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Instead of lingering in Arnaka, I decided to return to Rajak with Eleris.
Not to the royal castle, but to a quiet, secluded spot nearby.
When I explained why my mental state was in shambles despite having completed my tasks, Eleris turned pale, her eyebrows quivering with concern.
“O-oh, well… I’m not sure what to even say…” Eleris said.
Adelia had feelings for the grand duke, but the grand duke saw Adelia as a potential daughter-in-law. On top of that, Harriet’s third brother had a crush on Adelia.
“It feels like a punishment…”
“Are you saying the grand duke is being punished?”
“No… That’s not it…”
It felt like I was the one being punished, not the grand duke! Having written too many soap operas in my life, I found myself in a situation even more dramatic than any of them, right in the midst of this war!
I hadn’t been able to bring myself to say anything to the grand duke as he told me about all of it.
“Whatever… It’s not my business,” I declared. “So I’ll just think of it as someone else’s problem. What can I even do about it?”
“Well… yes. There’s nothing to do but observe…”
‘Yeah, it’s not something I can meddle in.’
My curiosity only led me to trouble.
‘It’ll work out somehow! As long as everyone survives, who cares if it’s a soap opera?’
Regardless, I decided not to watch that drama anymore.
“In any case, it seems the duchy has agreed to cooperate?”
“Uh… Yeah. That’s how it turned out. But it didn’t go the way I expected.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I assumed the grand duke would treat me like a thief who had stolen his daughter, but he didn’t. Instead, he had a sense of guilt towards me.”
“Ah…”
It was strange to be the one who understood myself the least. Others seemed to see things about me that I couldn’t, simply because I wasn’t Baalier.
“Realizing that the Great War was a pointless conflict seemed to weigh heavily on him....
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