Everything Was a Mistake Chapter 22

Chapter 22

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“It’s not about trying to clear up the story, not the reason you told before, but the real reason.”

“You didn’t even an to accept the invitation. Lady Alice Limorand disappeared as soon as she handed over the invitation, and Lord Claymore sent a reply of refusal. And you didn’t co.”

“Is that my fault?”

“I feel guilty for inviting you. You don’t even have to pretend to be sick if I don’t invite you, do you? That’s what I ca here thinking, but I’m embarrassed that you really didn’t look well .”

As he said so, Nocton frowned his forehead and moved his fingertips.

Maybe he really thinks it’s an excuse.

I guess it sounds naive to say that on the day we were invited to a tea party of soone we want to avaid, we couldn’t go out because we’re not well.

But now it didn’t matter what he thought.

Nocton Edgar’s suspicion is inescapable.

If he hadn’t suspected , he wouldn’t have co to the Marquis and hypnotize Sadie.

However, I was facing Nocton, it was difficult for to endurse this conversation while my heart was pounding,

Like a lie that had existed for most of our ti in his study, I was afraid just to be in the sa room with him.

It was the limit.

I jumped out of my seat and turned my head away from Nocton.

“Do as you please, whether you think I’m a freak or not, and I’m not feeling well yet, so I’d like you to go back.”

“Braman.”

Without a reply in my words, he called the na of the knight that ca with him.

The big knight took out the box he had put down on the floor, put it on the table, and took out the contents.

I looked alternately at the knight and the box with a blank look on my face, my request for him to return was ignored.

A large bottle of light blue liquid and a small glass.

What is that?

Without a leak, Nocton went to the bottle and opened the lid. He filled the small glass with the blue liquid.

Nocton tilted the glass and gulped it.

I couldn’t understand the sudden situation, so I made a straight face.

“You’re not here drinking, are you?”

“It’s holy water.”

“What?”

“You’ve just seen it, you know it’s not poisoned. “

Why don’t we have another drink? The feeling of reality was wiped out even more by that calm voice.

I can’t understand the situation that he opened the box and took out the holy water from nowhere and confird that there was no poison there.

My confused mind was reflected in my speech.

“No, what are you … that big thing is holy water? Why would you want to—”

I stamred foolishly in my own thoughts.

Nocton, unable to ignore my words, put on his mouth a beaming smile and opened the lid.

One step, two steps, three steps.

Only when the sound of footsteps neared and the shadow of the tall man hung over did I look up at Nocton’s face.

“You’re such a nuisance.”

Nocton reached out.

Right in front of my face hardened by embarrassnt.

It was touching, and not.

At an obscure distance, my disheveled hair wound around his finger and passed behind my ear.

The fluff has bristled up.

His shadowy face from the backlight looked darker than usual, and his light purple eyes were softer than usual.

“I wish I could do as I wish.”

Nocton Edgar’s voice was shattered.

The fear lted and the flas blazed out of my head.

For a mont, I forgot my fear and clenched my teeth.

Fear-stricken, the past Roa Valrose, who believed that Nocton Edgar was not evil, probably her friend, popped out of .

With all the affection left behind, with nothing but hatred, injustice and anger.

“You’re saying that now?”

What do you an you want it to work out as you wish.

Whether the original story was true or not, even though I recall what had actually happened, I could not say such a thing.

It shouldn’t have co out.

It was unknown whether was brainwashed or not, but I headed to the Duke’s residence like his toy.

I was tested, ridiculed even though I thought he was my friend, and he widened our distance everyti I tried to get a little closer.

Even if not every mont, I have lived under Nocton.

No matter how many tis I’ve been rejected and hurt, I visited him and stayed with him, and I didn’t know if it was because of the brainwashing or not.

Everything was done according to Nocton’s will, to his wish.

“If anyone hears you, they will think you lived by . I don’t think you have any mories of the old days with that smart head of yours. Or did you erase it because it was nothing?”

I’ve been doing whatever you wish for a long ti.

To the point where I can’t even say I’m your friend, to the point where I’m ashad to call you that.

What I couldn’t say out of my mouth continued only in my head.

Even when my anger was boiling over, I didn’t want to say it myself.

Nocton Edgar looked down at with a pleased smile for the first ti today.

Heaven forbid that I should be happy because my stomach is turned upside down and I’m upset because it was such a Nocton’s smile.

“As you say. You were the one who matched it.”

“Is that my fault?’

“How could it be your fault, my dear Valrose, it was wrong from the start. Everything.”

He whispered in a cracked voice and lifted his bowed waist.

Then, he turned away.

From earlier on, Nocton Edgar has been selfish.

He just said what he wanted to say and didn’t even listen to .

It used to be that way, but it has been more and more these days, and today he even ignored my anger.

Having cut off the conversation, Norton calmly walked as if he had not brought up such a topic from the beginning.

The sound of his feet rang as if half eaten on the carpet.

I glared hard at his back.

Whether or not Nocton knew it, Nocton took over the robe that was hanging over the knight’s arm.

It seed that he was about to return, but because of that, his intention was further unknown.

I opened my mouth to vent my broken anger.

But a little earlier than that.

“I don’t know if I can reach Alice Limorand, but I wasn’t thinking about getting engaged from the start. It’s also good for her to co to the capital. However, If she wants to stay in Ernhardt, I don’t mind her staying there for the rest of her life.”

Nocton’s words splashed cold water to again.

Does he know Alice is in Ernhardt?

The fact that Alice was under surveillance was a clear fact that I had heard it myself from his own mouth.

Unfortunately, after warning about Nocton, Alice headed to Ernhardt, so I couldn’t tell her the truth.

However, I couldn’t imagine that Alice, who had spoken about Nocton so frightened, had neglected her vigilance as she headed for Ernhardt.

Since Duke Limorand was a thorough person, he must have prepared the journey to Ernhardt much more secretive than usual so that bad news about his daughter wouldn’t co out.

Although they have inford of Alice’s whereabouts, it is because I know her since childhood.

Maybe there is soone planted by Nocton in Limorand.

If it’s not….

No, co to think of it, there was soone by my side who knew Alice’s whereabouts.

‘I think Lady Alice Limorand is not feeling well. She’s been taking a rest in Ernhardt for a while.’

‘The lady’s destination is a secret, so she told to tell you privately. I think that’s what Lady Alice ordered before she left.’

No way.

I stared blankly at Nocton, who was ready to go back.

“Then, Valrose.”

“How did you know Alice was there?”

My vacant mouth threw a question without realizing it.

However, it was obvious that he would not answer with these words.

I pressed the reason that I should not let out the fact that I knew, and I asked again.

“You, Sadie, you brainwashed my maid?”

Silence weighed down the air heavier than ever.

In a quiet space where the sound of the movent could be heard clearly, the sigh of the young man also reverberated louder than ever.

A sigh, vomited in the air, coldly clings to my flesh.

I want to miss the reason, who ca back belatedly, but I couldn’t turn back the ti.

Nocton’s head, which was headed for the door, returned to .

His face was not a bit bright.

“It’s different from brainwashing. It’s a long-term concept, so it would be better to say hypnosis.”

“That ans….”

“You know that, right? That day, the day you were terrified. You didn’t shiver for no reason, Valrose.”

That’s as straightforward as I say.

My head was blank as if I had been beaten.

I wasn’t as angry as I was a while ago, nor was I as scared as I was before.

I don’t know what Nocton is thinking, and I don’t know what to say.

Is it because I heard an unexpected answer or did I not want to recognize the situation?

The monts when I was worried, suspicious, and afraid of him, but still tried to believe in Nocton collapsed in vain.

The mont I knew what kind of novel < He and Alice > was, it might not be a big deal, because a decade had collapsed.

Now I can’t even understand why I was talking to Nocton.

I don’t even know what he’s trying to do with .

If Nocton was convinced that I knew his secret, why didn’t he do anything to ?

I don’t know. I don’t know anything.

My head was blank and I didn’t even have the energy to think.

“But it was only then. You wouldn’t believe what I said, but I’ll say it again anyway.”

He grimaced his eyes and covered his face with his hands.

The neck moved as if it were holding sothing back.

The image reminded of the item that Nocton had brought, and I turned to the table.

On it was still a bottle with a tight lid.

A glass bottle of blue holy water. A huge gift that would have been considered a favor if soone else had brought it.

Sothing that confuses .

“I never spied on you. And in the future….”

At that ti, the sound knocking on the drawing room’s door interrupted Nocton’s words.

The door opened.

“My lady, I apologize for coming in during the talk. Another guest is looking for you.”

It was Carissa, in charge of the butler’s job on behalf of Duvel, who is probating like .

The unexpected guest, and Carissa’s troubled look at Nocton.

Sohow I had an ominous premonition.

“Who is it?”

“Sir Claymore is here, my lady.”

As if a bomb exploded in my head that seed to have been beaten, my mind beca painfully clear.

Are you kidding?

Hence, in this situation?

I was hoping that Carissa would do a crazy laugh, saying it was a joke, even though it couldn’t be, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen.

The protagonist and the villain of < He and Alice >.

The man who put the surveillance and the one who’s under surveillance.

The two n who will confront Alice.

No matter how I defined the relationship between the two, it wasn’t a good feeling.

This was partly because I got to know the contents of the original story properly, but I also thought the whole real situation was the sa.

From the mont I got engaged to Aaron and inford Nocton, he didn’t show any good feelings for Aaron Claymore.