Chapter 10 (2/2)

“Why doesn’t anyone eat with me?”

I heard my sound, but it didn’t reach my ears.

“You guys are really bad.”

In fact, it could have been embarrassing for those two people, but I couldn’t turn around as if something never happened

today.

“I hate you guys.”

So, after saying this to the two hardened men, I walked back with my arms closed. In a way, it was a full-fledged struggle.

Like Mrs. Leonard words, my position in Ernst now was unknown. I could have been so greedy.

My life in Mellington, where I was originally, was very poor. I didn’t have enough money to buy a small piece of bread, so I had to melt the snow outside the house and eat it.

Even then, when my mother was healthy, my life was a little better, but now, even that, It felt like a distant past.

My mother lived sickly long before she died of pneumonia.

I couldn’t be able to buy a pill like that because I couldn’t even eat it properly, so I opened my eyes without doing anything.

It was the same as losing a mother, but there are cases in the world, such as Arina, where it was useless to obtain and offer all kinds of precious medicine.

So it might have been that kind of fate that my mother died. Afterwards, it was comforting to understand that thought.

But in fact, after my mother died, it was breathtaking silence that I found more difficult to endure than hunger in the house.

When I come home after selling only a few flowers that wither away, Silent air, like a

dead rat, crushed me heavily.

Outside, it was overflowing with the cry of

the baby next door, the excitement of the drunk uncle, and the couple’s argument and other noises.

The same creepy silence was over whelming me.

When I was lying still with a thin blanket, I felt like I was sinking into the cold winter sea and sinking slowly underneath.

After such a silent night, Another morning alone began.

It’s a strange feeling that nobody cares about what I’m eating and what I’m going to do today, even if it’s bright, no one comes to wake me up.

I sometimes lay alone in my room with cold air and thought, ‘Isn’t I really dead now?’

In fact, I wonder if I’m already left in this room as a soul, dying asleep the night

before. If I died really quietly alone at this house, there would have been no one who would notice it.

Perhaps after a long time, the person next door looked into the house and took my body to the pit behind the house.

In the meantime, as I dealt with the people who lived and died in Mellington, as I did to my mother, I thought I was just going to pass this month, and I was bothered that another day came out.

So, in fact, it wasn’t the biggest reason that I didn’t have to work anymore that meke me hold the hands of the Ernst couple that day.

After coming to Ernst, I was persecuted and harassed by three brothers.

Everything is a mess, but since they were a little older, at least while I was at home, I never felt truly lonely.

Of course, while living, I thought they would hate me and it better if I die many times come to my mind.

Like you guys, I’m not going to see you

again after I get married and leave this house.

I’m just pretending to like it while keeping your criticism in order to live comfortably in this house.

When the time has passed and the time spent together has become familiar, maybe now they accept me, I thought it might be like that for once.

At first I was creaking, but I was still the person the three brothers hate, but they still didn’t refuse when I approached them

someday.

When I laugh, they gently release the face that was chilled to fit, and when I hold their hand, I tell them i’ll clean it up, but in the end I didn’t pretend to be a thorn.

They didn’t tell me that they admitted me as their younger sister, but they still didn’t deny me as an Ernst.

No one has said it to myself, but now I can see that they doesn’t bother me or hate me like it used to be.

Nevertheless, I always wanted to ask because I always had a corner of my mind.

I’m not sure whether they still hate me, so

I didn’t have the courage to deny the marchioness word.

I just stared like a silly by looking at them with my mouth shut until the last day I

left this house.

“I really hate you.”

So they won’t see anything like this silly person crying. Because of them, I will never even notice that these tears are as sad as myself.

Actually, I also wanted to be their real sister…….

I can’t ever say that. I won’t tell them even when If I die.

“I hate you, guys.”

As I kept crying without help and I cried a long time over the blanket.

Tak!

Bang!

That night, there were a strangers in my room.

“You bitch!”

I was lying in bed and suddenly grabbed by arm and was dragged out.

“Are you having an unlucky year, so you try to eat with your brother, and now you want to seduce Eugene and coerce him, because you don’t want to leave the Ernst?”

I left the room without knowing it.

The people around us looked at us as if they were surprised, but whoever was

did not help.

“Do you think a lowly born like you can control this household?”

“Neither you nor Eugene will ever defy me again in the future.”

I didn’t know what she was going to do, but I knew I was in a dangerous situation.

“Let me go!”

I tried to shake her hand, but the power

of the arm that holding my arm was stronger than I expected.

Besides, I was still a 9 year old girl. It gave me no strength to be dragged, and to

no avail.

“Let’s put this… aw!”

The next moment, a spark struck in front

of me. Immediately after the pain in one face, I rolled out on the floor.

Thud!

The slap rang into my ear. I was dizzy at the feeling that the ground was shaking behind me and I stumbled even when I put my hand on the floor.

“Can’t you come along calmly?”

I felt the rough touch of my arms again. Even though I stumbled because I could not balance, the hand pulled me as if dragging me.

“Miss Hari!”

I knew that a cold breeze touched my cheek and we came out of the mansion.

The voice of the astounding Hubert and the voice of Mrs. Lenoard alternated, but I

couldn’t figure out what to say.

Lot of voices continued to be heard in my ears, and my head seemed dizzy.

“What, what’s going on?”

Right then, this time, Cabel’s voice was ringing in his ears.

“Huk, why are you doing that? Why are you get hurt?”

The sound of the surprised Cabel running in was swept into the early air.

Yesterday I realized that I didn’t eat so I couldn’t hold my body and I lay down on the grass now.

“What’s it you…?”

Cabel, who approached at last, stood in front and looked down at me. But

immediately after his eyes met me, his face hardened rapidly.

“Did you hit her?”

Frozen voices crossed the night air.

“Are you hitting your aunt now?”

Cabel was sleeping in the turmoil outside and was dressed in underwear as if he had been up and running. When he lifted his blue-eyed eyes, Mrs. Lennold fleeed for a moment.

“What’s that habit?”

“I asked now if aunt hit her, That’s it!”

Mrs. Leonard was stunned by Cabel’s yelling, but Cabel threw it all the way to the neck and screamed more harshly.

“Who dare to beat her freely!”

It was the same thing that I was surprised by the unexpected.

I originally knew that it was the second brother, the barbaric one, but I saw it for the first time, he’s yelling back and forth to an adult in this way.

“What’s your attitude to your aunt…!”

No, he actually hit her. During the surprise attack, Mrs. Lenoard who had held my wrist until then, stepped back.

Along with him, she was caught in a strong hand and her arm fell down.

“Who do you think you are?! Why did you beat her! Why is my aunt! Why…!”

Mrs. Lenoard, screamed by Cabel, stumbled at the end of his scream.

Although still eleven years old, one of the forces seemed to have been hit a lot because he was a long-established Cabel.

“This, what is this, this asshole!”

“If i’m an asshole then aunt is an old hag! You’re ruined!”

But even if it didn’t work out, Cabel was about to punch his fist towards Mrs. Leonard.

“You–!”

If Hubert,who noticed Cabel actions, didn’t stop him, he might have really beat

Mrs. Leonard.

“Young master–!”

“I’m going to hit her too!”

Hubert, even when he was caught, Cabel struggled like a high-bones loose foal in his arm.

I’m just amazed at what it looks like. I try to opened my mouth without even knowing that my cheek was sore.

“Who allowed outsider to invade the Ernst?”

It was at that moment that a voice colder than a frostbite dug into my eardrum.

The air above suddenly changed, and even with a cane, he was exhaling a greater sense of presence than anyone

currently in the room.

As if she didn’t know, she closed her lips for a moment, but soon she asked him without bending.

“What, outsider? Did you call me outsider now?”

“Ah, you don’t know? Do I have to kindly remind my aunt’s her position in this house?”

Eugene’s first hand was bitter. He turned his cold eyes to another place, leaving Mr. Leonard’s wife greeted by the insult.

“Hubert, since when you let an outside roaming around our mansion?”

“I’m Sorry, Duke.”

“Where do you take the dignity that you

always say with sweetness like a habit of your mouth and do frivolous things like this, Aunt?”

“Well, what are you saying?”

“If you saw this and you thought I would just go over this, you looked so funny, aunt. Don’t push your luck when I’m still tolerating you.”

It was so cool and sharp that it smiled like a well-forged blade with a smile spread in his face. Now, he is not the boy who’s lying in bed a while ago.

It wasn’t a boy who was struggling with helplessness. It wasn’t a boy who was trying to take the place right after he lost his parents, but was feeling precarious, like being overly somewhere.

Eugene, who had taken away all the remnants of the weakness that he ever had, said to me.

“Hari, come here.”

No one in that position dared to move from their place. Eugene did not rush me and waited still. Cabel, which was suddenly stopped by the atmosphere, was on the grass.

I stood up and held my foot. As I approached him, Eugene opened his mouth again toward Mrs. Leonard.

“You will have to politely apologize to Hari here.”

“If I won’t?”

Mrs. Leonard bites and greeted Eugene as if she couldn’t stand speaking with a high-pressure attitude toward him.

Then he replied without any hesitant.

“I will make you regret all you action today with all my might.”

Shortly thereafter, Mrs. Leonard said, ‘Ha!’ as she laughed. It was a ridiculous laugh as if he could not dare to her, but her smile faded slowly.

Eugene was still staring quietly at the person he faced with a serene glance without a piece of laughter.

However, his face was as cold as the frozen sea to the deep sea.

Mrs. Leonard also seemed to realize that Eugene’s words were true to her own ear.

“Now you’re treating me like this at your door? Don’t be mistaken her as your sister. Because your dead parent, you dare to do this to me for a girl who didn’t has any mix a drop of noble blood…..”

“Of course this child is not Arina.”

The moment the firm voice broke through the air, I felt cold at my fingertips.

“Aunt, you seems to be mistaken.”

“What.”

“Hari is already Ernst in itself.”

At that moment, I stopped breathing in a slightly different sense than others.

Without knowing, I looked up and looked at Eugene, but with an unshakable look

and tone, he greeted coldly again toward Mrs. Leonard.

“I don’t think aunt understood it yet, so I’ll tell you again.”

“The insult for Hari soon becomes an insult to Ernst. And I never intend to see the insult towards Ernst.”

“Don’t you know what this means to be like that? You couldn’t know. That meant that Marquis Lenoard’s wife had turned Ernst into an enemy today.”

A bluish voice, like an ice pick, grinded the dark darkness.

“My aunt will have to pay the price for touching an Ernst.”

The momentum of the past has disappeared as Mrs. Leonard’s biting her lips with a pale face.

“Get out of Ernst right away. Before I pull you out with my own hands.”

It was the same until Eugene ordered with a frosty attitude to the end. Mrs. Lenoard was smashing in place with a blank face.

Only after they came to get her out of the way she move.

“You’ll regret treating me like this, Eugene!”

Mrs. Leonard yelled, just before she disappeared in front of our eyes, but Eugene looked down at me, ignoring her words.

As his gaze fell, he swept away and rubbed my body from grass and dirt. And soon he touched my cheek, which was sure to have swollen red.

“What is this?”

I started to distort slowly as I looked at

his face silently.

“Why are you being pulled out like a fool? Can’t you ask for help? Are you dumb? You shouldn’t let her screamed at you!”

Now, as I saw, Eugene was crumpled and wore a robe with his stiff hair. Like Cabel, he was also dressed in light gowns.

There’s always a gap between this always neat and calm person and the person in front of me now as he was unbelievably disheveled.

“Don’t say anything to her! She just get dragged by aunt out like a crazy person!”

Cabel yelled at Eugene, angry for me.

“What? What are you doing there?”

At that time, Erich, who seemed to be awake while sleeping, showed a quiet appearance inside the mansion.

He rubbed his eyes with an unknown face, approached me and stopped to see me.

“Um..”

Looking at Erich’s face, hardened by

embarrassment, Eugene and Cabel also turned their eyes toward me.

Shortly after that, they too became as hard as it looked and solidified.

Tuk.

Tuk.

I couldn’t hide the tears falling on my cheeks and start falling down. Tears that could not be shed even when the Ernst couple died, just pour out like this.

“You, are you crying because you’re hurt?”

“Oh, ha ha, of course it will hurt.”

“What, what happened? Why are you doing this on your face and legs again? Is it brother Cabel? Isn’t it really crazy?”

“It’s not me! Why am I hitting her?”

‘They called me a family.’

“Don’t cry.”

Eugene bent over at me as I’m crying. He was also embarrassed like other brothers.

“I’m not mad at you. I’m just…”

But tears didn’t stop as the tear glands broke. Soon after, Eugene, who failed to soothe me, shut his mouth for a while and looked at me and reached out.

“Sorry..”

After a whisper of a bitter heart with a complex heart, it was a bit rough hand

that touched my face.

Also, as each tear poured out, I could barely make a small voice.

“I, too….”

The pronunciation was crushed and my neck was tight, so it was a very small voice, but Eugene, who was nearby, must

have heard it.

“Am I a Family?”

The moment he met my eyes, I paused for a moment like Eugene’s, but he answered without hesitation, just as if my question was unexpected.

I probably wouldn’t forget today until I die.

“Of course. You’re my sister.”

No, if I could, I’d rather die here today so I

could keep this moment forever.

“Up here.”

Even though his legs weren’t completely healed, he sat down with his back in front of me. I clunged to Eugene while still crying.

Me and Ernst’s three brothers all walked

under the starry night sky. I was a fool.

Actually, there were many chances, but I kicked it with my feet and eventually I stayed in Ernst until today.

I will probably be the ghost of this house even if I die. If it was a curse, it was a curse, but it is still good.

Even though my tear-soaked face and his back would get wet, Eugene didn’t say anything to me until he returned me to my room.

That night, Erich lent my rabbit doll to me again. I was able to hold it and sleep deeply after a long time.

When I open my eyes, a happy night where everything’s alright seems to be a dream.

And that was the last night of my childhood in Ernst.