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Chapter 02
I apologized, but I didn’t forget to smile at him as if this was an everyday occurrence for me.
“I once broke my brother’s arm like this in the past, so I’m always careful usually….”
The person in front of me looked at me with eyes as if he didn’t know what he was seeing or hearing.
He said he was the head of a fairly well-known count’s family.
He was a year younger than me, but he seemed like a good person with polite manners.
Was he really the perfect match that Michael had carefully chosen for his only sister?
He was a decent prospective groom with nothing lacking in appearance, personality, or family.
Of course, that was from an objective point of view… To me, his qualities meant nothing.
I was so embarrassed that I turned my head away, pretending not to see my blind date, who had forgotten all about controlling his expression.
I saw an employee who had approached to take my order stop in his tracks and look back and forth between the broken table and my face.
I stared at the employee as if to say, “Why aren’t you coming quickly?”, and the startled employee hurriedly approached me.
For some reason, I felt cheerful and hummed a tune as I asked the employee for the menu.
“I’ll have this, this, and this. And this, this, and this. Oh, and I’ll order dessert in advance. Give me everything from here to here. And change this table too. I’ll pay for the damages when I leave.”
I kept my eyes fixed on the menu that the employee had brought and ordered a lot of food.
And only after I had finished ordering did I look at the person across the table.
I smiled gently at the pitiful person who was still staring at me with an expression of astonishment.
Only then did the man come to his senses and let out a low cough.
The man’s cheeks, as he avoided my gaze, turned red.
He had placed one hand on the marble table after I mentioned breaking my brother’s arm in the past.
What should I say?
Elizabeth Kristenner. This body was blessed or cursed from birth.
A strange constitution that never gained weight no matter how much I ate. A monstrous strength that had amazed my family and those around me since I was young. And an astonishingly beautiful appearance.
If there was a character who had their abilities boosted due to being involved with the main characters, it would be this body.
If I had been a little more motivated in this life and had been interested in magic or swordsmanship, I would have undoubtedly excelled in those areas as well.
I don’t know who or why, but whoever gave these abilities to a mere supporting character who didn’t even exist in the original story must have been an idiot.
‘Ugh, this beauty is a sin.’
Among them, the most prominent feature was my appearance.
Just as Michael Kristenner had the good looks of a sub-male lead, it was only natural that I, his younger sister, would be excessively beautiful.
Golden hair like melted gold and eyes of the same color, perfect facial features as if crafted by an artisan.
Even among the Kristenner family, who were famous for their good looks, my brother and I were exceptionally beautiful.
Perhaps if I hadn’t been so reckless since I was young, I could have filled the Kristenner Marquisate’s mansion with the love letters I received.
So it’s not the other person’s fault.
If there was a fault, it was that I was too beautiful for someone to be charmed by me, even though they might break their own ribs if I hugged them.
‘Damn it, if I only had a little more time.’
I clicked my tongue inwardly.
I could have gained about 30kg or shaved my head bald without my brother noticing.
It was a shame that the blind date had been set up so suddenly that I could only come up with a one-dimensional blind date sabotage plan.
But fortunately, this body is versatile and can do anything. Oh me.
“Shall we eat everything and then go to another restaurant?”
Even though the food I ordered hadn’t arrived yet, I smiled happily, holding a fork and knife…
I reveled in the fact that I looked like a woman who had come out to simply eat her fill, not on a blind date.
The fingers of the employee who came to change our table twitched. He was the one who had witnessed me shatter the marble table firsthand. His gaze as he glanced at me was as if he was seeing a starving polar bear. He seemed to want to get away from me as quickly as possible, and he dashed away as soon as he finished his task.
I thought for a moment that he was rude, but… I couldn’t say that I didn’t understand his attitude when I put myself in his shoes.
Fortunately, my blind date was a reasonable person. He was only briefly attracted to my background and my beauty. He quickly lost interest in a woman who ate like she was possessed.
After I had finished nine main dishes and dozens of desserts, my blind date suddenly ended the date, saying that he had something urgent to do.
“Liz, how was the blind date?” Michael asked me curiously when I returned to the Marquisate of Kristenner.
“I think I’m too old, and the other person didn’t seem to like me very much.”
When I answered in a deflated manner, Michael patted my shoulder twice as if to comfort me for being rejected.
However, Michael’s desperate attempt to match me with a good partner, and my resistance to it, did not end there.
Michael found another decent blind date candidate from somewhere and sent me out on a blind date again.
I hired the information guild to thoroughly investigate my next blind date candidate and acted out an even more convincing worst blind date. This was the surest way to make Michael, who was determined to marry me off somehow, give up completely. It would have been useless for me to stubbornly refuse and say that I didn’t want to get married for a hundred days, even though I was already branded as a useless parasite. I couldn’t honestly tell him the real reason why I didn’t want to go on blind dates either.
I felt a little sorry for the people who went out with me on blind dates, but I didn’t feel too guilty because they were all people who had come after the money and honor of the Kristenner family behind me anyway.
I acted differently for each blind date candidate. I acted like someone whose head was empty and couldn’t hold a conversation, someone whose values were so different that there were signs of a quarrel after only a few words, someone whose political views were completely opposite, and someone who was rude, selfish, and treated their inferiors poorly.
It was perfect for making the other person lose interest first and run away.
However, after the sixth blind date, even Michael finally noticed. He realized that I was deliberately doing things that the other person would hate and getting dumped, so Michael, just like the first blind date, sent me out without telling me who the other person was.
So, for my seventh blind date, I went all out like I did on my first blind date. I used my whole energy to prepare wolfing down my food.
My seventh blind date also turned his back on me and ran away as if he were being chased by a ghost.
If I did this much, Michael would understand that I had no intention of cooperating with any more blind dates. He would give up soon enough.
I was smiling in triumph, thinking naively like that.
* * *
One day, when there had been no talk of another blind date for a while, I was leisurely lying in bed and flipping through a gossip magazine.
An article on the front page of the gossip magazine caught my eye.
The conflict between the Imperial Family and the Temple had finally reached its peak. Crown Prince Sidrian had been seriously injured in a horse-riding accident and had asked the Temple for a priest, but the Temple had ignored his request. The relationship between the Imperial Family and the Temple, which had been tenuously maintained beneath the surface until now, had completely fallen apart.
‘It’s coming soon.’
Yes, it must have been just after this incident. If I remembered correctly, Ji Eunha would appear on this land very soon. The heroine of the novel, who would capture the hearts of the male lead, Lyxion Luhanes, and the sub-male lead, Michael Kristenner, fell in one swoop and draw a love story of the century that would shake the empire, The Saintess of Erendel!
‘Then I….’
My hands trembled as I clutched the magazine, my eyes gleaming. I was elated that the moment I had been quietly waiting for the past twenty-three years was finally approaching.
So, I let my guard down.
The variable struck me at a completely unexpected moment, from a completely unexpected opponent. It was my eighth blind date.
“Lyxion Luhanes. It is an honor to meet you. Lady Kristenner.”
The silver hair that resembled starlight and the deep, cerulean eyes that reminded me of the ocean captivated my attention first. My eyes, which had grown tired of seeing Michael Kristenner’s handsome face, found his face to be terrifyingly beautiful and gorgeous.
I had heard rumors before, but he was a man with an appearance and aura that were even more formidable than I had imagined. I was so engrossed in looking at his face that I did not even hear him greet me.
“I hope you have a nice time today.”
As I looked at the handsome man smiling even more beautifully with his handsome face, I blinked as if I was dreaming.
‘What is this? Why is Lyxion Luhanes here?’
I could not hide my bewilderment.
What happened?
How on earth did the story turn out so that I, who didn’t even exist in the original, ended up on a blind date with the original male lead?
