“It’s a garden I really like. Really.” Bianca held out her hand and lightly touched the hyacinth blooming in the flower bed. The hyacinth, touched by Bianca’s fingers, burst with the fragrant scent of spring.
Indeed, it was a picturesque scene—a beautiful woman caressing a flower as if painted in a picture, not knowing what to do. If a painter were seated here now, he would be frantically using his brush to capture this scene on canvas as if he had gone mad.
But at the same time, it was also a sight that did not inspire me at all. I could never get over the past easily. It was true that the girl had a beautiful face, but I knew from my own experience that her inside was uglier than anyone else’s.
That woman’s nature was one who, from childhood, had no qualms about committing the act of punching others.
“Cain. Don’t you think you were being rude by staring at me like that?”
“Well, I’m not sure what you’re talking about.”
When Bianca looked at me and pointed out my inner feelings, I deliberately averted my gaze and pretended not to know. She was a woman who had a knack for terrifying people even now.
“So have you made a decision? Do you think I gave you enough time to think?”
“It is never difficult to make a decision. It just needs understanding.”
“Understanding? Understand what?” Bianca tilted her head at me and asked a question.
When I saw her like that, I burst out laughing without even realizing it. Was she acting like she didn’t know what I was talking about, or was she pretending? Of course, the latter was overwhelmingly likely. She was a woman whose intelligence had driven her mad.
“Yeah, I’m talking about understanding everything related to this situation. Like you said, I’m not that smart.”
“…..”
“No matter how much I think about it, it is not easy to understand. The fact that the Marquis of Castana is trying to donate an enormous amount of money equal to 20% of the net profit and that it is trying to make a deal with an individual, not the Duchy of Estel, and also—”
“And?”
“All of you who think that such a transaction can be made between the Duke of Estel and the Marquis of Castana.”
Yes. No matter how much I thought about it, no matter what assumptions I made, it was not easy to draw a picture where the Marquis of Castana would give us such a ridiculous proposal.
It’s been a thousand years.
There was a saying that even mountains and rivers change in years, and a thousand years was an incredible amount of time.
For a thousand years, the Duke of Estel and the Marquis of Castana didn’t stop glaring at each other and struggled to feed their hatred. The emotional gap between them couldn’t be filled in an instant, and their pride was too strong for either side to extend a hand of reconciliation now.
Perhaps, for a dramatic compromise to be made between the two families, the ship of those times that had burned with hatred toward each other would have to sail away. The time when the two families hated each other was too long.
Did they think I would easily believe the sugar-coated talk about giving away part of the net profit for free? No, did they think I was an idiot who would readily believe in the story?
“Bianca, you don’t have to come all the way here and do this. You won. It’s your victory. I won’t deny that accepting your offer is the best option for the Duke of Estel, who is in dire need—for me, who has to lead the dukedom in the future. It is a fact that I know very well that it is best to accept and eat the money blindly without thinking.”
“…..”
“However, I hope you don’t think that I will just nod softly to your suggestions. Although I like money, if you thought that I would sell the pride of the Duke of Estel for money, you would be very mistaken.”
Before the regression, the Duke of Estel did not receive any favors from the Marquis of Castana, and the two families went their separate ways. It wasn’t a very comfortable life, but nevertheless, the Duke of Estel managed to maintain a noble appearance without any major conflicts and lived well.
Ten years later, the witch who brought winter to the entire continent and Bianca in front of me now destroyed the entire Duchy of Estel.
“So I want you to be as honest and clear as possible. I don’t have the confidence to engage in a fierce battle of brains with mages. If you have nothing more to say to me, let’s end the story here.”
Saying that, I turned my back on Bianca without any hesitation.
I had delivered my speech with a firm attitude without looking foolish. But in reality, I was barely holding back the thumping of my heart. Resisting that woman with force would have been one of the most foolish things in the world.
It was then…
“Hey, Cain. Shouldn’t you stand still? You want to run away during the conversation?”
Thut…
As soon as I heard Bianca’s barbed words, my body stopped in place, entirely out of my control.
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