Chapter 47 – Who the Hell Is That? (3)
Starchis sweating cold.
When the meeting takes place, Lily and Russ avoid their eyes.
And Rose is welcomed by Starches.
Rose started chattering excitedly.
“What are you doing here, Starchis?”
Starches gulps.
‘…Miss Rose? I heard it was Elza?’
The person Russ met was Elsaine, but it was Rose who came out of the bathroom.
The problem seemed to be that only he knew about it now.
As a result, the appearance was the very Elza described by Starchis in the imagination that no one can deny.
Even if Stachis couldn’t answer, Rose continued to ask questions.
“Do you know Russ and Stachis? Really amazing!”
And then Rose’s eyes lead to Lily.
“…Who is this beauty?”
Starchis’ body reacted faster even though his hair turned white.
Now I couldn’t stand to see it any longer.
It was a moment to act.
It was like making a momentary decision and acting in a crisis of a lifetime in a combat situation.
Even though it was rude, he awkwardly shut Rose’s mouth, grabbed her, and ran into a corner.
Everyone is surprised by his sudden action.
Even Starchis himself.
“Town-?”
“Sister, Russ, hold on! I have something to say!”
“Yes?”
“Just a moment!”
It wasn’t enough that his back was wet with sweat, and now it was Starchis that moistened even the area around his forehead.
I did, but I couldn’t figure out what to do afterwards.
I just had to do everything without a plan.
I can’t hear the words, but I can see Russ and Lily.
It wasn’t until that distance that Starchis put Rose down.
“Puha!”
As her mouth cleared and her feet touched the ground again, Rose let out a breath.
Stachis looked at Rose with his back to Russ and Lily.
“Miss Rose…! I’m really sorry..!”
“..Yes..?”
“It’s our second meeting, and you’ve made such an excuse… “
“Ah, no! It was fine!”
Rose waved her hand.
Her cheeks were red like carrots.
Curiously, she had no objection to Starchis’ actions just now.
His hand that covered his mouth roughly, his arm that flashed like a feather on his body.
Rather than feel bad…
“No. This is completely my fault. I’m sorry.”
When Stachis was at a loss, Rose accepted his apology to ease his mind.
“Ah yes. Keep your head up Starches. I will accept your apology.”
When she accepted the apology, Stachis’ expression softened a bit, but he was still restless.
Rose looked at Staches.
Looking at it again, it was similar to the main character in her favorite novel.
Not only the appearance, but even the atmosphere.
Although it is hidden by good personality, there is charisma that cannot be denied.
Even his behavior, which was a little rough before, is similar.
The more I looked, the more curious I was.
It wasn’t that I wanted the main character of my favorite novel to become a reality.
After all, fiction is fiction, and reality is reality.
But in fact, there was someone who was similar to this, so I was excited and liked it.
“Ah! I forgot for a while.. Are you okay?”
“Ah.”
Starchis lowered his head.
Rose Nicety.
She is the daughter of the head of the family who saved her.
“Thank you very much. Thanks to you, you saved her life. You are a life saver.”
‘But to such a life saver, what am I… ‘
Rose put a hand on Stachis’ forehead, who was anxious.
She asked, carefully wiping his sweat.
“I’m glad you’re well. But what are you doing?”
Rose was taken aback by her own actions, but she calmly wiped off the sweat she had been wiping.
“You act so suddenly… “
Behind Stachis, Russ and Lily watched him.
Starchis, who was perplexed, found the first thing to say at the touch.
“…But Miss Rose, I noticed earlier that Russ called you Elsaine. How did this happen?”
“Ah, that… “
Rose is equally perplexed.
The moment a lie is caught is not a moment to shoulder.
Moreover, it is even more so for Starches who wanted to look good out of curiosity or good feelings.
“..So, can’t you be disappointed after hearing it?”
Rose tells her rhyme first, and Stachis follows suit.
“I might say something that will disappoint Miss Rose. It’s okay.”
Said Rose, realizing that his uneasy look meant that she was not just trying to reassure her.
“…Actually I ran away from home.”
“Yes?”
“Oh, but I didn’t run away! I just came out to escape. I wanted to go back before it was too late… “
“..Is that so?”
“Yes. But then a guy named Russ found me and asked me if I was Miss Rose, but she lied a bit because if I told the truth, she would get arrested…”
“Is that why she said her name was Elza?”
“…Yes.”
“Among all those names, is it Elsaine?”
“It’s my maid’s name. The name was the only thing that came to mind.”
Starchis couldn’t believe this coincidence.
I really wondered if this was fate.
He wondered if it was an accident worse than meeting a special swordsman monkey.
“What are you doing here, Starchis?”
“So..”
Even when he tried to speak, Stachis couldn’t help but let his mouth drop.
It’s such a shameful lie.
I thought maybe one day I might get caught, but when that moment came, my cheeks turned red.
What would Russ, Lily and Vien say if they found out about this lie?
Why did you do that? Was it because you wanted to look like you had a girlfriend?
Why did you tell such a lie?
I don’t know, but you will feel betrayed.
Because I broke all their promises.
Stachis looked at the woman in front of him.
Pink hair, pink eyes, moderate height, moderate breasts, L Jain.
His imaginary girlfriend, whom he had roughly described, was vividly before her eyes.
‘…Okay.’
He thought as he looked at her.
Maybe this could be an opportunity.
A lie creates an undeniable alibi.
She thought it was embarrassing and ugly to have to ask her for a favor of hers, but still thought it better than letting Lily, Vienne, and Russ know about her.
“…Miss Rose. Can I ask you a really strange favor?”
“I’ll listen.”
Words beyond her sober mind, Starchis leaned over and whispered in her ear.
In this way, even the expression on her face could be covered.
Stachis said with the sound of an ant crawling.
“… Can you pretend to be my girlfriend?”
“Yes?”
Rose freaks out and leaves Stachis.
She nearly falls over as she steps backwards, but Starchis grabs her by the shoulders and pulls her up.
Even though her left hand was uncomfortable, it was not difficult because Rose was so light.
Starchis looked back.
The moment he looked back, Russ and Lily, who had been looking at them, turned their heads.
Starches adds.
“There is no need to continue! Just a moment, just a moment. Only in front of my friends..!”
“Wh-what for..?”
Rose calmed her pounding heart.
It was the first time in her life that she had been stimulated like this.
It was the first time she realized that her heart could beat even with such force.
I wondered if this might mean that the heart I read in the novel seemed to come out of the body.
Starchis finally explained his circumstances to Rose briefly.
The party member kept calling him from before.
The reason why it was hard to refuse it.
The moment when the body is weak.
He denied their request by lying about having a girlfriend.
“Wasn’t it just a matter of making a real girlfriend out of them?”
“Among the party members, there was no one I liked.”
“Yes? Did you call me like that?”
“I know it looks weird, but I’ll explain that later.”
After that, Starchis explained about his girlfriend who lied to the party members.
Pink hair, pink eyes, moderate height, appropriate…Body, his name is El Zain.
She also told me that everything about her fits her well.
Last of all, Rose was most amazed that the description of her girlfriend was the same as hers, even the name.
The extent to which she lied about having a girlfriend was not surprising to her as she had read many of her novels.
In fiction, crazy things happen.
Do you feel like this is happening in real life?
However, the similarity between her imaginary girlfriend and herself, and the fact that her real name fits perfectly with her lies, was surprising even to her.
Just as her heroine in her own favorite novel was Starchis, her imaginary girlfriend in Starchis was just like her.
This couldn’t have happened if it weren’t for fate.
She was always stuck in a boring mansion. The moment she came out, her head started spinning like this, and her heart pounded one after another, and she couldn’t help smiling.
Hehe…”
“… Miss Rose?”
Rose looked up at Staches, unable to hold back her smile.
“I see. I will.”
Things are funny too.
And it’s her chance to get close to Starchis.
As long as you pretend to be her girlfriend… It’s okay to pretend to be a lot closer than her original sense of distance.
Rose had nothing to lose.
Starchis’ dark expression melted away.
I felt the thrill of being revived from the crisis of despair.
“Gee, really?!”
“Yes, I will. She just needs to pretend to be her girlfriend, right?”
“Yes! You can!”
Rose laughed because he liked a person with a big distraction like a child.
“Instead, Mr. Starchis, I will also grant you one wish later.”
Even if Stachis refused, he intended to grant his request.
But Rose is also an aristocrat after all.
He is also a gifted child who is in charge of even managing the Nisty family.
Negotiation was her field.
“Cow, what is your wish?”
Of course, it was something I had to grant, but the word wish reminded me of things in the past.
The difficult moments of giving the right to wish to Russ and Vienne.
Stachis said quickly, realizing that even thinking about it for a while while trying to reminisce about the past was rude.
“Yes! Of course, I will listen to one thing.”
She even played the role of her girlfriend, which she probably didn’t want to do.
That’s none other than nobles.
There’s a lifesaver there.
No one is as selfish as he is when he says he can’t do anything when he commits such a big mistake.
However, Rose caught that momentary concern and told Starchis.
“Instead of granting me a wish, if you don’t like what I’m asking for, tell me you don’t like it. I will make a wish that can be denied, not a wish that cannot be denied.”
Starchis’s expression brightened.
“Thank you very much.”
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.
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“So let me introduce you. This is my girlfriend, Elza.”
“Hello, I’m Elza. Are you having a hard time because of my boyfriend?”
Rose was good at lying.
She acted like she was in a long-term relationship.
There was something Starchis forgot and didn’t say.
Just how long has he been telling this lie.
So she subconsciously concluded that he had been telling this lie for quite some time.
‘Are you having a hard time because of my boyfriend?’
Russ was stunned.
That way of speaking is as if he is much closer to Starchis, and that it is a sin to make his own work so hard.
‘I’ve known you for six years. A bitch who only knew Chis for a few weeks…’
No matter how different the location is, the accumulated feelings are much deeper for Russ.
Russ knows a lot about him.
There was nothing that Elzain was closer to than herself, but her relationship with Starchis was different, and she hated the situation where she couldn’t say anything.
“No. How good is Chis?”
Russ answers. She deliberately emphasized the title of ‘Cheese’ to show off her friendship with her.
It had no effect on Rose.
“But what a surprise! Mr. Starchis knows Mr. Russ. Is it really a coincidence?”
Russ, who deliberately sought out Elza, she could not honestly answer.
“…I know, right?”
“I’ve heard a lot about Mr. Russ. That you’re a really nice person haha.”
She said what she could do without knowing anything.
Just because she praised her, no one hates her.
On the other hand, the more she praised Russ, the more her heart burned.
She gets it from the person she hates the most.
Rose steps up to Stachis and crosses her arms her.
It was her head that commanded it to do so.
She thought that skinship was essential for her to look more natural.
But what her head she said and what her body her reacted to were different.
Rose looked at the ground with her cheeks flushed as she freshly threaded his arm her.
Everyone cringes at the sight of it.
Even Starches.
Starchis swallowed her saliva as if she had asked her too much.
However, Lily, who watched her carefully, took it differently.
A couple who even went so far as to have a physical relationship, but even such minor skinship is still fresh.
If I had seen someone else do this on the street, it would have given me a hearty smile,
It felt like my heart was being ripped out because the guy I liked was doing that.
Rose tried to gloss over the situation and said Starchis with her red face her.
“Ah, Starchis, please introduce him too.”
Then he politely points at Lily with both of her hands.
“Ah, that’s our party’s magician Lily sister…”
With difficulty, she ended her words in half words.
Rose’s heart beats even more violently at that unfamiliar banter.
As much as she was an aristocrat, it was a tone she hadn’t heard much of, so she was all the more so.
“Hello. It’s Lily. Are you Elza?”
“Ah, is that Lily? I’ve heard a lot about Lily. Hello. She is such a beauty, as I thought earlier.”
Lily also puts up with her expression hardening.
Even though she was beautiful, she couldn’t achieve what she really wanted to achieve.
Lost on the only battlefield where her beauty could be a weapon.
“…Thank you. Elza too.”
Lily gives her empty words.
“Your clothes are really pretty too.”
It was a thoughtless compliment.
But Lily had her heart broken.
She seems to be saying that she seems to be seducing someone who has a boyfriend.
“…Thanks.”
But Lily was what she was expecting.
Because she decided to take Starchis away.
As both sides exchanged greetings, Starchis drew a line.
The current situation was to kiss and lie for a very short time.
There was nothing good about talking to them before she had more detailed settings.
“Ruler. If you say hello… We’ll go.”
“Yes?”
Lily crinkles her expression.
“You were supposed to eat, Starchis!”
“I’m sorry, sister. But I think it will be difficult today.”
Starchis had to avoid her place her.
She didn’t know that this would happen either.
“Where is that! Is it because of Elsaine?”
“Yes? I guess I’m going to spend time with her girlfriend her.”
Lily bit the inside of her lip invisible.
By that I mean, since she has a girlfriend, she’s going to dump herself.
“It’s okay to eat with me. Let’s go together. Let’s talk and get to know each other.”
She was a Lily with no intention of making friends, but she would say anything if it was to have dinner with Stachis.
She didn’t know if she could find a way to get to know her her and to drive her away from her meal.
My conscience is stabbed, but I still decided to do it.
If you’re going to do it, you have to do it right.
Otherwise, there will be no porridge or rice.
But Stachis had no desire to talk.
She still felt like she was walking on thin ice.
“… I’m sorry, sister. I’m going to have a hard time today. Eating together is too sudden. But I can’t leave her girlfriend her .. “
“So we can eat together!”
“I want to eat with you too, Chis.”
She even tried to help Russ get a seat at her table.
So it was a 2-1 situation.
If even Rose asked to go out to eat, he would go out to eat.
Now there is only one person left.
Attention is drawn to Rose.
“Uh…So…”
She looked into Stachis’ eyes.
Of course, I had no choice but to follow his flow his.
“That… I’m sorry. I want to spend private time with my boyfriend. Can you forgive me?”
Lily gnashed her teeth.
‘It was an unexpected time. I originally had an appointment with me…!’
Starchis was not ignorant of Lily’s feelings for her.
She made an appointment and even brought her outside, but who would break that promise with a sudden meeting?
He didn’t want to either, but he couldn’t help it.
I might catch you.
Starchis approached Lily, sincerely and deeply sorry.
“..Sister. I’m so sorry. But actually, while talking with Elsaine earlier, something important came to my mind, so I think I should go now.”
He makes up excuses by saying that something important has happened.
Lily didn’t respond.
She was holding back her tears.
“… Let’s set up a table for dinner later. At that time, everyone in the party…”
Stachis glanced at Rose, who was clinging to her side as she spoke.
Rose notices her intentions her too and nods her head.
“…Let me introduce you to Elza.”
She has her permission her too, so she makes future appointments.
‘I want to eat alone, just the two of us..’
Lily thought to herself.
Then Russ intervenes.
“What’s important? Is it Chis?”
“Ah..”
Starchis rolls his head again.
Another thoughtless excuse rots her head her.
Starchis groaned without answering, and Rose looked at him.
She felt like she had to lie for her.
“It’s important to us…”
Starchis looked at her as she opened her mouth.
Rose ponders.
What kind of development would it take in the book?
A story so important that it can spurn promises she made with her friends her.
They are a couple who have known each other for a long time.
Rose answers.
And this wasn’t a lie.
Stachis invited me to his house.
“I’ve decided to meet my father, Stachis.”
