Chapter 152
Soft, a blue-colored eyes staring at . It was hard to believe it was the sa person who, in Soleil's basent, was sucking rcilessly children's spirit, draining their energy, making them shrink like a deflating balloon until they disappear.
Goosebumps rose on the back of my neck. I stood there, silent, with a strange feeling of being stuck in my head.
"Princess?"
Her voice called out carefully, as she stared at with her blue, innocent eyes. I suddenly ca to my senses.
"Hi."
Reluctantly, I opened my mouth and glanced around the main trail. There was only Yvonne and on the quiet forest path.
'Shit!'
Originally, I was going to ignore her at the mansion. However, since she's a mber of Leila's clan, I was too scared to ignore her.
"Ah! Yes, hello.."
My low voice shook as the pupils of my eyes retracted shallowly. "Did you accept my greeting?"
Yvonne in normal mode was easily moved and burst out in tears by the slightest trifle. I stared at her with an expressionless face and quickly lifted my lips.
"You're coming back from eting Eclise?" "OhYes, yes."
"I heard your test is not over yet."
Yvonne frowned in embarrassnt at my words. She hesitated for a mont, then answered.
"I took advantage of the lunch break and asked the Duke to look after Eclise. After all, he's trapped because of "
I was a bit frustrated to think that I couldn't prevent them from eting, it truly tried my patience. 'So, Eclise is trapped in a cellar, not in the basent of the mansion.'
It was unexpected.
"May I ask why you're alone without a maid?"
I asked back bluntly. Yvonne's cheeks flushed red when she answered.
"There was a maid butshe had to take care of a few things and I wanted to walk alone."
This was a bit offensive.
'The exam was not over yet, and she had no maid.'
I guess she hated the "fake princess" from the beginning and put all the cogs in place so that she'll always be abused. For as long as I can rember, living in the mansion was so exhausting. Then I must accept this situation with my arms wide open and be happy with the appearance of the real princess.
But I couldn't bring my self to do so. I held back a peal of twisted laughter that was about to be leaked out and glared back at Yvonne's face.
"It must've hurt." "Pardon?"
"The wound."
I pointed out to the wound on her forehead covered with gauze.
At this fine comnt, she grimaced slightly. I had nothing else to bring up apart from this observation. "Well, then, have a good day lady."
I stared at her for a mont and imdiately passed her without hesitation. To be precise, I was about to.
"Excuse !"
She suddenly caught by the wrist. I turned my head with a frown. "What is it?"
"Sorry, I'm SORRY."
Yvonne was looking up at with her fist-sized tears hanging in her big protruding eyes. She looked so weak and pathetic and she knew why Eclipse was Eclipse did such a 'tribute'. I was so stunned that I did nothing.
"Ha. What are you sorry about?"
"My sudden arrivalYou must have been surprised, Princess."
In a quivering voice, she begged for an unrelenting misunderstanding.
"I shouldn't have co here, ButEclise begged to co with him at least once."
"......"
"I felt guilty because I thought I had hurt you unintentionally. I'm deeply sorry"
"Hey!"
I cut off Yvonne's in the middle of her increasingly frustrated voice. "Did you tell him your na was Yvonne?"
She looked up at with her round tearful eyes.
"Was Yvonne the na you were called when you were a commoner?" "Y-yes"
'How can she recall her na when she was living as a commoner with a mory loss?' Even if it didn't make sense, I nodded my head to this absurdity.
"What you're here for has nothing to do with ." "Yes?"
Her blue pupils were inundated with surprise. I added, spelling my words clearly in case she might misunderstand.
"I'm fine, so don't bother. I'm telling you to treat like a nobody. Understood?" "Well, it's"
"If you understand, let go."
It didn't matter if she didn't understand. My wrist in her hand felt as cold as ice. I didn't know if it was due to my fear or her odd power as the leader of Leila. The hairs on my neck straightened, but I didn't show it and retorted clipping off my wrist.
"And I was a commoner too, so I understand your ignorance manners, so keep in mind that if you touch a noblewoman's body without permission, a correction will be inflicted on you, you'll be slapped."
"......"
"I wish you a pleasant walk. Goodbye." I turned my back on her in a hurry.
Co to think of it, it was quite funny. When I was possessed by this crazy ga, I rember feeling like running away every ti I ran into male leads for fear of dying. But unlike the male leads who had let run away with their petty pride, the hostess did not let go easily.
"I swear I don't have any hidden purpose!"
grasp-. The hem of my skirt beca tense. Without saying much, Yvonne appealed with a cry that was full of beseech.
"I lost my mory when I was young. I vaguely rember anything just snippets of flash here and there. And thanks to Eclise's encouragent, I ca here. If I'm mistaken if I'm not the real daughter I'll be punished. Really, really, I'm"
"Ha"
I sighed deeply and mumbled in my head. Then I turned around and approached her. "Don't beg for forgiveness."
"But, princess"
"I told you it doesn't matter."
When Yvonne saw getting closer, she looked embarrassed and backed away. "Uh, uh!"
Then she stumbled, perhaps with a crooked stone. Even when falling down, Yvonne was so beautiful.
I reached out my hand and held her arm to pull her towards . In the middle of winter, her body was barely balanced, so slender.
"Hyuk."
The skin of my palm was appallingly cold like a dead body. "Be careful."
"Thank you."
Yvonne murmured the thanks. I managed to put up with what I wanted to do by shoving her and pushing right away and quickly moved on.
"Listen Yvonne." "W-what?"
"It's none of my business whether you're the lost daughter of the Duke, or ca in because of sothing else."
"Princess"
"From now on whenever we et 'be yourself' and I'll 'be myself'." "However"
I read 'How can you say that?' from her eyes as wide as a rabbit that dimd again.
"How could you say that? Who knows maybe I'm the Duke's lost child so we might be family?" "Family?"
I had a puzzled look on my face as if I just witnessed an accident. Then I strongly denied her illusion. "I'm not your family"
"......"
"Don't lie, I know you think so too. A family, no, it's just a temporary relationship that will end soon" I thought that that was the end of today's dangerous events.
"Go on, you piqued my curiosity, let's hear everything you have to say."
When the interrupter burst in between us, I and Yvonne's head fell off at the sa ti. Lovely pink hair, just like Yvonne, was walking out of the lush trees.
'The king of bad timing.'
I burst out so crazy laughter as I was getting more and more nervous.
The light pink gauge bar on his head blinked quickly. It seed like the favorability was dropping. "Are you seriouslythinking that?"
Asked violently Renald who had co to where we stood. I defied his resentful gaze and asked with a sigh.
"What did I do?" "What didyou do?"
His face wriggled abruptly. Strangely, it didn't feel very scary anymore.
"Do you have to be careful with the first child yesterday, not the family, or the temporary relationship?" "That's not wrong."
"What?"
"Because the test isn't over yet."
"I'm not saying about situation right now!"
He shouted his frustration. I asked back with a reflexive frown. "Then what are you talking about?"
"It's all to point out your deanor, Penelope Eckart."
A shriek of gnashing teeth echoed through the tranquil forest. "Ughh."
Yvonne breathed weakly beside him. I didn't like his nonchalant retort, but he pushed to the limit.
"You've already been so grasping at a kid who's not even sure if she's real or fake? Dealing with a bug that is worse than a slave?"
I reflexively noticed where his gaze was lingering at the arm of the lady which I didn't let go of yet. "Who's treating others like real trash?"
As his words pierced my ears, that day ca to mind vividly.
- You always make miserable, as if I were worse than a slave. The last day of the festival, in the attic.
He was referring to my screams, which I had let out in response to my desperate situation. That little thing about not caring about each other.
Hi everyone! Hope you enjoy it though I'm not really sure of what happened in the end I feel like it's ssed up.
Translator: Ikihiromi and Akireatom Raw provider: Daren_shan
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