273 – Tiara (2)
When Tiara ran towards Monia with a knife, Monia, who had been listening to all the footsteps, quickly heard the sound of footsteps coming closer. Turning around, she reached out and grabbed Tiara’s wrist.
“Huh?!”
The moment her chin was seized by Hagomonia’s grasp, Tiara felt the same strength as the men who held her and suppressed her, and was taken aback.
Cutting trees with a stone axe, dragging or lifting trees, running through the forest, and climbing and descending trees countless times, Monia became stronger.
Comparing Monia’s strength with Tiara’s strength, which she had never used properly in her entire life, was an act without conscience.
“Ugh, let go of this! Why are you like this all of a sudden!”
“Hey, that’s not something to say with a knife in her hand.”
“This is so….”
“All right, all right. Tiara.”
When Monia called her real name, Tiara forgot her resistance and stiffened her body.
Monia suppressed Tiana to her land, then she climbed on top of her and said.
“Just, let’s live simply. Huh? You hate me so much that you want to kill me, and I don’t want to kill you, but I hate it too, right?”
Monia began to tighten her hand that held her tiara’s wrist.
“…… Shut up!”
Tiara squeezes her eyes shut as she feels the terrible pain in her wrist.
Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, and as the blood started to run out of her hands, she slowly loosened her grip and dropped the knife she was holding.
Monia picked up her knife, which Tiara had dropped, and then pointed her knife at Tiara’s nape.
Tiara shrank her neck involuntarily as the sharp, cold metal touched the nape of her own neck. Blood flowed.
“Hee!”
As blood flowed from her neck, Tiara, whose face turned pale, struggled with all her might to get away from Monia, but Monia lightly suppressed Tiara’s struggles. Pressing down, she applied more force to the knife in her hand.
As her knife pressed even harder on her neck, Tiara involuntarily stopped her struggle and looked at Monia with her frozen face.
Tiara, who was looking at her Monia, must have been filled with resentment before long, as she gritted her teeth, she murmured.
“Really.”
“Huh? What?”
“Really, I don’t like it. I don’t like it, really! Why, why every time! Why do you appear in front of me every time! Why are you making it so hard for me, why!”
“… ….”
Monia sighed when she heard Tiara shouting.
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“Okay. Is it too complicated between us?”
One day, T-ara suddenly appeared in front of them. And then one day, she suddenly found herself hanging around by Jordi’s side and she began to love him.
Her change was sudden, and Monia, as her father had taught her, moved to remove the woman attached to the Prince’s side.
Tiara must have been dumbfounded too.
There was no love between Monia and Jordi.
Both of them have been engaged since birth, simply because they are a man and a woman born into a royal and duchy family.
The reason Monia bullied her tiara was that Monia, who was born as her father’s doll and raised as if brainwashed, acted like a machine that outputs her father’s commands, without even a hint of her own will.
There was no doubt about what kind of life T-ara had lived and what kind of feelings she had. To Monia, Tiara was ‘the woman next to Jordi’, but she was not an individual.
I’m sure the tiara was like that too.
T-ara knows what kind of life Monia has lived and what kind of emotions she lives with.
To her, Monia was not ‘Monia’, but ‘she was a bad woman who bullied herself’.
That’s all. That was the whole relationship between T-ara and Monia.
There was only Monia’s ruin at the end of that relationship.
It still is.
Right now, Monia and T-ara don’t even know what kind of feelings they have for each other, or how they’ve lived until now.
It’s just ‘the other party with a bad past’.
Monia doesn’t know why she suddenly tried to kill Tiara, who had been sober.
And Tiara, she was the one who stabbed herself from behind, but she doesn’t know why she was so easily subdued.
Because both of them don’t know each other very well.
Despite the grudge, despite the old feelings, we didn’t know each other very well.
‘…… That’s right.’
In this way, I came to know that I faced the person I once thought was my enemy, faced that person’s feelings, and that the person’s feelings and my own feelings were parallel even though they were directed toward each other.
So Monia, she really realized that she became one of the good people in herself no matter what Jordi or Tiara.
‘It’s really good.’
So, I don’t kill because of resentment.
Tiara tried to kill herself, so she kills her. That was it.
She strains her hand and inserts her knife into the tiara, deep into her neck.
Twisting the knife stuck deep in her throat, he scrapes away her flesh.
As her blood spurted from the wound on her neck that had been wildly ripped off, Tiara slowly died, watching Monia with a complex face mixed with fear of her death and her resentment towards Monia.
As she watched the light of her life slowly fade in her eyes, Monia said her final goodbyes to her.
“I’ll make a grave for you.”
It also meant that I would bury the feelings of the past with T-ara and only see the future with Chester.
* * *
When Senna woke up in the morning, she saw a pile of rocks on the shore that looked like a tomb, and when she woke up in the morning, she remembered that Tina wasn’t in bed.
“What happened?”
“They tried to kill me.”
“Really? …… Why suddenly?”
Monia shrugged her shoulders, not sure.
“Well, sometimes the look in your eyes was unusual.”
Sena also passed her work on tiara to that extent. It was because T-ara often showed a stern look in her eyes when she looked at her Monia, so the story that she suddenly rushed to kill her Monia was also credible.
“Are you not hurt?”
“Yes. It’s fine.”
“You look a little sleepy. If you can’t sleep, you can sleep more.”
“Yes. Would you do that? I had a lot of things to organize my thoughts.”
Monia rubbed her heavy eyelids a little before entering Chester and her own home.
Upon entering the house, I woke up to see Chester doing some simple stretching.
“Chester.”
“Monia. I’m here?”
“Yes. …… There.”
When Monia hesitated to say something, Chester just stayed silent and waited for Monia’s next words.
Seeing Chester like that, Monia took a deep breath and told what had happened last night.
“…… I fought with Tiara.”
“Yes. Are you not hurt?”
“Huh? Yes. In the meantime, I followed Chester and trained hard.”
Chester smiled and opened her arms as Monia bent her arms to show her slightly bulging muscles.
As Chester opened her arms, Monia, who carefully cradled her in his arms, took a moment to catch her breath before she spoke.
“Can I take a break today?”
“Yes. Do it.”
Chester put Monia to her bed and waited for her to lie down next to her until she fell asleep.
Monia talked to Chester for a while and then she slowly, slowly fell asleep.
* * *
How much time has passed since the patron, the aristocrat, left for his home country.
About half a year passed, and in the case of returning home as originally planned, the aristocrat’s scheduled return date passed quickly, and to see if something had happened, an investigation team was dispatched from the aristocrat’s home country to the Tongdan continent.
“Disappearance?”
Rowan, who has completely conquered two-thirds of the Tongdan continent with a single force by leading mercenaries for the past half a year and making the most of the knowledge of the water people, hears the missing information of his sponsor from the investigation team in his home country, and his expression changes. It didn’t get better.
‘All we have right now is just the resources we got from the Tongdan Continent. The important thing is to turn it into money. If I can’t turn resources into money, all of my subordinates will fall away.’
In the first place, it was thanks to the personal connections of the sponsor that he calculated that he could quickly process and convert the enormous resources he brought with him into money without any damage.
When there are no sponsors, everything goes wrong.
‘Is it fortunate that I didn’t share the exact calculation with my subordinates? If you can dispose of your resources in a different way, even at a small loss…… So, should I sell it to the nobles in this land at least in the form of a quick sale?’
Seeing that Rorowan was contemplating something else, the captain of the investigation team cleared his throat and turned Rorowan’s nerves.
“Are you worried about money right now?”
Rumors about Rorowan, who had become the de facto ruler of the Tongdan continent, had already reached his home country.
Of course, as long as the nobles who serve as the link between the home country and Rorowan have disappeared, whoever wants to intervene and become a new link between them.
“If there is a problem, there is someone I want to introduce separately.”
“… ….”
Lorwan, who looked into the eyes of the investigation team leader, smiled and straightened his posture.
“Good. Could you please introduce yourself?”
When Lorwan corrected his attitude, the captain of the investigation team nodded, saying he liked it, and then called an agent of an aristocrat who secretly joined the investigation team and came all the way to the Tongdan continent to enter the room.
After a really helpful conversation with the representative of the nobility, they talked about other matters.
“I heard that there was a typhoon in this area a few months ago. The departure time you mentioned just overlaps.”
“So is he really dead?”
“No. You never know. He might be alive If the situation that you don’t know actually happens, it will be a hindrance…….”
“Find and remove them.”
The representative of the nobleman laughed and nodded his head.
“Well, I’m not asking you to investigate all of this vast sea. There is an island near the stormy sea, so you only need to investigate that island.”