Chapter 51
“I’m sorry, but this time I won’t take the Prince’s side.”
“Agasa! You’re not going to punish her when I’ve been hit on a vital spot? What if she really got it right!”
“If you’re going to make fun of her like that, just do it from the beginning. Why are you making fun of her after teaching her well?”
“What?!”
Bang!
While eating, Kai stood up as if breaking the table.
Agasa, dissatisfied with his reaction, let out a sound, tch.
Bian, who was sitting next to him, smirked as if he was going to die of the enjoyment
“I know, right. If you’re going to make fun of her, do that from the beginning. Our little sister is angry because of you.”
“Gosh. You told me to do this!”
After the sparring, Kai was taken to the treatment room.
Thanks to my misguided kick, he was fortunately not in big trouble.
But.
‘Who should be angry now? Even though it was you who touched me first.’
Seeing Kai huffing at the sacred mealtime made my appetite drop.
Neither did I want to be angry with him.
In fact, I wasn’t upset.
‘For Vallois’ sake. How careful I was to make sure my bloodline wasn’t executed.’
Dad, too.
As well as the regular meeting.
The birdhead could’ve been hurt too because of my actions to change the original story, perhaps.
‘And in fact, my blood relatives play strange pranks.’
My hand holding the fork turned white, then I let go.
Exactly, I was more empty than angry.
The wounds I received from Sian were fine.
I couldn’t help it, and it was fate that I had no choice but to get separated from him.
But the blood connection was forever.
We were blood relatives until the moment we died, so I was concerned when my older brothers who had no ties with me in my previous life were executed.
‘I should have never met you like in my previous life.’
In my previous life, my older brothers and I had never met.
Unlike me, who was stuck in the annex due to Dad’s neglect.
The older brothers were people who depended on each other and served as one Vallois.
I heard that they became famous knights of the Rolls continent.
And whenever they roamed the continent, it was rumored that they were always proud to be Vallois.
“Proud, my ass.’
“Anyway, she must apologize to me. It’s common sense…”
“Agasa.”
It was then.
All eyes turned to me when my clear voice was mentioned in the grumbling dining room.
Among them, of course, Kai and Bian were included.
“Yes, Little Miss.”
“By the way, where did Dad go?”
I changed my mind.
‘I can’t waste time like this.’
Agasa furrowed his eyebrows as he looked at Kai, as if it was more uncomfortable for me to be more rational than he thought.
“…He went to a banquet.”
“Originally, he will just tell me right away.”
“I will send him a letter.”
“Alright. Ask him to come as soon as possible.”
Munch, munch.
I stuffed the remaining grilled salmon into my mouth and stood up.
‘I don’t expect anything anymore.’
When the twins burst into laughter.
I don’t know why, but it reminded me of Sian, whose eyes had turned golden.
When I thought about it, that feeling was betrayal.
“Where are you going?”
As I was about to leave after gulping down the milk, Agasa became anxious.
“Training.”
I left the dining room without looking back.
I could feel the eyes of the twins sitting in the chairs.
***
After Billishia left, the atmosphere froze for a moment.
The Princess seemed more angry than they thought.
They were just trying to make fun of her, though.
As if she had been betrayed, her youthful face with enthusiasm was pale.
“Is she angry?”
Bian asked, showing no signs of surprise.
It was the same with Kai.
After exchanging glances for a moment, they burst into forced laughter to lighten the mood.
“Looking at her angry, it wasn’t dust, it was a sea urchin.”
“It’s a baby sea urchin.”
“I know. A baby sea urchin.”
And then.
“But really, why are you teasing her?”
As Billishia exited, Agasa, who showed his discomfort in earnest, crossed his arms.
Unlike Billishia, who came to the castle at the age of 5, he knew the twins born here from an early age.
Their mom has been missing since they were 5 years old, and their dad has been away from home.
They had a nanny, yet the twins didn’t follow her.
Thanks to this, it was Agasa who was fully responsible for them until they entered the Academy.
‘Did they go to the Academy and go through puberty?’
He thought so.
The twins had never been this ferocious.
Rather, they depended on each other after their parents were absent and were more mature than their average peers.
In particular, Kai’s personality itself was on the side of revealing something without filtering, but both of them had no bad taste to bother others.
“Why. What. Can’t I make fun of her?”
At his words, Kai folded his legs badly and leaned back on the chair.
The blue eyes that gazed confidently at Agasa had a spirit of rebellion.
‘Are they really in puberty?’
He thought deeply as he looked at the crooked Kai.
And he said firmly.
“Yes. You can’t.”
“What do you care about what we do, though.”
“Because that target is Princess Billishia. Princess is a precious Vallois to me. The same goes for the Princes.”
Bian’s mouth sneered at the word ‘Vallois’.
He was relatively calmer than Kai, but behind his smiling expression, no one could tell what he was thinking.
“Miss Billishia was serious. The Princes knew that and joked about it. That’s not befitting the Vallois style.”
5-year-old Billishia, who doesn’t behave like her peers.
10-year-old adolescent twins.
And 32-year-old Cassis, who still has a lot to learn.
Seeing Vallois facing a total crisis, he let out a long sigh.
“Tell me honestly. The Princes I know are honest, but at least you didn’t bully others.”
Agasa folded his knees to make eye contact with the twins.
“Gosh.”
Then, Kai pulled his head back and crumpled his face in displeasure.
“Agasa, it’s burdensome.”
It was the same with Bian, who was next to him.
“Tell me honestly. Are you really making fun of her because it’s fun?”
At Agasa’s questioning, the twins briefly exchanged glances with each other.
Time passed.
“…Ugh, gosh. I don’t know. You’re annoying.”
It was Kai, who was the leader of the action, who grumbled first.
“That’s right. I also don’t care.”
Bian also agreed.
The two of them had a habit of making eye contact when they confided something to each other.
5 years old.
When their mom went missing and their dad ran away, the two only had each other to rely on.
Even at the age of 10, the remnants still carry over.
“Why. Do you not like something?”
“Hasn’t she been in this castle for less than a year?”
“Yeah, less than a year.”
“She said she would train for our family without knowing anything about Vallois. She’s doing some weird tricks. Playing a joke.”
“Were you watching?”
“…Huh?”
Was it an unexpected question?
Kai asked with a puzzled face.
“What is.”
“I thought you two were living in the annex after returning to the castle.”
“Kai watched. I wasn’t even interestedㅡ”
At those words, Bian whirled around with a fork and grinned, and Kai, whose face turned red, screamed.
“It’s natural to be curious! None other than a bloodline came to the castle!”
“I wasn’t curious about it, thoughㅡ”
“Don’t lie to me! Honestly, you kept asking me when I secretly watched!”
“It’s notㅡ”
“…Kai, you greeted her? You said you didn’t like her, but didn’t you two play together? You’ll want me to come with you if you feel uncomfortable? Doesn’t she hate broccoli too?”
Kai, who jumped up in his seat, was sarcastically copying Bian.
Bian, who had been smiling, suddenly stopped.
Glareㅡ
Glareㅡ
In the end, when the eyes of the twins, who had different opinions, sparked a fireㅡ
“Weren’t you talking to me?”
Agasa, exhausted, brought the subject back to the conversation.
It was like this when he talked to the twins.
“…To be honest.”
Bian sighed and returned to normal.
“I hated her because she resembled Dad.”
It was Kai who followed those words.
“…Pardon?”
Agasa’s eyes widened at the honest feelings that finally came out.
The twins were the only ones who stayed quiet after they joked about it.
“I don’t even want to see Dad.”
“Since Mom ran away because of Dad, we have no choice but to hate him. You understand, Agasa?”
“Then why Miss Billishia…”
“They look alike.”
“Gosh. Do I have to tell you all this? Nothing has happened before Mom ran away because of Dad.”
“I heard I’m getting a little sister, but where are there older brothers who won’t like it? Honestly, the reason I came to the castle so quickly from the Academy was because of her. I was curious.”
The faces of the twins, who had become serious once, darkened.
They put their forks down as if they had lost their appetite.
“But when I looked at her, she looked just like Dad.”
“At the same time, she’s playing around with a sword without thinking. I hate to see her.”
“Everyone can see that she is Dad’s daughter.”
“…Although we are Mom’s sons.”
After the bitter afterword, the conversation was paused for a while.
As Agasa looked down at the twins, she didn’t know what to say.
Surprisingly, the twins seemed to have accumulated a lot.
It was a natural result because of Cassis’ actions, but it was more shocking because they had never shown that emotion during this time.
Agasa, unable to speak for a moment, closed his mouth.
This he couldn’t meddle with.
It wasn’t a matter he dared to meddle with.
“I’ll talk about His Grace later. Because His Grace is out now.”
“I suppose so.”
Bian laughed and sneered.
Agasa tried to ignore Bian and continued.
“At that time, when the signal was received to come near Vallois Castle, the Princess was kidnapped.”
“…What?”
It was then that the quiet situation changed.
“Agasa. You said we just got a signal to come back then…”
“Because it was urgent. Long story short, we really almost missed the Princess, I was distracted.”
Surprised, the twins met each other’s gaze.
“It must have been sad to be kidnapped, but the problem was that the person who kidnapped her was a friend who was close to the Princess. Of course, she’s fine now.”
“!”
“The reason why she started training in swordsmanship was because she thought that as a Vallois, you don’t lose face, and that Vallois aren’t this weak. The strange performance was because I was against swordsmanship training.”
Looking at the twins’ reactions, Agasa realized that there was a solid misunderstanding.
Also, his prediction was correct.
They weren’t like that without a reason.
