Pretending to Be a Girlfriend？ 42

Chapter 42 – The One-Armed Leader (2)

“What did you say..?”

Stachis answered Bien’s question.

“Margie said she left a scar.”

As if everyone had a lot of questions, they asked Starchis questions.

“I don’t know what it is, can you move your hands or not?”

Stion asks,

“Uh…What should I do..?”

Lily is upset

“Chi, Chis… Is our party disbanded… ?”

Russ was worried.

In particular, Vienne and Lily react greatly to Russ’ words at the end.
The two couldn’t look away from the situation in front of their eyes.

He was only concerned about his left hand, not the party’s whereabouts.

When the party disbands, it means that the regular things to see are gone.

His kindness, or smile, or time with him becomes something that can only be obtained by making an appointment, rather than taking it for granted.

Because they’re just friends.

Because it is his girlfriend who can be with him comfortably and naturally without having to make an appointment.

It is a mountain beyond a mountain.

I’m about to lose him
I thought it was up, but my left hand didn’t move.
In the end, the party is also on the verge of dissolution.

In recent weeks, he has been trying to leave their side.

But I couldn’t say anything.

Losing your left hand and entering a dungeon is nothing but suicide.

Because it was Starchis who was in more despair.

However, his expression was not so dark.

“No. Maybe I can rehabilitate.”

He says with an expression of uncertainty.

A ray of hope enters the hearts of the three women.

The hope that the party might ensue,
Again, the hope that Starchis can come back to the way it was.

They felt a lighter weight on their shoulders.

A party is a party, but Starchis’ arm alone made her feel very sorry.

He is a man whose arms are strong while protecting himself.

They already received a mountain of things, but if they gave up their dreams and even gave up their arms to protect them, the repayment was too heavy.

I wondered if this would be repaid even if I gave myself to him like a slave.

But maybe it’s possible to rehabilitate, at least it’s a little reassuring.

“Okay? Really?”

Stion smiles brightly and hits Stachis’ arm.

Starchis said with a slight smile.

“I can’t be sure, but I will try. Because there is no other way.”

“S, Starchis!! I’ll help too. What can I do?”

“Yes Chis. Just talk I will help you.”

“Starchis, I’ll help you too.”

Three women say

Lily thought that if she could use magic, she would help with it.
Bien wondered if she would not need her holy power.
Russ was willing to do anything to loosen the muscles.

But Stachis shook his head.

“No Vienne, Russ. You two are fine I’ll take your heart by the way,”

He singles out just one person.

Lily stood at her fingertips.

“Yes?”

Lily looked puzzled as her finger pointed at her.
She was willing to help, but she didn’t know that she would single out herself, overtaking Russ and Vienne.

“I’ll ask my sister for something. Can you help me?”

“Yes!! Yes, Starches!! Absolutely!”

She nodded her head, saying that he was in a hurry to change her words.

Russ and Vienne’s expressions hardened, and Lily jumped up and down.

Lily also felt a slight sense of superiority.

This feeling… Was like sweet honey to her, who had only tasted her recent defeat.

It felt like her heart was beating fast and her head was about to explode.

If in the past I was busy making fun of Russ and Vienne or bragging about it when I felt this feeling, now I could do nothing but enjoy it.

Lily wondered if this is what it feels like for a drug addict who has been off the drug to try again after a long time.

“Anything! I’ll do anything. Just talk!”

Her mouth hangs over her ears and she peers into Stachis’s eyes to make eye contact with his.
As Starchis turned his head, she bent down a little, trying to catch his eye.

On the other hand, Russ and Bienne tasted a deeper sense of defeat.

“We… No, I can help, Chis…”

“No, that’s fine. All you need is Lily.”

It was understandable that he was pushed back by Elsaine.
But now she’s pushed all the way to Lily.

She thought she had hit the floor, but the floor is endless.

And to be honest… It was getting hard to admit that I was being pushed by Elzain now.

She tried to wait for her until he broke up with her, but when these events happen, he refuses to wait.

Moreover, Elzain gradually did not like her as a human being.
It may be an excuse to give legitimacy to the garbage they will do, stealing someone who has a lover.

However, they were the ones who thought that Elsaine was less of a person in terms of personality.

It is one thing to hate her for stealing Starchis, and two things to hate her personality itself.

Right now, the human Elsaine herself hated it.

‘Where the heck are you now?’

This is a question that everyone has been thinking about over and over again.

Starchis stands in the line of fire and wanders about her near death, but she doesn’t even show her nose.

They would never be able to do that.

Even those of them who were merely friends thought that if he could get up, he would die instead.

However, her lover, Elzain, does not even come to visit her.

You don’t even care about starches?
It’s everything to them, but isn’t it a big deal to Elsaine?
To them, he is an irreplaceable jewel, but to Elsaine, is he a rolling stone?

They felt more resentful because their precious person was treated as nothing.

I was so resentful that I was taken away by someone with just such a mindset.

Of course, it’s probably not ‘probably’ that he didn’t come to see him because he’s not important, but since he’s not seen, it’s hard to imagine.

It is an unacceptable act unless you are distant, passed out, or dead.

If it were not for those three cases, Elzain would not be worthy to stand next to Stachis.
The three of them, including the delighted Lily, thought.

If Elsaine were just an ordinary person, she would have felt a lot of guilt for trying to take him away, but she tried to get rid of even that guilt for being trash.

“I’ll tell you later how I need help. Shall we go eat now? I’m hungry…”

Starches says

And Russ asks as if flowing naturally.

“Okay. Uh? But… Chis. I suddenly remembered, but where is your girlfriend?”

“Uh?”

Starchis and Stion roll their heads at the same time.
It’s a natural question.

Bien couldn’t stand it any longer and agreed.

“It’s really bad. Him Why aren’t you coming?”

Even the delighted Lily helped.

“If Starchis were my boyfriend, I would never be.”

Russ and Vien gave Lily a twinkle at the well-intentioned words, but Lily decided not to care about that anymore.

Starchis couldn’t find anything to say.
It was rather unnatural to know what the circumstances were, since he was down.

It’s up to Stion.

As he glanced at his brother, Stion untied his throat.
He said it without changing a single expression, as if he was good at lying.

“Starchis, Elsaine said something happened. An acquaintance came and informed me.”

“…Oh yeah? Did Elza come?”

On the contrary, it seemed that Starchis, who accepted it, would notice it.

“Sion, do you know Stachis’s girlfriend?”

When Russ asks

“I know it’s Starchis hyung. He is a true and pretty person.”

Stion, who has now thrown John Dae, says.

“I must have gone a little far because something urgent happened. It’s possible that you haven’t even heard the information that you’ve collapsed yet.”

“That, is it? Now I have to let you know that I’m okay… Um.”

After a long silence, Russ finally shuts it down.
She thought she would understand if she was far away, but she was still offended when she heard it.

Stion cuts the timing like a knife before Lily can say something to ask.

“Now, let Stachis and Elzain, the parties concerned, discuss it later, and let’s go eat. He said he was hungry.”

I couldn’t scratch the itch, but it was a trio who couldn’t talk about the subject anymore.

****

A few days after Stion came to ask for blood.

A postcard was delivered to the Nisty family.

“Patriarch, I came from Stion, the leader of the Ade Party.”

Hiannisti received the postcard the butler handed her and read it slowly, looking at the back.

“… Miss Hian Nisty. Thanks to her, her sister saved her life… Whatever you want, even the dirty work, I’ll do it, so I’d appreciate it if you could reply..?”

Hiannisti looked at his butler.
And immediately the butler said to Hian.

“How should I reply?”

“Ummm..”

-Bang!!

The door bursts open.

“Miss!!”

Rose’s maid Elsaine and Rose enter together.

“Dad! I saw Is it from Mr. Stion?”

Hian pressed his temples.
It was a decision that had already been made, but after a few days, it was not so reluctant.

“Are you okay Starchis?”

“… Thanks to you, I guess I got better..”

“Ah! Thank god..”

And the giggling Rose.
Hian hated Starchis for stealing his daughter’s attention.

“Dad. Should you keep your promise? Mr. Butler. Please tell Starchis that it is our wish to treat you to a meal-“

“Rose, is that really what it should be?”

“…What?”

Rose’s mouth came out again.
Hian’s grumpy expression made his heart ache again.

“Ah, no… There are many better wishes… It’s like you don’t know the ability of an A-rank party yet—”

“Okay? It’s a better wish… Then, instead of having a meal, go on a date with Stachis-“

“Ah! Not!! I was wrong. So, have you heard? Gwyn? As Rose said, it is our request to invite you to a meal, so tell them!”

Hian lowered his tail right away.

“I understand, the head of the household.”

The butler, called Gwynn, bowed his head and left the room.

As if Rose was done with her business, she coldly followed Gwynn out of Heian’s room without saying goodbye.
Elza, who was restless, also greeted her and followed Rose out the door.

Rose left without her mercy, having achieved her own goals.

Only Hian, who was left alone in the room, lamented, swallowing tears with a confused heart.

“I think Rose is growing too… “

It was his monologue to his departed wife.

****

Rose ran her way back to her room.

“Ahahaha!! Did you see Dad’s face? Finally, I also have a friend who is now a man!”

“My lady, calm down… Aren’t you rotating the head of the household too much lately?”

“Elsaine, I am an adult too. It’s not like I asked for something strange, and I’m going to meet someone. Why are you like this?”

“…It’s not my story, but each and every one of these trivial incidents could become a topic of conversation among the nobles. What are you going to do if bad rumors spread later? You mean you can’t get married..!”

Rose’s expression crumpled at Elsaine’s words.

She said, “Chi, I heard that the daily life of aristocrats is messy in the first place, but what? No matter how bad the rumors are about me, will they outweigh the reality of them?”

“A public story is scarier than what it really is.”

Rose blew her body off and lay down on the bed.

“Oh, I don’t know. I also want to find out how men’s personalities differ from women’s.”

Then she took a book by the bed and held it in her arms.
Hian was her favorite novel of hers.

“Ehehehehehehe..”

Elzain crumpled her expression.

“…You may look similar to the main character in the novel, but you know you shouldn’t expect them to resemble the personality, right?”

“…Why not?”

“Miss!!”

Elsaine screamed.
Rose turned her body around, her book her between her arms her and her bed, her hands covering her ears.
She didn’t want to hear Elzain’s nagging.

“You know I can’t look alike! It’s a novel, that’s it!”

“…”

Rose, who can hear but pretends not to hear, does not answer.

“Young lady, stop reading novels like that! There are many other good novels out there, so why do you keep reading only that one?!”

Loosening her hands from covering her ears, Rose turns her head and speaks.

“It’s the novel you gave me, Elsaine..”

“And I still regret it! Ha… It was a novel I gave you just for fun, but I didn’t expect you to fall in love with it..!”

“Of all the books, this is the first one that made my heart beat so fast.”

And I see a novel in my arms.
A cover covered in pink like her own hair.

“I’ve seen a lot of men, but there’s really no one like the hero of the novel.”

“You haven’t met Stachis yet, you too. Maybe that person is like the main character of this novel.”

Rose, like Hian, pressed her temples.

“Ha…Lady…”

After being silent for a while, she clicked her tongue.

“But aren’t you already looking for a deep relationship? He said he wanted to be friends.”

“Because if you don’t say that, Daddy won’t allow it.”

“So you’re saying you’re already thinking about a deep relationship?”

“I don’t know either. I guess I have to meet you to know?”

Elsa also slumped into the chair next to her.
It was an action that Rose was so comfortable with.

“You know. But, don’t bother asking if he’s like a novelist. Just wait and see if the character of the novel comes out. I see?”

“Yea, I got it.”

“Ha… What am I talking about.”

But Rose wasn’t listening to Elsaine’s advice.

I just smiled and imagined the future of meeting Starchis.

She embraced her novel her more deeply.

My heart thumped.

I felt like I would only know if it was because of the novel or because I was looking forward to it.