Saved Him, Now I'm Obsessed (10 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 80

I was slightly startled by the word “play.”

Hadn’t Claire mentioned that she’d considered turning her rescue of His Highness the Prince into an opera? Ileina, who had been watching my expression, seemed to guess what I was thinking and burst into laughter as she spoke.

“Don’t worry. It’s a play based on the myth of the Goddess of the Earth falling in love with a hunter.”

I placed my hand over my racing heart and let out a long sigh.

“That really is a relief.”

“I was burning with the desire to stage that incident as a play, but I held back because I thought Claire would absolutely hate it.”

“You really did well to hold back.”

At my reply, she burst into hearty laughter. She seemed to find my flustered expression highly amusing.

“It would be in poor taste to stage such a play right in front of the person involved.”

“Why? It’s just that you’re overly shy! The young lady actually adores other nobles. Did you know that the very first play ever performed in the Carlobanian Empire was staged by a nobleman who wanted to boast about the size of the wild boar he’d hunted?”

“No way…”

No matter how large a boar might be, it was still just a boar. The idea that someone would create an entire play just to brag about it was hard to believe.

I looked at Ileina with skeptical eyes. Even if I couldn’t remember anything, such a ridiculous tale was too absurd. But Ileina, as if earnestly hurt that I doubted her, gazed at me with an injured look and insisted,

“It’s true! He really did catch an enormous boar on the hunt. Wanting to show off his magnificent trophy but lacking eloquence, he simply staged a brief play instead. And get this—he actually brought the hunted boar onto the stage himself.”

“The actual boar? Whole?”

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