I Don’t Trust My Twin Sister

“… What are you?”

 

“Haha, do you feel a little embarrassed? Well, please understand. As I get older, it’s nice to see someone who opens the door.”

 

I really didn’t like the way his voice reacted slyly. The man who knew something, he referred to as the man who opened the door for me. And the door I claim to have opened

 

“Stop talking bullshit! What are you?!”

 

“I am Theses, the priest of Priteritom.

 

“Nothing like that! What did you mean by what you just said?”

 

“Oh, you mean that? It just means you were the one who opened the door.”

 

“…How do you know?”

 

Theses just smiled and said nothing more. Are you stretching me now? As I gritted my teeth, glaring at the man who suddenly appeared and made me feel uneasy by mentioning the door, Ian grabbed my shoulder and shook his head. Ian moved his body forward slightly and spoke to the man.

 

“Did you send an invitation?”

 

“I just delivered it to you, but there was a different sender…”

 

“Who is it?”

 

“Who do you think it is?”

 

“Playing with words…”

 

“It’s not intended. I’m just asking.”

 

Theses’ expression was serious. Are you seriously asking this? He narrowed his eyes and glared at him, chewing up each word and spitting it out.

 

“Tell me right now, who called me here?”

 

Theses looked at me blankly and then turned his head. As I turned my head to follow his gaze, people slowly flickered in the darkness. Inyoung is smaller and thinner than Theses. Anxiety rippled through my mind once again, which I thought was not the case. Eventually, the moment its identity was revealed to the surface, what appeared in the moonlight was the person who destroyed me, and who still behaves in the same way… the only person in the world who resembles me…

 

“Ercia…”

 

She just looked at me with an expression on her face that seemed unimpressed. Yesterday evening, it would not be unusual for my younger brother, who had disappeared saying he was going for a walk, to show up here. At the same time, it was probably not just a coincidence that I was invited here, so let’s bring out and unfold the facts that we wanted to ignore. Only then could I realize everything. My younger sister, Ercia, holds the secret hidden in Ajstain Territory.

 

“…From the shoulder.”

 

Ercia glanced at me with calm eyes and then looked at Benson standing next to her. Benson also looked at her blankly, as if he had lost his mind, and then walked closer to her. Then Ercia slowly shook her head.

 

“I didn’t know you would come here. Too bad.”

 

“Lady Ercia.”

 

“Go back. You are not here.”

 

The voice that drew the line between cold and cold seemed to pierce Benson. He shook his head in denial.

 

“I can’t do that.”

 

“Why?”

 

“I am Lady Ercia’s escort. So, I must make sure to keep Lady Ercia safe…”

 

“Escort?”

 

Ercia’s expressionless expression contained a faint sneer. She raised her hand, rested her cheek on her palm, and tilted her head. It was a face that seemed bored at first glance and did not seem to contain any emotion.

 

“Not surveillance?”

 

“That…”

 

“Aren’t you under orders to watch me and report things about me to my sister? Do you want to say that you stood in front of my door every day, watching and protecting me, rather than oppressing me?”

 

“Miss.”

 

“It’s disgusting.”

 

Ercia let out her laughter. 

 

“It’s not funny that you sympathize and comfort me over such a topic. You pretended to reach out to me even though his actions were actually done for the sake of your stability and for his younger brother. Benson, how you must have laughed at me. Looking at the pathetic me who couldn’t even come out of the dark room.”

 

“No. I, I don’t think so…”

 

“Then I’ll ask.”

 

Ercia’s voice cut off Benson’s words and fiercely pushed him away.

 

“If I died somewhere and it wouldn’t harm you in any way, would you cry to find me? If I died so you and your brother could feel more happiness and abundance, would you come here to get me? Huh?”

 

Ercia drew her line with a cold smile. Benson and I could not help but be entranced by the sight of her younger brother for the first time.

 

“You’re welcome. In the end, it’s just a matter of interest. So don’t show me any petty sympathy.”

 

“…”

 

“Go back. This is no place for someone like you.”

 

Benson’s shoulders trembled. Am I angry? Or am I just resentful? Benson’s back, who was looking at her without saying anything, seemed to give a glimpse of his inner thoughts. There was a moment of silence where I could even hear her breathing, and her sister’s gaze fell on me.

 

“Is this the first time you’ve seen each other since we talked that day, sis?”

 

“You seem so busy these past few days that I haven’t even been able to see your face. Anyway, there’s something really interesting, right?”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

Her sister was laughing, a faint smile on her lips.

 

“Why didn’t you come to me?”

 

“What does it mean?”

 

“When you asked if I had stolen the seal, you came right away and asked without any hesitation, but this time you didn’t even suspect me. That was amazing. If I were my older sister, I would be the first to suspect me, but you didn’t listen, were arrogant, and didn’t like me. My twin sister.”

 

“Why me…”

 

“Why? Did you say why now?”

 

She giggled like a rascal, covered her mouth with her palm, laughed and shook her head.

 

“Sister, you’re really good at telling jokes these days. Oh, why? It’s fun, really, but.”

 

Ercia, who quickly erased her smiling expression and turned into a stern face at some point, let out her cold words.

 

“Is that joke too offensive?”

 

“It’s no joke. I do really care about you…”

 

“Then why did you suspect me?”

 

Biting her lip. When she asked why, there was only one answer.

 

“I couldn’t help but doubt you at that time.”

 

“Is it because you don’t like your younger sister?”

 

“No.”

 

Seeing her younger sister standing in a high posture, I also took a step forward. She didn’t need to back down. Because I didn’t do anything wrong.

 

“You were willing enough to do that.”

 

“…”

 

“Isn’t it? You wanted it. You wanted me to fall, for my family to fall.”

 

I took a step forward again. After gesturing to Ian, who was trying to stop me, that it was okay, I slowly got closer to her sister. I stopped a few steps in front of Ercia, who was standing like a statue looking at me, and stroked her hair.

 

“No?”

 

There was no answer to my question. His straight, closed mouth was just staring at me. It was unclear whether Ercia had the bomb or if someone else was holding it. But that didn’t mean I wanted to go out in a low-key manner. It was a family problem. I did not want to avoid personal and important issues that others could not get involved with. The lips, which had been tightly closed and showed no sign of opening, opened. But what seeped out between them was ridicule. The moment I frowned at that, my younger brother spoke.

 

“You’re so amazing. How do you know so much? I hate you, I hate you, I want our family to disappear, and I want you to fall. I thought I did a pretty good job. I didn’t even get to know your plan. I thought I was very good and never showed my emotions, but since when did you know?”

 

“Does it matter?”

 

“No! It’s not important. Still, it’s interesting. How did you know such things? At some point, you started showing hostility towards me, as if you had changed as a person.”

 

My sister twitched the corner of her mouth diagonally and gave an obvious sneer. Her muffled voice escaped her mouth.

 

“I don’t even know the topic.”

 

“Topic?”

 

Frowning her eyebrows, Ercia took a step back and then held out her hand to Theses. He leisurely walked over and handed her her small box. A box of just the right size to fit a bomb.

 

“…that.”

 

“My sister has been looking for everything for the past three days. I had it. Coincidentally, I had it.”

 

“…”

 

“If my sister had suspected me like she did then and investigated me first, she would have been found out, but she was quiet this time? She turned the entire castle upside down and even investigated my grandfather’s area, but she didn’t touch my room as if she was treating it as out of the question. What’s the reason? Do you feel guilty? That day, did she feel guilty about having misunderstood that she had hit the dojo?”

 

Because of guilt. There was no answer to Ercia’s question. Why did she treat Ercia as an off topic and not bother to investigate? guilty? Could that be the answer? Even if you asked me a question, the answer I received was that it was not a proper answer. Then what is it? The first person to suspect would have been Ersia, who was on the same side as Beralt.

 

“…no.”

 

“Then what?”

 

It’s not about guilt or anything like that. It’s probably just my stupid belief.

 

“Because I think you are a human being who knows the minimum amount of trust and the minimum amount of duty. I told you a while ago that I don’t care what you think or what life you pursue. Please don’t try to destroy the fence around you yourself.”

 

“Do you think that fence would mean anything to me??

 

“Yes. At least, excluding you and me, if we think about the countless people who depend on our family and clan, and the people who work with us, we need a pole.”

 

Ercia quietly looked at me. Just as she was about to open her mouth to say one more word without an answer, Ercia opened the box to her life. The moment she flinched her hand, Ercia took out a red, softly glowing bomb and threw her box on the floor. The bomb wasn’t that big so she could hold it in her hand. I heard that she was small, but I didn’t expect it to be that size… She chewed her lip.

 

“Is that for peace?”

 

“If the people entrusted to our family can be safe and happy, I don’t mind calling it peace…”

 

“Then what did you do to achieve peace?”

 

She took her eyes off the bomb and looked back at Ercia. Her face looked emotionless. A face that resembles mine It was the first time I felt so dry.

 

“What did you try?”

 

I laughed at Ersia’s expression, which was as dry as cracked earth with the sound of wind escaping.

 

“As I said, I wish you well. I don’t remember anything from before.”

 

“…what?”

 

“You want peace, but you don’t actually make any sacrifices. It’s disgusting to talk about the peace that was created through someone else’s sacrifice as if it was yours… I lose.”

 

“Are you serious?”

 

“Yes. You must think that you are making a huge sacrifice. To protect the family, you are sacrificing both your youth and beauty for the business and the family. Even when you were young, you are a delicate and pitiful woman who gave up everything to educate a successor.  Isn’t that my sister?” 

 

Her eyes narrowed. What did she want to say? Ercia, her gaze, which was looking at me, fell on Ian behind me.

 

“You think that too, right? You see the example of your bold and cool sister and you think she’s a cool person. Even if you don’t answer, you know that. Most people know that. But is that your true self?”

 

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