Pretending to Be a Girlfriend？ 114

Chapter 114 – Letter (3)

The carriage arrived in town about night.

A familiar landscape greeted him.
Stachis worked for the Kingdom Guard, and there was no place he hadn’t toured around the city.

However, this time there was no warmth given by the familiar scenery.
Even this place, which seemed like home, felt awkward.
It was Starchis who wondered if everything was unfamiliar to him when the foothold he believed in was shaken.

He went straight to his inn without stopping anywhere else.
Meeting everyone was something that could have waited a little bit.

Without saying a word, he came into his inn where his quarters his were.
A familiar face welcomes him.

“Gosh! Bachelor! Where have you been!”

“…It’s been a while.”

“Do you know how surprised I was to disappear without a word?”

He showed a short smile and he too greeted her inn lady.
Excited to see you, the inn lady listed the events of the past with her rapid fire her.

“A lot of acquaintances came to visit! They come every day!”

“… Was it?”

He had a good idea of ​​who the people who would have come to visit him were.

“Okay! But since you keep saying no, you’re worried that something bad has happened to the bachelor?”

“… Sorry, haha. Did you really want to talk and go?”

He smiles dryly and accepts the inn lady’s words.
As he disappears, he affects people he never thought he would.

“No. A man can have a job. Ah! Those girls haven’t come yet today, so when they come later, you can tell them that the bachelor is here!”

“..No. Please say no.”

“Yes?”

The inn lady, who had been smiling, looked at the face of Starchis, who had calmed down a little.
As long as she had seen him, she could now read his emotions with ease.

“Please tell me that today is not the same. I will come to see you tomorrow.”

“..Oh~. Then… Will you?”

“Yes. I’m a bit tired today, but I’ll go up.”

“Wait before that!”

She caught Starchis trying to climb.
She wiped her hands on her apron, sprinted off somewhere, and returned with her stack of letters.

“This! These are all letters from the bachelor!”

It was a lot to look at.

“I’ve been piling it up for so long, but now I can give it to you.”

There seemed to be more than twenty barrels.
It hadn’t been 5 days since it disappeared, but it’s accumulated like that during that time.

“Yes? Please accept it quickly, bachelor.”

“Oh, sorry.”

Starchis was handed over the stacked letters in both hands.
Then she patted her on the back and moved her feet to her own inn at the words of her inn lady to go up to rest now.

Starchis felt comfortable only after entering the room.
The feeling of returning to your own space.

The letters are thrown randomly on the table.

At first glance, it seemed that Lily and Vien’s names were visible, but there was nothing urgent.
Rather, it took time to open it.
I knew my mood would plummet to the floor again.
It required mental preparation.

Besides, I wasn’t curious enough to read the whole thing right away,
I could have predicted what he was going to say.

He washed himself
I changed into clean clothes afterwards.

After a little room tidying and ventilation,
He got ready to read the letter.

As he got ready, he opened the letter as soon as he could get his hands on it.

It was from Lily.

A lot of things were written in the letter.
It was the letter he expected, such as writing even though he knew Starchis wasn’t home, and how much he had done wrong.

Afterwards, the three letters from Lily, the four letters from Vien, and the three letters from Russ that I opened all had the same feeling.

The only difference was how much more the letters were wet and smeared with tears.

“…Under.”

Starchis pushed away the emotions the letters gave.
It’s something we’ll talk about tomorrow anyway.
The words to be conveyed, conceived for a long time in the carriage at the previous inn,
Everything I was curious about was going to be asked tomorrow.

I couldn’t afford to waste my emotions now.

A few letters remained.

There was also a letter from Rose.

She felt sorry for her

The party members would have nothing to say even if they disappeared.
Rather, I would have been stabbed and sorry.

It wasn’t Rose.
She cut off contact with her even though she had done nothing wrong.

Of course, by arguing in front of Russ, Rose might also have been able to roughly predict what had happened, and why she hadn’t replied in the meantime.

Even so, it was a pity to disappear the next day without saying anything to the person you spent the night with.

What made him even more uncomfortable was
In Rose’s letter, which she opened, there was nothing to blame or upset about Starchis.

The first letter was to say hello.
You seemed angry the day before, but you’re okay,
Can you tell me what’s going on
Even so, I was happy to be able to share affection with you,
Maybe he was a little upset because he was banned from going out due to a night out.

The second letter, if you received the first letter well,
If it was not received due to a mistake, there were words that I wrote down these contents,
After that, there were words that conveyed his current condition.

The third was just worrying.
I don’t know if he’s getting the letters or not,
He said that he would like to work hard if he is watching.
He said that if he was feeling guilty about having a relationship with him by taking the aphrodisiac, then he was good so he shouldn’t feel guilty.

After checking the third letter, Stachis checks to see if there are any remaining letters from Rose.
Sure enough, the letter with the Nisty family crest on it remained.

Starchis froze as he opened the letter and read his sender.

It was Hiannisti.

It was written in a straight style.

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To Starches.

It’s me
I am sorry to write you this letter.
But you seem to have forgotten your promise to me.
…From a parent’s point of view, it doesn’t look nice for a child to stay out with a man they’re not dating.
Didn’t you promise to widen the distance?

I can’t see it anymore
Please don’t show yourself in front of my child from now on.
You know, but it’s not because I hate you.

It’s just that I don’t want to make my daughter sad.

Please, this is the last time.

– Hiannisti.

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“…Her.”

His heart His, which had been warmed by Rose’s letters Her, cools down.
Thinking back on that day, Hian couldn’t help but know.
Rose and he mingled until late at night, and as Starchis fell asleep while watching the rising sun, Rose had no choice but to return home late.

An Heian directly initiated it.
Do not repay kindness with enemies.
It wasn’t just Rose’s outings that set her limits.

Saying that he would watch Starchis’ actions of his, he put restrictions on him as well.

Stachis powerlessly took down Heian’s letter.
Will it end with Rose like this?
Too stupid.

It wasn’t as simple as a simple written letter.
If this happened, there was a high possibility that he would not be able to meet Rose.

I forgot she was friendly, but she is noble.

It was not normal to meet commoners so easily.

It was something I hadn’t even thought of.
If I had thought about it a little, I could have figured it out.
There was no room for him who already had a complicated head.

It was an intervention that came at just the right time.

Starchis’s resolve was not enough to go to see Hian.
It is absurd to ask to be able to interact as friends in the future.

Now he lacked the essential elements to stand in front of Hian.

…So all that was left was Starchis, who was a little more lonely, surrounded by letters.

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“Sit down.”

Starchis entered the base the next day and saw the faces of the party members.
Feeling familiar as if we met just yesterday
I also heard the awkwardness of seeing each other after a very long time.

His mind his was complicated.
His body was calm, but there were too many thoughts shaking his head.

Starchis had to unravel everything step by step, as if unraveling his thread his.

‘First of all, the current problem.’

I put my thoughts with Rose aside for a while.
That, too, will come to a conclusion someday.
He had no intention of severing his relationship with Rose.

I should have bumped into it.
He decided to think about how to hit it later.

Starchis moved one step at a time as he watched Bien with tears welling up in his eyes.

I pulled up a chair watching Russ tremble as if she was about to cry while biting his lower lip her.
He sat down, ignoring Lily’s outstretched hand her.

And the party became whole after a long time.
At least the outward appearance could be said to be original.

They didn’t speak for a while.

We sat and looked at each other.

Lily couldn’t speak as if a stone was stuck in her throat her.
It was a complex factor, such as feeling sorry and being overjoyed to see him.

But she forced herself to swallow and opened her mouth.
Nothing changes if you stand still.
It was a lesson she learned painfully.

“…Starchis, I’m sorry I lied to you. Take heart-“

“-Ah.”

Lily’s words and promises were helplessly cut off by Stachis’ gesture of her.

He closed his eyes and lightly raised his hand.

Gesture not to speak.
Lily felt her heart drop and she froze, unable to speak her words.

The other women who saw Lily’s figure hardened in the same way.

“…Sister.”

Lily drew the word sister every night.
The voice she wanted to hear every night was so afraid this time.

“… I’ve already been sick of apologies. Russ and Viendo. I don’t want to hear any more.”

She said, still with her eyes closed.

Apologies leave their heads empty at his words that she does n’t want to hear any more.
That was all she thought about for days.
She couldn’t even say anything other than that.

“…So listen to me now.”

His sense of intimidation grew in real time.

He opened her eyes, which had been closed for a moment, and looked at them one by one.
They never thought they would receive such attention from Starchis.

It was as if they didn’t care anymore.
Whether hated, scared, or hated, it seemed to tell me that it was no longer part-time job.

Although it was a sense of victimization caused by their fear,
Frightened, they had no way of knowing it.

“…It took me a long time to tidy up my hair. It’s also the first time I’ve encountered this problem. I was thinking about what to do next. But…Yes. I think it is right to say this first.”

He said coldly.

“I lied too. I don’t have a girlfriend. Me.”