Queen of The Scalpel - Chapter 99
“Mr.…Ron?”
Dugun.
Her heart trembled due to him touching her face.
“Lise.”
“…Yes.”
“For the past few months, it was nice meeting you. So…be sure to take care of your health.”
It was a greeting without any romantic sense in it but her heart strangely shook indescribably when she heard his voice, while clasping her hands and had her head down.
“Yes, please be careful too.”
“Of course.”
Ron then got up from his seat.
“Be well.”
And then he walked away.
Looking at his fading back, Elise thought of something blankly.
‘He said war.’
In fact, she has nothing to do with him. There’s no reason for her to be so emotional.
However…her heart hurts and she doesn’t even know why.
It’s just that she won’t see him anymore, that maybe she felt hurt from it. Everyone after all hated it.
Over the past few months, she thought that maybe she had become attached to him.
His blunt expression, his boring way of speaking, and his stiffness as if he had never been in a relationship.
‘I guess I didn’t hate it.’
“You’re gonna be okay, right? But still you’re a high-ranking nobleman.’
She thought hardly.
But she is fully aware that a bullet from a war doesn’t choose between noblemen and common people.
In the past life, her second brother, Chris was also killed at that time, even though he was a high-ranking nobleman. Even two years ago, during the Dark Continent war, the first emperor was also killed, even if he was from the royal family and had supernatural ability.
She also did not know what would happen to that man, who has cold beautiful standing in the war.
And it was that at that moment she thought of something.
“Mr.—Ron!”
“—!”
She hurriedly took off something behind her neck and tied it into his and he looked at her and the necklace alternatively for a moment.
“Is it…really okay for you to give this to me?”
It was a ‘present’.
When someone goes to war, whether they are family or a lover, they would give them a memento of them as a sign of their heart going with them at the war and they are hoping for their safe return.
“I’m not giving it to you. I’m just leaving it to you. So you must return it. If you don’t return it, I’ll never forgive you. Never.”
She bit her lips and spoke nervously.
“So never do something reckless. Don’t even take the lead. You can act cowardly. If you don’t return my necklace, I will never, ever forgive you, so come back safely.”
He smiled with what she said.
He can’t believe he could act cowardly, not when he is the crown prince.
Still, her words didn’t make him feel bad.
“Thank you. I’ll make sure to return it.”
***
After dropping Elise down on the Clorance residence, Ron, now the Crown Prince loosened his face changing power in the carriage.
“That was close.”
He looked at the artifact that is a medium.
It is a finger-size artifact with a small portrait and had a small crack on it.
“I won’t be able to use it for at least half a year, no, maybe a year.”
Maybe the artifact had cracked due to the frequent use of his ability.
Before, he used it maybe once every two months, but now he used it every few days.
‘I’m glad I could still say goodbye.’
He thought of Elise.
She’s always displeased.
But still he still misses her.
Just as she was crying all by herself, he barely managed to restrain himself from wanting to hug her tight.
And now he won’t be able to see her face anymore and that thought made his heart hurt sharply.
Of course, it’s not that he won’t be able to see her anymore.
But she’ll see him in his true form which is the crown prince, Linden’s face instead and not as Mr. Ron anymore.
But…
‘I don’t like the crown prince.’
Her word came across his mind.
No, she’s wrong.
It was him, whom she hated. He doesn’t know what her reason is, but he is sure that she hated him. Maybe she despised him that much.
And she strongly refuses to marry him.
Of course, he knew that she refuses to marry because she wants to be a doctor to some extent.
But her view of Ron and the crown prince was so different that he couldn’t help noticing that she hated him.
There is only one emotion in her gaze to him in his crown prince and it was a strong repulsion.
‘Damn it.’
Whenever he thought of it, he felt sick. His heart ached so much.
‘I don’t really like it.’
Why is that girl so deeply engraved into his heart?
Why does she make him hurt this much and make him feel sorry for his own self?
‘I don’t know that I’d feel this kind of emotion after ‘that day’.’
It was like light came into his monochromatic world. And she was that light. But that light hated him and that fact frustrates him.
‘I deceived her for changing my appearance like this.’
He thought bitterly.
I know it all along.
It is very deceitful for him to hide his own identity, just to seek her. But then he couldn’t help but continuously do it.
What will I do if I keep thinking of her and want to see her even more?
I had to go now. This treachery should stop and no matter how many times I made up my mind, at some point, I would unconsciously get directed to her.
‘I guess I’ll have a drink for today.’
Baron Len would be a good drinker. But even if Len hates alcohol, it doesn’t really for him.
I’ll feed my brother’s anger to him.
“Ha…”
He looked at the present that girl gave him.
It was a cross decorated with pearls and there was a phrase that was written on the side.
-Lord, may your protection bestow upon me.
It’s been so long since it was made that it felt more like an antique rather than a trinket.
But he carefully tucked the cross into his pocket, as if he was holding the most precious treasure in the world.