~The String of Fate~ discontinued... Well, continued on another account ??

Chapter 6:

"What are you saying?! You should be grateful to me for all I've done for you while you're only a noble in name-"

"I'm telling you to get the fuck away from me. Is that so hard to understand?" I cut him off as the marquis fumed at my words.

Maybe it was due to old age or losing hair follicles. But he seemed to have zero patience and way too much of an ego for his brain.

"Sovine, what is this behavior?" The Duke finally decided to intervene seeing that the Marquis's patience was at its limit.

"Forget it, Duke Divinus! I will be sure to send an official letter to announce the annulment of this engagement tomorrow at early dawn!" The Marquis once again spoke up.

"I do not have the tolerance to endure this behavior which is as lowly as her blood!" My fiance announced glancing over to me to see my expression in hopes of finding some sort of regret in it.

H found none which only managed to enrage him even further. The Duke sighed hearing my fiance's decision.

He didn't expect him to do something like this. However, my mood only seemed to have been uplifted by this statement.

I had expected this to happen since Marquis Quarum was one known for his temper and reckless decisions and I did not regret the measures I took to provoke his anger in the slightest.

"Pardon? Have you forgotten that we had a written agreement that if this engagement falls through then-"

"I do not care about the contract or any of your noble nonsense! If she wants to make things difficult then so be it! She isn't worth the trouble." He was interrupted by the Marquis as he stormed out of the mansion.

"Are you happy now?" The Duke turned back to me with a sigh along with a slight frown in between his brows.

"Very." I replied as I walked past him, but he decided to keep silent. But it wasn't much surprising considering that it was like this even in the game.

After his wife's death, he put the blame entirely on Sovine instead of taking the blame himself for bringing in a replacement for his missing daughter which would have ultimately brought up some misunderstandings no matter how the situation played out.

He blamed a kid who barely even knew what was happening or why she was there for his wife's death to lighten the burden of his guilt and shift it onto Sovine.

And he felt guilty for it, which was the reason he let Sovine's vicious and absurd behavior pass so often. And that was something I could appreciate.

He knew it was wrong, so he gave Sovine a place to live lavishly under his name and title as the duke and still restricted her in return while having no idea just how miserable she was in there.

'Why did I do that? I was hoping he'd get mad and have some guard kill me, but even if he did it wouldn't matter. He's not a love interest after all.' I couldn't help but click my tongue at the realization.

But none of that mattered now. At least it didn't matter to me.

I only had one goal here, either die and return to my original world or, run away and find a quiet house in the countryside to live a peaceful life in.

And I knew well myself, these emotions I was experiencing, weren't even my own. They were Sovine's.

Even if I had no memory of what she had been through, her body did. And neither of which included getting all "lovely family" with these bastards.

My priority right now was getting through that tea party without getting stuck in one of those ladies' schemes and hopefully finding a powerful lady to befriend who has some level of influence in high society.