I Don’t Want This Bad Ending

Chapter 141: DRIVAS SHOP: PART 2

'Isn't it supposed to be Allan only? Why the hell does that bitch do here in my store?' Evelyn smiled at them but her mind are lashing out at her idiotic brother.

'If this is what it is ugh! Whatever! This is better, she would know my presence and she will begin to feel anxious because someone who looks like the Crown Prince Ex-fiancee is in the Emsworth Duchy.

The Holiness Elise sky-like eyes shook and bulged as she saw the silhouette of Evelyn standing before her. She turned her head to glance at her escort today, Allan.

She knitted her brows as the pink hair lady Elise saw that Allan was also shocked.

"Wha-"

Silence was all she could think of. It's better to observe silently and be at the side, Elise thought. But whatever was happening, her mind was being occupied by her chaotic thoughts.

'He don't know about this? Or is he acting?... But I'm the one who proposed to visit this store as I've heard that they sell expensive and luxurious wine. So, why is she? She's supposed to have died four years ago!!'

"Your Holiness?"

Evelyn with chestnut hair and eyes concernedly asked. Seeing this, Elise was disturbed and stared at her chestnut eyes to try and see if what she was showing was true.

'There's no hint of doubt, anger, or unknown feelings her eyes are clear.' Elise thought.

"Your Holiness?"

This time, Allan was the one to call the tight lip Elise. Everyone inside the Drivas Shop also stops their shopping and focuses on the holy saint.

Elise also saw the glee and the shining and sparkly stares of both the aristocrats and merchants. She glossed aside her thoughts and decided to respond to their concerned question.

"Oh, I-I I apologize, I suddenly remember someone."

"Someone, your holiness?" Evelyn naively asked that made Elise frown more.

"Yes, someone close to me."

Evelyn slightly paused so that no one could trace as she immediately gave a smile to Elise. She also saw that her brother's eye twitched in a blink of an eye before his face went back to the way it was.

'Close to you? Ha! That's something I never heard about' Evelyn silently thought as she was smiling at Elise.

'She's really shameless..!' Chrisfold telepathically gave his comment.

'How can that girl become the Saintess? The humans are really strange..' Gil chimed in.

'That's right, humans are strange the more you get to know their true nature.' Evelyn responded before she talked to Elise to answer her remark.

"I'm sure that you missed that "someone", your holiness. It's my honor if you remembered that "important" person to you by seeing me, your holiness." Evelyn responded and saw that Elise stiffen.

"We're here because we heard the Drivas Wine that have been held high in the Perspiru Kingdom are said to have opened the shop here." Allan said and Evelyn looked at him in the eyes that made Allan stare at her for a while.

"Then, should we go to the second floor for a more private space for Young Master Allan and your holiness? I'll tell the others to give you the finest wine..."

Evelyn leads them to the second floor while the others also stare at what just happened. After they get to where there are less people, the ground floor slowly talks to one another.

"The holiness and the heir of the Duchy have visited this store, we should buy wine as much as we can and boast to the other nobles."

"You're right, I should buy for my father too."

"So, this shop is really that shop!"

"We should make connections with the owner of the Drivas Merchant!"

The power hungry and greedy nobles and merchants that have been interested in the newly established shop in the downtown of the Emsworth Duchy have another thought to make relationship to the Drivas Merchant Company.

'Chrisfold, you should hide before Allan and Elise find you here. We can't make a wrong step here and Gil, follow me to the second floor.' Evelyn said in her consciousness that it is linked to her contracted spirits.

'I'll be there, Child.' Gil replied.

'Alright, Princess, I'll go out for awhile. Don't worry, I'll have the elementals follow you on the second floor.' Chrisfold tells Evelyn.

The second floor of the Shop has a different atmosphere compared to the bright colors of the ground floor and the cosmetics and the low price wine that they display. The first floor that was designed to have the customers be in a happy atmosphere.

She guides them and opens the door for the second floor that only stuff can open as they have to maintain a temperature inside the second floor of the building.

Meanwhile, the second floor that was dedicated for the winery has a dim and moody light through the hallways and there's a separate room for every guest that would like to taste the famous wine of the Drivas Company.

'Well, I was inspired to do a bar-like atmosphere that I saw once in my old life as Adelynbut the rooms are still different and still looked like a normal luxury room.' Evelyn thought as she silently led Allan and Elise.

Evelyn felt a glance and stared in her back every once in a while as they walked to the farthest room of the store.

"Here it is, Young Master Allan and your Holiness Elise." She said as she opened the door.

"Oh! This is splendid!" Elise's eyes shined as she saw the VIP lounge for wine tasting.

"Thank you, your holiness." Evelyn replied and Elise looked at her, trying to see if there's any mock in her eyes and Elise still saw nothing but the clear chestnut eyes.

'Is she really not Evelyn?' she thought.

"This must be a fruit of your hard work." Allan chimed in as his sunset eyes bore on Evelyn's face.

"Thank you for your kind words, Young Master Allan. It is true that it's the fruit of our dedication, especially my brother. He was the one to pursue this and was always guiding me through hands-on participation at our stores." Evelyn commented as she smiled at Allan which made a crack of Allan's stoic face.

The corner of Allan's eyes twitched when he heard the word "Brother" came from the mouth of someone who looks like his sister. 

Evelyn then added.

"Please, sit wherever you like." Evelyn said and smiled at them like how she acted towards Allan during their first meeting in the mansion.

The Saint was silently observing the exchange of what she thought was what it was supposed to be if Lady Evelyn was alive.

However, she knew that what happened that day was true and Elise confirmed that Evelyn didn't get to get out of the burning storage house.

'It was me who locked her there! There's no way that she's alive' Elise tried to confirm what happened that day as she silently looked for her memories that day while she was walking to the middle of the room where the table and luxurious chair are placed.

The two did what Evelyn said. She saw her brother Allan escort Elise in her chair and pull it like what a gentleman would do.

'Wow! He's really different around Elise.' Evelyn could only chuckle inside her head as she looked at what her brother could do.

"You should also sit with us, Lady? I'm sorry, I didn't get your name earlier." Elise's benign smile shone as she decided to observe.

"I'm Adelyn Dashton, your holiness!" Evelyn cheerful replied.

Knock! Knock!

"Come in please."

After a while Gil came to the room and saw the three seated in the luxurious sofa that was made solely for the winery rooms. Gil also heard the gleeful response of Evelyn through the door before he came in.

"Oh! Brother!"

Allan and Elise both turn their heads as Evelyn smiles widely like an innocent child.

"He's your brother?"

Elise was doubtful as she saw the handsome man who was pushing the cart where a bucket full of ice and the wine sitting on it came to view.

"Let me introduce myself, your holiness."

Elise nodded while Allan was just there staring at Evelyn.

"I'm the head of the Drivas Merchant Company. I'm Gilbert Drivas. I'm also this girl's brother."

Elise found it odd and repeated what the woman in front of her introduced herself. She then glanced again to Allan's side and saw that Allan has a frown in his forehead and seems to be confused.

So, she made the decision to ask.

'It's better to just ask and then I'll let my people investigate if this is true!'

"Wait, pardon me but may I ask I heard that Miss Adelyn's last name is Dashton but yours are Drivas? Are you not blood related?"

The pink hair lady anticipated an answer while Allan knew the answer to her question. Their head butler Jede also asks the same question.

"No, your holiness"

Gil explains to Elise what he and Evelyn have constructed whenever they were asked about their blood ties. Truthfully, only Chrisfold who has the earth affinity can change the hair and eye color of the humans however when it comes to spirits, it's different to do it.

After he explains it, Elise becomes silent as well as Allan.

She only focuses her blue eyes to the said "Adelyn" who looks like Evelyn as she was seeing this kind of reaction for the first time. Elise was seeing shyness and naivety to the lady in front of her.

'Is she really not the Duke's daughter?' Elise asked herself.