“We, of course, kept all your old clothes, but they have long gone out of fashion. You'll have to buy everything again." - Emma said with slight sadness.
“But we have already chosen the main thing.” - Jeff interjected. “We can buy the rest slowly.”
"Is it true? But in my opinion, there is still so much missing..."
“And now we have plenty of time.” - he smiled.
“Ah...” was all Emma could breathe out. Her eyes blurred with tears.
Adalyn suppressed a groan: Well, it’s begun...
“Yes! Now we have so much time!” - Emma sobbed, taking the handkerchief from Jeff.
“Everyone should know whose daughter Adaline is. Let them not even dare to discuss it!”
“Yes, yes. No one will dare to speak badly about her..."
"..."
Most likely, the entire Delmez Empire was already vying with each other to discuss Adaline Bertrand. Some newspapers even carefully pushed readers toward conspiracy theories.
“Fools doubt even when the truth is before their eyes.”
“Anyone who has anything in their head is obliged to doubt...”
"Don't worry, Adaline." - said the mother. “I will protect you. Whatever happens."
“No one is going to offend me...”
“You have no reason to worry.”
"I'm worried about you, mom..."
Honestly, Adaline's biggest worry was that Emma would just dry up crying. Over the past ten days, she cried about everything, and any attempt to start a serious conversation ended in sobs.
Even Adaline’s conscience began to awaken against this background.
While she was comforting her mother, their eyes crossed with Jeff's. He looked at her with a mysterious half-smile.
[Suspicious...Too suspicious...]
"Tonight is for our Adaline." - he declared solemnly.
“I will make her shine like the main character.”
Adaline mentally rolled her eyes. [If being the "main heroine" meant running around in a stretched dress and disheveled hair, this would be the ideal plan, maybe then she would actually be sent to a monastery like crazy. It would be nice...]
[Although...the last time I dreamed of escaping to the monastery, I was thrown off a cliff...]
The nightmares did not return, but the main problem still remained unresolved.
---For five years Delmez lived without Adaline Bertrand.
Listening to Lloyd's report, Adaline tried to grasp the essence of the changes.
The largest, of course, is Saint Genevieve.
[Maybe Genevieve has mastered some kind of cloning?]
[Her schedule was intimidating even on paper. Any normal person would drop dead from overwork within a couple of months. Genevieve, apparently, was saved only by the regeneration that she gained after awakening as a Saint, albeit not completely.]
[No wonder she looks so haggard...]
[Such a sweet girl! The main character, after all!]
[Shane wasn't just a cruel employer, he was a disaster. Even if Genevieve were a machine, she would have overheated and broken long ago.]
[She participated without respite in clearing the area of miasma, destroyed monsters, and appeared at all official events at court and in the Church.]
Shane, who officially received the title, led life no easier, but almost disappeared from social circles. Therefore, his reputation boiled down to the fact that he was “cold, aloof and beautiful, like a statue.”
[Ah, the Crown Prince is sitting somewhere and enjoying the performance.]
[The saint and the main character work hard without sleep or rest, while he, like a true politician, receives all the benefits from this. How convenient.]
[Meanwhile, the emperor “for health reasons” went to a country palace, and real power passed into the hands of the crown prince. That's why he looked so rested.]
[By the way, according to the plot, by the end the wizard should have been caught...]
[Where did he go, that damned villain?]
[After the attack she organized five years ago, the wizard's trail was lost. No hearing, no spirit.]
[Unless he had been struck by lightning somewhere, Genevieve was still in serious danger.]
[Hey, you half-baked magician...You ruined not only your storyline, but also my life.]
She wasn't angry with him, of course, not that she wanted Genevieve to die. [If she falls, not only the Empire will perish, but the entire world. She needed to be protected.]
[Of all the information, Adaline had only one thing left: a wizard, one of the nobles of Green-Windsor. That's the whole clue. Everything else has long gone off track.]
[How was she supposed to find him among hundreds of noble families?]
[Actually, this is the main character's responsibility!]
Adaline slapped herself hard on the cheek. Lloyd jumped.
“Are you crazy?”
“No, self-reflection.”
“Do you always have it with a slap?”
“Well, I’m thinking in parallel.”
Lloyd looked at her like she was crazy.
“If necessary, I can spank you too.”
"No need. That's it."
Rethinking, rethinking, soul-searching, all this does not change reality. [Only actions change it.]
[Maybe it's time to file for divorce?]
[The title would be “Resurrected Villainess Wants a Divorce”...]
[Damn my life...]