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Reinhart was acting strange.
“Right?”
“Yeah.”
“Exactly.”
Ellen, Riana, Harriet, and Adelia had gathered to discuss how Reinhart had been acting a bit off lately.
It wasn’t necessarily bad, but Harriet, her face flushed, stammered, “T-The other day, he suddenly… how should I put it? He was looking at me, and it felt kind of…”
“Creepy?” Riana suggested.
“Yes! That’s exactly it!” Harriet exclaimed, as if Riana had hit the nail on the head.
Reinhart’s default expression was usually one of perpetual irritation. However, over the past few days, they had all noticed something different about him.
He seemed to have the look of someone who had seen it all, and seemed more wistful than irritable. He hadn’t been picking fights with anyone recently, either. His gaze was more tender and profound.
Of course, some, like Harriet de Saint-Ouen, found themselves blushing when faced with such a gaze. Others, like Ellen Artorius, would worry and gently touch his forehead, asking if he was unwell.
There were others who reacted quite differently.
“It’s so freaking creepy… Ugh,” Riana de Granz said, clearly disturbed.
“The other day, I wasn’t feeling well after drinking a bit at home, and suddenly he tells me, ‘Don’t drink too much, you’ll get diabetes.’ What’s that supposed to mean? It was the first time I felt so unpleasant in that way,” she recounted.
Riana was used to Reinhart telling her to stop drinking so much, but she was beyond shocked by the kindness in his tone.
.
.
“Why are you acting like this all of a sudden?” Riana asked Reinhart.
“I’m just worried about you, that’s all,” Reinhart replied, which only added to her discomfort.
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Remembering this, Riana turned pale and muttered to herself, “Is he going to die suddenly or something? They say people change right before they die.”
“That’s not true!” someone protested.
“It’s just a superstition.”
“There’s no way…”
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