Chapter 72: Can you chill out?

When Leticia shouted her own name.

It was as if she had exhausted all her strength.

Then, her entire body began to tremble where she stood.

‘Yes, she really has exhausted herself.’

Her body was already weak. It was now mid-November. How could she withstand such a heavy autumn rain?

Her whole body had been drenched for more than ten minutes.

She was so cold, but when she had just spoken, her body was hot.

She looked at Himan, at the other’s shocked, incredulous, and incomprehensible expression, mixed with many other emotions, and only felt in her heart.

‘I won, right?’

She thought.

From the very beginning, when she learned of Hall’s engagement, Leticia had made many, many preparations.

She knew she might not have much of an advantage over the other girls.

If Hall liked long-legged beauties, she was even at a great disadvantage. But she had money.

She could use money to buy succubus blood, and she could use money to make an offer that the Emperor of Great Xia could not refuse.

This was a political marriage from the start. As long as the price she offered was above the political benefits of this marriage, she could end this engagement that should never have begun.

Himan, looking at the trembling Leticia, was truly and completely stunned.

She had never expected Leticia to go this far for Hall.

She knew Leticia was definitely not bluffing. This rose-colored girl looked as if she had exhausted all her strength.

The other’s affection for Hall had exceeded her expectations.

She remembered her own assertive words to Leticia in the Sixth District Underground Street.

“—Why can’t I believe him? And Miss Himan, why don’t you believe him?”

That sentence, which had once made Himan begin to doubt herself, now spun in her mind.

The girl in front of her had believed in Hall from beginning to end. Her affection, though it seemed a bit childish, was so passionate.

So passionate that it made it somewhat difficult for her to contend with Leticia.

She understood that Leticia probably truly loved Hall.

In such a situation, she should have blessed Hall.

But the reality was, she was still very upset, even more upset than when Ye Wangxue had suddenly fled.

In fact, she kind of wanted to run away too, but she couldn’t.

“Duchess Leticia, are your actions not a bit too willful?”

“How is it willful?”

Leticia was so cold. Her body wanted to shiver, wanted to find a warm place, but her mind was racing.

She could not back down in front of Himan.

“You said you gave the Emperor of Great Xia a check to have him annul the marriage contract between Hall and the Seventh Princess Ye. But that’s the Emperor of Great Xia, a solitary ruler. And not to mention whether he will accept it, you’ve spent so much money. Don’t you think the many elders of Hall’s family will have an opinion? If they don’t bless your and Hall’s relationship, you’re really harming Hall!”

Himan said with conviction.

She didn’t know what was wrong with herself.

Anyway, tonight she had to bring Hall back. She couldn’t let Hall and Leticia be together.

“I am the head of the Child family. In the Child family, what I say goes.”

Leticia usually understood that her current position was entirely thanks to the head butler and her father.

So she was very low-key and never put on the airs of a family head.

But on the matter of Hall, she could not back down. Backing down meant losing.

“Does what you say go?”

“What I say goes!”

She emphasized again, her voice sharp.

But her body was about to give out. Her soaked calves couldn’t even stand straight in the cold wind.

Leticia was about to fall but was supported from behind. The umbrella was also tilted for her at this moment, covering her.

Hall’s support and the umbrella gave her strength again. She looked at Himan.

Himan’s cheeks showed surprise once more.

She looked at Hall supporting Leticia by her side. The fireworks behind them were no longer as grand as at the beginning, but they still flickered in and out of view. Hall’s and Leticia’s faces also flickered in and out of view in that light, as if they were standing in the crevice between light and darkness.

She couldn’t accept this image.

She didn’t know how to speak.

After a long while, she said with a hint of bitterness.

“Hall, so you plan to stay here tonight?”

“Yes.”

A single word almost made Himan’s heart stop.

Her head ached so much, it seemed she was about to lose her voice.

But she was silent for a moment, looking at Hall, and wanted to ask one more question.

“Are you planning to be with Leticia tonight?”

This time, Leticia also fell silent. Both she and Himan were very nervous.

“That’s not it.”

Hall denied it.

Then he looked at Leticia, “Go home early. Tonight is not suitable.”

“Mmm…”

Leticia was very happy just to be supported by Hall.

This small gesture of his showed that he was concerned about her physical condition.

She knew.

She had also kissed Hall earlier, and he didn’t seem to resist much.

And the lipstick she had applied today was actually made from a special material from a succubus.

“Mmm…”

She was very satisfied.

Leticia was determined to have Hall. Hall made her do many incredible things, but she was also a girl who was easily satisfied.

Hall told her to go back, and she felt she could go back as well.

At least in terms of progress, she was a step ahead of both Ye Wangxue and Himan, who was confronting her.

She was tonight’s victor.

“I know, I’ll go home later. But I have to change my clothes first. They’re all wet because of Hall…”

Her ambiguous tone made Himan’s brows furrow deeply.

‘What’s wet.’

‘You might as well be more specific!’

Hall, on the other hand, patted her frail shoulder and said, “Okay.”

There were so many things now.

His head was aching. He guessed that Ye Wangxue had run away.

And it was very likely, very likely that when Leticia kissed him, she had seen it.

Hall suddenly panicked.

In Ye Wangxue’s route in the game, it seemed that the prelude to Ye Wangxue’s breakdown…

When the player had other female characters in the team replenish mana with Hall, because it was Ye Wangxue’s route, the perspective was mainly Ye Wangxue’s.

Basically, when the player clicked to rest, the time would advance to the next day, and they would find that Ye Wangxue was far from the camp where they had rested the day before, or was killing monsters alone.

The text would describe it as—After one night, Ye Wangxue gained XXX experience points, XXX copper coins, and XXX items.

So many players who experienced this for the first time would think, “Holy crap, I can replenish mana to level up other characters and let Ye Wangxue level up on her own. More of this kind of good thing, please.”

Then, within a short period of time, they would frantically have the other female characters in the team replenish mana with Hall, and then, as expected.

Hall would be gone within ten days.

Should he find a reason to explain to Ye Wangxue?

But he definitely couldn’t go back tonight.

First, he had no idea how to explain it if he went back now. If he added fuel to the fire and something more serious than breaking off the engagement happened, it would be even worse.

Second, if he went back tonight, Leticia might have an opinion.

He had already said he would stay here and let Leticia go home, which was treating them equally.

Going back on his word now would be a thankless task.

Himan watched Hall’s actions towards Leticia without saying anything.

But her heart felt as desolate as this rainy night.

She felt an inexplicable emotion in her heart, she was about to get emotional.

At some point, Hall seemed to have done the same thing for her.

Patting her shoulder, and saying to her in a soft voice, “It’s okay,” or “Okay.”

It felt like something was squeezing in her chest. She didn’t want to stay here, but she didn’t want to leave.

“Alright then, Hall. You stay in the Twelfth District tonight, but Leticia can’t be with you. Before you are formally married, you are not allowed to do that kind of thing.”

“Fine. It seems I’ve already done it before, haven’t I?”

Hall said calmly.

He was keeping up his persona.

“Those are just rumors, you… you haven’t done it yet, have you?”

Himan said.

“Who knows.”

Hall recalled for a moment. It seemed he really hadn’t.

In the game, it was basically the first female character who replenished mana with him.

Not only would it increase a huge amount of experience, but it would even increase several attribute aptitudes, such as swordsmanship talent from [S-] to [S], and then increase the level cap and the level of certain skills.

It was terrifying. After level ninety, every level increase was a big jump in attributes.

“Mmm… I’ll let you off… forget it, I’ll go back first. To be on the safe side, I’ll escort Duchess Leticia home, in case that kind of thing happens again.”

Assassins or spies.

Himan said.

Leticia was about to refuse, but Hall nodded.

Moyel should have indeed gone to the Xia Kingdom embassy to negotiate with the check today.

He didn’t sense her aura.

And Leticia listened to Hall. Although she was a little unwilling, she still nodded.

“What about brother, Cousin Himan?”

Lorraine and Lov were still in the lobby on the first floor of the castle.

With her inconvenient legs, she really couldn’t keep up with Himan and Ye Wangxue, who had run off so quickly at the beginning.

Then she saw Ye Wangxue run off, with Xiao Lu chasing after her from behind.

Lov and Lorraine weren’t running fast and couldn’t call out to them in time.

Now, seeing Himan come down with Leticia by her side, but without Hall, she naturally hurried to ask.

“He’s staying here tonight.”

Himan answered in the calmest tone she could muster.

“Staying here?”

Lorraine couldn’t help but look at Leticia.

“Will Duchess Leticia also be staying tonight?”

She was worried about this.

She was actually a little angry. Her brother was actually not coming home, and it was the first time in three years.

In the past, Hall would often be away from home for a period of time, but that was for the selection of the Black Knight Order and his dispatched training missions.

But as long as her brother was in Saint Louis, he would basically come home for the night.

“I’m going home. Hall told me to go home.”

Leticia emphasized the second sentence.

She could see the intention in Lorraine’s eyes. In terms of appearance and figure, they were very close.

Their dressing styles were also both cute.

“Oh.”

Lorraine had originally wanted to declare her sovereignty, to make Leticia stay away from her brother.

But she felt that the situation was very delicate now, so she only said, “Duchess Leticia, you also know that today is brother’s engagement day, yet you are privately meeting with brother, how will the people of Saint Louis view brother in the future? I hope you will be more careful next time.”

“What about you?”

Leticia suddenly retorted.

Her gaze was fixed on Lorraine. Since her confrontation with Himan on the rooftop, she had become very brave.

Although she didn’t know what Lorraine’s feelings for Hall were, when a girl likes a boy, all the girls around her would be seen as enemies.

“What about a sister?”

For thousands of years, marriages between siblings in the Papal State had not been uncommon.

“Me?”

“I won’t say more, Miss Lorraine. I hope you can be a good sister to Hall and not cause him any trouble.”

This time, Himan looked at Lorraine, then at Leticia, and Lov did the same.

The atmosphere was very subtle.