Volume 2, Act 18: Of Yesterday's Enemies and Whatnot

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A few days after the dance party at the Hale mansion.

In the laboratory, Cordelia gave a long sigh at the letter that had arrived that day also.

It had beautiful writing on a pure white envelope. Writing paper watermarked with a family crest was probably inside the envelope.

However, she didnt care about that. If her wish could come true, then she didnt want the envelope to be delivered to her. She had received other tea party invitations as well, but this one wasnt a peaceful invitation.

..I cant continue with my research, or relax at all, with all of these invitations arriving every day!

Even if she had said that, it wouldnt do for her to not open it. Cordelia gave up and opened it.

The letter, which was signed by Hazel Hale, was a challenge to a duel It was like a written challenge. The contents of the letter were certainly not much different from other tea party invitations. For better or for worse, it was an ordinary invitation. However, every time she went, she was the only guest, and she fell into a troublesome trap of being challenged to various contests by Hazel.

Cordelia knew that, so she wasnt accepting all the invitations from Hazel; but she did accept them at a pace of between three to five days. At any rate, the love-letters from Hazel came every day, and it was impossible to keep refusing the invitations by saying she had things to do.

That didnt mean that she couldnt refuse Hazels invitation. Although their house rankings were the same, the Pameradia House had a longer history and, in a manner, they had a higher status. Hazel, who sent Cordelia a letter every single day, was not normal, even if their houses had the same rank.

However, she probably wouldnt accept it if Cordelia refused, since she was so passionate.

It would be troublesome if Hazel came up with another plan, if Cordelia had refused outright, and she didnt think it would be good if she clearly stated that Hazel was misunderstanding the relationship between her and Vernoux.

Generally speaking, Cordelia didnt care what Hazel thought of her. But it was terrible for people to mistake the relationship between her and Vernoux just because of Hazels conduct. She couldnt just ignore it until she solved this misunderstanding somehow.

Hazel Shes taken an extreme interest in you, Ojou-sama.

Yeah.

Does Ojou-sama finally have a friend of the same age?

We would need to have a very difficult conversation in order to reach a friendly relationship.

Ronnie spoke without a care and she evaded, while thinking back on the contests she was challenged to.

The first game was a board game. It was an encampment game and she was used to playing it. She got a complete victory.

The next game was also a board game, but this time it was a game to diminish the players pieces. Of course, she won. She occasionally played both of those games with Isma, so she had piled up experience with them.

She thought that the third game would also be a board game, but they debated history three times instead. Cordelia thought, Isnt today going to be a game too? but was forced to realise that it was, when Hazel, who ran out of things to say, said, I wont lose next time, okay?

Theyd talked a lot and played many games together, but it still couldnt be called a friendly tea party.

Seriously, I wonder when shell get tired of this. That Ojou-sama named Hazel has challenged you a lot, hasnt she Ojou-sama? She hasnt learnt anything from this, and she cant even admit that shes lost.

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