The Young Lady of House Artin 2

‘This is a mess.’

Reina sincerely thought so as she watched her mother Ceres frantically calling the name of her eldest brother, whom she couldn’t remember since he left home when she was 3 years old, and her father Elliot trying to calm her mother.

“Reina, I’m sorry. Please leave us for a moment.”

Elliot apologized as if he felt sorry. But Reina felt skeptical about this chaotic family.

Normally, they should have comforted Reina, who had suffered the ordeal of having her hair grabbed by her brother William, but now he was more urgently concerned with Ceres.

‘If you were going to be this sorry, why did you do it in the first place?’

Reina never understood her parents, though they were her own.

Why did they feel so sorry now, and why had they done such things to her eldest brother Theodore?

At that time, she was just a child with no memories, and though she had tried to find out indirectly about this fact, she had never asked directly.

But Reina was only 14 years old now, and despite being more mature than her peers, she was at an age where emotions ran high.

‘And though you say you’re sorry, you’re asking me to leave?’

She felt hurt.

She felt wronged.

She couldn’t understand what she had done wrong to receive such treatment today.

“Dad, there are a few things I want to ask.”

Normally, Reina would have quietly withdrawn, but today she had no such intention.

Her head still hurt from William pulling her hair, and above all, she couldn’t bear it anymore because she felt so hurt and wronged.

“Reina, I’ll listen to you later, now please withdraw.”

“No. I need to do this now.”

Reina rebelled against Elliot’s words.

Not having expected such rebellion from his daughter, Elliot, who had been comforting Ceres, appeared bewildered.

“Reina! Can’t you see I’m comforting your mother?”

“Then what about me? What about me, who was publicly humiliated with my hair grabbed by William brother while trying to write an apology letter for the wrongs that brother and mother committed?”

She, a young lady, had suffered violence by having her hair grabbed.

And it was by her own brother, within the ducal mansion, and this fact could spread even if they tried to silence people.

And whether it spread or not, the fact that even the maids knew about it was shameful.

She, a young lady, had shown such a state to the servants of the ducal mansion.

“Sigh, alright. Speak quickly.”

Noticing that Reina was on the verge of exploding, Elliot agreed to listen to her while still comforting Ceres.

And as soon as she heard that answer, Reina poured out what had been building up in her heart.

“Dad, do you still think William brother is the Chosen One?”

“What?”

Elliot’s face clearly showed his bewilderment, as if he hadn’t expected Reina to say such a thing. Even Ceres, who had been frantically calling Theodore’s name, came to her senses and looked at Reina with surprised eyes.

Their always gentle daughter, who had been diligently cleaning up after others, had not indirectly expressed her opinion but had directly uttered words doubting whether William was the Chosen One!

“Reina, what are you saying?”

“You know too, Dad, don’t you? That a person who grabs and shakes the hair of his sister 7 years younger than him is the Chosen One? That a delinquent like William brother will be the heir to inherit House Artin and become the hero who will save the world? I just can’t think that way. This has been wrong from the beginning.”

Reina couldn’t hold back anymore as her accumulated emotions exploded.

“Reina, that’s enough.”

When Elliot stopped her, Reina said no more.

She sensed that Elliot wouldn’t give her a proper answer.

“Dad, then I’ll ask something else. What punishment is planned for what William brother did to me today?”

Elliot and Ceres looked embarrassed at Reina’s words.

Seeing their reactions, Reina realized that despite William’s vicious act toward her, he wouldn’t receive proper punishment, just as she had expected.

This realization made her feel empty.

“W-well, Reina… I’m sorry, but this time…”

Elliot seemed to be speaking carefully, perhaps feeling guilty. His meaning was obvious.

“There will be no punishment. At most, he’ll be confined, but even that can’t be enforced if William brother ignores it and goes out.”

“T-that’s…”

Elliot couldn’t properly refute.

If Theodore had been present, he might have been able to restrain William’s behavior.

If there had been another Chosen One candidate, his mere existence would have allowed them to weigh whether William was real or fake, and William might not have grown up to be so vicious.

But with only William present, the Duke and Duchess of Artin had no choice anymore.

They couldn’t stop the delinquent William’s behavior, and at most, they could only try to persuade him verbally, but William had already gone beyond their control.

If William wasn’t the Chosen One, it would mean there was no Chosen One in their country, and if the conclusion was that the Chosen One was the missing Theodore, then House Artin would have to bear enormous responsibility for Theodore’s running away.

And due to the problem of domestic turmoil, the imperial family of the Britannia Empire would first express their anger.

“…Please let me be alone for a while.”

“…Yes, alright. Let’s go.”

“sob Reina. I’m sorry.”

After the Duke and Duchess of Artin hurriedly left the room and the maids tactfully withdrew, Reina closed the door.

Her eyes fell on the shredded contents of the apology letter.

‘I’ll have to… write it again.’

Since she already had the content written, rewriting it wouldn’t be difficult.

But as Reina tried to pick up the paper and pen, she felt her vision blurring.

“Huh…?”

Reina realized she was crying.

The hurt she had been forcibly holding back had burst forth.

“sob, sob!”

Despite being mature for her age, she was still a young girl, and unable to overcome her emotions, she ended up shedding tears.

‘I really hate this. I hate everything.’

The fact that a delinquent like William was her brother had become horrifying.

The sight of the incompetent Duke and Duchess of Artin, who couldn’t even punish William for political reasons, was also very disappointing today.

‘What kind of person is Theodore brother?’

Emotionally, she wanted to overlay various fantasies on the existence of her eldest brother, Theodore Artin.

An image of a brother who, unlike William, would have been kind and gentle to her, and unlike the delinquent, would have been an exemplary heir who always strived to save the world from doom as the Chosen One, while she, as his sister, would feel proud watching him.

Just thinking about it seemed like a dreamy scene.

But Reina felt that all of this was ultimately just escapist fantasy.

‘I don’t even know what Theodore brother looks like.’

The funny thing was that while she didn’t know because she was only 3 years old at the time, her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Artin, hadn’t properly looked at him or shown interest after he was 2 years old, so they didn’t know what he looked like up to age 11.

Considering that there were no photos left and that they had neglected him as if they had discarded him, all of William’s current atrocities were made possible because of the Duke and Duchess of Artin.

“Haah.”

Wiping her tears with the back of her hand, Reina looked out the window.

‘The young lady of House Artin.’

Then she recalled her status.

Being the young lady of House Artin was ultimately just like this.

Writing apology letters for what her delinquent brother had done, having her hair grabbed by her brother, and seeing her parents who couldn’t even punish him—that was her life.

Today it ended with having her hair grabbed, but she was already afraid of how far it might go in the future.

‘He might beat me even worse.’

No, given what a delinquent he was, he seemed capable of doing even worse things to his sister.

Reina’s imagination went to the worst-case scenario.

Considering his nature, which led him to make advances even toward the young lady of House Arsein from the Arcan Empire out of obsession with women, it was terrible to think about what might happen when she grew older and her beauty began to shine.

‘William brother is the kind of person who would do that and more.’

It was a well-known fact that unlike his delinquent behavior, William’s appearance was so handsome that it was hard to find a match among the men of noble families.

With the background of House Artin, the fame of the Chosen One, and his exceptional looks combined, it would have been easy for him to seduce women, so he must have looked at the Arsein young lady with the same ease.

And Reina knew that her appearance was outstanding.

Even apart from her background as part of House Artin, her appearance was so exceptional that she had already received numerous marriage proposals.

Although she had rejected them all because there was no one she liked, it was clear that she was exceptional enough for numerous rumors to circulate.

Because of this, Reina now began to fear William more and more.

Even her family trust that he wouldn’t cross the line had disappeared due to today’s incident.

‘Should I run away like Theodore brother? But I don’t have anywhere suitable to go.’

Especially as a woman with exceptional beauty, she would be targeted anywhere.

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“Damn it.”

William grabbed his head, still feeling unresolved despite taking out his anger on Reina.

“Ugh, Theodore!”

Theodore Skyroad.

Recalling him, who was actually his twin brother Theodore Artin, William gritted his teeth with anger and hatred.

Though he had acted pathetically out of fear of death at the time, now that he was out of his sight, his hatred toward him surged.

‘Not content with trying to take my position as the Chosen One, he dares to do this terrible thing to me!’

He was both the Chosen One and the heir to House Artin.

As the heir to House Artin, he had the duty to father a son who would become his successor.

‘Yuria Arsein! I should have impregnated that woman with my child!’

Yuria Arsein, in his view, was the best woman worthy of bearing his child.

No, not just a child, but an heir who would succeed him and lead House Artin.

Her perfect beauty and fantastic figure, thinking about it…

“Damn it.”

Despair mixed in William’s voice as he cursed.

Normally, he should have been excited with desire for her just from imagining. But now, even when recalling her beautiful and stimulating appearance, he felt only misery instead of excitement.

‘I’ll never forgive you! Theodore Skyroad! I’ll definitely kill you!’

The injuries inflicted by Theodore had healed.

But one part of him had not recovered from the injury.

His reproductive organ had been destroyed by his hateful enemy Theodore, and no matter what potions or other recovery magic he tried to use for treatment, his sexual function did not recover.

He had secretly tried treatment through underground healers, hiding his identity, but all had failed.

Reina was feeling fear that she might be raped by William, but her worry was, in a sense, truly unnecessary.

William Artin was a sexual cripple who could not have a sex life.

He was now in a state where he couldn’t even maintain his current promiscuous sex life, let alone touch Reina in the future.

‘To make me a eunuch!’

William Artin, the false Chosen One and the heir to House Artin, was a eunuch.

“I’ll definitely kill you.”