Beware of the Brothers - Chapter 4

“Oh, Hari! It’s so pretty!”

Mrs Ernst who looked at me in front of the mirror and liked it squaled like a girl. I even turned round and round in my seat in return for the enthusiastic cheers.

“Whoa! My daughter is pretty and lovely, no matter what she wears!”

Ehe, I’m a little… embarrased. When I was young, I was shorter than my peers, and I was too thin so.

You are so angelic that I cannot think you’re the mother of that ugly brother!

“I like everything, how about you, what are you going to do?”

The clothes I’m wearing right now were like princess dresses.

In a white dress with a lot of frills, the yellow ribbon tied behind his back was inflated to the fullest, showing off the cuteness.

Well. The clothes are fabolous, so it

certainly seems that I look a little cuter.

Now, I was making a impression that I wasn’t looking so good, but since I was older, I used to listen to compliment words. Ugh. Suddenly I’m a little sorry again.

How hard I’ve been managing my body shape and appearance! But now I’m

back as a little kid like this! Ugh, I want to go back!

“Yeah? you don’t like it?”

Ah. It wasn’t that, but I thought a little differently.

“No, I like it too.”

Today Mrs. Ernst was calling a dress maker into the mansion to buy me new clothes.

Looking at the clothes that filled the room, it seemed that all the children’s clothes were new, and mostly the old clothes were wiped out.

Thanks to that, I was playing a dolls, that I have to wore and took off dozens of clothes from lunch today to now.

“Then I’ll buy all of it!”

Ernst’s wife claimed and laughed wide. I wanted to say that I didn’t need so much clothes, but I just smiled at her bright face.

“Its been a while since I’m seeing Melissa smiling so brightly.”

Mrs. Ernst picked up my clothes and moved to the room next door with the dress maker. This time, she was to

choose the lining of the winter coat.

When I lifted my head, Duke Ernst came to my side. He was staring at the back of his wife, who was going out.

“Thank you. It’s thanks to you.”

It wasn’t until then the Ernst’s face brightened that I called her “Mom.” I stayed a bit, but I hid my mind and told Duke Ernst.

“If mom laughs, I’m happy too.”

“Hari.”

He said, the eyes of Duke Ernst quickly became murky. Oh, this uncle. I didn’t know when I was young, but he was very emotional.

He just tearing all of his tears out of this.

Besides, it’s because uncle’s age is similar to Eugene’s 20 years later, it seemed like a bit of goose bumps on my body to see him crying with a face that resembled Eugene, who didn’t seem to get a drop of blood even though he was stabbed.

“If you have anything you want, tell me everything. Dad will buy you everything.”

Mister. Thanks a lot, but it’s not good for kids, isn’t it?

“None is pretty!”

Just then, a sound that can stabbed a earmuffs came from the door. He’s finally here. He came and turned his head to me.

“It’s not pretty, not pretty! Nothing! Not pretty!”

It was the second brother, Cabel, who was shouting with a dignified position in front of the open door. He was clenching his fist

and staring at me.

“Do you know that you can’t become Arina even if you’re wearing that? Don’t be funny!”

“Cabel!”

Duke Ernst, who was next to me, shouted for the second. Cabel paused for a while, but soon began to stared again toward me who standing next to him.

I didn’t know how he will come to me in the presence of the Duke Ernst and behave badly, but in fact, this behavior of Cabel was within my prediction.

He would soon behaving like this though, because I called the Ernst couple in front of the three brothers as ‘Mom and Dad’ and stimulated them.

He opened hid mouth again with his face tight as if he couldn’t stand it, but it was faster for me to act.

“Dad.”

I whispered a little, pulling the cuffs of Duke Ernst with my hands.

“I’m fine.”

I didn’t forget to smile at him. In this case, this poor-looking appearance also helped me. Just by making a little bit of a

dead face, I was seem to be with mercy.

“Hari! What are you talking about, it’s not fine at all!”

As expected, Duke Ernst was startled and started to appease me. When I had a dark face, like I couldn’t seem to know what to do, his conscience was stabbed.

“Cabel! Come on. You should apologize.”

So, if I could give him those burns in this dream, it would enough.

“Hey! It’s my dad! Don’t call him dad at your will!”

Well, it wasn’t that I wasn’t guessing the minds of the kids, but I wasn’t too sorry for that, because there was something I had done to you.

Eventually, the second brother wrangled by Duke Ernst and disappeared for

a deep conversation between the two. After that I left the room to return

to my room.

Duk!

But as soon as I stepped out of the hall, someone stepped on me. I just fell down on the floor without seeing it.

“You’re really irritable.”

This time it was the third brother. Erich was quietly expressing the anger he had in his heart, unlike the second Cabel, his blue eyes had sharp emotions in the eyes.

Don’t just standing there!

“Hmph”

I have a painful knee on the floor, so I grimace for a while.

“Even if you don’t do this and you do such childish things, it won’t change fact that we gonna live with each other.”

Pang!

The flames flashed between the third brother pupil and my eyes in the air. I’m not like I was!

“Say something again.”

Again, a fire broke out between Erich and me.

“What’s going on?”

Mrs. Ernst, who was in the next room, plung her head through the door. At that moment, Erich’s eyes were embarrassed.

I have no intention of making a lot of trouble, but should I be afraid because of something that was not my fault?

“Um”

“Hari fell down with her feet folded. You have to be careful.”

said Eugene, who appeared suddenly.

“Now, hold my hand and get up.”

I waited silently, looking at my hand in front of me. As Mrs. Ernst was watching, he was playing a good brother again, but unlike Eugene’s friendly voice, Eugene’s face back to Mrs. Ernst was cold.

I looked at his hand for a moment and then slowly extended my hand. Then I smiled and caught his hand.

“Thank you, brother.”

Do you think acting can only be done by you? Pretend to be in good term and pretend to be a good brother, I can do it too!

I close my eyes and maybe for the first time as a 7 year old Hari, I smile widely. But for some reason, at the very moment, Eugene hardened like a stone in his place.

What is this reaction again?

I was puzzled, but anyway, conscious of Mrs. Ernst behind Eugene, I hold his hand with a smile and raised my body.

But at that very moment, Eugene’s hand, which I grasped with strength, let go, and wasn’t it to soon to shake my hand with percussion?

No, what is this! What? is this bothering you? Did you do it on purpose now? Did you purposely let me fall? You were such a childish child!

“Oh, Hari!”

Mrs. Ernst, who saw me fall backwards, walked fast towards me. I shed the person in front of me with a booty on.

Oddly enough, Eugene finally looked at me and frustrated as if he had become sober, and then reached out to me again. What he said next was really ridiculous for me.

“You should have held my hand well. Mother, I’m going to tell the maid to

give Hari more rice for meal. Now I see it, she’s too weak.”

I stood up at once.

“That’s right. I’m worried that Hari is so fragile. Maybe I should give her medicine. It’s winter.”

“It will not be bad either.”

Of course, Eugene wouldn’t be agree to give me medicine for my sake.

It was clear that young children, usually about this age, hate taking medicine rather, so he do it on a whim to make me stout.

Evidence is that I and my brother, Erich, used up all the childish thing so I had to avoid cold medicine last time in the past, but I wasn’t really a 7-year-old child.

There is no way to avoid the medicine that the Ernst give. Should I use this to take

care of myself?

Even so, this body is so sluggish that the limbs are like branches. Yes, my condition would be a little better than now if I had a

bite of medicine.

Then I can fight those ugly guys more efficiently….

Ugh. Thinking of this, I think I’m really is a little sly. It was evidence when I using my head in this way.

“Then, let’s go out when the day is warmed up. The whole family!”

Oh. Oh. The cold aura that was pushed

toward me somewhere made me stiff.

Mrs. Ernst was scattering bright smiles like spring sunlight, but the two behind her weren’t.

Well, there. I think Eugene and Erich are staring at me horribly again.

Mrs. Ernst seems to feel happy so much, that she did not notice it as she laughs happily until the end and go back to her room to choose the cloth.

“Now I see you have some talent, too.”

Shortly thereafter, an eerie voice poked into my eardrum. The next moment, I faced a black eye stained with cold-forged anger.

From the beginning, Eugene was incredibly mature as a 12-year-old child, but now I’ve never seen that expression at that age.

He was expressing deep hatred that was not easy to overcome.

“Family?”

The sharp cynics sharpened the air.

“Never will be.”

Then Eugene went go down the stairs after passing through me like that, as he originally want to go down the stairs.

Ugh. I, who remained alone, stood there and sighed. It turns out that the kids are definitely kids.

I’m too old to be hurt by the bad news of children like that now, unfortunately or fortunately. Ugh, uh, wait…Rather, I think I’m actually hurting myself more now.

Ugh. Anyway, after hearing such direct criticism for so long, it was a little new, but that was it. That was the past I went through while I was living with Brothers.

As I got older, I became more and more

sophisticated. This is rather cute compared to bullying. Yes, it’s cute.

Okay. It’s pretty cute. I quietly headed to my room, sweeping the knee I had put on the floor when I fell earlier. Ah, I think this is going to bruise on my knees.

The third brother, the younger one is careless. You shouldn’t be vigilant wherever you go. Sweet.

With that thought in mind, I walked down the hall. Then, at the end, turn the visible doorknob and I open it. A pink-covered room appeared.

Ugh, I hate this childish pink!

I shook my head in the pinkish things that were full in the room, but of course I couldn’t tell the Ernst couple something like that I didn’t like the room.

It was because I remembered how hard they decorated this room for me. Besides, I really liked this room in those days when I was really 7 years old.

It was a big room I had for the first time in my life. It was full of colorful objects that I couldn’t even greed for when I was poor.

But now…You know my age. Ugh.

Naturally, the three brothers have been tormenting me for almost a month with the Ernst couple working on my room and redecorating it.

“Huft.”

I flew over the fluffy bed. God, that’s good. Twenty years later, my bed is soft and fluffy, but this bed is as good as that!

Rustle!

When I heard the sound, I turned my eyes out of the window, and I noticed that the dry branches were shaking in the winter wind.

The wind was so strong that the window whom locked tightly made a loud noise.

‘Family?’

Suddenly, the words that Eugene just shouted were lingering in my mind. And the cold faces of the two people I saw at that moment.

I’ve always had that idea during the 20 years I’ve been in this house. Arina Ernst, during your lifetime, you must have been loved by them a lot.

So somebody can’t stand your vacancy and put me up there instead, and someone else says they can never forgive me for taking your place, but I just do it.

It was okay. Unless I have to start this crazy thing from scratch like now! Uh huh!

“Haah…”

Again, tears covered my eyes, so I struggled for a while on the bed. If it’s a dream, wake up quickly, wake up quickly!

I’m just ready to open my eyes!

This is the best timing to wake up! And I am the happiest new bride in the world!

Now, one, two, three, I wake up now!

Rattle rattle!

Oh, oh, oh, but all I could hear was the noise of the wind.

Eventually I dropped my arms and legs over the bed. I muttered with my eyes wide open.

“There are no dreams or hopes in this world.”

I feel bitter and suffering. Everything’s

black. Huh oh.

As if they know my noisy heart, the winter breeze still blows outside the window seems crying.

“Penny. Chase her!”

Woof!

I stared at Erich with a narrow eyes. He was playing with a dog in the hallway on the second floor and was giving orders to me just after he found me.

The puppy with golden fur is Ernst’s pet dog, the Golden Rat River female, whose name is Penny.

“Woof!”

I remembered this puppy carefully. How can I forget? Erich’s command on the dog is the years when I was scared and trembled because I was afraid to die.

Honestly, there was a time when I wanted to beat this puppy as much as I can did, but in fact, that wasn’t this poor

animal fault who only listened to the orders of the owner.

Hah!Revealing this towards me, Erich lifted his nose from behind the puppy. Huh. But do you know how it will be?

Hugh. I screamed out loud after a long breath.

“Penny, jump!”

Of course, I didn’t forget to throw the bait that I had prepared beforehand in front of the dog eyes. Take it Penny!

Penny plucked her ears and nose, and soon afterward, she chases the snack I threw and runs towards the end of the hall.

“Pe, Penny! Where are you going?”

Naturally, Erich was shockingly surprised that Penny’s betrayal couldn’t have been imagined by him. I crossed my arms and stared towards Erich.

Soon I wanted to show this in his eyes and convince him.

“Penny! Come here now!”

Penny was called by Erich. But she started to jump again after she snorted her snack and ate it all.

“Penny! Would you not listen to me? Who said to eat that thing? Then you know I’ll be angry!”

The kid didn’t have to be like this. What is wrong to penny in the first place?

“Penny. Good girl? Eat this.”

“Woof woof!”

“Good. Pretty.”

I gave the dog a snack for dog, and stroked her yellow hair. Contrary to what I had seen before, at Erich’s order, the penny of the present day shook his tail at

me and ate the snacks I gave.

“This, this is what.”

Erich waved his pupils as if he could not believe what he was seeing now.

“What did you do to Penny!”

“Don’t you see it? I gave her a snack.”

“Why do you give Penny a snack! What are you!”

I ignored the third brother and stroking Penny’s favorite place, and after doing this a few times, I’m used to it.

“Hey! Panting.”

Penny was now poised on me, turning over to my order. Seeing that, Erich opened his mouth.

“Kids, good girl.”

Heung.

Since this time, I’ve been searching all the things this puppy likes!

“Penny, hand!”

“Woof!”

“Penny, sit down!”

“Woof woof!”

“Penny, pretend to sleep.”

I took another snack out of my pocket and rocked it in front of her eyes.

“It doesn’t make sense!!”

No, it makes sense. It’s been almost two years since Penny became Ernst’s pet dog this year. Arina started raising this right after she died.

You know, you’re probably right. So, strictly speaking, it was about the time I spent observing Penny longer than the

time Erich took care of Penny at this point.

Of course, for the current penny, I’m probably the only person who has been face to face to her for about half a year, but I knew the insides of penny’s favorite snacks, favorite games, and where to feel good if I touched her.

And the reason I came to know this so well was the third brother, Erich, who threatened me with penny when he had a chance.

Huh, how much sweat I made to tame this puppy.

Even so, I finally reached the point where I shook him, and I remember that Erich at that time also been a huge trouble. If you look at it,

“Oh, oh, oh, my penny is pretty too.”

As I scratched the bottom of her neck,

Penny shook her tail, making a noise.

“Penny! What are you doing now?”

Erich seemed to feel betrayed by the rapid pace of Penny’s change of mind. When the eyes of Erich and my eyes met in the air, a sharp flame burst again like the last time.

“Erich! Trash! What are you two doing there?”

Oh, the sound of that crap. As I turned, I noticed the second brother coming down the stairs from the 3rd floor.

When I looked at him walking with his eyes open, looked back and forth between Erich and me, who were looking at each other, there was no enlightenment.

“Get your hand off Penny!”

Erich hit my hand, who was stroking Penny, and then he ran to the approaching older brother.

Erich is playing prank around and dragging me around. Even though I saw it, it sounded like this.

“Are you bored brother? Play with her.”

Cabel showed a welcome sign as he had

just forgotten that he had been scolded by the Duchess for a while.

Anyway, simple ignorant guy. So, after 20 years, you had a need from me.

“I was bored at home for a while too! Then let’s practice fencing with me from now on!”

Hey! What fencing practice with you and me is it?

“Okay, you’re my sword-fighting opponent from today!”

The second brother screamed out loud, as if he was giving me a great deal. Believe it or not, Cabel was a prominent swordsman in Arlanta.

The 9-year-old now, of course, is still immature, but still, his skills were far superior among his peers, so after a little older, he was able to win even within the knights’s squad and eventually serving as the knight division commander.

And I could be confident that I also helped to improve this guy’s skills, since this

rotten guy has been wielding a wooden sword against me for reasons of

swordsmanship since I was a kid, and he used to be a trouble every time!

“Come on, let’s go!”

But it all happened after the Ernst couple’s death, this time it’s still early. Is it because I stimulated them?

“Brother Cabel.” I said

I opened my mouth towards him.

“Brother, how old am I?”

“Uh? 7 years old.”

“Then am I a girl or a boy?”

“A girl…?”

The second brother responded to my question with a look like he has question mark floating above his head.

I’m right. This guy is the same person

who’s so clueless after 20 years. Of course, if you touch it wrong, he will

burst like a fire, causing you to devastate.

“Now look at my wrist, brother Cabel.”

I think I’ll break if you catch it with force. My arms and legs are the same. Anyway, what I want to say right now is this.

“How can a small, powerless girl like me be an opponent of a Cabel brother?”

The second brother stopped at that moment. Cabel was listening to me and making an expression saying ‘What?’

“I won’t fit in with you, of course as it’s

never going to be a good practice. Wouldn’t it be fun for you to do that

too?”

“Yeah, is that so?”

Yes! So, cancel it right away! Your swordsman opponent, I don’t need that shit!

“And Cabel’s brother isn’t such a cowardly man who enjoys fighting with a weak girl like me.”

“Yes?”

“That’s what some cowardly people do. No way! right?”

“Ha.. Ah..”

At the same time, Cabel was an easy opponent. He used to confuse his mind as soon as I put a little wind in the middle like this.

“…! I am not a cowardly man!”

I decided to nail the last nail to Cabel, who stuttered at my words and panicked. So I smiled at him and said to him.

“I know that too. How about Erich?”

“What?”

At that moment, Erich lifted his head as if he was stunned. He took Penny and listened to our conversation by the side, and then he looked like a stone.

“Even if I’m not suitable, Erich was missing his time playing with Cabel brother lately. How did you think about that?”

Oh, take that for granted! If you think you can compete with me, Erich! Of course you was wrong!

“Hey, what are you talking about now?”

“Because I’m a nice guy! So I don’t fight with weak kids. Now, Erich! Let’sgo!”

“Wait, brother!”

Erich insisted on his absurdity towards Cabel, but eventually he was caught and dragged behind before he could say anything else.

“I’ll stay with Penny. Have fun brother!”

After removing the two of them at once,

a smile of victory came to my mouth. Whoa. As planned!

“What’s up with you?”

Oh, I’m surprised! When I was intoxicated with the feeling of victory, I suddenly heard a voice from behind and called me.

As I looked back in amazement, Eugene, looking down on me with a cold face, caught my eye. Pretend to be mature this human! Ah!

No, there are three more pieces of shit after that, so if you send one, another one comes, right?

In the end, in this damn corner, why did I meet shit everywhere? Ouch, I’m annoyed!

“After the last accident, you has changed somehow. What’s the reason?”

Humph. Eugene’s keen question made me frightened. When I was young, I especially watched the ages of the people of the house, so I just acted like them.

Moreover, originally I thought I should not go against the three brothers to survive here.

In a way, it was good to say that they had been pressed by their flag since childhood. Just now that I’m determined to be crooked, would you believe that if I said so?

“What are you talking about? I was originally like this.”

“You said it was originally? Don’t be funny.”

Ugh! Let’s just go over it. In this

situation, the most popular answer is, ‘What was the originally?’ I said.

“How do I know if I’m different? Brother doesn’t know me at all.”

Did it work this time? When I looked at his face, Eugene was holding his mouth shut and sending a cold glance toward me, but the words he said in spite of my succession were a bit embarrassing for me.

“Yeah. So far, I don’t know you. You’ve been deceiving everyone and acted like a good child.”

“What?”

Oh no. What are you saying?

“Don’t you be a bother.”

Eugene’s chin was tight. He stare at me with a furious eye. Ugh. I’m not going to win like this.

Of course, Eugene never hit me once in 20 years, but now the eyes he sends are making me so scared that I might consider it now.

“I can’t forgive.”

Surprisingly, what came to his eyes the next moment was some kind of pain, more than anger and contempt for me.

“If you cheated and approached my mother with ill intention from the beginning, I will never forgive you.”

I stopped breathing and looked at Eugene’s distorted face. He was scattering the thrilling as if I had touched his wound.

After doing so, Eugene turned his back on me. It seemed like the last thorn I saw,

and his sharp, cold eyes, seemed to stick to my heart.

As I looked at his distant back, I gradually felt my eyes start to shake. I want to hit

something, can I hit one? He keep saying this and that.

What should I say if you’re telling me that? Who is the one who cheated? If you think about it, It’s me whom being deceived!

You came to say that you give me home

and give me everything I want to, but all I have for 20 years is that all three big and beautiful pieces of shit!

Wow. wow. And Eugene, you were the long-awaited first shit that I’m gonna win over.

“Puppy!”

Right then, Penny, who I couldn’t hear because of Eugene’s momentum, barked at my feet. I looked at where he disappeared.

“Oh, oh, oh, so I see, Penny, you

were a good girl when you were young.”

“Eat this and you’re free from me.”

Hey! I just lost my words to Eugene, and I was absorbed in trying to win Penny again. Yeah. Next time I must hit him back.

Of course, until the day of fulfilling that wish came, it was a secret that I was aiming for Eugene’s pretty head.

Woof woof!

It was strange. I wasn’t originally such

a cunning child.

“Hari.”

A few days later, there was a big disturbance on Ernst house in the late evening. I vomit everything I had for dinner.

It was because I was suffering from high fever again. But I couldn’t figure

out why I was sick. The doctor who visited Ernst again shook his head.

“It seems that her body has been severely hurt by what she suffered a while ago. It would be good to take a medicine that stabilizes the body for a while and relaxed her mind.”

“Is there really no other abnormality?”

“There is no special abnormality. However, her body is weak, and suddenly the others factor that causes the disease is that the

environment has changed.”

Oh, now I was an underdeveloped premature child. Besides, it’s right that the external environment suddenly changed

from 20 years to 20 years ago.

Uh, but it’s too much! I can’t eat something delicious, but why I can’t make flesh and blood even if I eat what is good for my body!

But as the days go by, I feel more and

more sinister. This is not a dream…

I’ve been trying to get rid of the unfortunate thoughts that keep revolving around in me because I’m wondering if it will be real.

“The fever doesn’t sink easily.”

The Ernst couple seemed to be worried about. It was the first time that Hari was

so sick in a row, so it was worth it. I saw my new towel soaked in water.

They thought I was going to vomit agein, so I said.

“I’m not sick at all. Go to bed.”

“Would it be possible for my baby to stay asleep when I was next to her? I wasn’t comfortable in leaving her alone in the room.”

Mrs. Ernst said, as I uttered my word. It seems that I am still uncomfortable

with them.

Her request was so desperate that in the end I couldn’t say more of the rejection, I couldn’t do it.

“Please rest, Hari.”

Mr. Ernst wrapped his wife’s shoulder once and then left the room.

“Dad, is she sick?”

“Yeah. Hari needs to rest, so go out quietly.”

I can hear the voices of my brothers at the door for a while and then disappear.

“No. I’m okay.”

When he said that outside the quiet room, I replied almost reflexively. Then Mrs. Ernst stared at me for a while and then slowly reached out to me.

“Hari. When you’re sick, you can be a little more childish.”

Soft hands like a spring breeze sweep over my head.

“I’m your mother. That’s your father.”

The voice in both my ears was as gentle and tender as the hand.

“Until you die in the future, you are our daughter and we are always on the side of

Hari.”

I felt a little stuffy inside, and I felt like I was tickling somewhere with an unknown feeling. I looked at Mrs. Ernst’s face in

silence.

She gently stroked my head as if I was a child and smiled gently. The silence inside the room suddenly felt peaceful. It turns out I don’t know how long it feels to be protected.

“Don’t worry about it. Sleep well. When you wake up, everything will be all right.”

Even though it couldn’t have been, oddly enough, while listening to her whisper, everything seemed to be all right like that.

I eventually tickled my forehead. Slowly fell asleep feeling a warm touch.

*******

“Hari, eat a lot.”

“Uncle should eat it too.”

“If you call me “Dad,” I’ll eat.”

Creepy!

“Ah, Dad….”

I uttered to the tomato salad in front of me, muttering the sound that wasn’t completely attached to my mouth.

The duke of Ernst who started to eat broccoli, laughing. It’s okay. I’m going to

eat another and you can eat it instead.

I may have picked in uncle a lot, but anyway, I was grateful that he eat this green shit instead, so I smiled at him while looking up at Duke Ernst.

“Hari, you have to eat it evenly.”

But suddenly the fork came from the opposite side, and the green shit I had just removed to uncle’s stomach sat down on my plate.

“It’s not good for Hari if you eat it, dad. She often get sick, I think it’s good for

her nutrition.”

“Huft. Then, you should eat evenly.”

“Okay. That’s right. Now, eat it

Hari.”

Oh. I looked at the fork pushed in front of me and turned my face down. Eugene, you! You know I hate broccoli and you’re doing this on purpose!

“Here, Hari. Eatwell.”I

looked at Eugene and chewed a green chunk of shit. Damn, I don’t get this crap!

“Me, I also eat it as well!”

“Yes, Cabel is also good.”

From now on, I decided cabel as a target for eating broccoli instead of me every time, and secretly starting plan on my head.

********

“Ah~Eh~Uh~Ee~Oh~”

When the meal time ended and I was alone in the room, I started to queer hard by myself. Even if I don’t want to, but it’s lisp everytime I speak.

Sometime I’m very surprised. It’s so hard in this age.

“Hari. I need you to take the medicine.”

I had to repair this weak body quickly, so I drunk the last drop of medicine quickly.

But for some reason, Mrs. Ernst looked at me with such a vague glance and smiled, then put something in my hand.

“I bought it when I went out. I’ll give you one for each medicine, so eat it.”

When I opened my hand, the yellow candy

wrapped in a thin translucent paper came out. Oh, I didn’t even say thank you, but she’s already out.

I grabbed it in my hand instead of eating the candy. It seemed to me that the sound of rustling in my hands was louder than the sound of the wind clapping outside the window. Why?

It’s kind of a waste to eat candy right now… At that time, a knock was heard

outside the door. Did Mrs Ernst return again?

“Yes.”

I told to someone outside the door.

I allowed that person to come in. Then, after confirming who the person appeared through the doorway, I immediately regretted the fact.

“What’s this, is it the expression of someone who hasn’t been well at all?”

So what, do you think I’m glad to see you? What’s more, I didn’t expect the visit. I just saw your face when we were eating!

“Why did you come?”

“It’s not like I came because I wanted to see your face.”

It’s not what I want either.

“I’ll just stay in 30 minutes and then I’ll go

out.”

Eugene said, who told me he was going to spend some time in my room and settled in a chair in the middle of the room.

“Did aunty ask you stay with me?”

“Look like you are not a fool.”

“Just go out now and tell them I already asleep.”

“Mother just walked out, do think anyone

would believe it?”

It was like that again. Eugene didn’t turn his head once, as if he didn’t want to be with me. But I didn’t care anyway because

I was comfortable.

You’re not fidgeting, right! You’re Eugene, who has no blood or tears. The room quickly became quiet as Eugene turned his head to the other side, silently, with his chin on the armrest.

I was so glad that I didn’t bother fighting with the other two.

I glanced out of the window, and then I still touched my hand. The candy. But at the very moment, Eugene eyes who dazzling like a fire and turned to me.

“Why is that….”

His eyes are nailed to the candy in my hand and his voice is digging into my ear was almost the same cold as the weather.

“Why do you have it?”

Have you taken interest in my candy? I replied bluntly while crumpling it.

“It just given it to me?”

Rattled!

But at that very moment, Eugene woke up from his seat and started to approach me.

Eh. I startled without knowing the words of his sudden act, but Eugene continued to

walk, and the heat of my body began to burst from the inside.

“Come on. Give it to me. That’s what Arina was eating.”

Oh, so now this candy is what Arina loved before, so you can’t tolerate I’m holding it now. Well, what is this? There was no day I wasn’t told that I’m not Arina.

It was said she died due to a chronic illness. So perhaps this candy was what

Mrs Ernst gave to her daughter everyday. I recalled her sad eyes I had just seen.

“Give it to me.”

“No, this is mine.”

Eugene said to me again, but I firmly refused. This is the candy Mrs. Ernst just gave me, why should I give you this? Moreover, the reason is because of Arina.

I harden the candy in my hand and grasped it tightly. The rustling sound

once again deafened. Was it because my head was gradually heating up?

I saw an irritated light on Eugene’s face.

“You can’t eat it. It’s different right now.”

“No, it’s mine.”

“Don’t be stubborn!”

I’m finally silent. I saw Eugene biting his mouth as if he had decided to go.

“What, why?”

Eugene reached out to my hand, which kept clenching my fists, but I quickly averted it.

“You’re gonna really be like this? You shouldn’t have it.”

“Why did your mother give me that?”

Eugene said nothing again. So, you don’t have anything to say even if you think about it? Oh my gosh. This is your sister’s favorite candy, so I shouldn’t eat it.

This kind of childish idea. What are you again? Pretend to be an adult but you’re

really 12 years old!

“Give me that!”

Eugene tried to force the candy out of my hand to see if it was going to work, but I moved my body and avoided his hand.

Haha.Do you think I’m such an easy woman? Since then, my nickname was Mellington’s flying squirrel!

“Brother Eugene, it’s so fun to see you now. You can’t have this? Can’t you? Yes, yes? Yes?”

Eugene’s forehead, who had been struggling and twistedseveral times

in his act, finally stood still.

Eugene seemed to be getting the nerves right when I waved my hand and even fluttered.

Soon he threw away all the face-to-face verts he ever had and blew himself into my bed.

“Watch what you say!”

It was true that we both forgot, but I was still sick. The moment I woke up to Eugene, a strong dizziness hit me.

“What, who is slow?”

Eventually, I was caught by Eugene and laid back in bed. Soon a heavy weight was carried over me.

“Look at this. I won….”

Eugene smiled, looking down at me, looking at me, but only one moment he was able to do the momentum. He and my eyes met in the air.

As soon as our concious returned, both of us were awake and frozen. I know I don’t have to say anything.

Even if I didn’t open my mouth, I could see that Eugene is like me now. What the hell am I doing in this age and what did you do with this now?

We met each other’s eyes, causing our pupil to shake.

We had just been impulsively fall together, and we both had serious mental blows blocked. Wait, what kind of situation is this!

“I just heard a loud noise, what’s going on?”

Just then, Duke Ernst, unfortunate or fortunate, came in and opened the door. Only then Eugene and I was able to get loose from the state.

“I don’t think you two was playing.”

“Brother Eugene took the candy mother gave me.”

“Candy?”

Eugene look embarrassed, as if he didn’t know I was going to tell this to Ernst. I

secretly teased Eugene while Duke Ernst turned his heas to his son.

I sticking out my tongue to him.

“Why did you do that? Give it back to Hari.”

“Eugene.”

“I eat it. It’s not in my hand right now.”

It was a candy that easy to have, but I wasn’t willing to give what Ernest gave me to Eugene.

So I was going to tell him again with the intention of telling Duke Ernst the truth. But in conclusion I couldn’t say anything.

The moment a sharp sound resonated in the room, I closed my mouth with my

eyes wide open.

“Seem you got along with my younger brothers too much and I think you’re starting to act like them. Apologize to Hari right now.”

“I’m sorry, Hari.”

Eugene apologized to me in a calm voice. I sat on my bed and stared at Eugene’s face, holding one of his cheeks while I’m

holding my breath.

“Hari, dad will buy you a new candy. I’m going outside tomorrow to the store. How about buying candy by any type?”

“Uh….”

I couldn’t answer easily and hesitated. I knew what it was like now, but I was confused because I couldn’t get it in my mind.

“Eugene interrupted you from resting. I’m going out with him, so please lie down.”

Duke Ernst smiled at me gently as usual, and then, like that, he led Eugene and

left the room together.

When I was left alone, I was able to exhale out of the shallow breaths in my lungs. It’s a surprise. I was surprised to see him beating Eugene in front of me like that.

That’s why I feel like I was wrong.

Compared to what they have done to me so far, it’s nothing…

But is it because Eugene has a useless appearance now? I close my eyes tightly to the unknown feeling. I put the door in the my field of vision one more time.

Eugene face and expression, which had just been expressionless until the end of the room, squeezed hard enough to dig

into my eyes. I shake my head hard.

The next day, Duke Ernst bought the candy like a pile and gave it to me. The colorful candy in the glass bottle is so pretty.

Actually, I still concerned about what happened yesterday, my heart heavy.

“Well, this is yours.”

“Wow!”

It wasn’t only me who received the gift, after a while, Ernst sons also get it.

I caught my eye on the landing stair while Cabel and Erich were enthusiastic by a

sweet snack.

Even though the sound from below was forced to reach the upper floor, Eugene did not show up. Seeing that Mrs. Ernst is invisible, did they sit together?

“If you want something else, tell me anytime, I’ll buy it.”

“I like this. Thank you.”

Ernst’s seemed awkward because of

yesterday. Even though I knew that he’s teaching Eugene in a very strict way, he must have be beaten that way.

It was true that the three brothers not wished they had some trouble with the Duke of Ernst, but somehow this is something awkward rather than cheerful.

“Oh, is this everything you bought?”

Then Mrs Ernst walked down the stairs from upstairs.

“Mom! Dad gave me this!”

“This and this!”

Those two guys were so excited and

shouted.

“Only a good child can get a better gift next time. In the future, we should all go together.”

“Huuh!”

“Yeah!”

“Don’t fight with Hari, okay?”

Simple ignorant Cabel nodded his head at time when his gift was in his hand, and Erich paused for a moment and replied to ask for another soon.

Ernst couple was staring at their smiling face. Only I had a strange sense of discomfort, but I couldn’t figure out where this sense of incongruity came from.

As I narrowed my head by myself, I smiled

reflexively when I met my eyes with Mrs. Ernst.

“I heard from Eugene there was a small quarrel yesterday.”

Uh, um. I think it’s kind of ambiguous to call it a quarrel. The candy that was stolen by Eugene was a gift she give, but well. I have to steal it later.

Of course it is if Eugene hasn’t processed my candy yet. I smiled and said to Mrs.

Ernst.

“Yes. It’s okay. Instead, dad bought me candy this much! He bought me!”

Oh ah! It’s so hard to be like 7 years old! I didn’t know if I can do the acting, so I observed Erich every time I had a chance. As I saw him, I was surprised.

Then, looking at myself now, it seemed to me that I was struggling to presented the acting.

Whether or not the third brother show such behavior, I flashed my eyes and copy his behavior all the time. And finally came to this day.

I couldn’t take a little bit of my heart to feel hurt because Mrs. Ernst smiled at me and seemed cute. Good god! Try to do this with a bare spirit! It’s not easy!

Suddenly I’m feeling like getting drunk and I’m skeptical about life. Ugh damn. It turned out that there were a lot of

precious alcohol in this house.

Huft. To some extent, I want to drink

it all. Of course, if I go back to 20 years later, I won’t want anything more….

I thought again and again, I raised my hand and took a dry face.

“Hari, what are you doing? Why do you do that?”

I forgot about it for a second. It’s embarrassing when a child suddenly washes her face with a regret. I exercised wits, and alas, I stumbled on my forehead.

“It’s suddenly dizzy.”

“Oh, you have to go to the room and lie down.”

“Now, hug him.”

I heard about princess hug from the Duke Ernst. Ugh, uh, I’m a little embarrassed. Can’t you hug me a little bit? I’m an old girl and I’m embarrassed!

“We went upstairs for a while, so Cabel, you’re taking care of Erich.”

“Yeah, okay!”

Cabel replied, still insane about chocolate and candy. Well. His appearance was not very reliable. Erich was dissatisfied with how I was being held by Duke Ernst.

“Hari, will you go up with dad and I’ll sing you a lullaby?”

He couldn’t even sing, but the Ernst couple had a good conversation with me.

For some reason, the sense of incongruity I just felt was once again grown up around me, and I looked at the two guys moving away in a jolly mood.

********

Under the care of the Ernst couple, I started to gain weight little by little since the time passed, I’ve been eating well,

sleeping well, and resting well.

Of course, it’s just that the dried tree

branch has become less dried tree branch, but that’s what my body now.

“Woof woof!”

“Penny, O-O-Oh.”

In the meantime, I succeeded in getting close to Penny. Considering that I had to spend years of taming penny, it was a remarkable achievement.

Of course, there was a big role for Penny’s favorite snack, dog sausage.

“Hand!”

“Woof!”

“Foot!”

“Woof!”

“Roll!”

“Woof!”

Yeah, great! Penny, you are a very nice puppy! I was thrilled and decided to play Penny a little more.

“Penny, jump!”

I hurried around for a while to see if there were any maids or servants, and threw

the ball at Penny.

Ernst’s mansion, albeit inside the mansion. The high silver ceiling made it possible to extinguish this much. Woof!

Because it was winter, Penny ran with a golden fur fluttering because she was only

indoors and the brothers rarely played such games.

Pug!

“Damn!”

But suddenly someone appeared in the hallway when I was playing with Penny.

“Evil, awful, it hurts! Isn’t my head exploded?!”

It was the second, Cabel. Penny, who was interrupted to play, angered and barked, Cabel shrugged around his head and shouted.

“Hey. It hurts. No, so who suddenly popped me up?”

Of course, my fault was big when I threw the ball in this place, but I didn’t feel very sorry that he was the opponent.

If the person who’s being hit the ball was another maid or Hubert, I would have run

and apologized.

“You! Hey, you attacked me now, huh?!”

Cabel yelled at me. He was mad at the ball and he was eagerly staring at me.

“Why does you pop out without notice?”

“Is this my fault now?!”

“Oh, did you cry?”

it seemed like tears were hanging on his eyes.

“Did it hurt a lot?”

“Who cried, who cried! See, no!”

But when he was hurt by the fact that he was showing tears, Cabel tried to hide it as he can. Ugh, I’m sorry to see you crying

like that.

“Let me look at it.”

“Uh, uh, what are you doing now?”

I approached the second brother and reached out to him. As I removed his bangs, his forehead came up with a bright red. Hey, it’s okay, but it’s a little swollen.

It might hurt a little. No, by the way, why is he twisting so wildly? I said, holding his face more firmly so that Cabel could not move.

“Oh, stay still. I’m seeing if you hurt a lot.”

“You, this, this, where do think you’re touching!”

But, for some reason, when I touched his face, Cabel began to stutter badly. Um? Now? It turns out that his entire face looks a little red.

Does your forehead hurt and your fever rises?

“This will be better if you apply medicine.”

Shhh! I wanted to do something to treat the second brother’s forehead as an excuse for treating my heart, but I just endured it.

Besides, Cabel’s condition was a little strange than usual.

Erich, who heard the commotion, opened his mouth as he looked at us.

“What are you two doing there now?”

What are you doing?

“I’m checking my brother, and what are you doing?”

Cabel was still stupid and staring at me stupidly. And whether he like it or not, Erich come and approach Cabel, my hand, which was holding onto his face, was slaped.

“Don’t pretend to be close to my brother!”

Ah, maybe he was dissatisfied with the fact that I was stuck with Cabel. It was right then, penny whom next to me greeted Erich and barked her tail.

Seeing penny, Erich stared at me more.

“Don’t pretend to be close to Penny!”

“Who tell you can play with penny? Oh, you gave snacks to Penny earlier! It’s me who can play with Penny, and it’s me who can give Penny a snack! Not you!”

Well, hey, Erich. Why, you, I think you seem more worried about Penny than about Cabel. Is it my illusion? You know, I knew, you like penny more than Cabel.

But he’s your second brother, for god’s sake. I stared at Cabel’s face with less red color than before.

At that time, I suddenly noticed somewhere, and when I turned my eyes, I noticed that the servants and maids were looking at us in every corner of the hallway.

“Yeah, then you play with Penny.”

Well, my arm hurts anyway.

“Hah! I would do that even if you didn’t say that!”

Maybe I do seemed to feel better about the idea that he took Penny from me, but I only had my arms down. Now I just want to stop being mixed up with them and go to my bed.

“Hey, you, hmm, hmm.”

Just then, Cabel, who had not left his position, suddenly called me. He look embarrassed.

“I will hang out with you!”

He didn’t ask me, but Cabel told me as if he knew I will be grateful.

“I don’t fight with weak kids like you! So you can play with me, with me…okay! Catch it!”

It wasn’t until long ago that his forehead was hurting, and then it seemed like he was getting better.

“I’m glad, but I must refused.”

“What?!”

“No. Why do should I play with brother?”

Then Cabel started blinking his eyes

wide open. He was embarrassed as if he had heard something he had never thought of.

Probably so, after I came to this house, I didn’t say to Cabel things like ‘I don’t want to do it’ or ‘I can’t do it’ anymore, so I was just dragged around as by him.

“Why not?!”

Soon Cabel yelled at me as if he couldn’t believe it. Ck. Ck. I noticed that you were shocked by my rejection.

“Because it’s not fun to play with you, brother.”

Do you know the word “nuclear jam”?

Honestly, when the second brother said to played together, there was nothing interesting for me because he always acted as he liked.

And now, frankly, the difference was between the mental ages, so it was more troublesome.

“Why isn’t it fun to play with me?!”

“It’s more fun to play with Penny than my brother.”

Dudun!

Cabel stumbled as if he were shocked by a second. Oh, I’m going to bother doing more here. I decided to win him at this point and again raised my hand to Cabel’s forehead.

“Isn’t your forehead hurting more than that?”

But Cabel, who met my eyes again and again, was stupid and look like he want the petting more.

“Ah, ah…”

However, it’s just like Cabel’s brother. Isn’t it hurt? I knew it.

“Yes, yes! Nothing hurts! What’s hurt? this? Really! It’s nothing!”

Cabel pretended to be as if he had

waited for me, then puffed his runny nose and sneeze again.

“Hey, it’s for you, eat it!”

The second time he shook his pants pocket and threw it at me, it was a cookie that I didn’t know. I took it reflexively and made a subtle glance.

“I, I carry it in my pocket. It’s annoying, so don’t give anyone else and eat it all by yourself! Ok? Do eat more, is it a tree

branch or an arm?”

I’ve had a similar experience like this before. Congratulations! The winning over the hulk! No, no. In this case, I have to say that the second is still 9 years old and not a hulk!

But wait a second? The moment he threw, I heard the sound of a popping pop in my

ears. Are you throwing cookies? Nice to meet you anyway, pushover, Hoho!

“Thank you, brother Cabel!”

I smiled at the second brother. I will record today as a historic day when the second was born as a new person!

“Wow!”

But at that very moment, Cabel took a breath and became stiff. Huh? Why are you doing that all of a sudden? Why did you like as if you never see something like this?

“Oh, why?”

The strangest thing happened the next moment. The second step back and forth from me and began to stutter the most severely.

“Hey, this! You! Why am I splitting up all of a sudden!”

“Even if you smile, it’s crazy. Oh, don’t smile! You, smile in front of me in front of me… hiccups.”

Do you hiccup while you step back?

it became more and more spectacles. Cabel ran awkwardly, covering his face with the back of his hand, and then ran over to the other side of the hallway.

So what was it? I looked at the back of Cabel, who was running like a lit fire with a glance looking at a sick child.

Huft. Is Eugene’s reaction like this the last time, and is it that I smile like that? Strange.

“Miss Hari really like the second master.”

A heavy voice came from the side when I was in doubt.

A half-year-old middle-aged man who was approaching and looking down at me was Hubert, the butler of Ernst dukedom.

“Hubert!”

“Are you not calling me Mr. Butler today?”

Oh right. It’s only since I got older that I called Butler Hubert by name.

“Hehe. Hari wants to be an adult as quickly as brother Eugene!”

Butler Hubert was still a blunt face 20 years later and now. I was scared of Hubert, who only wears flat facial expressions.

So maybe he was a little surprised when I smiled at him.

There was still not much facial expression change, but I felt a slight emotional change in his eyes that were slightly widened.

“You’re right.”

Soon after, Hubert smiled at me, and I was amazed this time. Even more incredible, he even touched my head with a clumsy touch.

“But it’s not good to be an adult too quickly. A young child better remains a young child as long as she can.

It’s a good thing to be.”

While I was surprised and said nothing, he went back to his original blunt face.

Then, as if nothing had just happened, he lifted his hand from me and began to move his feet with a measured step.

“Did you clean up the grocery storehouse?”

“Yes, yeah! I just finished it all over.”

I stared a little in the distance from Hubert’s back, speaking to the maids and servants. Surely. This is his own way. Did he worried…?

I touched the place smoothly as if I were drawing the hand that sat down on my head. Ugh. What, what.

Uh, somehow this is make me a little shy. I hurriedly daylighted, and then ran to my room.

“Are you all ready?”

Today, it was the day Ernst’s whole family

decided to go on an outing.

After the violent blizzard came to an end,

the winter suddenly fell and boasted warmer weather than before.

Most of the snow piled up outside was really melted that there was no crowd even when riding in a wagon.

“Hari may get a cold again, so you must wear warm clothes.”

Because the floor was still slippery, I often had to walk slow in order not to fall.

“Mom! where’s my gloves?”

“I’ve put it on the table, haven’t you seen it?”

“No. I can’t see it anywhere.”

In response to Erich’s call, Mrs. Ernst eventually went back inside, but I knew that Erich was speaking a lie. That glove, he just hid it in the drawer!

Anyway, he can’t see myself when I’m stuck with his mother.

“Yeah! We’re out! Go outside! Ooh oh oh”

“Cabel! Where did you put your outer

garments?”

Cabel was so excited that he jumped out with less clothes and was dragged back inside by the Ernst’s wife.

“I don’t want to go with you.”

“Really. So what do you want to do? I like going with you.”

“What?”

As he was surprised, the third’s mouth opened as his eyes widen. Oh, but this look is pretty pretty.

On a day that this guy was speechless, only looking at me was much better than opening his blunt mouth.

Erich started to look at me again after adjusted his look and his ears. Maybe he was teased by me more than one.

“Whatever. If you want to go with me, you ride there.”

“What.”

“You guys, are you really ready now?”

“I’m ready! Oops!”

Mrs. Ernst came out with Cabel’s weird command. Duke Ernst and Eugene also appeared immediately.

Duke Ernst, Eugene, and Cabel decided to ride the same wagon. Mrs. Ernst, Erich, and me is in one carriage.

“Now, let’s go.”

She grabbed our hands one by one and headed for the wagon we had to ride.

When I reached the carriage, I stared at

the third with slender eyes and pulled Mrs Ernst’s hand with my puppy eyes.

“Can I sit next to mother?”

“Oh, of course.”

I looked at Mrs. Ernst and smiled at her. She below her head again and Erich could not see my face. How is it? I hate you. Do you want to hit me?

I just did it before you do!! Yo man, take a look at you now! As expected, Erich threw off the his mask and yelled at me.

“No! I’ll sit next to mother! Go away!”

“Erich!”

He was frightened by Mrs. Ernst’s word and frightened more. I was thinking of putting Erich on a little more.

“You can’t do it.”

“No, I want to sit next to my mother.”

“Our Erich is a good kid who can give way to his sister. Yes? Isn’t it?”

It wasn’t even that the Ernst’s wife scolded him. She just stared at Erich

and whispered in a bit of coarse, but I was very glad after that the third words fleeing for a moment.

I saw his lips start to writhe.

“She is not my sister….”

“Erich. My baby is a good kid who listens to his mother.”

Gradually, a shallow water gradually began to appear in the clear eyes resembling Mrs. Ernst.

Erich opened his lips as if he wanted to say something several times, but in the end, he couldn’t say a word, but looked at his mother’s face.

“Now, let’s sit in front of her mother.”

“Yes.”

Finally, Erich replied in small voice and drew his head down. It was the same after climbing the wagon.

He was just sitting quietly and bowing his head halfway, never again struggling with me, and without being thrilled as a young child.

I looked at Erich’s round head without saying anything.

“Hari, is this the first time we’re going out together?”

I turned to Mrs Ernst’s voice. She’s looking at me with a smile that’s soft as usual.

“Yeah. It’s better to go with Erich and brothers together!”

“When you arrive at the destination, it will be more enjoyable.”

I felt that Mrs. Ernst’s bright laughter was slowly getting bitter. It was because I just realized what the sense of incongruity I had felt a while ago.

“It’s not too short to travel in a wagon, so sit comfortably like Erich.”

I heard Mrs. Ernst’s words. I looked away from the window. The rapidly passing landscape was all white with color as my eyes sitting on the branches.

I looked at the sight, and after a while I

closed my eyes.

******

“Wow ah! There are so many people!”

As soon as people stepped into the bustling city, the turbulent air peculiar to the city shook me.

Cabel keeps running somewhere like a puppy who has already been so excited to gone out. He squeaked his feet to run out.

Probably, if Duke Ernst had not held the second brother arm since the beginning, he would have remained lost ten times.

“Today, we only need to stop by the

medicinal dealer, and since the weather is warm, so shall we go around?”

“Then it takes time anyway, so it would be better to order medicine first.

According to Ernst’s opinion. The aim was to buy my own medicine with Mrs. Ernst, whose body was also weak.

“After ordering the medicine by combining herbs, we can eat it at home, so I decided to go back to the medicine I had set at the time I finished going out. What about Hari? Do you have anything you want or want to eat?”

‘It is a good idea for a young child to remain a child as long as possible.’

At that very moment, Butler Hubert’s words passed by. When I think about it, I have never argued strongly with someone for what I wanted during my life.

Even in my childhood, I didn’t even remember using a tantrum when I wanted to have or buy anything. It wasn’t because I didn’t really want anything.

I quietly looked up at the face of the Ernst couple. If this is a dream, I will wake up someday. If I was, could I do everything I wanted to do?

Even if it’s so trivial that it feels trivial on the one hand.

‘I want to buy cotton candy! Two people eat on one cotton candy will not know if one can!’

I decided to put my thoughts into action immediately. Now, anyway, I’m 7 years old now, so let’s forget the embarrassment and shame and put a sheet of iron on the face.

“Cotton candy! I want to eat cotton candy!”

I said proudly, pointing my finger at a street vendor nearby.

“Mom, I want that! Grilled lizards! I want to eat it!”

In conclusion, I succeeded very easily in getting cotton candy. Only Cabel had to abandon grilling lizards sullenly because of the careful wife of Ernst.

“Cabel. Eat this instead.”

But Cabel quickly regenerated after Eugene grabbed the authority skewers.

I stood in front of a cotton candy street vendor holding hands alongside Duke Ernst.

“Mister, give me a pink cotton candy.”

“Yes, cute girl! It’s very sweet and delicious because it’s cotton candy imported directly from Obelia!”

Oh. This was imported from Obelia. After 20 years, I didn’t realize it because I could see it in every street within Arlanta.

Of course, at that time, I wanted to say, ‘What am I doing at this age?’

I look at the street vendor making cotton candy with a vague look.

Obelia is a country in goodwill with Arlanta, where I live, and was regarded as one of the great powers ruled by the powerful wizard emperor.

Oh, and then I remembered that the princess of that country had a wedding ceremony 20 years later, and it was so lively even in Arlanta.

Did I say that it was the princess, the jewel of Obelia?

It seems that the princess was probably one year younger than me, but she was married at the age of 26, so it was a really late marriage for a princess in one country.

Huft. Thinking that makes me a little bit sad again.

It was said that the princess was only allowed to get married at that age due to the great love of the father Emperor.

I heard that it was the Emperor’s desire to keep his daughter a little longer next to him.

It’s so different from me, who was an old woman, because I couldn’t get my marriage until turn 27!

Ouch. What’s more, he didn’t marry the

princess elsewhere in the house of imperial family of Obelia, but decided to send the groom to the palace and live together as a member of the royal

family.

It was a surprised. Well. Perhaps the emperor is seriously out of control.

Later, people said that they don’t know if the princess will take over the throne, or, in the general case, the groom will take the place.

Everyone had to put their mouths together and conclude. Well, it’s going to happen about 20 years from now. Then how is that princess by now?

Did she living a happy life?

She was born with a gold spoon in her mouth, so I’m sure she’ll be living well while being loved without being mistreated like anyone else and noticing others.

Ugh damn. I envy her… In the next life, I want to be born like that princess.

Oooh! What kind of karma am I doing in my previous life that I’m doing this twice on top of dealing with three pieces of shit?

“Now, it’s a heart-shaped cotton candy!”

“Wow!”

Ah, while I was thinking, a cotton candy came out! The color is pink and the street vendor made the heart shape. With a cotton candy, I ran to where the third was.

“Erich!”

Erich had been quiet all the time since his lose at the wagon. I fluttered the rabbit fur and ran to him and said,

“Oh”

“What?”

“Ah? Hey! Eat this!”

My hand that hold a cotton candy turns into Erich’s mouth. It was thick.

He followed me and opened his mouth

unknowingly, and he was surprised to the cotton candy that come in.

“Is it delicious?”

“What are you doing now?”

“Now, eat more. It’s delicious.”

“I dont want to eat it.”

“What? Isn’t it so delicious? Do you want to eat more? Dad! Can I buy another cotton candy?”

It was the third piece of shit (Erich) face that looked really bad and making me worried.

“Now, I’ll give you a new one.”

“I’m not eating!”

“Don’t cry later, eat it.”

I thought I just wanted to put it in his mouth, but because the Ernst couple was

watching, I smiled at Erich and chuckled in a good-looking cotton candy.

But his stubbornness is not normal. The cotton candy thrown from the third hand rolled down the floor the next moment.

“Erich, what are you doing now?”

Naturally, Erich was confused by Ernst wreath. He cried and I saw Erich hanging over to Eugene and burying his face.

That child, how delicious is cotton candy, and I don’t even know the nobleness of

some!

…. No. Where the heck is this. I can’t quite grasp what to do. Ugh. After all, children are too difficult. It was also instantaneous

that the usual outing became a mess.

After that, the Ernest couple tried to change the atmosphere, but as a result, only a few hours passed without exerting a great effect.

Still, by the end of the outing, it was fortunate that Erich had some relief and was embraced by Mrs. Ernst.

Of course, I never opened my mouth until the end.

“Now we have to find the medicine,” said Ernst’s wife, while walking with Erich in her side.

“Oh, isn’t it the duke of Ernst?”

But there was a man who knew the Duke of Ernst nicely. It was just a negligible greeting. After a short greeting, she turned her head to Eugene, who was next to me.

“Eugene. Maybe you should go.”

“Okay.”

We can wait for Duke Ernst as it is, but the problem was that the time to close the door of medicinal herbs was getting

closer.

Then I wonder if I will be waiting here…

“Come with Hari.”

I remember! Mrs. Ernst plan screamed like a chunky wall. Eugene shook his eyes at her word.

“I can go alone.”

“It’s hard to keep watch at all three children alone. Cabel doesn’t know where to turn his eyes, and Erich…”

Mr. Ernst glanced down at Erich, who wasn’t close to him. Soon she smiled and talked to Eugene and me.

“Because there are so many people, it’s easy to get lost, so the two of you should hold your hand and go. Hari must be well attached to her brother.”

I had to try hard not to rot my face. I could notice what Mrs. Ernst’s thoughts were.

Auntie, are you trying to reconcile me and Eugene right now?

Since Eugene and I seem to have been awkward since the last candy incident,

you’re deliberately sending the two of us apart, right?

But no matter how much it is, it’s not easy like that! Even Mrs Ernst overlapped my hands with Eugene. At the touch of the hand, both Eugene and flinched.

“Carefully, come and go!”

Eventually, Eugene and I awkwardly grabbed our hands and went out on the road.

At the streets, where I and Eugene walking alone were, of course, so awkward that I feel like want to die.

I looked up at Eugene with a sneak glance between the people coming and going. He was walking with his face staring straight ahead, not knowing what he was thinking.

Since the candy incident at that time, I have never had a conversation with Eugene. It wasn’t like that i don’t what to say.

After that day, Eugene was stuck in his room, excluding meal time, making it difficult to see his face. They said he was studying.

In fact, Eugene studied at Arlanta’s largest academic institution from the

age of 11 to the age of 17.

Right now he’s not in the semester, so he’s at home, so maybe when spring come he will be back to school. So it might not seem like an excuse to study in his room.

Oh? But what did you just say? Anyway, I just thought what Eugene had said to me. I was in a different thought and raised my head to his face.

Then Eugene opened his mouth again without looking down at me.

“Do you still want to go back to where you were?”

I was puzzled. Why are you asking me this thing without hesitation? Oh, and when I saw it, it wasn’t long before I first realized

as I opened my eyes where here is.

Did you say do I want to go back?

“Yes, I want to go back.”

Of course, Eugene would think that the place I was talking about was the street of Meltington where I used to live as a child, but I didn’t think I had to correct it, so I just replied.

After that, Eugene was silent.

What the hell are you thinking, but for me, Eugene was a difficult person at any time, so it wasn’t easy for me to dig his heart up even when he was young.

Eugene and I walked silently through the gap between people who came in and out, like low tide and high tide.

Unlike my hand who wearing white mittens, Eugene was bare. His hand, which held my hand, remained a little red and frozen for a moment.

It was then that the power around my hand was loosened.

On the slowly fading hand, I opened my mouth to call his name, but before his name flowed out of my mouth, his hand shook from me first.

The cold air in my hand, where the warmth disappeared, struck.

“Eu-“

I stepped forward one or two steps along the crowd, and soon stopped in my place.

A voice that didn’t come out before became a white breath and embroidered the winter air.

‘Because there are many people, it is easy to get lost, so hold your hand and go.’

I looked at Eugene far away from people. Without calling his name or chasing after him. The daytime ripe brown of his hair soon disappeared from view.

Thousands of people have passed around me…

I Wouldn’t have known if I was really 7 years old, but I wasn’t a kid, so I realized. The fact that Eugene left me here now.

There were a lot of people wherever we went, because it was crowded.

I once again moved to the corner of the street, avoiding the crowds who are constantly pushing.

And I sat properly with my ass sitting on the empty boxes in front of the vegetable shop. It would be hard to find if you lost a child here.

I sat down on the box and looked down at

Eugene’s hand just before, but, of course, my hand was empty, and the warmth I was staying in was already captured by the winter breeze, so I couldn’t even find it back.

Is this has happened before, but was it just that I didn’t remember as a child? Or did something change because I was

different now and then?

While walking with Eugene, I wasn’t aware of it because of other thoughts, but now this road was not the way I went with

Ernst’s family.

Strangers who pass by. The first day to see the street. And above all, this time 20 years ago, unfamiliar. In it, I was alone.

It was strange.

Even though I knew what Eugene did, but I did not hate or blame him. Maybe this is because I still think this is as a half dream.

Everything on this land I’m on now feels terribly realistic and terribly unreal.

I was just a little curious as to what Eugene at the age of 12 was thinking as would leave me here.

“My baby, are you waiting for your mom? It’s cold, stay inside.”

Is it because I was sitting looking too pathetic?

The women that appears to be the owner of the vegetable shop thought of me as a waiting child and kindly recommended it, but I replied shortly, still keeping my eye on the people who were coming and going.

“I’m not waiting for anyone.”

The old lady at the vegetable shop chuckled at me, but I didn’t say anything anymore.

I thought of my childhood suddenly trying to sit in the middle of the street like this. I was doing my mother’s nursing care at a shack.

I was walking around the houses in the alley to beg. I couldn’t sell all the flowers in the basket, so I got messed up with my neighbor, Sarah.

And Ernst’s couple who smiled with tearful faces even when I gave them all the white flowers that had withered.

If I mix myself in between those people in front of me and leave my body, can I go anywhere like this?

In what sense is that a result that resembles the freedom I wanted? Okay….

Then, why did I never think about leaving the house? I thought and looked at the people passing by. Until I even felt tired of passing by dozens or hundreds of

people in their lives.

Huft. It was some time after that and dark shadow was cast before me. I was tired of seeing people, bowing my head curled

up on the box.

Then at some point, my eyes see a men’s winter shoes in front of me.

As I looked down at the lustrous, shoe-nosed nose with shallow sand dust, I slowly raised my head.

Then Eugene, standing in front of me, shed some light on my sight. Brown hair, which was always neat, was a little disheveled.

The breath hanging on his lips followed my breath and tickled my forehead. In that state, he goes for a while and looks at me….

“Let’s go.”

Before long, he said so briefly. I looked up

at the person in front of me. The moment our eyes met, the emotions in his eyes flowed to me.

The deep-rooted feelings of guilt, compassion, and despair that swirl in that black pupil.

“Have you been there?”

I just pretended not to know what he was feeling at this moment, and what I was

feeling. I just said that.

What just happened between him and me like I don’t know anything, and pretend that he gone to order the medicine. Then

Eugene smiled for a while…

“I’ve been there.”

He replied so.

“Let’s go back.”

I got out of the box and stand up, and this time I first reached out to him. Eugene stared at it for a while, and then slowly took my hand.

His hand was colder than me. The cold felt over my gloves. The hand was cold.

“My leg’s hurts.”

I decided to try a childish fight against Eugene. In a way, I knew that he would not be able to refuse now, and I was also

in my own mind.

“Up here.”

Eugene also answered with a short answer and then sat down with his knees in front of me. I threw my hand on his back

as if I had waited.

“Stupid.”

I mumbled over Eugene’s back. And after a while, impulsively raised my hands.

“Ugh.”

No matter how much you think about it, it’s rude, but I pick his head!

“What are you doing?”

It wasn’t an excuse to say, but,

“Hey. I’m trying to remove the dust.”

“But, what are you going to do?”

Isn’t this is a pretty back head right in front of my nose? This was a chance for my revenge.

I raised my hand to his head and beat the back of Eugene’s head, which had been looking for an opportunity to explore the city sight.

Every time I did, Eugene hissed, but instead of scolding me, he just walked silently.

Now the sun started to settle down on the ground. The shadows created by the two fools also stretched to the floor.

“Brother Eugene is uncomfortable.”

“Noisy.”

Eugene still said that it was heavy, but the hand that carry me was as hard as ever and never going to let me down. Whatever it was, it was now that was important.

He came back to pick me up. That what I thought.