She’s The Older Sister Of The Yandere Male Lead In A BL Novel - Chapter 37 – Part 1

[ It’s nice to be at the temple with you. I can hear L’Aquila rejoicing from here. ]

As soon as we arrived, Tino came wagging his tail next to me. The temple was a place abundant in holy power and the realm of gods, so it deserved his liking.

“I can’t hear it.”

[ That’s how it is. ]

Even though I was in a good mood and was thinking of lending help to the priests, I shook my head. It was because I had never stepped out to help anyway.

Instead of that, I smiled sadly and walked with my head down like a pitiful person, unlike earlier. It was like having a warm-up before working. If a person who had never done something like this in his entire life did this.

It would have a bigger effect because my mother aroused the sympathy of the public, and there would be an immediate effect.

“…What should we do? I think the saint was having a very hard time.”

“She is a naughty and bright person…”

“She deserves to feel hurt. How dare they, evil spirits!”

Listening to their chattering as if it was music, I climbed the carriage with Lisandro. While he gazed at me discontentedly, he didn’t open his mouth.

As Lisandro puckered his lips, I softly whispered and asked.

“Why? What are you complaining about?”

“Didn’t you leave him behind?”

“Ah.”

I tried to leave him behind, but I hadn’t decided yet so he was still my escort.

“When the results come out, I will go back.”

“…Sheesh.”

Even though he wanted to force him to go, I thought he was annoyed because he couldn’t. Lisandro closed the door himself as I sat down comfortably in the carriage with a big smile.

For three days, I leisurely waited for the letter from the temple. I was outside in the garden drinking tea and comfortably talking to Verdo. I had told him in advance that I would be recuperating. Since he was the one who would escort me, he, of course, had the right to know.

“Then, I—”

“No, you don’t have to. Sir should be in charge of the Holy Knights Order.”

He was a talented person. The head of the Holy Knights Order introduced him as a person who would succeed after him. Though he was weaker compared to Lisandro in terms of sword skills alone, his skills were comparable to becoming the next head of the Holy Knights Order in the future.

His popularity in the temple went without saying. Lisandro was just exceptionally strong.

“Sir should protect the temple.”

“The Saint is the significant existence of the temple. So, it is the Saint that I should protect.”

He stiffened his face as he insisted on going with me.

In fact, I couldn’t ask Verdo to come with me as I was going to find a clue about myself and not to recuperate. There was no reason to bring Verdo with other escorts and Frey. It was already suffocating between Lisandro and Verdo, so I wondered if it would be any different with Frey.

“That’s all right. My escort will be chosen among the talented people from my family and take them with me. I want to forget about my responsibilities in the temple for a while. You understand, right…?”

“All about… the temple?”

I nodded my head and continued in a suppressed voice.

“Yes. I just meant that I want to relax without thinking of anything else. That doesn’t mean that I will really forget about it, so don’t be so sad.”

He pursed his lips as I smiled and spoke mischievously. However, since he couldn’t say anything he wanted to say, he just shut his mouth and nodded his head.

And so, our conversation ended like that. Still, I didn’t care and drank my tea as I languidly glanced around the garden. While it felt like a lot of things were going on in a short span of time, it wasn’t stuffy or anything like that.

The people who are after me were coming from under the water, but I am confident that I could settle it with my own abilities. Even though Frey’s memories had returned to him and had no murderous intent towards Lisandro, I was more comfortable around him.

If I were him, I would have killed Lisandro a hundred times whether I haven’t experienced much now. I would hate him so much that I wouldn’t want to see his face.

However, because of the sole reason that I saved Frey, he became friends with Lisandro. Although they bicker with each other and there was a cold atmosphere around them, they were more like friends with each other. He could have gone through the same thing again no matter if I saved him.

I had no idea what Frey was thinking.

As I was filled with thoughts about Frey, I remembered the words he sometimes says that fluttered my heart. When I shook my head, Verdo suddenly stopped behind me.

“Sir…?”

“You are very diligent in escorting, Sir Verdo.”

“Frey?”

I slightly poked my head to avoid Verdo, who was blocking behind me, and saw Frey sticking out. With his eyes folded, he held out a box in his hand.

“It’s dessert. I bought it to eat together.”

“Oh.”

“Lord Verdo should have some with us as well.”

Speaking politely, Frey shook the box slightly.

“I am escorting…”

“Let’s sit down and eat together, sir.”

“…If you insist.”

At that, Verdo pretended to lose and sat on the chair opposite me, while Frey naturally sat next to me. Beckoning to Yuta guarding him, he put down the tea in front of Frey.

“It’s a new product this time.”

“I like everything.”

Yuta brought a plate, set the snacks Frey brought, and stepped back.

“I think they must have contacted you at this point.”

Frey asked, moving his kiwi on his plate onto me. I then poked the kiwi and put it in my mouth.

“It hasn’t arrived yet.”

He crossed his legs and turned towards me.

“Are you ready to recuperate?”

He slyly mentioned it and smiled brightly. As I glanced at Verdo, fortunately, he didn’t seem to understand his words.

“Roughly. I don’t have much to bring.”

“Well, yes. Is Lisandro at the training ground?”

“Mm. This time, a monster appeared out of the blue in the West Bongru Mountains. I guess that’s why he was busy.”

Except for when I went to the temple because I was busy preparing this and that, he couldn’t come to visit even if it was just the two of me with Verdo.

“Sir Verdo doesn’t seem to like dessert very much.”

While I was happily eating the cake, Frey’s question caught Verdo. He flinched when he met his eyes. Turns out, he hadn’t eaten any.

“If I had known this would be the case, I would have bought a less sweet snack.”

Saying so, Frey smiled apologetically. Seeing that, Verdo stared at him blankly for a moment before shaking his head in surprise.

…To make a proud Verdo like that. His crazily handsome face really couldn’t be hidden.

“I-it’s okay.”

He was probably embarrassed when he stuttered, so Verdo let out a loud laugh. It was so funny that I chuckled. I was also like that when I first saw him, and unlike me, he didn’t seem to get used to Frey’s beauty at all.

“Then, should I ask to bring light snacks for Sir? Would you like some?”

“No. I like sweets too.”

As he said so, he stubbornly chewed the desert in his mouth. Watching him silently, Frey tilted his face toward me before covering his mouth with his hand and quietly whispered to me. His gentle breath tickled my ears.

“I don’t think he does, right?”

In a playful voice, I poked him in the side and told him not to say it.

At that, I looked at him with a look as if telling him, ‘You already know, right?’ since his behavior now was quite rude. Calling people and whispering about them right in front of them was no different from alienating them… It was impossible that Frey, who valued courtesy among others, would not know that.

But, he did it anyway.

When he saw me a little disappointed in him, he handed him an apology right away as if he had been waiting.

“Oh, I’m sorry, Sir Verdo. I was rude.”

As he offered an apology in a polite tone, he shone so brightly that he would be forgiven for anything. Verdo glanced at Frey and calmly replied.

“There’s no need. You were born and raised together since you were young, so you’re like a real family. I think that you can definitely do that.”

“Like a real family.”

He glanced at Verdo with his chin on his hand as if he was intrigued. His appearance was so bewitching that anyone would think he was seducing that person.

“Yes. Like family.”

“Well…”

Frey smiled at me and dragged the end of his words.

How can I not smile with that smile?

Frey looked me in the eye and opened his mouth again, “If Sir wants to think that way, then I won’t stop you.”

“Why would you say that while looking at me? I am not Sir Verdo. I am Yurenia.”

He chuckled and then turned his head away.

“Isn’t the word carelessness the most dangerous?”

“…I never let my guard down.”

“Nothing will change if you don’t.”

“….”

Verdo eventually shut his mouth.

…It doesn’t look like they were fighting, so what’s with this ambiguous atmosphere as if telling me they aren’t fighting?

If Lisandro openly expressed ‘I hate you,’ it would not be difficult to tell whether the two hated each other. Because it was quite subtle, I couldn’t just openly ask them if they hated each other.

Suddenly, in the middle of that ambiguous atmosphere, a messenger bird flew in. It came here because it was embedded with magic so that it could come to wherever I was.

“I think the results are out.”

I took the letter hanging from the messenger bird’s neck and read through the long string of text. In the end, a time and place were written. However, since this was something I hadn’t told Verdo yet, I gently folded the note and smiled.

“What did it say, noona?”

“Get a good rest.”

“Mm.”

Frey blinked, and I nodded.

“Sir Verdo, you can rest well today.”

“…Yes?”

“I have something to talk to Frey. It’s good to go and visit colleagues after a long time!”

And, even before Verdo could refuse, I quickly grabbed Frey’s sleeve and dragged him.

“Eat some delicious food, okay?”

“Ah, I—!”

“Then, Sir, see you later in the evening!”

“Wait a moment…!”

The next moment, Verdo quickly got up and blocked me. Hesitating, he swept his eyebrows and opened his mouth.

“Is it…is it okay to eat dinner together as usual?”

“We can do that if Sir comes before that.”

“Then, I will come in before that.”

I waved to Verdo, who bowed, and took Frey to the drawing room. While it was all right to talk outside, this was just in case so it was better to prepare in advance if possible.

“Noona, can I go to dinner tonight too?”

“Why are you asking that? Of course.”

Since when did he ask if he could come and eat…?

After Yuta prepared a new tea in the drawing room and left, I handed Frey the letter I was holding in my hand. He was also curious in the contents of the letter because he hadn’t yet said if he would fall to it anyway.

“As expected of noona.”

“Just pretending to be nice doesn’t change anything from now on.”

“That’s true. Still, aren’t you forgiving too easily?”

Asking that, he folded the letter neatly and handed it to me.

“To be honest, not all people are like that. But, it is also wrong to spread rumors and exaggerate it like that.”

It was a little out of line to stay still this time because it just didn’t fit my personality. This wasn’t revenge though I was just pricking on those who didn’t believe me.

Since I was innocent, I was going to say that I was leaving because they believed such rumors. Nevertheless, I also felt sorry for those who believed in me. Of course, I would give them the medicine after giving them the disease.

“Don’t be sorry.”

“…Huh?”

“Don’t think about anything else, and only think of yourself, noona. Please, live like that this time. I will worry about those things in your place.”

At that, Frey sat down on the sofa and seductively folded his eyes.