The Noble Lady of Lust

Chapter 281: Truth found

I also wanted to believe that it had to do with her blessing or something as if she had multiple personalities but it doesn’t seem to be like that, or not at all, if I think about it, it is likely that her blessing has to do with general misunderstandings.

The only thing I understood with my Eyes of Lust was that they worked, to, have a calm, focused and unperturbed mind, so I thought that’s where her impassivity came from. but it seemed like that wasn’t all.

Still, I feel like it’s all too forced. Cordelia’s actions are so jarring that they barely make sense, I’m trying to reason out what now seem like facts, but I’m still struggling.

in fact this is what the girls must have felt when I was telling them my secrets, trying to reason in the face of things that seem impossible, but are facts in front of them.

’Besides, about my alternate self.... what’s the explanation? ...No, let’s see if things went on the way they were going and the misunderstanding wasn’t fixed.... Hmm.’

I realize that while Cordelia may have had misunderstandings in the beginning, little by little, perhaps out of frustration, not progressing or some other reason, that my alternate self never understood.

her feelings were distorted or changed when he ignored her and for all I know he sincerely wanted to be as far away from her as possible because of her persistent harassment.

Along those lines, my alternate self was weaker than Cordelia for a long time and could only barely put up with her harassment, which led him more than once to have arguments with her.

Things perhaps got distorted to the point of no return, or so I think. I wouldn’t know, as that line no longer exists and I can only hypothesize based on what I know.

Maybe in a future metamorphosis or ascension my doubts will be clarified.

’Damn, that’s why I always end misunderstandings at the root.’

That very thing is something I learned from my alternate self, and I prefer to nip those things in the bud and always do it as quickly as possible.

That’s why I tell the girls in my harem about me; I don’t want anyone to exploit the secrets I have if they should happen to find out before they do.

I’d rather do it ahead of time and if something happened it wouldn’t be because there was a misunderstanding, but I had no idea I was letting something like this slip out.

’I’m going to have to be forceful here.’

”Cordelia, I understand you, but let me tell you, from the point of view of Seraphina and everyone else, what you were trying to do is harassment, and in fact, that’s what Miss Seraphina herself thinks.”

”What, it can’t be, if I just wanted to.... Bullshit! You’re just lying.”

The truth is, there are so many bad things Cordelia did to Seraphina that I still find it hard to believe, even with all that half-decent, forced reasoning I quickly did.

And some real evidence would help me more than words.

”I am not lying. I’m sorry, but I’m the one who doesn’t believe you, unless you show me some proof that it’s true. if you do I’ll clear up all misunderstandings myself.”

Well, a few moments ago I was her lackey who misunderstood her and was helping her take down Seraphina, but now I would become the mediator between them.

Obviously, there was something wrong, but it didn’t seem to matter to her, she seemed more concerned about what I said.

Seriously, she seemed shocked, as if she only now realized what she was doing wrong.

This girl is the best academically in the class without counting me, since I cheat with my inherited memories and my memory palace.

She is very intelligent, but I have noticed that her emotional intelligence is very low, even reaching negative values.

’How are even those the actions of someone in love? Even a child could express herself better. ’

This all seemed even more complicated than my secrets and I understood why Astrid seemed more concerned about it than my identity

”...”

Cordelia finally recovered from the shock, but told me no more, as I thought there was no physical evidence, honestly at this point what Astrid said seemed undeniable even without evidence.

But a part of me was resisting, and I had to think about it in more depth and talk it over with Astrid.

’humm.... now I’ll leave this topic open here, and then we’ll see what happens’.

”So, there’s no proof right, if there isn’t, I can’t believe it and she would believe it even less and she’ll still see you as an enemy, but I can still...”.

”There is!”

”What?”

”Yes there is proof, but...!”

”Seriously?..., if you show it to me it might even help her get rid of the bastard who impregnated the lady.”

”Oh, that’s right. Someone had to be killed, all the more reason, but swear you won’t tell anyone else when you see it .”

I’m surprised the truth that something to back up what I was saying. I just said without expecting anything, because if it really is something concrete and real, I will no longer have any doubt, now I wonder what could be a evidence of his love for Seraphina?

’Rather, since when, and why?’

Those are also questions I must ask, but now it was to see if it was true or not.

”I swear on my friend William, may he die if it’s a lie.”

It’s a promise in which I lose nothing.

”William? Well, they certainly seem very close. And they always talk. Fine, I’ll tell you, but you’ll help me get rid of this bastard you said even if he is the prince.”

”Fine.”

Saying that, still cautiously, she led me to what looked like her personal room.

”What you are about to see you will not tell anyone.”

Once again she, with her hand on the door turned to me as if to emphasize to me how important it was.

”Yes, I understand.”

What could it be, does she have a mural with pictures of me on it? I mean, I think some girls do that with the guy they like.

Or come to think of it, a lot of school supplies are missing, even I self-steal them.

Could it be that he has more than I thought? No, it doesn’t seem to be that obvious? why that degree of caution? Hum, maybe a portrait of me. Hmm, that might be... well, how bad could it be...?

”This is my room.”

”....”

’Holy goddess Aleoria, it’s true! No more than that, what I’m seeing... this is... it’s...’

I fainted.

Well, it was the real me that received unprepared what I was seeing with my eyes.

My heart was racing faster than ever.

I feel like even when I was running away with Kiel, I wasn’t as elated and scared as I was now.

I wanted to believe it was my imagination, but as much as I wanted to, I couldn’t deny the truth.

I thought it would be something like I would have my things stored somewhere or at most some images, but what I saw was beyond my imagination.

’I need to get out of here.’

”As you can see, I have nothing but admiration for Seraphina-sama.... I can’t tolerate that some random guy did that.... You said you’d help me, right?”

’Fuck, now I hear honorifics!’

I know this is mostly my perception, of how I want to understand things, but the fact that I hear it like that means she actually started speaking respectfully.

Now I feel that ’killing’ the one who impregnated Seraphina was literal. I couldn’t be more petrified, but I had to somehow get out of this thing I got myself into, by searching for the truth.

’Damn, hey, wake up, help me!’

I communicated with my real self passed out from shock, as the other doppelganger was in the dimensional stone.

I wanted his help, but he had passed out.

’Huh, what happened...? ah!!, more like, fuck, this is worse than I thought. Now I understand why everything that could go wrong, went wrong, help is on the way’.

Luckily, it was more of a shock that disconcerted him and he woke up to my call. He already knew what he had to do.

Brrrr~

”!Oh, a c-ca-all... C-Cordelia, hold on a mo-moment.”

A communication gem rang and I pulled it out of my pocket, but left it near Cordelia so she could listen.

[”Ermm... Chris, what happened? Why did you leave? All of a sudden... I called you just to let you know about the.... pregnancy? Yes, the pregnancy was my big sister’s joke... Well, that’s all goodbye.”]

Alice was heard speaking from the other side.

”Co-Cordelia ehem..., as you heard, it seems that Miss Seraphina, is a prankster. False alarm, murder cancelled. Well, goodbye. And about your secret, I’ll keep it. Art of Radiance, Fourth Stance- .”

Immediately, I hurriedly left that place. I didn’t want to stay another second or I might develop a mental illness of some kind.

*****

”Whew~...that was.... what the hell did I just see?”

It was bad timing. Really, I shouldn’t have seen what my doppelganger was doing. Luckily, it was a bit of a shock and I had to get the poor guy out of that situation.

So I got up and asked Alice to communicate with my doppelganger and whispered what I had to say.

’Right, now it’s time to sort all this out, but first...’

”Erm, honey, what happened, why did you suddenly fall on the floor, and do all that, did something bad happen?”

”Astrid!!!”

”uh!?, what happened, honey, why are you yelling at me all of a sudden?”

”Haaaah, wait, I’m a bit exalted... huuu...haaa~.... well, now I am... Astrid, what the hell!!!”

”Honey, you don’t seem to have calmed down, what happened?”

”You are right Huuu...haaa~ , wait, that really was more than I thought. What I wanted to tell you is that you’re right, it seems that it’s true that Cordelia likes me.... hell, Astrid, what did you create!!!”

”What do you mean... Wait, are you talking about my daughter? Even if it’s you, I won’t let you...”

”Well, look at this and tell me what you want me to think.”

I did illusion magic as I recreated in detail what I just saw through my doppelganger , showing him Cordelia’s room.