Chapter 342 – #75_Pride and Prejudice

#340

One.
Diana returned home through the portal with light steps.
She was in such good spirits that she flew at 1.2 times her normal walking pace.

She had just passed her noon, yes, when she had to go out and wander around as promised with Countess Sword.
But today is a bit of a special case.
It is a day to reward yourself.

She had a full-body duel that made her head hot, and above all, her original emotion was bound to consume her stamina.
Diana, who had been through the emotional curve since morning, felt that she was more exhausted than anyone else, and that she deserved a break as a prize, she thought.
So, she lies down in the private pool of Levana’s public bath, and Diana floats around.
Holding her bunch of grapes in her hand and eating them one by one, she had a self-congratulatory party of joy.

“Ah~ sweet~ sweet~”

Grapes are too sweet today.
She was truly an exhilarating match.
She is especially so in that she has taken and suppressed her opponent, whom she really wanted to punish.

“Puhuh… !”

Diana burst into laughter at the thought of Siu’s now dazed face.
As soon as you hear the words ‘I don’t play games with cocksucking~’, the look on your face that gets stunned.

“Poop… Whoops… ! Whoops… !”

In fact, one of Diana’s scores was obtained without even knowing the rules.

“What was it about?”

It’s annoying to play again.
And in the end, the winner is Diana.
That’s it.

“Originally, the world speaks through results. Whooping… !”

Diana smiles and lies comfortably on the sunbed.
How long will it be peace?
A lazy river with heated hot spring water covered with a glass dome.
Enjoying a vacation among the lush tropical trees and flowers, the sky is the roof and the fresh scent of flowers is the blanket.
Originally, I should have been able to fall asleep, but today I had work to do.

“Huh, shall we review the great game we played today?”

It’s not particularly powerful.
Watching her replays and appreciating her own great play.
In other words, it’s time for the ripple jerk.

Diana turned on her position board crystal ball she had brought with her and recalled the morning’s game with a throbbing heart.
She was so distracted, but she still remembered the moves they had made with each other.
Recall the exhilarating moment as you replay each move.

Diana, who was fiercely pushing!
The opponent who counterattacked more fiercely!
When she came to her senses, Diana was on the defensive!
However, after taking advantage of her opponent’s mistake, she counterattacked, and she won the victory… That moment!

“What?”

Diana’s expression, which had been twitching the corners of her mouth with a mischievous smile, was frowning.
I felt something inconsequential that I hadn’t noticed during her performance.
It was the part where Siwoo repeatedly made mistakes and Diana counterattacked.

Her strange grittiness clicked on her tongue, like when she gets a splinter in her tooth while eating fish.
Diana once again repeated to have Siwoo leave out the part of her that she was fooling around with.

“Yes… ?”

But the more I try… Weird.
Something is strange.
A strange smell wafted up.

When the Great Power was in full swing, even Diana couldn’t afford to think of this or that.
Her head was exhausted from her crazy fight, and she was only happy about Siwoo’s mistake in the dark situation.

But the game is over.
After cooling her head for a bit and taking a closer look at her, I felt a deep sense of incongruity.
Diana calmly organized her thoughts.

Q. Why did he go into an unreasonable attack without saving magic?
A. Because he didn’t notice that he had an advantage.

So far it can be.
However.

Q. Then, why did Diana engage in battle to take away a rune that was not needed in a small battle field that had already been victorious?
A…… Why?
Will become

The opponent doesn’t know the rules of the location board.
However, he is in a state of knowing exactly what magic is.
If it wasn’t for that, Diana would have collapsed helplessly from the start.

If so, this move was strange.
Compared to the shrewd side he has shown so far, it is too crude and extremely emotional.

“No way….”

Diana’s face went pale.
Her heart denied it, but her reason was screaming.

“Did you watch it?”

Did you deliberately make subtle mistakes and wait for them to remain undetected?
Diana reset her location board and tried again from scratch.

However, this time, a different premise was laid.
The premise of ‘what if he threw the game on purpose in the last game?’.
Then the number that I thought was meaningless nonsense looked different.

Although not very meaningless, Siwoo’s moves are focused only on places of significantly lower importance.
Also, looking at this number, it was clever.
If you consider 1 as a handshake and 10 as a trick, it was a number that could be awarded 6-7 points.
In other words, it means that at that point, it is an ambiguous number that Diana will not notice that the opponent is intentionally losing.

Is this really a mistake?
Can such an elaborate mistake be called a mistake?

Diana thinks about the reality she wants to deny several times.
However, the more you review it, the clearer the truth becomes.

The smiling smile is gone.
The grapes in Diana’s hand were pitifully crushed and dripping with juice.

“Dare… Did you look after me?”

It’s 99% certain.
In fact, from the moment the victory was confirmed, Siwoo did not do his best.
Rather, he cleverly gave a clue to counterattack and naturally chose defeat.

Diana, ignorant of anything, firmly believed that it was her opponent’s mistake, and happily accepted her conceded victory with joy and despair.
Even that was not enough, so he made fun of her opponent and even taught her.

“Ah, I’m hungry for a back bone….”

Diana felt dizzy.
How dare you look at me funny? At the thought of anger.
She knows nothing and she is ashamed of herself in her raging self.
It’s shocking that I lost to a kid who started playing the game three days ago.
In any case, all sorts of complex emotions raged like a storm.

How disgusting must it have been to see the way he gave instructions in front of such an opponent and went on a rampage just because he had won?
It’s embarrassing.
She feels humiliated

“I’m going to go right away and just… !”

Diana, who was going to dig up the truth about her and once again be vigilant and attack.
Although she jumped up on the sunbed and gnashed her teeth.
Looking back….

‘Uh? Aren’t you coming tomorrow?’
‘Why me? Did you already win? It’s unfortunate, but I don’t like bullying people who are worse off than me…. Enough, it was pretty fun.’

… He came trembling to this pitcher.
In this state, go back on the same day or after a day and apply for a rematch?
Her face, which had already turned bright red, would explode with contempt.

And even if you put an iron plate on your face and apply for a revenge match, you will be defeated again?
Diana didn’t have the confidence to handle the humiliation and humiliation.

“Whoa…. Whoa….”

Diana calmed her beating heart and came out of the water.
It is time to acknowledge anger separately.

The opponent Diana ignored with her prejudice is clearly a strong enemy.
It is a mutation that will achieve at least a 5-5 match.
It was a failure that I had been too complacent until now.

Diana changed her clothes.
She locked herself in her room with a thick book.
There is no indolence or laziness at this moment.
The location board is ultimately determined by magic knowledge.
She opened her book, vowing that in order to repay this humiliation, she would not mind giving up eight hours of self-study.

2.
A tea party for Count Deneb Zemanai and Count Lucy Yesod.
The two people, who had been talking about business for a long time, were organizing the documents they had prepared and chatting before they knew it.

“Do you know how admirable the fortress Diana is?”
“Oh my, what happened?”

Countess Lucy smiles broadly as she eats Chancellor’s pudding topped with caramel syrup with a spoon.
Deneb accepted it with a nod of his head obediently, thinking that Count Yesod’s boasting about his unusual daughter had begun.

“Well, as Count Deneb knows, our Diana is smart and pretty, but she has a very blunt personality.”
“I remember you talking a lot.”
“I thought it would be a big problem, so I scolded him and sent him out. Go out after breakfast and don’t come back in the evening.”
“Aha.”
“By the way, have you kept your promise for a week already? Stay well outside. A week or so.”

Deneb blinked his wide-eyed eyes and smiled vaguely belatedly.
He is waiting for the words that will follow, because that was the end.

Is it so special to come back after playing outside?
It was extremely difficult to sympathize with Deneb, who had an apprentice witch who disappeared like a sheep that jumped over a fence if she took a second glance at her, and who had to chase after her every time.
He has a happy face that has everything in the world, but it was ambiguous to bet on it, so he said yes.

“How…. It’s really unique.”
“Yes? Yes?”

Countess Lucy continued to explain to Deneb how diligently Diana was wandering around.
Then she asks Deneb if it popped up.

“Look at my mind. Come to think of it, there is something I want to ask you.”
“Yes, if I can give you an answer.”
“I know that Count Murnay has a close relationship with that male witch.”
“Are you talking about Siwoo Shin? He is an important guest and a benefactor, so of course.”

She saved her twin’s life, and she was the one the twins liked and followed.

“Yes, that man. He’s not a weird guy, is he?”
“Is something wrong?”
“These days, Diana goes to the host bar to meet that man every morning. The two of them are playing a location board, so maybe they’re bad guys like Seungnyang…. I am worried.”

“I’m not a bad person, so don’t worry too much. He is an upright young man, which is rare these days.”
“Is that so? Why would such a person work at a host bar….”
“I know that you also set out to help a friend.”

While thinking that that is really Countess Lucy’s concern.
This topic resonated with me.
Didn’t Deneb also have a time when he was worried that the twins were too attached to Shiu?
Of course, now the trust has built up and I’m allowed to go on a trip together.

“Is Miss Diana showing interest in Siwoo? So… As a member of the opposite sex?”

She was secretly worried that even Ye Sod’s apprentice witch would turn her eyes to Siu, so she asked subtly.
Countess Lucy’s reaction to him was firm.

“It can’t be!”

He slammed the table and jumped up from his seat.

“How difficult my daughter’s eyes are. Since she’s a male witch, it’s probably all you have to do to visit her a few times out of curiosity.”

She did, but if she was the daughter of Count Lucy, she would be.
It was because she was more of a stereotype than any other orthodox witches that stubborn Deneb knew.
Diana also remembered that she was not easy.

“Don’t worry too much. Because she is a slave, she has a good understanding of Gehenna and her physiology. She’s not the kind of person to do anything. “
“Phew, it’s a relief to hear Deneb say that. Still, I need to see her face sooner or later.”

She cares for and loves her apprentice witch. .
Deneb hid her wry smile as she sipped her tea.

“Would you be surprised to see it in person? He was really handsome.”
“Hmph, all the men are there.”

3.
After the tea party, which lasted longer than expected, the night sky turned dark.
Count Yesod walked through the corridor of the large bath and moved to Diana’s room.
I couldn’t even have dinner today, so I’m trying to get a report on the situation even if it’s belated.

“My daughter ~ Shall we take a bath together with her mother after a long time?”

Lucy Yesod opened Diana’s door with a smile at the thought of seeing her lovely daughter.
And it froze on the spot.
It was because an unbelievable scene was unfolding before her eyes.

“Ouch… ! Whoa… !”

Diana is sitting at her table, holding a pen holder made of Duke feathers.
Gulping her saliva and looking sideways, I saw a pile of magic books on her desk.
Diana didn’t even notice Yesod’s entry and she was absorbed in her studies.

The Count squeezed his mouth shut.
The tip of his nose was hot and his throat was sore.
Tears are about to form in my eyes at the extraordinary beyond the limit.

Oh My God.
Diana has been studying on her own until now.
No matter how many times she rubs her eyes, she’s the same.
While frowning on her face and tousling her hair to see if something isn’t working out, she is engrossed in her studies.

Did Diana ever hold on to boring studies?
The sight of her for the first time since taking her as her apprentice witch thrilled her heart.
Lucy quietly shuts the door to avoid being disturbed.

“Huh… Black…Hehe… ! Good job Diana! Great job, my daughter… !”

In an instant, she couldn’t help but cover her mouth and shed tears at the sight of her daughter who had grown so much.
It was tears of joy.