Beware of the Brothers - Chapter 27

Eugene’s POV

“Welcome back, brother.”

As soon as he entered the mansion, a thin voice like any other rang in his ear.

Eugene stopped walking as he saw Hari, who had met his eyes.

This was the first time he faced her face since the night four days ago. The very next day, Eugene is going at dawn.

He left the mansion and stood before her again today.

His black pupil slowly passed through the person in front of him.

Hari was dealing with him in the same way as usual, as if a few days ago could have been a dream or a fantasy.

It seemed that she decided to treat him as if nothing had happened between them.

Did she really think that it will make nothing happen that night?

Eugene tilts his head at an angle and lifts his face facelessly for a while.

He saw it. Even in the summer, Hari was wearing clothes to cover her neck.

Perhaps there was a trace of what he left behind because he couldn’t stand his greed. Like a small scar on her lips.

In the silence that remained, her white hand gently grasped the hem of her dress.

Looking at it, Eugene opened his mouth slowly.

“I’m back.”

Even though she was nervous like that, she stood in front of him during the day when she was still struggling.

So first, he decided to match the pros and cons as he wished.

“How have you been while I was away?”

Hari paused for a moment when he asked, and replied.

“Yes, nothing happened.”

Her answer continued as if she had practiced several times in the meantime.

“Erich came briefly on the weekend and then went back to the academy, and today I am on my way to see the crown prince.”

“He asked to see you first?”

But Hari’s nerve seemed to be focused elsewhere. So Eugene sent a glance to the people around her and made them retreat.

“Yes, but it wasn’t any special story, it was just….”

“Okay.”

He stepped up and approached Hari. She seemed to notice his presence only after Eugene approached her very closely.

The next moment, Eugene lifts Hari’s chin to him and just kissed her red lips.

Ah, yes, the feelings of satisfaction filled his heart.

After all, it was not enough to just keep watching her.

When he touched and kissed the person he faced in person like this, he felt like he was going to breathe and live now.

It is clear that the limit that has been endured for a long time will now have no boundary, so Eugene was satisfied with this and raised his head.

Then he faced Hari’s face, which was frozen.

She never seemed to have imagined that he would do this again.

Even where they stand now, it was not the terrace that they had left alone, but the open ground floor.

“I miss you.”

At his whispering voice, her purple eyes in front of his eyes slowly flowed. The trembling movement was pretty and lovely.

He was even glad that her beating rhyme was the result of that.

“You’ve healed a lot since before. It must have been quite painful.”

Perhaps Hari thought that if she pretended she didn’t know what he had done a few nights ago, he would probably do the same.

If she had expected that, he was sorry.

In fact, it was because of his selfish and bad thoughts that Eugene left Hari for a few days.

Because he wished she only thought of him all day.

Over and over again about what happened that night, thinking again and again, what was the meaning of his actions at that time, what kind of facial expressions and how to look in front of him when they meet again.

And he hoped that she would be confused and contemplated how their relationship would change in the future.

It was so sweet just to imagine that Hari’s head was full of only one person.

“I went to see your face for a while before I went to the Imperial Palace. I have to go out again right now.”

And now he see Hari’s face, Eugene’s wishes seemed to be alone all over her for days.

That fact could be so satisfactory.

Eugene grabbed Hari’s still hard hands and raised them to his lips.

The he kissed her with full affection.

“Then I’ll go. Wait for me.”

He thought it would be good if the time stopped while holding her like this.

“I think the duke was involved in this, right?”

Inside the wagon to the Imperial Palace, Rowengreen narrowed his eyes and asked toward Eugene.

“How long since you have met his highness quite often? And you have visited Velontia more often than before? Then you suddenly annulled, and this time, they have announced the engagement of Lady Velontia and His highness the crown prince.”

Eugene didn’t answer, but Rowengreen realized that what he just said is true in the next moment when looking at Eugene’s face that came into his sight.

In fact, it was right to say that it was a lead rather than an intervention.

He didn’t want to make Hari care about his fiancé, Rosabella Velontia.

Even a few nights ago, Hari uncovered the story of Rosabella in front of him. Looking at that, he thought his judgment was moved.

Besides, he left Hari alone, apart from him. And he didn’t want to hide Hari in the shade.

But Eugene is old-fashioned so he didn’t bother to explain it to Rowengreen.

“Is it because of Lady Hari?”

Meanwhile, Rowengreen, who had never voiced it before, finally brought out his long-old doubts.

As soon as the duke returned from La Sousss, the duke headed to Ernst’s mansion instead of the Imperial Palace, and Eugene, who went in and out, was peculiarly soft (of course, if Eugene heard these words, he would have a gruesome glance).

He was also very suspicious of the atmosphere.

Of course, Rowengreen’s doubts wasn’t just because of today’s work.

“If you say that?”

Surprisingly, Eugene seemed to have no intention to hide.

Even though the cautious question was colorless, the back note of a harsh tone came back.

Upon hearing that, Rowengreen was amazed and opened his mouth.

“Oh my God. No, of course, your attitude toward the lady is unusual in the first place, even if I look at it, I was still surprised…”

It was different from just being suspicious by Rowengreen himself and having the suspicion confirmed by the duke.

However, with Rowengreen talking alone, Eugene opened the door of the carriage as soon as he reached his destination, leaving Rowengreen alone.

“I don’t have time. I’ll listen to you later, so please follow me now.”

“No, is there anything urgent anyway?”

“Hari is waiting.”

Once again, the duke left Rowengreen behind, and Eugene moved ahead toward the palace.

Actually, when he said it was an inspection report, there was nothing very important, so the story is not so urgent.

Then the meeting finally finished.

“Duke Ernst!”

On the way from the Emperor, Eugene met Dice.

He shouted as he saw Eugene and rush to him well, discussing ‘what to do with Rosabella’s anger when he rush to hurry to announce their engagement’ and how to fix it.

Perhaps because Eugene was the ex-fiance of Rosabella, so he seems to think Eugene knows how to solve her anger.

But Eugene is not a person who would have known such a thing.

He couldn’t have known.

Apparently, the reason Dice called Hari to the palace today seemed to be in order to discuss this little thing.

Although it was an engagement made without personal feelings, Dice still asked Eugene, her former fiancée, that Eugene couldn’t find out if he trying to find out if Eugene is cheating on him or just trusting him.

Perhaps because it was Eugene that Dice relied on him to check each other’s minds and as he help them to become one in the present relationship.

Either way, it was just like a poem for him.

Eugene suddenly left the palace without saying anything to Dice.

What he was interested in was the process until the engagement of the two people, so it wasn’t matter what happened after that.

Dice expressed his resentment as if he felt like Eugene was dumping him, but Dice wasn’t a kid one or two years old, as Dice should to take care of his own affair with his fiancée alone.

Then Eugene headed back to Ernst.

This time, he left the annoying burden named Rowengreen.

His eyes swallowed by the darkness sat low.

During the past four days, Eugene wasn’t just as comfortable.

Of course, he did not regret that night’s work. A smile, like a broken piece of glass, glanced across Eugene’s face, recalling the past.

Okay. He’s sorry, he didn’t regret it.

He had never been so full of satisfaction as he was now.

For the first time, he want to do what he want, and while he covet, he felt that the empty space in his chest, which was not filled, was being fulled at a rapid pace.

He still thought he was a little impatient, but it wasn’t enough anymore, and if he endured more than this, it was clear that he was probably choking.

After a while, Eugene stepped into Ernst’s mansion.

“What are you thinking?”

When he finally came face to face with her again, Hari asked with a voice screamed at him.

She probably sat in a dark room with no lights on, as was the case when Eugene left.

Still, the room was not completely dark due to the light leaking from the window.

Eugene stood at the door and looked at Hari’s face dyed with a soft light, then moved his steps and approached her.

Then he slowly opened his mouth and answered her previous question.

“I thought it would be nice if you were full of me.”

Of course, it didn’t seem to be the answer that Hari wanted, but a new suprised for her. It seemed as clear as the one that gave her the answer.

“Brother… Weren’t you drunk that day?”

For a while, a voice that had been suppressed leaked out of her mouth, which had been silent for a while.

“Unfortunately, I don’t remember drinking too much.”

So Hari thought he did it that night because he was drunk.

He don’t know if she really thought so, or if she just wanted to believe that.

“Isn’t that what you wanted to do? Pretending nothing happened?”

Eugene laughed after hearing the voice that killed him again.

“Is it possible?”

Erasing that night’s work as it never happened.

“That is what I wanted.”

Even if the night was repeated many times, it was clear that he would repeat the same thing over and over again.

Now he decided not to hide his mind.

Eugene still wanted to give Hari the most beautiful and valuable thing in the world.

In cliché, he will pick a star in the sky if she wanted. And he wanted to be the one who kept her from being hurt.

“You gave me permission to do anything I want, and you said I could do anything to achieve that.”

But maybe there is one thing that he can never be yielded to anyone in the world. Unfortunately for Eugene, it’s the one that’s right in front of him, It is her.

“So I decided to have you.”

Whatever she imagined, saying that she was also greedy as him, probably not the same as his situation now.

“Hari.”

Still, Eugene could not give up.

Now really, he couldn’t help it.

“Listen.”

Hari looked up at him for a while with her incredibly swaying eyes, then dropped her head as if she were trying to avoid his gaze.

So Eugene lowered himself by bending his knees in front of the chair where Hari was sitting.

Then this time, they could face each other without adding or subtracting distance.

“No, I hate it.”

At the moment their gaze met, Hari’s expression collapsed.

She covered her face with her hands, avoiding the gaze from the front, but soon Eugene’s hand grabbed her trembling hands.

Because there was no time to escape, Hari was forced to reveal her face to him.

Even in the dark, his bright black eyes contained her completely. In it, a small little light was like a fragment of a broken star.

The blinding affectionate eyes tinged her eyes.

She had a feeling similar to the previous one. If she make a little more eye contact, he will able to dig into everything.

“That… don’t look like that.”

Hari whispered as if she is begging almost without her knowledge. She was agitated by a flood of feelings that were turned her over and over.

“How am I looking at you?”

Eugene asked quietly, still not looking away from her.

“It’s like I’m the only one in the world. It’s like I’m the only one….”

She was choked by the eyes coming from the front of her.

When Eugene looked at her with these eyes, she saw the illusion that there was only one person in the world and it is herself.

“When you look at me with those eyes, I can’t breathe well.”

Time stopped and she couldn’t avoid or turn away like she was bound. She couldn’t do anything except just seeing herself inside his eyes.

And, as her expectation, Eugene was able to get a glimpse of the things hidden in it as soon as he could through Hari’s eyes.

“Every time you met my eyes like this, I was sometimes confused.”

Ah… The weak heart that was finally revealed could not be so lovely.

“Maybe I thought I might be mistaken, rationalize at my will too.”

Eugene couldn’t stand it, reaching out for the sparkling after image.

“You have the same mind as me. Right?”

The whisper that was scattered in the night air was a bit of a sensational heat.

“Every time I look at you alone, I feel so distressed, and when I think of you alone, I don’t feel like dying like this.”

Now he was sure. This is not his one-sided mind, but she, who is now in front of him, also wants him.

Her eyes that couldn’t grasp and sway, her breath that was spitting through the gap between her lips, and the trembling sensation in his hand were conveyed.

“So tell me.”

The fact that it was all due to himself was in a sense ecstatic.

“Tell me that I am not mistaken, and that you are the same as me.”

Eugene touched the face of the person he faced and greedyly asked.

Her eyes were blurred as if she were crying right now, but he didn’t intend to step down here now.

“I have never thought of this.”

Finally, a slender voice flowed into his ear.

“I …I was just going to be a younger sister. I had no idea what I had in mind. I know everything and if my brother can’t face me anymore, I can’t stand it. But you say you have the same mind? It’s not the only one that only I’ve ever had?”

The flow she wrote with words that leaked from her trembling lips very sweetly.

Eugene thought that even if their minds were the same, Hari might have rejected him. There was no fear of breaking their relationship so far.

Of course, even so, it was not his option to let her go.

“Hari, I wanted to beg you every day.”

And if he was, it would have been obvious that Hari would never abandon him.

“Please look at me. And ask you to stay by my side.”

Anyone could have done anything to blame him for being cowardly or lethal.

It was okay, it was okay to be a bad person anyway.

“And please…”

So if she stays with him.

“Let me love you.”

At that moment, Hari took a breath. Over and over again, he was longing for a whisper that seemed to be craving.

“I always wanted to tell you that.”

Now this situation was extremely unreal.

Until she met Eugene, she was eroding in confusion and anxiety, but now she felt like she’s going to explode right away because her heart was full of other emotions.

He said to her, ‘I love you.’ Ask her to love him, no one else….

“….Does it have to be me?”

Hari opened her trembling lips and asked the person who was still kneeling in front of her.

“It must be you.”

Eugene did not make her wait and replied without hesitation. As if there was only one answer in the world.

“Do you love me?”

Eugene’s face was stained with light leaking from the window. In the still air, only his voice was clearly heard.

“From a very long time ago, I love you more than anyone in the world.”

Eugene buried his face in the hands he held. He was thirsty for the first time he said it out loud. It was a ridiculously common cliché.

But, sadly, he couldn’t think of any other fancy words.

“Yes, I love you”

He was just drunk on his words, and he was forced to whisper the same words over and over again, taking this feeling of helplessness toward the person he faced.

“I love you.”

Every time he spit out the word, a word seemed to be magical, and at this moment it seemed to deepen his heart towards the person in front of him.

“Hari.”

He already thought he couldn’t be more wanting and craving than this, but it was a stupid illusion, and he was stupidly unaware that this feeling had no end.

“I think I’ve probably lived to this day to tell you this now.”

It didn’t matter if the man’s fallen dream was in love.

Perhaps he had been running that long time so far to convey this to her today, and he really felt like that.

After a while, the warmth that had come out of his hand soon hovered over his cheek. At the warmth, Eugene raised his head.

“You love me…?”

A small voice shimmered in his ear.

It seems to him she just want to repeat what he just said. It was just a whisper, and she wasn’t asking him to confirm again.

Of course, even if she did, he could say it again and again.

“Am I dreaming now?”

“No.”

Eugene raised his hand and covered her hand, as she covering his cheeks.

“I’m next to you.”

The warmth that came through the abutment filled him.

“Don’t think of anything else.”

If he could keep holding this hand in the future, and if he could just hold this person in his arms, he would be happy to give anything else he had.

“I won’t let you go even if you hate me.”

It was clear that even if the world stops like this, he will be happy. It was good to fall to hell like this. No matter where it is, it must be a paradise for him now.

Hari looked at him silently with her small eye. The breath of her open lips broke in silence.

Soon, a soft hand passed away from Eugene’s hand, slowly rubbing his forehead and cheeks.….

Before long, she came over and wrapped his neck. The sweet scent was dizzy.

Eugene slowly raised his arms and hugged the person in his arms.

When she buried her face between his hairs, he didn’t pull his back and inhaled in her hair and was dizzy with a deeper scent.

It was tight. The sound of a heartbeat that didn’t know who it belong to in their close body rang.

“Yeah… don’t let go.”

A small voice spreading in his ears was far from dreamy. Perhaps this was his dream.

If so, he hope he never wake up forever. Hearing the heart ringing in his ear, he thought so.

“Don’t let me go.”

In the boundary between light and darkness spreading in the field of vision, the two of them held each other for a long time.

As if there was only one thing in the world.

It was a night that was enough.