4. Rynella’s fate is decided by Rynella (73)
The encounter with the boy was fateful.
At least that’s what Lia thought when she was young.
The girl’s memories were out of sync from the start.
One day, when I woke up, Lia was in an unfamiliar mansion.
All previous memories had been erased. As if someone purposely made it out of blank paper.
knowledge existed.
Language, mathematics, and social common sense were already known. I just couldn’t figure out how or how he got it.
Leah was very afraid of that fact.
Strange surroundings and strangers surrounded her.
He understood his own name and status.
However, the tag was empty, and the girl did not even realize who she was.
‘Ria Percus’, D.
The name was just a wrapping paper. It was nothing if you couldn’t fill the kernel inside the shell. Even Leah had a hard time understanding what ‘family’ was.
The existence of parents gave her a painful expression every time they saw her.
Or he just hugged her out of pity and sympathy.
They were nice people, and Leah respected them.
But that was it.
He wasn’t really someone to talk to openly.
However, there was one unique person.
“Lea, have you eaten?”
The boy would always pop up and ask in such a friendly way.
Leah, who was timid, did not even dare to meet her brother’s eyes.
“That, yes, yes… … .”
“Yeah, good job. Are you not familiar with the mansion yet? For a while, I’ll guide you around the estate.”
The boy’s first impression was the faint smell of sweat.
He swung his sword from morning to evening. The masters of swordsmanship, said to have come from a distant territory, trained him directly.
It gets muddy, and calluses stick to your hands.
There were a few times when I was beaten while sparring. My childhood friend called ‘Celine’ was also a mess, so it was common for her to get hurt while playing together.
If it were Leah, she would have burst into tears many times already.
But the boy never shed a single tear.
On the contrary, he only smiled bitterly at Leah, who was restless.
The boy always comforted Leah.
“… … It’s okay, Leah.”
It was like that for several years after that.
He never showed any signs of hating or disliking Leah.
Sometimes he didn’t even look at her with unfamiliar eyes.
On the contrary, it was to the extent that he took on an embarrassing role for Leah, who was trembling with anxiety.
‘Knight’ and ‘Princess’.
No matter how much it was, I thought that maybe I was being treated like a child too much.
it was good.
all of that.
Every time I met the boy, the pounding heart felt good.
I was happy with the daily life of being stroked by the boy, receiving compliments, and sometimes quarreling.
Leah thought it was truly fortunate.
Because she could be the boy’s sister, and because the boy was her brother.
I prayed to the Heavenly God several times, but I felt it was not enough.
But since when?
Leah realized that the beating of her heart, the throbbing joy, and the deep happiness she felt in the boy’s arms were wrong.
The reason was simple.
It was because he realized that the boy’s emotions were similar to Leah’s, but of a different texture.
He was pushing Leah away before he knew it.
“Lia, no matter how much, this is what happens between siblings… … .”
On that day, Leah’s mind was filled with intense doubts.
why?
The boy loved Lia, and Lia loved the boy. So, isn’t that what you want to do?
Lia wanted to close the distance with the boy.
I always wanted to be with him, and I wanted to be happy in his arms.
But that didn’t work.
It was because Leah was the boy’s younger sister.
Her life, which seemed like a sweet dream, collapsed at once.
It was. Leah’s feelings were not brother and sister.
Lia, who realized this, suffered from a maddening agony.
why, why, how
It was cruel and mean.
If I was going to push it anyway, I should have pushed it from the beginning.
I should have prevented the little boy who was thirsty for affection from being mistaken and dreaming on his own.
A few days to spend sleepless nights biting my nails and shivering.
Lia tried to give up her feelings for the boy, but the feelings of her first love, which she had nurtured and watered for years, could not easily subside.
It’s a love that can’t come true anyway.
The boy’s feelings were clearly different from the girl’s, and it was a bad thing to use this as an excuse to put the boy in trouble.
Leah still loved the boy, so she wanted him to be happy.
But it didn’t work.
It was about to go crazy.
I wanted to split my heart into pieces and throw away only the love I had for the boy.
Then, how many parts of the heart should be thrown away?
to paint? no, sell it?
Or maybe it could be saved.
It was the only family and love the girl had in her heart.
The two positions that could not coexist endlessly tormented Leah.
Still, time heals many things.
Although her heart still stung at the unrequited love, Lia gradually overcame the wound.
To be more precise, it would have been more correct to say that he had become an adult.
She has learned to compromise with reality.
Yes, even if we cannot be connected, we can live together.
They would never become lovers or husband and wife.
But someday I will be able to spend the rest of my life alone with the boy.
All the footsteps Leah left were stained with the color of a boy.
He also dreamed of becoming independent by making a top group.
The income earned from the top was used to pay the academy’s tuition.
Everything was just an act done for Ian.
I will buy Ian’s future with the debt he created.
The ambitious plan was soon abandoned.
Lia was dumbfounded at the unbelievable performance of the boy who was heard one after another.
“… … Nonsense.”
However, the truly absurd incident occurred shortly after.
The feeling of the blade digging into the skin.
Leah looked down at her hands dumbly.
There was blood.
My dear brother’s blood.
“no… … .”
It’s a lie.
This couldn’t have been real.
The time when I tried to deny the truth in front of my eyes.
Shhh, the unpleasant sound rang out once more.
Tears streamed down Leah’s cheeks.
The feeling of stabbing someone was too sharp.
“No, no, no… I can’t do this… … .”
And finally, a booming, resounding sound.
Lia’s eyes turned to the boy in despair.
The boy seemed to want to say something, but all he could do was drip blood.
Before his trembling hands could reach the girl.
He fell and lost consciousness.
like a corpse.
the girl cried out.
“Beggar, lie… lie. My, how much brother I am, huh? I love you brother, me? why me? no… no, no, no! Noaa!”
It was right after that that Lia opened her eyes.
Lia’s body was drenched in cold sweat from the terrible nightmare. Lia crouched down, trembling with trembling eyes.
It should have been a dream.
There has never been a more brutal reality.
How could I stab the brother I love so much with my own hands?
It was a terrible sin, and in the middle of that soggy guilt, certain eyes came up.
Golden eyes that seemed to be looking at a monster.
It seemed to deny the only bond between Lia and Ian.
It seemed like proof that she was truly a monster.
How could a monster be next to a knight?
The seat next to the knight belonged to the princess.
The monster was a being to be subdued by the knight.
“Mi, I’m sorry. sorry. Sorry… Oh no! Now, wrong… Hehehe, well, I was wrong… mi, don’t hate me don’t throw it away… … .”
Lia was stuck in an unknown corner and cried for a long time.
She came to her senses when a thought suddenly crossed her mind.
how was your brother?
Only then did Lia’s vision, which had been clouded with tears, clear.
The musty smell of old wood crossed her nose. It was a space without a single window, but Leah knew.
Because she was also a merchant.
This was inside the wagon.
Even Lia’s hands and feet were filled with restraints.
Literally treated like a monster.
But Lia couldn’t afford to care even about that right now.
She crawled across the floor and threw her whole body against the carriage door with a thump.
“Open the door! Won’t you open it right now?! Oh, what happened to my brother! Are you alive?”
The inside of my mouth was dry.
Even if they met anyway, Lia might avoid him and hide.
Even so, I wanted to know that comfort.
No sound could be heard from outside.
Ria, who became more impatient, slammed her body several times and knocked on the door.
Until that earnestness reached its peak, forever.
That was until, suddenly, the carriage’s bolts broke and Leah breathed in the fresh air.
It was an unimaginable strength, but Lia didn’t even realize it.
I just gasped and looked around.
Even though Leah escaped, no one paid any attention to her.
I was just staring blankly at something.
Lia staggered to her feet and immediately followed the people’s gaze.
And she had no choice but to hold her breath.
The sight in her field of vision was showing the answer that Lia had been looking for so much.
thunder and lightning strike
Every time the light flashed along with the thunderstorm, a huge body made up of countless corpses howled. Far too many troops were engaged in a bloody battle with corpses.
The aftermath alone was enough to clear the surrounding blizzard.
A few were facing the giant with auras on their swords.
And there was one man who stood out the most among them.
“… … brother.”
Every time the sword and fist came and went, the giant’s arm burst out without fail.
The giant staggered backwards.
Ooh oh oh-!
The sound of howling sounded in my ears. It made my head hurt.
Leah couldn’t help but notice it.
There was no boy who could enjoy simple happiness just the two of them.
He was already too grown up.
The realization pierced Leah’s heart coldly.
The girl quietly clasped her hands together.
Not knowing that blood was seeping out of his palms.
The battle was now at an end.