The Villain’s Sister Suffers Today - Side Story Episode 21

Side Story Episode 21
Translator : Missme
Editor : Aru

“……..total extinction?”

Gyerg picked up the glass and took a sip of water in it.

Gyerg continued with a calm but complex expression on the other hand.

“If you think that it’s total extinction if the body disappears? That’s not true. Its existence itself is erased as if it had never existed in the first place. That’s the total extinction.”

“And that’s why she’s gone from people’s memory?”

“That’s right. It doesn’t erase her existence if anyone remembers her.”

The water in the glass that Gyerg put down is rocking.

Just like how I feel right now.

“………Wait, what about me? I still remember Alice.”

“You’ve changed your body with Alice.”

“Because of that?”

“Maybe it’ll affect you. There’s no other reason than that. But it won’t last long. How many days at the longest?”

Gyerg calmly sentenced a time limit of my memory.

I was dumbfounded and asked suddenly.

“What about you, Gyerg? Do you also forget Alice as time goes by?”

“Of course, although it takes longer than you, human beings. I’m half-demon, but we’re the same kind.”

“…….”

“Why? Do you feel sorry for her?”

“It’s not like that, it’s just……”

Do I feel sorry that I forgot about Alice?

No, I didn’t feel that way. I gave up looking for a remarkable word to express this disturbing feeling.

“I’m just a little pissed off. It’s ridiculous, it’s my memories but it’s being manipulated by external forces.”

“That’s true.”

Gyerg sympathized, followed by a light addition.

“So maybe it’s a better ending that suits her well.”

‘The end that suits her.’

……well, is that so?

The ending where the memories of people about her are manipulated and forever forgotten from them.

As Gyerg said, it may be the best end for Alice, who manipulated other people’s minds with her mind dominating power and wielded them freely.

‘Right, it’s the best ending.’

Many people in society will suffer from nightmares just by thinking of the name Alice.

It would be a blessing for them to forget Alice.

“What are you thinking about?”

Gyerg spoke to me, who remained silent in thought.

I gently told him my recent thought.

“I think I had to burn the dress.”

***

I burned Alice’s dress completely without leaving any piece of cloth.

The reason why I did not simply throw it away but burn it instead was simple.

Revenge?

No.

‘Because if I throw it away, I might find it again later…….’

Just imagining that time gave me goosebumps.

It’s too ugly.

It’s definitely my dress, and it’s definitely me who told them to throw it away, but it’s not in my memory, and the suspicious sign will show up — Well, I’m seriously worried about this, and I got goosebumps when I imagine myself in the future.

‘It’s the right choice to burn it for the sake of myself in the future.’

So I organized the last trace of Alice.

In a way, it was like cleaning up the relics.

After that, time passed peacefully for a while.

The weather changed quickly. And in line with that, the day quickly became hotter.

The bedclothes and pajamas became thinner, and the dessert after the meal became cold.

I stared at the Gyerg today, who scooped his fifth plate of fruit sherbet for lunch.

“…….”

I looked at him with my chin up and he finally felt my gaze, so Gyerg stopped the spoon, which was moving busily, and looked up.

“Why?”

Gyerg tilted his head as if he was trying to gauge the reason for my gaze and said as if he knew it soon.

“Oh, am I eating too well? Is it fun to watch? Well, it’s one thing I’ve been eating for a long time…….”

“When are you going home?”

I interrupted Gyerg and asked abruptly. Gyerg frowned.

“What? Where’s my house? Are you teasing me?”

“You need to go to Mayke. To help her build the tower. It’s your new home now.”

“Hey, on whose permission?”

As if ridiculous, Gyerg snorted.

Then he raised his hand naturally and said, ordering the sixth sherbet from the maid.

“I’ll decide on my own house. I don’t have a house yet. And you’re the one who told me to stay here as long as I wanted.”

“…….”

“There’s nothing as nasty, dirty, and ugly as changing your own words. You know that, right?”

“……. yes, I know.”

I admitted without a hitch.

A sigh came out at the same time.

‘Why did I say that?’

That’s right. I told Gyerg that he could definitely stay here until he got sick of this house.

The problem is that I don’t know why I said that.

‘Was I crazy for a second?’

Not only that.

From what Bessie and others heard, I told Ash that I wanted to see him fight with Gyerg, who visited the mansion in the middle of the night.

That’s why Ash actually fought against Gyerg.

‘Am I really crazy?’

No, so how did Gyerg come here in the first place?

I called him with the coin, but as I said, I remembered calling him but didn’t remember the reason why I called him.

There were, strangely enough, results all over the place, but I couldn’t remember the cause and process.

‘Am I sleepwalking……’

I remembered some brutal news in my previous life that a sleepwalking patient had stabbed someone while sleeping.

Being crazy or sleepwalking. Which one is better?

I looked at Gyerg with that kind of confusion.

It was very complicated to see Gyerg eating up his sixth sherbet-like a challenge mukbang.

“Why the hell did I do that?… I sent him to Mayke for best.….”

I was talking to myself but maybe he heard it to himself because he stopped eating and stared at me. I blinked my eyes.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“……….no. It’s not like I didn’t know this would happen.”

Mumbling an unexpected remark, Gyerg then ordered the seventh sherbet.

It was kind of amazing.

“Stop eating. The Chef will be tired. What are you–“

“Hey, human.”

“Huh?”

“You don’t remember the words you told me to eat well while I was here, otherwise you would put a funnel in my mouth and force food into it, right?”

“…….did I?”

“Yeah. And also–“

Gyerg said with sharp eyes, pushing aside the finished sherbet plate.

“You know you’ve been weirdly sharp with me, right?”

“…….”

“I know you’re in a bad mood, and I know you’re depressed and felt stuffy, but you shouldn’t take it out on me”

I was stabbed to the point and shut my mouth.

Yeah, that was right.

As he said, I was currently in a very bad mood, and it is a lie to say that I didn’t take those feelings out in a while, if not by chance, to Gyerg who I met at the dining room.

“I’m sorry.”

When I apologized right away, Gyerg seemed rather embarrassed.

“No, I didn’t mean that you need to apologize.”

“……..”

“Hey, hey, hey, cheer up. It’s only been a month. He’ll be back soon.”

Now Gyerg is starting to cheer me up. I was silent because I was not motivated to answer.

A month.

That’s when Ash was away from the mansion.

About a month ago, Ash left the mansion, leaving me a farewell kiss, saying he had a place to go for a while.

And then he hasn’t come back yet.

‘There hasn’t even been a single message so far.’

He said it might take a while, but…….

This is not a little. At least by my standards. A month without even contacting each other was too long.

Too long.

‘I don’t know where he’s gone too.’

Furthermore, no one in the mansion except Ash knew where Ash had left.

“If I knew you’d do this, I wouldn’t have asked him to come back safely. I would have asked him where he was going.’

Late regret only fueled depression.

Gyerg seemed to be trying with words of support to cheer me up when I was down, but later he said casually, leaning his back on the chair to see if he had given up.

“Oh, it’s just a month. Someone might think it’s been a year.”

“…….”

“Hey, No matter where the Duke is or how many days the Duke has gone, he wouldn’t get stabbed to death? He’ll come back on his own. Without any difficulty…….”

“I know there’s no way anything could happen to Ash.”

“But?”

“But I’m still worried. I can’t help it.”

“…….”

“I can’t help but feel anxious, nervous, and worried. Because I love him!”

“Here we go again.”

“And on top of being worried, I miss Ash more than anything!”

“How many times have you repeated it this week?”

Then Gyerg really raised his hand and folded his fingers to start counting.

I used to narrow my forehead and straighten it out.

“Oh, yeah, you won’t understand this feeling. Well, I understand.”

“…….”

“A half-demon old bachelor who’s not even married may not know this feeling.”

“What does that have to do with being half-demon? And who’s the old bachelor?”

“How old are you? Aren’t you over 100?”

“That’s……oh, it’s just the average age as humans.”

“That’s not what I know, you’re an old bachelor anyway.”

“Hey!”

Someone knocked on the door outside while I was exchanging childish arguments with Gyerg.

“Madam, this is the butler. May I come in?”

“….…!”

I shouted quickly.

“Come on in!”

As soon as the butler opened the door and came in, my heart jumped.

No, calm down. Do not expect too much.

It’s been more than once that I’ve been disappointed after having my own expectations.

However, even though I thought so, I couldn’t help it.

“This is news for you today. Baron Danekier’s mines and mansions were eventually auctioned off.”

“……….ah.”

And the swollen chest sank as soon as the butler who came close opened his mouth.

From the beginning, that was something I was not interested in at all.

I tried not to show too much disappointment.

“The reason Baron Danekier went bankrupt was all due to a defect found in the mine, and there are suspicions that the defect was actually artificial.”

“I see.”

It’s none of my business. Whether Baron Danekier is ruined by someone’s mastery.

I don’t even know who the Baron was.

“And Count Coultershe who is famous for being a socialite who only approaches married women has been in an accident on the road at night and has been unable to use both of his hands.”

Oh, my God. Both hands? That’s kind of pathetic. It’s not a big deal.

I couldn’t hide my sullenness as the butler continued.

It was me who asked him to let me know whenever there was news outside, but it seemed that there wasn’t much result this time.

I managed to hold back the surging sigh. Then the butler continued.

“And……there’s a story that a dragon was caught in the South.”