Chapter 96
Translator: Yonnee
RP: Haebaragi_syk
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Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes—
This meant that one should think about and understand the other person’s position or circumstances.
Right. In the past, she had chucked this saying to the desolate corners of her mind, then went ahead and carried out her actions first instead of thinking about them beforehand. This was, to put it bluntly, perhaps the biggest source of the current Reina’s internal conflict.
“This is just… just too embarrassing.”
These days, she had no idea what to do because she was now at the receiving end of the same thing she used to do towards the other person.
“Hu-aaaaah… Can’t I just hide in a mouse hole or something…”
She knew that her attempts at seduction absolutely didn’t work, but… She had no idea that it would be this embarrassing.
“There’s really no day where the wind doesn’t blow…”
What kind of rollercoaster of life was she riding for everything to keep changing so dramatically?
“Haa…”
Letting out a deep sigh, Reina got up from her seat and plopped on her bed.
In any case, it was quite difficult to deny at this point.
“I dunno why, but… Ethan likes me.”
From the thing with ‘my love’, that bit with the ‘tee’, and with the grand proclamation of ‘Reina is sweeter than chocolate’. Even if she were to stand on her hands and look at everything upside down, all of the signs pointed towards Ethan having fallen for Reina.
“But why did you fall for me all of a sudden?”
She put out all stops to try and seduce him before—all to no avail. And when she approached him, his reaction was just cold…
While her brows were knitted together now, she suddenly jumped up and sighed.
“Ah! Is this like… like an office romance?”
Those things happened, right?
“Romance between a prickly boss who’s terribly good at his job but has some sort of mysophobia, and a brave and kind subordinate.”
Their relationship would start out rocky and they’d always be at odds. But in the end, the boss would open up his heart to his subordinate after watching her do a good job.
“And the subordinate most probably fell madly for the boss’s face. That subordinate is me!”
Of course, it was a little hasty to conclude it simply like this.
“Ah, I dunno. I don’t want to hurt my brain trying to analyze Ethan’s thoughts anymore.”
So, she decided not to think about it in complex ways.
Leaning back again, Reina laid down on her side and put an arm under her cheek.
“Haa… My head hurts like hell.”
Ethan or whatever. Lehman or whatever. She just wanted them all to go away.
“…Ah, no. For now, not Ethan. I just want Lehman to disappear forever.”
Ethan was still the closest thing to the embodiment of her ideal type. And, most of all, he’s a little tiring to deal with, but she didn’t hate him.
“Ugh, my head. I’ll just stop thinking about it today.”
She didn’t usually work her brain on overdrive like this, but thanks to Ethan, the opportunity presented itself. Thanks to that, exhaustion surged in.
“But if I sleep now, I won’t be able to sleep at night…”
Her voice dwindled in volume as she said this. But then suddenly—really, very suddenly—her eyes snapped open as she saw the bookshelf across her bed.
“Huh?”
Something wasn’t right in that corner of the room, which was always the same until now.
“That book, 「 Not There, Count! 」 Where did it go?”
Chills ran down her back as though a sharp blade had touched her. Kicking off her blanket, she jumped out of bed.
“No way. Why isn’t it here?”
But no matter how many times she searched through the bookshelf, the original novel was nowhere to be found.
No. To be more precise, there was a book there, but the title and its contents were wiped out without leaving a single drop of ink.
“What the…”
Feeling as though the skin over her arms, legs and scalp was tightening, goosebumps spread over her in waves.
She checked the book over and over again just in case she got it confused with another one. However, this volume was most definitely 「 Not There, Count! 」
“The spell is… intact.”
For fear of anyone else reading the novel, Reina had put a spell over the book to conceal it from the maids who regularly cleaned her room. She mixed it together with other popular novels that she owned and hid it in plain view so that it wouldn’t elicit anyone’s curiosity more.
For that, she put on a high-level magic spell of obfuscation when a person other than herself would try to read it.
“It still has the mark that’s definitely from my magic.”
This meant that the title and contents of the novel really disappeared without a trace all of a sudden.
“Does that make any sense though?”
How could something like that happen, as though the book had been wrung clean like laundry? Her pupils began to shake violently as if she had encountered a savage beast alone in the middle of the night.
“Why… suddenly.”
Still in disbelief, she flipped through several other pages, but the results were the same.
The hands holding onto the volume lost their strength.
“Wait a sec…”
Now that she thought about it, she hadn’t seen any guide messages since some time ago.
“But I didn’t even notice.”
At the belated realization, Reina recalled her memories one by one.
That wasn’t the only thing that she found bizarre.
“Since when did I stop… thinking of this place as the setting of a novel?”
Shocked, she leaned against a table, reaching up to cover her forehead with a palm.
“I don’t… I don’t remember.”
At some point, she stopped seeing the pop-up messages, she stopped considering the people in this place as characters, and she no longer thought of the information she had on the original novel.
“What is this, suddenly…”
Without any notice, she was left alone in the darkness, not a single ray of light to guide her way.
Chapter 96
Translator: Yonnee
RP: Haebaragi_syk
—
* * *
Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes—
This meant that one should think about and understand the other person’s position or circumstances.
Right. In the past, she had chucked this saying to the desolate corners of her mind, then went ahead and carried out her actions first instead of thinking about them beforehand. This was, to put it bluntly, perhaps the biggest source of the current Reina’s internal conflict.
“This is just… just too embarrassing.”
These days, she had no idea what to do because she was now at the receiving end of the same thing she used to do towards the other person.
“Hu-aaaaah… Can’t I just hide in a mouse hole or something…”
She knew that her attempts at seduction absolutely didn’t work, but… She had no idea that it would be this embarrassing.
“There’s really no day where the wind doesn’t blow…”
What kind of rollercoaster of life was she riding for everything to keep changing so dramatically?
“Haa…”
Letting out a deep sigh, Reina got up from her seat and plopped on her bed.
In any case, it was quite difficult to deny at this point.
“I dunno why, but… Ethan likes me.”
From the thing with ‘my love’, that bit with the ‘tee’, and with the grand proclamation of ‘Reina is sweeter than chocolate’. Even if she were to stand on her hands and look at everything upside down, all of the signs pointed towards Ethan having fallen for Reina.
“But why did you fall for me all of a sudden?”
She put out all stops to try and seduce him before—all to no avail. And when she approached him, his reaction was just cold…
While her brows were knitted together now, she suddenly jumped up and sighed.
“Ah! Is this like… like an office romance?”
Those things happened, right?
“Romance between a prickly boss who’s terribly good at his job but has some sort of mysophobia, and a brave and kind subordinate.”
Their relationship would start out rocky and they’d always be at odds. But in the end, the boss would open up his heart to his subordinate after watching her do a good job.
“And the subordinate most probably fell madly for the boss’s face. That subordinate is me!”
Of course, it was a little hasty to conclude it simply like this.
“Ah, I dunno. I don’t want to hurt my brain trying to analyze Ethan’s thoughts anymore.”
So, she decided not to think about it in complex ways.
Leaning back again, Reina laid down on her side and put an arm under her cheek.
“Haa… My head hurts like hell.”
Ethan or whatever. Lehman or whatever. She just wanted them all to go away.
“…Ah, no. For now, not Ethan. I just want Lehman to disappear forever.”
Ethan was still the closest thing to the embodiment of her ideal type. And, most of all, he’s a little tiring to deal with, but she didn’t hate him.
“Ugh, my head. I’ll just stop thinking about it today.”
She didn’t usually work her brain on overdrive like this, but thanks to Ethan, the opportunity presented itself. Thanks to that, exhaustion surged in.
“But if I sleep now, I won’t be able to sleep at night…”
Her voice dwindled in volume as she said this. But then suddenly—really, very suddenly—her eyes snapped open as she saw the bookshelf across her bed.
“Huh?”
Something wasn’t right in that corner of the room, which was always the same until now.
“That book, 「 Not There, Count! 」 Where did it go?”
Chills ran down her back as though a sharp blade had touched her. Kicking off her blanket, she jumped out of bed.
“No way. Why isn’t it here?”
But no matter how many times she searched through the bookshelf, the original novel was nowhere to be found.
No. To be more precise, there was a book there, but the title and its contents were wiped out without leaving a single drop of ink.
“What the…”
Feeling as though the skin over her arms, legs and scalp was tightening, goosebumps spread over her in waves.
She checked the book over and over again just in case she got it confused with another one. However, this volume was most definitely 「 Not There, Count! 」
“The spell is… intact.”
For fear of anyone else reading the novel, Reina had put a spell over the book to conceal it from the maids who regularly cleaned her room. She mixed it together with other popular novels that she owned and hid it in plain view so that it wouldn’t elicit anyone’s curiosity more.
For that, she put on a high-level magic spell of obfuscation when a person other than herself would try to read it.
“It still has the mark that’s definitely from my magic.”
This meant that the title and contents of the novel really disappeared without a trace all of a sudden.
“Does that make any sense though?”
How could something like that happen, as though the book had been wrung clean like laundry? Her pupils began to shake violently as if she had encountered a savage beast alone in the middle of the night.
“Why… suddenly.”
Still in disbelief, she flipped through several other pages, but the results were the same.
The hands holding onto the volume lost their strength.
“Wait a sec…”
Now that she thought about it, she hadn’t seen any guide messages since some time ago.
“But I didn’t even notice.”
At the belated realization, Reina recalled her memories one by one.
That wasn’t the only thing that she found bizarre.
“Since when did I stop… thinking of this place as the setting of a novel?”
Shocked, she leaned against a table, reaching up to cover her forehead with a palm.
“I don’t… I don’t remember.”
At some point, she stopped seeing the pop-up messages, she stopped considering the people in this place as characters, and she no longer thought of the information she had on the original novel.
“What is this, suddenly…”
Without any notice, she was left alone in the darkness, not a single ray of light to guide her way.
