Luna tightened her grip on Siani’s ankle. Ah, this is the moment she had been desperately waiting for!
Once the poison on her nails spread deep into Siani’s body…
Finally, sister and I can share the same blood.
They would be the only two in the world to have the same blood. Not Felicite, not Lev, but only Siani and Luna… just the two of them.
“No matter what mistakes I made, you always forgave me in the end.”
Even when she took Siani’s favorite doll or when she framed and drove away the only maid who spoke with Siani.
“You came to take me away from this grand duchy, right?”
“…”
“I’ve truly repented and reflected! So please, take me back to your side.”
Siani had forgiven Luna not long after. She would stay shut in for a while but soon open the door and face her again.
“Sister, my place is in the Duchy Felicite, by your side, right?”
Whether it was resignation or forgiveness, it didn’t matter to Luna. As long as Siani came back to her.
“Even His Grace said that siblings always make up quickly after a fight…”
But at that moment,
“N-No!” Luna reflexively shouted at the unexpected sight.
W-Why is this happening?
The strength in her hand gripping Siani’s ankle was fading. No matter how she struggled to hold on again, it was useless.
“Uugh!”
Her fingers kept slipping as if her bones had melted, and her fallen body wouldn’t obey her.
“Why on earth you…”
At the same time, a flat voice sounded above Luna’s head.
“I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
Though bound as if by chains, Luna forced herself to lift her head. “S-Sis…ter.”
It was then.
“Why am I your sister?”
She could see those red eyes looking down at her.
“What kind of relationship do you think we have?” Siani asked in a dry, emotionless tone, as if genuinely curious. “Even when you stayed at the duchy, we were just sharing the same space.”
At that moment, Luna realized.
“But that’s not the case with us now.”
What was scarier than hatred and anger was such indifferent coldness.
“Did we share blood? Were we born from the same womb, or do we even have the same last name?”
Siani’s tone was as if giving alms to a beggar, teaching her one thing at a time because she didn’t understand.
“Ah, if it’s because of the advice I occasionally gave you…”
Luna didn’t know what magic that devil used, but the current Siani seemed like a mirage in a dream. Blurred like moonlight, hard to grasp…
“Don’t worry too much. I give that kind of advice even to the newly arrived maids.”
That made Luna fear more that if she let go, Siani would completely disappear from her sight.
“Keugh.”
So Luna stretched out her arm with all her strength. Just a bit more effort and she could reach Siani’s ankle again.
“Sister, Sister!”
Her hand, which had once again slipped from her toes, was pushed away into the air. It wasn’t rough or forceful; it was just indifferent, like brushing off an annoying bug.
“Sister! No! Don’t leave me!”
There was no hesitation in Siani’s steps as she turned around.
“How can you do this to me, Sister?”
Left alone in the dark, Luna blankly stared at the spot where Siani had left. She even missed the gaze that looked at her with disgust…
“What kind of relationship do we have?”
Siani seemed to have no emotions left towards Luna.
“What are we to each other!”
Feeling her senses were slowly returning, Luna could only shout, unable to move.
“That devil b*stard made you change.”
She clenched her fist tightly enough for blood to gather.
“That filthy b*stard is the one who tore us apart.”
If Siani hadn’t opened the underground castle door that day, this wouldn’t have happened. If only Norma hadn’t come out of the underground castle, none of this would have happened.
“B*stards…”
They would be stoned until their flesh was ripped apart. Burned to leave no trace, cursed, and thrown into hellfire!
“I will kill them for sure.”
Whether it was Siani’s blood or her own, something thick and sticky wet Luna’s feet. It was red, endlessly red…
* * *
Dawn was vaguely breaking before they knew it.
“…”
It was time to go back. But Siani stood in the garden with her eyes closed as if wanting to feel the cold wind for a moment.
“Master.” Redian, who was quietly keeping her company, spoke.
“Ha, I can finally breathe,” Siani murmured as she opened her eyes at his call. “My head was aching from the constant smell of blood inside.”
“…Blood smell?” Redian’s voice slightly dropped.
The reason Redian had used an arrow and hadn’t directly targeted the grand duke’s neck was to avoid leaving the smell of blood on himself.
“Yeah, it was very disgusting.”
Knowing how sensitive Siani was to such smells.
“Is it from me…?”
“Why?”
Redian tensed up a bit as he watched Siani’s expression.
“Did you kill someone in the meantime?”
“Of course not. Knowing you hate it, how could I?”
Siani, who was watching him without expression, suddenly smiled. “Just kidding, I meant the smell of blood was overwhelming in that mansion.”
Only then did Redian feel his heart, which had dropped to the ground, start beating again.
“Did you handle what you were planning to do safely?”
“Hmm, somewhat.” Siani nodded without much explanation.
“What did you find in Ash Benio’s room?”
“…Huh?”
But when Redian asked that, she hesitated for a moment.
“How do you know I went to Ash’s room?”
Of course, Siani had only said she was going to the east wing, not that she was going to meet Ash.
“I knew from the beginning that you intended to meet Ash Benio.”
Despite knowing this, he didn’t stop her.
“I wanted you to see it yourself.”
As Redian continued speaking, he briefly glanced over Siani’s shoulder. To be exact, at the figure standing by the window.
“To see what a pathetic state the one who once claimed to be your fiancé is in…”
Siani couldn’t see it with her back turned, but Redian could.
“How pitiful he is.”
The weak figure of Ash Benio glaring at them from there.
“How utterly worthless he is.”
And so, Redian smiled even more brightly.
If Siani only wanted evidence to bring down the grand prince, she could have just sent his subordinates. They could have infiltrated as dark rain or choked as thick fog… If the goal was to kill him, they could hang his head in the middle of the capital right now. Or they could make him disappear without a trace, disguised as a night’s commotion. But Redian’s purpose was not his life.
“How did it feel?”
The reason he kept Ash alive until now was,
“It must have been very pathetic compared to the man in your memories.”
To see him die slowly.
“It wasn’t a great memory in the first place.”
“But you said you like him a lot, didn’t you?”
“That was just because I was young and naive…” Siani frowned as if troubled and trailed off. “I’m tired. Let’s go back, Rere.” She then wrapped her arms around Redian’s neck and embraced him.
“Are you avoiding the question?”
“That was all nonsense. You are my first love, so don’t bring up the past anymore.”
“…Yes, Master.” Redian laughed softly at her words.
“Siani always starts like this. No matter what, to even show interest in such lowly beings.”
Feeling like he lost the most noble woman to a lowly slave that day.
“There were times when she threw herself to protect me and waited for me in the rain…”
Watching the woman naturally nestling in his arms with his own eyes…
“Let’s go back quickly.”
Slowly, letting him die.
“You couldn’t sleep last night either.”
Redian held Siani tightly, who was nestled in his arms.
“Just like you held me whenever I had nightmares…”
It was to make sure she couldn’t look back. So that everyone here could see whose arms the woman was in.
“I’ll hold you all night long today.”
And to let him clearly know who won in the end.
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