“Translated by RJR”
My mouth dropped open at the luxurious dining table I had only seen on TV, or perhaps for the first time in my life.
‘Could this be heaven?’
There were only four people sitting at the table, including three handsome blonde men and me, but this long table filled with food looked like it could easily seat at least fourteen people. Moreover, the greasy and luxurious food that filled the table was not enough for four people to eat all of it. As we sat down in the chairs the butler brought out, Chase, who was sitting at the head of the table, spoke softly to us.
“It’s been a while since we had a meal together.”
Chase looked genuinely happy, but Evan and Louise still secretly frowned with dissatisfied faces. Then Louise and my eyes met.
“…!!”
Louise avoided my eyes, as if he were a child who had been caught stealing.
‘He’s surprisingly kind.’
Louise, who showed hostility toward me but was embarrassed when he got caught, didn’t seem like a bad person. Evan, on the other hand, was giving off a cold vibe that said he didn’t care about me.
“Let’s eat.”
As soon as Chase’s words left his mouth, only the sound of dishes moving around echoed across the wide dining table.
Rattling. Rattling.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a meal with my family, but at least it was quite different from the meal times I know. In my memories, family meals have always been places where conversation never ends…
“…”
“…”
I have received such refined dining etiquette training that I cannot even hear the sound of chewing my food. At first, I thought I felt sorry for the butlers and maids who couldn’t eat this food right in front of them, but now I thought they might be lucky.
‘I’m going to get sick from eating!’
But as soon as I put a piece of turkey in my mouth, I completely forgot about that worry.
“Omg.”
It’s crazy. Was it so delicious? Did it taste like this in this world? Not realizing that everyone’s attention was focused on the strange exclamation I made, I just stared at the turkey with lasers coming out of my eyes. When I was sick, I could barely remember eating comfortably, let alone something delicious. This healthy body had a rich taste as if each taste cell on the tongue was alive and breathing. I forgot my decency and just stuffed the food in front of me into my mouth.
‘Delicious! This is delicious too!’
It was a collection of all kinds of sweet and salty menu items, including turkey, duck, steak, all kinds of meat, baguettes, and sausage stew. I quickly devoured all the food in front of me. Then I looked at the food lying in the empty space.
“More… Are you going to eat it?”
“Ish tat kid? (Is that okay?)”
I answered Chase’s words by chewing my food. Chase glanced at the butler with a smile on his face. The butler also looked at me with chubby cheeks as if I was cute and placed meat-centered food in front of me from a distance.
“Zan ou, dabba! (Thanks, Dad!)”
I was so happy on the inside that I munched on my food and laughed heartily at my dad. While I was eating with a fork, I threw down a turkey leg and tore it open with my hands. At that moment, Evan and Louise’s brows furrowed at the same time.
“How can you be so ravenous…”
“I guess it’s because she was brought in from outside. After all, she can’t hide herr origins.”
At Evan’s words, the air around him instantly froze.
“Evan!”
Chase called his name loudly.
Gulp.
Startled by his shouting, I swallowed the food in my mouth in one go. Then…
“Hipp!”
I started hiccuping.
“Oh my gosh!”
“Hipp! Hipp!”
The maid was startled by my hiccups and quickly ordered some water for me. I covered my nose with one hand and gulped down the water the maid gave me with the other. When hiccups occur, plugging my nose and drinking water works well. That’s because it looks a bit funny. As I raised my chin high and drank quickly, a trickle of water flowed around my mouth.
“Tsk!”
At the sound I heard from the other side, I rolled my eyes and looked at Louise. He looked at me with a puzzled look on his face for a while, then twitched the area around his nose and mouth.
“The face… Puhup.”
“…”
“Where did you learn something like that… Phew, puhahaha!”
The maid and butler’s shoulders could be felt shaking at the sound of Louise’s laughter… It wouldn’t be that funny, would it? This is a very popular folk remedy!
“Roella. Are you okay?”
Chase asked me worriedly. I looked back with a flattering smile at the only person I was sure was on my side.
“Yes, Dad!”
“…!!”
He once again made a strange expression, as if he had not yet adapted to being called ‘dad’. As I was thinking about the contents of the web novel while taking a bath, I now know why he makes that expression. The main character, Loella, was adopted at the age of five, and she never opened her heart to Chase. She never even called him father. One day, she suddenly caught the eye of Chase and was adopted, but it seemed like things were like what she had seen in the web novel because she thought that since this was a great knight’s family, she would be kicked out of the house someday if she couldn’t manifest her aura.
‘Even so…’
It’s not that I can’t completely understand Roella’s resentful feelings, but she also enjoyed some luxuries. The reason she was okay with being rude to her attendants and being an outcast in her social circles was because of her father, Chase Clemend, who was an honorary knight.
“What, Dad?”
When I smiled brightly and asked one more time, Chase gave me a warm smile. Chase’s smile made me feel better too. While I was sick for a long time, I spent more time with my parents than other children. Then, I realized one thing. My parents are like heaven to me, but even parents make mistakes at least once because everything is their first time. I almost died when I was eight years old. It was a day when I, who had been suffering from illness since the age of four, was undergoing repeated expensive surgeries, barely surviving. Late at night, I suddenly felt strangled. As I struggled to breathe and writhed, barely able to open my eyes, my mother’s distorted face, covered in tears, came into view. At that moment, her father opened her door and stopped her mother.
-Are you crazy?!
-Ugh, we can’t live like this forever! From being a designated driver to doing hard work on weekends…! Look at your face! How long can we afford the hospital bills?
At first, I hated my mom so much. She couldn’t sleep all night for fear that she would be strangled again. But the next morning, when I saw her mother asleep, holding my hand tightly, her face exhausted from crying, I automatically understood my mother. Just as I can’t choose my parents, my parents didn’t choose the day they got sick. So, there are times when you feel like giving up everything. Parents were in a position that required sacrifice as much as the happiness they gained from their children. At least the parents I saw were like that. Was that why?
“Is it okay?”
I felt that Chase’s efforts for Roella, who was not even his daughter, were even more remarkable. Because Chase ‘chose’ to take responsibility for Roella.
“I’m fine. Don’t worry, Dad!”
I wanted to support that choice. Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t. Before I regained my health, I lost my parents, who had suffered through hardships. Becoming a healthy and good daughter was something I wanted to do my whole life, but was unable to do in this life.
‘It would have been better if it had been my parents… Chase is my dad now!’
“Look. The hiccups stopped!”
“That’s not it.”
Chase glanced at Evan with her cool eyes, as if his anger had not subsided yet. Evan looked at me with resentment as Chase whipped him.
‘It wasn’t a very pleasant thing to say, but…’
Evan and Louise were also somewhat pitiful. I’ve never felt that way since I grew up as an only child, but having their father’s love taken away by a child brought in from outside, that hatred was likely to be directed at Roella.
“It’s fine.”
I smiled generously at Evan. Then Evan twitched his eyebrows. He didn’t look very pleased with my favor.
‘Yes, yes. This big-hearted sister will understand everything.’
When I had such a generous heart, a question suddenly occurred to me.
[Evan Clemend: Likeability 0%]
[Louise Clemend: Likeability 0%]
Even though she was adopted, they were still siblings, right? Why do you need likability?
‘Omg! No way!’
I looked at Evan and Louise alternately with wide-eyed expressions. This book… Wasn’t it a child care novel?!
* * *
“No. 1, eat whatever you want, No. 2, run out of breath, No. 3…”
After eating until my stomach was full, I started writing my bucket list as soon as I returned to my room. What was truly amazing was that, perhaps because it was in a book, the language of this world was naturally written. Even though my mind couldn’t remember it, my body seemed to remember it. I was thinking about writing down my bucket list in Korean, but I decided against it. It was quite fun to see the language of this world being written and read the way I thought.
“Of course I have to learn swordsmanship too, right? Learn swordsmanship 3 times, try parkour 4 times… ah! I can do martial arts with this body!”
After I was full, the situation I was in didn’t seem so bad. In any case, it was a life in which he lived a miserable life with no money and was barely able to survive. It was an opportunity that opened up a new world to me.
“I said one year.”
The given time is one year. I was going to do everything I wanted to do with this healthy body for a year. Even the most ridiculous clauses were meticulously written down. Now that I’ve entered this ridiculous world, there are so many things I can do with this body!
“Hehehehe~”
A hum came out naturally. Of course, in order to live a healthy life for the rest of my life, I also planned to do my best to find a ‘real male lead’. If you want to live here for the rest of your life, you must achieve that goal.
‘You can’t do anything!’
“I do yoga and ride a bike, that’s right. There is no allergy on this body! Number 13: Raising animals…”
While I was writing my bucket list, I was laughing like an idiot. I couldn’t be that free after all the restrictions disappeared from my body, which had many restrictions. Besides, isn’t this a world with magic?
“Fly 100 times… Is it a bit too much for me? Hey, I don’t know! Done!”
Let’s do everything I want for a couple of hours. Even though I hadn’t done a single thing properly yet, I felt like I had already accomplished everything. Finally, I turned to the next page with my thoroughly written bucket list. What I had to think about this time was about the mission.
‘Finding the real male lead…’
There were two candidates. Both of them have the looks to be worthy of being male leads, but the catch is that they are family. First of all, you have to raise your likeability to 80% to be sure whether you are the male lead or not. Should we try raising your likeability first?
‘This is not the time to be like this.’
I suddenly saw that the day outside the window was getting dark and I jumped up. There was too little information to make inferences on my own. The system did not come up after that, and it would not be easy to win the favor of those who were so cold to me. I could try my best with Louise, but Evan… I don’t think it will ever happen.
I shivered as I remembered Evan’s cold face, but then she shook my head.
‘No, I can!’
For now, let’s focus on raising all favorability ratings to 80%!
“Miss, where are you going?”
When I got up and was about to leave the room, Sophia who was in front of me asked. I confidently asked Sophia.
“Where is Louise’s brother’s room?”
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