episode_0189

I find my older sister difficult.

The age difference of nearly 10 years is one reason, but the biggest reason is that she herself is just hard to approach.

First of all, I’ve never been scolded or nagged by my mother or father in my life.

So much so that if my sister wasn’t so interested in theology, they would have openly say that the next family head would be none other than my sister, she was such a perfect person since she was young.

And she even had an altruistic personality and the kind of benevolence that religious people would love.

The fact that she became a priestess at a young age and is able to study and train at the headquarters of a religion that dominates the continent is enough to explain my sister’s fraudulent nature, I think.

Like a monk practicing asceticism, or a saint.

In contrast, I am worldly, hate working, and avoid socializing with others.

I’m the kind of human being that religious people would hate very much.

So, it was a little difficult.

It’s definitely not because she pesters me along with my mother, nagging me.

And what’s important now isn’t how I feel about my sister, but how to calm down my sister who is very angry.

As you may have gathered from what I said earlier, my sister is, to put it nicely, exemplary, and to put it badly, old-fashioned.

So, if you get involved in a problem related to conduct or model behavior, you can consider yourself dead.

Fortunately, she has a mindset that she needs to hear both sides, so she’ll at least listen to a final plea.

And if you speak well there, she’ll somehow give you a chance to live.

The problem is that if you screw up the final plea, she might even summon my mother and tear me limb from limb.

“If you have anything you want to say as a last word, say it.”

“Sister, well, you see…”

Therefore, as soon as I was dragged into the room of truth, I started explaining that I treated Emily very carefully and never laid a hand on her.

“… Therefore, it is not at all true that I harassed Emily, I really do treat Emily with care.”

Emily, who was dragged in with me, also chimed in with my words and worked hard to save her master, so my explanation was able to have quite a strong persuasive power.

Of course, the person making the judgment may think differently, but they can’t just say ‘You’re bad!’ when even the victim says it’s not true.

“A little, was that explained…?”

“……”

After finishing the explanation, I waited for my sister’s verdict in the most polite posture possible, and my sister, with sharp eyes like a predator that looked exactly like my mother, stared at me and lightly touched the cross hanging around her neck.

“William.”

“Yes, Sister.”

My sister smiled meaningfully and called my name.

At that voice, I swallowed hard and sat up straight like a newly enlisted private.

“I knew from the beginning that you didn’t fornicate with Emily.”

“How did you know that?”

“Well, I can see it.”

My sister slid a low, round container in front of her and tapped it with her finger as if to tell me to look at it.

The dark red liquid, about the size of a coin, in the transparent container was, strangely enough, spinning around and creating a vortex without doing anything.

“Unicorn’s blood.”

“Ah.”

Unicorn.

It was an endangered species, but it did exist.

The number is small, but it’s a sacred animal, so even the Holy Kingdom cherishes and protects them, so most ordinary people die without even seeing a single strand of their hair.

So much so that many commoners think it’s a truly imaginary animal.

“It approaches those who are pure, and moves away from those who have lost their purity, but right now it’s spinning around, right?”

“Yes.”

“All three of you are pure, so it doesn’t know where to go, so it’s just going crazy and spinning around.”

“Oh…”

Unicorns can even detect virgins with their blood…

My knowledge has increased.

“Hmm…?”

But even after seeing this, why did she drag me into the room of truth?

If I’m pure and Emily’s pure, then I’m innocent.

“The big downside is that you can get away with anything as long as you keep your virginity.”

“Ah.”

It was such a stupid downside.

It was as absurd as when I found out that there was no such thing as female-on-female rape.

“And you seem to be misunderstanding something, I asked if you were harassing Emily like a prodigal son, not if you two were doing lewd things.”

“What’s the difference?”

“It means a person who is addicted to women and alcohol and has bad behavior.”

“…?”

No matter how much I thought about it, it seemed the same to me, so I frowned and racked my brains, and my sister slightly raised her right fist with all her fingers folded and squinted her eyes.

“For example… giving carefully made clothes as gifts to multiple unmarried women.”

“… Ah.”

At my sister’s words that flowed out as one finger was unfolded, I let out a short exclamation along with a dizziness as if I had been hit in the head with a hammer.

Even if I exclude Katerina, who makes clothes for me regularly because of work, Emily and Elizabeth are left.

And multiple times.

If it was just one person, I felt like I could explain it somehow, but the fact that there were two of them made it impossible to explain no matter how I tried.

“Th, th… Sister…”

“My words aren’t over yet, so listen quietly.”

I trembled and tried to open my mouth with difficulty to explain as quickly as possible, but my sister glared at me and unfolded another finger.

“If not that, then giving necklaces to multiple unmarried women and committing the heinous act of attending banquets with those women.”

“Uh uh…”

This also happened two or three times.

Every time I gave Emily clothes as a gift, I attended the banquet…

“Bringing the women who were with you at the banquet back to the house while everyone was away.”

“Uh…”

This also actually happened.

“A maid secretly entering the master’s room late at night and coming out with a flushed face.”

“Ugh…”

This also happened several times.

“Showing bare legs and exchanging hot glances in a space with only a man and a woman, something like that?”

This was even caught by Haze…

“……”

This is a disaster.

Each one is a fatal blow, and I don’t know how to explain each one.

– Pow-!

“These are the kind of explanations I wanted, do you have anything to say?”

As if she had no intention of just leaving me, who was in a daze from the 5-hit combo, my sister slammed the desk hard, breaking my distracting thoughts and urging me to answer.

“Gulp…”

Okay.

I’ll die if I don’t say anything, and I’ll die if I don’t say anything properly.

Then I’d rather try something and die.

So, my head is blank, but I’ll just spit out whatever comes to mind.

“First of all, for Emily’s honor, I’ll explain the last two first, this was something that happened because of work, I’m making clothes these days, right? Because of that, I’ve been staying up all night so much that Emily scolds me often, that’s why Emily’s face turned red.”

“This is an issue that Madam is well aware of, so Madam asked me to stop him even if I had to be forceful.”

“Hmm… It’s suspicious, but you wouldn’t be crazy enough to mention Mother to get out of this situation, I’ll assume there was a reason for this.”

“Yes…”

The fact that I was constantly nagged by my mother for not sleeping enough was a big help.

“Why the bare legs? Why do you have to show bare legs to a woman to make clothes?”

But there were still four reasons left that were enough to kill me, so it wasn’t time to be relieved.

“It happened when I was trying to make some unique stockings for Haze, there was no way to check if the shape came out as I imagined, so I asked Emily for her understanding and asked her to show me that appearance.”

“The explanation is lacking.”

“Those stockings were made so delicately that it was difficult to put them on alone, so instead of putting them on myself, I ended up…”

“Th, that’s right, it was too difficult for me to put them on alone…”

“Hmm…”

My sister’s expression was still full of discomfort.

Even I thought this was a stretch.

It may be difficult to put on stockings and you may need help, but there’s no reason why I have to help.

“And after that, there were no such incidents at all, it was something I had to do because time was running out.”

So, I mixed in a little lie.

It’s true that Haze was a little impatient because she was crazy in love.

“Okay, since you said there were no other incidents, I’ll generously let this one slide.”

“Yes…”

“But what about the rest? I think you need to explain the most important things.”

“……”

Why are there still three left?

And why are only the ones that are difficult to explain left?

Clothing gifts!

I gave some gifts because I was attending a banquet.

Once to Elizabeth and twice to Emily.

Even excluding the maid outfit, there are three times.

I also gave necklaces to both of them, and it’s a fact that can be cross-verified because it’s a necklace that my mother personally obtained.

Banquet? What should I say about this?

Emperor knew the fact that I decorated Emily and took her, then walked around with Elizabeth on one side and Emily diagonally behind her.

“……”

I was able to finish analyzing the remaining three issues in a very short moment.

Can’t explain it.

What I need now is to think about how to die honorably and coolly.

“The remaining three are.”

“Yes.”

I smiled and looked at my sister.

“That’s right, I’m a son of a bitch.”

“That’s…?”

My sister stopped nodding and looked at me with a bewildered look.

It was like she was thinking, ‘Why is this guy so confident?’

“No matter how much I rack my brains, the only conclusion I come to is that I was wrong no matter what explanation I make.”

“Was there no reason why you had to do that?”

“Not really.”

“……”

My sister closed her eyes and gently massaged her temples while groping the table.

And my sister, who grabbed the Bible that was neatly placed on the right side with the spine facing out, got up from her seat as it was.

“This licentious bastard!”

My sister’s face became ferocious like a demon.

The Bible was slammed down on the top of my head.

“Keuheck…!”

Following the pain of my head splitting, my vision flashed white and then turned black.

-Thump thump thump!

“M. Master!”

With the loud noise and Emily’s scream as the last thing I heard, I lost consciousness.