Becoming the Guide of the Mysophobic Villain? Absolutely Not! - Chapter 246
However, the real issue turned out not to be Daniel.
“Um, Rose, I won’t misunderstand, so can you leave me out of this…?”
Epine, looking uncomfortable, unhooked my arm.
“What? After what just happened, you’re going to leave me alone with Lord Daniel?”
“Exactly… after what just happened, you want me to stay between you and Lord Daniel…?”
Epine’s face turned pale just thinking about it.
Daniel made things even worse.
“Thank you, Miss Epine. I’ll talk to her quickly and send her back.”
“Take your time… after all that happened… there’s probably a lot to discuss…”
Muttering with a dazed look, Epine eventually left.
Such betrayal…!
I stood there with my mouth agape, feeling a deep sense of betrayal.
“Miss Rose.”
Daniel took a step toward me. Instinctively, I stepped back.
Daniel’s face hardened. My clear rejection seemed to hurt him, and his expression twisted.
I hesitated for a moment.
I did consider just running away.
But there was no way he wouldn’t catch up to me, and if someone saw us running and chasing each other, that would be even worse.
Meanwhile, footsteps approached from a distance.
“…Come over here first!”
I moved towards a thicket where we would be less visible. Daniel silently followed.
He must have come to offer some kind of explanation, but for a while, he said nothing. Unable to bear the silence, I spoke first.
“What height is considered petite?”
“…What?”
“How about Irene? She’s about shoulder-height to you, Lord Daniel. Plus, Irene is very slender. Isn’t that quite petite enough?”
“…Miss Rose, why do you keep trying to pair me with her?”
“I’ve told you before. I can’t give you all the details yet, but she has tremendous potential. Just give her a little more time and you’ll see…!”
“Are you trying to ease your heavy heart by pushing it onto someone else?”
Daniel’s sudden question, with his eyes dark and serious, left me speechless.
Realizing he might have spoken out of anger, Daniel quickly tried to retract his statement.
“I’m sorry, Miss Rose. That’s not what I meant to say….”
“…What the heck. This isn’t working at all.”
“I’ve tried to tell myself over and over again to let go of these feelings. But I just can’t….”
“I need to go.”
As I turned to leave, Daniel hastily grabbed my arm. I felt a surge of emotion.
“It’s all because of the guiding, isn’t it?” I snapped at him.
“….”
“I made you promise that you wouldn’t receive guiding from me anymore. But now, you’re struggling with the allergy, and suddenly there’s a Guide who matches well with you. Isn’t it hard to let go? You might as well have threatened to reveal everything from the start! I felt guilty and gave you guiding, but now you…!”
“Yes, maybe it’s because of that damn compatibility rate.”
Daniel gritted his teeth.
Hearing such rough words from someone I thought incapable of speaking that way made me pause.
“I always thought it was strange how Lord Claude kept insisting on keeping you by his side. Even when Miss Shana was around, his attention was entirely on you. It didn’t make sense for you to be Lord Claude’s Guide.”
“……”
“Now I understand. Espers are instinctively drawn to Guides with a high compatibility rate. Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense. From the moment I first saw you until now, I’ve been inexplicably drawn to you, whether or not I receive any guiding.”
“No, that’s not possible.”
My sharp voice interrupted him.
It couldn’t be. If Espers were instinctively drawn to Guides with a high compatibility rate, then more than half of the Espers in the Center should have been following me around. Obviously, that wasn’t the case at all.
Despite my denial, Daniel’s eyes remained unwavering.
The blue eyes I once thought resembled a refreshing summer sea now looked strangely dark and intense.
Facing those eyes, I found myself at a loss for words.
Daniel, who once blushed just by holding hands due to guiding, was now openly revealing his feelings without hesitation.
