Reincarnated As The Only Son (18 years old) Of The Arrogant And Wicked Marquis Family. - Chapter 20: Elena’s Hmfh!
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Elena’s Hmfh!
The next morning.
“…”
“Hey.”
“…”
“Hey… Oii”
“Hmm?”
Inside the classroom. As usual, I was in a state of isolation and was just standing there, when I heard a voice from next to me.
I slowly turned around and the first thing I saw was s her beautiful red hair. Next was a well-shaped face and purple eyes.
I saw Elena, who was somewhat restless, touching the choker around her neck.
“M-morning, Elena.”
“Good day to you.”
“….”
“And that’s it? That’s all you have to say?”
“What? Good day to you too?”
‘”That’s not what I mean… Huh.”
Elena sighed out of her fleshy, pink lips and looked at me.
“You’re just going to keep on acting like you did yesterday. I know it’s unfortunate, but I’ve already heard about it. I already heard that you gave Alan some advice.”
“Ahh-“
“Don’t ‘Ahh-‘ me. If you did give him some advice, instead of keeping quiet, you should have told me too. If you had done so, I wouldn’t have had any choice but to praise you…”
—Muttering.
Muttering so that Beret could not hear her, Elena turned her gaze downward, blinking more often.
“I’m sorry. I should have told you. We talked about it.”
“I wonder if you really think so. It seems to me that your words are a bit light.”
“I don’t think so…”
She’s really perceptive…. In fact, I couldn’t tell her because I didn’t know he was Elena’s brother….
I didn’t advise him intentionally.
“Uhmm. How was Alan at home? Did he seem okay? I said some pretty harsh things, so I was worried that he might be hurt.”
“You’re more concerned than I thought. Instead of being hurt, I saw a twinkle in his eyes and heard some compliments for you. I had a bit of a hard time dealing with it.”
“I-Is that so? I’m glad to hear that.”
I narrowed my eyes on her words.
I was later reflecting on how I should have chosen my words… a little more carefully.
I felt a sense of weight lifted from my chest.
“Ahhmm …You know… Beret?”
“Hmmm? You are kinda acting like Shea.”
“An-anyways, Thanks, Beret! After listening to my problems, you went out of your way to find and give Alan some advice…!”
Her mouth tightly closed and she shyly bowed to herself and expressed her gratitude. …But here I was, not knowing her reason for thanking me.
“No, what are you talking about?”
I didn’t mean to look for Alan… I didn’t know his face in the first place, and we met by chance…
“I knew you’d pretend you didn’t know. But it’s no use. There is no other reason for you to go to the library.”
“What?”
What does she mean? I dropped by the library to return a book and because I had something to do with Luna…
I could not grasp her intention.
“Have you been doing that all this time? If you’ve done something commendable, you don’t have to keep quiet about it.”
“…”
What should I do? I can’t follow her. In the first place, I didn’t know that Alan was in the library…
One thing was for sure.
If I continued to be dumbfounded at this point, the conversation would surely get bogged down.
For now, I’d just scoop up what I understood now and reply.
“You say, ‘If I do something commendable,’ but I didn’t give him advice for a thank you in return, and I’m not using it to gain popularity, so there’s no need to let people know.”
“Hmmm. That’s a big statement, but I think you need to let people know a little bit about you. What’s the point of being cool if there’s a bad rumor going around?”
“Ah, Ahhah… You may have a point.”
I thought I was stating the obvious, but now that I was living as Beret, she punched me in the face with a good argument.
“Anyway, I should also mention that my father has his eyes on you.”
“What? What do you mean, he’s got his eyes on me?”
“I’m sure our father is aware of the advice you gave to Alan. He asked me this morning, ‘What kind of man is Beret-kun? Tell me more about him.'”
“What’s with that? Kinda scary.”
“Well, I told him you’re a… kind of guy.”
“I-I’m glad to hear that, but you don’t have to say anything remarkable… You could have said something bad.”
Elena’s father was the reigning head of the count.
There was nothing scarier than getting attention from such a person.
If you spoke from whatever wason your mind… unexpected things would happen.
“Ehh, you… are really smart.”
“No, not at all, why?”
For some reason Elena gasped, her hand over her mouth in amazement.
“Our father told me. ‘If you tell him about this and Beret does anything to hide it, he’s a really smart man.” He said that the more capable a man is, the more jobs he gets and the more important he is, so he refrains from being conspicuous.”
“No, that’s not it.”
“—and he said that if I put it this way, he will calmly deny it without any evidence.”
“…”
“He said that the smarter a person is, the more he tries to learn, the more he tries to adopt new things, the less satisfied he is with the status quo.”
“…”
No, what’s with this clairvoyance…? Sure, I have an advantage because I was reincarnated, but…
Just hearing this gave me the creepy feeling that he could see right through me.
“I’ve been told to report back when I hit all the marks, but I never thought it would really happen…”
“No, it’s not that I’m smart.”
“Actually, though, it’s not like I’m not smart enough to give Alan advice. I’ve never had my father ask me questions like this before.”
“Aren’t I already on his radar now?”
“I know right.”
“A quick answer…”
Nothing was more believable than Elena’s reaction.
“Elena, what is your father going to do now? Can you tell me that?”
“I don’t know about that, but I think he’s going to try to get me engaged. I wonder if it’s called a political marriage.”
“To whom?”
“With you.”
Elena pointed her slender finger at me. And then…
“Me.”
She pointed at herself with an obvious look on her face.
“H-Huh!?”
“What’s with that voice…?! Are you unhappy with me? I’ve been proposed to by many noblemen.”
“No, that’s not what I meant.”
A political marriage. It was certainly one of the possible stories, but I hadn’t even thought of this. I couldn’t help but let my voice leak out.
“Elena, are you really okay with that? I bet you know about those bad rumours about me?”
“Oh nu~ I’m messed up now. I should have guessed it earlier~”
I was the one who poured cold water on Elena, who was blushing with her cheeks giving a grinning look on her face. I could only wonder how such a mess could happen.
“I don’t want to say.”
“Say it.”
“I once made a joke that I was going to ask the man who helped Alan to marry me, and my brother told our father about it. …Alan has fallen in love with you since that conversation.”
“Nonononono! Then it’s your fault, Elena.”
“It’s Alan’s fault! Alan should have said something!”
“It’s always the initiator’s fault. There is no such thing as self-sacrifice.”
“You don’t have to be so hard on me…”
Elena, sulking as she did yesterday, curled her red hair around her fingers with her mouth agape.
“That’s because I wanted to help Alan that much…”
“Well, certainly. You did it as his big sister.”
“Right?!”
“Yes. I like that kind of spirit.”
“…”
“No, I don’t want you to ignore me there.”
The moment I told her while we were face to face, Elena froze like a stone, but she quickly returned to normal.
“!Fu…Hmmf~ I didn’t say that to get a compliment from you.”
“I know.”
She acted a little high-handedly to hide her embarrassment.
“Hmmf, This is for you anyway! For you.”
“What?”
Elena reached into her pocket and handed me three wrappers containing something.
“What is this?”
“…Chocolate.”
She told me with a pout.
“Why?”
“It’s a thank you for yesterday… From Alan.”
“Oh… Thanks.”
“Hmph.”
With these words, Elena took her seat.
The chocolate she gave me had melted a little, probably because it had been in contact with her body heat.
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