Episode 33
Translator : Miss Editor : Aru
Chapter 4. Raydik Territory
The day dawned.
I don’t know how the morning ca. I blinked my stiff eyes hardly.
I ca into the room last night, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed thoughtlessly, covering myself with a blanket.
However, tears did not stop. Every ti I blinked, the transparent stream of water was constantly pushed out of the eyelids.
It was a strange act. I had cried so much but didn’t know why I was crying.
‘Is my body weak?’
I even thought about this.
‘So people cry because their body is weak.’
Am I like that…..?
“……Ugh, my head.”
I muttered, sitting on the bed while letting my feet fall on the floor.
My head ached and my eyes felt feverish.
Last night, I tossed and turned for a while and fell asleep as I kept pushing back the tears. At that ti, Bessie knocked on the door to check on , but I pretended to sleep because it was difficult to be caught crying when I couldn’t even tell the reason. Bessie seed to hang around for a while and then she went back.
“Whoo.”
I had to look in the mirror, but I had a strong premonition of what kind of figure I would be reflecting.
Just as expected.
“Oh, lady!”
Bessie, who ca to clear the room to check on if I woke up, was startled and stopped in the doorway.
“Oh, my God, what’s wrong with your eyes?”
“……is it very bad?”
“Wait. I’ll get so ice right away.”
It is very bad…
I touched my eyelids. It felt feverish and stung a little.
They’re swollen.
Well, it would’ve been weird if I slept like that last night and wasn’t this swollen.
Bessie, who had just returned, gave a cold cloth bag. I put it gently on my eyelids.
“How did your eyes get so swollen……what happened?”
“I just had a really sad dream.”
Bessie kicked her tongue, that was only the reason ca to mind.
“I’ll light you so scent candles before you go to bed today. I heard it’s also helpful for dreams.”
“Thank you.”
“Oh, and.”
Then Bessie took sothing out of her arms. Only then did I notice that she brought sothing in, besides an ice bag.
“This one. The Duke asked to bring this to you, lady.”
“cough, cough.”
“Lady?”
“Oh, no. Dust.”
I covered my mouth with the back of my hand. Trying hard to hide the perplexed expression.
‘Why is this here?’
As soon as I saw the light blue cloth that Bessie was sticking out, I was almost surprised.
I thought I was mistaken, but the shape and colour remained the sa when I glanced again.
I pretended to be relaxed as I accepted the enchanted cloth as best I could.
“The enchanted, no, no, but this…Ash told you to bring it to ?”
“Last night, I heard you left it sowhere.”
“I actually ca to give it to you right away last night, but you were asleep, so I couldn’t give it to you and just went back,” Bessie added.
I looked down at the cloth with bewildered eyes.
‘I left this behind?’
Where? Near the fountain?
No, I sent Ash to the fountain last night and made an excuse to bring sothing I left there.
But I’m sure Ari was wearing the enchanted cloth.
‘Why has this erged as the lost item?’
It occurred to that I should ask Ari instead.
I need to hear what happened yesterday. I had thought it would have worked out as planned, but the sudden appearance of The Enchanted Cloth displeased .
I washed up quickly, changed my clothes, and ca out into the hallway.
I ca out but…..
“Oh, my lady, you’re just in ti.”
“… …butler?”
“You’re just in ti, I had sothing to tell you.”
What does the butler want at this timing……?
“Hey, I don’t know what it is, but can we… talk…maybe not now?”
“No.”
The butler’s expression was firm.
At the mont I recalled, the day before, I jumped into the mansion with a thud and jumped up the stairs right in front of the butler’s eyes.
Ah.
“Did this old man co to presbyopia last night?”
“Well……you are getting older now, aren’t you?”
“Lady!”
Eventually, it was after a while that I could visit Ari’s room.
I beca a lifeless like green onion kimchi and opened the door with a flickering knock. If he has a talent for nagging, it must be so of the devil’s talent.
“Eonni?”
Ari greeted in bed rubbing her eyes.
It felt as if she had just woken up while I was subjected to the butler’s no-end nagging.
It was fortunate that I didn’t have to wake Ari up. I checked earlier this morning and asked Dylan.
“Dylan, would you excuse for a mont?”
“I would do that.”
Soon Dylan left the room, leaving Ari alone. Trying not to stare the fluorescent spider carcass found on the floor on the way closer to Ari – split in two – Ari just clapped her hands and grabbed the enchanted cloth.
“That’s right, Eonni! I think the enchanted cloth is broken!”
“Yesterday… huh?”
“I was supposed to tell you as soon as I woke up. The effect has disappeared.”
“What?”
This is what Ari told .
Last night, as planned, Ari was quietly waiting in front of the fountain, wrapped in the enchanted cloth.
In the anti, the villain (Ash) appeared, and it was strange that I wasn’t there with him, but she ca to her senses to act the “fateful eting” that I had prepared anyway.
But as soon as he showed up, Ash, who glanced at Ari, said.
‘Isn’t that my noonim’s?’
“He said so while looking at the enchanted cloth I’m wearing. It was so sudden, and I didn’t know what to say, so I said I was keeping it for a while. And then he said, ‘Give it to ’…..”
So she gave it to him.
Ari could not resist the villain, and Ash went right back with the enchanted cloth as if there was nothing left to do.
I blinked bewilderedly.
“What……”
“No, Eonni, hear out, I’m sure he was talking to , and it felt like he doesn’t even have the least amount of personal interest in ? Feels like I’m a mannequin with the enchanted cloth, not a person? Or the grass in the garden, the trees, the rocks, the soil, the background, whatever…..”
The conclusion ca after a heated enuration.
“It didn’t work, the enchanted cloth. The villain didn’t give any attention at all.”
It was ridiculous. No way. Ari was putting full weight on the enchanted cloth breaking theory.
“Why the hell is it broken? I got close to the fountain, but I didn’t drop the cloth in the water? I didn’t even get it spilt, and I didn’t get it dropped to the ground…eonni?!
Ari was startled so she stopped talking.
Because I slamd my forehead on the reception table nearby.
“Oh, eonni… …are you alright?”
“I’m alright. It’s no big deal.”
Ari looked at nervously. Ari seed to think that I did it because I was shocked by the enchanted cloth, but that wasn’t the reason.
Not for that reason.
‘Relief? Why do I feel relief? Crazy.’
As I listened to Ari, I was sighing with great relief a little while ago.
As soon as I recognized it, I was shocked.
‘It’s not relief, it’s despair, it’s frustration.’
Yeah, it’s like it. I think I recognized it wrong for a mont because my head has to be in malfunction.
Since ancient tis, the answer to a malfunction is to knock it. My head must be better now that I knocked it once.
I rubbed my tingling forehead and looked at Ari.
“You think the cloth is broken? Wait a minute.”
I took the enchanting cloth out of my arms. I got it from Bessie and wore it right away.
A mont later Ari blinked her eyes with a dazed face, as I lapped the cloth around my neck.
“…uh? It’s not broken, is it?”
The effect of the enchanted cloth was still intact. Ari looked confused. Of course, it was the sa for .
An awkward silence passed, and Ari suddenly opened her mouth.
“Shall we try again?”
“Again?”
“I don’t know, but I don’t think it worked yesterday. Wouldn’t it be different to try it again?”
Ari, who said so, made an exaggerated fist to see if she wanted to change the cluttered atmosphere.
“Three tis for Koreans! And this ti, I’ll say that I got it from eonni so that I wouldn’t lose the enchanted cloth. Honestly, I was really scared when he told to give it. No, should we just use camouflage tactics? To cover the cloth with another cloth or brush?”
Ari chattered too much. I watched her with a still confused heart and soon voted that the latter would be better.
***
I pondered over it, day after day.
‘Why did I do that?’’
Why did I co back from the garden like that?
And why on earth did I cry?
After thinking over and over again to the point where my brain refused to think any more, I was finally able to co up with a rather plausible conclusion.
First of all, escape from the garden.
‘So… That’s what it is.’
Jealousy
It doesn’t an anything strange, so please listen to it more. Why is there such a thing?
When a close friend or family suddenly shows interest in soone other than you, you’ll get upset.
‘That’s what happened. That’s why I didn’t feel confident to see Ash lock eyes with Ari!’
It’s absurd, but I think there was a child hiding inside that I didn’t even know.
Yeah, that’s the stuff. Knowing the cause, now the child is going to be banished. Good-bye.
‘And I cried because….’
That’s…
Because I’m sad.
Yes, I did it because I was sad. What am I sad about? Everything!
Look at my situation. To be honest, there were many things to objectively be sad about. Look!
I’m just turning twenty-one when I died because of a stalker in my previous life. But this ti, I’m going to die at 22. Even the one who will kill in this life is a psychopath, and moreover, that person is my brother.
How can you not cry in a situation like this? How can I not cry? Wouldn’t anyone cry?
‘Of course, they would be crying.’
It’s like that. Done. I’ve got a conclusion.
The reason why I suddenly ran away from the garden and why I cried so hard to the point that my eyes were swollen were all explained.
The problem has been solved, and the confusion that ca from this problem has disappeared.
It’s gone, but…
“… …eonni.”
However, much greater confusion remained the sa.
“What should I do?”
said Ari with a gloomy face.
“I think I’m screwed.”
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