Reincarnated As The Only Son (18 years old) Of The Arrogant And Wicked Marquis Family. - Chapter 36: Luna Knows What She's After.
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Luna Knows What She’s After.
“I see it’s a big deal. Elena-sama’s father was there at dinner. Hmm.”
“Too many coincidences…”
Afterwards, I finished my meal and headed to the library, where I was telling Luna about what had happened.
“What in the world kind of conversation are you going to have… With Elena-sama’s father.”
“It’s about what I’ve been discussing with him.”
“Him? Oh, Aah… you must be Alan.”
If so, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the meeting would take place in a ring against someone who had fought a hundred battles.
“Haa…”
“It’s a heavy burden on your shoulders, isn’t it?”
‘It’s more than a heavy burden on my shoulders… I wanted to keep things as civil as possible. People with power are scary.”
“And that’s coming from the son of a marquis.”
She gave me a blank stare.
“I feel sorry for you. If you had a personality that could leave people in need, there would have been a different outcome.”
“Ah, hahaha… You say that, but you are just like me, Luna.”
“I’m not as good-natured as you are.”
“I don’t think so.”
“Well, let me rephrase that as assertive.”
“But we’re still on the same page, aren’t we? You are nice and tried to lend a hand, Luna.”
“…I see. If that’s what you think, that’s fine.”
“Hmm yes.”
Luna had read a difficult management book and had written her opinion down in a memo. And that too, knowing the risk that she might be held accountable for.
It was the same in both of the cases.
“I’m going to change the subject here, but can I ask you one question, Luna? I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and there’s something I don’t understand.”
“Go ahead.”
“What do you think marking means?”
“What is this out of the blue question?”
“We-well, come on.”
This was a fair retort. With a wry smile, I asked, “What do you think about the meaning of that word?”
“I think there are two things. Emblem or a mark. Or the act of an animal marking a particular object with an odor to assert its territory.”
“R-right. I knew it.”
“You seem to know what you’re talking about. If that is the case, there seems to be no point in asking questions.”
“I mean, Elena said to me, ‘Just for the marking’ I didn’t understand what she meant by that, and she got mad at me.”
“…”
As soon as I told her, Luna’s sleepy golden eyes widened.
It was an unusual reaction for her.
“…Um, tell me how it all happened.”
“How did it happen? Ummm… After the meeting with her father is over, I think… We agreed to spend time together, and we decided to spend the time in her room instead of the guest room. I asked her why, and she said something like what I just said.”
“I see. So, she didn’t mean it in a direct way, but she expressed it in a unique way.”
“Yes, yes.”
The clever Luna immediately understood my explanation, even though it was rather rudimentary.
“I thought it might be about the kiss mark, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.” (Beret)
“…That’s troublesome.”
The little murmur reached my ears because of the quietness of the library.
“Troublesome? What? Did you by any chance figure out what that means?”
“I can’t be sure.”
“Still, as expected of you, Luna. Then will you tell me?”
I tilted my head with an expectant look in my eyes, but the answer I got was unexpected.
“I hate it.”
“EHH!?”
“Yes. This is a problem that I can’t tell you. I should tell you that I can’t speculate on this.”
“Oh, is that so… Then I can’t force you to tell me.”
I would like to force her to tell me, but in this topic she herself could not tell me. I couldn’t be persistent in asking.
“Instead, I can give you some other information.”
“Hmm? Then I’ll ask you for that one.”
The question I just asked. Luna understood to some extent as much as she listened to it.
It’s not a very difficult answer. With such a valuable hint, she bit into the next topic.
“It was the second period break, and your maid of honor, Shea-san, was here to greet me.”
“Oh, really?! Uhmm… Did she give you any trouble?”
“What do you think?”
“Wh-what’s with the scary question…?”
Shea was a pure girl who knew no bad manners and would play in the sun all the time if you let her outside.
It was possible that she might have done something unintentionally.
“She did cause you trouble?”
“No, she came with a very formal thank-you note.”
“Oh, I see. I’m glad to hear it.”
“Incidentally, she also made a non-malicious taunt.”
“…Wait a minute. I’m sorry, can you tell me the story?”
The relief was short-lived. The ‘taunt’ that was made ‘incidentally’ was indeed destructive.
“She was so happy. That you gave her a gift. And that… you patted her on the… head.”
“What…?”
“You didn’t do that to me, and I’m sure Shea didn’t know that information, so I said ‘taunt without malice’.”
“I-I’m kind of really sorry. Shea is the kind of person who says all the things that make her happy…”
This was something that would not be fixed even if I warned her. It was easy to imagine that even if it did, she would still slip up.
The fact was that this attentiveness was not appropriate for a maid of honor, whose one job was to make her master happy.
“She had more than a single expression on her face. She had been stroked more than once. I could tell that much.”
“Ummm, yes… Correct.”
Shea was already a genius who could convey much just by making facial expressions. …The fact that she was the best maid of honor was also an amazing feat.
“I’m going to ask you a question myself, you support equality, don’t you?”
“Well, I’m not… a racist.”
“If that is the case, it would make sense for you to do the same for me. I felt inferior when I heard that report.”
She looked at me with her eyes as if she had some kind of strong feeling.
“Ahh, it’s… You see, Shea is a family friend, but you are not, right, Luna? I can’t casually touch the head of a young lady….”
“What if I give you permission to do so? There is no rule that says you can’t pet me.”
“W-well, yes, but…”
After all, Luna is pure too… She even thinks that men and women who leave a nightclub only hold hands…
I had no physiological resistance to head patting.
However, if I moved according to her word, I wondered if it would result in a distortion of the skinship that she perceived… Such anxiety arose.
After all, it would be best to disobey here in order to make her keep the chastity that she had now.
I racked my brain frantically and came up with one sentence that would cancel out her sense of inferiority.
“Ah! But I did not hold hands with Shea.”
“…”
Luna gasped, not expecting to be contradicted or to have mistakenly thought that I was also holding hands with Shea.
“Skinship is different depending on the relationship, after all. Holding hands with you, Luna is like being patted on the head for Shea. So there’s no need to feel inferior.”
“…You convinced me.”
“I’m glad to hear that.”
What a reply to her—, Luna only moved her mouth slightly.
“It’s not fair.” she said, so as not to be noticed.
Luna understood what Elena meant by ‘marking’.
The day before yesterday, they had a date. She was trying to keep him in check.
There was no better check than “spending time with Beret in her room.”
One favor. And Luna wanted Beret to pat her on the head to get to know him better, but it was skillfully evaded.
Moreover, she was the first to know what Elena wanted.
‘This is unfair… Wouldn’t it be nice if she could give me a little of his time… She’s in a position to choose from a variety of men…’
She was alone in her helpless bewilderment, and she was alone in her helpless jealousy.
Today, she was able to endure it, but every time she saw the bookmark she received as a …present, she would become more and more anxious.
It may be natural for her to be overflowing with these feelings someday—and she is not sure when.