Pretending to Be a Girlfriend？ 95

Chapter 95 – Truth and Fury (3)

After everyone left except for Russ, Rose, and Starchis,
The two women began clearing the table.

I tried drying the starches over and over again, but
I couldn’t break his stubbornness for a long time,
In the end, all of them were removed, leaving only his bottle, glass, and snacks.

When they return after cleaning up the trash and washing the dishes,
More bottles were rolling around Stachis.

When did you bring it and drink it again?
I was really worried about him now.

His face is loose as much as he is drunk
The sadness that was hidden behind the smiling face was revealed.

The corners of the eyes his are drooping, and the expression of hurt.
It wasn’t just tears, it was like I was on the verge of shedding tears.

Russ was surprised by the expression he made, who was always strong.
She hurriedly ran to him.

“Cheese..! What are you really like..!”

She snatched the glass from his hand.

Starchis was blank.

Leaving the glass of wine that was so easily taken away,
This time he lifted the bottle and blew it.

“Stop drinking.. I’m worried..!”

Even Rose clung to him and took the bottle.

“…”

Long unresponsive, he bent his head
He scratched his ears with his fingers.

Everything seemed boring.

“…Paa…”

He let out a sigh mixed with the smell of alcohol.

At first, I felt like I had to put him to sleep.

“…Wake up, Stachis.”

Rose lifts his arm her.
Russ also clung to his side her to support his arm her,
He didn’t even budge.

If he doesn’t want to move
It was to be.

Then, suddenly, he rolls his eyes.
Act like you’ve come to your senses now.

“… Ah, has it gotten dark?”

Then he gets up on his own feet.
I stumbled a little, but thanks to the women clinging to me, I didn’t fall.

“…What’s going on…What the hell…”

Russ muttered, but he didn’t even pretend to hear.
Instead, he only speaks to Elzain, who is hanging on the other side of Russ.

“..Rose. I’ll take you to your room.”

He says.

‘Rose?’

Who he was calling, Russ didn’t understand at first.
Russ shifted her gaze to Elzain.
She was perplexed

Rose.

It’s a name I’ve heard somewhere.
After thinking for a while, she remembered the name.

When she first met Elzain, she said that the name of the aristocrat she was looking for was Rose Nice Tea.

Is it a coincidence?

It was difficult to say right away,
It was clear that it was something to talk about.

But not now.

Starches look so hard,
It looks so depressed, but I had no desire to ask anything.

Get him off the booze and put him to sleep soon
It was her goal.

Starchis staggers along.
As she said, she seemed to be trying to find Elzain’s room in her.

Starchis comes out into the hallway.
On either side of him were women supporting him.

“…To, no.. Elsaine. You… Go to my room.”

“Yes?”

“..You?”

Russ stays calm for now
She asked the important things first.

“I’ll rest in that room. There’s no bed except for my room…”

Even when she is upset, she understands.
That’s fine.
It was expected that he would take care of her girlfriend her.
Even when he was drunk, he was still nice.

I was content with not sleeping together.

Still, Russ was worried about Starchis.
Even though I was so drunk, I wonder if I should sleep in my bed.

“..Ouch.”

Starchis stumbles and stumbles.
His weight her shifts towards Russ.

Russ supports him.
It was a small thing, but she was glad she could be of his help her.

“…Shall I take you, Elsain?”

Looking at Stachis, it seemed that he would escort Elsaine to the first floor.

It shouldn’t be.
I stumble just by walking,
You don’t know what will happen as you go down the stairs.

Both Rose and Russ stopped him.

“No. I’ll worry about you first.”

“That’s right, Stachis. I can go down on my own.”

And the two work together to drag him into a room.

Turn the doorknob of an empty room to open it,
I carefully laid the Starches down.

Muttering unknown sounds
He closed his eyes and fell asleep.

“..I’ll bring you a blanket.”

Says Russ.
The two sigh and leave the room door open.

“…Do you know why?”

Russ asked Elzain.
He’s sure he knows more about Stachis than Elzain, but it’s hard to know why he’s doing it now.

Fortunately, it was the same with Elza.

She shook her head and replied.

“..I haven’t seen anything other than that since I met Lily earlier.”

“…Ha…”

And when Starchis disappears, the two become awkward.
They weren’t close friends.

The two went to Stachis’ room without saying a word.
He told me the location only once, but I remembered it correctly.

“…Was it here?”

She arrived at his doorstep and asked Elza.
Russ nodded, and Elsaine opened the door.

This room, unlike the one where Starches lay down, was cozy with several pieces of furniture.

It seemed that he could faintly smell his scent of her.

“…The blanket…”

Russ looked everywhere besides Stachis’ bed.
I couldn’t find any blankets.

“Uh?”

Elsaine also finds something while looking for a blanket.

It was a necklace she gave me.
It was lying on the table.

“…Why is this here..”

It was hanging around his neck his just before.
It was lying in the room.

Maybe I didn’t like it?
I’m crying all the time
Even if he didn’t like it, it would have been nice if he wore it.
Because of the superstition of this necklace.

A superstition that saves lives.
I was too old to believe that
Still, I couldn’t help it.

“… Sleep here for now.”

Says Russ.

“Yes?”

“I’ll look for a futon somewhere else.”

“..However..”

“You don’t have to keep moving from place to place. Starchis also fell asleep like that.”

“…”

“Tell me if anything happens.”

Rose follows Russ out even though she wants to take care of Starches.
She knew there was nothing she could do.

As Russ said, it only cluttered her surroundings.

If you see her own face her, she’ll do something for her
Starchis seemed to be moving.

Also… This necklace.
I feel sad about it, so right now I just want to curl up in bed.

I wonder if her own sense her was not good.
I thought she was delighted.
Maybe she put it in the room because she really wanted to cherish it.

Anyway, like Russ said, it would be better to just rest like this.

“…I see. Mr. Russ?”

“Yes?”

“Please bring these blankets and pillows to Starchis.”

“…”

“It’s not even mine anyway.”

“I won’t specify..”

Russ gathered from her bed to bring Starchis.
As she packed the blanket, she felt as if she was buried in his arms of her.

But then she shook her head,
Say hello to Rose.

“…Tell me if it’s cold. Get some rest.”

“Yes. Good night, Mr. Russ.”

Rose lightly bows her head in greeting.

Russ said hello as well and left Starchis’ room.

– Kik. Thud

The door to his room his closes.

Elsaine is in Starchis’s room.

If you go up to the second floor like this, the only thing left is yourself and Starchis.

She swallowed.

…I have wished for this situation.

Before he had her girlfriend her, she gave him a drink
There was a day when I wanted to make it a fait accompli.

Now everything that was planned at that time has happened.
No, maybe it’s a better situation.

Starchis is drunk, and he himself is sober.

If you sneak up on him.
Could I hit him?
Could he be eaten by him?

He is a man too
Wouldn’t it be possible to achieve what you want if you stimulate your mind?

If that’s difficult, wouldn’t he just use an aphrodisiac?

“…”

But it’s in her very dark voice
He’s talking about when he listened.

Of course she would do that now
It wasn’t malicious.

Those dark voices only whisper,
He doesn’t want to act like that.

She quiets the whispering demons in her head.

He looked so sad
What happened?

Russ bit her lip.

You will have to wait.
When he has his thoughts in order, he will speak first.

He will have a relationship with himself too.
It reminds me of how he used to be a little rough with himself from earlier.

If Lily and she were in a relationship, what she would think of
There’s only one, but it’s still too early to say.

“…Under…”

She sighed.
Anyway, now than that worry
I was more worried about Starchis suffering.

I’m already organizing my thoughts
I arrived in front of the room where Starchis slept.

I didn’t close the door, but Russ came out,
She pulls her head to the side of the blanket and examines Stachis.

…He wasn’t there.

“Uh?”

-‘Ting.’

An ominous sound rang out from the dining room.

Russ throws all the blankets and pillows into the room.
She hurried to the dining room.

The fireplace and small candles were all turned off.
All the buildings were dark.

Time for everyone to get ready
Only a ray of moonlight comes through the window.

Upon entering the dining room, she left a small candle lit in one corner of the table.
I could see Stachis still drinking alcohol.

“Hey Chis!!”

Russ hurried over to him.
Why are you doing this?
It was to the point of being terrifying now.

I hadn’t seen him like this in years of knowing him.
Today everything was happy and good.
He seemed happy until we met.
I wonder what happened.
Heart starts beating

As Russ approaches him,
He fixes his expression

I couldn’t see it clearly because of the dimly flickering candles
Until it is fixed
It seemed that he had the same expression when he talked about his parents.

His parents his are the biggest scars for him.
At that time, he was making the same expression he had now.

“…”

He secretly wipes the corners of his eyes her.

“Why…Really…! What’s up..!”

Russ pulls out the chair next to him and sits down.

He didn’t respond.
Instead, he takes a drink.

The type of alcohol also changes
No longer wine
He was drinking strong alcohol.

Russ was terrified of it.
I still haven’t figured out what
Something was going on.

Unlike when he first left the restaurant
He seemed a little awake.

“…”

“I am so worried! What happened…!”

No matter how much Russ shouted, he didn’t respond much.
He stared at the candle for a while, then poured a drink into his glass.

As Russ grows more afraid of his actions
Let’s wait without speaking
Starches says

“…Really too much.”

– Gulp, gulp.

He drinks
His voice His was trembling.

Russ, in spite of his actions
I am also surprised by the trembling voice.

“…Uh?”

…Widely.
Very slowly he sets the glass down on the table.

Was it just talking to myself, or something for Russ who hadn’t heard?
Perhaps out of consideration, he repeats his words one more time.

“Russ… You are really too much.”

“…”

Russ frowned,
I waited for him to add an explanation.

“…”

Starches bite their lips,
Hesitate for a while,

Speaks in a sad voice

“… It shouldn’t have been like that to me as much as you.”

“…What’s going on…You have to tell me…”

“…”

“…”

Didn’t you hear
He doesn’t respond because he doesn’t listen.

Instead, whet your appetite.
It looked like it was about to fall asleep.

I just listened to the drink again.

He doesn’t say anything
An impatient Russ asks.

“You’re my friend…! Huh? Tell me… I’ll help you…”

“…”

“…”

“…Friend.”

He is the first to respond.
Food. Smile.

-Bang!!!!!

Starchis suddenly slams his glass on the table with all his might.
The wooden goblet breaks.

The alcohol inside splatters all over the place.

Russ is started.
But before she could soothe her frightened heart
Starchis jumped up from his seat.

A completely different behavior from the sleepy look.

And she grabs Russ’ arm.
She is drawn to his power.

“Uh? Uh?!”

Russ is drawn to him for a while.
He drove her against her wall.
She couldn’t even react.
I couldn’t figure out what was going on.

-Pak!

She is driven against her wall.

“Oh!”

In his rough hands
Russ hit the wall and groaned.

But Starchis didn’t care.

Instead, he asked in a sad, resentful voice.

“…Friend..?!”