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“Ah, seems like it’s time for my next match to start…”
Mary looked at the time and realized it was time for her next match, so she curtsied and left the infirmary.
At any rate, I advised her not to do anything outlandish like shaving her head or taking off her clothes when talking with Violet, so the next time the two of them meet face to face, it would not be weird… Hopefully.
“Is the doctor here yet?”
I am lying on a bed in the empty infirmary, waiting for Dr. Greenery, who has not yet arrived. He is probably trying to keep Violet and the others from coming here, or perhaps he is busy with another injured patient and is on the way here.
I think it’s alright, especially since I have not felt any discomfort when talking so far, but I can’t just leave on my own. I also need to start planning for the party that’s coming up at night.
“Hmm, here they come – Should I run?”
I hear footsteps, and get up.
From the footsteps alone, it is clear that it’s not the doctor. The person is running toward this infirmary. Remembering when Violet and His Highness and others rushed in earlier, I can’t help but want to run away.
Calm down, Clo. They might just be looking for Dr. Greenery, or they might just be passing through, you know? It doesn’t mean they are here for you. Even if they are here for you, it could be Violet or Gray. Let’s calm down.
“–Ooooooh Clooooooo.”
Damn, the unexpected came.
It is, as I have not expected, Kriemhild looking like a literal ghost. She was more compact than when I saw her before, but why did she come to the infirmary dressed like that?
“Take this, pleaseeeeeeeee!”
“Yes, yes. Thank you.”
“Sooooooooo, hereeeeeeee.”
“Ah, yes… Eh, you came here just to give me this?”
Kriemhild handed me something that looked like an envelope and left the doctor’s office with a thumbs up. She really just came to hand me a piece of paper. Did she come directly from the haunted house?
Anyway, I checked what was handed to me, and there seems to be a… letter of some sort inside the envelope. Even though it’s in a man’s nature to expect something when receiving a letter from a girl, unfortunately, it cannot be anything but a proper, decent letter. I’ve gotten rather used to getting such letters since I became a Lord.
I don’t think it will be anything strange since Kriemhild went out of her way to give it to me, but…
‘Dear Lord Clo Heartfield,
Please forgive my abrupt letter.
I fell in love with your fighting strength in the arena.
Ever since I saw you fight, I cannot get your heroic figure out of my mind.
I cannot help but wish to be with you, even if only for a moment.
I am writing to you in the hope that we can have a chance to meet before the school festival’s wrap-up party today.
I would appreciate your consideration.’
…… Hmmm, I see.
“A chain letter?”
“Isn’t it a love letter?”
“Wah?!”
I was reading my chain letter when Dr. Greenery suddenly appeared and read it too.
Or should I say love letter? What even… Yeah, it’s not a good idea to avoid the truth. Whether it was a prank or a penalty game, the letter was definitely written in such a way that it could be considered a ‘love letter’. …This is troublesome.
As I scratch my head, Dr. Greenery laughs happily and pokes at me with his finger.
“Isn’t it nice? You had friends of the opposite sex when you were in school, but you didn’t get along with them beyond a certain point. Is it finally time for you to get popular?”
“Even if you say so, I already have a Wife, so it’s no use getting popular…”
“Now, I’m not going to say that cheating is a man’s job, but… You would not want to play around, right?”
“Yeah. Dealing with more than one reminds me of a woman I hate, so.”
“Well, good for you.”
Well, that woman was my Mother in my previous life.
Anyway, even if this is a real love letter, not a prank or a penalty game, it is hard to respond.
If the feelings were real, I would be happy, but unfortunately, I can’t answer them.
“Speaking of, whose letter is it…?”
Come to think of it, I have not checked who the letter is from.
Dr. Greenery has lost interest in the letter, or perhaps he does not want to know who has written it; he begins to put the medicine to their proper places on the shelves.
I wonder if he wants me to read the letter quickly, put it away, and resume treatment as soon as possible.
Anyway, I look for a name somewhere to see who it is from, and I find what looks like one written at the end of the letter. The name is…
‘Vert・C’
“… Vert C?”
At least it is not a name I know.
Though it should not be a name I know… I have a strange and bad feeling about it. Yes, this is the same feeling I had when I first met Kriemhild, or when I heard the name of the pervert who modified orcs.
Ah, yes, this is the same reaction I have whenever a character from that otome game appears. Haha, well, I just have a bad feeling about this, no matter how it will turn out. I have a feeling that if Mary were here, she would know what this chill is all about.
“Vert? What’s wrong with her?”
“Oh, Mary?! Why are you here?”
Eh, what is this? Is it fashionable to show up suddenly? Mary appeared so abruptly that I could not help but think so. I wonder what happened to her match.
“I still have some time to spare. Then I saw something that looked like Kriemhild coming from this way, so I got curious.”
I see, so she saw her earlier.
Mary seems to know a woman named ‘Vert’. …I don’t want to ask, but I have to.
“Mary, do you know a… woman called Vert C.?”
“Yes, I do. …But I know her through that, and I’ve never met her in person.”
‘That’, I guess it’s related to a certain otome game after all.
Mary checks to see where Dr. Greenery is, and after a few moments of hesitation, she starts to explain to me what kind of person this Vert woman is.
“Vert Calvin is Chart’s Mother, an Archwizard. –Look, she was a stubborn and eccentric character. Chart doesn’t know, but there are rumors that she does experiments on humans.”
Mary said the latter half to me in a quiet voice.
…Yeah. In short, what the hell. I got this letter from such a funny woman (with a Husband and a Kid)!? Haha, hahaha. Oh, so the ‘C’ is short for Calvin, Chartreuse’s family name. I see. Ha-ha-ha.
“Mary, I’m sorry, but can you knock me out with magic? If you can, I’d like to be unconscious until the school festival wrap-up party.”
“I can do that, but I won’t!”
Eh, so she can.
………….
Clo’s Mother in his previous life
When he was a child, he asked her, ‘What does father look like?’, and she handed him pictures of some men and said, ‘He is one of these men, and they all think you are their Biological Son’.
After some time had passed, he understood what she meant, and at that moment, he came to hate his Mother.
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