Episode 199

“Hoho~ Oh my God. I didn't know that such a great person lived near us. Wasn't I usually lacking in dealing with my wife? Ma'am. I will take care of you with all my heart from now on.”

Katrin clung to Elisha's side.

Lucerne seemed to enjoy watching Elisha surrounded by a new kind of race in a new ecosystem.

'Really, is this interesting, that man?'

Elisha resisted the urge to throw her champagne glass at him.

“But I heard rumors from her that Madame Laure is away from her husband. I hear she's in recuperation, so where's the pain?”

One of the ladies next to Katrin asked. Elisha tried to speak softly.

“I'm just taking a break for a while.”

“Okay! That kind of time is also important.”

“Yes. If I had to ask, I'm begging you to come back. My wife is not an easy woman.”

Lucerne stood next to Elisha and said. Elisha was stunned by his increased acting skills while she hadn't seen her.

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Elisha was finally freed from the people after a while. As her nobles fell, Elisha looked at Lucerne with a cold expressionless expression.

“What do you mean, you?”

“There is no such thing as an ulterior motive.”

“You really stumbled upon this party by accident? Do you think I am stupid?”

Lucerne leaned over to Elisha.

“I'm not chasing you all day. I really have something to do.”

Then Catherine came back with a bright smile. Undoubtedly, she had the momentum to feel even her tenacity to become Elisha's best friend starting today.

“Look at that woman's smiling face. Thank you. For breaking the peace of my life. Maybe I should move to a quieter country place.”

Elisha bit her teeth tightly and spoke quickly in a whisper.

“Oops.”

Lucerne said.

“It will be difficult if you move. So I'll make that woman cry. Would that make you feel a little more sympathetic?”

And it really happened.

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“General Wellton was a great man. It is an honor as a comrade-in-arms to deliver the obituary.”

Lucerne said while handing over her keepsakes to Catherine. And the adjutant who followed him next to him continued his long talk.

“He is a great former general, he served as a staff member of the Imperial Army for a long time, and he was on the battlefield even in the last moments of his life.”

So……. Lucerne's words were true. He has come to deliver the obituary of a famous old former general. And Elisha's suffering was not over.

“Hehe, Hehe……. Black……. Alas, Uncle. Ah. I knew you would.”

When Katrin heard the news of her death, she began to weep. And he accidentally grabbed Elisha's hand, which was next to him. When Elisha missed the moment to remove her hand, she burst into tears in Elisha's embrace, how she took it.

'What's happening.'

It was an embarrassing situation for Elisha. Elisha's dress was soon damp with Catherine's tears. Elisha needed help, and she found Amelie, who brought her here.

“He was a very nice man.”

But even Amelie was speechless when she saw her sobbing and crying. Cried Catherine.

“No wonder. That's why the general came here personally. For such a great person to pass on my uncle's obituary……. Alas, I wish for nothing more. It's also because you have a different identity. The general couple are really kind.”

“…….”

“They are also very generous people. It's a match made in heaven! Maybe there is a couple that goes well together like this?”

Elisha was learning the standard of her social life from Katrin. While she was sad about everything to be sad, she just threw out her words that seduced Lucerne and Elisha.

“Stop crying, madam.”

Elisha held out her handkerchief to Catherine with her patience. Katrin held it like a treasure, then blew her nose once and said to Elisha.

“Thank you very much. Thank you…….”

Elisha was able to avert this situation only after Katrin's husband came and took her wife away with her courteous thanks. Until that moment, Lucerne looked at Elisha as if she was having fun.

“To enjoy other people's obituaries like this is not enough to be a good boss.”

“That nobleman is addicted to war, so even if he stopped, he would have lived a long time. I tried so hard to get him out, but I failed. Besides, he had been saying for a long time that he would die on the battlefield.”

“…… Oh, is that so?”

“Okay.”

Lucerne casually wrapped Elisha's shoulder and whispered in her ear.

“Even if it were me, I wouldn't assassinate a 70-year-old old soldier to get your attention.”

Elisha's cheeks turned red. She averted her gaze.

“Okay. Well done.”

Elisha suddenly looked up at the sky. The sky was overcast. Elisha realized that it was time for her to go back.

“Then you're done with your business, and I'm tired of the party, so we can break up. I'll just go.”

The atmosphere of the party suddenly changed to a memorial service for the old general. The people decided to share the wagon and head for the mayor's mansion.

The party didn't go well, but Katrin seemed satisfied. She will never forget for the rest of her life the honor that 'that' general came to visit her today, as much as her sorrow for her uncle.

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“Me, ma'am. If you're going to die, can I see you?”

Just then, someone caught Elisha disembarking from her ship. When Elisha looked up, she was an unknown young aristocrat whom she had seen often at parties.

“I don't know if you will remember me. If you are going separately from her husband…….”

Elisha concentrated but failed to remember who he was.

“It's okay. We can walk.”

“But it looks like it will rain. The place to park the wagon is quite far. The party ended sooner than expected, so the coachman's dinner time began. If you go in my carriage.”

Elisha felt he was quite persistent. It was then.

“Elisha.”

Lucerne called her. Suddenly he was approaching him. Elisha turned her head.

“What are you doing with my wife?”

“…….”

“Are there any rumors about you being married yet?”

“What are you talking about?”

Elisha said angrily. Instead of answering her, Lucerne glanced over at Elisha's man who was standing next to her. His face turned pale, he hurriedly greeted him and left.

“What are we going to do?”

Elisha brushed off her Lucerne's hand that had caught her own arm before she knew it. But when she saw that Lucerne's face was frighteningly cold, she was taken aback. Lucerne smiled.

“I've become a lot nicer.”

“…….”

“Just watch things like that.”

Elisha glared at Lucerne. She began to stride. His cheeks were all red.

Come now

What are you trying to imitate now? Do you want to play a love game?

It wasn't good.

'Why am I always a fool when it comes to that man?'

She didn't hate Lucerne, but she resented herself. Even her heart felt crazy. She's the one she's seen so many times. When she saw him, her feet moved as if she were on her feet and she tried to reach him.

A lot of bad things happened between the two and there were hundreds of reasons why they couldn't get back together. However, the man would ignite Elisha's heart on his own accord.

And then, an unbelievable thought came to my mind. It was just one imagination that was the exact opposite of those hundreds of reasons. Would you like to be with him again? Imagination close to vain delusion about him.

“Elisha.”

…… Just like now

Lucerne chased after Elisha. And she grabbed her arm. Elisha's blonde hair swayed wildly. Her blue eyes collided with his red ones in the air. The skin contact was thrilling.

Tutuk.

Light raindrops slapped my cheeks. Lucerne pulled Elisha into the shade under the roof of a riverside building. He leaned over her and looked into Elisha's eyes. And he whispered

“It was a lie.”

“…….”

“I came because of you.”

Lucerne whispered. Her face came closer as if her breath could touch it. Elisha felt a tingling sensation and wanted to close her eyes.

“How do you know I'll be coming to the party?”

Elisha squeezed her heart, which was about to start beating wildly, and asked.

“That's always a problem.”

Lucerne said.

“I know it's futile, but I always hang around you.”

“…… Until when?”

“Perhaps for the rest of my life.”

Lucerne said.

Shoot, cold rain poured down.

Ah. That this can't be stopped Elisha thought. The timing was mischievous for her shower.

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Shaaaaa, tuduk tuduk.

The showers didn't stop. Elisha and Lucerne decided to wait for the rain to stop under the eaves of a building on the pier. They stood side by side and quietly listened to the rain.

“It's strange.”

Said Elisha.

“What?”

“That we are standing here peacefully listening to the rain.”

“Maybe it should have been like this.”

Lucerne said.

“…… You speak so easily.”

For some reason, Elisha felt a little pain.

A long time ago. When she was an ugly woman with burns on her face……. How was it? She would do anything if she could share her love with him like her normal man and woman. However…….

“But it doesn't mean anything anymore.”

Elisha said silently. Lucerne stared at her in the rain for a while.

“What else did you dream about?”

Elisha blinked her eyes. Will that matter to Lucerne?

“Has there ever been a moment in your married life when you were shaken by me?”

“There were many.”

Elisha answered honestly.

“But now……. There is no turning back. It's too late.”

Elisha tried to speak nonchalantly.

“Okay. Maybe it's too late But sometimes I do the impossible.”

Unfortunately, the rain did not stop.