Becoming the Guide of the Mysophobic Villain? Absolutely Not! - Chapter 278
Not too long ago, I wished for someone to love. I dreamed of an ideal partner and wanted to be loved, but on the other hand, I also wanted to give my everything to someone, to experience intense affection.
So, even if he didn’t want it, I couldn’t help it. Waiting quietly once was enough.
“Livener, I didn’t want to resort to this, but…”
“No matter what you say, my mind won’t change…”
“Aren’t you afraid of me, as much as you’re afraid of Claude?”
“…”
Livener looked down at me, incredulous.
“I’m not trying to threaten you… but if you insist on sending me back to the Center, how do you know I won’t hold a grudge against you and do something?”
I tried to sound innocent and harmless, but it seemed I failed.
Livener’s face turned as pale as if he’d seen a ghost.
* * *
In the end, Livener surrendered.
“…From tomorrow, I’ll prepare a proper place for you to sleep. If Lord Claude finds out that I’ve treated you harshly, he’ll be twice as angry.”
When I finally heard that answer, my heart pounded. After two months, I would finally see Claude.
But…
“How dare you come here!”
A thunderous shout struck me.
Of course, I didn’t hear a thing.
“W, With Lord Oscar, you…”
Claude roughly ran his hand through his hair and suddenly stood up. He quickly crossed the tent with his long legs, unable to contain his emotions, and yelled.
“Rose, I asked you just one thing—to please stay quietly at the Center. Was that so difficult for you?”
“Lips… almost touching…”
“What if something had happened on the way here!”
“You promised you wouldn’t do anything with Lord Oscar…”
Usually, I would be trembling with fear, but now I couldn’t even think straight. My mind kept replaying the scene that had been stuck there since earlier.
Claude’s arm restraining the resisting Oscar, the lips of the two men that were so close they seemed about to touch.
If I had been just a few seconds later, their lips would have collided.
…No, if it had been just lips, that would have been fortunate. How long has it been since Claude had a guiding session? What if I hadn’t arrived in time?
Claude might have lost his sanity and…
Just the thought brought tears to my eyes.
“Go back to the Center. I’ll have someone accompany you…”
Claude, who had been shouting with veins bulging in his neck, suddenly hesitated. He finally noticed the tears welling up in my eyes.
“You said… you wouldn’t do it with anyone but me…”
In my previous life, my mother told me never to trust a man’s words. She said men could sweetly whisper words they didn’t even mean to win a woman’s favor.
Yes, no matter how much he swore he wouldn’t get guiding from anyone else, he was an Esper who couldn’t survive without it. An Esper who, regardless of his phobias, had to get guiding to live, even if it meant kissing an old friend.
I knew this, and I had repeatedly urged him to get guiding from Oscar if necessary, though not from Shana.
But he always assured me with a shudder that it would never happen. He might hold hands, but how could he try to kiss him…?
Claude sighed as he saw me on the verge of tears.
“I’m so upset…”
“Ah, Rose, please don’t cry… It wasn’t like that.”
Finally, he knelt hurriedly in front of me. He cupped my cheeks and tried to explain.
“I just wanted to finish this mission as quickly as possible…”
“But you even tilted your head…”
“Well, it would be uncomfortable if our noses bumped…”
“You stuck out your tongue too…!”
“I swear to heaven, I didn’t stick out my tongue.”
Claude looked serious.
But that didn’t make me feel any better.
Before he met me, he didn’t even know to tilt his head before a kiss! How could he use the knowledge he learned from kissing me on Oscar?
“Rose, I’m sorry. Please don’t cry.”
“How could you, with that idiot Oscar…!”
“…Yes, I must have been out of my mind.”
Watching the entire scene, Oscar clicked his tongue and muttered under his breath.
“They’re having fun…”
Blueside1802
LOL. I will get mad with that crazy couple too. 🤣🤣🤣