Pretending to Be a Girlfriend？ 57

Chapter 57 – Like a Sheep in Its True Form

“Now, now. Let’s stop talking embarrassingly. Elsaine, you’re drunk too.”

Starchis grabbed Rose with her arms crossed and dragged her away.
As she gave her strength, she was easily dragged along with a moan of ‘Ah’.

Nothing good can happen when everyone is drunk.
You just have to hope that you don’t make mistakes with each other.

Starchis thought that the atmosphere might get a little worse since Rose directly dealt with the request of the three to take her home.

“We’ll go. It was fun. See you in rehab, Lily.”

“Chi, Chis.. When will I see you next time..?”

Russ knew he couldn’t catch him any longer, even with his drunken head.
Still, it couldn’t end like this.

If we let time pass now, we may not see him until his hand is healed.

“If you’re going to make an appointment, send a letter to my dorm or something. I’m really going!”

Waving his hand, Stachis left as if something urgent had happened.
Next to him was Elsaine, with a worldly happy expression on her face.

The three women stayed in front of the restaurant and watched the two go away.
I was envious of a woman named Elsaine from start to finish.

“..Huh..”

And Bien, whose emotions have been intensified by alcohol, sheds the tears she has been holding back.
The feeling that I thought would get better if I drank it plummeted to the floor.

Even the plan to beat Elzain with alcohol was a failure.

No matter how much alcohol was given to Elsaine, she drank well without any major change.
On the contrary, he used his drunkenness as an excuse to be more charming.

In the end, even Starchis volunteered to become the Black Knight…

In the end, he left himself drunk and having a hard time.

‘Am I not even worried anymore?’

—Jjirit

As if her chest had healed, the sharp pain that had been dull for a while tormented Vienne again.
Starchis has been exhausted since he had a girlfriend.
In the past, when I was in such a difficult situation, he always helped me.

Bien recalls the situation from earlier.

-‘Perhaps…’

-‘It’s sour.’

…Not.
He wasn’t depressed
Starchis tried to take him away.

The reason I couldn’t do that was because of the lecherous bitch next to me.
Luckily, I got a seat next to him, and I kept getting in the way.

“Huh… You… Elzain… You leave…!”

Wiping away the tears running down his forearm, Bien burned his animosity towards her.

– Bumped… Bumped…

Lily staggered and started walking home.
Full of scars, they didn’t even have the energy to say hello to each other.

She walked, pulling the red hairs from the corners of her mouth.

Today, she was still promising the next day.
Every time I see Starchis, I feel defeated and sad, but I did not give up.
Unlike other women, she has a chance.
Helping him rehabilitate and the opportunity continues to come.

With that thought, I was able to recover first.

The wind blew and tousled her beautifully tidy hair.

…Lily realizes.
Her side was cold.

‘Is Elsaine warm…?’

She will be warm
If he’s by your side

****

A cool wind blow.
Elsaine clung even more closely to Starchis.
The warmth he gave me was warm.

“… Miss Rose. You can stop acting now.”

The party members had already walked to a place where they could not be seen.
There was no need to continue this performance any longer.

“Because it’s cold…”

Rose somehow did not want to fall.
She would have a chance to meet him in the future, and if she insisted, she would have a chance to play her girlfriend again, but even so, she didn’t want to end the situation now.

Starchis gave up the seat next to him when he said it was still cold.
Bienne, Russ, Lily… There was nothing wrong with Rose.
But it wasn’t easy, as long as the two big guys were sneaking up behind him.

Starchis glanced where he felt his gaze, and the two figures approached them.

“…Lady, now explain.”

“Let go of your brother’s arm first, young lady. The head of the family will hate it.”

“I was drunk too?! Is it okay if I fall?!”

Rose cornered Pippin and Brooke.

At every word she said, the bodyguards stomped their feet.

“I’ll explain later..! Now I walk away so I can talk to my friend.”

“Lady.. Now do as the bodyguards say. You have to go home now.”

“… We decided to grant your wish. I’m thinking about the content of my wish right now.”

Then, Rose hugged Stachis’ arm even tighter.

Brooke and Pippin’s eyes shift from Rose to Starches.

They hadn’t seen each other in a long time, but they could tell what they were talking about just by looking at each other’s eyes.

It was like a bond between people who had suffered from women.

‘Give me a little more time. I’ll calm you down and send you back.’

Starchis said with eyes and nods.

‘…Please hurry up a little bit, brother. It’s already late to go home.’

The two bodyguards swayed and explained as if mime, then started walking away from behind.

“More away!! You can hear our conversation!”

Rose tells the bodyguards who follow.
Brooke and Pippin, sullen, moved a little further apart.

“…So, lady. What is your wish?”

Stachis asked Rose, who looked satisfied as she saw the bodyguard far behind her.

Rose rolls her eyes. She says.

“Let’s walk one more time, Stachis. Let’s talk a little more.”

“You must go home now.”

“Ah! Why are you acting like an official? We are friends!”

“That makes me more concerned. I drank too much.”

“IM alright. I drink well. And I told you to speak plainly!”

“How do I do that?”

“…As long as you’ve been doing well. While using it well for BNC and Russ.”

“They started writing after knowing quite a bit.”

“Can’t you just write for me too?”

“Is that your wish?”

“…That’s not it.”

The direction of how to write the wish has been decided, albeit feebly.
But I was wondering if I should say this or not.

Perhaps because of his drinking, Rose found him constantly attractive.

He himself was aware that the speed at which his likeability builds up was not normal.
However, it was not something he could control.

My heart kept pounding, perhaps because it was my first friend, or because I was the first man to act like a lover.

I was trying to figure out what it means to bond with each other through skinship.

Today was Rose, who had been with him all day.
He crossed her arms, leaned his head on her shoulder, and kissed her lips.
He said he was cute and stroked his hair.

Nothing was offended.
Rather, I wished I could do more.

There was not a single word wrong in the novel.
It is said that the closer the body is, the closer the heart is.

“Then tell me your wish.”

Starches urged.

“Umm… Wait a little longer!”

Rose said with a smile to hide her pounding heart.

Rose felt the touch of his arm.

A strong arm that seems to be able to hold someone in place.
A hand that looks like it could grab something.
Rose swallowed his saliva.

“Um… Miss, let’s go here first.”

“Oh!”

Starchis was in a hurry to take her to her, so he turned her around a little hastily.
Rose, who was intoxicated by the wind, got his feet tangled and almost fell.

“Uh! It’s okay?”

“Yes!.. Yes.. I’m fine..”

Rose’s heart beat fast again.
His miserable appearance.

“I’m sorry. I’m in a hurry.. First of all, that way is a shortcut, right? It might be a bit embarrassing, but don’t worry because I and the bodyguards are there, okay?”

“Yes Yes. I will only follow Starchis..”

Stachis looked at the bodyguard behind him.
The two were nodding their heads.
They also seemed comfortable taking the shortcut.

As we enter the alleyway, the magic lamp that was illuminating the road disappears and it becomes even darker.
Mice and cats scattered at the sound of their approach.

Rose squeezed Stachis’ arm once more.

He was dignified

Starchis felt the touch and spoke to Rose to reassure her.
He knows it’s not too dangerous, as he’s been through it many times,
It can be scary for first-timers.

“Don’t be nervous. Oh, do you see that over there?”

“What..?”

A potato was rolling around where Starchis pointed.

“It’s like that. What I ate when I was young.”

“Yes? You ate something like that?”

It was a dirty, half-rotten potato.
That was enough to see only the moonlight.
Holding it in his hand, the condition might be more serious.

“You can see why I hate potatoes, right? Haha.”

Starchis felt Rose relieved.
Turning her mind to another subject is also the truth.

“…It must have been hard…”

“I told you. That each person’s difficulty is different. Miss Rose, didn’t you have any hardships in your childhood?”

“Me…?”

Rose recalls her own childhood.
I know her father worked hard for him… But he was lonely.

“It was a little… Lonely.”

Even the animals outside her window seemed to have friends, but she was not alone.

Even if she tried to befriend her maids, bodyguards, and servants, they always found her difficult.
No matter how comfortable they tried, they couldn’t make themselves comfortable.

At first, I felt resentful of those people who did not change even though they showed their sincerity, but after growing up a little, I realized that they had no choice but to do that.

Because he is a noble

So, she tried to make friends with other nobles.
When the invitation to her social gathering arrived, Rose ran around.
Hian didn’t like that she was going to visit her nobles, but she couldn’t keep Rose locked up.

“I tried a lot, but it didn’t work… “

Nobles who met to make friends always wore masks.
She just wanted true friends, but that didn’t make sense among the nobility.
Even though I want to be friendly, I feel uncomfortable when I see the mask.

Of course, eventually Rose would wear her mask too.

Rose looked up at her starches again.

‘…Can I take off her mask in front of this person?’

An impulse arose in her that no one had ever heard of.

“..That must have been difficult.”

“Ah! But looking at it now, he was whining about something insignificant.. It must have grown like a flower in a greenhouse. Hehe..”

“No. How hard is loneliness to bear? You must have suffered.”

Maybe it’s because I drank, but I feel like I’m crying at his consolation.
He seemed to know why the beautiful women liked him.

Rose realized that although she found out now, the feelings she felt for him were not the feelings she felt for her friend.
It was something more intimate than that.
She keeps looking forward to him.

Rose spoke in a brighter voice to hide her upset.

“It’s okay! Instead, I became friends with books. I read a lot of theory books, and novels…”

Rose glances at Stachis and swallows her saliva.
She insinuated that she had revealed her secret to him.
She was the reason for his curiosity.

“…Ah! Mr Starches. Did you know that you actually resemble the male protagonist of my favorite novel?”

“Yes? Haha.. Is it? What part do you resemble?”

“As for the external description.. As well as the atmosphere it exudes. You have a sense of intimidation.”

“Um… But maybe it’s because I’m gathering?”

“Yes, I guess.”

“What is the title of the book?”

Rose pauses for a moment.
Starchis stops in an alleyway as she hesitates.

“… Would you like to know?”

– Whiing…

A cold wind blows through the alley.

Rose asked in a voice that she seemed to want to inform.
Starchis had a desire to tease him for no reason, so he played a joke.

“Um… No. I’m not familiar with books.”

I was expecting a slightly playful answer, but Rose let out a big sigh of relief.
As if she was happy too.

“Ha…”

“What. It was a joke. Tell me what the book was.”

“Yes?”

Again, Rose stiffens.
Then she stumbles on her foot for a moment and hesitates.

“Oh, be careful.”

Starches stood firm, balancing her.

“I’m here now, but don’t fall.”

Then she pointed somewhere with her hand.
Before she knew it, she was looking out of the alley.
As Rose looked at the direction the fingertips were pointing, she saw a familiar landscape.
It was a short drive from there to home.
The time has come for parting.

“Hian-san might be angry. It’s so late.”

“It’s okay. Dad is strict, but she doesn’t get angry easily.”

“You seem to be on good terms.”

“I don’t know. Limit every day. Mr. Starchis is with her parents her… Ah.”

For an instant, Starchis crumpled his expression her.

As Rose spoke her words, she involuntarily forgot for a moment.

He might have died if he had n’t had her brother her, she said.
She said she lived her childhood her picking up potatoes on the road.

What can be inferred from that is that his parents may have passed away early, or there may have been other circumstances.

In any case, his parents were not by his side as a child.
It was a sensitive subject.

Trying to patch things up, Rose found her words, but she was already spilled.

Judging by his reaction to her, she thought it was more likely that her parents her had died early.
She could see that she had a problem of her own.

In an instant, Starchis falls into his own world.
Memories of parents as a child come back.

Unknowingly, he spread a tremendous sense of intimidation around him.
Rose felt her skin tingle.
His legs her trembled and his hands her gave out.

But at the same time, my cheeks flushed and my heart pounded.

‘Ah..!’

Suddenly, Stachis comes to his senses his.
I saw a terrified Rose with her cheek flushed in front of her eyes.

“Ah..! I’m sorry… But I don’t think I can tell you about my parents..”

Even though her Starches her tried to calm her down with an apologetic expression, Rose still had her legs wobbly.

“I’m sorry, but can I hug you just once? I’m so scared…”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

Starchis hugged her gently to correct her own fault.
She gave her a pat on the back and she soothed her frightened heart.

But the more he did, the more Rose’s heart beat.

A man who is dangerous but safe for himself.
A man who is scary but kind to himself.

As expected, he was the same as everything in the novel.

The words of his own maid of honor come to mind.

– ‘Don’t try to ask if I’m a novelist. Just wait and see if the character of the novel comes out. I see?’

‘That figure came out.’

She said to herself.
I couldn’t stand it any longer.

She said as she cradled him.

“…Starchis, I’ve decided my wish.”

Rose throws off all her masks her and peels off the last one that was covering her face her.
I feel a sense of liberation.
She feels alive

Her heart her felt like it would burst to tell him her own secret her.

Starchis grabbed her by the shoulder and pulled her away from her arms for a moment.

“..What is your wish?”

She read several novels under stress for a long time.
Everyone had fun, but nothing special.
How much time can you spend?

That’s why she complained to her lady-in-waiting her every time how bored she was, and she gave her a book she hadn’t seen before.

It’s a book her father her won’t put in the library.
It was an unusual book with a pink cover like his own hair.

And the book changed her whole perception of her.

Naked expression, provocative description.

And a heroine resembling her own situation her and a male protagonist without mercy.
I liked the female lead who gradually became happier through the male lead.

It made Rose’s heart beat.

Favorite novel title.

‘An obedient elf princess.’

Rose continued to swallow her saliva.
She threw everything off, but was ashamed nonetheless.
She never thought the day would come when she would ask someone to fulfill her desires her.

I just wanted to be satisfied with the novel.

But now the opportunity has come.
No, rather than an opportunity, I couldn’t stand it anymore.

You could say she was drunk.
Anyway, once she felt his intimidation of her, she couldn’t go back.

“This is a strange request, but… “

Shyly, but still frightened, Rose lifted her tiptoe and whispered to Stachis.
Afraid that someone will hear.

“…Can you call me bitch..?”