Chapter 83 – Barefoot Stronghold (6)
Rose, who had been sobbing in her room for her days,
He received a letter.
No one entered the room,
He couldn’t help it when he heard that the letter had arrived.
Maybe it’s the letter she’s been waiting for.
Sure enough, it was a letter from Stachis,
It contained the long-awaited content.
He set a date and time to meet and sent it.
And for Rose, besides that,
Content has been sent
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I think I’ll come in time for…
And Rose, I don’t think so.
We can’t connect
I’ll tell you clearly before you get hurt more.
Acting, let’s just act.
If I hate you
If it’s hard to see
It’s okay if you don’t come.
It’s okay to end the lie like this.
Sorry. Thanks
-Starches-
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Rose unknowingly strained her hand.
She crumpled the letter.
Starchis apologizes to himself.
You gave me your heart,
So as not to misunderstand
It was Starcheson who drew the line by continuing to use honorifics.
Made me apologize to him like an idiot.
But more heartbreaking than that is,
Saying it’s okay to stop lying.
That means that contact with him is now gone.
“…No..”
I didn’t want to let him go now.
It’s greedy, but I wanted the lie to become the truth.
I wanted him to be my lover.
When he voluntarily sold it, I thought it was a match made in heaven.
When he seems to be enjoying himself too, he couldn’t be happier.
She was already deeply into acting.
Now she’s done lying
For Rose, it felt the same as breaking up.
She rubbed her face and rose from her bed.
I couldn’t stay still like this.
There were two things to do.
Seduce Starchis to change his mind and become a true lover,
Using the position of a lover to shake off the women next to him.
****
“…Birthday?”
Russ took a slow, deep breath and looked at her letter her.
Starchis seemed ashamed to tell this
A lengthy explanation was given.
It wasn’t anything important.
To recap, Elzain decided to set her birthday her,
That it will be the next day we meet.
For a long time Russ had been asking about his birthday her.
He always held out his hand saying he had no birthday.
She thought at first that she was not shy.
Afterwards, knowing his difficult past
He thought he had made a mistake.
She said that his birthday his just happened now.
She said that what she couldn’t do was through Elzain.
Russ didn’t want to congratulate him for the first time.
Congratulate him here if you leave him a good memory,
You would think that it was all thanks to Elsaine.
More than anything else, he hated that Elzain left a huge mark on his life.
His birthday his is a regular return every year.
That means, from now on, until Stachis dies, he will live on the birthday that Elzain has set for him.
Even if Stachis and Elzain are lucky enough to break up,
Her traces will remain and she will return every year.
She had carved a name into the life of the man she loved that no other year would erase.
“…Under…”
I wasn’t too angry anymore.
I was just depressed.
I was gradually coming to terms with it.
The fact that Starchis still has a girlfriend
I hated it so much I couldn’t stand it,
I was getting used to it.
It’s just… Busy entering the dungeon and putting in this much effort.
I wanted him to know.
Russ was overcome with negative emotions that came flooding in.
She let out a big breath.
It was a new stress reliever.
Recently, because of Elsaine, no
Because Starchis has a girlfriend
I was under so much stress that I couldn’t live without it.
No matter how much you think about it, you have to give up and move on with the things that do not change.
What she can do now
All she does is find him a nice birthday present.
Because I don’t want to congratulate you
She might be hated by him for buying shabby presents.
Of course, he’s not a man to hate himself for that,
He’s the closest, the longest he’s known, and it goes without saying that he should give you the best present.
And, whether it be party members or Elsaine, everyone will bring presents.
She didn’t want to be pushed by them.
Russ exhales a few more
She left the door and went outside to find the present.
****
There are many people who recognize the fort on the road
Russ felt both her trouble and her annoyance.
If only there was an unapproachable aura like Stion’s
There will be fewer people coming
Is it because she does n’t have that kind of aura, or because of her beauty her, or because she looks easy?
On her way she had too many people talking to her.
“..Uh?! Is it Russ? I heard that these days are really great!”
A stranger of hers approaches and she talks to her.
“…Thank you.”
I briefly say thank you, pretend to be busy, and get out.
I have no idea how many times it has already happened.
She wanted to quickly find something suitable for Stachis.
“… Mr. Russ?”
“… Sorry, I’m busy right now-“
Another time someone spoke to her and she tried to avoid her seat her.
She realizes it is a familiar voice.
Turning her head, Elzain was standing there.
“… Elsaine?”
“I see you here.”
Russ asks, forcing her crumpled expression to bloom.
“…Where are you going?”
“Yes. Actually, I want to buy Starchis a birthday present. Oh, you know it’s his birthday his soon, right?”
“… He?”
Russ finally gets impatient and twists her face.
It was an instinctive reaction.
“Are there any problems?”
“…No..”
Rose didn’t hold back the slightest and brazenly flaunted her friendship with him.
I wanted to do that now.
For a few days, because of the stress from her father
There were parts that were intense.
It was a bit of a joke.
“Has Mr. Russ prepared a present for her birthday her?”
“…I want to buy it.”
“Today?”
Russ nodded her head instead of answering her.
“Then would you like to come with me?”
Rose suggested it first.
She said with a calm face
She simmered because of Hian, who was still deceived.
So, her feelings pushed to the limit
Gets upset at even the smallest things.
She also doesn’t feel comfortable with Russ.
She hides it as best she can,
Conversely, Russ does not hide his appearance of her.
She wanted to take a bite.
She didn’t want to keep getting hurt.
As Russ pondered, Rose urged her on.
“Come on, Mr. Russ.”
“…I see.”
In the end, Russ agrees.
After looking at Elsaine’s gift first,
She plans to buy a better gift than that.
“Have you thought of anything?”
Rose asked first.
“… Not yet.”
“Then would it be all right if I went to buy one first? I have something in mind.”
“Okay.”
I think that things are going according to plan
I walked in the direction Rose led me.
****
She walks in silence for a while, then Rose points to one of the shops and she says.
“Here.”
The shop she pointed to had no signs or windows.
There was only one door that was firmly closed.
“…What store is that?”
“Why did Russ and I say we wanted to go buy something when we first met?”
Once upon a time, Rose had escaped the surveillance of her bodyguards to buy items from the novel.
She then met Russ in the middle, and while she was heading to her store with Russ, she ran into Starches, so she couldn’t buy the goods.
But now it was possible.
“Is it here?”
“Yes that’s right. Go in.”
-Smart
Rose confidently knocked on the door.
The door opened, and a woman with heavy makeup was inside.
She looked at them
She looked at the two women at the door,
I looked behind them once and asked.
It looked like something was on the line.
“… How did you come?”
“I came to buy something inside.”
The woman looked Rose up and down.
“… Do you know what’s inside?”
“Yes. I know.”
“Hmm… It doesn’t look like that.”
“…”
“…What’s coming in.”
The woman in make-up finds Rose unresponsive.
She opened the door.
The exposed interior of the store was dark.
There was a faint red and pink light.
An unknown fog was thick.
“Hey, is this… ?”
Russ felt her heart beat.
“You will know when you go in.”
Rose pretended not to be intimidated at all, but
It was her first time in a place like this, and her heart was pounding.
A feast of numerous adult products followed.
Things you don’t even know where to write
It made Russ’ eyes dizzy.
“Bird, bird, didn’t you say you were here to buy a birthday present?”
Russ grabbed Rose by the shoulder, visibly embarrassed by her.
Rose was also surprised by the more naked items than she thought.
Having read only books, she was overwhelmed when she saw the products with her own eyes.
But here she was, she couldn’t tease.
To give Russ a shot, she has to pretend she’s all too familiar.
“Are you here to buy a birthday present?”
Russ looks around her.
None of them were normal.
“Here?”
“Sure.”
Rose swallows her saliva, giving her lie a little boost.
“It is essential for a good relationship.”
– Good relationship.
At the word, Russ shook her head.
‘No.’
She thought intercourse would only be once, then.
No, even if it did, I thought it wouldn’t happen a few times.
But if you listen to what Elsaine has to say
I’ve done everything I can,
She seemed to lend her agency a hand in the hope of maintaining a better relationship.
Although it may be her own delusion of her,
At first, it sounded like that to Russ.
“Today is…”
Rose pondered over her house before looking around her.
Even if I wanted to touch her, she flinched and her hand her wouldn’t move.
Still, she was ashamed.
It was a relief that Russ followed her and did n’t see her face her.
“…Well…”
I don’t want to belittle Russ, so I try to hold her heart her and hold her instruments her,
Her hand her doesn’t move at all.
Just then, the store owner, a woman wearing makeup, approached.
“Are you looking for something?”
“Yes? Ah… Um…”
“But you look innocent, but you’re bolder than I thought?”
“…”
Rose went red in her face, but
Because of the red light inside her, she didn’t stand out too much.
A woman in makeup nodded her head and pointed at Russ.
“Are you looking for something to share with him?”
“Yes?”
“Yes? No?”
The two women, misunderstood as lovers, strongly deny her head.
It was the loudest she had ever made in the store.
“Okay? And what?”
“That…”
Rose purses her lips, she says.
“…I came to find something to use with my …Boyfriend.”
Rose said that the only reason she came here was
She wanted to give Russ a shot.
To find a tool to use like Starches
Didn’t come
Not yet.
Russ, on the other hand, wanted to cover her ears.
Even if you want to pretend to be strong,
The boyfriend Elsaine is talking about
It didn’t change that she was the one he loved.
That person is sharing the equipment here with a woman who is not himself.
Using it, she didn’t want to believe it.
“What does your boyfriend like?”
The woman in makeup asks casually.
Rose noticed Russ behind her.
She looks through the atmosphere she hears, she says.
“… I like things that are a bit strong.”
