How to Tame That Gentle Male Lead - Chapter 3.7
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“Yes. I usually work on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and I often see Vernas sitting on the bench sculpting during those times. He’s been so kind to our child that I don’t usually talk about this… But since you’ve returned the sculpture to my child, I’m telling you this. Thank you, miss.”
The woman seemed to have realized that Resena was a noble. And the employee standing nearby also spoke up.
“Actually, we couldn’t display it until the contracted date, so we had to refund the rental fee, but this lady paid all the refundable rental fees. That’s how we were able to safely return the sculptures.”
“Oh… How can I ever repay this kindness!”
“It’s alright, ma’am. Knowing where Vernas sculpts is enough for me. And this is payment for the information.”
Resena handed the woman a small pouch of gold coins. The woman’s eyes widened as she fumbled to open it.
Ten gold coins gleamed, reflecting the sunlight. As the woman looked up at her in bewilderment, she smiled.
“This should be enough for you to get by for a few years without having to sell the child’s sculptures. A child diligent enough to come and retrieve his own sculptures will surely grow up to be someone great. This is my way of supporting you as you navigate the world with such a child.”
“Thank you. Thank you so much, miss!”
“Hehe. Well then, I’ll be going now. Renard. Let’s go.”
“Okay, sis.”
After watching the woman hug the child and rub her cheek against his, Resena turned around. The sun was already setting, casting a red glow over the narrow alley.
***
The summer ball was just around the corner.
Sitting in the office chair, Resena rested her chin on her hand and fell into thought for a moment. Although the paperwork was already done, the stalling continued, so it was easy to get distracted.
“To think Vernas wouldn’t show up at the canal dock for almost two weeks…”
At first, she wondered if the woman had lied, but as time passed, she began to speculate that perhaps Vernas was a knight or soldier who had gone to subjugate the monster wave.
Because of this, Resena had asked Renard when the monster wave subjugation would end. Renard had casually gone to the Imperial Palace and came back with an answer.
[They said it would take about 2-3 weeks. But His Highness Eldis will return before the summer ball, so Vernas should appear at the canal dock by then.]
Resena wanted to meet Vernas as soon as possible, but it seemed she would only be able to meet him properly after the summer ball.
Although there was no need to worry since she had already prepared her dress and shoes for the summer ball to be held in three days, her body felt strangely restless.
‘In the first regression, I was just swayed by Resena’s plans using the Tebas Guild.’
It was fortunate that it wasn’t happening that way now. Moreover, since then, either the Tebas Guild hadn’t prepared in advance or no poison was detected at the occasional tea parties. As a result, Resena had to watch Saint Lorona being buried under the crowd that swarmed to her refreshments like a cloud.
‘Saint or whatever… It’s inevitable that she has followers hanging around her.’
In fact, it was the Arnasus family who hosted this tea party.
But since the Duchess didn’t particularly express any dissatisfaction with this, Resena let it slide. Besides, she didn’t want to create unnecessary conflict with the female lead Lorona, and create events that would highlight her. Because of this, Resena, as the daughter of the host, stayed in her place and only engaged in light conversation with people.
“It can’t be helped. Let’s meet Vernas after the summer ball.”
Resena muttered this and stood up.
Outside the window, the sunlight was hot, as if announcing the start of July. But the breeze was cool enough, so Resena went out to the terrace, her hair fluttering.
“Ahh…”
The sight of roses undulating like waves was always spectacular. Resena closed her eyes for a moment, inhaling the fragrance that wafted to her nose. Suddenly, she remembered what she had said to the male lead before.
[Why on earth do you put up with all those actions?]
[…Princess.]
[If this continues, you won’t be able to do anything, stuck between women, and you won’t even be able to protect the person you really should protect.]
[…That’s.]
[You need to wake up.]
[…]
[Rather than being kind to everyone, you need to become someone who can protect just one person. If not, you’ll surely regret it someday.]
After that, the Crown Prince told me he was grateful. He said he wasn’t sure where to start fixing things, but he would take the advice to heart.
“But I don’t think he’ll change all at once…”
I heard he was strict and precise in official matters.
The problem was that in daily life, he couldn’t distinguish between good and bad people and was just kind to everyone. The female lead was also attracted to that kindness, but black magicians and serial killers who looked down on it would gradually kill the people around him, making the male lead feel like he was slowly being strangled.
Then, finally, when even the female lead dies, the male lead explodes.
As a human, it’s only natural.
“…Come to think of it, I should save the people around the male lead too.”
I was so focused on preventing Eldis and Lorona from becoming close but thinking carefully, saving the lives of the kind people around the male lead was also a shortcut to preventing the world’s destruction.
Resena briefly left the office and headed to her room. In the diary she had frantically written right after regressing, there should be contents she had forgotten.
“Let’s see…”
As she opened the pages, she saw densely written Korean text. While flipping through the pages quickly, her eyes stopped at one spot.
“Found it!”
…Thus, Eldis loses his close colleague McClay at the banquet hall. Alken rushed to protect him, but by the time he arrived, McClay, who was a Sword Expert, had already suffered fatal wounds from the black magician’s attack and died…
“So he loses someone named McClay at the winter ball. When I wrote it, I was so focused on the female and male lead’s narrative, but it’s good that I tried to write everything down without missing anything.”
Hmm. Resena flipped through the pages after that and briefly looked at the front as well. The most recent death was a knight named Jerome, who was attacked by the serial killer Tom Baker at the Founding Festival held in the imperial capital after the summer ball.
“I remember this person wasn’t even a Sword Expert… In the novel, he was a knowledgeable knight who acted as an advisor to the male lead. He wasn’t bad in skills, but he was an older knight more suited for a staff role.”
So I remember the male lead staying up for days, suffering after losing him. I thought it was such a pity back then.
‘Since he didn’t know that the serial killer Tom Baker was a former knight with military experience… He probably didn’t expect to lose Jerome.’
From this point on, the male lead’s relationships gradually crumble.
Even the Sword Masters around him were colleagues, but as the number of people he could have open conversations with gradually decreased, the male lead was left in a state of virtual isolation.
‘You could say it’s pitiful…’
Being naturally kind-hearted, the anguish of not being able to protect them piles up in his heart.
And finally, by losing even his lover, he explodes.
“…Originally, I only thought about canceling events to prevent the female and male lead from becoming close within my capabilities, but wouldn’t be helping the male lead not go crazy also help prevent the world’s destruction…?”
