Reincarnated As The Only Son (18 years old) Of The Arrogant And Wicked Marquis Family. - Chapter 33: Elena And The Reason.
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Elena And The Reason.
Just as I was spending time in the classroom in a daze, as usual, after the one-on-one exchange with Shea was over.
“Hey, hey.”
“…”
I thought I heard fast footsteps, and then I saw Elena speaking to me while tapping me on the shoulder.
She had waist-length red hair and purple eyes. She had a perfectly shaped nose and pink lips.
The unexpected appearance of the beautiful face of Elena was a bit thrilling.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you.”
“No, it’s all right. What’s wrong?”
“That’s my line. What the hell happened to Shea?”
“What do you mean….?”
A rare conversation connected by questions from both sides.
“I saw her this morning when I came to school. She was in the hallway, surrounded by multiple people.”
“What? Men?!”
“Servants like her. She was talking very lively with them.”
“Oh, yes. I’m glad to hear that.”
I was relieved to know that she was not involved in any trouble.
“Also… If she was surrounded by men, I would have helped her… I wonder if I look like a worthless person to you, who wouldn’t help a friend.”
“N-No, that’s not what I mean.”
Elena, with her hands on her slender hips, waved one hand in denial with half-opened eyes.
“Then, why did you think it was a man?”
“I gave Shea a gift the day before yesterday, but I didn’t know if she was going to wear it to school too…”
“I don’t think there’s any need to blame her for that. It’s not like ornaments are forbidden at the school, and I’m wearing a choker myself.”
Elena placed her slender hands on her slender neck and indicated the choker. It was probably not my imagination that each of her movements looked elegant.
“I know it’s not prohibited nor is it forbidden.. but the gift I gave her was a hair clip and a necklace. You should already know what I mean.”
“I don’t understand.”
If she had understood me here, the conversation would have been quicker.
“I was thinking, Well, if she leaned forward, the necklace would hang, wouldn’t it? I mean, it may interfere with her studies, so I thought you might have noticed this problem already.”
“I don’t think I would need to.. You say it may interfere with her studies, but if she tucks it into her collar, it won’t hang down.”
“Oh, certainly…”
I was amazed when she told me. That indeed was a way.
“It’s your fault for not taking her personality into account in the first place. She is the one who wants to wear it all the time because it’s hers. It’s a gift from her adoring master.”
“No, well… yes.”
I ran out of words to say back. Certainly in theory I was at fault.
“Then, that gathering was either because of the gift, Shea was proud of or she was being teased. Since it was a gift from you.”
“Oh, hahaha. That’s the best fit for me, too.”
I was filled with an itchy feeling, but I was most happy that Shea was that pleased with my gift.
“Your reputation is going to grow even more. I hear you’re already famous in the maidservant class.”
“F-Famous?! I haven’t done anything to build my reputation, okay? And I haven’t done anything to spread good rumors about me or anything like that.”
I had no recollection of this. It was not possible under the circumstances. That meant there was someone on the inside.
“There’s only one person. The one girl who looks out for you first.”
“Could it be Shea? I mean, she’s in the maidservant class, so it’s Shea…”
The culprit was quickly identified.
“Correct. You have a bad reputation, so those kinds of questions would naturally fly to her, right? And it’s Shea, so she brags about it more and more, doesn’t she? As a result, she now gets about 10 people. She tells them about your good side.”
“Yeah. Why…? Shea is definitely exaggerating when she talks about me…”
I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of embarrassment.
The fact that you could be so proud of your master, it didn’t really matter.
“She’s proud of her master. Isn’t it fine?”
“Well, you could take it that way, but…”
I scratched my face and made a shy face.
The most important thing was that you should be able to see the whole picture.
I might tell her ‘why don’t you just stop,’ but Shea had done nothing wrong.
If I were to tell her to stop bragging about me, she would probably look sad.
She might even regret her actions, saying, “I’ve been warned.’. No, she would definitely regret it.
Since I could see that far ahead, it was best to leave it as it was.
“You …are kinda cute. Only when you are shy.”
“Oii.”
“Fufu~ It’s a payback. You’re always making fun of me.”
‘Yay yay~’ Elena poked me on the cheek while smiling pleasantly, and I was the one who was not resisting. Instead, I only gave her a disapproving look.
“Ahh… There’s one thing I was wondering about what you just said, so let me ask you something. I’ll stop.”
“Yes.”
How long she would have continued to do it if something had not come to her mind, that was an eternal mystery.
“You gave Shea a present the day before yesterday, right?”
“Yes.”
“Speaking of the day before yesterday, that was the day you had a date with Miss Luna right? How could you choose a present for another girl on such a day?”
“The day before yesterday was the day you went on your date with Miss Luna. Thanks to her, I won’t have been able to choose her a present.”
“I was the one who raised the subject about Shea, but she was the one who encouraged me to choose a gift that would take up a lot of my time.”
“Hmmm… She’s very kind, Miss Luna. If it were me, the mere mention of another girl on a date would make me uncomfortable and want to be mean to her.”
“Haha, that’s so like you, Elena.”
“S-shut up… I’m sorry, I’m so small-minded.”
“I didn’t say that.”
This was not so much a matter of being small-minded, but more a matter of how possessive you were.
And from the perspective of the guy’s side, it was a funny side of her.
After all, only her lover could see her like this.
“Pfft, hahaha!”
“Why are you laughing at me?!”
“Sorry, sorry. I was just imagining what kind of mean things Elena would do to me.”
“…Hmmm? What kind of meanness? I’ll tell you.”
“What?”
The soft atmosphere changed in an instant. Elena’s voice changed. Even her expression turned serious.
As I was wondering what she was doing, she pulled out a letter from her handbag.
“Yes, this one. I’m going to do something mean that will make you incapable of thinking about other things and other people.”
As it was, she handed it to me with delicate movements of her hands.
Perhaps this was Elena’s true intention.
I saw it in my field of vision.
The letter was sealed with the emblem of the Count Leclerc on the wax, a stiff letter – an invitation to the mansion.
The sender was Elena’s father, Count Il Cestas.
The addressee was… me.
“What, what’s this…? Why?”
“Even I want to know that.”
“…”
Although I received the letter, I felt nothing but horror. The sender’s name was all about pressure.
“I don’t understand… What did I do…?”
“My father said. ‘A person who respects those who cook and can even think of assistance for them. I think it is very wonderful. Impressive, even for a young man.'”
“…Ehh? Ah…”
I took a few seconds to digest those words, A thought came to mind.
The day before yesterday, when I was eating dinner with Luna.
“You are really strange? I’ve never heard that the son of a marquis enjoys cooking. I don’t mean to be rude, but cooking is considered a job for people of low status. If you are a person of high status, you must be averse to it.”
“Well, I guess you and I get along because we don’t mind it. I don’t consider it a low-class job to begin with. It’s a good thing to be proud of.”
“Uhmm, Why do you cook?”
“I don’t know if you understand this, but if you have cooking skills, you can support yourself and your servants when the servants are sick, right? It’s a good thing to have.”
“Usually, they would get fired, if you cause that kind of inconvenience to your employer.”
“No one is perfect, so it’s inevitable that you will cause trouble from time to time. It’s not like you’re being a nuisance on purpose, and even if you’re taking care of yourself, things can go bad.”
The conversation we had at Efir, one of the restaurants owned by Elena’s father…
“Oh, you know, …Does your father know how I look like…?”
“Of course he does. He has all the faces and names of the surrounding nobility in his head.”
He got me.
“Continuing my question, were you in Efir two days ago…?”
“Two days ago… Yeah, Alan and I had a consultation with father that day. My father had some business at Efir, so we decided to go there to have a talk with him after the restaurant was closed.”
“I see…”
Count Il Cestas was in that restaurant.
“I’m telling you, it’s a wax sealed letter with an emblem, so it’s a serious invitation from my father. He’s not a bad one, so you shouldn’t refuse.”
“R-right… I’m sure the date and time have been decided.”
“Fufu~, it’s your fault, you know? You’re doing things to make my father like you.”
“I wasn’t aiming for it… At all.”
She was somehow pleased with my retort.
“Well, good luck with that. …Since it’s you I’m happy…”
“I’ll just have to try my best to be polite, though…”
I didn’t understand that little mumble of Elena’s until a little while after she had finished saying it.
“Ehh? What do you mean you’re happy?”
When I looked away from the letter. Elena was no longer there.