Chapter 109 (1/2)

Translator: apinklover Editor: HH

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Gasp! Don’t I look more like a wandering ghost? Should I at least have tied my hair up? I-I’m sorry for your eyes…

“I hope she won’t fre—AH!”

I opened my mouth as I got carried away in that thought, only to end up with a horrific scream. It was because of Jennette who rushed over to me.

“Princess…! Is-is that really you?”

I felt a little embarrassed after looking at her doubtful eyes tremble in excitement.

Kek. She’s not checking if I’m actually a ghost or not right? She just lunged at me! Heh. She acts before she thinks sometimes.

“Yes, it’s me. For real.”

Her eyes began to shake even more than just before. Her hand shook as she grabbed my arm.

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Uhh, hold up! Why are your eyes tearing up? Y-you’re not gonna cry, right? Huh? Please don’t!

“Oh, Princess…!”

“Choke…!”

But she started to cry anyway. I made another terrifying noise as Jennette hugged my waist with all her might.

Aah! I think you just crossed the line! Even though we had tea parties together and had letters sent, isn’t this kind of a huge jump from what we’re supposed to be?

Ugh, I must have let my guard down. I-it’s not like I don’t like it, but it’s strange. Look at my hands not knowing what to do!

“I… I thought…”

I panicked from having Jennette hug me so I couldn’t really do anything. I had held my hands behind her back but then looked down to see her sobbing.

“I thought I’d never see you again… Sob.”

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I flinched for a second.

“I heard that you suddenly disappeared from the-the Palace…”

“…”

“I thought I wasn’t gonna see you ever again…”

“…”

“I was so scared… sob… sob… So I…”

She was drowning in her tears so much that even I couldn’t understand what she was saying.

She held onto me tightly as if I was going to all of a sudden disappear and wept.

“Eugh, sob…”

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I watched and patted her as I let out a small sigh.

Pat, pat.

She started to cry more freely as I pat her back. Her intermittent sobbing knocked my eardrums and faded into the fresh night air.

“Sob…”

I dared to think the person in front of me was poor and desperate.

If you laugh at me for not knowing myself before worrying about others, then I have nothing to say. I also knew it was foolish of me to empathize with a person who might put a dagger to my back.

But the fourteen-year-old Jennette holding onto me as if I were her last straw of hope gave me a lump in my throat.

According to the news I managed to gather, Mrs. Rosaria got involved in a rockfall incident, became seriously injured and passed away a few days ago.

Lots of natural disasters kept happening nowadays and she seemed to have become a victim of one.

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I pat her without a word.

Hugging her made me feel somewhat weird. She normally wouldn’t be crying in loneliness like this.

In the story, she’d have had her debutante, gotten accepted into the Royal Palace, stolen Claude’s mind, and lived a happy life with loving people around her. The book was designed to make Jennette happy anyway.

But she was here, in Alpheus’ mansion weeping her sorrows off her mind.

Maybe as a variable, I twisted the story and caused this to happen.

“Sob… sob…”

Her sobbing was the only thing hitting my eardrums in the silent room. I felt my chest get a little wet from her tears and swept her back with my soft but a rather dry hand.

I’m sorry, Jennette.

I recited with my inner voice.

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Somewhere deep in my heart, I let out a sigh of relief as you suffer.

Because you didn’t show up to the debutante as Claude’s daughter, didn’t threaten my position, and he accepted me, not you, as his daughter… and your aunt who may have endangered me in the near future died…

“Thank God…”

So I might thank God a little bit that you’re the one who’s crying, not me.

“It’s such a relief that… sob, I met you again.”