Chapter 2: Only Emptiness Arrives a Few Seconds Later
Regarding her, Liliana, there’s a reason she treats me so harshly.
The biggest reason is likely that Liliana and I are engaged.
In fact, Liliana and I are childhood friends, the kind whose families spent time together since we were young.
To begin with, this engagement itself was requested by Liliana, which probably makes the current situation even more unforgivable for her.
And above all, the current Liliana is infatuated with my younger brother, who is one year my junior. Her desire to break off our engagement any day now and get engaged to my younger brother instead is likely the reason she’s so harsh towards me.
Regarding that, I feel the same way.
I don’t know about the Liliana from the past, but if I can avoid it, I definitely don’t want to marry the Liliana of today.
Just imagining life after marrying her makes me feel like my head will go bald.
Without a doubt, I’d be forced to work like a cart horse every day, made to do housework when I got home, and then Liliana would naturally cheat on me and squander the money I earned and the Dukedom’s assets.
However, since she is the Emperor’s eldest daughter, even though I belong to a Dukedom, I can’t do anything about it using political power.
Besides, using power to do whatever I please as I like feels like stooping to Liliana’s level, and I don’t want to do that either.
In the first place, right after we got engaged, Liliana should have shown genuine affection towards me, which is likely why she agreed to the engagement. But ever since she found out that I have no talent for Magic and that my younger brother possesses talent for Magical Power, she started treating me harshly like she does now.
In other words, Liliana wasn’t looking at me, but rather at my family background, appearance, and talent for Magic. That’s precisely why there was no need for it to be me, and why she’d readily switch sides if someone better came along.
Even I, being made a fool of to this extent, find that the feelings I once had for Liliana have completely vanished. I think it’s only natural that negative emotions have taken their place.
However, since the fact that I have no talent for Magic is irreversible, no matter how much I want to retaliate against Liliana and my younger brother—who joins her in picking fights with me—for everything they’ve done, it’s clearer than day that not only can I do nothing, but I’ll be crushed in return.
How pathetic.
It’s frustrating. I’ll never forgive them. I want to make them taste hell.
But even thinking that, only emptiness arrives a few seconds later.
“Damn it, Liliana, you’re the one who arbitrarily hit me with that 【Water Ball】, so you clean it up.”