Betrayed By My Fiancé, I Changed My Role From A Viscount's Daughter To A Lady-in-waiting To The Queen

Chapter 78: Chapter 2, Episode 3

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

「Ohhh, that’s harsh…」

I agree vehemently with the little mutterings from overhead. Because it’s so scary scary. I am horrified, no joke, when I imagine this being directed at me.

But honestly, I’m thinking,『Suck it up.』Besides, he had been criticized so harshly. I breathed out a sigh of relief that Raul’s ambush and other annoyances would end. Douglas-sama glanced at me and then immediately patted me on the head as if to comfort me with a pom.

I was glad he felt that way, but I felt as if he was treating me like a child, which made me a little sensitive. And he always strokes me for a long time and with a little too much force. My hair gets messed up and I don’t want my head swung around. But my hand immediately retracted and I tilted my head.

I felt nothing but discomfort that Douglas-sama, who always stopped me no matter how much I disliked it, would stop me when I didn’t say anything.

「?」

I looked up at him with a question mark in my mind, and he looked down at me with a subtle expression on his face, then turned his head toward Ryniel-sama and the others as if urging me to do so. I tilted my head further and turned my head in that direction, too, and Ryniel-sama looked at me as if he had something in his eyes. And Raul was reprimanded and turned his head down, but the look that peeked out of him made me cling to Douglas-sama’s sleeve involuntarily.

I guess you could call it an expressionless face with no will, inhabited by a dark light. But the expression is fleeting. It was only at that moment when his gaze really met mine that Raul looked down again, and when he looked up again, he had the familiar theatrical look of anguish on his face.

「Ahh… oh dear lord…」

With full and trembling hands on his chest, the theater of smugness began again, as if to say how his heart was in pain. I wonder if I misjudged that look I saw earlier. I feel a strange unease.

「What are you saying?」

I came back to myself with a huff at Ryniel-sama’s line, not noticing Raul’s expression.

Indeed, after being reprimanded, he suddenly found himself in a theatrics of self-indulgence and not knowing the context of the conversation, so this question was a natural one.

「Does Captain Ryniel not think anything of it when she sees the Commander and the others?」

「No, not really.」

Raul shook his head as if he was not convinced, and for some reason began to lament.

「Ahh, why, Marsha. I trusted you…! Why…! You would do such a thing as to shoot my heart mercilessly through with an arrow of frozen ice!」

Raul, as if dizzy, stepped out of his bellows, and there was a moment of silence.

「「「………………Huh?」」」

I think the three of us were of one mind when the meaning of the words finally reached our brains.

「…Frosty ice arrows, you say?」

The repeated lines of Raoul spun by Ryniel-sama, buhah—!! I blew it out of my mind. That’s right, I blew it out in a big way. I also said that all the excitement I had felt in Raul’s face, which I had never seen before, was blown away by this line.

I know what it means, even if only vaguely. It’s an appeal to say that he is deeply hurt by my rejection, isn’t it? I get it, but I’ve never seen anyone shamelessly mention it in real life, not if it’s used in a play or poem! Y–Yeah, we didn’t mishear him just now. Ryniel-sama repeated it, so there’s no way we heard it wrong, that’s right. Buhhuhuhu, eh, is he serious? Oh no, someone praise me for not gushing!

「Yes! My heart bleeds with every attack.」

Raul continues to lament, aside from the whirlwind of laughter that blows up in my mind.

「Captain Ryniel, it is true that she may not accept me even if I take the necessary steps as you mentioned! No matter how much I wanted to, her stubborn heart would reject me.」

“Don’t laugh, don’t laugh!” I think so, and yet every time Raul speaks up, a grand paroxysm of laughter hits me. He was so desperate that if he uttered a single word, I would start laughing. There was no way I could stop Raul from screaming in embarrassment. I could see that Douglas-sama was laughing as well at the shiver that wasn’t mine, transmitted from the arm that I had casually grabbed.

「I am aware that this rejection was caused by my past conduct!」

Oh, you are aware of it, aren’t you? Or rather, you are aware of it and you are doing this. Normally, he would be ashamed of himself and stay away from me, but I guess it can’t be helped because he’s a flower man who spouts such embarrassing lines, fufufu.

The more Raul acts out his grief, the more my abdominal muscles are exercised.

「It is my sin to have locked Masha’s heart in a box of thorns…!」

「「…………urk!!!!!!!!!!」」

Box of thorns——! Buhahahahahahah! Hey, hey, what, what is that “my heart in a box of thorns” about? Eh, when did my heart get trapped in that box of thorns, fufufu.

I’m afraid that me and Douglas-sama are about to blow up any minute now. Douglas-sama pokes me with his elbow, telling me not to laugh, so as not to be noticed by the surrounding onlookers, but I poke him back in the same way. Ryniel-sama is too awesome to hear that line up close and not blow it out of the water.

「That is why I am obligated to remove Marsha’s thorns. I am rather proud that only I can do that. In other words, it is a heaven-sent test for me!」

A Test From Heaven!!

「No matter how much the thorns hurt me, I was willing to accept the hurt for her sake. But…!」

Raul looks at me with his eyebrows tightly knit and tear-stained eyes. No, his gaze is not only on me, but also on Douglas-sama. At that moment, I had a further fit of laughter and quickly hid myself behind Douglas-sama’s back.

「It is not thorns attacking me…! It is a blade of mindless ice…!」

Ugh, just stop! He had shifted from arrows to blades! It makes so much sense that my stomach muscles are on the verge of collapse!!

I had no idea what Raul meant. It was amazing that he seemed to be able to communicate with Ryniel-sama because he was able to carry on a conversation with him. And what is this sight?

But the question was answered by Raul’s next words.

「She and the commander are apparently in an unusual relationship!」

「「Haah!?」」

My mouth fell open. And it was an unladylike big mouth. If I hadn’t been hiding behind Douglas-sama’s back, I would’ve had to expose my face in a most unbelievably embarrassing manner.

I could see many of the hidden gazes around me and Douglas-sama concentrating on me.