Chapter 8

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“Casadine?”

As soon as her father saw Casadine, he snatched the herb from his hand and brought it up to his nose.

“… yes, It is. The herb I was talking about is correct.”

My father was surprised while talking. It was a face that he didn’t know that Casadine would really bring the medicinal herbs. My father looked at the herb and Casadine for a while and then opened his mouth.

“The first test is passed.”

The first?

When I looked at my father with an unpleasant face, he shrugged and said firmly.

“Then, let’s take the next test right away.”

“Wait a minute, father.”

What the hell had happened, Casadine’s white uniform was stained with dirt. Red blood stains were also visible on his dirty clothes. I got closer to Casadine.

“Are there any injuries on your body?”

Casadine answered me.

“I’m fine. The blood of the beasts in the cave just splattered.”

“It’s not that…. Are you really okay?”

“Are you worried about me?”

Casadine’s eyes curled beautifully. It was difficult to understand his gaze that looked at me with a smile was simply the gaze of a younger brother. As if trying to seduce his favorite person.

[I seem to like you, sister.]

[I felt it since I first saw you at the stadium. I couldn’t take my eyes off you because I felt like in a different world, completely far from the stadium. Besides, she said that she would take me as a family.]

I remembered what he said when he came to my room at midnight. It was funny. His words and actions, like trying to seduce me to survive.

“Of course, because I’m your sister.”

If so, shouldn’t I have to respond to it? If you wish, I’ll play a foolish sister.

“Father, I don’t think he has to take the next test.”

I said and bowed my head to my father. The wrinkles on my father’s forehead increased even further.

“It doesn’t matter what test my father gives, Casadine will pass. Didn’t father already see with your own eyes that he just got the herbs? Casadine has proven his worth.”

“…”

“So please allow me to register him as my younger brother. He will most likely be the pride of our family.”

I could feel the gaze of Casadine looking at me from the side. I smiled at Casadine and added to my father.

“If you don’t allow it because of his status as a slave, just get me out of the family.”

“What!?”

Her father’s angry voice was heard. It was the first voice I heard even after seeing my father. This one sounded crazy even if I thought about it. Casadine was also surprised by my words, looking at me silently with his pupils widened.

“I am the one who brought Casadine, father. If you’re not going to put him in the family, let me excommunicate from the family.”

But I have to make some crazy decisions. Even in order to destroy Damian, it was necessary to build an emotional bond with Casadine. I couldn’t keep taking my time because of registration issues.

“Aren!”

My father, whose complexion became pale, called my name. When I saw the face of my father’s, my heart seemed shaking. But that said, ‘In fact, in my previous life, Casadine was the knight commander.’

It doesn’t matter if my actions seem childish. If I could protect my father and my family, I can do much more than this.

“This father seems his heart is broken. How did you fall for a slave like that? People aren’t seen from their faces alone.”

“Father.”

I called my father quietly. My only family. A father that I couldn’t protect in my previous life.

“My father enjoys drinking herbal tea. But the farm that the slaves worked on is where the herbs that my father often drinks are mainly grown.”

“….”

“Did you know that most of the slaves on the farm were originally nobles? At one time, they were nobles from other countries, but trampled by the Empire overnight. They weren’t just stripped of their titles and their property was confiscated, they are now slaves.”

My only pleasure in my engagement life with Damian, the wonderful life in my previous life, was reading. I couldn’t even enter the place that was forbidden by Damian, but I read all the books in the accessible place. So I was memorizing all the contents of the book I read at that time. I didn’t know I would use what I read before then.

“Pretend is so useless. Like a midsummer night’s dream, like a frost in the middle of winter. It is the title to disappear even after that.”

I stopped talking and looked sideways at Casadine. He might be a nobleman from another country and then became a slave. In the Empire, slaves didn’t have the opportunity to learn how to write and read, but they were different if they were slaves who were previously a noble.

Casadine put his eyelids down at my words.

“I didn’t see him because of his face, father. Casadine is the same person as us.”

“…”

“Please allow me to enlist Casadine as my younger brother.”

My Father had been silently closing his eyes for a while. I waited patiently for the words to come out of my father’s mouth. And before long, his lips, which had been tightly closed, opened.

“… I’m just like this because there are no parents in the world who can win over their children.”

“Father!”

“Okay, Aren. Let’s do what you want.”

My Father said everything in a resigned voice. My father’s shoulders were drooping and looked weak. I jumped into my father’s arms, trying to show my gratitude. Then my father’s expression became more gentle.

“Hahaha. Girl, are you happy?”

“Thank you, father. Thank you so much.”

“Don’t say anything about excommunication next time. You think too far, Aren.”

“I’m sorry, father.”

“Whose daughter can be crazy like this?”

“It’s my father.”

“Hahahaha!”

After having a pleasant conversation with my father, I turned to Casadine. He was watching me and my father silently. His face looked so lonely, so I motioned him to come closer.

“Come here.”

At my call, he hesitated and came close to me. I released my hand that held my father and said, holding his hands together.

“Please take care of us in the future, Casadine.”

There was a soft smile on Casadine’s mouth at my words.

“I would like to, sister. And… ”

Casadine glanced at my father next to me, then folded his eyes neatly and added.

“Father.”

One of my father’s eyebrows went up as if he didn’t like it, but he didn’t say anything. It was a very pretty eye smile to say.

“… okay.”

As he spit out that word, my father turned his head around. I felt like I had taken one step forward.

*****

The movement of putting a white uniform, soiled with dirt and blood stains into the laundry, was so elegant that it was hard to think he is a slave.

After throwing off his clothes, Casadine immersed himself in a large bathtub filled with warm water. There are various scars on his wide and muscular back. The warm water calmed him down

‘I don’t want to go back to the arena that I’ve lived in for years.’

Casadine thought of Aren, a woman who had long eyelashes down and called himself her younger brother.

“Sister….”

Casadine said the word sister. The word coming out of his mouth was so awkward. Laughing flowed into the room.

“It’s my sister.”

What is the reason for trying to enlist him as a younger brother even if it doesn’t make sense? Aren was a really strange woman.

Wasn’t she not going to open the door even when I visited her recklessly last night? Wouldn’t she not going to ask to excommunicate herself if her father wouldn’t enlist me? Besides…

[Still, I wish you weren’t too tied up in the past.]

[I don’t want you to hold the old wound alone anymore. There will only be good days in the future.]

All of Aren’s words to him were warm. It was Casadine, who had seen countless people in the gladiator, but Aren didn’t know what kind of person he was.

Casadine looked at his hand, which had stroked Aren’s hair last night. The wounded hand was white and smooth without any scars thanks to Aren’s treatment.

‘Strange woman.’

Casadine could see a person’s breath and notice whether she was sleeping or not. The night before he visited, Aren didn’t sleep. When he stroked her platinum-colored hair, Aren was clearly awake. However, Aren was awake and showed no reaction.

I was curious about how she was angry, so I acted impulsively, but she didn’t look angry at all.

It seemed like he became a grumpy child for nothing. Well, anything about Aren is good. I have only one purpose anyway. Just use it. Anything you can use. Casadine slowly opened his closed eyes.

*****

I was wrapping a gift for Casadine in my room. Today is the day he became a member of our family, so this is a memorial service.

‘Do you know? I prepared it because you needed a sword.’

A gift for Casadine was a sword. While Casadine went to get the medicinal herbs, I went to the blacksmith with Sasha to buy all the swords.

On the way home, a small, easy-to-carry sword stood out from an old store with a gold drop on the handle of the sword. As I stared at the sword, the store owner with a generous impression smiled and gave a lengthy explanation of the sword.

[Oh, miss, you have an excellent view. This sword is said to have been used by the perished Prince of the Kingdom of Hailan!]

Why is such a precious sword on a dusty stall?

I had doubts, but when I found out the shop owner was giving a ridiculously high price, I immediately understood why people didn’t buy the sword. However, I also bought the sword for one reason, I thought I would get along well with Casadine. I put the sword in a box a little bigger than my hand. The box was simple enough to be held in one hand.

‘The weapon that Damian used to kill me was definitely a sword.’

I grabbed my chest. Fortunately, my heart was beating properly. When Damian put a blade in my heart, the pain was considerable, so I got a habit of checking my heart. Damian should also feel the pain I felt. In this life, I will not cure his heart disease.

I erased my thoughts, holding a box with a sword in my hand and knocking on Casadine’s door.

“Casadine.”

There was no answer in the room. I knocked one more time.

“Casadine, I have something to give.”

Another silence. It was weird that there was no answer, so I opened the door. As soon as I opened the door, I tilted my head at the view I saw. The curtains on the window sill were fluttering in the wind, and the room was quiet.

“Casadine? Anyone?”

As I called his name carefully, the bathroom door, which had been closed, suddenly opened.

“Sister… ?”

Her gaze came into contact with Casadine, who unexpectedly opened the bathroom door.

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