He thought she might as well continue to harass them and make them lose what little respect he had left.
“Master, it’s not as easy as it sounds…….”
It’s not just one child, it’s two children.
Joshua says, very easily.
Eugenia paused for a moment, wondering how to convince him, then let out a long, frustrated breath.
It seemed to her that being honest would work better than making excuses.
She nodded vigorously.
“Yes. I won’t deny what you said, because I did search your room earlier to escape.”
“Then……!”
Eugenia’s conscience prickled as she met the hopeful golden eyes.
But Eugenia deliberately stiffened her expression, as if to say give up, and continued in a firm voice.
“But there was nothing in this mansion for me to take.”
“Eugenia…… you’re more of a scumbag than I thought, aren’t you?”
Joshua, who was about to burst out, wisely pursed his lips when he realized he was in a position where he had to look good to her.
Eugenia’s heart ached for him who already looked like an adult, but she steeled herself.
‘Don’t be weak.’
She said to herself.
Eugenia pursed her lips once, then released them and spoke in a cold voice.
” I grew up without parents, so I tend to have a strong desire to live. But it’s true that I have no money and can’t manage my own body. Then how could I take two young children with me?”
Eugenia turned her gaze, afraid that her heart would betray her as she spoke, and she let out her words with a bitter heart.
But when she glanced up and saw Joshua’s expression, she pursed her lips.
Her energy was drained.
‘Did I speak too strongly? No matter how much I try to be gentle… ‘
Wouldn’t it have been better to speak gently, soothingly?
She was sorry, and her conscience was pierced, wondering if she had spoken too harshly to such a young child.
But she couldn’t help but add a final word, so Eugenia opened her heavy lips in a low voice.
“……It’s impossible.”
It was barely a whisper.
No, She wished he wouldn’t hear her and not hurt her.
Feelings of confusion sprouted in her heart.
Eugenia looked at Joshua with held breath.
But the boy’s head was bowed so deeply it was hard to see his face.
“I’m sorry, Joshua.”
She pursed her lips in an apology but he couldn’t respond.
After a moment of silence, Joshua spoke in a calm voice.
“I understand what Eugenia is trying to tell me.”
“……I’m sorry, Master.”
Eugenia bowed her head gravely toward Joshua.
She felt really uncomfortable like she was sitting on a thorny seat.
She wanted to say, “Yes, yes, yes, let’s go!” but she pinched my hip and held back.
One hour to go.
“After midnight, she’ll be here to take the twins.”
She was supposed to be Joshua and Selmia’s guardian, not her.
“I don’t want to die!”
The person Eugenia was waiting for was Eileen, the twins’ tutor.
Eileen was the youngest daughter of a wealthy but fallen baronet, and as a result, she was never allowed to make her debut in society, let alone enter the marriage circle.
She was forced to enter the working world as an adult, but the only job she could get was as a tutor.
So Eileen got along well with the twins, building a bond with them.
But half a year ago, just as the Marquis of Kereiton’s behavior was starting to get out of hand, she was fired.
“Thank you for all you’ve done for our children, Ms. Eileen, and we have a generous retirement package. I hope you don’t feel too bad about it because I didn’t want you to suffer.”
Eileen, who was now a marquise, couldn’t find a job as a tutor in the city, so she ended up working as a horse companion and caregiver for an elderly woman in a faraway province.
She stays there until the old woman dies, and when she returns to the capital, she learns of the Marquess of Kereiton’s death and was overwhelmed with concern.
Eileen goes to the Marquis’ destroyed house at night to check on the twins, Joshua and Selmia, who are hiding from everyone.
“Joshua, Selmia, come with me, and I will be your guardian from now on.”
With nowhere else to turn, the twins nod and take Eileen’s hand.
That’s the day Eileen takes the twins away.
“Today is the day.”
Eugenia gasped as she remembered the scene in the book.
“I must make sure Eileen takes Joshua and Selmia with her.”
Only then can the foundation for the original work be established. Only then do things go as She knows them, and the chances of survival will also increase, She knows what She was doing.
‘I thought possession was something that only happened in novels……. I never gave it the slightest thought of what was about to happen to me!’
Eugenia’s original name was Kang-Hari. Like most reincarnation stories, she also went through the typical process of reincarnation in this world after a freak accident that took her life in modern-day Seoul.
This was the world of the 19th-century romance fantasy novel The Unforgivable Sin.
The male protagonist was Joshua Ron Kereiton, a young boy in front of Eugenia.
He was born to be the heir to the famous Marquess of Kereiton, but for some reason, the family’s fortunes quickly fell apart.
So Joshua, along with his twin sister Selmia, goes on the run, and when he grows up, he seeks revenge by finding the person responsible for ruining his life.
‘The problem was that it was a dead novel.’
It seems like the writer was overwhelmed by the increasing scale because that’s where he stopped the series and disappeared indefinitely with only an apology.
Anyway. In the novel, Joshua had a twin sister for a different reason.
There was a separate reason why Joshua needed a twin sister in the novel.
Because Selma was born a “prophet,” and Joshua was born an “executive” who made the prophecy she had made come true.
Selmia’s powers blossomed when she turned 16.
Since then, Joshua has literally tried everything. It’s because those in power who noticed her ability tried to kidnap Selma.
Joshua fights them and sometimes risks his life to find his sister.
In the original story, her childhood was shown only in flashbacks, so she don’t know if certain conditions were necessary for Selmia’s powers to blossom later on.
“I don’t really want to know.”
Eugenia has only one goal and one concern.
To get away from the twins and get away from the original!
“Call me crude, but I can’t help it!”
In the original, all the people who were good to the twins died early. So it’s not easy to grant them favors out of pity. It would mean their own deaths.
‘I’ll have to live and see! As expected, I should have run away earlier…’
She repeated her regrets over and over again.
In fact, she had several chances to run away. If only she had given up her love of money sooner.
She’d heard a month ago that the Marquess of Kereiton’s succession to the title had been put on hold after his disappearance.
However, the reason She couldn’t cut ties then was because She hadn’t received half a year’s worth of salary.
“It was because there was no way to make a living.”
In fact, in this world, maids need a letter of recommendation from their master to change jobs.
But with the Marquis and Marquise dead, that’s hard to come by.
No noble family would take in a maid from a family that had fallen on bad luck.
Besides, her original owner was not the type to think much about the future and hadn’t saved a single cent of her wages.
“Is that all?
Thanks to the body’s owner’s memories, Eugenia learned things she didn’t want to know.
Originally, Eugenia was not only greedy but also had bad hand habits.
She spent money without thinking, so she was always in need, and her appetite for money increased.
However, being naturally small like a bean, she couldn’t bring herself to steal from the Marquis’s belongings. Instead, she started stealing from the twins’ belongings.
Even if they were child’s things, Selmia’s ribbons were made of the finest silk, and the gems on her pins were real.
There were so many of them that she couldn’t even tell if she had touched a few.
But her misdeeds were caught by Joshua.
“How dare you touch my sister’s things?
Joshua stormed off, saying he would tell his parents immediately and have Eugenia cut down.
For such a boy, the original Eugenia fell to her knees and slapped her palms together.
After she promised not to do it again, she was able to calm down the situation.
The twins, who had been the Marquis’s secret children, suddenly became his closest friends.
Their parents’ absence was the reason for this.
After the tutor, Eileen was fired from the mansion, the Marquis and his wife disappeared.
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