Chapter 80

Drip drip drip—

A midsummer shower poured outside the restaurant where Epherene, depressed, nibbled on her food.

“Why does life sometimes go awry like this? I can’t go back in time to fix this.”

“…”

“If despair comes, one would think the hope to overcome it would swiftly follow afterward, but reality is never that easy. There can never be enough compensation for this much melancholy.”

She twirled her chopsticks around her food and eventually dropped them on the table. Teardrops were welling in her eyes.

“What’s wrong? Isn’t it delicious?” Sylvia’s maids, Lete and Endell, were flustered. The steak was delicious enough for them.

“She only likes a certain pig.” Sylvia ate her meal nonchalantly. It didn’t matter to her whether it was rice balls, fried rice, pigs, or cows.

“Why… Why did it have to be today…” Epherene murmured, her misery caused by the [Pig’s Flower]’s decision to not open today.

She thought about the reason behind it as hard as she possibly could but nevertheless couldn’t figure it out. In the end, she decided to ask Julia about it later.

“Stupid Epherene.” Sylvia stood up. Her lips curved upward, finding the evening quite satisfying.

She didn’t have the strength to respond.

One of the three maids left the shop with Sylvia, and the other two remained behind; they sat and talked to Epherene, who looked exhausted.

“This is a first.”

“… What?”

“My lady’s never brought a friend over before since her mother passed away.”

“Ah…” Epherene smiled bitterly.

The truth was, Sylvia was so famous that most information about her and her family was public. Hence, people from the tower and even ordinary undergraduate students at the university knew that Sylvia’s mother had passed away.

Such was the problem that accompanied fame.

“So, you don’t know how happy I was when Ms. Epherene came. You even willingly went all the way to the mansion.”

“Ahaha… it was indeed voluntary, but…”

She was actually just hanging around its vicinity when she was dragged inside because she looked conspicuous. After that, the attendants treated her so well that she even took a shower without realizing it…

“No, really, this is the first time. Everyone finds the lady difficult to handle, but she even twisted your nose. That’s never happened before.”

“… I-is that so?”