgotten Lafone, bad memories from the past come to mind one after another.
“Thank you for coming.”
“Huh.”
“I’ve been thinking of you all day.”
“Okay?”
Ashley.
Don’t like it too much
I came today to officially declare that I will never reunite with the Rapones.
