I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

6. Bullshit – 14

The morning light came bright. Beyond the horizon of the eastern sky, beyond the jagged peaks of the Ibarencia Mountains, the sun was shining. From early morning, the sound of a cuckoo chirping like a canary among the green leaves tickled everyone’s ears. Bathed in the warm golden light, the leaves shed a drop of brilliant dew on the ground as if they were shrinking themselves. The morning of the Marquis of Castana was expected to be as quiet as any other morning.

However, today was a completely different landscape than usual. Perhaps it was because it was the den of sorcerers who had no social skills, and it was because noise reminiscent of a marketplace was leaking from the Castana Marquis family, which was always gloomy beyond being quiet.

The main cause of the noise coming from the Castana Marquis family was the preparations for the engagement ceremony between Bianca and me.

‘…Isn’t this thing getting too big?’

I couldn’t help but stare at the wagons that were crowded in front of the main road leading to the main house of the Marquis of Castana.

As far as I know, there are only 32 nobles invited to Bianca’s engagement ceremony with me today. Those who were invited were worthy of Estelle and Castana’s name, so they could be said to be the real power among the powerful representing the northern part of the empire.

However, I involuntarily pressed my temples as I looked at the list of guests attending my and Bianca’s engagement ceremony today. No matter how much I thought about it, I could only think that this was a little different from the ‘contract’ I had with Bianca.

A few weeks ago, even when I accepted Bianca’s proposal, I thought that the engagement was just an excuse to catch the rats sneaking behind the Castana marquis family, but I never imagined that the engagement ceremony would take place on such a grand scale. Because.

That wasn’t the only problem. At this moment, the fact that makes me crazy more than anything else is that I was the one who was in charge of receiving the guests at the engagement ceremony. Even though I was the main character of today’s engagement ceremony.

Originally, it was customary for the close family members of both families to greet guests at such events, but unfortunately, in the Estel family, I came here alone in the first place, and Bianca’s real father, the Marquis Castana, glanced at me and made these excuses. It was only

– I’m sorry, Little Duke. I’m very sorry, but I have other things to do. I’d like to have my wife help you, but she’s sick right now, so it’s impossible to welcome guests. So even if it’s cumbersome, I think you’ll have to put in some effort.

“…..”

For that reason, I have been given the honor of being at the front of the engagement ceremony and welcoming everyone.

“Congratulations on your engagement, Duchess Estelle. My name is Train Dryad, the eldest son of Viscount Dryad, who holds the position of lord in the province of Rendel.”

“Hey, that’s right. In the name of Estelle, I would like to welcome you for taking such a precious step at my engagement ceremony today. Sir Train.”

“hahaha, you don’t have to attach the sutra. Little Duke. I still haven’t been officially nominated as the successor by my father. It doesn’t matter if you just call me by my first name.”

Without knowing what I was thinking right now, this guy who had been standing in front of me for some time, started talking to me with an arrogant look on his face, telling me strange stories that he hadn’t even asked. He seemed very excited because I was silent.

“Your duke might not know much about it, but the Dryad family is a place where a lot of fur, a specialty of the north, is produced. In a sense, it makes me think that our family is the same family as the face representing the entire northern part…”

‘That’s crazy.’

I had to work very hard to stop him from sighing as I listened to his humble boasts of his family. In any case, it seemed that there were too many idiots in the world these days who thought the family name was their own and couldn’t even go to the back room without it.

…Could it be that the Marquis of Castana put me here so that he wouldn’t see something like this? Certainly, even if I were in his position, the role of entertaining these assholes was a no-brainer.

Just as I was responding to all kinds of idiots and reaching the limit of my patience, I caught sight of a woman who attracted others’ attention just by existing and quietly approaching me.

Sarak-

“…Cain. You were here.”

The woman who came to me with the sound of rustling clothes was none other than my fiancee, Bianca del Castana.

****

The moment Bianca appeared, the hall fell into endless silence. Men, in particular, just rubbed their eyes as if they had seen something completely unbelievable.

In one word, she was simply beautiful. No adjectives, not even rhetoric, were needed. Her coveted red hair, her ruby-like red eyes, and her simply beautiful face all harmonized and reflected her supreme beauty.

And that was all that made up the woman Bianca del Castana.

‘…I can’t believe it, I’ve heard it through rumors, but… did such a woman ever exist in the world?’

‘Cain von Estel, you are truly lucky. If I could be engaged to a woman like that, there would be men who could rip my heart out all over the world.’

However, contrary to what the aristocratic young men in this room were saying in their hearts, Cain von Estel, who could be said to be the one who had accepted the wrathful woman as his fiancée, only had a sour expression on his face toward Bianca del Castana.

“Oh, Bianca. I’m here?”

“Yes.”

Not only the facial expression, but also the way he spoke toward her was very short. Seeing Cain’s response to Bianca, the young aristocrats unknowingly wriggled their brows. It was because if he had stood in Cain von Estel’s position, he would never have acted that way.

…However, Bianca del Castana just smiled at her fiancé, not even paying attention to the trivial things, regardless of Cain von Estel’s sullen expression as he looked at her.

“…Cain, your father has been looking for you. Perhaps, there is something I would like to discuss with you regarding the engagement ceremony that will take place a little later.”

“okay? If it was a problem like that, there wouldn’t have been a need for you to go through the trouble. Anyway, thanks for telling me. Bianca.”

Saying that, Cain von Estel patted Bianca del Castana on the shoulder. And at that moment, the nape of Bianca del Castana’s neck turned bright red. Cain, whether aware of Bianca’s change or not, passed her casually and soon disappeared into the main house of the marquis.

“…..”

And, it was the moment when Bianca, who had just stared at Cain’s back, let out a small sigh, and was about to move on to another place.

“Ka, Lady Castana! Lady Castana!”

Earlier, an aristocratic young man who had been having a long conversation with Cain, who was welcoming guests, urgently called Bianca and stopped him. The reason the young man summoned Bianca was extremely simple. It was for a very simple reason: he wanted to get acquainted with the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Castana, who could be said to be the real power in the northern part of the country.

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Moreover, with so many people’s eyes watching, Ramen Bianca del Castana also included the thought that she would not be able to defeat herself easily.

“…Hello, Lady Castana. My name is Train Dryad of Viscount Dryad. First of all, I wanted to congratulate the two of you on your engagement. Also, I feel very sorry for suddenly summoning the young lady, but I personally want to say something to the young lady…”

It was then. Bianca’s face, which had been looking at the aristocratic young man with an expressionless face, turned cold like ice.

“Just go there.”

“…Yes?”

Leaving behind the doubts of the aristocratic young man who has not yet grasped the situation, Bianca’s chilly jade sound resonates everywhere.

“I’m sorry, but as of today I will not be talking privately with the other man. Because this body is already nothing more than his fiancée.”

Saying that, Bianca del Castana coldly turned her back on the young man. Because of that fierceness, no one in this room could hastily speak to her. Bianca, too, did not have the slightest desire to speak to anyone in this room. Like that, Bianca quietly disappeared from the spot without looking back for a single moment.

****

“Shit! What kind of bullshit is this!”

In a desolate alley where people are rare even in the Marquis of Castana, there, a young aristocrat who was spurned by Bianca del Castana complains to three of his friends, a young aristocrat, about what just happened. was in the middle

“Damn it! It wasn’t just the two of her, and it was such a disgrace in the presence of so many people! The honor of House Dryad must have fallen to the ground!”

“hahaha, shouldn’t you have taken that much risk to talk to such a beautiful woman? Anyway, she was a woman who had no place to be proud. It seems that the rumor that she is one of the three most beautiful women in the empire is not a rumor.”

“Say that. In that sense, the Duke of Estelle, who is betrothed to such a woman, must be a very lucky person.”

By the time such words were exchanged among the noble youth, the young man who had been rejected by Bianca could not stand the rage at all, and finally began to speak badly of them. Originally, if there were several immature males gathered together, the result would often flow into gossip about others.

“Ha, I tried my own conversation, and the Duke of Estelle was really nothing more than an insignificant person. He was nothing more than a rude person who didn’t even look me in the eyes the whole time he was talking to me.”

In response to the young man’s gossip about the Duke of Estelle, the other young man was also excited and started to chit-chat. In fact, it was also because he was jealous of Cain von Estel, who had an engagement ceremony with such a beauty.

“Keuheum, I’ve heard rumors about him too. It’s just a rumor, but there is also a story that a strange scandal is intertwined in the background of the breakup between him and the daughter of Count Sernard.”

“Kuh, it’s a masterpiece. The guy was just lucky. A lucky man who has been lucky enough to get a girl just because he was born into a dying ducal family!”

So, for a long time, they excitedly wentssip about Cain von Estel. Yes. In fact, if you look closely, it was just an act that anyone could do and that it was done casually, such as secretly spreading gossip about others in a place where the person concerned did not exist. Originally, it was human nature to feel jealous and gossip about people who were better than themselves.

…But today, they’re out of luck. If there is any fault with them, it would be their ignorance that they did not even dream of knowing that the death knell was hanging behind their backs from the beginning.

Tsutsutsu-

The direction of the wind has changed. The atmosphere around you is gradually getting heavier. Before long, they too realized that something was strange. This is because all the ‘sounds’ around them that had been so noisy with the preparations for the engagement ceremony had disappeared. As if they were kidnapped to a remote world separate from this world.

“…!”

No voice comes out of the mouth. No, it wasn’t just the voice. In this space where they are located, only silence has become the absolute rule.

another angle, another angle.

In a world where all noise has disappeared, I hear the sound of someone walking over and over again. It seemed that the law of silence did not apply to anyone walking now.

However, they did not have the freedom to even check who the hell was walking towards them. They could no longer even blink their own eyes on their own volition.

“…Men are indeed creatures that cannot be easily understood.”

A languid, eerie voice tickled their ears. The voice was very stealthy, and deadly.

“Men are always like that. While imagining stabbing something at a woman countless times.”

Pooh-!

Something unknown penetrates them. There was no scream. Because she didn’t allow them the freedom to scream.

“…It’s not easy to imagine yourself being stabbed? Wasn’t it?”

Kiduk-

The unidentified woman was clearly smiling.

“You guys have done something you should never have done. I mean what it is.”

Kirik-

Their wrists and ankles were slowly turning in a direction that, according to the structure of human joints, they should never turn. Unlike before, there was no pain. But it was even more terrifying. The fear that their bodies are becoming something foreign dominates them.

“It is because my rights were taken away. Anything you can say to him.”

Tududuk-

I hear the sound of the tendon that couldn’t overcome the rotation of the wrist eventually break. However, everyone here knew very well that this was only the beginning.

“Getting overflowing feelings from him, and being able to hurt him is everything.”

“It is only my right. As his fiancée, my own, lawful right.”

Saying that, Bianca del Castana smiled coldly at the cheeky kids in front of her.

“And how dare you insult him in front of me on a day like today. You are really cheeky. And that, in a place where Castana’s eyes and ears openly depended on her, talking gossip about him. I’m really not crazy.”

Naturalization was burning brightly in Bianca’s eyes as she said that.

“Don’t worry. No one will come here to help you. And, you won’t remember anything about what happened here either. Of course, I won’t kill you either.”

“…But even if you don’t remember, your bodies will remember what happened today for eternity. Memories will remain in the depths of the unconscious. Maybe in the future, the lesson to be careful of what you say in life will be deeply embedded in your bones?”

Wood deuk-

As soon as she finished speaking, they realized that the bones in their bodies were breaking in different directions. What was even more frustrating was that he couldn’t lose his mind or go mad even in the face of such horror. Because, from the moment they entered this space, only Bianca had the right to live and die.

Of course, not even paying attention to their situation, Bianca whispered this in a very small voice in their ears with a truly benevolent smile.

“Then, shall we start lightly from the tips of the knuckles?”