My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 5 by Satoru Yamaguchi

Author:Satoru Yamaguchi [YAMAGUCHI, SATORU]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-04-26T00:00:00+00:00

A few days after I had talked about it with Father, the first few meetings with ladies had already been decided.

“You’re so popular that picking out a candidate was the hardest part!”

He said that half-jokingly, but I was relieved in finding that there were still any candidates at all. He found some potential fiancées and arranged the time and date for when we should meet — to my utmost gratitude.

I finally met the first one. A cute, collected girl, who greeted me... and then froze, red-faced.

What am I supposed to do now?

This was not even the first time that something like this had happened. Every once in a while, I would meet someone who would react in that way upon seeing my face. Normally I would borrow the help of one of my friends better versed in conversation than I... but today, I was alone.

I must do something. Why am I such a terribly poor speaker?

I have no issue talking about work or reciting lines in official settings, but chatting in private, and with a girl no less, was completely different and much more difficult. The both of us were standing in silence in front of each other, unable to say anything.

Perhaps I should have had some other acquaintance accompany me today... The servants are still in the room, in a faraway corner where they cannot hear us... but they would never enter our conversation.

My friends, knowing how bad I am at casual chatting, usually took the lead and provided the topics so that we wouldn’t fall into silence. Katarina, especially, had the widest array of subject matters. She could turn any trivial matter into something interesting, and just looking at her speaking passionately was enough to make me happy.

If only she were here... I thought for a moment before reprimanding myself. The whole point of these meetings was to forget Katarina and move forward. What was I doing, still thinking of her?

I mustered all of my determination and stared the girl in front of me in the eyes. She blushed even redder and even started trembling ever so slightly. Was she not feeling well? More than once, when she was still a child, Sophia had looked like that because of a fever.

I started worrying about the girl and stood up from my seat to walk closer to her. “Are you alright?”

She nodded in silence, but her face had gone from rosy to pure scarlet. It looked like a fever, and a rather bad one at that. I raised my hand and placed it on her forehead. It wasn’t as hot as I had expected, but warm nonetheless.

I realized what I had just done, and— Curses! I was so worried about her that I neglected my manners. I measured her fever as I would have done to my sister, but touching a lady without permission is inadmissible for a man.

I apologized at once. “I am very sorry. I should n...”

She interrupted my sentence, not by speaking herself but by loudly falling backwards, bringing her chair with her.

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