Chapter 463 – #98_Perfume(4)

#462

One.
Amelia stormed out with a force comparable to Eloa’s spurt through her door.
Siu couldn’t help but stare blankly at his back.

I’ll get the car, Rani.
Isn’t there a kettle of tea that hasn’t cooled down since it was just brewed?
It is an excuse that can be seen clearly in the eyes.

It’s not that Amelia’s appearance is pitiful.
The pitiful thing is, on the contrary, this way.

Without countermeasures, her feet were wide open, she had no ability to deal with it properly, and her indecisiveness that she couldn’t push through with perseverance must have brought her work to this point.

“I…. Did you make a mistake?”

Eloah became anxious at Siwoo’s hardened face and Amelia’s unnatural exit from the room.
Meanwhile, in Eloa’s head, a combination of the current situation was being formed.

Eloa has no contact with Amelia.
Moreover, it is not an exaggeration to say that she has not heard her story about her to Siwoo more than her Sharon.

However, there is no way that Siwoo risked his life for no reason.
Ironically, if the person saved there is a ‘witch’, only one possibility comes to mind.
No matter how much she is a disciple he loves, what Eloah could never say was his ‘good point’ was his circumstance with women.

Just by looking at Siwoo’s expression, it is clearly written on his face that he wants to go after him right away.
Elroa smiled bitterly and then punched Siu in the head with her fist.

“Ouch!”

There shouldn’t be a hump, but it was quite emotional, so Siwoo covered his head in surprise.

“I’ll have to listen to what’s going on.”
“Actually….”
“Who said now? Hurry up and comfort me.”

Siu looked at Eloa with surprised eyes.

In fact, it wasn’t just that she didn’t immediately chase after Amelia because she ran out with a stubborn back as if to say, “Don’t chase me!”
The teacher who worried about the poor disciple and ran to the top with socks.
It was because she couldn’t leave her seat without a proper explanation of the situation to Elroa.

However, Elroa did not inquire into the details of her circumstances.
She did not reprimand Siu, nor did she try to monopolize him by hugging him.
Instead, she just understood.
She believes in Siu so deeply that she doesn’t even need to say anything.

“The world situation is moving quite urgently, and I must go at once. I saw that you were safe, so it’s okay.”
“Master, you came here with difficulty….”
“If I’m really sorry, I can at least give you a deep kiss…. I don’t really want to kiss you with such a pitiful expression on your face.”

Elroa hugged Siu and stroked her hair.
Siwoo saved Eloah from being crushed by an empty desire for vengeance.
Elroa is also a person, so I can’t lie that she has no desire for exclusivity.

But he wasn’t so mean as to take priority away from someone who needed his help, he thought to himself.

“I’m fine, let’s go. I will hear more details later.”
“Master….”
“If you stare at me like that, you won’t kiss me, so come on.”

Siwoo looked at Eloa with a benevolent smile on his face with trembling eyes.
She didn’t say anything, but she seemed to know everything.
Eloah of the past might not know it, but today’s Eloah knows what ‘love’ is.
The fact that he had repeatedly said that he didn’t even need a kiss seemed to see through the faint sense of guilt that was now weighing on Siwoo’s heart.

It was because if he kissed Eloah here, it seemed that Siwoo would never be able to follow Amelia with her proud heart.

“Thank you.”

Siu, bowing his head deeply to Eloah who pushed the back of the poor disciple, rushed out to find Amelia.
However, Amelia is nowhere to be seen on the 3rd floor with a kitchen, the 2nd floor with a dispensary, or the 1st floor with a customer stand.

“Ha….”

Siu sighed.
Because she immediately guessed where Amelia, who had said she would pick up the car, had disappeared.

The past few days, Amelia has been like her hesitant stray cat.
She repeated that at one moment she would stick by her side like a lover, but when she looked back, she would stay far away.
She understands how she feels.

What kind of despondency must have come to Amelia when she sees Siwoo’s lover who hurriedly returned because of what she had done.
It hurts to talk about how much Siwoo’s fault was included in it.

Siu headed towards the hut in the cypress tree forest.
If she is Amelia, she seems to want to find it there.
I’ll be waiting for you.

2.
Actually I know.
Nothing has changed.

While Siwoo and Amelia were estranged, he had many lovers by his side.
He had no intention of resenting Siwoo for that.

The first opportunity given was to Amelia.
In the end, Amelia Marigold’s self-earned gains for wasting it and leading it to the worst path, and no one can be blamed.

He thought it was okay to have someone else by his side.
Right now, he smiles at Amelia, holds her hand, stays by her side when she sleeps, and does great things together.

She’s just soaked in happiness right now, refusing to narrow her eyes and face the truth.
It was something I had never seriously thought about in the future.

And when he sees Duke Tiphareth suddenly rushes in and hugs Siu and tries to kiss him.
Amelia felt her heart pounding.

Now I feel like I’m looking at reality properly.

Siu understood Amelia and forgave her all her faults.
Because he is a kind person.

However, Siwoo’s kindness is not only directed at Amelia.
It is distributed equally to the twins, to the witch named Sharon, and to the Duke of Tiphareth.

After belatedly realizing that fact, I couldn’t help but recall it.
If so, what number is Amelia Marigold to Shin Si-woo?

“I hate to admit it….”

I met you so hard
I was just starting to get closer.

Next to Jaman Heo is a woman who already looks much more affectionate and precious than Amelia, and who would not have hurt Siwoo in the past.

I know it’s an ugly complaint for someone who is already in debt.
I also know that it is the pouting of a child who is really childish.

You’re jealous now
You said you were so sorry, but you didn’t even know the subject and were shamelessly jealous.

That’s why the resentment and savagery toward Si-woo that came to mind suddenly turned into self-blame and sharpened his chest.

So he ran away.
He also ran away.
While I was determined to fight like that.
But Amelia was more afraid of the homunculus she didn’t know her name, than the exploits she knew only of her name.

“I’m sorry.”

Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Everything is pathetic

It was the complacency that pushed thoughts to one side that I didn’t want to think about while pretending to stand up.
Intoxicated with the two of them living a happy life together, he forgot what he had been through because of him and begged for a kiss.
In the end, by the time the truth arrives in front of his eyes, he throws away even the courage he had built up and runs away to the cabin again.

Amelia even used her magic to fly away and took refuge in a cabin in the gullfi forest.

But even here it was not a haven.
Concern, who entered together after her tenacious pursuit of Amelia’s heels, did not let go of Amelia, who was lying on her odokani and pulled her blanket over her.

What is Siwoo doing right now?

Is she talking about the story she has accumulated after meeting her lover after a long time.
Or maybe he’s talking about Amelia, the culprit behind the situation.

There’s no way Siwoo will gossip behind his back.
However, Amelia’s narrow-minded mistake cannot be hidden no matter how she covers it.
It would be up to the Duke of Tipperette how to accept it, but if Amelia were her, she would never look kindly at the witch who hurt her sister-in-law.

“…….”

The time when I rolled up the blanket and fell face down on the bed.
She felt a sharp stabbing pain down her chest.
Even without looking, Amelia knows the identity.

A final letter from Master that Amelia will never let go of her body no matter what.

Looking at the letter reminds me of my own unsightly image.
Although she had vowed to change, her own image, which had not changed at all, was evident even in the hem of her dress.

Of course, it was not only because she did not want to recall her grief that Amelia did not read it for a long time after her funeral.

Amelia deeply loved and respected her master, but at the same time resented the choice made arbitrarily without a word of consultation.
Amelia’s very small rebellion and resentment in the midst of love and hatred to the point of mistaking it for being dull.

Still, when she suddenly raised her head to her chest, Amelia pressed her lips together.
Another Amelia scoffed, saying, ‘Are you afraid you haven’t opened it yet?’

After pondering for a while, Amelia closed her eyes tightly.
She didn’t even have to use a paper knife.
The seal stamped on the wax was lightly torn off with just a little force.

Amelia opened her letter with her trembling hand.
A three-page letter.
It’s only three sheets of paper, so I don’t know why it’s so heavy.

The thing that opened Amelia’s eyes, which had been closed so tightly….
It was an all-too-familiar smell of perfume.

First, the scent of Bulgarian rose and ylang ylang spreads lightly and fresh.
The round, condensed scent of jasmine when you are distracted by the first smell of a bright bouquet.
By the time the white flowers that fill the entire room with a single fingernail-sized flower are scattered over the elegant roses like crumbling grains.

A powdery musk scent that shyly sticks out its head and wraps everything around like a bouquet of flowers.
And Master’s body odor created by mixing animal fragrances.

Among the five senses, the sense most strongly associated with memory is the sense of smell.
In the letter, along with the perfume that Master always used, Master’s body odor, which was no longer found, was saturated.
She hugs Amelia tenderly, as if she were falling asleep in her master’s arms.

“Master….”

I can’t cry anymore
I can’t cry anymore
Even as I repeat this, the tears do not stop.
Memories and happy times spent with Master in this cabin passed by like a kaleidoscope, gently sweeping away my scarred heart.

The familiar handwriting on the letter paper I looked down after swallowing my tears was neat and tight.
It was written tightly.

Then came the voice that I wanted to hear again.

“Dear Amelia, my dear daughter.”