Be My Heroine 53
Smiled at me (5)
“Jooyeon-ah, a guest at table number three.”
“Yes.”
Late at night, the bar was full of drunken customers. Their loud, drunken voices grew stronger without ever getting smaller, and their heads grew larger.
“Hooo…”
Originally, it was not the time for Jooyeon to work. Over the past few days, she has been making more money than usual due to the sudden increase in substituting, but she was exhausted.
Gently pressing down on her tired eyes, she headed towards table 3, where there was only one person sitting quietly and not ordering anything.
Do they not know how to ring the bell on the table? The old-looking customer, who had not even opened the menu, placed his arms on his chin and the table, staring quietly into the air.
No, he was looking at the main character.
‘Huh?’
Aren’t you old? Even as she continued to stare, her impression changed from moment to moment. He was a very strange person, so Jooyeon thought that he might be a nearby theater actor with great skills.
The black hair was messy and untidy, but it didn’t smell any musty. The only odorless guest in this place that was full of the smell of alcohol.
The guest, who had been rolling his eyes as black as his hair, opened his mouth just then.
“Compared to talent, you are destined to roll and die unfairly till the rest of your life.”
It was a bit of a nonsensical statement. A dish with such a long and absurd name was not on the menu. Jooyeon just blinked her round eyes.
“You’re going to end your life in vain if you keep continuing to roll and roll in the mud like that.”
“I see.”
Jooyeon thought as she looked at the strange guest.
‘You’re crazy.’
Jooyeon responded with a smirk and said:
“Customer, if you don’t order, you can’t stay.”
It may be a little cold, but in the rules, one order per person. If she broke the rules, she was the one who got scolded by the boss. Therefore, she had no choice but to stick to the rules.
Contrary to concerns about what would happen if he just sat still, the strange guest stood up. And he laughed as he watched Jooyeon.
And he asked
“Perhaps…..”
***
“It was you!”
Beth looked at the presence and shouted. The black-haired man smiled softly, stroking and gesturing.
The world disappeared as if it were being split into pieces, and only the two of them, the existence and Beth, stood alone in the white and white space.
“What did I do?”
“My memory, you brought it. You took it away, didn’t you?”
“I thought it was good that you were smart…”
He said as he smiled as he shook his curly hair with his fingers.
“It turns out it was good because you were stupid.”
That was obviously sarcastic, but it wasn’t that bad, so it was strange.
The throbbing chest was unpleasant.
“My name is Parte, it’s true that I intervened in your memory, but…”
“You did it.”
“What?”
“…”
“You chose, you agreed, and you wanted. So I respect your choice and only help you as much as you go forward.”
Beth was frustrated. Why on earth is there no one who talks straight to the main point? Can’t they just say it outright when she asks? Perhaps he knew what Beth was thinking, and he grinned.
“I like you, Beth.”
“I don’t know you well, but I don’t think it’s going to get any better.”
“Not you, but Parte. Like it or not, we will continue to see each other. Although we may not see each other often.”
“…”
“The last time we met, I told you, didn’t I? How to change fate.”
“……”
“Can’t you remember? What a shame….”
At that time, the black-haired man, who had expressed his regret that they met through a dream, smiled.
“From the day it all begins, go to the bottom of the noblest places. I’ll tell you something interesting.”
“That…”
‘What kind of mystery is that again!’
That man was more than Kedrick, but not less. Why the hell is it that all the mysterious people who exist in this world who exude the nuance that I am an absolute or a great existence anyway speak like that?
Can’t they just say the main point, or tell her what they want, why they’re doing it, and how it happened!
Parte giggled again, as if reading Beth’s heart, but he didn’t say anything and waved his hand twice again.
“See you later.”
Unlike the rupture a while ago, it was an instant. In the blink of an eye, she was in a familiar place.
And in front of her stood a man with an unfamiliar expression.
“Kedrick?”
“…Beth!”
Perhaps it was because her hair was neatly tied up, but then it got messy, he always smiled as if he was relaxed, so why did he look so desperate now? Why was he approaching her with such an urgent face?
And.….
“How about the lady?”
Why aren’t you with Claire?
“Are you still looking for the lady?”
“In the middle of this, have you forgotten what your job is?”
“My job is to assist you!”
It was a desperate voice. It was rare for him to raise his voice. Why the hell are you talking like that?
“You’re gone. You know?”
“.…What?”
Kedrick said, wiping his pale face with his hands.
“Three hours, three hours. You disappeared.”
What does that mean? Is it because he hasn’t seen her for 3 hours? Beth didn’t understand. She thinks Parte has only been talking to her for a few minutes, but it’s been three hours.
And is there any reason to make him in such a hurry?
“I’m an adult. Kedrick, I don’t know why you’re worried so much.”
“You’re gone… you.”
He looked desperate. As if speaking in a monologue, like Beth was an invisible person.
“No one remembered you. Except for me.”
“.…What?”
The words he spoke were nonsense.
Nobody remembered?
“The young lady, Julia…. Miss Dana too.”
Kedrick clearly remembers three hours ago. Beth disappeared from her spot, and he felt a sense of incongruity as he kept by Claire’s side.
When the dancing crowd dispersed, Claire tried to move to another place without even trying to find anyone. It certainly wasn’t like Claire. Because she always finds Beth at the end of everything.
“Lady!”
Kedrick walked over and called Claire. Claire looked up at him, blinking her big eyes.
“Kedrick.”
“Where are you going? If you don’t tell Beth, she’ll worry about you.”
He doesn’t know where Beth has gone, but Bell must somehow leave some words behind, and if it’s the usual Beth, she’ll be back soon, he believed so.
He was able to keep his composure until he heard the next word.
“Who is Beth?”
“… That’s the lady’s agent… .”
“Isn’t that… Daniel?”
He knew something was wrong. Surely something is wrong.
“…I have something to check, but would you like to go to the cafe for a while? I’ll call another escort.”
“Hmm? Sure!”
He took Claire to the cafe, ordered a cake with cream cheese mousse, and left. After revealing his identity to one of the security guards guarding the place, he entrusted Claire’s escort, and departed for the place where Beth disappeared.
Not all of the count’s employees he met in the process remembered Beth. Julia, who loves Beth so much, also didn’t remember her.
Only him…
“Only me……..”
Only he himself remembered Beth. A feeling of complete isolation overtook him.
Like..
“Kedrick!”
“…..”
Recalling the cold feeling of silence from before, his face was pale blue and his cheeks were clenched! Holding it, Beth called out his name out loud.
“I’m here.”
“…”
“I don’t know what the hell is going on, but I’m here.”
That short moment was three hours, maybe it was because of that white space. Did Parte do something?
She thought he was a god, but in this world, there is only a god named Diar.
In other words, Parte was not a god.
Beth decided to think about it later because of Kedrick, who looked like a terrified puppy in front of her.
“I’m glad you didn’t forget it at all.”
“It’s just so terrifying that only I know you.”
“Even if I disappear next time, I will definitely come back.”
“Can you just not disappear?”
Now that he has regained his composure, he asks with a weak smile. Beth replied with a soft smile.
“My intention doesn’t seem to have anything to do with it, so I can’t make promises.”
And why Kedrick was the only one able to remember her, Beth didn’t know that either. It was a relationship that couldn’t even be called the power of love.
‘Let’s think about this later.’
Again, she decided to think about this later because of Kedrick’s needlessly handsome face that still looks uneasy.
It didn’t look very good to remain silent in front of him now.
Kedrick took off Beth’s hand and said in a more relaxed voice than before.
“So, now that I’ve found you, let’s go find the lady.”
Beth pulled out her pocket watch and checked the time.
“Once I get my hair sorted out.”
“I don’t know where the young lady is, but it’s okay.”
“I see.”
She doesn’t know exactly what time it is, but she remembers the words of the novel. Claire’s monologue that she met Arthur, who was like a manifestation of the sun when the sun was high.
It’ll probably be right by now.
‘Is it a coincidence?
Is it just a coincidence that she came back at this moment? Considering Parte’s one-sided, relaxed attitude, it was definitely not a coincidence.
“If my prediction is correct, she will be swept away by the crowds and fall off the escort, get lost and wander around and end up in the farthest part of the estate.”
“…Isn’t it dangerous?”
“Just in case, I told the security guard there to keep watch.”
“How the hell did you know?”
“I want to see the future as far as I can see.”
Maybe Claire didn’t go there. But that’s what the original story was. Although many contents of the original were changed, it did not change that this ‘Blessing of Diar’ was Claire’s first festival.
Because this part was so uncomfortable, Beth had no choice but to prepare endlessly.
The only thing she knows is the original, so she has no choice but to rely on the original story. This is not politics. How do you compare it to falling in love?
Its limitations are still there.
Beth recognized it and did as much as she could. She said as she closed the lid of her pocket watch.
“Let’s hurry up.”
“Alright.”
Which direction is the shortcut here? It seems that the street was allowed only for festivals there. Then it will take longer because there are more people.
While she was thinking about this, Kedrick lifted Beth.
“Then excuse me.”
“…”
Beth decided to stop being surprised. At first, she wasn’t very surprised.
“Is it magic?”
“It’s magic.”
He was very good at magic related to the body. Like now. He grabbed her leg with one arm and let Beth wrap her arm around him, then he jumped onto the roof through the pole stands.
“I think this one will be the fastest.”
“Um… sure.”
There is no one and the road is visible at a glance. Perhaps the downside is that no one can use it.
“That’s way over there, right?”
“Yes.”
He might hesitate to jump over the roof, but without stopping, he strode forward. It was self-evident that these two stood out when they heard people’s admiration or screams from somewhere.
Beth said she thought.
“Is it possible to have a memory change magic?”
“Haha, if I had been so good at magic, I would have been in the Magic Association.”
“Um, that’s right.”
Then Ryan can do it.
Beth nodded her head and decided to ignore the crowd’s gaze.
“Let’s hurry up.”
Will it flow like the original story this time or not?
She wonders if the things she’d done so far will beat the original.
The moment has come to confirm.
