The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration

ich had just arrived.

She was all by herself as she walked towards the carriage.

Damian and the duke would remain here for the reconnaissance mission to the woods, while Alicia and Diana had boarded the carriage meant for patients.
Priests were also there to accompany them.

Diana was injured, and Alicia had yet to wake up when she slept as though she fainted last night.

‘And Cassion…’

She wasn’t sure.

If he wasn’t feeling well, she made him promise to get into the carriage meant for patients.
He must be heavily exhausted right now.

She last saw him by the barracks earlier, so it seemed like he had already boarded the carriage.

So, she was all alone now.

All the way to the family carriage, people’s eyes followed after her.

Every step she took roused a small stir.

Doubts towards the ducal ladies had flared up overnight.

‘Everyone’s excited, huh.
Really excited.’

Hearing the noise around her, Rosetta raised one eyebrow.

But that was all.

She showed no further signs of agitation.

In any case, she’d been prepared for this since yesterday, ever since the crowd had looked at her like that.

Those who experienced tragedy.

Those whose nerves had been sharpened to the fullest.

After all those doubts had been raised regarding Rosetta, they would not subside.

Once bloomed, it’s difficult to get rid of such doubts.

Right.
And that’s why Rosetta slipped some pills into Alicia’s drink, too.

She gave her some sleeping pills just to make it look like she had fainted.

As Alicia was carried into one of the patients’ carriages, still asleep as if she was dead, Diana asked Rosetta a question.

 

“Do you have to do this, Milady?”

 

There was no answer back.

With her forehead forlornly wrinkled, Diana opened her lips to speak again.

 

“This will only draw attention to you, Lady Rosetta.
They’ll ask themselves why you never fainted even once, and they’d cling onto all sorts of ridiculous details.”

 

Indeed, it was just as Diana said.
Rosetta’s predictions weren’t that far off either.

Her golden gaze quietly examined Alicia’s sleeping face.

As she was asleep, her face was a bit swollen from all the tears she had shed.
Strangely, Rosetta found her adorable again, so she smiled.

Soon, she spoke.

 

“That’s what I want to happen.”

 

If it was going to be between her and Alicia, then she would rather take full responsibility.

To make sure that not a single gaze would turn towards Alicia until she’d be cleared of all doubts.

To make sure that Rosetta alone would be cornered.

She said this before and she’d say it again— she liked good-natured people, but she did not care about becoming one herself.

And what she’s facing were just strangers’ eyes.

In the end, all they could do was look at her.

She felt not a single blow to her from receiving just their gazes.

So, whether or not they were looking at her.

Whether or not they’d raise such noise around her.

It did not matter.

Shrugging once, Rosetta had an unfeeling expression on her face the entire time she walked towards her household’s carriage.

As she waited for the coachman to open the door, a familiar scent was carried by the breeze.
Then, a hand reached out to her.

She turned to face the owner of that hand.

And, she saw Cassion’s smiling face.

“Maxwell, why are you…”

She spoke to him with a whisper.
At the same time, her expression—which had remained cold all this time—finally loosened a little.

“Shouldn’t you be with Alicia and Diana in their carriage? The one meant for patients… Not here.”

When Rosetta asked, Cassion shrugged and raised his hand to her again.

He was wordlessly telling her to take it.

Then, as Rosetta now laid her own hand over his, he answered back.

“I’m not currently a patient because a certain someone saved me yesterday.
Besides, my job is to protect you.”

Those smiling lips were smooth.

“Then, where have you been?”

“I went back inside the barracks for just a little bit, but when I came back outside, I thought I got abandoned when I found that no one was there.”

The man’s playful tone made Rosetta let out a peal of laughter, and she soon got into the carriage.

After confirming that she was seated, Cassion tried to close the carriage’s door.

It was customary for a knight to ride a separate horse, following after the carriage to guard it.

However, Rosetta was faster than him.

A slender arm popped out of the carriage door before it was closed, then grabbed the man by his collar.

Just like that, she pulled him in.

And inside the carriage, the distance between the two quickly narrowed.

While she was sitting upright, Cassion was underneath as their faces became so close together.

They could feel each other’s breaths.

Ka-chak.

Soon after, the carriage door that the man and the woman entered through closed by itself.

Controlled by qi or magic.

Or perhaps both.

There were many ways to make a door close without touching it.

Even though the space they’re in now was not quite small, the only thing that could be heard inside the carriage was seemingly just their breaths.

“…Did you think anyone saw it? You pulled me into the carriage so aggressively.”

When Cassion stared blankly up at her, Rosetta just grinned.

The arc drawn by her red lips was beautiful.

“I don’t care.
I’m already being treated as the master of monsters anyway.”

Unlike her lovely smile, the words she spoke were vicious.

“Stay with me, Cassion.”

And the short words that followed sounded like a request, or an order.

But what’s certain was this— that the look in her curved eyes did not look too pleasant.

Beneath her eyelashes, the thickly blooming shadows made her look very tired.

And lonely.

“I will always be with you.”

Cassion gave a quiet answer.
Compared to the lightness of the question, the answer carried a little too much weight.

But Rosetta did not laugh.

The woman’s golden gaze and the man’s black gaze stared straight into each other.

Then, without giving any particular response back, Rosetta let go of her grip on Cassion’s collar.

“Ah.”

The man sighed out as he regained the ability to breathe freely again.

However, it was strange.

The hold on his collar was finally released, but he was strangely disappointed.