The Resetting Lady

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“How old are you now and you’re so hurt…Where the hell are you leaving your mind?”

As Karen’s voice grew angry, Raymond was conscious of his surroundings and whispered quietly.

“Let’s go out and talk first. I don’t think it’s a good idea to speak too long at the store.”

“…okay. I’ll see you later.”

Karen and Raymond pushed through the door. The jeweler’s eyes sting. And Karen said to Nancy, who was chasing her from behind.

“I have something to say to Raymond, so I’ll see you at the inn later, Nancy. I’ll be back before nightfall.”

“Oh, the one next to him…?”

“I haven’t seen you in a long time.”

“Laymond, it’s no use. Nancy doesn’t remember.”

“Oh, dear. I look forward to your kind cooperation.”

Raymond looked at Nancy, pretended to be Al, and turned away awkwardly. Raymond apparently had a screw missing after the memory was posted at once. Karen went to the door and whispered quickly to Nancy.

“It’s the man I told you about before.”

“Oh, my God. Lies….”

He really doesn’t believe it. Karen shook her head once and put her hand on Raymond’s arm. Then he moved to the streets in the middle of the day.

Last time Karen was very fresh to walk the midday distance from Raymond, perhaps because she was only in the mansion. And most of all, the injured Raymond was very fresh. Raymond’s beauty was not obscured by an eye patch.

However, if that is not a decoration but a real injury, the problem is big. Karen kept looking up at Raymond with disapproval. After getting out of the jewelry store for a long time, I fell into a deserted alley. And after confirming that there were no people, Raymond stopped walking.

“I got hurt trying to get out quickly. He says there’s no need to extract them, but he’s not sure how much his eyesight will recover.”

“A mistake I didn’t make when I was young….”

“I’m still young.”

“That’s not the problem right now… Oh, really.”

Karen snapped at the floor in anger. I didn’t want to say anything more to Raymond, but my emotions became intense and flowed into action. Raymond bowed his head as he struck the floor with his new heels for a long time.

“…I’ll be more careful in the future.”

“Have you ever been hurt before?”

“Yes, when I just came back, I stepped on a landmine and got hurt a little bit. So it’s not much.”

Raymond intended to say this wasn’t a serious injury, but Karen’s face grew darker and darker. Before turning into a distrustful eye, Raymond grabbed Karen and said again.

“It’s really nothing to hurt an eye.”

“It’s not much. I’ve died because of a thorn in my eye that has spread to tetanus.”

“Oh… well, it was.”

“My vision got narrow before I died, so I got a lot of minor injuries.”

“…it must have hurt.”

“How painful it was to die of tetanus.”

“…….”

But Raymond had a feeling of injustice. Such an accident was unavoidable. Last time I got out of the war zone intact, but this time I failed. As soon as I came back from my last life, I wanted to go out quickly, so my body was warm. The idea that maybe the reason why the plan failed last time was a bit late made him more urgent. Raymond hurried and unexpected variables put him in danger. Although his eyes were hurt, it was minor compared to the injuries he suffered from the shock after his memory first returned. Karen, who didn’t know that, must have been shocked that Raymond was injured, but she was more shocked by Karen, who said she was going to die from this kind of injury. Karen was forced to give up as she kept looking into Raymond’s eyes.

“Be careful.”

“Okay.”

“Go see another doctor in the capital.”

“Yes.”

In the end, Karen said a few more words, but she got tired and quit. And Karen looked disapprovingly at Raymond and sighed and spoke away.

“How did you know I was here?”

“…I’m actually here to buy Miss Icela Evans’ necklace.”

“I see.”

Little wonder Raymond is here at this time. There was a mistake in a little hurry, but it was not unusual for him to be here around this time. The strange thing was that Karen, who was supposed to be in the Highlands, was here now.

“But why are you here at this time?”

“I want to be friends with Miss Isela.”

“…….”

Karen had to think back to Raymond’s silence that she had made a mistake. Raymond’s face was perfectly stiff.

“What are you talking about?.”

“My friend. With Icela Evans. You’re so surprised. It wasn’t something I couldn’t say.”

“Carran, you’ve often told me that my jokes are not good, but yours are pretty good, too.”

Raymond groaned and said as if he were moaning.

“What I’m saying is not a joke.”

Raymond couldn’t speak.

Karen sees everything about Raymond. Thinking so, I waited until Raymond came to his senses. Raymond’s face turned to the ground, to the sky, to the wall, and then to Karen again.

“My friend.”

“Yes.”

Raymond asked Karen with a face that he didn’t really understand.

“Why do you need a friend now?”

Karen glared at Raymond with a look of bad food in her mouth. What are they talking about?

“Are you saying that I’m only looking at you?”

“Carran, I have no one but you to watch. You don’t think you need anyone else besides me. Isn’t that enough for me?”

Raymond’s face was hard to describe. It was a different face from jealousy and monopoly. Karen couldn’t understand why he looked like that. Why does Raymond make that face?

“You’re selfish. You enjoy everything you can.”

Raymond and Karen were in different positions. Karen had to meet only the people she had met over and over for a year, but Raymond had experience throughout his life. When Karen stared at Raymond, Raymond frowned.

“…not that.”

“Last time, Lord Raymond said, you’ve locked yourself in the mansion until the end. But I failed. Is it that strange to live in a different direction this time?”

“It wasn’t perfect last time, either! Maybe this time, we’ll just have two more perfect people inside the mansion.”

“Keep your voice down, Lord Raymond. It’s a residential area. Is it that upsetting that I want to be friends with Isella?”

“Carran!”

“Hush.”

Karen lifted a finger. Raymond breathed hard. But he seemed surprised that his voice was too loud. Raymond sighed as he stroked his lips one after another.

Karen pulled Raymond. Some rough kisses followed. Raymond and Karen became more emotional. Karen thought while looking at Raymond’s eye patch. Again, Raymond was going to take care of Isela. After a while, Raymond asked Karen.

“Why is it Miss Icela Evans of all people? There are many good-natured ladies in the world to be friends. I don’t think it’s a good idea to be friends with Miss Evans.”

“Isn’t there a saying that you should love your enemy?”

“It’s not very wise for a butcher to be kind to a livestock.”

Choose a word maliciously on purpose. Karen looked at Raymond a little surprised at what he said. But Raymond’s face didn’t change.

“Icela Evans is the best bait to turn Verdick’s attention. I don’t want to find another way now.”

“Last time you knew I was dead and living again had nothing to do with Mr. Berdick, right?”

“That doesn’t change the fact that he is your greatest risk. Karen, don’t think about him any more. I’m thinking of sending you abroad this time. And in the meantime, I’ll get him out of the case with you and find another way.”

Raymond bit his lower lip.

“If you need a friend, I’ll pick some ladies with a good reputation in society.”

“Did you make friends that way?”

“…I was presumptuous. I apologize. But it’s not wise to choose Miss Evans. For your safety.”

“That’s all I need to know. But this time, I want to take a different approach, and I don’t want to give up my goal of being friends with Isella. Isela is different from other women. What’s wrong with wanting to be friends with the woman I’ve been with for the longest time? Will you keep interrupting me if I want to continue?”

“…sigh.”

Raymond sighed as the ground went out. But I couldn’t insist more and raised my hand.

Raymond couldn’t break Karen’s obstinacy even though he didn’t look like he really liked her. Most of all, the fact that he eventually failed while leading as he claimed last time made him lose his justification.

“…I see.”

Raymond could not imagine Karen making friends with Isella. Karen didn’t even think about it until she died about 100 times. But I wanted to live like that this time. We promised.

“But how the hell are you going to get to know her?”

“Well asked.”

Karen replied with a bright face.

“That’s the problem. How do you usually become friends?”

“…should I think?”

“I don’t have a girlfriend.”

Karen had no choice but to admit that she had no same-sex friends so far. Because time was so short. Some of the women I met after I made my social debut were fishy to be called friends. Karen was a kind of competitor less than a year after her debut.

And most noble women, like Lady Lian, have known each other since childhood. Even if they came up from the country like Karen, they had their own group. Karen had little interaction with other aristocrats because of Catherine and Nancy, and no one approached her further because they were all wary of Berdyck.

“I didn’t have any friends.”

In fact, there was no lover in the real sense.

Karen quickly turned around because she didn’t like the way Raymond looked at her.

“First of all, I’m going to get a bribe, or a gift.”

Raymond’s face became complicated again.