I Became an Extra Who Died Instead of the Main Character

39 – Side) Adele Listonia (3)

The garden of the Listonian family bathed in bright sunlight.

There were two boys and girls enjoying the warm sunlight.

It was clear that the chairs they were using were made for people who were tired from walking in the garden.

The girl lying on the boy’s lap with a lap pillow lay comfortably as if it didn’t matter.

However, the identity of the girl was that of the owner of the garden, the daughter of the Duke of Listonia. There was no one there to say anything.

The boy who is the fiancé of such a girl might think that the lap pillow being given to the girl is uncomfortable enough, but she is reading the book without any sign of discomfort.

If the girl’s face was grimace in the rather strong sunlight, she even covered the sunlight with the book she was looking at.

“······Hmm.”

She was obviously the one who had just smiled at Rihanna’s consideration for herself, but now she had a look on her face that didn’t like something about her.

“Lian.”

“······· Huh?”

“Aren’t you studying too hard these days?”

Rihanna seemed taken aback by Adele’s sudden question, but even her reaction to Rihanna’s bewilderment came as a disappointment to her.

I haven’t had much time to meet Rian these days because of her successor class. What fiancé wouldn’t be sad if her fiancé, whom she hadn’t seen in a while, was focusing only on the book she was reading, not on her.

She felt that these thoughts were childish for her, but it was regrettable.

Lian apologized to her as if she was really sorry for her tone, which sounded slightly sullen.

“Sorry, I’ve been studying a lot lately.”

Watching Lian apologize like that, she suddenly wanted to play a joke.

“······Is studying more important than me?”

“No! Nothing is more important to me than you.”

The result of the prank was a great success, and now I was able to hear Lian’s address, which is not easily heard.

They were the ones who started her first meeting with her, apparently like a fairy, but now it was also something that Lian couldn’t easily hear because she was shy.

Anyway, hearing Lian’s heartfelt words after a long time made her feel so much better.

“·······hehehehe.”

“······Adele, you were kidding me.”

Lian, who saw her with her sloppy smile on her face with her relaxed expression, she naturally recognized that she had been tricked.

“Ryan likes me the best in the world?”

“····.”

His childhood friend had already finished preparing to make fun of him, and moreover, he couldn’t think of anything to refute.

She just washed her face dry with both hands to cover her flushed face like a ripe apple.

Seeing her childhood friend so cute, she decided to give the cute childhood friend a prize.

“Lian, listen to me.”

“······What else?”

Her childhood friend, who had just been through something, immediately rejected it.

I couldn’t resist the woman who kept beckoning her to come quickly, so I quietly obeyed her words.

There are no other servants around her, and only she and the two of them are basking in the sunlight in the garden.

Excluding them, the time around them seemed to have stopped.

She suddenly felt that the situation was romantic, and whispered to Lian.

“······I also like you the most in the world, Ryan.”

“····.”

The effect of Sweet Whispers of Love was very good.

Rian’s face, which had been red enough until just now, became even more red as if it were going to explode soon.

I was embarrassed, but not in a bad mood.

······No, thinking about it now, it might be too embarrassing.

In the end, she couldn’t stand her shame and got up from her chair first.

“······Now let’s go in, it’s too hot in here.”

“·······Uh.”

I didn’t know if the heat was really from the sunlight, but she returned to the duke’s mansion holding Lian’s hand tightly.

If only these happy days continued, their story would have had a happy ending.

Maybe it was a joke by the goddess of fate, but after that, the relationship between her and him grew farther and farther away.

The beginning was simple.

It’s just that her daily life is so busy that she has no time to meet her childhood friend.

It was a very sad story that the time to meet Rian was gone, but there was no end to what she had to learn as the next Duke of Ristonia.

But I couldn’t just complain. Because she had to be a duke.

And her unknown chronic illness, which she had since birth, started to get worse little by little.

The duke’s councilors also stuck out their tongues, saying that they had no idea what the disease was, and her parents’ concerns increased day by day.

I prevented other people from approaching her as much as possible, in case the disease worsened.

Because of this, she couldn’t meet Lian, and her dissatisfaction grew, but she thought that if she finished her treatment quickly, she could meet Lian in a healthy state, so she received treatment that she might not have.

In the midst of such a busy life with study and treatment, a news came to the Duke of Listonia.

“······What, Emma?”

“····.”

“Did I hear it right?”

“My lady…”

“Ryan…Going out with Philip Edgar?”

The news that her fiancé has become friends with Philip Edgar, who is famous among the rogue Englishmen.

At first, when her Emma told her the news, she naturally assumed that her Emma was making fun of her.

Her childhood friend she knew was too nice to hang out with a bully like Philip, and she was the kind of person who would rather read in her room than wander around outside.

So she didn’t believe what Emma said. Ominous news continued to trickle into the Duke of Listonia.

“······What this time?”

“····.”

“Is Lian going wild in the banquet hall?”

Her childhood friend tells her that this time, she and the delinquent youngsik were drinking and going wild at a banquet hall of another noble.

The content of spitting out abusive language towards other young ladies and young children.

There was no end to Lian’s news, and she thought she couldn’t stand to see the situation any longer.

As someone who likes Rihanna, I had to check whether these rumors were real or malicious.

That’s how I asked her father to get a spare day and went to Count Kindred’s house.

“······Lian?”

As soon as she saw her fiancé, whom she hadn’t seen in a very long time, she had to feel it.

“······It’s been a while.”

That her childhood friend who always smiled brightly is now quite distorted somewhere.

***

The look of Lian telling her that it’s been a while was far more devastating than she expected.

She smelled of her alcohol, as if it was true that she had been drinking until the day before. Dark circles around her eyes were thick, as if she hadn’t slept well.

Even her gaze, saying that it has been a long time since she looked at her, wasn’t bright and innocent until then, but instead it was cloudy as if she was seeing something bothersome to her.

I thought maybe the rumors were true.

“······Ryan, do you know what rumors I heard?”

Nevertheless, she asked Lian.

In her memory, her Rihanna was a fiancé who was always caring and treated her well.

“I’ve heard rumors that you… Have become a jerk… Are you lying?”

So she asked.

She thought that the Lian in front of her would be the Lian she remembered.

But the moment I heard Lian’s answer. That expectation was ruthlessly shattered.

“That’s right.”

“······· Huh?”

“The only stain on the venerable Count Kindred family. That’s me.”

At first, she didn’t understand what Lian was saying.

After all, her fiancé wasn’t one to spit out her self-deprecation in such a low voice.

She was not the kind of person who spoke so sadly, even though she would rather have her brazenly rebuke her.

“Why…?”

“····.”

“Why… Has it changed so much?”

The childhood friend she thought she knew better than anyone else had changed. She asked distraught.

And when she heard Lian’s answer back, she despaired even more.

“I haven’t changed. Adele. This is who I really am.”

“····.”

“The way you knew me until now is a lie.”

The Rihanna she knew wasn’t the one who looked at her with her dead eyes.

– Adele? What’s the matter?

It must have been someone who looked at her warmly with her bright and intelligent eyes.

Why… Did it change like that?

“Can you… Come back to the old days?”

“····.”

“Can you please return to my childhood friend, Lian Kindred, who was always considerate?”

Please. Her voice was full of desperation.

Hoping that Rihanna standing in front of her will look at her as warmly as she did in the past.

Like the time when we were happy just being together, like the time when we laughed just looking at each other.

I wanted to go back to the time when I was always happy.

However, Lian’s answer came back to her. It was much cooler than the midwinter frost.

“What are you?”

“····.”

“Who are you, Adele Listonia. Who are you, trying to manipulate me.”

Lian’s words stabbed her heart.

She must have felt the world collapsing then.

From then on, until the very day before Ryan and her break up.

She and Ryan never spoke to each other.