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Life as a Tower Maid: Locked up with the Prince - Chapter 34

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Chapter 34

Translator: Yonnee

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Albert didn’t like Rosé. And I understand why he didn’t. Although I’m mentally a different person, I respected his opinion.

I deflected it moderately so it should be okay! I tried to gauge his reaction furtively.

Ba-thump, ba-thump.

However, Albert’s expression was as cold as before. As he scoffed quietly, he swept back his hair.

“Is that your answer, Rosé?”

“It’s not that I don’t like you! I personally think that the Prince is very cool and handsome…”

“In short, you don’t like me.”

My excuse was immediately decimated by Albert’s iron wall.

I tried to alleviate his mood, but I just felt miserable by myself as I failed.

Albert smiled, then he asked with a softer expression.

“If you really don’t, then let me ask one more question. Why did you kiss back?”

“…Can I be honest? I feel like you’re going to kill me right now…”

“……”

Albert was silent for a moment. And that silence scared me. It really looks like he’s thinking hard about what he’s about to do with me.

…Were those going to be my last words?

I blurted out quickly.

“Prince, you remember that you signed the contract with a clause saying you can’t kill me, right? I’m going to get out of here for my peaceful retirement!”

Beep-beep-beep! Beeeep-beeeep-beeeep! Beep-beep-beep!

As if sending a signal for help in morse code frantically, I shouted urgently.

Then Albert, whose hand was on his chin, spoke slowly.

“…I won’t kill you, Rosé. I was just wondering why you’ve been fostering such a misunderstanding.”

What kind of excuse is that when you’re making a scary expression! But I didn’t dare refute what he just said.

“Of course, I knew that the Prince wouldn’t do that.”

Albert’s eyes glimmered.

“Then, you understand very well that I won’t. So answer me.”

I was just crying while eating mustard seeds.[1] It’s all too clear that Albert’s the kind of person who only listens to what he wants to hear.

“…At that moment, you made it so that I can’t resist.”

I mean, Albert knew it best. He knew how much he affected people and just how much influence he had on them.

But Albert smiled as though he was dejected. After touching his forehead, he approached me.

Then, he whispered with an expressionless face.

“Rosé. You really have a talent for making people feel miserable.”

“……”

“You’re quite good at it.”

“…I’m sorry, Prince.”

Even if I had ten mouths, I had nothing to say after that non-rejection. But I’m still sorry that he misunderstood because of the kiss.

But I don’t know what Albert’s thinking while he’s asking me like this. I doubt that his feelings were pure from the start in the first place.

As I already told him, this tower is an enclosed space. Perhaps Albert was just being fixated on these feelings that he’s having for the first time, but it’s not like we’ll live here all our lives.

And I’m not the only woman in the world. Unlike the Rosé of the novel, I’m a normal person with common sense.

…Well, I’m hoping that I am.

Albert’s expression continued to be unreadable as he stared at me.

I thought I already knew him pretty well, but it’s a mistake to think that way. Right now, his expression was completely wiped off, as if all his emotions had completely disappeared.

As my breathing was tense, Albert’s voice rang in my ears.

“Right. I have to answer, too.”

…What?

No wait, are you just obstinately going to say it honestly?

I really wanted to turn him down.

But my liver has already shrunk so much that I couldn’t say it frankly. Eventually, I had no choice but to wait for Albert to finish speaking.

He looked at me as I stayed silent, his gaze soft as though he really did have feelings for me, and he whispered in a sweet voice.

“I care for you.”

I received a confession.

From the prince of this country.

A sudden fast ball!

He said it so straightforwardly that I can’t even ignore it by acting tactless.

“I think about you. I wish to touch you. Rosé. This is the extent of my feelings for you. Do you understand?”

Like a kindergarten teacher teaching children new words for the first time, Albert repeated it again.

“And I can’t kill you. I need to find another way.”

So I really was about to die…?

The genre transformed once more and became a life or death survival thriller. And the female lead was me, Rosé Artius… No, Yoo Jung-in.

“But what should I do. The first person who falls is the one who loses. I’m not used to unrequited love.”

Albert leaned down and our eyes met, our faces close.

I could hear the same sound of his breathing, the same sound that I hear before we kiss.

Then, Albert whispered.

“What I’m saying is, Rosé, I’ll make you fall in love with me.”

It was just like him, this arrogant yet sweet confession.

I was rendered speechless. My face turned red in an instant.

Albert’s lips curled up into a smirk.

“And I’m spelling it out for you because I know you’ll pretend that you didn’t understand what I said once I bring it up again next time.”

He continued to hit the bull’s eye, and at this point, I should just throw my tongue out because I can’t say anything.

“Now you’ve heard my side.”

He said that he understood me, and this was true. I was like an open book to him now, and he saw how I tried to pretend to be tactless.

There was no touch between us. He soon moved away.

Albert glanced at the wand, which was now flashing at an even faster rate than earlier to express how urgent it was.

Sighing, Albert finally picked up the wand.

 


 

¹ Crying while eating mustard seed – when someone is forced to do something he or she would rather not do, but pretends to enjoy it anyway. (Mustard seed is hot and spicy and is used for seasoning.) ↩

 

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      The happiness of reading this chapter with our ML’s communication really makes me happy XD

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