Chapter 5

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The coachman looked quite surprised when he saw me with Casadine, but he didn’t ask anything. Immediately, the sound of the coachman pulling the carriage was heard. Casadine was in the carriage, but he was still holding my hand tightly, sitting next to me. With his gaze fixed on me.

“When will you let go of my hand?”

“Ah… I’m sorry.”

He made a regretful expression and slowly removed his overlapping hands. I looked at him and said with a bright smile.

“Nothing to be sorry for.”

“…….”

“Because now you’re a member of our family.”

When Casadine heard me, his ears turned red. I laughed at him when seeing him like that.

She knew better than anyone that she was playing with him to live now, and her heart wasn’t at all. How can I not know in the second of my life? But that didn’t matter to me. I brought him because I only needed his abilities. As much as I could, I was going to slowly tame Casadine.

Casadine never took his gaze away from me until the wagon arrived at the Count mansion. I just smiled at his stubborn gaze, as if observing me with all his might to read my heart. To pretend to be a sweet, innocent sister.

“We’ve arrived Miss.”

As soon as I arrived at the mansion, the first person to greet me was my father. With his arms folded, my father glanced over Casadine from head to toe, and asking me offensive questions.

“Aren, is this the man you were talking about?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm… okay? What is your name and how old are you this year?”

Casadine answered her father’s question with his head down.

“My name is Casadine and I am 18 this year.”

“It is. Can you tell me where and what you’ve been doing?”

“…I worked as a slave gladiator.”

Her father’s eyes were crumpled when he heard Casadine’s answer.

“…. Slave gladiator?”

“Yes.”

This time it was my turn to intervene.

“Father.”

“Aren, stay still. No matter how much the slave… ”

“Can’t you believe me? It’s a man I brought.”

As I spoke with conviction, my father’s eyes were wrinkled even more.

“Aren. No matter how much you try to enlist a slave as your younger brother, what….”

“My father told me earlier. He will accepts anything for my birthday.”

“Sigh…”

My father sighed deeply as the ground was gone. I know myself well that I’m doing nonsense against my father, but knowing the future, I had to make Casadine as my younger brother. That way, neither my father will die, nor will I. Before long, my father’s tightly closed lips opened.

“Aren, I understand your meaning well… ”

Her father looked at Casadine with an unpleasant face and blurred his words.

‘Because I didn’t say I was bringing a slave.’

Bringing a slave for free and asking him to join our family as my younger brother. Even if I’m in a position like my father, I’m going to change it. But this was the best. As far as I know, the only person who could stand against Damian, the Master of Swordsmanship, was Casadine.

“Then let’s do this.”

“….?”

“Why don’t we leave him for a few days and sign it up if everything’s okay? Don’t you know what kind of is this guy?”

My father said, pointing to Casadine. As I looked at Casadine, he smiled as if okay. When I looked back at my father, my father had a determined face that he couldn’t give up.

“Alright, father.”

It was rather good. He will need time to adjust to our mansion.

“First of all, I’ll show Casadine the room for him to stay.”

One eyebrow of my father who listened to me was raised. The thought of ‘What does a slave need a room for?’ came from my father’s expression. I grabbed Casadine’s wrist before a bad sound came out of my father’s mouth.

“Let’s Go.”

Casadine blinked a few times, then quickly folded his eyes and laughed.

“Yes.”

Because I only have a father, I couldn’t even notice that I was a sister now, and a smile came out from my mouth. I took Casadine into the mansion, bring him to the room exactly right next to my room. It was to keep it as close as possible to feed and tame him well.

“Because I have always thought it would be nice to have a younger brother. Finally, this room met the owner.”

I casually made up a lie. The lie spontaneously came out as if it was because I was alive from death. This is all because that damn Damian. Upon opening the door, a neat and well-organized room appeared. All the furniture, such as bed and wardrobes, looked comfortable. Casadine looked around the room for a while, looking at me and asked.

“… Can I stay here?”

“Well, of course. Oh, you have to take a bathe first.”

I stare at Casadine for a moment, looking inside the room, then rang the bell to call the attendants. Soon, attendants came into the room to help Casadine bathe.

“Please take him to bathe so that he doesn’t have a single layer of dust.”

The attendants looked at Casadine and widened their eyes for a moment, then acted quickly.

“Come this way….”

After confirming that the bathroom door was closed, I called for a famous clothes designer for men’s wear. As I was browsing through the booklet with a list of clothes, I bought all of the clothes by type because I thought that whatever Casadine wore would be better than the rag-like clothes he wore now.

“Thank you!”

An invisible smile hung on the designer’s lips. It was almost at the same time that the bathroom door, which had been firmly closed, opened. As the attendants help him took a bath, they changed his clothes. Instead of messy clothes, Casadine appeared in a clean clothes. A strange voice popped out of the mouth of the designer who followed me.

“Ugh!”

There was a man who only washed his body, but gave off an unbelievable luxurious atmosphere as a slave. The watery silver hair shimmered so brightly that even the sun bowed his head. The designer was staring at the Casadine’s appearance as if he had forgotten the place.

“Good work. Make sure to send the clothes I ordered as soon as possible.”

“Ah… yes!”

It wasn’t until I took off my mouth that the costume designer woke up and ran out of the room. I looked at Casadine without saying anything, then gestured to the servants to stop.

‘I have to raise my funds.’

“…Is it weird, sister?”

Eventually, as the attendants left and only the two of us were left, Casadine came close to me.

“No, not at all.”

“……..”

“It’s all fine because it fits you so well.”

As I smiled and said, Casadine also laughed as if he was happy. But soon, a black shadow fell on Casadine’s face.

“Sister, can someone like me be treated like this…..”

“Casadine.”

I gently wrapped his hand. His long eyelashes, slightly lowered down, trembled.

“Don’t say it that way. Because you are my family from now on.”

“….sister.”

“My father, I will try to persuade him well, so make sure you relax in the room.”

Having said that, I tried to turn my back to give him some time to rest, but sooner Casadine grabbed my wrist. As I tilted my head, Casadine opened his lips.

“…I will surely prove my worth.”

When he finished speaking, he let go of my wrist that he held. I said, patting his back a little as if it was okay.

“Okay. My room is right next door, so you can always come if you need anything or have something to say.”

“Yes, sister.”

Casadine nodded and answered. As if when he was anxious, a soft smile spread across his mouth. I somehow felt uncomfortable with that appearance, so I turned my back and returned to my room.

‘… What?’

Casadine’s actions revealed a grace that couldn’t be hidden. I often went to the Imperial Palace to heal the Imperial family, and when it came to manners, even I, who was knowledgeable, was admired. No one could have guessed that Casadine was a gladiator slave. Even people who know that he’s a slave would long enough to encounter him now.

[… I will surely prove my worth.]

Casadine was also quick to notice. Maybe he was tricked and knew that I had approached himself.

He’s also the guy who won Damian in the swordsmanship contest in her previous life, and he’s the guy who was close to the Prince’s position, so he’s probably not an opponent to watch. If so, taming Casadine will solve it.

Having cleared up my thoughts, I moved to my father’s office. As I opened the door of the office and pulled my face in, I saw my father sighing while pressing his temple firmly. My father, whom I met, looked 10 years older than before.

The fact that she brought Casadine was quite shocking to her father.

“Aren, you brought a slave! I am absolutely against it.”

“I’m sorry for not telling you in advance.”

I put my hands neatly as if there was no excuse. My father looked at me and said, sighing louder.

“Are you seriously going to take a slave gladiator as your younger brother? Even if you ask him to be an escort knight, he’ll be happy, but your younger brother! I’m going to get that dim guy… !”

“My father told me in a few days.”

I explained in a calm tone.

“Father, think carefully. We have healing powers, but that doesn’t mean we can’t violate national laws. On a day when even a war breaks out, father, the only man in the family, has to go out on the battlefield…”

“…….”

“But what if you bring someone else into your family. A person who is excellent enough to be able to return alive even after going to the battlefield.”

“…Aren, are you willing to do that from the beginning?”

My father looked at me with unbelievable eyes. My father’s sea-blue eyes, who were just like me, shook hardly. He said, lowering his head as he wasn’t confident to face me with a straight gaze.

“I’m sorry, father.”

I don’t want to lose my father again. Even if he goes to the battlefield on behalf of my father anyway, Casadine will remain safely back.

After my father hadn’t answered for a long time, I lifted my head that had dropped. After confirming my father’s appearance, my eyes widened. Tears were forming in my father’s eyes.

“Father?”

As I was surprised, I approached my father, and he said, wiping away his tearful eyes.

“I’m sorry. I made you think that way.”

“Why are you apologize, father?”

I held my father’s hand.. My heart hurt when I saw my father crying.

“I am the one to apologize. I’m sorry because I didn’t tell you earlier, Father.”

“I understand your intentions well, so let’s see him for a few more days.”

“Father.”

“Will you let me be alone for a while? I want you give me time to organize my thoughts.”

My father’s hand was shaking finely. There was only one answer I could have in this situation.

“Alright, father.”

When I closed the office door, a deep sigh flowed from my mouth. When I looked out the window, the red sun was inclined so much that the day was already dark. It was just like this when Damian put the blade in my body. I fiddled with my hand at the heart that was fine for nothing. My heart was beating properly.

‘I cured your heart disease, and you put a blade in my heart.’

From a distance, a loud bird cries came. At first glance, the cry of a bird that sounded like a human scream seemed to remind me. Don’t forget who you died for. I couldn’t wait Casadine even to repay Damian several times the pain I felt before. First of all, I had to get Casadine completely on my side.

Having cleared up my thoughts, I stepped toward Casadine’s room. I came to the door of Casadine’s room and knocked.

“Casadine, are you inside?”

A small rustling sound was heard inside the room. After a while, the door that had been firmly closed opened.

“Sister.”

Casadine from a distant, greeted me.

“I’m just wearing a shirt, so I wore one of the clothes in the closet…”

When I said nothing, he added, slightly lowering his eyes.

“… Is it weird?”

No way! The shoulders that fell perfectly at right angles and the long-sleeved gladiator life gave birth to beauty that couldn’t be hidden from the trained body.

“No, it suits you really well.”

I asked him, thinking I should get a few more clothes for him, no, wardrobes.

“Can I go into the room for a minute?”

“Yes!”

At my words, Casadine laughed as if he was happy. As soon as I entered his room, I pulled the strings inside the room. Soon a servant came into the room with a tray full of food.

Food that aroused the appetite just by looking at it was put on the table one after another. Potato croquettes, chicken stew and zucchini blute, juicy steaks and more. The servant, who had served all the food, looked at Casadine’s face lately, her face turned red like a ripe tomato, and said, bowing her head.

“Please, enjoy the meal.”

‘Why are you so handsome?’

I silently glanced over Casadine’s face, when he still looking down at the food ahead. Long down lashes, dark purple eyes, sharp jawline and smooth, soft white skin.

You were handsome. When I said that I was taking Casadine at the stadium, it seemed to me a little understand why people we’re upset.

“Sister?”

It was Casadine who fixed his gaze at me.

“Oh I’m sorry. Because you are so handsome.”

When I spoke honestly, his ears quickly turned red. I glanced at him, pretending to eat the food, and recommended the food to him.

“You must be hungry, let’s eat.”

“Can I accept something like this… ?”

“I told you. As long as I bring you, you are from our family.”

He seems quite anxious. He’s not used to being treated like this yet. When he was a slave gladiator, he have to be good at it.

I’ll do whatever you want, so keep me and my dad instead, Casadine.

“Let’s eat.”

It wasn’t until I suggested again that he hesitated and lifted the spoon. As I watched him take a bite of soup and put it in his mouth, I found out the identity of the discomfort that I had felt earlier. The slave was acting according to the manners of the nobility.

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