Refusing Your Ex-Husband’s Obsession: A Guide - Chapter 111 - We’re so very close

Chapter 111 – We’re so very close

Translator: Yonnee

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“Ah, Brother Morgan. Have you met Rose recently?”

I welcomed Morgan, who had come to visit me for the first time in a while.

“Yeah, I just came back from seeing her, but…”

“How do you feel?”

“Mm, well. Every time I meet her, she’s always with Young Duke Leopardt.”

“Oh, is that so?”

Indeed, Espers were possessive beings, especially so with Guides.

“Does Duke Leopardt regularly come here?”

“……”

As I was smiling a little to myself while lost in thought, I couldn’t say anything back when Morgan asked this. It hadn’t been long since Ciel very proudly asked for my parents’ permission to marry me, yet he was showing such suspicious behavior as of late.

I even went ahead and asked my parents if they knew anything, but they didn’t answer. My curiosity just kept growing day by day.

“You’ve improved a lot in controlling your strength.”

I praised Morgan as I watched him lifting the teacup to his lips. Delighted to hear this, Morgan smiled and answered.

“The way you explained it to me was very effective. Visualizing everything as a teacup helped me get used to my strength.”

“That’s good to hear.”

“Oh, but Irene, how did you know that?”

Asking as such, Morgan tilted his head to the side. The question was ambiguous, but he soon continued.

“The spices from the Yuria Kingdom, I mean. The red pepper powder.”

“…Is that why you’re here today?”

“That’s right. Thanks to you, my family’s guild is also terribly busy.”

“Thanks to me, huh. But it was only a personal request of mine.”

“We bought some spices as well at that time, but it can’t be compared to the amount the Closch Barony has right now. I heard that you’ve told the Baron to buy the distribution rights as well.”

“…Um, yes.”

“It really feels like you can see into the future.”

“How could that be possible? Gosh.”

“Ah, indeed. Doing such a feat is something that no less than the High Priest would be able to do, right?”

Morgan’s words sounded a little strange. There seemed to be the underlying connotation that, if the high priest could do it, then the saintess sure could.

…So it’s as if I was a saintess in his eyes.

While I was sipping my tea as I was feeling a bit peculiar, a certain someone suddenly appeared.

“If I may.”

Before I knew it, Ciel arrived at the garden and sat down proudly in the chair that a maid brought in for him.

Of course, he didn’t forget to move that seat next to mine.

Sitting right next to me, Ciel glowered scathingly at Morgan as he opened his lips to speak.

“Why are you here?”

“Oh, Your Grace must not know. My family and the Closch family have always been close.”

“Hah, as a matter of fact, it doesn’t look like you’re close to Irene at all…”

“Isn’t it possible to form a close relationship starting today?”

Ciel did not say anything for a moment. And instead of answering Morgan, he turned to me and changed the topic.

“I heard that House Closch’s guild has done magnificent business recently. You brought back a unique spice from the Yuria Kingdom?”

I nearly scoffed as he asked something that he already knew everything about. I’ve been having this feeling a lot lately, but it seemed like he had become a more shameless man in this life. It was so unlike how he was in the past.

He was just cold and haughty back then…

“I was told that the food that could be made with that unique spice is quite delicious… How is it called again? I believe it’s ‘dak-bokkeum-tang’…”

When I didn’t answer him, he leaned forward and added the last part in a whisper against my ear. Oh, I’ve been craving dak-bokkeum-tang, or braised spicy chicken, for such a long time now.

It’s something to wonder about, really. It’s already been several years since I came to this world, and I thought that I must have adapted well already, but whenever I thought of Korean food, I’d still crave it immensely.

While I felt my mouth watering at just the thought of it, Ciel faced Morgan and spoke.

“I’ve had some dishes prepared for Irene, but would you like to join us as well?”

“…Me as well?”

Narrowing his eyes, Morgan couldn’t answer easily, but when he finally answered, the suspicion in his tone was evident.

Then, Ciel responded with a triumphant look on his face.

“But if you can’t handle spicy food, there’s nothing we can do.”

Seeing Ciel provoke someone so childishly like this made me gape blankly at him. Neither him nor Morgan were children—no one’s falling for that kind of baiting, right? Why on earth…

“Hah, if it’s a spice from the Yuria Kingdom, then it’s a taste that I already know very well. Uncle Arthur even introduced me to a chicken skewer restaurant over there, and I left a personal record.”

Ridiculously enough, Morgan fell for it—hook, line and sinker. As I watched these two in bewilderment, Ciel, the instigator, asked back with a perplexed look.

“Did you just call the Baron Uncle?”

Then, Morgan replied with a triumphant look of a different kind than what was shown to him before.

“Yes. As I mentioned, my family and the Closch family have always been very close, even during childhood. We’re so very close, Duke, that if we were nobles from the capital, we might have already been engaged since we were children.”

His thorn-like words completely knocked the wind out of Ciel. Morgan didn’t stop there.

“Of course, not being engaged as children doesn’t mean it’s impossible to proceed with the engagement now.”

This kind of goading…

While I was watching their petty fight in a daze, Morgan turned to me, and as he spoke to me this time, I reacted a beat late.

With a serious gaze, he asked.

“So, what do you think, Irene?”

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