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“You’re right, violence is no good.”
“Do you understand now?.”
“Then I’ll start with a conversation while naked!”
“Just start with a clothed conversation.”
“What if we strip all at once after doing a wall slam?!”
“Please don’t.”
“This is difficult…”
“It might be difficult, but I think you have the wrong idea here. Why do you want to take off your clothes so much?”
“I was thinking that first I have to expose everything about myself…”
Technically. she’s not wrong, but she still has the wrong idea.
Ms. Mary herself is probably still confused. She’s trying to accept something that she has always thought was the game world and recognized it as something she was playing, as reality. It will be difficult unless she tries to get used to it gradually instead of rushing in all at once.
“… But do I have the right to talk with Violet?”
After thinking for a while, Ms. Mary sank down as if having realized something.
She means the way she treated Lady Violet until now, huh?
“Even though I knew that she was being treated in a hostile way by Vermillion and the others outside this room, I didn’t even try to confront it. I’ve been brushing it off as this being her role…”
Ms. Mary knew how Lady Violet was being treated at the academy, but she did nothing because she assumed that it was Lady Violet’s role.
Just like how I was angry at Ms. Mary earlier, she did not treat Lady Violet as a living being. She had caused her engagement to be broken and pushed her into a state of near-disownment from the Ducal family.
Knowing that Lady Violet liked His Highness, Ms. Mary probably felt like she had pushed Lady Violet into a corner just for fun.
… However, the attitude of His Highness and the others made me angry, and I have things I would like to say about their comments in front of the infirmary earlier. Still, it is also true that Lady Violet had crossed them before…
“While ignoring it isn’t good, Lady Violet was confrontational towards you, wasn’t she? She said various things to you, right? Like about the difference between your social status.”
“Well, to be honest, when I was scolded by Violet or bullied by the people around her who went out of control, I only thought about how this was ‘exactly like the game’.”
I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Would the idea that this is a game world help in this regard… too?
“Well, at least you weren’t thinking: ‘Ha! You might be bullying me now, but if things go according to the scenario, His Highness will start to like me, so get ready for the tables to turn!”
“I wouldn’t think like that!… I think I wouldn’t… but I did think of her as the amethyst airplane… maybe on the inside I was really… thinking terrible things…Urk!“
“D-deep breaths! Please calm down!“
I panicked because Ms. Mary became disheartened at my words, almost throwing up.
Since she thought of this as a game world, she probably thought that if things went according to the story, that’s what would happen, so she need not oppose or do anything. She’s a good girl at heart.
However, I would feel bad if she became depressed because of what I said, and I would also be troubled if His Highness and the others questioned me about what I had done. I was thinking about how to cheer her up somehow and then I remembered something.
“By the way, Ms. Mary, I wanted to thank you.“
“Thank…me?“
“Yes, I met Lady Violet thanks to you, Ms. Mary.“
“…Huh?“
My words changed Ms. Mary’s expression from that of wanting to puke to that of not understanding what I said. Yeah, that’s what happens when somebody who was saying they hated you a second ago suddenly thanks you and starts saying incomprehensible things.
“What… do you mean?“
“This sounds horrible, but thanks to you kicking out Lady Violet from the academy like in the True Ending, she ended up marrying a man of a much lower status like me. Well, basically, thank you for letting me meet my precious person.“
“Huh? Oh, you’re welcome… wait, what?”
“But if you had taken the actions that would lead to Ecul’s route in Ring of Fire, without getting close to His Majesty, Lady Violet would have inexplicably died to a revived dragon and we would never meet.”
“You’re right, but… you might be right but…”
Basically, aside from the minor ramifications, the route of marrying a man from the frontier, cannot happen unless you get along with His Highness… Well, she was challenged to a duel because she was getting close with Lady Violet’s precious person, so the situation where Lady Violet ‘loses the duel and is banished to the remote region’ would never happen anywhere else.
“So, thank you for setting up that duel. Thanks to that, Lady Violet avoided dying and ended up marrying me.”
“What’s with that? Then it would mean that I did something good.”
In Ms. Mary’s mind, she acted without thinking of such things, and it was just a coincidence that Lady Violet ended up marrying me, so I’m sure she just can’t believe that it was thanks to her.
“As far as I’m concerned, I was able to become part of Lady Violet’s Family, so in that respect, it’s a good thing. Besides, as you also heard earlier— I am precious to Lady Violet.”
“From the way you blushed after hearing her words, I can see that you love Violet, Mr. Clo, and Violet also deeply loves you.”
That’s right. I’m happy but also embarrassed, like the way you were when you were told the same things.
After looking at me like that for a while, Ms. Mary’s expression, that had been gloomy until just a moment ago, suddenly changed and she gave a small but definite smile.
“Fufu, if you look at the results, it makes sense. The process itself was awful though.”
“Exactly. Besides, the process by which I ended up in Shiki was also terrible, so maybe that’s just the way it is.”
“… Thank you very much for being mindful of me. You’re right, if I don’t face Violet in the present, nothing will change for me.”
“Yes, that’s why to give you the opportunity for that, I will visit you with my Wife and Son to thank you for the match.”
“Is this a new form of harassment?!”
“Yes.”
“I can’t believe you admitted it so readily.”
If I actually did that, Cyan would ask me, ‘why don’t you confess your sins for a bit?’ with a genuinely worried look on her face so I won’t do it.
Anyway, it seems that Ms. Mary no longer thinks about negative thoughts like ‘not having the right’. Although they each might have their own thoughts and there are barriers between them, there’s no point in talking if both people involved aren’t willing to face each other. I hope that Ms. Mary, who has become aware of this, will gradually try to face Lady Violet.
“I guess as a way of facing her, I should start from going bald… or maybe I’ll prostrate my head for two days… and become a monk? …Perhaps I should drink at the upcoming party and have a grown-up conversation… ? Will I be okay with alcohol?… in my previous life I almost died from a small amount of alcohol in my food…”
… For now, I just hope that things don’t go in a strange direction.
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