15. Snow Moon Flower – 03
“Then Cain, it’s late tonight, so let’s talk about it tomorrow too. As Cain said, holding each other in the middle of the street and talking can’t be quite funny. At least, I don’t think it’s suitable for a high-ranking marquis mage or a princess.”
Saying that, Kirie smiled slightly at Iris and Bianca standing next to me.
“After all, we only have time. Don’t you think there’s no reason to feel sorry for not being able to share a few words here?”
There was no way Iris could not understand what Kirie was trying to say at this moment, so her beautiful army slightly frowned. Of course, Kyrie himself was just saying the words without any intention.
Such a fact only served as an even worse story for Iris.
Of course, no matter how Iris looked at her, Kyrie’s face was just relaxed. In the first place, even if a ephemera muttered something to itself, there was no human being who would be genuinely angry.
How can we be afraid of humans who, in the blink of an eye, will not be able to overcome the flow of time and show an ugly appearance? In the first place, it’s just a game with no opponent.
Well, actually, it would be quite enjoyable to talk with you, but I’ll settle for that tonight. No matter how boring one’s life has been lately, if too much pleasure is created overnight, the pleasure in the future may be diminished.
Kyrie’s gaze quietly turned to Iris, and then smiled meaninglessly at her. Interesting. Nothing like this had ever happened before. It is clear that something happening that you don’t know about is really interesting. As expected, leaving the side of the World Tree and arriving at the Estel family is worthwhile-
“Then, see you tomorrow. My betrothed, Cain von Estel. Please, I hope that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.”
With those words that were truly relaxed, Kirie bowed slightly and bowed to me with a lithe and soft motion, like a ballroom, and then moved away from us in the blink of an eye with light steps.
“…a woman with a bad mood. Yes and now.”
After Kyrie’s appearance completely disappeared, she was surely our Bianca, who lived a straight-forward life with no retreat in her own life.
“I’ve been thinking about it since a long time ago, but I think that all elves must be out of their minds. Don’t you think it’s like a snake, that it’s sinister, you can’t know what’s inside, and it always treats humans with a smile?”
I don’t know why, but I hear Bianca’s words, which seem to be very angry again, in one ear and lightly out the other. In the first place, I wondered if there was a person Bianca liked in this world.
“Then, let’s stop disbanding now. Like Kyrie said earlier, it’s true that the night is late.”
At my words, the women around me nodded their heads politely. Of course, there would be no need to escort these women to their rooms just because it was late at night. In the first place, they are women who are much stronger than me, but who is going to take care of whom? I don’t even know the fountain.
There was only one woman who could be said to be clearly weaker than me in this place.
“…Sarah. If it’s okay with you…”
The moment I stretched out my hand towards her, saying that since you and my room are quite close, I will walk you to your room-
widely-
“…Sarah?”
Sara, who had been looking this way with a blank expression until just now, shook my hand toward her and shook it off. With his face full of rejection and guilt, as if he were facing something he shouldn’t have touched.
“…ah.”
In an instant, everyone’s eyes turned to Sarah. Even Sarah herself stared blankly at her right hand, which had just shaken off my touch, as if she didn’t know that she would act like this.
“…Small Duke…”
Sarah looked at her right hand dumbly, then raised her left hand and gently wrapped it around her right hand. Her right hand was shaking very weakly but surely.
“I, I mean, I… and this, I mean—”
Sarah, who had been talking incomprehensible words, met my eyes. And at that moment, Sarah’s face changed once again. From a pale face with no blood on it, to an unsightly and weak face that looked like it would burst into tears at any moment. She closed her eyes tightly, then quickly lowered her head.
“…crime.”
Sarah licks her lips.
“…sin, …sin, …sin, cow-”
She repeats the same words desperately, like a broken music box, and then gasps once more. Sarah’s voice was trembling.
…as if he were telling himself that he didn’t have the right to say it.
“…So, Duke. I-“
And that was the end. Sara bit her own lip, then turned her back on me and ran away somewhere.
…At the last moment, I thought I saw something in her eyes.
“…Sarah.”
I tried to reach out to her, but I realized I couldn’t. I knew I was never to reach out to her until she came face to face with me on her own.
“why…”
As I stared blankly at her disappearing back with a bewildered expression, Aria, who had been quiet until then, sighed softly and muttered to me:
“Maybe I had a terrible nightmare. If that’s not the case, I’m going to have nightmares sooner or later.”
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…Sarah can remember it clearly even at this moment.
A woman named Sarah Cernard had been living her life as nothing more than a tool created by Count Cernard’s family.
The fact that she was engaged to Cain von Estelle, the minor duke of the Estelle duchy.
The fact that as soon as she broke off her engagement to Cain von Estel, her engagement to the Duke of Tournigen followed suit.
At that time, when the Duke of Turnizen did not exist, the goal was changed and he was dispatched to the Duke of Decaraznan.
It was nothing more than something that happened in a realm that had nothing to do with her will. She just nodded her head in compliance with the instructions she didn’t even know came from her family.
…In the first place, she had never had free will in her own life.
Unwanted Engagement, Unwanted Marriage, Unwanted Love-
In her life, there was nothing but unwanted things.
But I gradually got used to it. Enduring pain, doing what you don’t want to do with your own hands, and happiness like a sandcastle that has no meaning, it’s all.
Ever since I was very young, I’ve been imagining it countless times. The sweet imagination that someone will save you from being imprisoned in a very high and strong castle called Count Sernard.
…However, imagination always ends with imagination. No one has ever saved himself. No one noticed their pain. Her own pain was always her own.
However, at the Duke of Dekaraznan, the imagination she had longed for had come true.
Someone really noticed my pain. Someone, really got angry on his behalf. Someone even promised to save her and release the curse that was holding her back.
…And that someone, in the end, saved himself.
Even by killing her uncle, who had reigned as a nightmare in her life, slaying all the hounds that always roamed around her, and even turning the Count Cernard itself into an enemy.
There was a man who said he would protect himself and hug him.
For the first time in my life, seeing him like that, my heart was beating wildly. I was overcome with emotion, wondering if the immature wish I had dreamed of since childhood had become a reality.
That’s why, I wanted to be a strength. Just like he came to his side, saved himself, and brought me out of the cage.
I also wanted to be the strength of the person you are.
She gave up on herself because she knew full well that the wish she had unknowingly had was an absurd wish. No, I thought I gave up.
Even if I’m not allowed to stand by your side, I wanted to quietly watch you happy from afar.
Clearly, Sarah Cernard was not endowed with any kind of special power. Like the other women around him, instead of becoming his strength in any form, it was a body that had caused him enormous trouble.
However, even if he did not have such special powers, he thought that if he could be of any help to him, that would be a hopeless thing.
I firmly believed that if I stayed by his side, assisting him and helping him, someday it would be a way to repay the grace I received…
Now he realized that everything, everything, was nothing more than his own absurd delusion.
How cruel Sarah Cernard has been to a man named Cain von Estel.
On the topic that I thought I hated the Count Cernard family more than anyone else in the world, in fact, I was following their view of judging people as values better than anyone else in the world.
As soon as he was found to be useless, he felt so repulsive that he would go mad at the fact that he had chosen to marry another man without hesitation.
The result is this.
The story that Sarah Cernard is Cain’s help is nothing more than a fool’s deception.
I hated it so much that the identity of this heart, which had been firmly believed to be his strength, was actually just a story full of lies-
– Can you understand why the princess hated you so much now? She is as strict with others as she is with herself. From that woman’s point of view, you would have been seen as just a woman who wants to receive flowers. It seemed that he really didn’t like the way you begged for mercy to receive his affection again, even though you had left him once.
Kyrie’s words were sharp, but because they were so clear, they coldly grabbed her heart.
– It is often said that the fault of the parents is only the fault of the person himself. It must be wrong to pass on the faults of the parents to the child.
– By the way, who the hell is to take responsibility for your own mistakes that have already happened in the past?
– right. you will be embarrassed Because you don’t have any memories, and you didn’t do anything. By the way, isn’t it a situation where there are definitely victims of what you did? Still, can you insist on your own innocence to the end?
…my heart hurts. It wasn’t because of Kyrie’s words, but the ugliness of herself, who couldn’t refute those words, was tearing Sarah’s heart apart.
She broke his heart so much in the past.
It was just sad that she whined at him again and ended up being happy with his help.
Even though it must be painful just to face a woman like me up close, seeing you smiling brightly at me makes me-
– Are you sick? It hurts so much, do you want to turn your eyes away from everything now? If you want to run away, I have a present for you.
Saying that, Kirie held out a twig to Sarah. From the outside, it’s just an ordinary tree branch. It was unusual that the tip was pointed rather than blunt like other tree branches.
– It’s a dagger made from the branches of the World Tree. If you stick it into your own heart, you can die painlessly. That is the only salvation I can give you.
Saying that, Kirie pretended to insert something into her own heart. Kyrie’s gentle smile toward her is extremely holy, and it just seems like he has no ill intentions.
– Oh, by the way, don’t forget to return it to me after using it. Isn’t it polite to return things you borrowed from others when they are used up?