“I can’t tell you in detail as to how or why. But… Pamela, my ‘good friend’, can’t you guess?”
Pamela looked at Deborah with her strange expression on her face.
‘If it were you, you would have already noticed to some extent.’
She wouldn’t know the details though.
The eyes of Pamela’s eyes as she looked at Deborah changed. It had the color of desire like her own, and it was black.
Perhaps, as family, or as people with a common goal, the two might fit together.
“I will give you the place of ‘Godparent’, and I will also leave ‘1/100 of the mining rights of Terra Mine’ to the Caruso family.”
“….…”
“The dazzling revival of the Marquis of ‘Caruso’ will begin. No one can ever again ignore you in society.”
“….…”
“My husband, Kalen, too…!”
Even though it was unreasonable, Pamela made Kalen inherit the marquis early.
Applied five times even though she was repeatedly rejected.
The two intersected with Pamela’s most pressing desire, and Deborah was catching exactly what she wanted.
‘Can you say no?’
Besides, she even saw her son’s suicide attempt.
“….…”
After a moment of silence, Pamela opened her mouth as she fiddled with her teacup with a face colder than ever.
What Pamela said was also as Deborah expected, but…
Something was completely unexpected.
“I will accept the offer.”
The corners of Deborah’s lips twitched and rose with joy.
“But Deborah, you know that every ploy runs the risk of failure.”
“…….”
“If you fail, don’t step in front of ‘Caruso’ again.”
Pamela was just one span more meticulous and prepared than Deborah had thought.
She ordered the attendant to bring ‘that’ magic scroll.
The bright white scroll was the ‘Book of Oblivion’.
“!”
‘From Kalen’s memory… Are you going to erase it?!’
Pamela meant to wipe Deborah out of Kalen’s life, into a complete blank slate.
The ‘Book of Oblivion’ had the property of being automatically activated when certain conditions were met after receiving the consent of the person corresponding to the memory.
If Deborah agreed and signed a contract with Pamela, she could be gone forever from Kalen’s memory.
“You know what this is?”
Pamela asked calmly.
‘…I know very well.’
Deborah answered inwardly and bit her lips.
In the past, it was something she had used together with Pamela to destroy other nobles.
‘But giving it to me… How dare she.’
A fire ignited inside Deborah. She asked, licking the inside of her cheek.
“What are you going to do if I don’t agree?”
“I’m thinking of paying an assassin and commissioning him to kill you, Deborah.”
Pamela answered without hesitation — ‘I’m thinking of making your murder request’, in front of the person concerned.
Deborah’s whole body was covered with goosebumps at the look in Pamela’s eyes that were as if her personality was wiped out.
‘If even Kalen forgets me, I will fall off a cliff.’
If Deborah lost even the Caruso family, there was really nothing left.
However… She decided to believe in herself. She was truly confident in her scheme.
“Okay, Pamela.”
Willingly, Deborah placed her hand on the Book of Oblivion.
Seeing the flickering light, she felt her heart freeze.
Whether the end of this contract would be her resurrection or her death… Only the future knew.
* * *
‘Ah, what should I do?’
I ran frantically to ask where Rixus was, and I witnessed him going out of his private practice space.
But strangely, I couldn’t pretend I knew.
Should I say it was a hunch about love?
Soon after, I saw Yuria going out with her face flushed and with a shy smile.
In a moment of shock, I forgot to breathe, my eyes wide.
‘You already drank it! You drank it!’
It was a secret date, just the two of them in a private space.
I should have been jealous, but I felt so sorry for Rixus.
Eventually, I followed him secretly and called him after a while.
“Rixus…!”
Rixus looked back at me.
Then, soon, there was a soft smile all over his face. His eyes were sweet enough to make my stomach flutter.
“Berylia.”
‘He’s just met his lover, so he’s excited.’
It was too pitiful. He took such drugs without knowing it, and now he had such uncontrollable feelings…
I wrapped my hands around the cheeks of Rixus affectionately, who quickly approached me.
I whispered with a heart full of regret.
“Poor man…”
“?”
Rixus raised his eyebrows slightly, seemingly clueless.
‘Since he doesn’t know what I know, he has that kind of expression.’
I bit my lower lip sadly and spoke to him.
No matter how fascinated he was due to the potion, we got to pull it together.
“After sleeping for two more nights… It’ll be the wedding.”
At that moment, Rixus wrapped an arm around my waist and held me tightly to his chest, and he lowered his head.
Then he rubbed his sharp nose against the nape of my neck, like a gentle puppy.
“Sleep well for these two nights, Queen.”
“……Why?”
He inhaled the woman’s body scent and twisted his lips.
“Because on the third night, I’m going to bother you so much that you won’t sleep.”
‘Puppy, cancel.’
It was a naughty dog.
“….…”
I put on an ambiguous expression on my warm face.
‘Strange.’
Was I the one who took the potion?
‘Why does it seem like Rixus is the same…?’
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Ame: Berylia thinks her hunch is right… hAH. I love misunderstandings when they’re not drawn out and I get cute scenes *ahem, next chapter, ahem.
Dea: Yuria: delusional
Rixus: done with her
Berylia: mildly confused, but she’s got the right spirit
Me: in need of something to cleanse my eyes after that Rixus and Yuria scene