Ch 116

There was no particular pain, but as I still had no energy, I fell asleep immediately when I closed my eyes. As my noble father in law said, I will have a lot of work to do after he vacates his position, so it would only be right to rest while I can. Thanks to the warm sunset that tickled my eyelids when I awoke from my nap, I could feel the presence of someone standing next to me.

Assuming that it was Izek, I didn’t check to see who it was. However, it was the presence of my beautiful sister-in-law who looked just like him, visiting me while I was alone.

Throughout my time of pretending to be a patient, Elenia would often sneak up to the door and disappear after quietly observing the family doctor or maid tending to me.

Even if she was wary of me, it couldn’t be helped, but more than that, I just felt like I wasn’t ready to face her.

I didn’t know how to prepare for it.

Elenia stopped pacing and stared at me with a stoic expression while I was looking away from her.

The sunset pouring in from the window with the curtains slightly drawn tinted our faces with a crimson dye.

“······You’ve already heard about it.”

The voice that finally rang was calm and dry like her.

The long hands exposed under the wide lace sleeves looked particularly lifeless today.

“I sent Marta to another place.”

“Ah······.”

“It’s not Ruby’s fault, so I hope you don’t misunderstand. This was something I should have done earlier… It seems that none of us knew what the people around us were really like.”

It was a stupid question to ask “Why did you do that?” Weren’t there moments when you felt like you knew what the reason was even if it wasn’t said out loud?

So Elenia, who turned her attention to the scenery outside of the window, slowly caught her breath, avoiding my eyes just staring at her.

“I don’t think I’ve tried to get close to anyone. I probably didn’t try because I didn’t care… now that I see that, I’ve found that I’m worse than my brother.”

I wondered if word had circulated that I was secretly hiding away beasts, but it seems that I was agonizing over a completely different issue.

“It sounds ridiculous to say this after the time we’ve spent together, but I believed that it would be okay for anyone to leave anytime. Like my mother…It wouldn’t matter if they suddenly left.”

“······.”

“If I’ve been living like that… I can’t even imagine how Ruby has been living all this time…”

The voice, which had been carrying on quietly, dropped dangerously like the calm before the storm.

I was in the middle of it all.

“Ruby, I’m… I’m sorry, I really don’t know what to say.”

She said something incomprehensible again.

Saying she’s sorry?

I didn’t think she had anything to feel sorry for in this case…

“I like the warm, pleasant atmosphere that hasn’t been around in a long while, I like how the crazy disturbances always catch me off guard, and I envy you for always being sincere.….”

“………”

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“Even though I felt unsettled and I knew something was wrong… I wanted Ruby to feel comfortable here so I didn’t try to figure out what was really going on. I didn’t want you to leave so I didn’t bring up the issue or try to acknowledge it.”

really

knew it, she closed her eyes and pretended not to know, saw what she wanted to see, turned around, and forgot about

the only

we were all the same pebbles of

way because we didn’t want to experience anymore pain

thought it would be the end if I crumbled

the end, that it could only completely coalesce together after it crumbled into sand and that it could become even stronger and withstand more powerful

have to

swallowed the dry saliva down my

stood silently with

sunset descended like a veil to cover

raised my arm and held Elenia’s slightly drooping

“You know, Ellen.”

again, gazed

what kind of reaction would be the most appropriate and what kind of expression I should

raised the corners of my wilted mouth, smiled,

that you can scoop up and

had been vacant and hardened, gradually opened

I didn’t expect

suddenly took on

because of the

you join me Ellen? I think I’ll

speak up, it seemed as if a star had risen in the red

star-like iris appeared in her wide eyes while

never seen before,

That will

* * *

awoken and then sunny

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something to do with the dragon or if this country had always been

still early winter, it’s pleasant to see so much snow piling

“Madam…”

with a look of distress, putting a finger on my lips to signal

brush on my shoulder, I set my feet on

the dark, blue sky at dawn and the

a series of footprints on the soft, fluffy

I’ve been in bed for a

and endurance, but it seems my

healthy from now on because there are things that I have to

what the garden in the greenhouse would look like at the moment so I started heading in the direction towards it, but suddenly, I stopped

cute snowman was showing off its appearance in the front yard of the rugged landscape of the Duchy,

came out wearing

memories of properly making a snowman, but as I packed in the snowballs tightly, the

“…….Ruby!”

·······No, who is this?

who’s been

and smiled broadly at the monster-like

whole time he was walking towards me, making it

you doing? You came out alone

out alone because you weren’t

off his fur cloak and wrapped it

flashed in his sharp

long time to comfort you when I heard that you were on probation, why haven’t you shown

“…….about that.”

where did

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