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Vol 3 - Chapter 23




Volume 3 Chapter 23
“…What about it.”
Lidianne looked down on me as she whispered.
She stopped shaking my hand off, but loathingly glared at me instead.
“Nothing is solved even if I told you about it…!”
“Yeah, that may be so, still!”
I also glared back at her eyes that were filled with stubborness.
Both of us were acting so unlady-like as we stared each other down with a grim face, and spatted words roughly.
“Something MIGHT change, right! There are things that you won’t know if you’re on your own!”
“Nonsense! What, can YOU solve MY problem, huh!?”
“Of course there’s no way I can solve it!!”
I couldn’t guarantee such a thing.
I wasn’t Kami-sama, nor was I Lidianne herself — I was just an outsider in this case.
“Then —”
“BUT!!”
Lidianne was about to argue vehemently, so I also raised my voice in return.
I was an outsider. Basically, it wasn’t like I could do something about her situation, but — there were things that I can see precisely because of what I was.
“Even if I can’t solve it, I can tell you the things that you don’t notice yourself!!”
“Me…!? What do you mean by ‘things I don’t notice!?”
Lidianne dubiously knitted her brows as I took another step closer to her.
I could almost touch her long hair if the wind blew.
She winced at the proximity. I started speaking once again.
“— Adoracion-sama’s eyes.”
His gaze back at the mansion floated to my mind.
That cool, austere, and unforgiving person feared by both men and deities — and the look he gave exclusively to Lidianne.
“Lidianne, you’re the only person he would look at with gentle eyes…I bet you didn’t notice that, right?”
He was glad that she made a friend, and was disappointed to know that he was mistaken. He rejoiced in her happiness when she looked like she was having fun.
He only had eyes for her during the entire time he was in the mansion.
‘There’s no way Adoracion-sama treated her as “nothing”.’
Lidianne probably didn’t notice it because she was too close.
From a bystander’s view, however, it was very obvious.
“…Me?”
Lidianne mumbled, and she looked like she had just been told a lie.
Apparently, it was beyond her imagination.
For a few moments, she just blinked her eyes, unable to continue her tirade.
“…There’s no way that’s true.”
However, the words that spilled after that silence was full of denial.
She shook her head, as if to say that she couldn’t believe it.
“Maybe you misjudged, or it’s just a misunderstanding on your part. That’s because, I’m not reincarnated.”
“You’re saying that just because you don’t have the memories, right?”
Lidianne rejected my words, but I just shrugged.
It was said that the girl would have her memories of her previous life in all her reincarnation, but the only person who can confirm that was the girl herself.
An ordinary human wouldn’t have the memories of her past life — and I was pretty sure that there were some things that the girl forgot from time to time, too.
It was said that she would only reincarnate when Adoracion-sama was a human — that’s what the story said.
There was not a single person who directly saw, heard and knew about such a thing.
That was why I was confident.
“Even if you didn’t have the memories, that doesn’t affirm that you’re not the reincarnation! At the very least, Adoracion-sama treasures you — so if you don’t know something, it’s better to be positive about it!”
“….”
Lidianne couldn’t say anything to refute my words.
I peered at her face. Her mouth was wide open in shock.
She looked dumbfounded, which was so unlike her. She was staring at me as if I was some kind of rare animal.
She remained silent for a few moments, before blinking once, twice, then —
“You’re so simple.”
She heaved a deep sigh full of exasperation.
“Spouting such an outrageous claim…What will you do if you’re mistaken?”
“What will I do, you said…”
Well, there’s nothing I could do about that.
I didn’t have any basis that Lidianne was truly the reincarnated girl, so if it was different from what I thought, then…I could only apologize afterward, I guess.
….I was troubled about it, and Lidianne narrowed her eyes.
“If you’re mistaken, then I’m going to despise you.”
“Despise!?”
Such extent!?
“That’s only natural.”
I goggled at her; she, on the other hand, snorted.
She easily shook my hands off,  then she put one of her hands on her waist, and flipped her hair with the other.
Under the night sky filled with stars…
She raised her chin haughtily as usual, she looked unruffled as usual, and she showed her usually proud demeanor to me. With a more daring tone than usual —
“You’re the one who instigated this, so you have to take responsibility!”
That’s outrageous! — I protested, but she happily chuckled in return.
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