Chapter 22.2 (1/2)

“Well.”

Lukewarm tea flowed over the face of Lavender Cordis.

She was eagerly looking like she didn’t know I was going to do this. When I saw her face, I felt a little cool.

“If you think I would listen to your insults, you’d be a big mistake.”

I coldly looked down at her and opened my mouth. I wasn’t going to let her make fun of me in front of my face anymore.

“It’s funny, Miss Cordis. They says that the person’s personality comes out when they speak. Every time you spit out a word from your mouth, it smells very damn, so I don’t know who the really dirty person is.”

She wasn’t the only one who knew how to ridicule and twist word.

Indeed, there was no courtesy to show the person who attacked me first.

“Yeah, did you say there’s a sleazy way to go for a sleazy person? That’s what you’re showing right now. Thank you for letting me know. You’ve proved your level in such a frivolous and offensive way.”

It’s the same.

I wanted to say that every time I see Lavender Cordis that is vulgar, dirty, ignorant, and smacking insult, I don’t want to be like you.

“You know how ugly you are right now? Why don’t you look in the mirror once? I used to live in that back street.”

“Even where I lived, I have never seen a mean and dirty person like you.”

I didn’t do this at the first time she did this was probably because I was a coward without confidence.

“Surely, the nobility of a person doesn’t seem to be determined by all the blood that comes from birth. It is pitiful that you can only think about it.”

“What!”

The face of Lavender Cordis, who was listening to what I was saying, like a luminous crab is getting hot.

She was talking to me a little more stuttered than that a little while ago, and her face was blushing at high level and her face was so funny.

“I can’t recognize it…!”

A rough voice filled with anger suddenly rang.

“Do you know that you’re a poor bitch who had been on the streets, you think you could get behind the name of one of Ernst’s surnames and be a real princess who wore real glass shoes? You don’t fit Ernst!”

But her words weren’t even worth laughing at.

I chilled, as Lavender Cordis did to me, without hiding contempt for the person she faced.

“Is there any reason to prove in front of you whether I am worthy of Ernst or not?”

It was a fact that never changed in the past life or in this life that came back once again.

“I already is Hari Ernst by itself.”

The moment I say that, nothing in me seemed liberated.

‘Hari is already Ernst in itself.’

I just realized about what Eugene said a long time ago.

I’m Hari Ernst.

No matter what kind of person I become, whatever I do, whenever I do.

“What rights did you qualify for my origin?”

And I already have people who accepted me and say something like that, so I weren’t afraid of anything.

“I don’t need your acknowledgment. It doesn’t mean anything to me or anything like that.”

Lavender sweetened her lips with my attitude. But she couldn’t say anything, as if she was speechless.

Unfortunate.

“What the hell are you. Do you think you can be such a great person yourself?”

She said with a dry arsenic towards the person she faced.

“I know the topic, Lavender Cordis.”

Lavender became a white face and her breathed exhaled. I don’t like her.

I left the reception room first, leaving her alone.

Whether he heard the conversation inside, Ethan was standing right in front of the door. It seemed that he was thinking of entering inside.

“Let’s go, Sir Bishop.”

“Are you okay?”

“There is no reason not to be okay.”

It wasn’t that I didn’t understand why she was mocking at me.

I was a lucky humble bitch who had been in the back alley and had entered Ernst and was in a position of equality with herself.

She may have hated it herself, but there was no reason why I should have been treated like this.

“Wait!”

Then Lavender came along my back as we walking the hallway of the mansion, but because Ethan blocked her, she couldn’t reach me over a certain distance.

Lavender was staring at me with her sore eyes, and soon she clenched herself and yelled at me.

“What do you know about him?”

I didn’t immediately notice who the “he” she was talking about was.

“Do you know who this person is blocking me in front of you? No, you don’t know! That person would have hidden everything from you!”

But while listening to successive words, I realized that the man Lavender Cordis was talking about was Eugene.

As soon as I was convinced of my thoughts, soon after, she clearly put his name in her mouth.

“Do you know how many people Eugene Ernst has killed so far?”

Lavender stared at me with poisonous eyes.

I stopped breathing.

The voice that continued to laugh at my reaction became even stronger.

“Did you ever ponder how many families have been ruined like Schumaha, Adelgar, Lenoard, and even in the past years, why it should have been, and who made it so?”

My finger slowly cooled to the words pouring out of the mouth of the person in front of me.

She was talking about things I had never wanted to know.

When she said that, I can’t stop Lavender.

Even Ethan, who stood in front of me, paused for a moment, but although her actions could be restricted, he couldn’t stop her.

“The man who killed so far almost all his relative with blood on his hands. He murdered all the children and adults as I exemplified.”

A voice that was shouting against evil relentlessly dug through my eardrum.

“I wonder if Ernst was just trying to build a dead body in Arlanta like a mountain? Ask the person next to you now. It’s hard to be a stern child who killed his father and brothers in the market! Isn’t that right, Ethan Schumaha?”

My gaze was blown away to Ethan’s back.

Isn’t what I’ve heard wrong now? Am I not wrong now?

However, his name, which came out of Lavender’s mouth a while ago, dig my ears so clearly.

Ethan was silent.

Then this time, the red eyes slid towards me. Shortly thereafter, Lavender laughed at me.

“You don’t know everything about him. Could you be next to him? How can you hold his hand without knowing how much blood has been there in the meantime?”

“Even if you know the terrible sins that he has done so far, can you see him with a natural face now?”

I still felt my fingertips cold.

A thorny thorn that had been turned upside down in a defenseless state stabbed my lungs.

The eyes of Lavender Cordis, who had been maliced, seemed to laugh at me.

“So?”

But I see nothing. I opened my mouth.

“It doesn’t matter.”

A dry voice rang out in a quiet hallway.

“What does that matter?”

“Whether he killed dozens or hundreds of people, whether the subject is his bloodline or a relative, what does that matter?”

My face looked pretty bloated as I wished, and Lavender Cordis’ face is distorted.

“Lavender Cordis, don’t be mistaken. I don’t care if everything you say is true.”

I spoke calmly to the end, then turned around.

“For me, That person is just Eugene.”

Just like the words she said a little while ago proved that she didn’t scratch me.

“It doesn’t change until the day I die.”

“Are you asking nothing?”

I heard Ethan’s sinking voice gives me wake up call in my head.

Somehow, he came to my room first and stood sturdy at the door.

After meeting Lavender Cordis, I went straight into my room without having any conversation with Ethan.

And now, after some time, he knocked on the door of my room.

“Do tell what you want to tell me.”

I opened my mouth slowly. It was enough for me to ask him something first, but I didn’t want to.

I just wanted him to tell me what he wanted to tell me. If he tried to hide even the things I deserved to know, I would just tolerate it.

After a while, a soft voice flowed from Ethan’s mouth.

“My original name is Ethan Schumaha.”

Suddenly I remembered a word I had heard of him before.

His words that he said, “I don’t have the qualifications” as if he were confessing.

“I was an illegitimate child of the Count Schumaha.”

Ethan still face me without expression as he calmly told me his story.

Originally, his name was Ethan Schumaha, the illegitimate child of Count Schumaha, the brother of the three brothers.

Count Schumaha, who was concerned about his seed coming out, gave him the surname to take and put him in the house.

Since his father, the count, treated Ethan that way, he said that he was particularly persecuted and harassed by his half-brothers.

“It was a life almost like a slave. When I was hungry, I had to eat old-fashioned foods and sleep in the barn in the middle of winter.”

“It was discovered by chance that my sword skill had a natural talent, and the treatment after that was a little better.”

“Still, I did not know that I was treated as a beast.”

Then Ethan met Eugene.

Eugene had plans to destroy Schumaha and finally gave Ethan a chance to make a choice.

That’s why Ethan said he was able to destroy Schumaha himself without hesitation.

“For whatever reason, I am the murderer who killed my father. Even the Duke has been proud of it. So it’s no wonder others are reluctant to me.”

I looked at Ethan’s face, who had never laughed in front of me in the meantime.

He still had an infinitely dry and calm face like a man who lost all his emotions.

“If you stay with me, you may experience the same thing again today. If you don’t like being escorted by me, you can tell the duke.”

I was silenced for a while, then I looked up to him and opened my mouth.

“Sir Bishop. I have no intention of changing my escort knight.”

Ethan’s stiff mouth shook at my answer for a moment. He was looking away from understanding my decision.

“Maybe it’s presumptuous for me to say something to you. I know your situation only in a fractional part, and I don’t even know your heart. It may be like that.”

In fact, I was also careful to say this, but I wanted him to know that I had no intention of blaming him for the past.

“But I don’t think I deserve to judge like other people… I know that to be a surprise.”

Perhaps I didn’t even know if he was sorry for not convicting himself of being able to get out of his guilt.

“The Ethan Bishop I’ve seen so far has few words and it’s blunt, but he’s actually a warm hearted person.”

After all, I think the vessel is not that big.

The happiness of me and the people around me was the top priority.

The space that my fence can hold was too narrow for other things.

“Brother Eugene also believes in you, I guess that’s why you’re my escort knight.”

So I told the person I met in a calm manner, just as usual.

“I believe in Sir Bishop that I have seen so far.”

“So, thank you from now on, Sir Ethan.”

Then Ethan stood for a long time in his place as if he had heard a word he had never imagined, and then bowed his head as he was covering his face.