I Became the Wrong Race

70 – Reunion (3)

[He who knows / ?

-You noticed its existence, and it also noticed you.]

An unfamiliar message suddenly appeared before my eyes.

It wasn’t something you could look at and ignore.

But I had to ignore it even after seeing it. Because my sister’s eyes were clearly watching me beyond the message.

When I was reflected in the same gray eyes as mine, I was expressionless. And it didn’t seem like my sister could see the status window.

I struggled to close the flat screen window, calm the goosebumps down my spine, and barely open my mouth.

“I don’t know if you heard from Melody.”

Curiosity hidden in innocent-looking eyes.

Is there any way I wouldn’t recognize that older sister’s face?

I remembered 3 years ago. My sister who listened to whatever I said.

It was mostly an insignificant story, but that’s how our family lived.

My older sister was a great listener.

“Just as I was about to form an alliance with a vampire called Hertol the Red Beast, he suddenly changed.”

“How?”

“He killed a blood mage named Edilum of the same clan, and attacked me right after. “He repeatedly attacked me and my colleagues mercilessly.”

“That’s why you smell blood.”

Before I knew it, I leaned over, rested her chin, and gave her a nod. Even the sight of the body balanced on the table was familiar.

Well, since it’s heavy, it’s likely to tip over.

“So? “That alone makes it sound ordinary.”

My sister tilts her head. I nodded my head in response to her question.

“After killing Hertol, he said to me.”

It’s still vivid. The will that was whispered to me the moment I turned to dust.

“‘Beware the emperor.'”

My sister’s eyes light up with approval and then sink.

“Lucilla, how did you find out?”

My sister’s eyes turn to me again. I tried hard to keep my composition.

As if it was a reflection of my sister, she tilted her head for a moment and reached out to take my hand in hers.

A hand wrapped around the hand that I unconsciously placed on the table. It’s warm. So much so that I shook my shoulders without realizing it.

“Don’t be scared.”

Did it seem like I was afraid of that series of events? My sister tried to comfort me and then she spoke slowly.

“At first, I thought the noble faction was tying me up.”

It was nice to hear a story that started like that.

I don’t know if it’s because of my older sister’s soft voice her her, or because she’s my older sister.

I listened to my sister’s voice and did not remove her hand from her grasp her her.

It was familiar and warm.

Just like my sister always did, she held my hand and talked to me.

However, the actual content of the conversation was cold, contrary to the voice and expression.

My older sister was one of the key figures of the imperial faction.

That’s how he got the title of Protector of the Country.

She was the emperor’s representative, the emperor’s best bodyguard, and could also be said to be the emperor’s sword.

One day, the older sister went to the estate of a noble family suspected of being behind the civil war and learned the truth.

“She told me as she was dying,” She said. Normally she would have just ignored it, but there was also something she couldn’t ignore. She always seemed suspicious about a lot of things. So I investigated.”

It wasn’t explained in detail, but it didn’t seem like that was the important thing.

My sister revealed a faint hint of murder beneath her seemingly innocent face.

It was that of a possessed person who had wandered this world for at least three years, possibly more.

“So I looked for it and got caught. She wanted to hear it face to face when she got caught. The emperor and I have a bond… Because I worked hard for the empire. “I thought you would listen.”

But it was unexpected, my sister said and laughed.

“The emperor was not human. “They were the limbs of some gigantic being covered in the emperor’s shell.”

“If you say it was a limb… Control?”

“No, it wasn’t that bad. What should I say?”

My sister must have finally realized that she was holding my hand and let go of her hand.

I was a little disappointed about that.

My sister brought her free hand under the table and held out only two of her fingers.

“This is what it feels like.”

What my sister wanted to express was extremely ambiguous, but I was used to her ambiguous expressions.

My sister’s two fingers moved according to her will. She wriggled, jumped, and knocked on the table.

That was, so to speak, the identity of the emperor as best described by my older sister.

When combined with what was said a moment ago, it can be verbalized like this.

“The emperor himself is part of it.”

“That’s right.”

My sister who smiles brightly. I looked at her fingers her, hiding my shyness her her her.

Yes, the emperor was not being manipulated.

The emperor that people saw was almost like a shell with parts of him covered up.

“Like a puppet show…”

“You’re smart. Shall I praise you?”

I think I already praised you. I shook my head and realized the whole story.

[He who knows / ?

-You noticed its existence, and it also noticed you.]

Something huge was casting a shadow over the empire.

Something so sensitive and big that just because I knew it, it noticed and observed that I had figured it out.

The emperor is its disguise, and the empire is its nest.

Something that even the three clans are either unaware of or vaguely aware of.

I suddenly became curious, so I looked at my sister, and she read my thoughts before I did.

“You want to ask me if I’ve tried killing someone?”

I didn’t ask how you knew.

“I think I killed him at least hundreds of times on the spot. I tried killing him using all kinds of techniques, including swords, fighting, spears, and blunt weapons… He didn’t die.”

My sister who is a level 20 homunculus.

A strong older sister who is also called the Emperor’s Sword.

The shadow of some gigantic being that could not even kill such a sister.

That was the emperor.

Was there something like that in Grimm Darker? Even when I looked back on my memories, nothing came to mind.

Is this something that was planned to be revealed in this DLC, or is it something that came about when my sister and I came to this world?

I had no idea. There was no way I could find an answer even if I looked into it. So the conversation died down.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m trying to find the answer. “Can you help me?”

“Of course.”

“Can I not think about it? It must be difficult.”

My sister, who probably didn’t think I would answer right away, opened her eyes wide and was surprised.

Even I didn’t know that I would answer so immediately, so I was in a state of shock similar to my sister.

“It’s going to be really, really hard. I am grateful just for lending me a place to live. There’s nothing I can give back. Are you okay?”

My sister still had a good personality. Naturally, something like a desire arose within me.

The desire to say that she is her sister’s younger brother and that she wants to help her.

But I didn’t say it.

I was afraid. If I say that and my sister avoids me or gets in trouble.

Because I will definitely get hurt.

So it couldn’t be done. That’s why I endured it.

Above all, the expression on Lorian’s face that I saw a while ago was also captured.

The expression filled with desire that was clearly shown to me.

The fact that my sister had also made that kind of expression made me hesitate.

I don’t know what that expression is or why it looks like that.

I hesitated. I hesitated to reveal that it was me.

My sister and I were brother and sister. It was right for siblings to remain brother and sister.

I desperately controlled myself and nodded.

Fortunately, my sister didn’t ask why.

The conversation ended naturally. What to do wasn’t yet clear.

“Then I will leave now.”

She didn’t grab me either, perhaps because she didn’t know what to do right away.

Just saying.

“You know.”

“Yes?”

“You can call me sister.”

He immediately said that.

“…”

Did you get caught?

Are you sure?

If you were caught, why were you caught?

If I’m not caught, do you let anyone call me sister?

My feelings were complicated. I had to hold my breath as I felt my heart sinking and not even beating.

“Sister… “What do you mean?”

So I deliberately answered as awkwardly as possible. With a look that wasn’t expected.

But after looking back, I felt some regret. My sister’s expression was not at a level where I could read her emotions.

“Yes, I am a homunculus and you are also a homunculus. “You can call me sister.”

Just raise the corners of your mouth and smile.

It sounds similar to what Isla once said, but it is a significantly different expression.

I hesitated. Some kind of desire boiling inside me was whispering to me to give in.

“Sister Lucilla…”

“Don’t treat me with respect from now on.”

“… Yes.”

So I forced myself to say it. The expression ‘older sister’, the first thing I said in 3 years, was strangely unfamiliar.

My older sister smiled at my expression.

“It’s good to hear it now.” “I’m sorry for holding you back.”

“No—”

There is a hint of sadness in my sister’s innocent eyes. I took a deep breath and corrected her.

“No, it’s okay.”

After giving in, I felt surprisingly at ease.

The feeling of being back where I should be.

As I suppressed it and left, the only sound that my sister laughed softly tickled my ears.

I tried to forget what I couldn’t say.

*

“… “I guess not.”

The woman whom many people called Lucilla muttered quietly in the deserted cabin.

Her face suddenly lost its usual innocence and became sad.

“I thought you were looking for me…”

The woman fell on the table as if it was falling apart.

She sighed, and despite the pressure on her chest, her arms, she was outstretched and she was silent without a single groan.

It has been three years since she was possessed. Throughout that time, the woman always had only one thing on her mind.

She may or may not be possessed and the world’s time will pass.

She was always agonizing over that possibility.

Even if it was a problem she didn’t know about unless she actually looked into it.

And if time on Earth passes by without you.

“… “Do they hate me?”

Just the possibility made her heart ache.

Isn’t she sad because she feels empty without him, and is she mistakenly thinking that she has been abandoned?

Wouldn’t she be looking blankly at her empty house with a sad expression?

Will I eat well?

It’s sad to starve because you don’t have confidence, but it’s also sad to adapt to not having confidence and eat yourself.

To the point where naughty thoughts like, “What if my younger brother came here too?” Come to mind.

That was why her younger brother made a mischievous request after seeing someone who seemed suspicious.

I hoped that it was her younger brother, and that we could have a lot of conversations after confirming that it was her younger brother.

She said that she didn’t abandon herself, and that she was looking for a way to return.

Rather, I hoped that I could say that I have never forgotten you even for a moment.

But it didn’t seem to be the case. The woman lifted her face from her table.

“… Should I forget?”

Her younger brother must hate her.

Things you shouldn’t do, paths you shouldn’t take, emotions you shouldn’t harbor.

If all of this is revealed, they will hate it.

If it’s going to be like that anyway, if it’s going to be like that.

Maybe I should just give up.

‘I have endured and endured for such a long time.’

As soon as I thought about giving up, my energy soared. There is also a natural feeling of not wanting to do that.

‘If I was going to say goodbye someday, I should have said it honestly.’

But those thoughts disappeared when we reached the ‘now.’

After all, she was the older sister, and her younger brother was her younger brother.

This is a thought that should not be entertained. Affection should always be two-way, not one-way.

As long as her younger brother saw her as her older sister, it shouldn’t have happened.

After struggling with many thoughts, she came to a conclusion similar to that of her younger brother.

‘Llewelyn.’

A man who is similar to her younger brother but is different and strangely attracted to her.

‘Get to know that kid better… If you can like it, then let’s give up.’

If you like him, stop liking her brother.

She prepared her words to deceive herself.

She didn’t even know that she was putting herself in a deeper hole.