Chapter 242 (2/2)
“Ho-how come… why didn’t you sa-say this earlier? If so…”
“If so, the declaration of ould not have been withdrawn It would be eous for your husband if he oppresses father by force” Rosetta spoke coldly “But I don’t want the war to ruin this country There are at least one or two people that I don’t want to get hurt either”
“I, I don’t ar either… but…” Max sed dry saliva She didn’t want Riftan to get in trouble too
Rosetta asked suddenly, looking at her face, which was tired of her anxiety “Are you in love with that e words that caht her attention immediately She did not knohat the intention of that question was When she didn’t say anything, there was a rather sharp smile on Rosetta’s mouth
“It won’t work It’s i soared from within her fro her down, but she was angry for telling her face to face that no one would love her Max’s face became brilliantly red and she raised her voice
“Ri-Riftan saved m-me Ever since, he has been…”
“It’s not that man that is the problem The problem is my sister I mean, it would be impossible for you to love other people” Rosetta responded calmly and cruelly
Max’s hands twitched like she was stabbed by a thorn, and then she shook her head like it was absurd “What do you think you know… a-aboutI don’t know you? The s-saoes for you too…”
“I know you”
At the assertive words, Max uess how Rosetta had this conviction They were never close for a moment However, Rosetta spoke h every detail of her
“I am probably the only one in the world who can understand htest bit”
“Do-don’t say nonsense” Her absurd arrogance made her nervous Max distorted her face and fiercely retorted “How can y-you… understand m-me? You received all the support… you are loved… how can you say that you understand …!”
“Loved?” Rosetta’s face was also coldly twisted “Seriously, do you think it is possible for that man to love someone else?”
“Fa-father is p-proud of you…”
“Father considers me useful, he doesn’t love me”
“Well at le-least you…!” Max, as riled and raised her voice, could not answer and closed her mouth firmly
Rosetta said a feords with ridiculous coldness “Yes, I wasn’t beaten like my sister”
Her face burned with conte at her Her sister, as looking at the flowerbed where the grass had died with a gloomy look, spat in a dry voice
“The year I turned ten years old, father made me watch while he beat my sister”
Max’s eyes widened in shock and embarrassment “Th… that can’t be W-where were you… that never happened”
“In that room with a mirror… There was a small partition on one of the walls Father opened it and… hebeaten”
She gasped as if all the air had escaped her lungs Max covered her ered by the fact that he showed his little sister how he beat her like an aniht that Rosetta would also knohat kind of treat, but she didn’t think that she had seen everything, like how she was crawling across the floor in such a horrible way Rosetta stared at her as she staggered in shock, her eyes dry
“Father was trying to showWhenever my sister was beaten, I was also called to be in the next room And, as father had intended, I was terrified to see htht If I wasn’t perfect, I would be treated like you The next tiht be the one called to theis worthless to father I… I worked hard to meet father’s expectations Since then, I haven’t dared to be lax even for a moment” There was a suspicious smile on her lips “When I think about it noonder if he punished you even more severely to set an exa or rebelling…”
Max struggled to picture her ten-year-old sister in her head Everything was hazy as if there was fog in her thoughts Rosetta always had a beautiful, perfect, and arrogant appearance that was firraved on her mind However, it turned out that she was also just a helpless little girl as desperate to protect herself When she realized that, she saw her little sister clearly as if so had suddenly peeled off froirl, ould turn 19 years old in three months, stood in front of her
“I have observed all the sufferings of ile a woman can be, and to what extent a man can become ruthless and cruel…” Her sister’s voice sounded like an echo Rosetta looked up at the blue sky for a while and lowered her gaze again “I will never truly love anyone in my life It would be impossible for me to trust I want to, but I can’t There are brakes on the corner of my heart like it was broken Every person who approaches is constantly suspected, tested, and eventually expelled I’m like that… how about you sister?”
“I, I…”
Max staggered and her face twisted in confusion At the end of her bewildered gaze, she could see their shadows hanging long and thin at her feet like bare, dead trees Her spine felt nuain like a prophecy
“It won’t work Eventually, it will crumble”
“I-It won’t I… I’m different from you” The words she barely spoke sounded too uncertain and precarious to her ears
Rosetta refuted dryly “My sister did not trust that man at a crucial moment, so it will be the same in the future When the moain We have been twisted like that”
“I, I…”
Her throat ached as if she had sed a needle She tightened her hold on the he of resenter sister arose And then, she spoke as if forcing the words out
“I… I will ch-change that”
Rosetta wordlessly told her that it was impossible with her deeply sunken eyes Max closed her eyes and screae that”
Just then, a fierce wind struck and swept through their bodies The dry leaves that hung from the branches rustled loudly Rosetta, who silently looked towards the cla branches, murmured in a skeptical voice
“… I wish you luck on that”
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Note – LF: This is why I couldn’t bash Rosetta either ☹ When soet trust issues