Chapter 48 – Who the Hell Is That? (4)
In an instant, the atmosphere becomes cheap.
Rose looked at Stachis, wondering what she had done wrong.
He had an ambiguous expression on his face.
He seemed to be calculating whether he could afford lies.
“…Yes?”
Russ finally asks.
Her thinking hardens.
Starchis kept moving away from where she couldn’t see.
Since Stachis got a girlfriend, she has spent her days imagining how he would spend his days.
Then, very sinister delusions also filled her head.
You’ll be fine, take care of yourself and spend the day.
Spend time thinking that nothing will happen.
Even if I thought about catching him, repeating that it wouldn’t have been that far, Starchis kept moving away faster than the speed he kept approaching.
In the twinkling of an eye he was taken away, in a moment he lost his virginity.
And the next moment when he couldn’t come to his senses properly, he was even going to see Elsaine’s parents.
Maybe I was thinking too much.
I couldn’t stand it if I didn’t think so.
However, reality did not go as she had imagined.
I wanted their relationship to stay magically still without going any further as I couldn’t see or hear it.
But I have already met my parents.
Eventually, she couldn’t stand it and grabbed Stachis by the arm and pulled him slightly aside.
“Wait?”
Russ pulls Rose away from Stachis’ arm.
Starchis also understood Russ’ reaction, so he reassured Rose and was dragged away by Russ.
Russ, who has gently pulled him aside, puts Starchis in his ear and asks quietly but seriously.
“..Really?”
Russ’ expression demanded the truth.
He seemed a little angry.
Before I knew it, Lily also came to the side and got involved in the conversation.
Starchis continued to lie while feeling guilty for that serious expression.
It’s already spilled water.
“…Really. I was supposed to see you.”
“…Under.”
Lily, who had been listening from the side, let out a sigh mixed with laughter.
She couldn’t believe it
How cruel the world is, it doesn’t give you one chance to make up for your mistakes.
I only said once that I didn’t like him.
As an excuse, I thought she wasn’t even in the mood to be honest.
But because of that one lie, Stachis left her.
At the time, he said, anyone would have confessed and accepted it.
With just one word, she missed him and her fate changed.
The only person he could give his all to was leaving, saying he liked another woman.
‘Don’t really lie.’
Lily couldn’t believe the situation.
Russ had hundreds of things he wanted to say, but he couldn’t decide which one to say first.
The mouth opened and closed, the eyebrows raised and lowered repeatedly.
Word at the end.
“…Chis, wasn’t it a casual encounter?”
He hesitates to state his wishes.
I hoped for a light encounter.
I hoped it would be a little bit of fun.
The time we got to know each other and started dating, and the time we had sex.
Everything was burning so passionately and progressed so fast that I wanted the fire to go out just as quickly.
Even though I was determined to take him away, I thought maybe they should break up first.
“I know you. You didn’t want to love like this, you.”
Russ says begging.
She begged for confirmation that she was right.
She was the one who sang pure love and pure love.
She said she wanted to have a girlfriend and that she was looking for someone who would be comfortable with her and would understand her when she was together.
She said she wanted to be a lover with someone who knew each other perfectly.
Russ still couldn’t forget the joy she felt when she heard those words.
She never thought that there could be someone better than her who could fit the criteria.
However, the person he was dating was someone he had only known for two weeks, who did not even know him properly.
It’s only been about a month since I met Elsaine.
But he says he’s going to see her father.
“So…”
Starchis also finds something to say.
In the end, this is all a fake girlfriend.
She couldn’t help but feel a sense of distance from many of the things she had been saying.
But she could say at least one thing.
“…As long as we meet, I don’t have light encounters.”
“You really..!”
Russ gets angry at that.
In her frustration, she rolled her feet.
If she were talking to herself, she would have no boyfriend more reliable than him.
It was more frustrating than anything because the words were not directed at him.
“You are in such a hurry! Then what if you are a strange person!”
“Don’t worry, Russ. I’m just seeing my father alone. Do you know what kind of meeting is going on?”
But even when he said that, her heart didn’t ease.
Russ knows Stachis.
Six years is not light, so I know his deepest secret, his childhood.
It was his trauma that he talked about in a calm voice with tears in his eyes.
Starchis hates his parents.
While listening to the story, I was heartbroken and decided to protect him for the rest of my life.
So he is free.
Except for his older brother, he grew up alone.
Meeting Elzain’s parents could have been a meeting place if he wanted to.
If Elzain’s father likes him, there will be no obstacles for Elzain and Starchis to envision their future.
But… How could you not like Starchis?
Who would hate him for being kind to children and polite to adults?
Even he, who had never liked a man before, fell in love with him.
If only his hand healed, who would stop him from becoming the leader of the B-class party?
Russ couldn’t find anything more to convince him.
He had many things he wanted to say, but he felt that if he said them he would be hated by him.
“…Don’t think too fast, Stachis.”
Lily says.
She, too, was like a chimney wanting to dry him.
But no matter what I said here, he didn’t seem to change.
“I wonder if there’s anything strange… I’ll have to look for it…”
It’s already been promised.
No matter what they say,
Not one to break her promise to her girlfriend’s father.
I have to stop now.
She wished this painful time was over, as she was fine not having dinner with herself.
She wanted to let him go before she cried in front of him.
So Lily forced a smile and told him.
“Let’s go eat, Starchis. I’ll see you the day after tomorrow.”
Now, I wanted to go back for a while and recover from the wounds in my heart.
When she greeted her, Stachis greeted her as well, and then she waved to Elzain.
Elsaine runs up and clings to Stachis again.
The arm she’s been holding all day and doesn’t even belong to her.
His girlfriend greeted them with her kind smile.
“Everyone, let’s go. Later, besides Lily and Russ, let’s have a meal together with the other party members.”
Lily smiled again.
The loser’s smile.
It was such a painful and humiliating smile.
****
“Huh… Thank you, Mr. Rose.”
After moving away from Russ and Lily, Starchis thanked Rose.
“Ah… No. I’m sorry for saying that I was going to see your father, as if I had troubled Mr. Starchis.”
“It is difficult. Thank you for just saying the right thing.”
Starchis instead replayed the conversation from before.
“But are you really okay? Are you coming out and pretending to be my girlfriend again?”
“It’s okay.”
Rose laughed.
She rather wanted to be herself.
“Is it good because I’m rather fun?”
“Is it fun?”
“Yes. It makes my heart pound… I don’t have many opportunities to experience something like this when I’m at home.”
It was her salty answer.
Stachis, with the exception of his older brother, was often dissatisfied with having to do everything on his own.
But now that I see it, a life in which others do everything also has its own difficulties.
If she had to worry about surviving day after day instead of having all the freedom she had outside of her cage,
Rose lived a life where her freedom was suppressed instead of living in a cage and not having to worry about her life.
As numerous coincidences overlap, Starchis develops a weak crush on Rose.
“Then, if you meet again and help me, I have to kiss her a little more.”
“Yes, I know that.”
“I have a few things to tell you, but that’s Bob.. Ah.”
Starchis looked up at the sky.
It was still evening, but I was worried that he had left the house.
“Do you have time for dinner?”
“Yes? Yes! Yes! Can!”
Rose is rather excited.
She is the one who owes the A-grade party and asks for dinner with the Starches in return.
She wasn’t the one to miss this opportunity.
“Then let’s talk a little more while eating.”
“Yes. Like.”
Rose didn’t want her present lie exposed as much as Starchis did.
Aside from being funny, she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get close to Stachis.
The more he looked, the better he was.
His arms crossed like this… Ah.
Rose notices in that moment.
That you still have your arms crossed.
At first it was embarrassing to make her face blush, but
It just became natural.
She looked up at Staches.
“But, Rose-“
He didn’t seem to notice.
Are you familiar with this kind of skinship?
I didn’t know that.
When I reached that point, I didn’t know why, but I felt a little uncomfortable.
“I know until I met Russ. But what did you keep together to do after that?”
“Ah.”
Rose recalls something about an item from her novel.
Suddenly, her body gets stronger.
This she could never find out as much as Stachis.
“Um… You don’t have to know!”
Rose said, holding Stachis’ arm a little tighter.
“It was nothing.”
