Chapter 177 – Love Me.

“Are you Chloe? Curious?”

Rike and Seria’s gazes simultaneously turned to him.

“…”

I don’t know why the sharp arrowhead suddenly turned at me.

It is often said to be silent, and when asked if they are curious, they remain silent without giving any answer.

Rike tapped the table with her slender fingers, lost in her thoughts.

Tok. Tok. Tok. Tok.

“No matter how much I think about it, she doesn’t have anything great to tell me other than what she told me first?”

At Rike’s words, Seria clung to her with a smirk.

“Why~ Since the time was empty between the events you talked about, there must be things that happened in between!”

“That’s it… I didn’t talk about it because it’s private and it’s not appropriate to talk about it outside.”

“Huh? A personal story?”

Is it because the person concerned spoke calmly without a change of emotion?

Seria did not immediately understand the point of Rike’s words.

Rike, seeing the girl who was always quick-witted in other ways and insensitive in this way, raised the corners of her mouth to paint her triumphant smile.

“What is it? These are expressions of affection in an invisible place. I haven’t seen Seria like that… Did you want to hear a dirty story?”

“Uh, uh…?”

She threw a preemptive attack, but after being hit by her counter, Seria, who was cornered by her, showed a panicked attitude, dyeing her face red like her own hair color, which is rare.

Rike, who caught her momentum, drives her even further into her predicament.

“It’s suspicious when I see you’re persistently asking me these days. Is there a guy you’re interested in? Seria asked me about that.”

“No…!! It’s absolutely not like that?!”

Even when she strongly denied it, Rike did not stop.

“A strong denial is sometimes a clear affirmation. Is it time for Seria to do that too?

“Ugh…!”

Even as she watched her one-sided and peaceful talk, Chloe kept her silence and waited in case Ricke would quietly bring up her brother’s story.

Rike, who made Seria about to grouse, put a cookie in Seria’s mouth to calm her eyes wide open.

“Okay, the joke is over.”

“…”

Seria, who had returned to normal from the brink of fainting with just that action, chewed the sweet lump in her mouth while waiting for Rike to speak.

“Calm down. Now I have something to tell you.”

“I’m already calm!”

When Seria’s expression returned to normal when the sweet was in her mouth, Rike nodded her head slightly, ignoring her laughter.

“Umm~ I went to visit my brother first. Did I tell both of you?”

“Huh!”
“Yes··!”

The word ‘brother’ coming out of Rike’s mouth had a strong disparate impression for the two of them.

The tone of voice and the emotion projected on the face itself were more natural than anything else.

Rike, who was chewing on her past time alone, looked at her empty space and touched the tip of her hair.

“Looking back, I was a nuisance to my brother and went to his house. The reason why I couldn’t confess properly… It’s not that I couldn’t properly face the feelings I had, I think it was because my identity for myself wasn’t established.”

“···What do you mean?”

What came out of Rike’s mouth was sweet and it was not an embarrassing event or time.

When an unexpected philosophical and contemplative sentence came out, Seria tilted her head, not understanding.

Rike simply abbreviated the sentences he had laid out and delivered them to Seria and Chloe.

“It was clear that I fell in love even for a short time, but I wasn’t confident that I would be accepted by the other person.”

“Why? Because the other person’s position is great?”

Before Chloe could bring out the point she wanted to ask, Seria gently scratched the itchy part.

In response to her question, Rike shook her head in denial and took out her answer.

“Because I didn’t love myself. I was scared because I wasn’t confident that others would love me.”

I wanted to kill myself because I hated her body with Skadi’s filthy blood.

The blood, flesh, and scars left behind by her mother were all precious, so she couldn’t win her heart.

What if she didn’t have her lover in the process of understanding and accepting it?

The way you might have suffered a lifetime of conflict and ruined your body or made an extreme choice.

Looking at Rike now, it’s a case that no one can imagine.

She knows how weak she is when she has no one to lean on.

“Mmmm…”

I was just trying to bring out Rike’s hidden expression.

When a heavy story that was different from her imagination came out, Seria put on a complicated expression while salivating from her mouth.

“It’s a little long, but in the end, you’re saying to cherish and love yourself. It’s strange to want to be loved by others when even I don’t love myself, right? Even if there’s no bad intention, it’s coercion and it’s the same as violence.”

“Even if I don’t have to say it, I like myself? I’m so great that Ricke and Chloe like me!”

Seria, who has found a way out of the heavy atmosphere, exaggerates her actions.

Ricke shoved another cookie of hers into her mouth, giggling as the explosive liveliness of her seria was indeed absurd.

“I thought it would.”

Watching Seria take what she gave her, Rike looked at Chloe without losing her smile.

“Chloe’s thoughtfulness is an advantage, but she doesn’t want it to be self-deprecating or demeaning.”

“Go, thank you…”

She said earlier that she had set up an appointment with her older brother, and Rike coolly agreed to it, so I thought I was confident.

After listening to Rike’s words, something in her that was hidden in her heart felt pricked.

…
…

After the academy, Chloe would have returned to the mansion, looking around him at a leisurely pace.

But only today!

He moved his feet so fast that his lush gray hair blew in the wind.

Chloe rushed into the mansion, opened her door, and hurriedly took off his clothes.

Sharak-

She wanted to put on her academy uniform and run to the store, but she wanted to put in the least amount of effort and effort.

In fact, Jungkook would be the most polite from her point of view, but it was the conclusion she came to after much thought because she thought that if she went on like this, it would simply be the position of an instructor and a cadet.

‘I have to prepare quickly!’

She had decided in advance what she would like to wear for a dessert appointment that remained separate from this time, so she did not hesitate with her hand.

Preparation is over.

Rike knows, but Chloe grabs her pen to leave her news to her sister just in case, and smiles as she sees the traces of someone clearly present in her room.

On the table in Chloe’s room.

An artificial flower is placed in a vase that sits in the center of it.

No matter how skillful a child made it, it couldn’t be mixed with the luxurious mansion owned by Eclair, so the texture was different.

Regardless of her, she put this flower in the most visible place in her own room.

He couldn’t smell her, but after hearing her harmony and feeling the scent with her nose, Chloe stood in front of her mirror and checked herself.

‘I’m really mean…’

Her lunch break with her friends today makes her really inescapable.

Although she was immersed in romance novels, she was ignoring her feelings, which she was most curious about, for ethical reasons, holding her neck with her hands and forcing her to turn around.

A few words from her friends revealed it now, and she couldn’t look away.

Even though she knew this heart, she couldn’t refuse her brother’s invitation, and she looked so ugly herself.

I do not dare to look at my brother from her sister and her friend.

Really?

It’s enough if you can just keep your current position and talk.

Really?

“Ah…! I can’t be late!”

At the thought of an angel and a demon appearing and fighting fiercely on both sides, Chloe barely raised her head.

Realizing that she was drunk and standing there blankly, Chloe rushed out of her mansion, moving her body again.

*****

‘What’s wrong with dressing too comfortably… After all, neat is the best.’

Even if it is a little uncomfortable due to the size of the muscles, is there another option for men that is as good as a shirt?

It will be more uncomfortable than a baggy top, but if you wear an expensive shirt, you can easily compensate for that with good materials.

Moving and turning his arm around, it’s definitely worth the money and there’s no discomfort.

When I lived alone, I lived loosely, saying that comfort was the best.

When I go out with my girls, I have to go at least in order so as not to embarrass them, so my closet has become very spacious compared to before.

“Hmm.”

Ricke and Eclair are me.

A man named Roman is given the highest score.

Parties are just happy.

They are the source of my positive self-esteem.

Ricke and Eclair seemed to have a lot of thoughts recently because of Chloe.

At least, it is satisfactory that the two opinions are unified in one direction.

-If you ask me if Chloe will be as happy as I am even if she goes to another man, and if I can meet a man in the Empire who truly respects that child, I really don’t know.

-I want to hold onto a certain future rather than bet on unknown odds. As Rike said, if you feel like taking all of the Dritna sisters, do as you please···That’s it. I know that Roman won’t take advantage of Chloe’s temper and treat her harshly.

An immoral sentence that pricks a point of irritation that you would have to see in a previous life if you had to squeeze it out somewhere on the Internet.

It became my reality.

So, whether it’s today or next time, I’ll do my best every time I face a woman named Chloe Dritna.

Kiik-

When I opened the door and came out and was greeted by the wind, the day was cool and it was quite nice.

No matter where in the capital, my feet go there and there.

When I left the outskirts of the house and went to the store in the center, Chloe was nowhere to be seen.

Rather, the timing of not waiting for each other.

“…!”

The two of them confirmed each other’s approach as they approached within eye contact, and waved their hands slightly.