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No one present was foolish enough to not understand what the word “lover” ant.
Not , not Adriana, and not Adele.
We all inevitably grasped what that word implied.
The imdiate impression, naturally, was surprise, but on the other hand, it seed Adele was rather enjoying this situation.
The faint smile on her lips was exactly the expression she showed when she was playing a prank.
“Lover… that would an.”
“In other words, a fiancée, I suppose. I don’t know why such a rumor is circulating, but to my subordinates, Robert and I seed that close.
Wasn’t lover a closer relationship than friends?”
“Hah, it’s just a rumor. I don’t think they really thought that way.”
Her question seed desperate, so I laughed softly as our eyes t and let out a small sigh.
Adele had clearly said that to tease Adriana.
If I took Adele’s side in this situation, it was obvious Adriana would be flustered, so I gently grasped her hand that was holding the trembling teacup.
When the warmth of my hand touched hers, Adriana, who had cald down a bit, exhaled lightly.
I thought it wasn’t sothing to react to this extent, but…
I suppose it would be surprising to have the title of lover attached to soone you have feelings for.
It was probably a natural reaction, and sothing I could call my karma.
“She’s just saying it as a joke. You don’t need to mind it.”
“Right? It’s not true, right?”
“How long has it been since my engagent was broken off? She’s not soone with no thoughts like that.”
Adriana seed to think that statent made sense, as she frowned slightly while looking at Adele.
Of course, from Adele’s perspective, it wasn’t a lie.
Since she heard it from her adjutants, she must have heard it from sowhere too.
Even with Adriana’s gaze on her, Adele just smiled carelessly.
As if it didn’t matter either way, Adele shrugged her shoulders at and opened her mouth.
“Well, it’s just a rumor. But what I wanted to say is that I’m not treating Robert like an object. You know how I think of Robert, don’t you?”
“…I do know. I also heard about the communication from the North.”
Was it about when I was injured?
Even if Adele treated a bit lightly, I didn’t criticize her for it because that’s just how she was.
Rather than treating soone like an object, this way of treating could be considered a closer relationship, couldn’t it?
So I just let it be, but Adriana just misunderstood it a bit deeply.
As I slowly explained, her expression gradually softened.
Eventually, Adriana, who smiled slightly, let go of my hand and opened her lips.
“I think I misunderstood a bit, but… it’s a bit uncomfortable to hear you talk to Robert like that.”
“I’ll be careful. I’ll keep that in mind in front of the saint.”
When Adele said that, Adriana also smiled brightly at her and slowly got up from her seat.
“Then I think you two can talk now. Since the purpose of us coming out to greet you together has ended, I’ll go in first. Ah, you don’t have to follow out. There’s a priest waiting in front.”
“Will you be alright?”
“It’s fine, and it’s been a while since Robert saw the Grand Duchess too. We’ll be together tomorrow anyway.”
Adele laughed at the emphasis on the words “together tomorrow”, but Adriana just bowed her head towards us and walked away like that.
Her steps leaving without hesitation seed quite light.
I swallowed drily for a mont, looking at the door that closed with a thud.
I was busy just dealing with Adele, but if Adriana acted like this too…
It felt like my head was starting to throb for no reason.
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“You went a bit too far.”
After Adriana disappeared into the room, I spoke to Adele who was silently looking at that spot.
I thought she would refute Adriana’s words, but to think she would blurt out such a thing.
It was troubleso for in many ways too.
When did Lothos hear about that?
Even if he had noticed, I deliberately tried to be careful in case Adele heard.
“You’re the one who went too far. You even wrote a letter telling to co out alone on purpose, but you were sticking with the saint like that. I thought you would know to so extent why I was coming.”
“…I had no choice. We’ve always been like that while staying in the South.”
Adele, who stared at for a mont, then sat down laughing with a snort.
She probably separated like this to ask about the contents of the letter.
Although I had prepared to so extent, now that I was actually facing her, I was honestly nervous.
Adele was still the sa.
Not only her personality, but her appearance hadn’t changed at all since I left the North.
In fact, how much could she have changed in just 2 weeks?
But these past few days had been busy for in many ways.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that 2 weeks felt like 2 months to .
Adele, who had been stroking her snow-white hair, just looked at silently like that.
She might have been choosing the words to say.
What I wrote in the letter wasn’t just one or two things, but issues that required deep thought.
“…When I see you.”
When her red lips moved, Adele’s eyes couldn’t et mine directly.
She looked a bit confused.
Overlapping sothing with , but at the sa ti, unable to have confidence in it.
Adele, who was like that, quietly added while stroking her forehead.
“I don’t know what to say to you.”
“I don’t mind whatever you say. Sotis, you can even get angry and I’ll accept it.”
“Why would I get angry at soone who hasn’t done anything wrong? No, I can’t say you haven’t done anything wrong.”
Maybe now it was okay to look in the eye, as her blue eyes curved gently.
But the shaking was still there.
What was she thinking?
What did she co all the way here to say to , from that barren wilderness?
After looking into my eyes for a mont, Adele opened her mouth like that.
“You’ve made people confused, so it’s a sin. And that too, to the Grand Duchess who protects the North. Do you have any idea how big of a sin this is?”
“Is it because of the letter I left?”
“Yes, because of that, strange mories ca back to .”
The word “mories” always elicited a response from .
If I had to pick the most unusual thing about this round, wouldn’t it be the mories?
Theresa also recalled all the mories of the previous rounds, and Adriana also ntioned my previous rounds through a dream.
Didn’t Adele say sothing similar too?
Sothing that had never happened before, but was clearly happening in this 101st life.
As my eyes beca serious, Adele, who adjusted her posture, stared at quietly.
If it was her, she had probably noticed that I already knew about the “mories”.
But I didn’t want to say it first.
I wanted to hear it first, because if I talked too much about the mories, she might beco confused.
“…I have mories of eting you 2 years ago.”
The mont I heard those words, what ca to mind was the mory of when I first saw Adele in all my lives.
When I had abandoned the na Taylor and ran away.
Adele looked at curiously as I laughed at the fact that I recalled that ti.
“You were probably crying. Begging to be saved, asking to be taken away.”
“How do you know that? You’ve never been like this to .”
“Please continue talking for now.”
It was too early to answer how I knew.
It was too soon to explain my regression with just this level of mory.
When I urged her to continue the story, Adele frowned for a mont and began to speak with a sigh.
Her words didn’t continue for very long.
To begin with, the mory she recalled was short, and it was too fragntary to be called a single life.
However, the emotions in that mory seed to be definitely influencing her.
The way she looked at had changed. I wasn’t dull enough to not realize that.
“Is that the end of the mory?”
“Yes, the last thing was what happened in the forest where I was with you before.”
She didn’t seem to rember the death.
She didn’t rember the warning I had given her, nor the words I had spoken to stop her from going.
It would be fortunate if she was just hiding it, but at this point, it didn’t seem like Adele would hide anything from .
Her eyes gazing at , who had been silent for a while, shone with peculiarity.
They were eyes that held a question.
It was a natural reaction since I had supplented and explained her mory.
After staring at for a while, Adele opened her mouth with a serious expression.
“So now an explanation is needed. How do you know about this mory, and why did you warn about the Crown Prince’s death in the letter you wrote to ? I don’t understand anything at all.”
“I thought you would ask if you read my letter. That’s why I wasn’t particularly surprised that you ca.”
“…I hope you don’t just brush it off as a secret this ti. If you do, I think I’ll be very disappointed in you.”
When I laughed at those words, Adele glared at with a frown.
From the mont I wrote the letter, I had no intention of hiding it.
If she didn’t just have questions but ca to , I was going to tell her about my secret.
I couldn’t tell her about all my 100 regressions.
To begin with, wouldn’t it take a long ti to talk about this 101st life?
However, the ti I spent with her, even if I said it was the happiest out of all my lives, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration.
So I could explain it to her.
“The reason I know the Grand Duchess’s mory is because I was there. Didn’t you say it? That you saw .”
“But as far as I rember, last winter was the first ti you ca to the North. Even if I don’t rember-”
“It’s not a mory from this life.”
Adele’s movent stopped.
Maybe she needed ti to understand my words, as she asked quietly after staring at .
“What?”
“It’s a mory from a ti that only I rember, that the Grand Duchess can’t rember. So it’s natural that I know that mory, and that the Grand Duchess didn’t know.”
A strange emotion blood.
It seed to be because it was the first ti I talked about my previous rounds myself.
Because it was a mory and emotion that I had always rembered alone, that only I had possessed.
I had many thoughts about how she would react to this.
Would she see as a strange person?
Perhaps, would she think it was my nonsense?
But it didn’t matter.
As long as she listened, as long as even one person recalled this mory that only I had rembered.
That was enough.
I took a breath for a mont and opened my mouth like that.
The montary silence felt like an eternity to , and it felt like my voice opening to Adele had disappeared for a while.
Nevertheless, the words were spoken.
Words that may be irreversible, in this tiline of the 101st round.
Words that would surely change many things.
“This isn’t my first life.”
It was only after starting the 101st life that I could finally utter it.
“Longer than the Grand Duchess thinks, much longer. I have been watching.”
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