Hari’s POV
“Brother Eugene.”
It was his name that I wanted to call in front of Eugene for years.
A little whisper leaked from my mouth seemed to have arrived properly in the ear of the person I was facing.
Slowly, the black eyes that were wide open suddenly have a greater surprise than before.
“Ha..ri?”
Eugene was taller than I last saw he was, no, he is, and as he got older, her full body seemed to be incomparable to him.
His line became thicker and the man became more and more manly, and the voice of his neck was significantly lower than when he was a child.
He was in a hardened state as if he had something he couldn’t do. The man with blonde hair behind Eugene said,
‘You said she’s a little girl, and she’s completely a young lady!’
He muttered as if shocked. I didn’t know who it was, but it seemed to be Eugene’s companion.
“Sister.”
Louise, who had just called me from a distance, came close. The escort knight behind her seemed to have suffered a lot from Louise, and Jean seemed to be missing.
Louise saw Eugene in front of me and she opened her mouth as if she realized something behind.
“Oh, maybe.”
She also seemed to recognize Eugene’s face.
Louise seemed to have a good glance. She had met him when he came to Vastia, but it was quite a long time ago.
I didn’t want to cry in front of her, so I raised my hand and rubbed my eyes whom full of water.
“Yes, he’s my brother.”
At that moment, Eugene’s eyes toward me changed slightly. I couldn’t figure out what it meant.
“Why don’t you move around and talk.”
said the blond-haired man, first of all, alerting the situation.
“It would be good.”
Only then, Eugene just calmed down the nursery rhymes and opened his mouth. His voice felt calm and cool.
“Hand.”
But the next moment, he inadvertently stopped, not reaching out to reach me. I’m in his left as he put one arm in sight.
Looking at it, it seemed like he was going to take my hand and move, as we did when we were out when we were young, but that behavior didn’t suit us now.
Eugene and I weren’t young anymore. I wasn’t a kid who might get lost if he didn’t hold my hand, and Eugene wasn’t a little boy anymore who was responsible for taking care of his younger siblings.
“Duke, you have to escort her.”
Eugene’s companion looked at us and said,
“That is what you should do.”
But even with his words whispered to the side, Eugene still couldn’t reach out to me. He felt hesitated in his hand, placed in a neutral position.
It was the first time I saw Eugene getting confused and stunned about this. It was a little funny, so laughter touched my eyes and I laughed small.
“Just hold my hands. Like we did when we were young.”
After saying that, I first reached out to Eugene.
The moment my finger touched Eugene, he was visibly startled, but when my hand was completely in contact, he looked down at me with a stiff face and did not shake my hand that held him.
It was obvious that our appearance would look quite strange to the eyes of others, but I was satisfied, and then Eugene moved his finger to hold my hand.
The two of us hold our hands like this and I start lifted my foot.
After that, there was a nearby building.
The store, which sells tea, as well as simple food and beverages, was quiet enough to share a story, but there was no talk between us even after we settled by the window with a view.
The man next to Eugene and Louise, Now I notice it, they were out of the room. I unintentionally dropped a bunch of peony here on the table.
As I lifted my head, I noticed that Eugene, sitting on the other side, was still staring at me with a hard face.
After seeing Eugene as an adult for a long time, there was no awkward feeling.
Of course, I was happy, but I never knew that we would come across this way suddenly.
“How have you been?” I asked him first.
We did send and receive letters, but I wondered how Eugene was doing. But he had no answer.
He didn’t seem to have been neglected me on purpose, and it seemed that he couldn’t hear my question because he was nervous about others, or just intentionally spilled it.
“Brother?”
When I called him, only then Eugene responded.
He seemed to be awakened, and soon opened his mouth with a mixture of slight embarrassment, shame, and awkwardness.
“Oh, I’m sorry, for some reason, I’m responding a little slow.”
When I heard that, I wanted to know why. I wasn’t knew Eugene, who was more adult than now. I knew him when he was 12 years old.
And even after that, it was only a fragmentary appearance I saw through the communication sphere, so from his point of view, he was a bit overwhelmed by what I grew up like now.
“How are you.”
Eugene’s face saying that, was almost restored to its original calm.
“Just the same. How have you been?”
“Did you feel uncomfortable in your stay at Vastia?”
He turned the question back instead of telling me his story.
I already asked and answered through letters several times, but he looked into my eyes and brought it back.
Like I did, he probably wanted to see and ask this on my face like this.
“No, I didn’t.”
I thought I knew his mind, so I answered with a smile.
“Everyone did a good job. They always been very careful and considerate, so I didn’t feel uncomfortable during my stay.”
Perhaps there was such a thing, but I wouldn’t have said that as I didn’t want to mind Eugene.
“You didn’t have anything to worry about us. From the first time I went to Vastia, to this day, everything’s fine.”
As if he was relieved, Eugene would be able to know if he looked at my face now. The fact that we’ve been doing really well there, under the protection of Vastia.
“Everyone treated us like a family.”
I told Eugene that Vastia treated us with sincerity and affection and that our life there was comfortable.
I hope that Eugene, who has always been heavy since livingg in the little cage there, will feel at ease. Eugene quietly listened to me and opened his mouth slowly.
“Yeah, whenever I contact Vastia, they’ve been telling me that you’re all like a real family.”
“When I heard your news, I was relieved that you seemed to be doing better than I thought. Yes, I am very grateful to Vastia that treat you like a family.”
I feel like he’s hiding some shaking things as he got stuck.
“Sometimes like a joke, they have expressed their intention to stay in Vastia with you guys in the future, but I think it wasn’t a joke.”
I looked at him quietly.
“So, if you have a good life right now…”
Eugene stopped talking for a moment. I could feel the fact that he didn’t want to talk about it.
“My brother said that before…”
The memories of the day seemed to be very, very old, but It felt very vivid like what happened yesterday.
“That he would come back for us..”
“So I waited for my brother every day.”
Anyway, I never forgot a single day the promise Eugene made to us that day. Eugene’s mouth, which was firmly closed to my quiet voice, was released again.
“I was going to go right after the clean-up. Sorry I’m late.”
Like, what did he was just saying, and I don’t even realized how stupid his word is.
Now, Eugene seemed to think that he was too late. Maybe because time has passed too long since that day that he think we may not want to go back.
Eugene in the letter would have been more honest. I knew how eager he was to live in Ernst with his family again. I was thinking, wondering what to say to him.
Why was it that we weren’t contacted by the communication sphere four years ago?
So it’s been a long time since I saw his face.
Of course, even in the letter, Eugene is always in the shape of a complete guardian who had to take responsibility and take care of us, but he also occasionally show his weakness.
The reason we stopped Eugene from coming to Vastia and started contacting him first with the correspondence was because we didn’t want to overdo him.
In fact, if Eugene wanted to see us first, there would have been no way to stop it.
However, Eugene hasn’t come to see us since 4 years ago and has been in touch with a correspondent.
And in a letter he sent one day, he said, ‘I think I’m weak when I see you.’
Even though it was just a letter on paper, it seemed to me that countless emotions that I didn’t know came out of from his sentence.
“I missed you, brother Eugene.”
I gave up on thinking about what to say to him. Actually, I wanted to say it from the moment I first met him.
“I always wanted to go back to Ernst with my brother.”
But it was unreasonable. Last winter, how happy I was when I heard from Vastia that I could return to Ernst soon.
And how thrilled I was when the Memorial Day was finally settled a while ago. And now, facing his face like this, Eugene doesn’t know how hard I endure my tears.
“My heart has never changed before. I want to go back to Ernst with my brother. That was the only thought that filled me now.”
“Thank you for keeeping your promise.”
Of course, today’s meeting was a coincidence, as after a while, I was going to return to Vastia, where two other brothers and Louise were waiting.
Together, Eugene has been silent for a while. While making eye contact with me, his dark eyes slowly began to create shallow waters.
“Yeah.”
And a little more time afterwards, he whispered in a very small voice, revealing to me the weak parts of him as if he had returned to his boyhood.
“Thank you for waiting.”
When I came out, the sun hanging from the top of the sky suddenly descended to the bottom of the cross of the spire. Two wagons were waiting in front of the building.
A blonde-haired man stepped down from the wagon near ours when he see and had found us as we were out of the building.
“You are out.”
“Did you wait for a long time?”
Eugene’s companion that I had seen before was a young man with an intellectual feeling. He look like in his mid-twenties or older.
In terms of color and mood, Eugene’s escort didn’t seem to be an escort, but rather it was an impression closer to the staff. The moment I headed out, the feeling became convincing.
“This is Rowengreen Swallows.”
“Even though I am still lacking, I am the aide of the duke.”
When Eugene first introduced him, he politely greeted me. I stared at the person I just met a little strangely. Since I have never seen met him in my past life, I have never seen him. My curiousty arose in the presence of a standing man.
Eugene’s aide? The person who was there in the past life was an uncle with a high knowledge.
A man called Rowegreen Swallows was looking at me with curious eyes as well as myself looking at him.
“And you already know, this is my… Sister, Hari.”
“I’m see you for the first time. I’m Hari Ernst.”
Eugene still drew a moment in front of the word, ‘sister’ as he look a little unfamiliar, but it was a very brief moment. Perhaps it was because he had never had to introduce myself in front of others.
“It’s late, so you’d better go back today.”
Louise could not be seen as she’s riding in the wagon. It is not polite to open the door of the carriage and check it, but Eugene said to me immediately.
Indeed, it was time to go back like he said.
“Well….”
But I was sorry to split up like this.
“See you later, brother.”
So I wasn’t able to follow him right now. That’s why I couldn’t even follow him now.
A little power went in the hand of Eugene who took my hand. This time, Eugene was escorting me formally, so I wasn’t holding his hands as comfortably as before.
“Yeah, sooner or later.”
Eugene’s voice contained regret is the same as me, but his low voice felt a little lingering. Maybe I just wanted to not let Eugene go this way.
“I brought you a gift, brother.”
It’s a gift. This, this is the younger sister heart, shall I say to him?
As I originally planned to went out to the other place and gave my other brothers their favorite, I don’t know, that i will meet him this soon, so I just wanted to give Eugene a little more and I wanted to give him something.
But it’s a problem, since all I have now is a bouquet. Well, the peony is still pretty, so if he take it and put it in a vase, it will be a refreshing feeling!
Eugene hold a bunch of peony that I passed over. The bouquet that was almost full in my arms seemed infinitely small in Eugene’s arms.
He inadvertently took what I was giving and made a subtle look for a moment.
“A gift?”
“I bought it earlier, yeah, I think it suits my brother well.”
Honestly, it was just a word that I brought it to him, as I originally bought it cause it looks pretty. It also radiated a mysterious charm.
“It’s my first time receiving a flower gift.”
Suddenly, I heard a windy sound in front of me, and Eugene was smiling with a smile at me. It was like ice melting in the spring.
My eyes stared at him with the warmth of light off his face. His face was like Eugene at age 14 when the Ernst couple were still alive.
Let’s see. My chest was a little grim to se his smile. As I turned my head slightly, I could see Rowengreen, who was still there, wide open his eyes toward Eugene.
As I see his reaction, I was a little embarrassed, afterall I’m seeing this as this age….
I stared silently at Eugene’s face for a while, and then raised my arm. I was able to use both hands freely because I had already handed over the flowers I had held to Eugene.
The moment I hug him, Eugene body hardened.
Honestly, it was because of the physique difference that it seemed like I wasn’t tall enough, rather than hugging Eugene, I look like holding him.
I felt that the body surrounded by my arms was becoming stiff. Still, I whispered so small that he could only hear me, without letting hiim go straight away.
“I’ll meet you again soon.”
And then, when I released my arm and suddenly tried to fall away from him, the warmth stopped behind me, as Eugene hug me back.
“I’ll pick you up soon.”
“I’ll pick you up soon.”
Shortly after that, my arm and his arm, which held our shoulders and back tightly, fell apart.
So after I split up with Eugene, I went to the wagon. Louise, who was riding inside, saw me and opened her mouth.
“Did you give him my greeting?”
“Yeah, it seemed that my brother wanted to say goodbye to you, too.”
When I first met, neither Eugene nor I had any circumstances. Still, I greeted Mr. Rowengreen, who is said to be Eugene’s aide, and Louise continued talking.
“I was worried because I didn’t get out of the wagon.”
It was already unreasonable to come and say goodbye anyway because the wagon had already started moving.
“You’re not going to be there anyway soon. I’m going to be with my sister until the time come.”
Luisie, who said that, looked a little sharp. But she quickly added to the back. Though she still had a grumpy face, she thought about me and told me what she was feeling.
Oh, cute. Looking at it, I feel like I’m leaving with Eugene and returning to Ernst, so she feel like I’m being taken away by Eugene. In this case, she’s still really a child.
“Even if I go back to Ernst, will you come to see me every day?”
“Really?”
“So you’re not going to see me?”
“No, I’m going every day!”
Louise was quickly relieved. After a while, she seemed to think of something, then she said to me.
“But I was amazed a while ago. It’s been a long time since I saw this in person, but brother Eugene has become very cool.”
Louise said, he still looked a bit like Eugene, but she admitted that he had changed.
“When I saw him first, I thought it was someone I didn’t know.”
I listened to that and smirked inside my head. Really? I’m not sure if Eugene has changed so much. Of course, he’ve grown up a lot more than before.
I have a feeling of it, but I don’t know what it was like to be cool or not to know him. Because I’ll always recognize him even if I never met him for a long time.
Am I become dull because I have already seen him for a long years before?
Well, objectively, none of the three brothers are bad. For some reason I heard the praise of the brothers, and it feel like I became like a mother who couldn’t get off from my children charm.
As the carriage moving, I listened to Louise’s praise that continued for a while.
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After that, the day we decided to go home was advanced.
Ernst probably had a lot to prepare for this and that, but it seemed that Eugene was in a hurry to finish preparing immediately after meeting me.
So Cabel, Erich, and I started preparing to leave Vastia in earnest. However, there was not much to pack.
The whole thing needed to live anyway would have been provided in Ernst too, so I only had to bring my own belongings.
Anyway, because they needed time to organize themselves, Cabel and Erich also came back from their academy for the weekend. Good.
“Can I go in for a minute?”
Late in the evening, someone knocked on my visit. What leaked outside was the voice of Johannes.
“Yes.”
As soon as I said the word of permission, the door opened. Johannes lifted the cup in his hand and smiled a little at me.
“Want some tea?”
“Thank you. Come and sit down.”
Seeing that there were two cups with hot steam, he meant to drink tea together. I had no reason to refuse, so I smiled at him and recommended him a seat.
“Did I bother?”
“No, I’ve already finished organizing and I was just looking around once.”
It was the same. Johannes, who sat at the table, looked around in my room for a moment and spit out a faint laugh.
“I remember when you first came here.”
Johannes was also impressed by the time before leaving us. Some time ago, the Vastias couples also expressed a regrettable feeling.
I was just looking around this room with a subtle feeling that I had to say goodbye shortly before.
“Thinking about it, I think I wanted to bring you here from Ernst when we first met.”
Johannes laughed as if recalling old memories. Ah, when he was fighting with Cabel? Is that the first time I saw him?
“I remember.”
I remember his figh with Cabel.
“Then I remembered that brother Cabel and brother Johannes even had a fight. As brother Cabel yelling at me, ‘she’s not my sister!’ “
“Well, ‘give it to me!’ I said.”
Wow, it’s very sad to think about it again. At that time, Cabel was the real problem. Johannes was as cool as it was now. Of course, the old Johannes was more shy than now.
“Not long after that, it’s the first time you came to this house.”
Johannes said, leaving me with a vague old memory and leaving me vague.
“Oh, from now on I thought I should protect this child.”
My hand holding the cup paused in the air for a moment.
“At that time, you seemed so tired and sad that from now on, I wanted to make you laugh, and I thought like that.”
But he doesn’t seem to have spoken in the first place for an answer, again his mouth opened.
“It seems like the time you have been here is quite long, but on the other hand, it seems like it was a blink of an eye.”
“Six years wasn’t a short time.”
Thinking of it, six years was a pretty long time.
“Yes, it’s not a short time.”
The time that a child becomes a boy and a boy becomes a young man.
“And Hari, you’ve been in Ernst for only two years.”
And I was amazed at the words flowing from Johannes’ mouth.
“But Ernst is more of a house for you than Vastia?”
Johannes seemed curious in a pure sense.
I wonder if the place where I only lived for 2 years when I was younger than the place where I stayed for 6 years is a ‘home to go back to’.
At that moment, the realization ‘Oh, that’s right’ came to me.
When others saw it, the day I lived in Vastia was much longer than the day I lived in Ernst.
What’s more, during the two years I spent at Ernst, I didn’t have a purely good memory. So, as a normal child, I could have considered Vastia, where I live, rather than Ernst as a real house.
‘So, if you have a good life right now… ‘
Is it something that Eugene was trying to tell me when I met him a while ago? But I have lived in Ernst for more than 20 years. And…
‘Of course. You are our sister.’
The voice that was not erased over time hovered in my head again. I just drank tea with honey and my mouth was sweet, but no, no. At that time, I wouldn’t have left the house without him saying that.
I smiled vaguely, just silently, and Johannes read my answer there. He stares at me and smiles as if he can’t help it.
“Even if you go there, I want you to miss Vastia.”
“It will be missed.”
“As you think of Ernst now, I hope that someday you want to come back to Vastia again.”
Sorry, I couldn’t answer that, but Johannes just laughed as if he knew it.
“Now, I will not be greedy.”
After that, Johannes got up from his seat
“Stop packing and go take a break. Tomorrow, you needs to get up early.”
“I’m always grateful to you, brother.”
He smiled once more, looking at me while I’m saying that.
And the next morning, a guest we had been waiting for a long time in Vastia’s door come.
“Come in, Eugene.”
I stood on the second floor of the landing and looked down at the man facing the Vastias couple.
“Brother Eugene.”
Cabel and Erich also approached him. In their calling, Eugene’s dark-eyed eyes slipped towards us.
“I’m here to pick you up.”
A small voice crossed my ears. I smile at him as we met again and welcome in.
“Let’s go, brother.”
So we left Vastia. A nostalgic home. Our cradle of quiet memories of childhood. It was the return of Ernstz
“Welcome, Duke.”
As soon as I arrived in Ernst, my day-did face greeted us and I stopped.
“And the young lady, and young masters. You’ve had a hard time coming a long way.”
“Hubert.”
Butler Hubert was a little dryer than I remembered, but he seemed to be hardly different from before.
Of course, he couldn’t go through the years either, so I noticed something like a slightly whiter hair or wrinkles around the eyes.
“How are you?”
“Thanks for your concern, miss”
While I was happy, Hubert smiled and told me.
“You’ve grown up a lot in the meantime.”
His eyes looking at me glowed for a moment. Perhaps it reminded him of my appearance six years ago.
“Hari, inside.”
“Yeah, let’s just say goodbye and let’s go in quickly.”
Ugh, Eugene is another. But second borther, the second, aren’t you a little sympathetic?
Hubert had a great deal of patience in the past, like you’ve been so bad!
“You can say hello again later. Anyway, you will continue to live here anyway.”
At that time, Erich threw a horse and passed over me as he passing by. After that, Penny shook her tail and ran forward, as if he were excited.
“You guys..”
I heard Hubert laughing and I moved the steps I had stopped. Hah, Erich was right. There was a lot of time in the future. Together we stepped inside the mansion.
No one else was visible inside, even the bite of the servants. It was better to look around the house without interruption. It was the same when I looked at the exterior of the mansion.
‘Come in, guys.’
Ernest and the couple seemed to greet us with laughter right now. Yes, it will never happen again. After the Ernst couple died, I wondered if it would be better not to give them any lingering regret.
However, I did not regret the time I spent with them. During that short time I had a happy enough dream.
“I thought it would be better for you guys to organize your room, so I left it as it is.”
When I heard Eugene’s words, I stopped. The feeling of going up and down on the landing to the second floor was rather strange.
Cabel and Erich also went to their own rooms. Only Eugene stood still and watched us. I paused for a while before a familiar visit, then turned the doorknob.
Sweet.
And finally, slowly breathe in the scenery in the room that caught my eye. My room is still childish pink, as the Ernst couple handcrafted it.
It was full of color. Pink wallpaper, pink canopies, light reddish wood furniture, and pink carpets on the floor.
On the bed, the little ones they bought for me were still there. In the meantime, the room was clean, as if people had been in charge of maintaining it.
As I looked around the room, my heart began to flutter.
“It’s really the same as before.”
The scenery in my eyes is almost exactly the same as I last saw it six years ago, so I felt strange.
It was as if only time is stopped still here.
However, the beds, which seemed to be smaller than before, and the desks and chairs, which were lower in height than before, proved the passing time.
I approached the bed and picked up one of the dolls on it. The rabbit doll with long ears was white as if it was newly washed.
It was the same rabbit doll that I borrowed from Erich and returned back to me last night.
Suddenly I thought of old days, and I smiled and put the doll on the bed again. And when I went out again, I saw the appearances of Cabel and Erich in the hallway one step ahead of me.
“Are you already looking around?”
“Yeah! I didn’t have much to see?”
Cabel replied to my question immediately. But, is it because of the mood? It’s not like people who came back home looked like.
“Why do the two of you not look a little bit excited?”
“That’s what we’ve been doing before… Ouch!”
“Big brother is waiting over there.”
It was because Erich, who was next to him, hit Cabel’s side with his elbow.
‘We’ve been doing before?’
What did Cabel just say? For some reason, it sounds like I should have heard that they have been here before today. Except me, they came home?
Have they ever been?
“What are you doing? Come on.”
When I narrowed my eyes and looked at them, Cabel swept away from my gaze. Erich hurriedly hurried on me.
Anyway, it wasn’t so difficult to get information from Cabel, so I’ll pledge later. Then I followed the two of them.
“Ah, this room is also bern a long time.”
After a while we approached the playroom. I followed the Ernst and came to this house and first met the three brothers here.
When I was thrown. And it was the place where we heard the news of the Ernst couple. Is it still the same as before?
But soon, I was puzzled by Eugene’s words, waiting for us as he stand in front of the door,
“I’ve got a present.”
But before I even questioned, Eugene opened the door and flipped it over.
The scenery of the playroom was almost identical to that of the old memories, but only one was different. In the middle of the room, there was a clear presence standing in the middle of what I had never seen before.
“Hari, it’s yours.”
I looked back at Eugene with my eyes wide open.
“I remembered that you said you had learned to play the piano before.”
What he said as a gift was a brilliant white glow piano with a dazzling luster. I remember mentioning it in the letter.
Since then, I’ve mentioned it a couple of times more, but even that was a story that seemed to pass by…
He remembered.
Looking at their face, Cabel and Erich were already aware of the gift Eugene had prepared. I turned my head again and looked at what was in front of me.
As I approached and raised my hand, the cool temperature of the piano was transmitted to my fingertips.
“Thanks. I really like it.”
I said to Eugene in a slightly thrilled state. Then, the face I faced subtly glowed with confidence in my reaction.
Have you ever worried that I won’t like the gift you prepared? Eugene, You have such a cute side!
I wanted to go and hug him because of my heart, but I decided to endure the impulse in my heart because I never did that kind of offensive attack (?) to the brother even in my previous life.
And instead, I gave a lot of praise for the piano.
“I’ve never really seen such a beautiful piano!”
“I wanted to make a custom one, but I didn’t have time. Next time I’ll buy a new piano”
No, I like this! I don’t need another piano.
No need to custom it!
“Once you give it, it’s mine forever, I don’t need a personalized piano.”
I’m throwing it away like a dedication.
“Then, let’s eat!”
“Yeah, by the way, do you really have to break the colic at this emotional moment?”
Cabel responded violently to what Erich threw first, and I lifted my hand from the piano and opened my mouth towards them.
“Isn’t it too early to eat?”
“What are you talking about? If you come home, you have to eat first!”
But as soon as I said, Cabel yelled.
Coo, cool. Since when did eating become the old-fashioned tradition to do after came back home?
Are you hungry? No, it’s not been a while since we just had lunch, so why are you getting rice as soon as everyone comes home?
“Yeah, let’s go to the dining hall. Maybe it will be ready soon.”
Isn’t it in line with another words? I’m losing vote if it is like this. Is it because they are in youths in a new place that is, and to growing up in full height?
Hmph…
Eventually I had to go to the dining room as they push me over and over.
The early dinner of the day was held in a friendly atmosphere where the story of our recent activity been exchange to each others.
It was a perfect day, if there was another day like this. I felt a little embarrassed with the maids taking care of my bath.
“I can do this on my own.”
I was used to being used to it, so I wasn’t really reluctant to do it myself, but Ernst’s maids right in front of me didn’t let me pick one hand.
“The Duke ordered that there should be no small discomfort in the lady lives.”
They politely bowed to me and replied, and began to do their work carefully again.
I felt it from the first time I saw the servants, but through their attitude, I realized that the atmosphere of Ernst was somewhat different from before.
They treated us with a very sincere attitude.
Even though they usually keep quiet like a shadow, when I need something, a new bird appears or moves like a limb.
When I asked for something, I could do something right away without having to say it twice, or bring what I wanted, and never even have a way of saying something I don’t like or against planting by saying something to me.
Should I say that it feels like a professional who has worked in a mansion and has at least 20 years of experience?
Anyway, it was kind of comfortable when I asked for something, they always be alert. It was like that anyway, but the more I watched those who steadily lifted my hair now, the more I felt odd.
Still, it was because I was constantly talking and being friendly, and at least those who listened to me were more comfortable than I was at first.
Cabel and Erich were still in school, so they went back to the Academy and staying home only for the weekend
Only Eugene and I were left here, but during the day, Eugene also had to go to work.
So, while staying at the house where I could adapt to my house, I spent some time talking with Hubert, unraveling a reunion, and chatting with servants.
They seemed to think that the sky would collapse if they first spoke with me.
Whenever I said hello and talked to them, I was wondering how I didn’t know what to do, as humans are not animals without adaptation.
After some time, they also became a step in which I responded fairly when I spoke.
“Should I say strict and difficult master….”
I asked a maid who served my clothes about Eugene because I was curious as to how he had been at home while we were away.
But as Iasked her, she seemed to have misunderstood the meaning of what I asked and told me about Eugene.
“He left the mansion early in the morning and came back late at night, I rarely met him. Still, there was an impression that it was difficult to deal with.”
This was mainly the idea that Ernst’s servants, as well as her, had about Eugene.
There were many servants in the mansion, and some of them had a few faces who had worked here before, but they usually not spoke about Eugene.
So, it was a new maid who told me now that it has been two years since she joined Ernst.
In fact, speaking of the second year, there was an unreasonableness to say that it was a complete new arrival, but Ernst said that it was the shortest working period.
“But Ernst has better treatment than any other place. So I think I want to be here for a long time. And these days, the Duke is not scarier than before. He was a good enough master.”
Eugene came home early and had dinner with me.
He used to get up early and go together before I wake up, but now I only had to eat lunch at home alone.
“Until now, he’s always been working until late at night, but I think he really care about the young lady.”
I just laughed once when the maid told me carefully about the story of Eugene.
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“Can I go in for a minute?”
Then one day, Eugene returned earlier than usual for what happened. I was looking at the mail that started coming to me.
I was surprised and turned to look at Eugene standing in front of the door. Somehow the room was a bit cramped, so I was trying to open the windows and doors and ventilate them.
“Oh, brother, why are you so early… Aw!”
Then I threw a small sound instead of raising my body in my seat. The maid who pouring the tea from the side seemed surprised by my sudden movements.
The cup floated, and because of that, the liquid pour on my hand. I was amazed and let go of the table.
“I’m sorry, young lady!”
The maid apologized to me as embarrassed as it was an unintentional mistake.
“Are you okay?”
Then, someone’s hand, stretched out from the side, hurriedly wrapped around my wrist. It was Eugene who came close at hand. It made Eugene’s hand wet with the water flowing from my hand.
“It’s okay. The tea wasn’t that hot.”
Honestly, it was freshly boiled water just before, so my skin was pretty burned, but as Eugene looked down at my red-colored back with a serious face, I answered as if it wasn’t a big deal.
Of course Eugene doesn’t believe it.
The next moment, a sharp-eyed, black-eyed eye was stuck in the person next to me.
“Where do you sell your mind and make a mistake like this?”
I heard a cold voice dug through my ear without knowing. I raised my head reflexively.
Also, Eugene, who staring at the maid next to me, and straed at her with an unfamiliar face, was captured in my eyes.
The maid, who received a cold gaze from him, in the front, kneeled in disgust.
“Sorry, I’m sorry! I had to be a little more careful, but I was careless…. It wasn’t on purpose….”
“Who said I want to hear excuses”
Eugene’s eyes were like black ice cubes. It was sharp and cold enough to feel like a veil.
“I don’t care about your intentions. But that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t happened now.”
“Brother. I made a mistake anyway. It was not that big”
When I held his arm slightly with a hand that wasn’t held by Eugene, his lips slowly closed.
Soon after, Eugene’s eyes slipped over to me as I read the soothing signs from my actions and words.
The black eyes in the field of my view were still cold, but still a little better than before. Isaid to the maid whose face was white as a blank sheet.
“Clean up the room while I’m out for treatment.”
“Yes, yes, young lady.”
Fortunately, after that, Eugene didn’t say anything. I thought it was more urgent to treat my hands, so he didn’t make any sound again.
Immediately I received first aid, and after that I felt a little complicated.
This is because Eugene’s reaction was thought to be somewhat excessive compared to what happened. But I didn’t say that out of my mouth.
It was incredibly cautious to believe that Eugene’s hand, which healed my hand, was the one who had just sent his eyes that were so cold to a maid that she had just made a mistake.
If I think about it, it was the same when he came up close to me and raised my red-colored hand.
“Does not it hurt?”
“I’m not sick. You’re worried about us so much? As you gets older, they said it will be more so.”
“You say it’s all right even if it’s not okay.”
“Uh, no? It’s okay when it’s really okay?”
No, of course it’s okay because I’m really okay with it! What am i doing right now?
You think I’m going to die because of this?
“That’s how you say that.”
Still, I was glad that the cold that stood on Eugene’s face while talking before was softened a little more.
I just blamed the maid for the previous work, so I didn’t even think that Eugene would go to her and punish her.
As that he responded like a frosty response, he was indifferent to the usual servants.
What I just see is probably because he was that much angry. It was also because the maid probably new.
It is also true that the servants showed a perfect figure close to zero defects, and that the attitude toward us was so extreme that it was somewhat overkill.
Perhaps they seemed to think that if they made a small mistake, Eugene would even eat them. Even when Eugene did nothing and seemed indifferent, the servants had trouble with him….
The maid who saw Eugene today, what will she say in the future? When I thought about it, I felt a little disgusted.
“Oh, then I hope the invitation letter wasn’t wet.”
“Invitation letter?”
Then I suddenly remembered the mail I was looking at. I put it on the table and was tearing it off one by one, but I don’t whether if It was wet with tea.
“They’ve sent letters here and there to see if the rumor has already spread that we’re back at Ernst.”
Again, this happened. Even people who knew my contempt and despised my origin were smiling enough to pretend to be friendly with a fake smile.
Perhaps, without knowing, the letters to the brothers would have been more than me.
“There were a few invitations among them, but would you like I go there?”
Honestly, I didn’t want to go to that place right now, but apart from that, I wanted to hear Eugene’s thoughts on how far I could act freely.
Of course, in the past life, Eugene did not constrain my behavior, but the situation was different now.
If Eugene wished to refrain me from going out for a while, or if he thought it would be better to attend some important places, it was a point to give according to his opinion.
“Do whatever you want.”
But Eugene said without hesitation. And in the words that follow, I am speechless.
“If you have a place you want to go, you can go anywhere, and you can do anything you want to do.”
His voice, passing through the ear, was very calm.
“If you have something you want, you can have it all.”
Eugene said, as opposed to the amazing content in it.
“I’ve taken that much time and effort so far to you to be able to do that.”
Eugene, I know, wasn’t the kind of person who talked about this easily. I faced the black pupil in front of my eyes. You can notice it without difficulty there was a real meaning behind it.
At that moment, my stomach was twisted a little bit, ‘you can do anything you want to do, you can have anything you want’.
It wasn’t a word to say to an ordinary girl who wasn’t even a queen of one country. And I couldn’t dare to imagine what would have been lost in exchange for it until today when Eugene was able to say that.
When I thought about it, my heart seemed to be tight.
“Anything.”
“If I want something unreasonable, what will you do?l
But I didn’t want to catch that thought seriously, so I tried and laughed like a joke.
“Even if it take times, I’ll make sure you got it.”
But in the end, I only listened again to the undeserved, indescribable promise of great size. And I knew that Eugene was the one who would really make any effort to keep his words.
Perhaps his promise was not limited to me, but to all of us, including the other two younger brothers, but I hated Eugene for that.
I raised both my hands and wrapped Eugene’s face. Then I looked at his eyes facing the front.
“I want you to be happy.”
Eugene replied without hesitation again.
“Your happiness is my happiness.”
I knew this was the original person, but I still hesitate to answer. That was not what I expected.
“You should be happy when you are happy.”
I said to him again.
“I’m..”
So I’d rather not listen. I pressed Eugene’s cheeks and stopped him talking.
Woah, but it’s strange. Isn’t it supposed to be a oyster if you press and compress the cheek ball like this? Why is your face so fine!
Cursed, I felt suspicious for a moment, and soon I stopped thinking of useless thoughts. Then, after a brief sigh, I lifted my hand against Eugene’s face.
After that, Eugene seemed to stop breathing in my sudden act. His body, which had flinched, became subtly rigid, and then slowly moving smallly, it has been transmitted from my arm….
“What are you doing now?”
“What is it, don’t you know it’s a hug?”
Unlike the last time we met outside, the difference in eye level was smaller than before, because we both sat down this time.
So this time I could hold his neck, not his waist.
It was formed that I really like to hug him. Still, Eugene was so tall that I wasn’t comfortable at the moment.
Or maybe it’s because Eugene has a very stiff posture even when he hugged me. What the-, do you have any sense to bend your back a little?
“Just look down a little bit more.”
Eugene’s ears were right next to me because I was holding his neck.
The moment I said that, his shoulders, surrounded by my arms, shrugged, as Eugene did what I demanded.
But instead of giving in, he tried to get away from me. Oops, but not so!
“Oh huh, can’t you stand still?”
Even though I look fragile, I have a little power to secretly!
Tightening my arms and holding his neck tight, my upper body leaned on him more. Eugene hugged me and buried my face deeper than before.
Oh, now I’m comfortable in posture. Uh, but this guy, why now, you don’t seem to breathe? Am I strangled you too hard?
I suddenly warmed up and pulled my arm away. Then a small sigh of air flew over my shoulder.
Still, I was satisfied that Eugene did not try to escape this time to see if it had worked just before.
“Yeah, how nice it is to be quiet.”
From the beginning, if I hug you so gently, then would you like it?
“I wish you could let me go.”
“I wish you could let me go.”
But Eugene wasn’t giving up yet. His hard voice rubbed right over my flesh and was a little tickling.
He was in a very uncomfortable situation.
“Why? Do you feel back?”
“It wasn’t because I wasn’t feeling bad….”
The tail of his voice was faint, not like Eugene’s usual voice. He quenched his voice at my question and then shut up his mouth.
Hm, but If you don’t like it, there is no reason to not to say it. In fact, I think I wanted to hug Eugene about once in the meantime.
What did he think when he opened his eyes alone in the morning in this spacious house, and when he came back alone to an empty house where no one met him?
When sad, when it was hard, and when he wanted to cry, no one would depend on his heart, and no one would comfort him.
“I think you need to realize that we are no longer children.”
Of course there were a lot of servants in this house, but let’s exclude them.
“As you grew up, we’ve grown up so much in the meantime, so you don’t have to overdo it to do something for us.”
He don’t seem to have seen it. Is it because he was educated and raised as a successor to his father from birth?
Cabel and Erich still seemed to be quite pampered by their mother, but Eugene, he always remembered that he was the first child and not to ask for something from their parents.
“Brother has to live for himself a little bit more.”
So I said more to Eugene’s mind and heart. I wished, more than anyone else that Eugene could lean on me, and would appear his heart in front of me.
However, Eugene word said that he was not aware of my heart.
“I know what you mean, but I’m already living enough for me. So you don’t have to think like that.”
“And I am not young or weak enough to be comforted in this way.”
Besides, at the end, a light sigh was resolved. I sighed inward. Oh, what kind of country is this stubborn guy come from?
Does anyone like to know what I mean? Yeah? I crushed Eugene’s head with a heart full of 100 sweet potatoes.
“When do you ever listen?”
“Hari, wait.”
Then Eugene twisted his body again and opened his mouth. Heung, isn’t it breathtaking?
“Too close now…”
“I told you not to say anything and just stay there? Why didn’t you hear me, huh?”
Indeed, after a long time, it was also quite difficult, so I wanted to continue to be here for him, to be someone he can depend on, but Eugene did not know it.
It has spoiled my heart in a different sense from before. No matter what Eugene said or not, I was keen on bullying him by pressing on his head.
“Hmm.”
God. Just then, there was a cough from afar, and someone immediately knocked on the door.
“Hey, I’m really sorry for disturbing this deep, friendly time. First of all, we don’t have much time.”
Hyuk, who? It looks like I forgot to close the door before!
I panicked and turned my head in the direction I heard the sound. And the man who came into my vew immediately solidified.
“Hari, let me go.”
In the voice of Eugene ringing in my ear, I lifted my arms.
“Excuse me, but can I go in?”
The person standing by the door was Rowengreen Swallows, whom I had met last time.
He had a mysterious expression as if he had just witnessed a very strange scene. Finally, Eugene, who had escaped from me, frowned at him for a moment, and finally asked me.
“Are you okay now?”
“Yes.”
I replied cowardly, still in a cluttered posture.
When permission was granted, Rowengreen and another man came into the room.
I was embarrassed by the idea that they had seen us, but Rowengreen came up with another story instead of telling me about the sight he had just seen.
“I’m seeing you again. Thank you very much.”
“Yes? Oh, I haven’t done anything.”
“Your existence alone is very helpful.”
“Yes, isn’t she?”
He said with a smoky face, sincerely thankful to me.
“The dume came home every evening and ate and had a quick time to go from work..”
“Don’t say anything useless.”
When Eugene coolly interrupted, Rowengreen shrugged as if he can’t do anything about it.
“Actually, I stopped by to introduce someone to you.”
“You haven’t been forgotten so far?”
“Ethan.”
Ugh. Now it turns out that Mr. Rowengreen seems to be a bit of a quirky personality, but Eugene, as familiarly, just ignores Rowengreen and calls the man standing next to him.
“His name is Ethan Bishop. He’s going to escort you from today.”
Ah, you’re going to escort me. I listened to Eugene and looked at the man in front.
“It’s Ethan Bishop. It’s an honour to serve the young lady.”
He politely greeted me.
Ethan Bishop was a pretty-looking young man with dark hair and gray eyes, but when he looked up close, he had a deeper, more tactile feeling than I had thought.
The first impressions seemed a little overwhelming and difficult.
By the way, from now on, this guy is going to be my escort?
But, even when I was in Vastia, I always carried the escort next to me whenever I went outside. There was nothing different from it.
“I’m glad to meet you. Please do it well in the future.”
When I said hello, he looked down at me with his fleshly head.
“Especially when you go out, take it with you.”
Eugene said after I greeted him.
“You already going?”
“There’s something I have to do, so I have to go. No need to send us out.”
It seems that he stopped by for a moment to only introduce the escort. As soon as I saw him, I tried to ask why, but I forgot to say because of my hand.
I saw him getting up from the seat and Eugene was very dry, so I didn’t go out the door and saw him from the window inside.
“I’ll see you again next time.”
Rowengreen smiled at me, greeted me, and then left the room following Eugene.
“You can now.”
“Okay.”
He looked a little disrespectful of what I expected to be uncomfortable, and then immediately went out the door.
I left alone in the room and moved to the window. Here the view of the mansion was overlooked.
As I watched Eugene walked out from the front door, I moved again from my seat, where I was only here for a while to clean up my hands while the maid cleaning my room.
I was thinking of going back.
By now, my room will be cleaned up, but as soon as I step out into the hallway, I stop walking.
“Sir Bishop.”
Because Ethan Bishop, who had just left the room, was standing at the door.
“Are you still standing here?”
I asked, he replied with a swaying face.
“Yes. You don’t have to bother me.”
But how could I not care? Did Eugene tell you to escort me so closely? Then Ethan Bishop, who saw my face, added.
“I’ll be as quiet as I can.”
He said. It is difficult to refuse for some reason because he speak with a face that does not change his expression.
It doesn’t matter, though, because it’s a short walk through the hallway anyway.
Eventually I started to walk toward my room with a perplexed heart.
He’s really getting of it. However, no matter how much the flying and creeping knights are, there must be a presence like a ghost.
I moved to try not to be as conscious of my back as possible.
“Sir Bishop, why don’t you just come in and have a tea?”
“It’s okay.”
But as I reached my room, he again nested at the door. I thought it would be difficult to stand for a long time, so I asked him to come in for a while, but I was also rejected.
Then after a while, I’m at the door again as he stood there and tried to tell him once again, knowing I would be rejected again.
“I’m just going to the library for a while. There’s nothing to follow.”
“I’ll be quiet again this time.”
But it didn’t work as expected. I was sincerely puzzled and asked him.
“Did brother Eugene asked you for this? Following me all around?”
This time he didn’t answer. He seemed a bit embarrassed to answer or not. Ugh, somehow, I became a bad guy tormenting this beauty.
“I’m sorry. I don’t want to embarrass Sir Bishop, but I’m a little uncomfortable. I haven’t used to escorting this way so far, so I’m not used to it.”
At the door, I did not step back.
“Yes…”
Finally, Ethan Bishop’s lips reopened. Ah, is there any room for compromise?
I looked up at his face with an expression on my face, but the voice that dug into my ear was lost.
“Now, get used to it.”
“Ah, yes….”
I decided to have a serious conversation with Eugene right away tonight.
“What are you sticking to behind?”
On the weekend that came, Erich just grabbed one eyebrow and asked, as he entered the mansion.
“It’s Sir Ethan Bishop, an escort knight.”
“Escort?”
Erich’s blue eyes are behind me, nailed to a standing man. Shortly thereafter, his eyes narrowed.
“He was the one he had.”
“Oh, have you seen him?”
Erich seems to have seen Ethan before.
When I felt suspicious last time and interrogated Cabel, it was said that the two brothers had been to Ernst’s mansion ahead of me.
Besides, I was told that I had met Eugene while I was alone. I don’t know how much the lie used to try not to tell me that fact at first.
But where is the complete secret in the world?
What’s more, it was easier for me to dig out the truth from the second brother than anyone else.
Eventually, Cabel came over to my conciliation and polish, and he told me the truth. But how restless he is and how cold he sweats.
Seeing my hard work immediately come after revealing the truth, he seemed to think that I would feel betrayed or angry, but I was already guessing.
Because it was nothing. Honestly, I was expecting some degree of contact with Eugene from the time they said they were going to the Academy.
Nevertheless, Cabel was so sorry for me and I was so hard on him cause he hid from myself and left him alone to let him feel the debt to my heart.
Wow, just wow. Honestly, it was a bit pitiful that the second brother shook like a rainy dog….
I’m sure he still feel remorse for me.
Erich, who had hit Cabel’s flank to try, seemed to have no intention of hiding their past in front of me since that day.
Like I’m doing now, he spit out something that’s worth detecting. Somehow he must noticed that Cabel had blown all the truth to me.
So, in conclusion, our poverty was just struggling with a sense of guilt.
“Well, I’m sure you’re sure to be good because that guy next to you.”
I looked back at Ethan.
Yes, I’ll know if I see him still escorting from my side. Ugh, I couldn’t win my conversation with Eugene.
‘You just think it’s as a shadow. If you had nothing to do, he would just stand quietly behind you.’
When I told my thoughts to Eugene, he responded as if it wasn’t trivial, but the fact that I had to be escorted inside the house was uncomfortable and I convinced him over and over again.
Even in Vastia, I used to accompany escorts only when I was out, so it wasn’t easy to adapt.
‘Is this not done in Bastier?
In my words, Eugene was worried for a moment.
‘I got one by my side when I go out.’
But he was adamant. The moment I saw Eugene’s face, I realized that he would not yield as much on this matter.
I thought that Eugene was trying to overprotect me. But when I saw it as if I hadn’t got a needle like that, I couldn’t help it.
However, Eugene, who was looking down at my disappointed face, slowly tilted his head and re-opened his mouth.
‘ If you doesn’t like Ethan, I’ll switch to another person.’
His black eyes slipped to the person standing behind me.
‘When I heard that you were uncomfortable in half a day, I was wondering what the hell was he doing in the short time.’
At that very moment, Ethan’s body was once a tremendous leader, and I felt even stiff right away.
Eugene just stared at someone over my shoulder, and it seemed as if he had been faced with injustice.
However, Ethan’s expressionless face still seemed to be quite bleak and poor. When I saw it, I excused myself sweating secretly behind my back.
‘No, Sir Bishop is good enough. It’s just because I’m not used to it.’
What can I do if he sounded like that? Eventually I took Ethan Bishop back to the room. And that’s it for that day.
“What were you doing alone?”
Still, after that, he was caring for myself, and it was a good thing to be a little farther than the first time during the escort.
Even now, Ethan walks a little farther away from Erich and me.
“I just talked to brother Cabel with a communication sphere until today.”
Today was the weekend, but Cabel did not return home. That is because the second brother was an unanswered student.
Apparently, the professors at the academy, who felt the severity of the situation, urgently put Cabel into a special supplementary class for failing students during the exam period.
Cabel, who I just saw his face with a communication sphere, whispered that he didn’t want to study.
However, I was impressed by the academic school’s humanity! Wow, a really good school. Yes, this is a true education building!
“Don’t take your brother crying too much. His habits get worse.”
Erich said, crumpling his face like he doesn’t like it.
“Then you still not eat lunch.”
And I responded lightly to what Erich seemed to be said.
“No, I ate before I contacted brother Cabel. You still not have lunch?”
If he contacted me before he came, I must have been waiting, but I didn’t know that Erich was coming home today. It looks like I can’t afford it, but as soon as I replied, Erich turned his head to me.
“You already ate?”
I nodded without thinking as if It was obvious.
“Yeah, I ate it.”
But why does the third brother look like this?
“Why haven’t I eaten yet, but why are you eating alone at your own pace?”
At that moment, I was a little embarrassed. No, this guy? What does that mean now? Do I have to get your permission?
At that very moment, I wanted to say that, but I saw his face as if he was irritated rather than angry, and soon turned his head away from me.
“Oh, that’s it. If you’ve had it, don’t bother.”
“You still have to eat. If you’ve not eaten yet, go to the dining hall.”
“I’m not going to eat. I do not need it.”
Then, Erich passed me by.
“I’ll eat again too.”
I couldn’t help but pretend to have a lot of time. I just realized something from the words that the third brother had spoken and split it. I went after him.
“Did you deliberately come early to eat with me?”
“Do you think I’m so free?”
But I’m not an idiot, can I not notice that Erich is pretending not to be?
Now it was in the middle of lunch, and if you think about it, Ernst is not close to academy like Vastia, so maybe inn order to arrive at this time, he will up early in the morning, and had to prepare.
As if I don’t know youwell, you mean you hurry up early because you want to have lunch with me today?
Mama, this third brother is done for some reason.
“Erich, let’s go to the dining hall with me.”
I grabbed Erich’s arm walking ahead towards the hall.
“I don’t want to eat.”
Hey, it’s not like that. What will you become if you starving for food?
“In fact, while I was in the dining room, I suddenly got in touch with my brother Cabel, so I didn’t eat it. Let’s go.”
“It’s okay.”
“No! Come on, let’s go quickly.”
But yet, Erich didn’t shake me off.
Yes, yes. In this case, it is good to pretend that the nail is long and follow it.
If I’m not endure here, the mood will become more awkward, and he will be embarrassed only to look at each other’s face.
Eventually, I took the third brother to the dining hall. I successfully take him.
Erich settled on my side with the face, ‘I don’t want to eat something like rice, but I can’t help it because you asked me to do so.’
The servants were puzzled when I sat at the table again.
“Let’s eat with us, Sir Bishop.”
“It’s okay.”
Yes, I thought he’d refuse. Ethan looked rude once and then went out of the dining hall.
“It’ll be ready soon, so please wait a minute for the meals.”
“Let’s eat with me too. You’ve said you’ve not eaten before.”
The servants working in the restaurant subtly blurs the words and notices my attention.
It would have seemed strange to me to unfold the napkins and prepare to eat again, as I had just finished eating all the meals before, but I said that they would prepare a meal to me without saying anything else to my answer..
Huft, having lunch for a second time.
I don’t think people in this dining hall think of me as a pig.
Overeating is the poison of body care, but I can’t help it because the third brother did something pretty cute. I just have to take my extinguisher later.
Erich was holding his chin in his hand and watching the amount I was doing. Then he opened his mouth before the servant left.
“What’s the dessert today?”
“It’s an orange sorbet with cherry confectionery and cherry claw putty.”
“I’ll eat, give her the dessert. Drinks are okay though.”
Oh. I opened my eyes to Erich’s words.
“Why, why don’t we eat together?”
“Do you think I am a fool? Don’t pretend to not already eating, eat orange sorbet.”
Erich shouted and laughed at me as if I wasn’t funny. The third brother was quick. I thought I would have been eating if he was like Cabel.
The only true person who clueless in this house is the second brother. After the servants left, I stared at Erich’s face in front of me.
By the way, our third brother, isn’t he really gentle and nice compared to before?
“Even a person must go to school to see be a good one.”
“What are you doing?”
Erich again laughed at my words, but I shook my head as if I was alone, thinking about an academy that was regenerating our brother into a true education center.
“Sir Bishop.”
And after a while, I called Ethan on my way out of the dining room. He stood in front of the restaurant, then came out and turned to Erich.
“Do eat this.”
When I asked, ‘Would you like to eat this?’
Ethan did not answer. So I just give it to him. I thought he like sweets.
No, it wasn’t likely, but it was. Haven’t Ethan and my conversation patterns been going on like this for a few days?
Tup!
I don’t even give Ethan time to refuse, I hand over to him what I holds in his hands. Then, Ethan quickly accepted what I had given. After all, as I thought!
“I think you’re going to be hungry.”
What I brought out of the dining room was a small package of cookies or biscuits.
Of course, this would not be a point, but it would have been simple enough to fill the hunger.
When I asked before, Ethan said he was taking care of me when I didn’t see him, but for a few days I have never seen he eat something.
Of course, that didn’t mean Ethan would starve all day long, but I was constantly worried that he wasn’t eating the right food as he was taking my escort.
Erich looked at me like I’m doing all the weird things, but what if I still get caught up in it? Ethan took a heavy package in my hand and stared at me.
He was slim and his hands were pretty big. Would you like to add more cookies? When I heard the package like that, I don’t think it looked small…
Why is there no response from him to this? Wouldn’t it be okay to accept it then return it again?
Huft, then I’m going to be really nervous now, but fortunately, he soon turned away from me and said shortly.
“Thank you.”
Oh, there was a response! I felt better when Ethan lowered his hand with the package.
This feels like the first time I’ve been hanging around and feeding the wild animals that have been alerting me, I would say.
“If you’ve done everything, come quickly.”
Erich hurried from my back with a voice of dissatisfaction or dislike. I followed Erich with a lighter step than before.
“Hubert.”
And that evening, I suddenly realized something strange and found Hubert.
Naturally, Ethan, who was waiting in front of my visit, followed me.
He was a little surprised when I came to find himself, but as an experienced butler, soon he made me look as usual and said to me.
“What are you doing, Miss Hari?”
“I have something to ask.”
“Please ask anything.”
“One of the maids who kept serving me is Sarah, but I can’t see her since a few days ago.”
Sarah was a maid who had made the mistake of pouring hot water into my hands.
On the day that Eugene saw, she was quite surprised and embarrassed, and even after that, she was only rested in front of me.
Only after I said it was okay several times, she barely regained stability, but when I thought about it today, It seemed that I had never seen her within the mansion since the day.
But the very moment I put her name out of my mouth, it felt like the air around me changed a bit.
I quickly noticed that feeling, but I didn’t express myself and looked at the face I faced.
Hubert replied with a swaying face, as if the strange atmosphere I had just felt was an illusion.
“If it was Miss Sara, she went back home for a while. Because of her mother’s illness, she said she needed someone to care for.”
“Oh, is her mother’s illness serious?”
“You don’t have to feel worried. she’s going to come back when her work in my hometown is sorted out, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
Probably, unless you were a very sensitive person, you were more likely to not notice it. But Hubert didn’t seem to want me to ask more than this.
“Yes, I’m glad if it is not serious.”
I smiled casually and turned around.
I felt that Ethan was quietly looking at my exposed face, but they weren’t the only ones who knew how to hide.
I turned around with a smile on my face as if my curiosity had been resolved and my mind was lightened.
I felt a warm gaze behind me, because Ethan, who was constantly looking at me. But he didn’t seem to find anything strange about me. Soon, the gaze nailed to my back fell off.
As I walked the hallway like that, I suddenly stared out the window.
At some point, it was seen that a wagon was standing at the front door. It was a daily carriage when Eugene commuted.
I stopped walking and stood still and watched the view outside the window.
Then, as I saw Eugene walking down from the carriage toward the mansion, I stopped again.
“Brother.”
I greet Eugene with a smile.
“Welcome back.”
The appearance of Eugene’s face slowly changing from frost to ice was impressive.
When I crossed the mansion’s threshold and put me in sight to greet him, his cold, winter-like atmosphere would always be like a soft spring.
Eugene also opened his mouth to say hello.
“I’m back.”
Just like a ceremony, we gave and received the same greetings every day.
“Erich is here today.”
“Yeah? And Cabel?”
“My brother, Cabel, can’t come because of the supplementary class. I think he’s going to study because it’s a trial period.”
“Yeah….”
I said brightly as usual. Why was Eugene looking down at my face for a moment without a word?
Do you think my expression is weird right now? I was almost shaking.
“Brother.” But Erich followed upstairs.
As he came down, I could naturally turn my head away from Eugene’s eyes.
“You came earlier than I thought? When did you come?”
“When it’s lunch.”
“You must have wake up early.”
“I usually wake up early. I didn’t wake up early because I deliberately tried to come home today quickly.”
Erich said to us who said nothing, but he like someone with a stabbing thing, as he trying to explained things that wasn’t asked.
Eugene and me felt the same thing, but we said nothing and looked at my brother’s face down the stairs.
However, Erich, who came down the stairs completely, looked at me and frowned.
“What, why is your expression like that?”
I thought he was talking to me, as I jumped for a moment, but it wasn’t me who Erich was watching.
“Mr. Escort, am I funny? Why are you making such a face?”
Ethan, standing behind me, blinked his eyes.
“You mean my face?”
“Yes, you just laughed.”
When I saw it, Erich seemed to be grumbling. Ethan, who he saw now, was doing the same as usual, but unexpectedly, Erich’s words followed his face tightly.
An expressionless face, “I did not laugh.”
“No it’s not long, you just laughed at me.”
“You missed it.”
Ethan repeatedly denied strongly.
He was annoyed. Even though Erich’s original personality was somewhat different, it was unusual for Ethan to react unexpectedly to me.
“Stop it.”
Then, Eugene, who looked at the two people alternately, opened his mouth.
“And Erich. You’d be offended if he said that he’s laughing was right anyway.”
Eugene said. Even if Ethan admitted that he was really laughing just now, Erich would have been offended.
Erich’s face was crumpled, but he didn’t tell Ethan any more.
“Yeah, let’s stop because brother is already here, too.”
“Look at the escorts, in the order of lying well nowadays? Do you think it’s all right if it’s not, as my eyes aren’t open?”
*********
That night, I sat on the sofa in my room and thought of something.
It was a little complicated in my head. Maybe it’s okay, but I just recalled the conversation I had with Hubert.
After a while I sighed a little and reached out over the table. There were letters and invitations piled up today.
I lifted the envelope and glanced at the sender on the back.
As Eugene told me to do whatever I wanted, I was going to slowly look through the letters I received so far and decide what to do in the future.
And one moment, I stopped by the name I found in between.
“Oh.”
A small sound leaked out of my mouth. A familiar name written in neat font on a white envelope.
It was the invitation of Eugene’s fiancée, Rosabella Velontia, that was gilted.