Beware of the Brothers - Chapter 18

Hari’s POV

“Ah, I am here!”

This loud cry was, of course, Cabel’s. Oh, our second brother. The voice of what I heard is also a crap, but yes!

Because he worked hard on exam period, even if he bother my eardrum today, I understand! I’ll let it go for today.

The charges of poetry that finally brought Cabel and me to anguish finally ended, and the second brother came to freedom.

Cabel was very excited and expressed joy with his whole body. Hah, he was impossible.

It was only a few weeks since he was released from the supplementary class and came home like this. I welcomed him in honor of Cabel’s hard work.

“Welcome, brother!”

“Waa, I missed you!”

Wow, but it’s a bit overpowering. As I did in the circle, I quickly became dizzy by going round and round because his attacks.

“My brother, listening to the supplementary lessons is also very nice!”

“Really? Am I cool?”

“Uh, that’s the best!”

“I am the best!”

I took a moment to praise the second brother.

The more I poured out the compliment, the more I noticed Cabel’s snot and went up to the end of the sky.

“Okay, what else you expect from me? I don’t know if I can even lose! It’s easy!

Hey, but the second brother. The report card hasn’t been released yet, what if you fail again?

Well, that’s a problem to go back to and think about, so you don’t have to start now.

“Who knows, if you listen to him, even one might think he’s on the top?”

At that time, said Erich, who looked at our warm and friendly look with his cold eyes. He was fortunate to face his failings, and he became a grade senior.

The shape of the sheep’s fuss was floating in the shape of a zero-eyed pole.

“Hyuk, what should I do if I’m really the best of this?”

Ugh, uh. Brother, maybe it went too far. Look at Erich’s face!

Now, I can’t feel anything when I see those faces that think he is incredibly cool!

It’s because he worked hard for the first time in his life before studying this time, and Cabel took this test very well.

He seemed to feel the same.

“Somehow, the exam question is like X. It was like Bob! Am I right in the back? So trivial.”

This time, my feelings have also cooled down. This one? Who made me flagship after failing all subjects in the last exam?

He said he couldn’t think of a tadpole of frogs, and he was the perfect match. No, by the way…!

“My brother, I just heard a strange word?”

I did not miss the profanity protruding from Cabel’s mouth a while ago. It was the same as before, so why don’t you try to diagnose as you get older and older?

“What do you think is the test question? I didn’t hear it well, please tell me again.”

“Ah..Aa”

When I looked up at the second brother with innocent eyes while expressing

‘I don’t know anything ~’, his pupils began to shake gradually as if there were earthquakes.

He stumbled as if he was speechless to my unexpected question.

“The test question was Joe, Joe, Joo.”

I even sent my curiosity and tilted my head to the side. Then Cabel began to sweat cold. Hm, hm.

“So, so Joe….”

He’s really struggling. Still, he used to say such words in the form of excitement, a little while ago, but again in front of me, he stuttered, it was kind of like talking.

“Joe, narrow… millet! Yes, it’s like millet! The test question is as trivial as millet!”

Wha-

I felt sadness as I looked at his wet face like a man who escaped from constipation in 10 years old.

But the second brother, are you sick? To hide the original word at best, you’ll have to hide it more thoroughly.

What’s the point of going to the end and writing that word again? Damn it, he must got such a poor point. Yes, still, this was enough! Great!

“You sounds like a shit.”

At that time, Erich, who was watching his older brother’s, chuckling from the side, passed by as he laughing at us.

“Shh, Penny. I’m not listening to that. Move, you do something stupid.”

“Woof!”

Penny is excited when Erich comes home.

She barked as if she understood his words and replied.

“Hey, hey, I’ll go with you too!”

The second brother followed me back to Erich, with a disgusted look, wondering if he was in front of me and worried about saying something.

I watched Cabel’s back with a salty eyes.

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“Oh, she sent me again.”

I mumbled as I saw the letter that Hubert gave me a while ago. What was in my hand right now was an invitation from Lavender Cordis.

She’s been sending me invitations to play and talk since she last met in the dressing room.

By the way, it’s usually polite to give the other person some time to worry about, but Lavender Cordis issued an invitation every day without me giving a new reply.

Good god, this might be a bit of an obsession. That’s not enough.

Isn’t she sending dozens of letters in less than a month? God, it’s not even like this, when someones are dating because they like each other.

“What letters are you doing with that shit?”

“Brother Cabel, please knock.”

“I did, but you did not hear!”

Suddenly Cabel, who came into my room suddenly, pleaded and make excuses. Aye, what’s our second brother?

When I saw his expression that he’s not lying, he must really have knocked.

This guy, when he came home after a long time, he was wearing a face that was well-glossed in half a day.

“Hey, she want to meet with me, so she send a letter almost every day.”

Well, in fact, the real purpose of Lavender Cordis would be Eugene rather than me.

Dadun!

But for some reason, Cabel, who listened to me, shouted with both eyes as if he had been hit in his back head.

“Is there anyone else you’re talking to other than Johannes?! Who is that?!”

I explained with a laugh at the second brother that he was overreacting.

“It’s not like what you’re thinking, it’s not even like that. It’s just Lavender Cordis, who I met by chance in the dressing room last time and said she wanted to invite me to her mansion…”

“Leave it to me! Name her who bother someone like a bitch!”

But before I even finished explaining, Cabel kicked his arms and kicked his legs.

Ugh, uh? Wait a minute! what is this? Where are you going now?!

I was confused for a second by the sudden act of the second brother, and then I quickly set myself up and called him up.

Well, I don’t know what it is, but I think I have to stop it!

“Brother, stop for a second! Wait! Sit ah…!”

Cool, it sounds like I’m talking to Penny?

Anyway, the second truth stopped in my call..

The guy looked back at me as if I was crazy. Hewas still in a ready-to-ready position, as if he had been vigilant and would run out of the door immediately.

“My brother seems to be misunderstanding something, but she’s not a man with a feminine name, because she’s a woman.”

“What?!”

“So don’t do anything useless!”

What the hell he was thinking, Cabel’s face was astonished. And soon after my voice dug into his eardrums, this time he opened his mouth.

“Are you attracting a woman now and have you been changed directions?!”

Eventually I had to spend more of my golden time to understand Cabel.

The next day, Eugene was in the mansion from the morning.

“Oh, brother. Did you just come out now?”

He returned home early yesterday evening because of the Cabel who came home after a while.

The dinner table where the brothers gathered together after a long time was very lively.

As you know, wasn’t the second brother is the most lively person in this house, too?

The reins of the test were also released, so yesterday evening, the Cabel was a bit insane. He breathed fresh energy.

So, until late, we had to spend the evening in an insane way in line with the pros and cons of the second brother.

Then we all went to our respective rooms to rest, but instead of taking a break, Eugene headed back to his office in Ernst.

And he wanted to spend the night there, so he seemed to come out with his tired eyes for a while during the day.

“The other kids?”

“They all in his room.”

Eugene moves a little slower than usual.

As he came down the stairs, he approached me.

Whether it was because he was still not awake, or because he was still tired, he seemed to be dripping from his usual gestures or facial expressions.

Somehow, Eugene’s mood was slightly different from other times.

Should I say that it is a little more loose than usual, and it gives off a strangely defenseless feeling….

I almost looked at him with mysterious eyes and soon found something and burst into laughter.

Eugene’s head was always tidy and was noticeably molded. Godness, Eugene. Have you just slept?

It’s a moment, but it’s not in a good shape. Besides, he seemed don’t know that his hair is so messed up, so he just come out of the room.

“I think sparrow going to sit on your head.”

I said purposefully, as I was willing to see Eugene’s discomfort.

“Sparrow?”

“If you go outside like this, you’ll think it’s a nest for sparrow.”

I felt like he was a child, blinking slowly and refusing to see, maybe if it was because of the relaxed atmosphere.

I laughed and raised my hand over Eugene’s head. The hair that had been cut back and forth along my hand gradually regained its original neat shape.

“Well, did you hear the chirping sound loudly in the morning? I think the sparrow sitting on the window sill was looking for a house. Ah, I wondered if you would open the window, too.”

Soon he grimaced, and his hand grabbed my hand above his head.

“Don’t play.”

A soft voice flowed in a close up distance.

It was a voice that had just risen and had a lower throat than other times. His eyes fell down and our gaze met.

A slow, serene glance fell down over my face. At that moment, I hesitated. What..

Just a little while ago Eugene suddenly returned to adulthood. My wrist grabbed by Eugene was uncomfortable, so I rubbed my finger.

It was then a voice came.

“Uh, brother! Are you out now?”

Cabel’s voice rang above his head.

“Cabel.”

Eugene’s and my hand fell naturally.

The two of us raised our heads to the floor where the voice was heard. Cabel did not come down and still stood on it and said to Eugene.

“Where did you say that you are going to go with your fiancee today?”

“It’s not today, it’s tomorrow.”

Oh, by the way, Cabel sounded like a normal person (?).

What? What makes this guy interested in the affairs of Eugene and his fiancée?

It seemed like I was in the water as I was drinking, and my brother seemed to have no interest on it, moreover whether Eugene was engaged or not.

No, in fact, the second brother was not care whether he or she was doing other people’s affairs, and he were not interested in the Governor themselves.

But, only Fencing, fencing, and fencing…

Cool. Too consistent.

Seeing that his marriage was the fastest among us, it seems that it is real to say that his mate is somewhere in the world.

Oops, my thoughts broke for a second.

Anyway, the reaction of the second brother, as it is now, had a suspicious corner.

When Eugene replied, this time, Cabel made a scream of ‘hmm’. Then, well, why are you saying this?

“You’re meeting with your fiancée for a first time, isn’t it necessary to prepare a gift? They usually meet a lot more often and go out on a date! No?”

The second brother in my house is not a great person who can say such common sense and meticulous words.

Who are you! Isn’t that the second brother in my house? You just flipped the shell over?

Perhaps Eugene felt the same way as me. His forehead frowned and as he slightly annoyingly sweeping his lost hair, he asked towards Cabel.

“Who is it?”

“What, what?”

Then the second brother stuttered with a surprised expression. Eugene’s face seemed to scream out loud with ‘I’m suspicious!’

“Who told you to did something useless, who did it and who didn’t do it, you can’t really care about such a thing like this right now, right?”

“No! I’m original and meticulous!”

“Yeah, so who is it?”

Cabel retorted head to head, but Eugene didn’t believe him either. The second brother quickly resigned if he knew he was not working.

It seemed that he didn’t even think he could lie to Eugene perfectly anyway. The second brother seems to say,

“It’s like, I can lie to the ghost but I cannot lie brother.”

He grunted with an expression on his face.

“Oh, I just went to the Imperial Palace from the Academy a few days ago. Right, Hari, I told you when I was talking to the last time as a correspondent?”

Oh, that’s what made him think like that! I opened my mouth and felt the need to apply the explanation before the carbel went well and fell into the mud.

“Brother, so? What happened after that? Did you meet anybody else in imperial palace on that day?”

“Uh! There were ladies eyes that watched me! Ha, I know that this body is cool, and I send hot eyes wherever I go. Honestly, all the students know that I am the most handsome, strong, and cool in our academy.”

No, that one! Not that! Who said I’m curious? Ugh, and I don’t care that you’re the most handsome at the Academy, or that you’re strong and bold!

Maybe other students will be thrilled to hear it.

Without going far, I could be sure that if Erich heard that from you right now, he would look at the second brother as if he had taken a wrong medicine.

“So, who told that in front of you?”

Eugene showed amazing patience against the distracting second brother. I was amazed that there was no irritation in the tone.

Wow, As expected fron Eugene. I still admire your patience today too!

“Oh, yeah, you’ve asked that.”

Cabel clasped his hands as if he had realized, without a bit of humility. Still, I’m glad I thought he’d give a real answer right now.

“I met Mr. Swallows!”

“Isn’t that sir Rowengreen?”

“Yes! By the way, he bought the flowers himself and labored himself. Even if he told you hundreds of times to just bring it, the older brothers said you weren’t even trying, so he told me a lot of verses and phrases.”

Suddenly, in my head, the bouquet that Eugene had brought home came to mind.

At that time, Eugene said, obviously, that Rowegreen gave him the bouquet.

Even if it wasn’t, Rowengreen wasn’t anything different from Eugene, so he must wondered if there was anything he could do to make him give her a bouquet.

Ugh, by the way, you never even bought it for your fiancee!

“My aide’s mouth was so fluffy that it wasn’t what I needed him to do.”

“My aide’s mouth was so fluffy that it wasn’t what I needed him to do.”

At that moment, an eerie smile rose on Eugene’s face. Ah! That expression is dangerous!

Soon the pupil of the second brother began to shake, and when he saw the distraction of the right and left, he wasn’t sure, but it seemed that he thought he was not talking to him a little while ago.

“You know, but you don’t have to worry about this engagement.”

Eugene was talking to such Cabel. It wasn’t a bloody tone like the smile he made a while ago.

His thick voice seemed to try to correct what his brother just misunderstood.

“It’s just an engagement that we decided to get from each other from the beginning, and I agreed not to make an annoying one another. Even if I carry something like a flower gift, it will be useless. Once you know all of Rowengreen, you don’t have to care about anything like that.”

The contents of the words that flowed into my ears seemed indifferent and cold at first glance.

Maybe because it is a political engagement without affection for each other.

I was silent in his words, and Cabel scratched his head slightly nicely.

“So, Cabel, you don’t have to care about anything else, just focus on the rest of your academic life in the future. When I heard the story, it seemed that you had studied hard during this exam.”

“Yes! I think I’ll be alright!”

“Yeah, because you have a good head, I thought you’d do well if you put your heart on it. I’m looking forward to the next exam.”

“Oh, hee, I can do anything if I don’t mind! Trust me too in the future! First about school, that’s as easy as chewing gum!”

Wah, I listened quietly, and Eugene’s skill in dealing with the second brother was not a joke. He grasped the Cabel very skillfully.

Ooh, there’s some experience I’ve accumulated since childhood you know! And he did it easily!

I still shook my head as I looked at the Cabel, still stupid, with slightly salty eyes. And then suddenly I found Hubert, who was watching us from there.

“Hubert.”

“The atmosphere of Ernst seems to have brightened up a lot.”

He said as I approached him. Hubert was somehow having a new face.

“Yeah?”

I followed his vague gaze and looked at Eugene’s face.

Indeed, as Hubert said, Eugene erased the hard and cold appearance without any gap at any time, and was in the midst of being more comfortable than before.

“Since the lady and the young masters came, The duke seemed to be lighter than before, as if he had thrown the burdens on his shoulders,” he said.

Seeing it, the anguish, anxiety, and complex feelings that he had felt have been conveyed clearly.

“It’s also thanks to Hubert. We’re all grateful that Hubert has been next to brother Eugene.”

“I just did what I had to do. Of course, I did not deserve such have a thanks. I should have said, thank you to the miss.”

Hubert shook his head and then looked down at me once. Ah, I’m not the position to be thanked for!

I was embarrassed and gratefully followed Hubert to face him. Then, as I shook my head, Hubert was smiling at me.

His hand fall over my head. It was kind and warm, like a grandfather who sees her granddaughter.

“Then I will tell the dining hall to start preparing for dinner.”

Hubert stepped silently and left.

After that, when I was a child, he got a little shy as he first stroked my head. But now he seemed not anymore.

“I’m going to have a banquet at Kazenta Hall around Hari’s birthday next month.”

“Uhuk!”

And that evening, Eugene threw a bomb with a calm look. As I don’t eat dessert, I had no choice but to cough.

What just he said? He would throw a ball? At the Kazenta Hall too? Am I wrong now? Is that right?

“Oh, As expected from my brother! You’re as good as I am! I wanted to go there too!”

However, when I heard the sound of Cabel admiring and shouting, I didn’t think I was wrong because he was hurting my ears.

“What are you talking about, how do you open a banquet there?”

“Yes. I will open a banquet there.”

Eugene, just responded casually as if there was not any problem.

“I didn’t know where to open the banquet at Ernst, so I decided to ask it to the imperial family. What’s wrong with that?”

I was stunned by his words. Oh no! Can the imperial family be any generous than that? That’s what’s going on at my birthday party!

By the way, you said like there is no empty room in our house! Instead you rented a room in our neighbor’s house! Probably wider and more comfortable than ours.

But the one in the next door is the Imperial Palace! Don’t use such a trivial problem as a favor to the Imperial family like that! What’s more, Kazenta Hall.

It is a place held only when there is an event hosted by the royal family or when there is a very special event for the nobles who follow the royal family.

It was only during the wedding reception of the the emperor cousin’s sister, whom the emperor cherished, that the present generation was used for the non-royal.

That was 20 years ago.

But they decided to lend such a place for Ernst? No, besides, what did I hear now? Well, isn’t there a place at Ernst to have a banquet?

“Why don’t we have a place to hold a banquet in our house? There are three annexes!”

“Not long ago, I went into the interior repair. Have you seen any signs that are off limits?”

Nothing like that is yesterday alone, what do you mean!

“Why suddenly, you started repairing everything at once?”

“It doesn’t mean that it’s not allowed at the first place.” he said calmly, but I wasn’t deceived.

Perhaps Eugene seemed to have laid a foundation stone in advance, knowing that I would react strongly.

Of course, of course! But how could you hold a banquet in such a place!

Whether he read my expression, Eugene tilted his head sideways and opened his mouth again.

“It’s all setlled already.”

“Cancel that.”

“I can’t.”

I was dumbfounded by his firm answer.

“Why are you telling not to lend you from the imperial family? You must have lent what you want to lend!”

The second brother shook the dessert into a bite and said as if what was the problem.

You may not know what Kazenta Hall is like, but it was really clear for everyone.

I looked at him a bit bitterly, then turned to Erich.

“Say something about it too.”

Sweetheart, sweetheart. Tell me what I should say to those two. Am I not weird?

Is it natural to be embarrassed and surprised like me? Those two who are so casual are strange, aren’t they?

When he read the signs I sent to his eyes, Erich finally opened his mouth.

“There’s nothing to be done now. Just accept it.”

“I can’t, I need to find an escort for that day too.”

However, as he could not help it, I had to feel the backbone pulling even more. Following that, Cabel immediately responded to Erich’s words.

Cabel shouted as he overturned the table.

“Hey, why do you need to do that!”

“Eugene will have to take care of his fiancée, and Cabel… do you know how to escort?”

“I know! Erich, do you know how to do it?! Doesn’t I work so well?!”

At the end of Cabel words, Erich lifted one side of his mouth at an angle as if he’s disgusted

“Heck.”

“I can do it.”

“No! Me, It’s me!”

Hey, don’t fight for nothing! You all gonna have a banquet at Kazenta Hall, but you all arguing about escorts?

Is that what I think is weird? Is that so? Ugh, when I between these people, so it sounds like I’m reacting sensitively with nothing.

“You don’t have to be burdened. The banquet will be open for your birthday, but it’s not a nominal thing. It’s just like a welcoming party held by the imperial family. You don’t have to worry too much,”

if they have a soft feeling at Ernst in the imperial, It might be because of the couple.

Because they died while guarding the Emperor’s gold, the crown prince.

In particular, I heard that in the party, The Crown Prince Dice, has helped Eugene since he reached the age of affecting the imperial family and the nobles.

Ugh, but no matter how you do that, how do you not care? I need to write a nerve! You all need to also care about it!

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“Isn’t it okay? First banquet in the Imperial Palace, I heard it was done.”

One day later, Johannes laughed and said to my grumbling. On the vacation of the Academy, he was visiting Ernst to meet me.

In time, Cabel was in the haze, and Erich went on a walk with Penny, so no one was in the mansion.

We were sharing this refreshment with tea sitting across the table in the drawing room.

“And The Duke Ernst intimate relationship with The Crown Prince Dice was already publicly known in Arlanta.”

I already knew that The Crown Prince Dice had a strong relationship with Eugene from the past.

Originally, Ernst was an imperial ally, but as exaggeration, after the death of the former Ernst Duke couple, the bond became stronger.

“It wasn’t that, but I wasn’t comfortable because I had never seen a banquet held for a nobleman who was neither a royal nor a noble at Kazenta Hall. Yeah, and also about the escort.”

After a while, we decided to walk through the garden together and got up from our seat.

After leaving the room, Ethan, standing at the door, quietly followed. Johannes opened his mouth when he see him.

“Yes, Sir Ethan Bishop. I must have seen him before.”

Ethan Bishop, so did he introduce himself like that?

I stopped at Johannes’ words. What does that mean? But when I look up at him, Johannes is soon smiling at the topic.

“It’s nothing. I wonder if you have decided on a partner to join the banquet hall.”

“I’m afraid I’m going to go in with brother Cabel or Erich.”

“If you haven’t decided yet, how about a third option?”

Johannes stopped walking on the entrance to the garden. I looked up at the man next to me on the vegetation-lined street.

Then, as usual, a friendly face with a friendly smile reflected on the field of my view.

The pale blue hair was a color similar to the clear sky spread over his head. The darker blue eyes were softer towards me.

He whispered in a bit of mischievous tone as he kissed the back of my hand that Johannes was holding.

“Miss Ernst, give me the honor to escort you.”