I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

Chapter 36

6. Bullshit – 04

It’s always a fact that I feel keenly, but it’s always been my theory that time must be a ruthless woman who is weak to the strong and infinitely strong to the weak. This was by no means an unfounded slander. I had my own reasons for feeling this sentiment.

For example, two months ago, when I was in Lumentium, time passed terribly slowly, as if it really stopped. An emperor who turns people’s clothes upside down with words, a princess who makes my feeble heart strain because she doesn’t know when to raise her fist, or an Ariel who has a seemingly relaxed smile but something gets on my nerves. In other words, time passed slowly around the time when other things were always tightening my heart.

However, after exchanging a secret ‘contract’ with Bianca two weeks ago, the time passed really fast until the time for me to visit the Castana Marquis family arrived. I wanted to prepare myself mentally or prepare various things before visiting the Castana Marquis family, but when I came to my senses, it meant that the time when I was supposed to put on a play with Bianca and the Castana Marquis family was approaching.

And so, the historic moment arrived when the Duke of Estel and the Marquis of Castana decided to end their thousand-year feud and get the sons and daughters of both families engaged. Well, it was only a nominal engagement, not a real engagement.

By the way, the news that Bianca and I were getting engaged was not disclosed to anyone except for a few members of the Estel family. Since it wasn’t a real engagement in the first place, it couldn’t be said to be auspicious, and if you were to be engaged to a daughter of the Marquis of Castana, who was practically an enemy, there was a risk of forming a bad public opinion among people who didn’t know the whole situation. to be.

…In fact, I would never have accepted Bianca’s offer had it not been for the huge stake in this case. To hold an engagement ceremony with that nasty girl. Even though it’s not real, I have to pretend to be a sweet lover. Isn’t it a terrible thing that makes you shudder just by imagining it?

“…It hasn’t been long since I broke off my engagement to Sarah, and then I’m engaged again. Cain. I am really worried about sending you away like this.”

Incidentally, my father was one of the few people who knew why I was visiting the Marquis of Castana.

“…I’m not even a child, so what do you mean you’re worried about me?”

When I asked a question with a look of bewilderment at my father’s sudden lamentation, my father furrowed his brow at me.

“It means that you’re worried about me saying that to me. Maybe you don’t notice why I’m talking to you like this?”

“…..”

“That’s the problem. You’ll only feel sorry for Bianca who tries to set things up with an idiot like you.”

Saying that, my father took out a tie pin from his bosom. It was a tie pin made of platinum, with a large lapis lazuli in the middle, looking incredibly expensive at first glance.

“Look. It’s a tie pin that Bianca gave me as a gift on my last visit. While the one and only son is an unfilial child who would not waste even a penny on my birthday, Bianca said she wanted to give me this as a commemoration of her visit to the Duke of Estelle. Isn’t it a step that really contrasts with the guy in front of me?”

“…..”

It’s really ridiculous. In what gap did he pay such a bribe to his father? No, I wonder why he had paid such a bribe to his father before that. What kind of terrifying scheme is being plotted so that such an expensive tie pin can be casually presented as a gift?

As I pondered over the identity of Bianca’s vicious conspiracy, my father pulled something out of his pocket and handed it to me, as if he had just remembered.

“Oh, come to think of it, I forgot this. Come on, take it.”

“…?”

I accepted it with a bit of bewilderment. It was a beautiful bracelet made of gold. The bracelet was studded with two green peridots, presumably polished by a renowned craftsman.

“It is a gift from Bianca to me. Also, tell it to you. Originally, I was going to hand it to you right away, but I heard that I couldn’t tell it to you while looking at your face because I was embarrassed. Wow, every single thing he said was so cute. The only thing I can think of is how wasteful that child is for a guy like you.”

“…what else is that…”

As I listened to my father’s words, I opened my mouth wide in embarrassment. No matter how much I thought about it, all I could think of was the huge gap between the Bianca I knew and the Bianca my father knew. How long does that woman intend to go around pretending? I thoughtlessly tried to wear the bracelet my father gave me on my right wrist. But at that time, my father quietly dissuaded me from doing so.

“Oh, come to think of it, he asked me to tell him that he must wear it on his left wrist. I’m not sure why.”

“…Left wrist?”

It’s true, she’s a woman who has no place for words to be fussy. I wonder why you’re making such a fuss about having at least one bracelet.

‘…Well, I can wear it later.’

Since I’m the type of person who doesn’t wear jewelry to begin with, this kind of thing was just cumbersome for me. It’s obviously a nominal gift for her fiancé anyway, so I don’t think Bianca would say anything special even if she didn’t wear it. yeah maybe

But that was the time. I felt a gaze staring at me from far away. Feeling some pressure, I rolled my eyes and looked to the side, but the true identity of that gaze was Arya, who was calmly standing in this direction from the bay.

“…..”

Why is he exuding such an atmosphere? Could it be that I did something wrong?

Tuck, Tuck.

Arya walked slowly towards this side, exuding a truly unusual atmosphere. Overwhelmed by the atmosphere, I unknowingly gulped down my saliva. Before long, Arya’s mouth opened slowly as she approached me.

“…Hey, Duke. I’m sorry during the conversation, but would it be all right if I said something?”

“yes? For what reason did you do that? aria.”