Chapter 9 (1/2)

“Brother Cabel!”

Finally, Cabel is back. We were greeted by the second brother that had just entered the mansion.

“You’re here. I thought you’d be in Schumaha for a while.”

“Hello, Aunt.”

In a few months, Cabel seemed to have been given extreme care under Schumaha, as Eugene said.

He wasn’t losing weight or anything as he had been lying on bed for a while, and I didn’t see any sickness on his face.

“Brother.”

Erich, who doesn’t have any way to talk

with other people, first opened his mouth to Cabel. But Cabel just stared at him, and then he quickly avoided his gaze.

Huh?What.The second brother did not feel the same energy as before. Cabel fluttered around for a moment with a sense of discomfort.

Looking at it, Mrs. Leonold’s face was sad.

“There is no Eugene. His younger brother who’s been back for a long time, but he’s not very warm and not too kind to welcome you. Cabel, don’t be too disappointed. It’s not like that Eugene doesn’t want to see you.”

Wha-t. I frowned as I looked up at Mrs. Leonard next to me. It was strange as I listen quietly. Why did she say that? It seems like Eugene deliberately replaced Cabel.

“Of course. The one who most waiting for brother Cabel’s return is brother Eugene.”

I know it best. As he said that brother Cabel is coming. Yo. It has been my main skill to say what I want to and pretend to be innocent.

“I know that older brother Eugene had also told aunt earlier in the morning, but you must have already forgotten?”

Then she shook her eyes towards me. Aunt, you don’t like that? So why do you say something that? Just like trying to tickle things between the brothers.

“Cabel, you’re having a hard time coming a long way.”

“I..”

“Oh, I was neglected. Do entering and take a rest.”

Mrs. Leonard turned to Cabel and then greeted Erich.

“Aunt, I want to be with my brother…”

“No, he’s still sick, so he have to rest a lot. Erich doesn’t want to make his sick brother harder right? Isn’t he a good boy?”

Good god. I didn’t know what kind of face I was making as I looking at their backs, that went inside the house.

Before Cabel came back, I thought she was simply treating me and Erich as a discrimination, but….

The appearance of Mrs. Leonard, who was just weird, became complicated in my mind, but once I pushed away the thoughts in my head, I turned my head back toward Cabel.

“Brother Cabel.”

In my call, Cabel’s blue eyes turned to me. I am definitely more heartfelt than before, I opened my mouth looking at his darkened eyes.

“Come on.”

And when he came back, the first thing I wanted to say was out of my mouth.

At the spring hunting competition, he laughed with the Ernst couple and left the mansion for a few months, after the incident, it’s also been a while since he come back home.

“Welcome back brother Cabel.”

Then Cabel looked at me with his eyes wide open like a man who had heard a word he had never thought of.

However, Cabel’s face was suddenly distorted.

With his fists tight, he ran past me without saying a hemisphere. No, it’s not a reaction I expect.

Didn’t a person at least come and greet you when you come home?

I didn’t expect anything like an emotional

reunion between you and me, but isn’t this a little too cold?

You can talk to me about how you’ve been doing well. I felt sadness for some reason, and looked at the cabel as he going up the stairs.

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“What about Cabel?”

Eugene also ask about second brother as

soon as he returned.

“He’s upstairs.”

Hubert said, trying to go directly to Cabel’s room, but before Eugene moved a few steps, Cabel appeared from above.

“Cabel.”

Eugene stop freezing cold. His face that hard recently been seen seemed to be released at most gently.

It’s been almost half a year since the two face-to-face. But something unexpected happened.

While watching Eugene, Cabel, who gradually became harder, suddenly started to jump and ran away.

“Cabel!”

Eugene hurriedly called him, but to no avail. Cabel quickly disappeared before our eyes.

I saw Eugene’s face change as if he was hurt. Of course it seemed like no one but me had seen it.

“I will bring him to you again.”

Hubert was puzzled by Cabel’s actions, but Eugene raised his hand and swept his face a couple of times before returning to his original cold face.

“No, you don’t have to. Cabel just going to get tired as it is now, so just let him rest.”

Mrs. Leonard went home earlier.

Eugene went to his study, Erich is spending time with Penny in his room,

and Hubert can’t force him to bring Cabel. So I’m the only one left?

Oh my, it’s my turn. I grieved inward and moved a heavy step toward the second brother.

“Brother Cabel.”

“Brother Cabel?”

Where the hell are you hiding, this brother? I go through the rooms and the play room was opened.

It felt cold in a room where none of us had gone since the Ernst couple died.

At first, the clothes that Cabel wore acted is a protective color, so I didn’t know much, but now I saw that the curtains

in the corner of the room were slightly convex.

The second brother of this house is squatting and hiding behind the curtain.

“Go away…!”

Cabel yelled, who felt like I was getting closer. I quickly became tired.

After the third brother, now the second brother?

However, I told myself to endure it three times with the inner wall passed down to me. Besides, as I listened to his voice now, I can guessed what he was doing in the curtain.

“Cih, I told you to go away!”

I ignored the swaying curtains and sat next to him.

“I’m going to do what I want to do.”

The curtains screamed loudly in my words. Soon, a more uplifted voice rang

inside than before.

“I’m not crying!”

“Yes, my brother is not crying.”

“I’m really not crying!”

“Yes, yeah.”

Except for his boasting pride, it’s not the second brother I know. It wasn’t that I didn’t have anything to say to Cabel,

but I thought it would be better to just let him cry now.

“Hey.”

The stubborn nose-blind sound coming from inside the curtain sounded a bit

funny, but I did not laugh.

“Brother Cabel, I don’t know anything. Crying is not embarrassing.”

Rather, it’s better to cry when you want to cry. Feelings that can’t be sent out and keep standing inside will only boil yourself.

“It’s better than when you need to cry, but you couldn’t cry.”

I didn’t know who I was talking to, and it rang in a quiet room and soon returned to my ears. I don’t know if Cabel heard me or not.

Intermittently, the crying sound gradually increased. I just pretended not to hear the sound that digging in my ear. After a while, Cabel spoke in a small voice.

“But I’m not, uh, I don’t cry.”

It’s so like Cabel to the end, so I laughed a little bit even if it didn’t fit this situation.

“I don’t know if it would be quicker to teach young miss to be courteous or to break the cane sooner.”

“I’m sorry, Madam. I am ashamed of my

inexperience, so I understand that you are so contemptible to me.”

“Are you being disrespectful? I’m just point out the lack spirit fire of Ernst’s on you. I’m just worried about honor.”

“Are you sure?”

But my eyeswere so cold and chilly like the winter breeze, so I thought she even felt it from me.

“I don’t put up with such personal feelings in educating young children.”

“Oh, sure, isn’t it? But I’m not sure that Madam, who is more polite than anyone, will do such a nasty and ugly action against a young girl like me.”

I said towards the person.

“What! Young miss, now….”

It was very noticeable that she seemed to notice that there was a bone in my word, but I said again with a pity toward the witty Madam.

“Ah, I’m sorry. Was it my excuse? As you knows, I’m still not good at manners… However, I believe that if you are a lady yourself, you will understand that.”

In her face, I just asked whether the madam was deliberate or not.

It seemed to be done. She still felt uncomfortable, but she didn’t add anything else to me.

“Today, you’ll study how to walk.

If you drop the book from above your head, I’ll give you punishment to it.”

Now, walking study is really a fundamental lesson. Hah! I stand down and walked across her front with my usual steps.

Anyway, I’ll just go with it!

“Now, start now.”

I stepped forward with a book on my head. Hah! Do you think I can’t do anything?

For 20 years I’ve been practicing aristocratic etiquette with how much effort I’ve made not to be laughed at by you, but

in the last few months of class, my maid has caught up with me even though I haven’t made any mistakes.

I already knew that I was going to get

punished.

Tak!

“Oh!”

So if you’re going to beat me anyway, I’ll give you a poop. I pretended to ankle cleanly as I passed by in front of the table

where Madam sat.

My body, out of balance, tilted sideways at once. The book on my head fell first, and then my body sat down to the table.

Just before I fell over to Madam, I pulled the tablecloth with all my weight.

Tak! Kachang!

“Ugh!”

While I was falling, I was influenced by gravity, and the things on the table pour down with the cloth I pulled.

I smiled at the screams of Madam crying shout in my ears.

Thanks to the good angle control, my clothes only had a little bit of tea on them, but the dress of Madam, who only had a proper refreshment in her class each

time, had a chiffon cake in front of her and covered with black tea, raspberry jam and sugar.

“Young miss! What the hell is this…?”

“Huk, sorry, madam! Because I stopped my ankles! What is this?”

I stood up with a confused face, and I approached the madam.

“I’ll wipe it off!”

And I pretend to wipe her messy dress, smeared chocolate jam on my hands and

smeared it even more on her dress.

Her elegant beige dress was quickly

stained with brown stains.

“Oh! I didn’t know there was chocolate on my hands! It should be washed with water!”

“Young miss! Wait a minute…”

The madam, who was abusing me, looked at me picking up the vase from the side

table next to the sofa, and hurriedly opened it, I threw water from the vase as if I could not hear her word.

“Now, I think It will wipe off when I rub it!”

“Stop, can’t you stop right now?!”

The madam new voice yell rang out in the room. Then, the maids who heard the turmoil outside came in.

They were amazed at the messed room and started cleaning around.

The madam’s stained dress also began to come off with a few sticks, but it only smeared the stain, and it didn’t get any clean.

“This! Whan an expensive dress is!”

The madam, of course, was angry.

“I’m sorry, Madam.”

I pretended to be pitiful and made a sinful look at her side.

As if she hated it, she left the room without saying a word of greeting. I smiled rottenly behind her leaving her place, waving her hem.

Ha, I’m suing a little. I’m able to see the Madam who losing her dignity like that and I feel excited.

It was the nobility of the nobleman, and

while doing everything, I did get rid all of her elegance alone, but because there were maid sisters cleaning up the room, I tried to pretend that I didn’t know what to do because of the mistakes I made.

“I’m sorry sister maid. I’ll help too.”

I approached the maid nearby.

“No.”

Then she replied with a short answer, and I sighed.

When I looked at it with a speech or expression, it seemed to be annoying because I made a good effort with my mistake.

“But, are you the new sister maid I see today?”

In fact, she was a person who I had been watching for a few days, but I asked without a suspicious tone.

“Yes, I started working at Ernst a while

ago.”

“There were sisters I couldn’t even recognize in the dining room.”

“A few people were brought out this time together.”

The maid continued to do what she was doing, replied to me.

Hmm. I deliberately called her ‘sister’ and said it, but she didn’t correct the title, and she didn’t say goodbye. Even now, she hasn’t even helped me.

Originally, the existing servant were not like this, but they seemed to ignore me at a glance.

“Sister, I’ll help too.”

“How can I do this to young miss?”

“I uses to did this a lot.”

Then, the expression “I guess” appeared on the maid’s face. As expected, from the beginning, she was clear knowing where I was from.

“Then aunt will be mad at me if I do it?”

“Yeah.”

When I heard that, I asked ‘hesitatingly,’ and asked ‘carefuly’ and shook my mouth as I opened the 2-stage defense team.

“Then I don’t want to do it…. I’m afraid of my aunt….”

As I squeaked my feet and gave off a dead voice, the maid’s attitude just got a little relaxed than I did before.

“Are you scared of being scolded by the madam?”

“Madam has always been strict with us.”

“Oh, you’re the sister maid who was originaly in Leonard.”

I mimic the innocent child again. I said to her in light tone.

“So this time, my new sisters seemed to be close to each other. I don’t have any

friends…”

The maid started walking after the stained carpet, and then often walked along with other maids who left the room first.

“Then play with me again, sister.”

I sent a maid with a smile. Then I close my eyes and narrowed down and thought about it. Mrs. Leonard, what the hell is

that woman doing?

Ernst’s servants are changed at her will. Perhaps Eugene wouldn’t have left that real power to her?

Someone might have thought that it was just a few new maids, but it wasn’t that simple. It was the hostess’s job to choose the people who worked in the family.

The duchess job to be precise. No matter how much she can do, what she’s doing right now is like a monthly pass.

I narrowed my eyes down and worried. Mrs. Leonold will be with Erich again? What is Cabel doing alone? Cabel’s tutor

didn’t seem to be calling yet.

Anyway, I don’t know why the second

brother avoiding Eugene.

Even when he went to Schumaha, he was refused to meet Eugene, so he ended up not having to go to meet Cabel any more since two months ago.

I was told, though, that he had taken the

time to send the letters. So for some reason, this time, When I heard, I thought the two were doing better than I did.

I recalled the suspicious appearance of Mrs. Leonard, who I had just seen for a moment.

I don’t know if it was intentional or not to tell Cabel that way, but I thought it would be okay if I watched a little more.

If I were really 9 years old I would have just gone over it.

But fortunately, I’m not.

That night, Marquis Leonard came to visit Eugene. Eugene was home early because of Cabel. Of course, Cabel was still avoiding Eugene.

“I opposed it.”

I wondered what the two people were talking about, and I approached the sneaky door.

Of course, it was bad to overheard, but it was common sense of the general public, so I knew it. But one thing I’m curious about. I listened to the door and focused my attention.

“My brothers will stay in Ernst.”

“Don’t be stubborn.”

“Stubborn? Isn’t it the most obvious thing that Ernst family member will be staying in

Ernst?”

“Eugene, aren’t you overwhelmed by yourself right now? I don’t think you’re going to be able to handle all of these things alone.”

Eugene’s frosty voice stuck in my eardrum.

“Do you think you’re saying this to persuade me now?”

I realized now that he was quietly angry.

“I gave the same answer to aunt, but did you not receive it?”

Even though I didn’t know in detail, it seemed that what Marquis Lenoard had

just said to Eugene is to leave his younger brothers somewhere else.

And Eugene was giving the same chill now.

“Ernst now is all in my powers. I have made my intention clear, and there is no compromise in this.”

“Eugene”

“And don’t be mistaken. The man standing here now is the head of the current Ernst, who inherits all the rights of the family, not your little nephew.”

For a moment I was holding my breath without my knowledge.

The person in this door was no longer the young Eugene I knew. He was becoming an adult at a much faster rate than I thought.

“Don’t think you’re misunderstand this.”

After that, Leonard seemed to have lost

something to say, as he no longer tried to persuade Eugene.

No, I should say that he gave up on pressing Eugene. Just before, his words really didn’t sound like Eugene’s voice.

“I’m sure you shouldn’t forget that a young child who needs to be cared for by adults is nowhere in the room.”

I left the door quietly at the end of the cool voice. When I entered my room, I closed the door and just chewed the previous conversation.

Could I have been tied to the brothers Marquis of Lenoard said?

If so, would he have asked Eugene to leave me with relatives along with other brothers, or to leave this house? It was probably the latter.

‘Why don’t you send her to orphanage?’

What the madam once said to Eugene suddenly passed by.

‘She doesn’t fit Ernst. Eugene, there’s no reason why you should take care of her even now.’

But even after that, Eugene did not let me out of Ernst.

Somehow, whatever things happen that day, I even thought that maybe he’s so busy that he’s forgetting me.

However, when we met each other