Chapter 3 [Part 2] - What Curse (1/2)

Chapter 3 [Part 2] – What Curse?

There was a brief silence between the two who was sitting opposite each other.

It wasn’t long before the employees of the Grand Duke’s residence came in. Once tea and cookies were served on the table, the spacious office was filled with the scent of fragrant tea and sweet cookies.

Ashia carefully observed Kaligo who sat cross-legged across the table whilst starting at the teacup placed on the table.

‘Oh my, he sits cross-legged?’

It was not a strange sight to see.

He sat that way when I was Renna.

The hero of the novel, ‘Kaligo Etous’. Her ex-husband, ‘Kaligo Edmund’.

They only had the same name. Their words, deeds, and personality were diametrically contrary to one another.

‘Kaligo’, her ex-husband, was abstemious and always restrained. On the other hand, ‘Kaligo’, the male lead, suffered from lack of support and emotional ups and downs.

-A mix of both would’ve been preferred.

TL/N – How smart of you.

There was a time where she compared the two polar opposites whilst reading the novel in her past life.

‘Wait…….’

As she was observing Kaligo, Ashia’s vision became hazy.

‘If that man is really my ex-husband, Kaligo Edmund……’

In the novel, the male lead, who was a straight man, lived his entire life in sexual abstinence.

Ashia’s eyebrow crept up.

Somehow, it was more interesting that the man was living in the body of a person who is the complete opposite of him than the fact that his ex-husband had entered the same novel she did.

“Isn’t it uncomfortable for you to keep wearing a hood inside a room?”

Kaligo, who had been gently gazing at her for a while, asked as he lifted a teacup on the table. Even when he asked, his gaze was still focused on the teacup.

At Kaligo’s question, Ashia, who was about to grab a cup of tea, hesitated.

I expected for him to ask the question, so I didn’t panic much.

As if it was insignificant, she answered as she wrapped her finger around the handle of the teacup.

“Though I know it may not be polite of me to do so, I have an ugly scar on my face I don’t wish to show.”

“…………”

“Please excuse me.”

Of course, it was a lie. Why would I have a scar?

“I see.”

Fortunately, he seemed to believe what Ashia said. Despite his well-known personality, there was nothing strange about him even if he insisted on taking it off immediately.

‘I am certain that……the atmosphere isn’t coercive.’

His response was closer to that of her ex-husband’s, ‘Kaligo Edmund’, than to ‘Kaligo Etous’, in terms of the atmosphere and his words and actions.

There was no need for her to think about it deeply.

As long as she finishes the request as soon as possible and receives the promised gold, she’ll be able to go back to her serene routine.

“Are you finished looking?”

“Ah, yes…..Pardon?!”

“I can feel your eyes observing me, and it’s quite unpleasant.”

Kaligo’s gaze, which remained on the table, moved slowly.

He would not be able to see her face clearly as it was covered with her hood, but Ashia felt his eyes look exactly into her’s.

As the red-eyed man stared at her quietly, Ashia’s throat began to dry up. Was it too obvious? Ashia cleared her throat and continued her words.

“Think of it as a part of the process.”

“………….”

“Looking at the client’s complexion and observing his behavior helps me in creating potions.”

Upon hearing her explanation, Kaligo leaned his head towards the side and folded his arms.

Then, as if he had outgrown his white shirt, it seemed like it was about to burst anytime soon.