Chapter 274: Making Lux Happy
“I do.”
Whether she thought she could make Lux happy.
To Elizalina’s question, Siana answered instantly, without the slightest hesitation.
Hearing that answer, Elizalina spoke again with the same serious expression as before.
“If you’d hesitated even a little here, you wouldn’t have even had the right to say you wanted to be with Lux, but…”
Then, meeting Siana’s eyes.
“At least you seem solid on that point.”
“Of course.”
Siana replied as if it went without saying, then continued.
“I live solely to make Lux-kun happy, and to be happy together with Lux-kun… so if you ask whether I can make Lux-kun happy, there isn’t even the slightest room for doubt.”
Siana declared it firmly.
Elizalina, who prided herself on being able to judge people, could tell without even thinking that these words weren’t something Siana had cobbled together on the spot or mere bravado.
Perhaps satisfied with that answer, Elizalina spoke again.
“Then I’ll change the way I ask. Do you think you can make Lux happier than I can?”
“Yes, I do.”
Just like before, Siana answered immediately, but.
“…Really?”
Unlike before, Elizalina asked back with a doubtful look.
“…What do you mean by that?”
As Siana probed her intent, Elizalina answered.
“Lux is someone unpredictable even to me, but even so, I’m confident I can fulfill what Lux wants and what he wants done without even being told… depending on the situation, I could even use my position as the one mediating this country, all for Lux’s happiness.”
“…”
But then, she continued.
“You can’t do that, Felisiana. I’m the one mediating this country. With that in mind, I’ll ask you again. Do you really think Felisiana can make Lux happier than I can?”
Elizalina asked with a serious expression, as if her usual playful demeanor had been nothing more than an illusion.
That alone showed how seriously Elizalina was thinking about Lux’s happiness, and at the same time, that she believed she could make him happier than anyone else.
The fact that she wasn’t acting flippant as usual when it came to discussing Lux’s happiness made Siana reassess Elizalina slightly, and Elizalina’s words did carry some logic.
But… that and who could make Lux happier were two separate matters.
“…It’s true that Elizalina-anesama, with your intellect, eloquence, and your position as the one mediating this country, might be able to maneuver skillfully to make Lux-kun happy.”
However, Siana continued.
“I’m the one who can absolutely make Lux-kun happy… because I love Lux-kun more.”
From the time she met Lux in her childhood up to now, Siana had continued to love Lux all this time.
There’d been no opportunities to meet him or be involved with him from childhood until she entered the Rodwell household as a maid, but.
Even so.
The weight of that time, the things she’d done while thinking of Lux, the emotions Lux had stirred within her, and her pure love.
In any of those, Siana believed there was no way she could be inferior to Elizalina.
Hearing those words, Elizalina spoke after a brief pause.
“I feel the same way about loving Lux more… so it looks like there’s no point in talking any further.”
“It seems so.”
With that, they ended the conversation, left Siana’s room, and returned together to Lux’s room.
By now, it was truly no longer possible to avoid a confrontation between the two of them.
…From here on, their conflict over Lux would only intensify further.