Chapter 15 (1/2)

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.