Vol Chapter 6.3 (1/2)

Chapter 6-3

When Addie comes back, will she be able to compose any dialogue?

Letting things went unresolved, Mary sped up her paces to a cla.s.sroom.

Patrick and Alicia were already inside; upon seeing Mary’s form, Patrick apologized with an awkward laugh “I’m sorry for troubling you.”

Alicia who stood beside him was showing a fretful expression, she appeared about to cry………No, her eyes were somewhat tinted with red, mayhap she was crying until a moment ago.

Alicia was alarmed as she spotted Mary, almost automatically her shoulders leapt.

Realizing that, Patrick affectionately and gently stroked her pet.i.te shoulder.

“Mary, you should have figured out the reason you’re called.”

“Yes, I’m going to be dumped by you.”

Mary smirked.

Confronted by such an intrepid grin, Patrick smiled wryly; only Alicia’s face was growing aghast witnessing their exchange.

Hence, she raised her voice to interpolate “Please wait!”

“Mary-sama, I-I…….. Your engagement…..!”

“Alicia, I’ve said earlier, right?”

“But Patrick-sama, after all I………….I wish for you to have a marriage which is acknowledged by everyone.”

Looking at Alicia’s weeping figure, Mary recalled Addie’s speech previously.

From how their interchange proceeded, apparently she wanted to back off.

In fact, Alicia appealed to Patrick that Mary is an appropriate companion for him. Considering their social status, the impacts and their surrounding it’s a sound a.s.sessment. Mary and Patrick were a perfect political-marriage couple.

Of course, it was decided without the consent of the people involved, still this was what marriage of conventional fundamentally entailed.

Thence Alicia pleaded for some time, listening to her full-of tears entreaty Patrick was struggling hard to stop her but to a futile attempt; Mary blew an air.

“You b.u.mpkin girl, are you trying to offer me a man?”

She called out to Alicia.

“Mary?”

“……….Mary-sama?”

Toward Mary’s disorienting endeavor, Patrick and Alicia gaped at her.

Unaffected by those two reactions, Mary continued to laugh daringly.

“Are you telling me that yours truly, Mary Albert, would be happy to receive a castoff man from a hayseed like you?”

Her boisterous laughter was incontestably of a villain’s one.

However, there’s no smidgen of being affronted in their behaviors, let alone a furor to her ridicules.

Naturally, Mary’s words held no offence. Honestly speaking, it’s her usual difficult-to-decipher way of communicating, in her own manner she was acceding their relations.h.i.+p.

“Mary, all of these troubles was me to blame. For the breaking of our engagement, I won’t mind if you stretch a reason that benefit you. “

“Oh my, thanks for your concern.”

“Mary-sama……….I, have no intention to be a hindrance for Mary-sama. I really think you two suit each other. So………”

“Please spare me from a man who fell to a country girl.”

Intercepting her, Mary aligned her sight to Patrick’s.

His eyes were resolute, hand still draped around Alicia’s shoulder. Accepting Mary’s gaze, as if answering her, he met it unswervingly.

“Heretofore I’ve always abided my parent’ caprices to be a model successor of Dice House. Now it’s different, I’ll become a man Alicia’s wish for. I’ll live together with Alicia.”

For Patrick’s p.r.o.nouncement of his oath, Mary nodded contentedly.

Patrick was a dyed in the wool aristocrat gentleman. His paternal raised him so, and correspondingly he reacted so.  And now he decided to throw everything away to be alongside Alicia.

I let go such a good man…………., an ironical remark inadvertently drifted inside her mind, Mary chuckled frivolously.

“Well, how’re you planning to divulge this to your parent? After they meticulously nurtured an ideal son, nevertheless he instead chose a commoner girl. It won’t surprise me if they faint.”

“I’ve no other choice but to persuade them. Yet if they can’t accept it, I’ll happily discard Dice House.”

“No way, Patrick-sama!”

Patrick grabbed the blanched Alicia’s arm.

Their actions reminded Mary of Addie’s previous disagreements.

“For him to tumble from his pedigree”

Even if it was to become reality, Patrick’s apt.i.tudes and talents wouldn’t be lost in the drain.