Chapter 51 (1/2)

Chapter 51

‘It’s nighttime, but it isn’t cold’

I leaned back and looked at the sky

There, I could see the bright moon and a beautiful array of stars all across the sky, as if they had been poured over

I think the sa every tiht a thin shawl out with me just in case, and I wrapped this overa short-sleeved indoor dress, and the air that touched my exposed skin was neither hot nor cold

It wasn’t unpleasantly humid Rather, this warht head seemed to have been soothed

Since the tiht Diana, more dreams showed up in my subconscious, all of theration, I had been afraid to deceive the family of the person I possessed

Intime, I acted as if I was a realothers

And, in the third transration, Rita’s fahtration, where Rita’s family had shouted at er at me because I wasn’t ‘Rita’…

And I accepted it all

Then, as they grew resigned to the fact, it was a weight that tightened like a noose around my neck

Every time they called me ‘Rita’ with dead, unfocused eyes, I wanted to wake up frohtmares

Because they were so pitiful, I was so pitiful

And, I woke up again today while heaving, trying to catch my breath

My bed covers were dahed helplessly

It’s laughable that I was constantly having nightmares due to the influence of the people aroundbody te on its environ locked up in that cage when I first visited Katie at the dungeon

That dark dungeon with the snant air That was the onset of these nighthtmares related to ‘family’ were no different

It was after Iabout ‘fahtmares must be…

‘They must be because of Diana and Ria’

Diana expressed that she would give up her life for the sake of her younger sister, and because it’s undeniable that the word ‘fahtmares on that theme started

Diana’s desperation was an emotion that I couldn’t understand—that I would never understand

Of course, I was also prepared to die for Alicia, but it was only for Alicia It was not necessarily because I viewed her as ‘fa, Alicia was a female lead of a novel whose circumstances were similar to what I had to experience in the past

Yes, it’s all for the poor, pitiful feh three transh the fourth, so like ‘family’ was entirely out of reach

I had never been able to hold onto it And now, I don’t want to anyht It’s like that

So, if I were to put it bluntly…

I’ to die for Alicia, but I don’t want to put my life on the line for Daers to each other Nothingless

Fortunately, I wasn’t the only one who thought so

Dauilt-ridden and anxious to play brother and sister with me And the Duke, who had returned to the o, wasn’t present in my life at all

Not to mention, he always, without fail, looked at me with aloof, indifferent eyes

He see about Katie’s long-teraze turned towards me contained not one speck of affection

Even if ht in front of hiaze

If the real Rosetta had been faced with this realization, then she would have ith such disappointment, but I was fine with it

Only one person needed to be subuilt, and that was Daet a second person ould pityaround me for no reason

Would it be easy to attain peace when the world was always in the right balance?

Walking through the quiet evening and lost in thought, I suddenly stopped in e sound came up somewhere

Shhk, shhk

It sounded like a snake’s slithering, or the sound of a sharp gust of wind

It was too loud to be the former, and it couldn’t be the latter either because of its repetitions

‘A person, then?’

No, iht noas behind the lateral mansion

Far froht stroll, I purposely headed towards a place where there weren’t any other people

Turning around, I snuck quietly towards the suspicious sound I walked down the path adorned with overgrown trees, through the grass that grazedstreeeds

The source of the sound was right there

Shhk

A polished wooden sword cut through the air

As it was gripped with both hands, the sas raised up in the air, gripped tighter with both hands again, and a horizontal slash was ertips

The direction of the sword’s swing changed in an instant, and he slashed down at the area in front of his hand

Reaching out like that, he lowered his body And at the same time, he drew the sword in a circle over his head

His bent knees and toes turned in the same direction as the sword

With one heel as an axis on the ground, he ht, hisit look as if he was dancing

‘Cassion…’

His deep blue hair was soaked with drops of sweat, which flowed over his face as it was illuminated by the moon

Then, black eyes that carried darkness and the night’s chilly air

For hiardless…

‘When did he e to improve his skills to this point?’