[Episode 4]
“….”
“..”
“..”
There was a very cold silence.
No matter what he said, the face of Duke Mirelle, who indifferently recited the mistakes he had committed with the family name on his back like a rapid-fire rap, was also embarrassed for a moment.
‘…ruined.’
I bowed my head and clenched my fists.
All eyes were on me. heart beats fast
I was so nervous that cold sweat ran down my back.
I squeezed the hem of my dress to soothe the rough breathing and tinnitus ringing in my ears.
“…Leaving the house?”
Duke Mirel, who was the first to come to his senses, opened his mouth as if wondering.
“Yes…”
“That’s the plan?”
“Yes…”
“Why?”
Duke Mirel asked as if he was really curious.
There are many reasons, but I can’t say it straight away.
“Because I threw away Chusseng’s Bimi…”
I was thinking of an appropriate answer, but this time, the frightened tongue escaped the control of my brain and moved on its own.
Aaaaaagh!
Going crazy.
“…the secret of birth?”
As if that word aroused curiosity, not only Duke Mirel, but everyone else’s gaze reached me.
I made eye contact with Duke Mirelle as much as I could, keeping my eyes wide open to prevent any misfortune.
Then, Duke Mirel’s eyes twitched slightly.
“Are you saying there is a birth secret in this family that I don’t know about?”
He asked me as if he was in a hurry.
“Yes
.
No matter how thorough he was, he wouldn’t have even gone through the blood test, which is said to be the shame of the aristocratic family.
“….”
“….”
The surroundings suddenly became quiet.
‘what?’
In a good mood, I reflexively collapsed the corners of my mouth and laughed briskly.
Then, Duke Mirel’s eyebrows, which had paused for a moment, twitched.
‘If I smile, I won’t be hated.’
It was one of the truths I learned in my life.
“So what’s your secret?”
“If you don’t know…”
I swallowed.
Then, it seemed like I could hear something swallowing saliva from around me.
“Whew.”
I took a deep breath to avoid hand-in-hwa.
“Grunt….”
Then, a sigh was heard from the surrounding area, and suddenly, tok tok tok. There was a knock on the desk.
As if you were nervous.
I struggled to shake off the presentation anxiety and jumped up and down in my seat, took another deep breath, and carefully opened my mouth.
“If it’s all…”
I glanced at the side with nervousness, and somehow the necks of the people sitting in the conference hall stretched forward.
Is that all? Somehow, the way people looked at me resembled the market ladies who were watching the last drama.
“I bought it…”
Perhaps because of that, I was so nervous that I couldn’t say anything more.
‘Since the old days, announcements have been a complete mess!’
“Yogi’s…”
It was the moment I was barely able to speak.
“My lord! It was a big deal.”
A soldier interrupted me and rushed in.
“I’m in the middle of the New Year’s meeting, what’s going on!”
“Ha…”
Duke Mirel’s scream overlapped with a sigh from somewhere.
Duke Mirel turned his head fiercely with an angry face. The soldier who was running at the momentum hesitated.
“It looks like the floating stone mine collapsed, trapping a few workers and a manager.”
“what? How would you like to do alternative safety management! Casualties!”
“Ah, so far, there are no fatalities, and it has been determined how many workers have been injured.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Duke Mirel stood up, glared at me, and then stood up growling with an angry face.
“The New Year’s meeting will be held again in a few days, so until then, everyone should stay with the family for a while.”
“yes!”
People with strong military discipline jumped up from their seats and raised their voices at attention, fearing that sparks would fly.
Duke Mirel, who was about to leave while receiving a report from the soldier, stopped for a moment.
“You you you and you.”
The Duke’s fingers picked up some of the strained collateral. The faces of the people pointed out went white.
“I won’t talk too long, you lazy trolls with no answers. Wipe your hair and follow me.”
“Go, Lord…!”
One of the people pointed out mournfully called out to him, but as soon as the duke’s ferocious gaze reached them, everyone kept their mouths shut and hurriedly ran in front of him and bowed their heads.
“Huh, you guys are making fun of me right now.”
“Yes… Yes…?”
“Aren’t you brushing your hair? Why should I clean it myself?”
“Oh no!”
They hurriedly rummaged through my pockets, pulled out handkerchiefs, and rubbed my neck.
Those who did not have a handkerchief hurriedly borrowed a handkerchief nearby and wiped it off.
I was staring blankly at the figure with the military discipline upright, but this time the duke turned his head around and looked at me.
“you!”
“Yes… yes!”
I was taken aback by the call, so I raised my voice to the point of beeping as I covered my throat.
Then he bit his tongue.
“You…”
“That, that…”
Perhaps because I was so surprised, my eyes became watery without realizing it.
“That… don’t use the handkerchief…”
I hurriedly covered my neck with my hand and mumbled a reply.
I tried my best, but I couldn’t help but cry in my voice.
‘I’m so small…’
I heard an instinctive fear to stand in front of an infinitely tall person.
As if he had heard my cry, Duke Mirel did not move from his seat with a stiff face.
‘Are you angry…?’
All eyes were on me. I knew I had to move quickly, but my body didn’t move easily.
‘You shouldn’t cry…’
Even if you don’t, you’re a prisoner and you don’t have blood in this family.
I bit my lower lip, trying to relax the hand that covered my neck, then barely lifted the corner of my trembling mouth.
“Resend it again…”
The other people nearby gave me handkerchiefs with pitiful faces.
Even the soldier standing guard nearby was carefully holding out a handkerchief embroidered in the shape of a heart, which he had pulled out from deep within his bosom.
Since there were only ten handkerchiefs in front of my nose, I took the closest one with both hands.
Everyone was looking at me with sad faces as if they were cheering for the longevity who was leaving to die, but seeing that made me even more sad.
“It’s sweet…”
I bowed down to say hello and walked away, keeping an eye on him.
I forgot to wipe my neck and went to the side of the people who were staring blankly at me and stood there with my head bowed.
“….”
“..”
The place was quiet.
She was just about to wrap up the crumpled handkerchief and carefully bring it to her neck. Suddenly, the handkerchief is gone!
In fact, someone snatched it.
“My… Hehe! When did I ask you to wipe your neck? The next meeting was to start over with you, so think carefully about what to say!”
It sounded like a slight beep, but was it an illusion?
“Aren’t you going to give me…?”
“I’m going to kill something as small as you and use it somewhere! Small, skinny downy things like you can’t even be used as cattle feed!”
At those words, my face turned even whiter.
‘Are those people going to become little things…?’
It is also the duke of Etham, where people die every day. Besides, in a fantasy world, anything is possible.
Duke Mirelle pursed his lips a few times and clenched his fists.
“What do you see me as?”
What do you see…?
What are you asking? is it a name? Or abstract meaning? Speaking of the latter, it seemed that only the devil would come out.
Anyway, that’s not the case in this atmosphere.
“Hahahabuji…?”
“…”
The whole place was enveloped in silence again.
The people who were wiping my neck seemed to be looking at me now with their mouths wide open, but their vision was so narrow that they couldn’t even look that way.
sniff
Wiping away the mucus that flowed out of my nose, I carefully looked up at Duke Mirelle.
“what?”
“Hahaha…?”
His shoulders trembled.
isn’t this
“My lord?”
“It’s great! this fluffy thing See you in a few days.”
Doesn’t that mean he’ll die after a few days?
“Yes…”
The meeting of the day ended in a messy atmosphere.
* * *
‘Why did I do that…’
Today, as soon as I opened my eyes early in the morning, I buried my face in a pillow and kicked the blanket over the dark history that came to mind.
After struggling with dark history for a long time, I went out for a short walk after eating a meal Myla prepared and eating a lot of pudding.
In order to figure out the route to escape, I was going around various places every day, using the excuse of taking a little walk.
And the place I landed today was a chair in the garden that happened to come in.
“uh? Moya, are you her? You are the one who cried in front of the head of the household, right?”
A boy who seemed to be a couple of years older than me was holding a ball in one hand and holding his face in front of me.
“…No, I know not to cry.”
“Honestly, that’s enough luck. So what are you doing here alone?”
“…It’s a hunt.”
I answered while sitting on the bench and hugging my knees a little.
“okay? Aren’t you bored? Do you want to play with us?”
The freckled boy reached out his hand to me, his chubby cheeks twitching.
