Chapter 10

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I grabbed Sasha’s shoulder and urged her to answer.

“What are you talking about? Please tell me clearly.”

“… I had a hard time meeting with the slave trader who was the first to found Casadine a few years ago.”

“Did you meet him?”

“Yes. The first time he found him, he said he was lying on the street alone in expensive clothes. So, they thought that he was a son of a prestigious family.”

“Is that true?”

“Yes. He remembered how impressive his first impressions was and where they had met him. I didn’t think it was a lie.”

At Sasha’s words, Casadine’s actions that I had seen so far passed through my mind.

He knew how to read, and he had a dignity that slaves usually didn’t have.

He said that he had to learn it in order to increase the value of the product, but in fact, it didn’t mean that he could master it just by studying it. Unless you were born as a noble from the beginning.

I closed my eyes. If he wasn’t a slave, then he was a noble from the start.

[I have no family. All of my family died long ago.]

What kind of life have you been living?

‘I have to do better in the future.’

That way, there will come a time when he can let go of his guard and tell me his past through his own mouth.

I took out a couple of jewels from my jewelery box and placed them in Sasha’s hand.

“Sasha, you worked hard. Take this.”

“Miss…!”

I only paid the price for her hard work, but Sasha shook her head with tears in her eyes.

“Why? Would you like more?”

“No, miss! I didn’t ask for anything in return.”

Sasha spoke with her sleeves rubbing her eyes roughly.

“It’s enough that I could help you,”

“…..”

“These days, I was nervous because it seemed that you weren’t the Miss I knew. Ah… I’m sorry, what am I talking about. Forget about the rude things I just said.”

At Sasha’s words, I opened my eyes wide. Am I so different from my previous life? It’s strange that it doesn’t change since you come back to life from the brink of death, but the first person to notice it was Sasha.

Sasha was closing her eyes, as if she thought I was going to punish her.

“Sasha. Thanks.”

“Yes?”

As I said thank you, Sasha opened her eyes wide.

“Because I’ve been tired recently. It’s no wonder you think so. You mean that you were worried about me, right?”

“Miss….”

“It was hard, so take a rest today. And….”

I handed the jewels to Sasha.

“I hope you accept this.”

Sasha’s mouth opened wide in shock.

“Miss! This..!”

“My arm feels going to fall.”

At my words, Sasha hesitated and took the jewels. I patted Sasha’s shoulder, while she looked at the jewels with a troubled face.

“Then take a rest, Sasha.”

As I laughed lightly, Sasha walked out of the room, bowing her head at me. Tears flowed down her cheeks, which I saw just before she leaving the room.

Cklack.

Had there been a decent maid at Damian’s mansion in my previous life, would the situation change a little?

But he didn’t even let me take a maid. I was a bird trapped in Damian’s cage.

I healed him if he was injured, and healed him over and over again.

Somehow he tried to use my healing power as an excuse to ignore me. Instead, I only whispered all kinds of sweet words to him.

I was a really weak child. The fiancée, who was abandoned, was nothing more or less than a good prey to bite.

Then, when I tried to get out of his hand, he ruthlessly killed me.

On the day of the Crown Prince’s birthday banquet, what kind of expression should I make when I meet Damian? I stared at the empty bookshelf where a book had disappeared, and I thought about it.

*****

I took Casadine and went to the garden in the mansion today. As soon as I entered the garden, the fragrant smell of flowers greeted my nose. The garden, which is painstakingly managed by gardeners, felt good just looking at it.

“What do you think? Do you like it?”

At my question, Casadine saw flowers around the garden. Many flowers, including tulips and anemones, roses and hyacinths, shook back and forth in the wind.

“It’s really beautiful.”

Casadine, who glanced at the blue rose, added, making a soft smile around his mouth.

“It looks like you, sister. Especially this blue rose.”

“Why is it that blue rose?”

“Red roses are common, but blue roses are very valuable.”

Casadine touched the petals of the blue rose lightly. Even the gesture of the hand touching the petals was elegant.

“That’s why the blue rose’s flower language is said to be impossible. I heard about that.”

“…”

“This is my first time seeing a blue rose. It’s so beautiful that I can’t take my eyes off it. It looks like you, sister.”

Casadine smiled at me. His silver hair in sunlight was shining very beautifully.

How many people were fascinated by that appearance. Well, in the arena, an old man was also dazed by his appearance.

“Flowers are always pretty, but they always wither. Even the most precious flower.”

I crushed the blue rose in my hand. Then I handed the crushed blue rose to Casadine and said.

“No matter how beautiful it is, what’s the use after it’s destroyed? From the moment it fades, it’s just a trouble for the gardener.”

“…”

“Is not it?”

Casadine’s lashes trembled while looking at me.

Casadine, who put a blue rose in his pocket, looked at me for a moment and opened his mouth.

“I didn’t mean it that way, sister.”

“I know. I just wanted to tell you that comparing people to flowers can be upsetting depending on the listener.”

“Thank you, sister. I’ll take it well.”

Casadine bowed his head. It was fine. As I walked through the garden while smelling the flowers, I suddenly stopped and asked him.

“So, when I looked at the bookshelf this morning, a book was missing. Do you know where it is?”

“… Yes? Do you run out of books? What does that mean?”

Casadine tilted his head, puzzled.

“I mean, I don’t know who stole it. Well, it wasn’t a very important book.”

At my words, he put a faint smile on his lips. You must be the culprit.

He must have stolen the book secretly while I was sleeping. He was a really funny guy.

‘Just get rid of this guy’s messy attitude.’

“What kind of book is missing?”

He brazenly asked the book he had stolen. I also replied with pretense as if I didn’t know he was the culprit.

“Do you remember? It’s the book you saw last time. The title is probably… It was about the plants in the north.”

“If my sister allows me, I will help you find the book.”

He replied with more lies than me. It was really funny. Seeing him blinking his purple eyes and smiling brightly, who would be sure he was the culprit?

“Can you do that?”

All the words Casadine spoke were lies. The words he said when he came to my room were lies, and the words he spoke when he saw a blue rose also a lies.

From the moment he first saw me, he was treating me with a mask on. Just like I was wearing the mask of a gentle sister, he was also wore a fake mask. How could he be so loyal to the Crown Prince in my previous life? After that, I chatted with Casadine in the garden. But he didn’t say he had stolen the book until the end.

*****

After a few days, the book that had disappeared was back in my bookshelf. And Casadine visited my room every night. With a good excuse for not being able to sleep at night.

“What kind of person were your parents?”

Once I asked, Casadine replied.

“They were very nice people. My father was gentle and my mother was stronger than anyone else.”

“… There were no brothers?”

“It was just me.”

After saying that, Casadine turned right away. He didn’t explain at all how his family died.

“They were good people like you.”

So I didn’t ask any more. My father said, he had officially registered Casadine into the family. Instead, I was asked to be careful so the information didn’t leak out that Casadine was a slave.

I replied that of course I would. It was a series of peaceful days. During the day, I visited or wandered around with Casadine. Whenever we went outside, people’s eyes followed.

“Oh my gosh….”

“Look at that handsome face.”

“Is it true that I am really looking at a person’s face? Is it the image of God?”

People forgot what they were doing and praised Casadine’s appearance. No one saw him as a slave. When I put on good clothes to Casadine, he looked like a noble. Despite the numerous gazes at him, Casadine didn’t even look at others.

He just looked at me with a subtle glance, and when his eyes met with me from time to time, he closed his eyes and laughed.

“It’s great to come out with my sister like this.”

“Me too. Do you have anything you want or need? Just say anything.”

“Rather than that… I want to stay with my sister like this.”

Casadine replied, gently wrapping my hand. He took my hand and kissed the back of my hand. His deep gaze turned towards me then he raised the corner of his mouth. It wasn’t an expression aimed at his sister, but his eyes that were on his favorite opposite sex.

It’s all fake. He’s acting hard even in his eyes. Whenever Casadine did that, I laughed bashfully with a face that knew nothing. A kind, stupid, sweet sister. It was enough if it could be seen that way in Casadine’s eyes.

“Casadine.”

I called him by putting the cotton candy I bought on the street into Casadine’s mouth. Casadine laughed and took the cotton candy I gave him.

“Well, it turns out that the Crown Prince’s birthday banquet will be held a week later.”

“….”

“My family is invited every year when an event is held in the Imperial Palace. But this time, my father said he couldn’t go because of the territory patrol. Instead, I decided to attend.”

Suddenly, the laughter from Casadine’s face disappeared. After being in thought for a while, he came back with a smile and pulled my waist towards him. As I looked up at him, he said, smiling brightly like an angel.

“Please take me too.”

“Why?”

“In the Imperial Palace, a lot of people will come, I’m worried about sending my sister alone. And…”

“…?”

“I wonder if someone else will take you away from me.”

He added, pulling my waist even stronger. Thanks to that, the cotton candy I had in my hand fell to the ground.

“Oh, sorry, sister.”

Only then, he release the strength in his hand with the sound of ‘Ah’. I patted his back and laughed lightly.

“Thank you for telling me first. I was going to go with you anyway.”

“Sister…”

“And don’t worry, because nobody’s gonna take me or anything.”

“My sister doesn’t know how charming she is.”

When will the compliments that isn’t even sincere from your heart will stop? It’s been weeks since I brought Casadine, and he’s still testing me.

“Casadine.”

“Yes, sister.”

“I’ll do whatever you want. Unless you keep trying to test me.”

It was Casadine, who completely laughed and looked at me with amazement.

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