'I want to do it right now! Ugh!!'
The people continued to speak excitedly.
"Well, right? Oh boy... By the way. The Duke and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince are standing together, and it really shines. I think I can die here today."
"Hey! Young Lady Roxas! Wake up!"
The whole area was in a frenzy as they were overwhelmed with emotion and helped the infants who were crying and falling down.
'Oh.'
In fact, when I was with Adrian, the square wasn't so noisy.
However, when Rudnine appeared, the crowd heated up with excitement as if a famous actor had appeared on the street.
Look at this stark difference.
Adrian didn't think he was a serious fool, and his mouth hardened.
I was secretly grinning at myself, feeling refreshed, when Rudnine suddenly thrust out his hand to me.
"Yvonne. I have something left to say, but I'm surprised you left first."
"Oh, did you?"
Was I being too rude?
Unlike me, who opened my eyes in embarrassment, Rudnine continued to smile softly.
"This is a gift I prepared in advance for Yvonne. Please accept it."
"A gift?"
I looked up at him with a friendly smile and asked.
"Yes, for you."
Rudnine held out the gift box and urged me to accept it.
"Oh my God."
"No... Why would Duke Iels do this..."
The surroundings are so noisy that I can't concentrate.
When I tried to receive a gift in the middle of the spotlight, I panicked.
Rudnine looked around for a moment, then put the gift box back in the inside pocket of his jacket and reached out to me.
"Yvonne. It's too noisy here. Let's go to a quiet place."
"Oh... Yes, Rudnine."
I glanced at Adrian.
I deliberately called out Rudnine's name, put my hand on his outstretched hand, and accepted the escort.
In fact, it was too bad for me to hold it, but I still wanted to get out of this situation where my self-esteem was plummeting.
"See you next time, Your Highness."
"..."
Following Rudnine, as I greeted Adrian with dignity, I also gave an example of the Crown Prince.
Adrian stared at us as we greeted each other and nodded his head briefly.
'Hello. It was dirty to meet you, and let's not meet again.'
Anyway, I was escorted by Rudnine, leaving Adrian behind, and left the square.
"Oh my."
The crowd is divided like the miracle of Moses.
I feel like I'm some kind of great celebrity.
When I looked back, I saw that Adrian looked like a dog chasing chickens.
I feel strange.
I felt quite thrilled to see the women looking at me enviously as I walked with Rudnine.
Was I the kind of person who cared about others' opinions like this?
'This is why you shouldn't touch drugs...'
I felt guilty that I had used Rudnine as if it were my own trinket.
When I came to the front of the Argenthoz carriage that was waiting a little away from the square, I let go of his hand and took a deep breath.
I sincerely bowed down to Rudnine and thanked him.
"Thank you, Duke. I will definitely repay this favor."
"Favor?"
A puzzled voice.
I looked up and met his eyes directly.
It felt strange to see myself in his deep, black, lake-like eyes so clearly.
A strange premonition.
I thought it was a fleeting relationship, but it caused trouble.
I was embarrassed by my brazen behavior as I grabbed his hand and walked out of the square.
I slowly confessed my true feelings.
"Yes, actually... I know that the Duke was forced to come to the confrontation at the request of my father. It must have been hard just to come to the confrontation, but I am grateful that you brought me here."
"Oh."
"Actually... It was so painful to be with His Highness."
'I was sick to my stomach because I was with the butter of the sunshine. Ugh.'
I felt really unwell, so I covered my mouth with my hand for a while, and after calming down, I said a short goodbye to him.
"Then, I'll go now. The Duke should also enter carefully."
After getting into the carriage, I saw him standing outside the window, and Rudnine's expression was dark.
"Duke?"
"This is Rudnine, Yvonne."
I called him out in surprise, and he gently corrected me again.
Embarrassed by Rudnine's obsession with titles, I blinked my eyes and laughed awkwardly.
'Well, I'm not going to see you again anyway.'
Just as I was thinking about it, Rudnine pulled a small box out of his arms and handed it to me that he hadn't given me before.
I was so busy in front of the fountain that it was hard to figure out what kind of gift box it was, but it was a very luxurious box.
I took the palm-sized red velvet box he gave me.
'Are you really giving it to me?'
I stared at the water slide, and he smiled and closed the door of my carriage with his own hands.
"Please take it, Yvonne. I had a great time today."
'I... I will think that I have used up my life's luck today and live a good life.'
"Yes."
I couldn't express my feelings, but I nodded in sincere reply.
As the carriage slowly departed, it drifted away from Rudnine.
I sneaked a peek through the window at Rudnine, who was standing watching from afar.
The handsome and friendly Duke of Rudnine Iels, who was as handsome as a painting, did not lose his standing posture.
'He's a really good person.'
I was a little offended by Adrian's nonsense in the square today, but it was still a dreamlike match.
"Oh... It's a good life."
I muttered softly.
When he was nowhere to be seen, I carefully opened the gift box Rudnine had given me in't he carriage.
It was a bracelet.
It was a bracelet studded with gemstones the size of an index fingernail, and it was very mysterious and beautiful.
'What kind of jewel is it?'
However, it is not bright red like a ruby, and it does not look like an amethyst.
I gently lifted the bracelet to examine the jewel in detail, and I felt my heart sink.
'This... Could it be?'
My hands trembled.
I was almost sure because I searched the Magic Stone Encyclopedia yesterday to find out about Thiels.
'It's Thiels, right?! Oh my God!!!'
Tears welled up in my eyes.
I was lucky enough to receive Thiels so quickly.
I shut my mouth and bowed in the direction of Rudnine.
The handsome man was the perfect person to give me the magic stone I needed the most.
'Thank you. Duke...'
I... I have to repay this favor somehow.
Rather than doing anything, I had to stop showing up with Rudnine, who had been by my side.
'Must! Don't be a nuisance!'
Filled with determination, I clenched my fist even tighter
***
The Duke's aide, Ant, clicked his tongue as he watched Rudnine's bizarre behavior.
However, he couldn't wait any longer, so he stepped in.
'What are you doing. Duke?"
"...Oh."
Rudnine came to his senses and stopped when Ant called him.
He was unknowingly putting ten sugar cubes in the teacup.
Rudnine stares at a teacup filled with sugar cubes.
Ant guessed that Rudnine was quite stressed after seeing the confrontation with the evil woman.
"Was it too hard?"
But Rudnine turned his head to Ant and asked.
"Ant. Surely before I left, didn't you tell me that I was handsome?"
Rudnine seemed very uncomfortable asking strange questions.
"Yes? That's right, right?"
Ant replied nervously, adding quickly.
"You were always handsome, you are handsome now, and he will make you handsome in the future."
"Hmm. How can I believe that? Have you ever thought about the possibility that your beauty standards are not normal?"
"Why are you doing that? Do you want to catch anyone passing by on the side of the road and post a survey?"
Leaving Ant alone to complain of resentment, Rudnine furrowed.
Then he fell back into deep distress and muttered.
"Princess Argenthoz wasn't particularly upset. She was like looking at a stone."
"Haha. Then the Duke's appearance seems to be to the Princess's taste. It is right to respect personal preference."
"!!!"
Ant's nonchalant reply shocked Rudnine.
The corners of his eyes fluttered.
'Come to think of it.'
Rudnine searched for his memory in confusion.
Throughout the confrontation, Yvonne reacted differently to him than ordinary women.
Instead of blushing, she was very calm, and sometimes she even glared at him.
But it felt more like a cute cat than a fierce one.
'Hmm.'
Rudnine stood up, walked to the window, and stood on the window frame, looking up at the sky.
The time of sunset.
The sky burned red and gradually turned a strange purple.
The color of the eyes of the evil woman Yvonne Argenthoz, who stared at him in the cafe.
'Why do I keep thinking about it?'
Yvonne's face and actions that can't be shaken from his mind.
The sky gradually began to turn not a mysterious purple but an ordinary indigo blue.
Rudnine, who was somewhat disappointed, stopped looking at the sky.
He folded his arms and pondered.
He slowly repeated today's confrontation.
A strange woman who asked him to lend her money as soon as he met her.
He tried to do what she wanted, but instead told him not to do that.
To be honest, he assumed that Yvonne would try to seduce him like the other women, or that she would show extreme malice.
No, but it was wrong.
'...Is she a bad woman?'
He was so confused.
It was different from the rumors.
Yvonne was cold, but she was much more beautiful and calm than she expected...
'Especially... Her eyes were clear. Strangely, someone with such clear eyes is a wicked woman.'
Rudnine did as Duke Argenthoz asked him to do and prepared a public confrontation for Yvonne.
After today, she is a woman he will never meet.
He let her call his name just for today, especially for Yvonne.
'Rudnine.'
His name came out of her mouth.
Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang.
Suddenly, a clear bell rang in his head, and he was very confused.
Rudnine doesn't know why he heard the bells.
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