Obsessed with Regressors

“Is that so?”

She did not know. Ted was speechless as he didn’t know why his friend was doing this. I don’t know what you mean by the former being better. One way or another, Ted thinks Oliver is handsome.

Perhaps frustrated with Ted’s confusion, Archie began to explain more enthusiastically.

“You say it’s better before? It was straight like this before, but now it’s crooked.”

“Well, I’m not sure.”

Archie asked, this time turning his head towards her to seek Claire’s consent.

“How is it? It’s better than before, right?”

She did not know. Claire also kept her mouth shut. The familiar face to her is the face of her ex. Because the face she had seen for quite some time was the one with her nose intact. However, Oliver’s face did not change much enough to say that it was better than before. Of course. A scar on her handsome face that makes people look back regardless of age or gender didn’t mean it didn’t look good.

It’s just a handsome face with scars. Oliver’s face was like that now. In fact, the slightly twisted nose may be more attractive to some people.

“Lord Lannon doesn’t even know.”

When Ted told him to stop now, Archie instead snorted and said,

“Hey, I heard women don’t like faces like that.”

Huh? Claire’s eyes widened. Archie looked back at her and then continued talking to Ted.

“Women don’t like faces like that. “It has to be smooth like this, but you don’t like it if there are twists like that?”

Huh.

A sigh flowed from Claire’s mouth. She laughed when she saw Ted, who had an expression that asked if he really did that. And she asked Archie.

“That’s a great disguise.”

“Yes?”

A disguise? A wrinkle appeared between Archie’s brows at her sudden words. Claire stroked her chin and walked around Archie’s body. Needless to say, I glanced at the arch at the same time.

“What are you doing?”

When Claire looked at him as if examining him, a confused Archie asked angrily. But Claire didn’t care that he was angry and looked at his face and said,

“No matter how you look at it, he’s a man. How did he dress up?”

“What? What do you mean, you’re dressed up as something?”

“Isn’t she a woman dressed up as a man?”

What? Archie’s actions stopped at the nonsensical question. It was the same for Ted. He didn’t know why Claire thought Archie was a girl, so he opened his mouth and then widened his eyes when he saw the people who appeared behind Claire and Archie.

“Why am I a woman?”

“I heard women don’t like faces like that?”

The next moment Ted burst out laughing and Archie’s face contorted. What is this woman? He said offended.

“I mean, women in general are like that.”

Claire burst out laughing when she was told that they were ordinary women. She seems to be being sarcastic by saying that she is not a typical woman.

Of course, Claire didn’t care. If I had cared about that, I wouldn’t have even thought about becoming a knight. She said without even noticing her people turn to see what was going on at the sound of her own laughter.

“The average women I know like faces like that.”

Archie pouted at Claire’s words and spoke.

“Isn’t that what Miss Lannon likes?”

It’s Lord Lannon. Ted was fidgeting behind her, but luckily Claire didn’t mind. She said with a grin.

“So Mr. Moody, you know that women hate Baron Biscon’s face because he’s a woman, right?”

At that moment, a cold silence settled in the music room. Everyone was wondering what they heard, but someone shouted.

Oh my, aren’t you crazy?”

“Julia!”

A startled Eugenie approaches Julia and warns her, but she is already too late. There was laughter in the music room. Lauren was also biting her lip. Only then did Claire and Archie realize that the Biscon family had returned to the music room. Countess Biscon said with a stern expression.

“Vix, Mr. Moody is dying.”

“Oh, no…”

Archie was about to say something, but before she could, the butler stood on either side of him with a servant. Vix said with an expressionless face.

“Let’s go.”

Archie’s angry gaze turned towards Claire. So what are you going to do? Claire tilted his head to the side. If you’re going to attack, it’s okay to attack. Even if you don’t have a sword, you can punish Archie. But it wasn’t Oliver.

“Archie.”

He immediately got between Claire and Archie and spoke heavily.

“Didn’t you hear what your mother said?”

Archie’s face distorted at his words. He shouted at the servants approaching him.

“Don’t touch me!”

And with a ‘poof’ he ran out of the music room. What on earth is going on? It was a moment when a shocking silence fell in the music room. Eugenie said to Elliot as she approached the piano.

“Elliot, do you know how to play the pony march?”

She knew. Elliot grinned at her and walked over to her. It’s the first thing you learn in academy music classes. It was an easy and fun song based on simple scales. He stood next to Eugenie, who was playing the piano vigorously. And he started playing accompaniment with his left hand. The easy and simple tune suddenly became richer. People’s eyes quickly turned to Eugenie and Elliot due to his playing skills.

“Count Burns is also good at playing the piano.”

“Much better than Lady Biscon?”

To be honest, it would be difficult to call Lady Biscon’s playing skills excellent even with empty words. Her playing skills were so good that she was compared to the Countess of Biscon and Baron Biscon, but her skills were not that good.

“I have knowledge.”

“Because the ears that listen and the hands that play are different.”

Anyone who has ever spoken to Lady Biscon knows this. She says she likes painting and music. And that she has quite a bit of knowledge too. But what she actually does is a completely different matter. Because it was such a short song, Eugenie and Elliot’s collaboration ended quickly. As people clapped their hands, Eugenie smiled with an embarrassed expression. She then pretended to divert the applause from the crowd towards Elliot.

“Can you do a pigeon waltz?”

Then Sir Ryan shouted. It may seem easy to listen to, but it is a bit difficult to play. Eugenie tried to say that she should stop listening to the orchestra.

Although she played the pony march well, Elliot said she definitely knew how to play the piano a little. She’ll have a hard time getting up to the Pigeon Waltz. But before she could open her mouth, Elliot began playing her piano skillfully.

“Oh my god.”

Everyone knows that the Pigeon Waltz is harder than it sounds. Eugenie, more surprised than the admiring people, looked back at Elliot. He was grinning at her as if nothing was wrong with her. Eugenie unconsciously leaned towards him and whispered.

“A little?”

If this level was just a little, the question arises: how good was it? That was it. Meanwhile, Claire was sighing as she looked at Eugenie and Elliot. I already knew that Count Burns’ piano skills were great. This is because he often played the piano at the royal palace. It was a fast-paced song that seemed a little frivolous, and Claire complained to the noble Lady Biscon that she didn’t know why he played such a song. Contrary to rumors that she persecuted the arts, the noble Lady Biscon tried to maintain them.

He even told Claire. Regardless of one’s own feelings, art must be preserved. Especially in a country like Balsian, which is in decline. So Claire thought the noble Lady Biscon was not interested in art. He thought that it was his duty to protect his country. But it wasn’t. The noble Lady Biscon loved music. The somewhat frivolous music that Count Burns sometimes played at her royal palace was for her benefit.

“Lord Lannon.”

Oliver appeared again in front of Claire, who sighed as she looked at Eugenie and Elliot. I had just come to appease the angry Countess Biscon. Perhaps he was so angry that he had such a rude person as a friend that he even swore that he would never associate with Moody again. But she acknowledged that even the upset Countess of Biscon owed Claire her thanks and apology. Oliver stood in front of Claire and straightened his posture.

And he didn’t know what to say first, so he opened his mouth and then asked everything.

“What?”

Why was this person like this again? Claire asked with a frown when Oliver, who had called her, opened his mouth. The guy from earlier was also a strange guy, and his friend Baron Biscon is also doing strange things.

“No, that…”

What should she say? He says he’s sorry for having to deal with a guy like that? Oliver hesitated and then spoke.

“He’s not really that weird…”

She guessed so. Claire snorted at him. She thought he wasn’t a weird guy, so she guessed he was friendly. He said they met each other.

Oliver came to his senses when he saw her snort. Now was not the time to protect her stupid friend. No, he was a friend. He straightened his posture again and spoke.

“I’m sorry you had an unpleasant experience. And um, thank you for taking my side.”

“Let’s make one thing clear.”

Claire, who had been waiting to see what he was going to say, opened her mouth.

“I didn’t take your side because I liked you.”

She hated Baron Biscon. She thought she was feeling better recently, but she wasn’t. But he’s good-looking. Claire sighed as she saw Oliver’s face, not understanding what she was talking about. And he opened his mouth again.

“I just hated your friend more than you.”

 

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