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Since birth, I have been physically weaker than other people.

I had a hard time eating and suffered from illness more often than my peers.

I didn’t know why; I was just smaller and weaker than other children when I was born.

That’s why Fred was more depressed than other children during his childhood.

Freya wanted to go outside and run around freely like the children seen through the window, but she was well aware of her weak body and fell into despair.

“Sister Freya is here!”

The heavens were not completely indifferent; there was someone for Fred to rely on, trust, and rely on.

That person was not her birth mother or father, but her biological older sister, Dana.

Dana forced a smile on her face and played with her every day to comfort her when she looked depressed.

But Frere knew.

That her older sister Dana was pretending to be strong and tough for her own sake.

Fred, who was born with a weaker body than others but had a more delicate heart than anyone else, had known about her sister’s consideration for a long time.

Frere was delighted by her sister’s actions.

And at the same time, I felt sorry.

If she had been born healthy, her older sister would not have had to go through all these hardships, and she would not have had to endure all the violence from her parents in her place.

“Sister….”

“Pre, are you hurt anywhere?”

“My sister…is sick…”

Dana always took on the burden for Fre, and Fre felt sorry and shed tears when he saw Dana like that.

“It’s okay. Sister is stupid and has a strong body, so don’t worry too much! ”

Dana responded with a bright smile to stop her younger sister from crying.

Fred was so grateful to see his sister always smiling by his side.

When she was sold into the slave market alongside her sister, Frey actually thought it was a good thing.

Because her parents had hurt her precious older sister so much, and whenever she saw this, Fre was overcome with a sense of frustration and torment at the thought that they could do nothing about it.

Fred would rather sacrifice his own body to ease the burden on his older sister Dana.

That day, when he was sold to a man wearing a mask, Frere thought.

At least…at least I will give my sister freedom.

She couldn’t let her sister, who had sacrificed everything for her weak self, die.

She wanted to save her older sister Dana from the man even if it meant sacrificing her own life.

Because my sister was more than qualified to do so.

While he was leaving the market, being led by the man’s hand, a man approached him and spoke to him.

The fat man smiled kindly and told the man to sell it to him, saying he would give him more money.

And when Fre saw the man like that, he froze.

I don’t know why, but just looking at the man’s face made me feel so scared that my whole body froze.

After several rejections of the fat man’s advances, he changed his attitude and ordered the huge man next to him to attack him.

The fat man used the servant next to him to attack the man, and the masked man barely managed to avoid the punch he threw.

‘Wrong..’

Fred, who was watching all of this, thought that the masked man had no chance of winning.

Even if you only look at the number of men, it was a 1 vs 2 fight that was disadvantageous, and the man who was throwing a punch at him was twice his size, so Fre was gripped by fear.

The masked man approached us very cautiously, as if he had seen us like this.

And he said, getting down on one knee.

“Can you wait a minute?”

The man asked us in an affectionate voice, and for some reason, a corner of Frere’s heart felt a chill at the man’s request.

I don’t know why, but when the man said this, Fre felt the fear that had been taking over his body slowly disappear.

Danawa and Fre nodded at the thought that this person could possibly harm him.

The man let go of the leash he was holding onto, leaving a message expressing his gratitude for their actions.

In this way, he got rid of all those who were pretending to be good as if they were lying.

‘wow….’

Fred couldn’t help but admire the man’s movements.

His movements were magnificent and captivating, like a living butterfly.

After the fight, people who appeared to be market merchants aimed their weapons at the man.

The man quickly left the market with us in his arms.

The man who had shaken them off like that took a deep breath for a moment and then spoke while breaking the necklaces around our necks.

“Was it really frustrating?”

The man spoke as he untied the leashes around our necks.

Frey stared at the man’s actions.

“Kihihi. This is a collar made with special magic. At least you can’t take it off until you die. ”

While we were at the market, the merchant tied a heavy leash around our necks and said:

We could tell from the man’s words.

From now on, we will live as beasts, not humans.

My older sister, who always smiled and told me it was okay, also had a look of despair on her face.

They thought they would never be able to break free from this iron leash, but the masked man broke the leash with such ease and soon began stroking my sister and I’s heads with his warm hands.

and.

They shed tears at the warmth they felt from someone for the first time.

Having always lived under discrimination from others, they shed tears as if they were venting the anger they had been holding in when someone’s warmth touched their heads.

After shedding tears for such a long time, we arrived at the man’s house.

And the time after that was like a dream.

From warm and cozy clothes to food that appeases your hungry stomach, and even a kind man whose name you don’t know.

These moments were so dreamlike that I thought, if this is a dream, I never want to wake up.

Pre looked at Dana’s face, which was sleeping soundly, and soon began stroking Dana’s head, which was also sleeping soundly, just like the man had done to him.

Dana, who had been sleeping soundly, lifted her head in delight as Frega gently stroked her head.

After stroking her sister’s hair for a while, Fre tried stroking her own hair with the hand that still had her sister’s warmth in it.

But her small, delicate hands could not feel the warmth that Fre wanted, and Fre tried to picture the man.

A hand that felt warm.

Fred recalled the moment when the man stroked her head with a kind smile.

As soon as that moment came to mind, Frey blushed involuntarily.

“Why am I like this..”

Fred blushed in embarrassment just thinking about the moment when the man stroked her head.

“Still…Would you please stroke me again?”

Fre walked over to Dana, who was sleeping, thinking that one day the man would stroke her head again.

“Sister..Forgive me for only being able to say this..Thank you for always being there for me..”

Fred was able to tell Dana, who was asleep, his honest feelings that he had been unable to express until now.

Fred carefully held Dana’s hand so as not to wake her, then closed his eyes.

“………”

“You’re sleeping..”

Meanwhile, when no sound was heard from their room, Aion carefully opened the closed door to their room and went in.

Aion couldn’t hide his rising anger when he saw the two girls sleeping soundly like normal children.

Their sleeping appearance looked like that of any other ordinary children.

He looked at them sleeping peacefully and thought.

Originally, Dana’s younger sister, Fre, was tortured to death as a living toy for the entertainment of a trashy nobleman, and Dana, who saw her sister’s death with her own eyes, began to fall into corruption in earnest, but her fate, which had been determined, changed due to the existence of the country.

Aion’s eyes briefly darkened at the thought of what might happen in the future.

“Umm….”

Aion smiled as he watched them tossing and turning in their sleep.

Wasn’t it something that had already been decided?

To prevent the destruction of the world and make those in despair happy.

Aion gently stroked their heads to keep them from waking up.

He whispered to them, who were still sleeping, in a voice that seemed to have made a promise.

“No matter what happens, I’ll protect you..”

Aion said, gently stroking her head.

Danawa and Fre, who had been soundly asleep, smiled faintly as if they had been touched by Aion’s sincerity.