episode_0004

The warmth of the morning sunlight tickled the boy’s face.

Cassatt yawned long and stood up.

The head stretched out as if it was about to ascend to the sky told me how well I had slept.

“Haam… … .”

Cassatt hurriedly walked to the bathroom, washed up briefly, and came out to the living room.

“Huh? Why is Aranz like this today?”

He picked up the Arantz in the basket one by one and examined them carefully.

There was nothing to be specific about, it was just Aranz full of minor wounds.

‘There’s no way my brother could make a mistake like this… .’

He knew that it was his brother who brought Arantz in the morning.

My brother always carefully selects items without any blemishes, so I wonder why he was like this today.

However, Cassatt did not care much.

‘You too are human, so you can make mistakes.’

My brother was the one who always prepared breakfast, but if he got caught with something like this, he was a terrible person.

Cassat had roughly finished breakfast and was returning to his room.

I saw that the door where my parents were sleeping was slightly open.

Without thinking, Cassatt moved to close the door.

However, I heard a voice from inside.

“Yes?!”

“Shh, lower your voice!”

“… Your voice is louder when you say that.”

“What? Write! Anyway, I know so.”

“No, I don’t think you would know that. How can you decide something like that on your own?”

“Okay then. The elder is pressing for an answer right away. Should we have woken everyone up and discussed it? It was something that could not be avoided anyway.”

“No matter what, Kamiel is our child!”

‘brother?’

As he was leaning against the wall and listening to the unusual conversation, he had a question.

‘What happened to my brother?’

The answer to my question was answered by my mother’s voice.

“Kamiel is sacrificed to the Larun people!”

“I told you to lower your voice! And be careful what you say. They said it wasn’t a sacrifice, they just took it away?”

“That’s it! How can you still call him his parent?!”

“This person is Jin… ”

“Father. Mother.”

Cassatt could no longer hide and listen.

Katan and Miris looked embarrassed when they saw their son entering the room.

“You, you. Cassatt. When did you come… ?”

“I heard it from the beginning. What on earth is that talking about? My brother was sacrificed!”

“… … .”

“… … .”

His parents were silent.

“Cassat, it looks like you have some misunderstanding… ”

“Father. Don’t try to ignore it and say it’s a misunderstanding. I’m going to find out anyway. yes? So please let me know.”

“… After.”

Katan eventually told his son the same story he had told his wife.

It was a short story, but as it progressed, Cassat’s face became indescribably hard, and Myris, who was next to him, quietly wiped away her tears.

“… That’s how it happened.”

“… … .”

Cassatt was speechless from the absurdity.

After murmuring for a while, he spoke.

“My father… Are you human?”

“What? This guy, have you said everything?!”

match!

“Cassat! No, if you’re going to scold me, do it verbally! Why are you hitting my face?!”

“This guy is talking rudely to his parents!”

Miris tried to mediate between the two as much as possible, but his words stimulated the resentment that had been building up.

“You don’t mind hearing those words, right? How long have we lived to please you! What’s wrong with the kid! You do it right!!”

“This person!!”

In a situation heading towards catastrophe.

Cassatt didn’t even care about his burning cheek from being stabbed.

It was the first time my father had touched me, so I was just dazed.

‘This isn’t the first time my father has done something like this.’

However, it was my first time experiencing it myself.

Cassatt, who grew up watching his hot-tempered father from a young age, never dared to confront him.

‘Because I knew I would get scolded if I confronted him. Because I felt like I would get hit like an older brother.’

So even when my older brother was scolded, I just watched without stopping him.

I hope no sparks fly.

‘brother. ‘How did you endure it?’

The reasons my father gave for reprimanding my brother were sometimes, or almost always, unfair or absurd.

like now.

‘I get angry even though I have a mother who takes my side, but how did you hold back? ‘When I was alone.’

Up until now, I thought he had been faithful to his role as a younger brother to his older brother.

He thought that there would be no better brother in the village than him.

‘It wasn’t the same idea.’

At some point, he realized that his older brother was trying to distance himself from him.

At first, I blamed my older brother.

‘I didn’t do anything wrong, but I thought my brother was distant from me and I felt sad. But, my brother already knew.’

That his younger brother is not good.

It’s worth it.

Instead of helping me whenever I get scolded, I just watch from afar.

Also, in normal times, he hurt me with his truly mindless words and actions.

‘After I grew up, I realized that what I said to my brother was wrong… . I mistakenly thought my brother wouldn’t mind either. I decided it was a child’s mistake.’

Nothing was right at all.

The older brother paid attention to every word the younger said, and even what Cassatt considered a mistake was buried in his mind.

‘It’s all our fault.’

Because my head was big, I could sense to some extent what was going on in the house.

His older brother, Kamiel, was always alienated even though they were from the same family.

‘Even though I knew that… .’

It was all my fault and my parents’ fault.

I’m so used to waking up early in the morning and picking Arantz by myself… It’s been a long time since I said thank you.

‘Hearing all kinds of abuse at home and wandering alone outside… .’

Why didn’t I realize it sooner?

Why did I realize this only after losing it? .

“Hit me! Hit me too just like you hit Camiel and Cassat!!”

“Do you think I can’t do it? Oh!”

under… … .

Cassatt held his face and laughed.

‘The family is really harmonious… … .’

Something flowed between his fingers cupping his face.

that… They were tears of deep regret.

The day at the mansion was bright as always.

However, Kamiel’s expression was particularly worse than usual.

It was because yesterday’s events kept lingering in my mind.

‘I overreacted yesterday. ‘If I go today, I’ll have to apologize properly.’

Whether I was bathing, eating, or quietly walking around the mansion, only one thought dominated my mind.

‘How should I apologize?’

What if Rheasian, who is normally a prickly person, gets angry?

So, if our relationship becomes more awkward than before we first met… .

‘I don’t like that… … .’

It has been a while since Rheasian established himself as a special being to Kamiel.

I have never been truly open with someone in my entire life.

However, he was able to be flawless in front of the young lady, Leashian.

‘It’s definitely not a good idea… . I guess it’s because he’s in a similar situation to me.’

Don’t be jealous of people who seem better than you.

But I couldn’t even approach that person.

‘I wonder if they will actually accept me.’

The people that Camiel had seen didn’t seem to care at all even if the existence of ‘Camiel’ disappeared overnight.

The misery of giving one’s heart to the other person, but actually not being able to settle down in the other person’s feelings.

I didn’t want to feel it.

I didn’t want to know.

‘And I didn’t want to become friends out of pity.’

Anyone in the village who forms a relationship with Camiel will inevitably feel sympathy for him.

Because he is the most pitiful person in town.

‘But you don’t know that I am that kind of person. ‘No one here knows I’m sick.’

While thinking about all kinds of things.

He was already waiting for Leasian’s visit.

‘Let’s apologize.’

smart.

“Come in.”

Kamiel tensed and opened the door at the sound of the pitchless voice.

She was setting the tea table and sipping black tea as usual.

“Lady. Hello.”

“… What kind of greeting is this all of a sudden? Sit down and don’t do anything weird.”

As expected, she seemed upset.

There was an emotionlessness in his voice that I had never seen before.

‘Am I hated…? .’

Kamiel made a bitter expression and pushed some black tea down his burning, dry throat.

“I… miss. I was sorry yesterday.”

“… … What?”

“From cutting off the conversation without permission to saying something that hurt the young lady’s feelings yesterday… . I’m sorry.”

“… … .”

widely.

The sound of her setting down the teacup rang like the calm before the storm.

“You… ”

Kamiel closed his eyes gently.

With the intention of enduring any verbal abuse or cold treatment.

She blurted out the words in an absurd tone.

“Why are you sorry?”

“Yes?”

“Did you do something wrong to me yesterday?”

“That’s… He suddenly stopped talking and left without permission… ”

“That’s… I made you uncomfortable.”

“Yes? No, it’s not like that… ”

“There is no need to make excuses. Because it’s not your job to apologize.”

Afterwards, she slightly lowered her head as if she was hesitating.

Kamiel wanted to wait for her for a while.

After licking her lips a few times, she raised her head with pursed lips as if she had made up her mind.

“Sorry. Anyway, I shouldn’t have cursed your family carelessly… .”

“Lady… … .”

Kamiel’s eyes were sparkling.

He held her hand on the table with both hands.

“Well, what are you doing?”

“I think I’m in love with you. What should I do?”

“What! Don’t talk nonsense!”

She swatted it away coldly, but Kamiel’s smile grew even deeper.

“I’m just kidding. In the future, young lady, you will fall in love with someone more wonderful than me.”

“… … What?”

“Yes?”

“No, no.”

Was it because of her mood that her expression seemed as cold as frost at that moment?

Right now, he just had a calm expression.

‘Did I see it wrong?’

Tea time ended with a feeling of doubt.

Kamiel treated her like usual and was about to wake up.

Leasian, who was sitting on the bed, pulled him.

“Huh? Lady?”

Then it was natural for his body to fall onto the bed.

“Sit for a while and then go.”

“Yes?”

“What.”

“… No.”

“That laugh… Something feels bad?”

Leasian rolled his eyes gloomily.

“Oh, he said you were bringing a book. Where are you?”

“Yes? ah… that is… .”

“You must have forgotten… . it’s okay. Bring it next time you come.”

“Yes… .”

Camiel, who followed her and sat down on the bed, glanced sideways.

Leasian was giving off a serious atmosphere that was quite different from usual.

“When I was young and my mother was alive, she said that.”

Leasian’s mother was particularly obsessed with her husband, Lepurn.

To a certain extent, he even felt jealous of his own daughter if she paid even the slightest attention to him.

“One day, your mother said she was drunk? I should have never given birth to someone like you.”

For Rheasian, whose parents were everything to him, these words were nothing short of a lightning strike.

After that, I was hurt by my mother’s harsh words and actions.

I didn’t know that the words I said while drunk at that time might have been what drove her into the dark room she was in now.

“I guess you reacted that way because your brother and my mother seemed to overlap. I really hate people who talk carelessly like my mother.”

“Lady… … .”

Kamiel felt sorry for her.

And at the same time, I felt a sense of kinship.

‘He’s like my father…’ .’

If Leasian had such a mother,

Kamiel had a father who spoke harsh words to him as if he was eating a meal.

‘I really shouldn’t do this… … .’

“What are you doing?”

“I’m here now… . I’m on the lady’s side. So don’t be discouraged.”

Kamiel hugged the woman next to him.

The sensation of light brown hair tickling the tip of my nose was unfamiliar.

One arm was around her neck and one hand was stroking her hair.

“Ugh… … .”

She sighed softly but didn’t say anything.

Rheasian also didn’t like this strange moment.

Long and short time passes.

Kamiel dropped his body.

“Was I too presumptuous?”

Camiel’s subtle question received a sharp answer from her.

“Uh. I went too far off topic… Why are you suddenly hugging me?!”

Her face was red and she waved her slender fist.

“Ugh!”

“Well, what is it? Does it hurt that much? No, don’t be harsh… ”

She was embarrassed even though she had hit it.

I never thought my fists were strong, so I never dreamed it would hurt.

She straightened his crouched body and checked Camiel’s condition.

Her eyes narrowed.

“… It was a lie?”

“… Yes.”

Kamiel had a slight smile on his face, as if to prove that it was all an act.

Knock, knock!

“Lady. This makes me really sick… .”

“I hit you because it hurts.”

“Sorry for teasing you.”

After a while, Kamiel, who had taken all the hits, stood up.

“I’ll just go. Oh, I will definitely bring the book tomorrow, so please look forward to it.”

“Get out quickly… .”

Camiel came out of the room, leaving her with a bloody look behind him, and walked down the hallway without showing any sign.

So, when he arrived in the room, his expression became distorted.

“As expected… . Your strength is amazing.”

I could see a bluish bruise on my forearm where she had hit me.

Although I was in a good mood earlier, I couldn’t bear to tell her because I was afraid she might worry for no reason.

In fact, her fists were stronger than expected.

‘If I get hit directly like this, it could be a really big problem… ?’

Since it seems like you haven’t realized it yet, should I ask you to control your strength?

No, Kamiel shook his head.

‘Just don’t do anything that will get me hit. Let’s not offend someone for no reason.’

Although the Larun people were young, they were still the Larun people.

Kamiel changed his clothes and sat down on a chair.

“Still… Did my consolation help at all?”

I hope this brings comfort to her… .

Another day passed like that.