System vs Rebirth

Chapter 238 Misunderstanding Solved?

”Anna Stargaze. Letʼs get married.”

Anna, who was still distracted by her own weird thought, dropped her jaw to the ground. ”Wha—What are you saying?”

”I have been thinking about why youʼre in the spotlight instead of your father covering you. Hence, I conclude that youʼre the center of attention for a reason. Itʼs to make me go to you with all kinds of intention. In other words, if I want to solve this problem, youʼre the biggest clue I have.”

”I can understand that, but why are you asking me to get married?” Anna widened her eyes in shock. Her face reddened due to her thoughts but she also felt disappointed when Noel didnʼt even show any emotion from that place.

”This is the most simple solution. Everyone expect that I come to you with hatred because of what youʼve done. So, Iʼm going to use the reverse psychology to drag them out. They will surely be surprised if I marry you, causing them to come out of their hiding place,” Noel explained carefully.

”You bastard. Do you understand what youʼre saying right now?” Anna gritted her teeth and pointed her blade at his neck. ”I have been fighting with my talent to escape political marriage this whole time and you think you can use me like that?”

”I donʼt.” Noel shook his head. ”Well, thatʼs just me trying to create a situation where we can use each other. Iʼll be using you to investigate my parents whereabout while you can take advantage of that opportunity to what youʼve been doing.”

”I donʼt like that idea. No matter how hard youʼre trying to convince me, Iʼm not going to do it.” Anna snorted.

”Of course, I donʼt expect you to agree. Even I donʼt believe how I can even suggest that kind of idea. But I think you get the idea… What Iʼm trying to say here is I want to drag them out by using the reverse psychology. If thereʼs a need of hatred between us, then we can come with the exact opposite of that.” Noel shook his head.

Anna squinted her eyes, feeling something wrong. She reached the same conclusion that Noel actually harassed her for a reason in the past life.

ʼWait a moment. If the hatred is bound to diminish, then why did he kept doing that in the past life? This doesnʼt make sense. Was he trying to change me because I was too horrible in my past life? I was like those sheltered nobles who thought commoners as animals that could be slaughtered as I liked.

ʼAnd after he managed to change me, he was going to marry me to drag them out? If thatʼs the case, even if Noel succeeded in the rebellion, he had yet to find his parents?

ʼIn fact, if Noel succeeded in his rebellion and the betrayal never happened, I would have been a prisoner of war. When that happened, Noel would marry me or something like that?ʼ Annaʼs thoughts became even weirder.

It might be the influence from her weird thoughts earlier, but she truly didnʼt know why she reached this kind of conclusion. She thought it must be because Noel presented that absurd idea.

However, she didnʼt like this idea. She gritted her teeth and glared at Noel. ”Anyway, I wonʼt be doing any of your plan. I donʼt like it a bit. I avoid political marriage so that I can marry my future spouse after we love each other. So, I donʼt want to do whatever youʼre planning!”

Noel nodded calmly. ”I know that because I feel the same. Either way, my point is not about the marriage, but how to drag them out of their hiding place. You can forget about the marriage or whatsoever.”

”…” Anna couldnʼt believe how Noel even suggested this idea and how easy for him to tell her to forget about it. In fact, she felt Noel change a bit. It might be because of her outburst earlier, but Noel surely seemed weird right now. ”So, whatʼs your plan to drag them out? My father?”

”No. Your father is monitored closely, so I donʼt think he can move.”

”Then, if my father canʼt, are we going to move by ourselves?”

”Thatʼs probably the plan. Though, I also have a different option, which is to use my motherʼs family.”

”Your motherʼs family? Are you also going to use your relationship with your ancestry?”

”Do you think theyʼll believe that?”

”Not at all.”

”But if they actually believe that…” Anna suddenly fell silent before thinking of a person. ”Wait a minute. Do you know that Kirika in our generation is actually a noble from the Greenwood Kingdom?”

”Huh?” Noel was taken aback by this information. After all, a noble from the Greenwood Kingdom wasnʼt supposed to be in the Demon Banner Army, unless she had a certain purpose. Kirika was quite talented herself, making Anna doubt that she was there to help Noel because of his ancestry.

Noel still couldnʼt believed what heʼd just heard. ”What did you say?”

”Kirika Loetzel. Are you aware of that name?” Anna also had her own suspicion, thinking the Greenwood Kingdom was planning to help Noel through Kirika. After all, the runes that Noel had written down was related to the Spirit Enchantment book that had been protected by the royal family of the Greenwood Kingdom.

”Kirika Loetzel…” Noel furrowed his eyebrows, recalling all the information about the Greenwood Kingdom. He arrived in his memory about a banquet held by a certain noble in the Greenwood Kingdom.

He actually met a unique girl that seemed to be left out by the rest. ”Ah, is she that overweight girl?”

”Overweight girl?” Annaʼs face was distorted, completely confused.

”Mhm…” Noel explained about his encounter during that night and ended the story with, ”So, I believe that Kirika is just trying to repay me or something? I think Iʼd heard someone inquiring my information from my father… I didnʼt pay attention back then, so I never knew the truth. But I think I should believe this is the case?”

”Wait, so that means she just wants to thank you?” Anna couldnʼt help but remember Kirikaʼs hostility and her misunderstanding of Kirikaʼs hatred. ʼDoes that mean Iʼve been misunderstanding it this whole time?ʼThe origin of this chapterʼs debut can be traced to /n/o/vel/b/in.

However, there was one more thing that Anna missed. She missed how synchronize they were by thinking about the same thing... marriage.