(3) I keep my future husband!

But when I turned my head to the voice I heard from his side, Louise, who had a chubby face while holding a big rabbit doll, caught my eye.

Oh right. Then it turned out that it wasn't just Johannes in the room.

"That's really bad. He's a stupid idiot."

Well, I can't deny it. The second brother is definitely a stupid idiot.

"Sister, can't you come to our house? My older brother is much better than that brother! And when you come to our house, I will lend you my toy and bears, and you will have a good time without fighting with me!"

In the meantime, I was tired of the behavior that Cabel showed, and I expressed whether I would laugh or cry when I expressed my intention to escape from the grip of the second brother while I lent her my rabbit and bear dolls.

It became an indeterminate mood, but I stopped at her words, and I was frustrated.

"You said that you lived 'outside'? Let's leave sister's brother on where she lived."

I felt like she stopped Johannes as well as me by her word. However, only Louise couldn't recognize our reaction and still had a face of innocence.

"Becky did it every time I fought with Marian. She said there was a very scary monster out there, and the bad boy was there. It's a deal that I'm going to taken outside while scolded, so let's throw your

brother there."

While I was playing dolls with Louise, it was reported that Becky was Louise's nanny, and Marian was a friend of the same age as Louise.

"But is there a real monster out there? So, have you been living with a monster so far?"

It was something a little girl would think, and something that adults would do enough to scare children who didn't

listen.

"Older sister is pitiful."

However, the moment Louise spoke with

compassion in her eyes filled with the innocence of a young child, strangely, I felt like I had a thorn on my neck for a moment.

Just then, Johannes, who was next to her, rarely spoke to his sister in a firm voice.

"Louise, Becky just said it cause she's trying to scare you."

"So? Are there any monsters?"

"No."

"Then where did sister live?"

The curious pupil turned to me once again. Again, Johannes opened his mouth before I answering what she said.

"It's the same like us. It's where people like

you and becky live."

"Really? Then did Becky lie to me?"

"You get lost easily, so if you go alone, it's a dangerous place. You won't come back

home. That's why she said that."

"I don't like it!"

"And I like Hari, no matter where she lived before, regardless of that."

"That's right, me too!"

Louise quickly assimilated to Johannes and pleaded to show me not only her doll and bear, but also tweets and whirlpool dolls when I came to their house.

"Hari, then see you again at dinner later."

"Older sister, you have to eat and play with me again!"

And when I closed the door and came back to my original position, I felt the smile slowly fading away. Louise's curiosity lingered in my head.

The previous conversation wasn't very influential to me, as it was a word that a young child brought out without meaning.

However, the old memories that I had

forgotten for a while at her question only quietly emerged from below.

What was it like where I lived? Even though it was a long time ago, I was

able to easily recall the memories of Mellington.

I sat on the bed for a while, slowly shaking my feet, and soon turned to the window. The sound of the windows rattling in the cold breeze echoed my eardrum.

Where I lived… Cold and hungry place. A place where no one would find me or call

my name after my mother died.

Mellington is a cold place, where I had to

be alone forever.

*****

"I'm feeling it every day, but Ernst's dinner

is really great."

Count Vastia at dinner said he admired the delicacy of the sea in front of us.

"If I could, I would like to take the chef to our Vastia."

"It would be great to let the chef hear it."

"As I said, there were mouth-watering dishes on the table full of stiff legs."

"I'll put it on the plate little by little."

"Yes, Thank you."

With Mrs Ernst's courtesy, there are foods that smell delicious. Hopefully I can taste it little by little.

However, I was trying to put a dish that stimulated the salivary glands in front of my eyes, but I felt like I was sleepy for

some reason.

Perhaps it was because I recalled what happened when I lived in Mellington in a conversation with Louise that we had during the day.

At that time, if I could eat even hard black bread that had dried up and was twisted, I was lucky….

Now I was in front of the luxurious food

with warm steam coming up.

"Hari, would you like something else?"

Mrs. Ernst asked, as I was holding a fork and looking down at the plate. Only then did I wake up and smile at her.

"No, it's delicious!"

And finally, the veal calf boasted a paradise that melts in his mouth.

I was impressed and began to inhale the food on the plate like other children

from that time on.

Only yesterday all that incident happened. Today, Mrs. Ernst smiled with a reassuring face and looked at me.

"Don't do that and have another drink."

"I drank a lot yesterday, so today…"

"Mom, me and that, give me more!"

"A minute. You've been spilled on clothes, Louise."

I was thrilled with the scenery on the noisy table. It was noisy and a bit distracting as there were many people, but I thought this wasn't too bad.

"Did you come to Brother Cabel?"

After the meal, I held my hand with Luise and went to the room as we accidentally meet the Duchess of Ernst.

When I watched she's walking from the place where Cabel's room was, and holding the plate, I could easily guess why.

"I think it's kind of lonely being alone by the time of the meal."

I guess she went to take the meal to the second brother who was confined in his room. The plate in her hand was clean and empty, as if it had been licked.

While he was alone in the room, I heard that the second brother had ate a lot, but my hearty appetite still didn't seem to disappear.

But, the answer Mrs. Ernst said to me with a laugh of sorry for Louise.

"Since he had tiled hard since yesterday, he's not going to do anything radical

anymore. He's doing a lot of work with Johannes, and he's regretting his action. But don't worry, I won't let him go for a while if you want."

Listening to it, I think it will soon release Cabel's anxiety. Confined in a room alone for a long time is bad for emotions. Moreover, the subject is a second fact like a beagle.

"It was good not to have that brother."

After breaking up with Mrs. Ernst, Louise muttered disgruntled on the way to the room. Ugh, maybe the Cabel was taken quite a bit by this little girl.

"If he bother with my brother and sister Hari, I'm going to let go of shit."

Wait a minute, doesn't it seem like something aristocratic lady could not possibly do?

"Hari, can I go in?"

"Come in!"

Just then, Johannes came to my room

with good timing. I had nothing to say, so I stand up from behind my second brother as his lips fluttered.

"Louise asked and I came to pick you up"

The he just opened the door and went into my room. As soon as Cabel saw Johannes, he looked disgusted as when he had seen him in front of me.

Ah, even with that second brother, Johannes can look like that!

It's hard to believe that he was a man who was crying after being hit by snow bomb on the first day.

Anyway, I'm going to fold the frog and other confetti, and I'm holding it and running toward Johannes.

"Come on, brother Johan!"

At that moment, Cabel turned to me at the speed of light.

His face was like a person who had been tremendously betrayed by a person he believed, so I came out with a laugh.

"Are you coming for Louise?"

"Yeah, Louise is waiting in her room."

As I looked at him, the smile of the second brother became more invisible as I smile and approached Johannes.

"So let's go, brother."

"Where are you going? You were talking

to me first!"

As the second brother shook, he take one step closer to me. In response, I watched Johannes look wary at Cabel.

The the second brother was due to memories of his parents' troubles last time, so he only can shaking his raised hands and never acting violently against him again..

"I'm done with everything to say to you. What, do you want to say more to me?"

Cabel was very dissatisfied with something and was in agony, but he seemed to have no idea how to express it, and then he shouted at Johannes, who was next to me.

"I was talking to this girl first! You, don't be a coward!"

Johannes jumped for a moment as Cabel shouted. It was because he was so gentle in nature, or that he had never seen a man who was fierce in this way.

However, he did not step back with a firm eye.

"As she said, Hari had nothing to say with you."

"Hey, this! It's stupid to play an errand like an idiot! I'm not going play errand for the girls like you!"

"What? I think you're a fool who can only think of that."

"What?!"

"I thought you're more than that, did you not apologize to Hari and now you're doing this? She and I were hurt because of you."

At that moment, the second brother flustered with a muffled face.

"Brother Johan, stop it."

This time, I caught in between the two. But when I talked to Johannes, wasn't Cabel staring at me with his strangely shiny eyes?

Wow, the second brother. Do you think I'm going to be on your side right

now?

"You don't have to waste time talking about it. Even if Brother Johan explains it, I'm pretty sure he can't understand it anyway. Just don't deal with it, let's go to Louise."

So I shook my head towards Cabel

as if he wasn't supposed to understand it, and gave him a sigh and then turned my back.

"Brother Johan, are you good at origami?"

"We know how to fold rabbits and foxes. Oh, turtles too."

"Really? It's great. I know how to fold a frog, but maybe a little something else."

"I'll go to the room and teach you."

The second brother face is like 'What, are you really leaving me alone? Really?'

He shouted behind my back like a hero in the novel, but Johannes and I quietly ignored it.

Since then, I began to put the second brother out of my mind.

*****

"Hey, will you keep doing that? Why do you keep ignoring me!"

"Cabel, do it in moderation."

"Brother, say something!"

"Say what? Hari already say she doesn't want to playwith you."

"Wha-a-wha!"

At the end of Eugene's words, the face of the second brother seemed to be hitting the back of his head.

He was shaking his pupils as if he hadn't even believed what he heard.

In the end, the second brother shouted like a heroine in a miserable fear, then ran

toward the end of the hallway, but Eugene just looked at the back of the Cabel and just stay still.

"What's with the fuss?"

"Oh, it's no big deal, mother. It's boring because it's only us in the house for Cabel."

Yeah? He's so good at acting who he really looks like. Sometimes, after winter,

he look like the Lord Duke himself.

As If now he's the Lord Duke? You haven't

been being taught to be him yet.

"Do you like Vastia siblings?"

But suddenly, a question flew over my head as I looked up, and Eugene staring

at me suddenly caught my eye.

"Yeah, well…. Both are kind and fun and

good to play with."

"Yeah, it's not going to be easy when they're going back soon."

It's been a while, but the days are coming for the people of Vastia to leave Ernst. As Eugene said, it's a pity. When can we see each other again after this?

Come on, maybe 20 years later? As if he understood my complicated expression, Eugene added.

"It's okay. You'll see them again soon after this. My mother and father also noticed the mood and they liked during this hunting season, and we had a lot of

exchanges with Vastia just a few years ago."

Just a few years ago, they had an exchange with Vastia.

Well, it turns out that Ernst relationship

was briefly stopped after Arina's death. At first glance, they remember that it became a more closed atmosphere.

But why did they suddenly invite another family member during this hunting season?

No matter how much I think about it, when I was young, there was no Vastia in my memory.

Then, suddenly, I remembered how Eugene seriously asked to speak with the Ernst couple after the last family outing.

And then, about the refreshment time

that suddenly occurred in this house, and the changes in the lower line of doctors who started visiting Ernst regularly.

Then the cause of all this is, is it because the first brother?

"It's hard to meet them as often as this now because they live a little far, but you just need to get in touch with them regulary. Vastia brothers and sisters like you, so it won't be easy to break off the relationship."

Eugene began to comfort me with such words. In addition, he committed the act of raising his hand over my head like a last time.

"So don't be too sad."

…No, what I mean, I'm more curious what the hell are you doing, did you eat something wrong?

I was inevitably caught up in a very strange feeling when I received Eugene's clumsy touch on my head, but, of course, no one could solve my doubts, so I had no choice but to roll my eyes awkwardly.

*******

"Why do you play with them every day! He is not your brother!"

The second brother did not get tired today.

If it was better than before, it was that he would no longer do anything like grabbing my arms and dragging me out or forcing me out.

Of course it wasn't that he didn't try, but for some reason Cabel reached out to impulse and frightened right away, and he couldn't even touch my arms in the air.

And eventually, He couldn't put a finger on my body, and he shook his hand again.

Hmm, he don't want to be punished for being trapped in a room again, even if it's

a Cabel that I can't tell back and forth. I thought like that.

"I like brother Johan, and I like playing with him."

"What?!"