episode_0144

“Priscilla… … . professor… … .”

Why, why is this child here? Or rather, why is the child who always had a relaxed and gentle smile, like her older sister, crying?

For a moment, I felt doubtful about the incomprehensible situation, and at the sight of the child shedding tears while looking at me, I felt a part of my heart become suffocated as if a stone had been pressed down on it.

Because I knew where this feeling started, I tried to ignore it and opened my mouth.

“Miss Charlotte. Why are you doing this here… … ?”

Miss Charlotte didn’t say anything to me and just quietly wiped away her tears.

“Well, if you had something to do with me, I would put up a sign telling you to come back later… … .”

As I said that, I looked towards the door of the lab, but strangely, there was no sign hanging on the door of the lab.

Uh, uh… … . weird. Why isn’t there a sign hanging up? Of course, he even wrote the letters himself――

Only then did I remember that I had forgotten to write the sign and hang it on the door, and I swallowed dryly, feeling like I was going out of my mind.

I suddenly came to my senses at the sound of a crying child, and I thought that I couldn’t leave a crying child standing outside, so I immediately opened the door to the lab.

“First, come inside.”

Miss Charlotte nodded slowly at my words and stepped into the lab. I calmed my trembling heart by taking a deep breath before entering the lab and then stepped into the lab.

After controlling my emotions to a certain extent, seeing Charlotte, who was always calm, crying like that, I thought she might have something important to say. As soon as I entered the lab, I closed the door and put up a soundproof barrier so that others could not hear.

After confirming that the outside sounds were completely blocked, I nodded and turned around.

“I don’t know what made me cry, but I put up a soundproof barrier, so I feel at ease――”

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“――?”

what?

I was frozen like a stone by the warmth that came into my arms and the lukewarm moisture that wet my chest.

Are you holding me now? Miss Charlotte? why?

“Char, Miss Charlotte?”

“Ugh, huh… … .”

Miss Charlotte just whimpered without saying a word when called.

What on earth happened that made Miss Charlotte cry like this?

As I was looking down at Miss Charlotte blankly, Miss Charlotte, who had been crying while being held by me, raised her head and looked at me.

“Professor… … .”

The red eyes that looked like they could be sucked in were watery and sparkling, and the gaunt face had a decadent beauty that made it hard to think that she was a student.

The sight of Miss Charlotte shedding tears looking up at me looked so strangely beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

I shouldn’t be like this, I shouldn’t give my heart away. Miss Charlotte in front of me looked so much like her sister that I felt like my heart would be stolen.

“Well, I… … . Ugh… … .”

I know that you don’t want to hold a crying child. However, my already distorted mind moves as it pleases.

Reason and emotion, standing at the end, were playing a tug-of-war with my mind.

And fortunately, it was the opposite sex that won in the end.

“Miss Charlotte.”

okay. No matter how much she resembles her sister, Miss Charlotte is not her sister. I am a professor, and Miss Charlotte is a student. I am Miss Charlotte’s aunt, and Miss Charlotte is my niece.

More than anything… … . My sister has already left my hands. Even though my obsession is not letting go of my feelings for my sister, that obsession shouldn’t extend to Miss Charlotte.

My heart was shaken by the suddenness of the situation, but with the steel-like reason that had been suppressing the stubbornness called my obsession, I cut off all feelings I had toward Miss Charlotte.

“Just calm down. Take slow, deep breaths.”

I comforted Charlotte in a soft voice that surprised me even more, and she began to cry bitterly in my arms.

It looked like he cried a lot, but I wonder if there are still tears left to shed… … . It seems like something really sad happened.

“Huh, huh, ugh… … .”

“You must have had a hard time.”

Miss Charlotte in my arms, no. The nephew nodded slowly.

I hugged my nephew tightly and told him what I had never heard before and what I wanted to hear.

“It’s okay to cry. For now, it’s okay to cry in peace.”

I hesitated for a moment, and as an aunt, it seemed impossible to leave a crying child alone, so I quietly raised my hand and stroked Miss Charlotte’s head.

Not because I have any other feelings, but as blood relatives and aunts. The more bad thoughts I have had, the more kindly I have become.

“I will be your strength. It’s family.”

I felt my nephew, who was trembling and flinching, tighten his arms around me. I quietly closed my eyes and hugged him face to face.

After holding him like that for a while, my nephew, who was somewhat genuine, relaxed his arms first. I opened my closed eyes and let go of my nephew.

“Have you calmed down now?”

“Yes… … . He suddenly came to me, seemed to be crying, and showed signs of not being able to see me… … . Sorry.”

My nephew, whose eyes were bright red, couldn’t make eye contact because he was embarrassed that he cried while being held by me.

This is how an aunt with a cute nephew feels. With a small smile, I reached out and wiped away my nephew’s tears.

“It’s okay. As I said before, we are family.”

Yes, family.

Even though I had no family to rely on, and the one person I did have left me, I don’t need to put my nephew through that experience.

A slightly painful memory came to mind, but I didn’t show it and smiled a little.

“Thank you… … .”

“You seem to have calmed down a bit, so please sit down and wait for a moment. I’ll bring you something to drink.”

After putting my nephew in his seat, I walked into the preparation room.

As I entered the dark preparation room, I immediately closed the door and covered my face with both hands.

“Hmm… … . Huh… … .”

It was sweet. The sight he gave me was the best. You only showed that crying face to me, right? It smelled nice. Is it because she’s your sister’s daughter? Ah, it’s the best. I want to make it mine.

I fell to my knees, chewing my lips with my head pounding. I trembled and clenched my arms as the thoughts and emotions that felt like my head was going to explode.

“Tsk, ugh… … .”

I couldn’t have my sister, but I can have her daughter, right? You’ve worked hard so far, shouldn’t you expect this level of reward? If you think about it, she is the daughter of the man who created a crack in her sister’s perfection, so isn’t that child also a crack in her sister’s perfection? I couldn’t hug that man, but I will hug that child. Yes, it’s better for me to embrace it than to kill it and get rid of it. therefore–

“Shut up… … . Shut up, shut up… … .”

Shaking as I heard my own voice ringing like crazy in my head, I stood up with my forehead pressed against my head and lit the lamp.

As soon as the fire ignited with a puff, the shadow disappeared and my sister’s face came into view. okay. These feelings are not normal. You know. This is an unforgivable feeling.

After quickly looking around, I picked up the brushes lying around and finished painting the picture I had been working on. To suppress my emotions and erase the voices ringing in my head.

Since I had been killing my feelings for my sister by drawing her face, it didn’t take long for me to control my feelings.

The painting my nephew completed looked so beautiful.

“Ah, ah… … .”

A very beautiful picture with perfection and imperfection coexisting, with a sculptural face that resembles her perfect older sister, and red hair and red eyes that resemble that man.

I blinked and looked at the picture for a moment before remembering that my nephew was waiting outside, so I shook my head, got up, made coffee, and went outside.

“Sorry, I’m a little late… … . Ah.”

Did I get too caught up in the drawing? When I came out of the preparation room with coffee, my nephew was already asleep.

When I glanced out the window, the sun had already set and there was deep darkness.

“It’s not just a little bit late, it’s a lot late… … .”

I took a deep breath, put the coffee away and went to my nephew’s side to wake him up.

No matter how much of a nephew you are, a student is still a student. If I let a student sleep in the lab, bad stories would come out not only to me but also to my nephew.

“Miss Charlotte, Miss Charlotte? I know you’re tired, but you can’t sleep here.”

As I was trying to wake my nephew, who was sleeping face down on the desk, by shaking his shoulder, something fell into his arms.

Sreuk, tap――

“Charlotte… … . Huh?”

I blinked and looked down. What is left there.

“Letter… … ?”

It was a letter sealed with sealing wax.