Sister, Don’t Marry That Guy – Chapter 61

Chapter 61

“Really? It might be dangerous, though?”

“Well… I already experienced a life-threatening crisis in Woodtail. At that time, I decided that I would live my life as my heart desires from now on.”

Her neat, reddish-brown eyes gazed at me.

Perhaps it was because I heard she was from the shield family, but those glossy eyes looked like a solid shield.

Rife cautiously interjected.

“Umm, Young Lady, to be honest, I also… couldn’t really adapt while wandering around after leaving Woodtail…”

Rife carefully confessed. She said she had never felt comfortable before becoming my personal maid.

“It was the same here. But after becoming Young Lady’s personal maid, I have Yuri, who was originally my friend… and it was comfortable, and I want to serve Young Lady forever too. If it’s okay with Young Lady.”

“…….”

“If Young Lady needs me, well, I’m also good at gathering various rumors. Actually… I’m also good at writing official documents… It’s a secret, but I’m also good at forging them.”

“I know.”

I nodded. Then, I briefly told the two of them.

I said that I had actually come to know about their pasts by chance.

I did not intentionally bring up Ruben’s story, as I had promised Ruben.

The two seemed to think that Head Butler Rover had told me, and that I had heard it through Rover.

“So, if the two of you follow me, I want to actively use Yuri’s and Rife’s abilities.”

“M-Me?”

“Yes, can you work for me?”

Then, Rife carefully asked.

“Young Lady… what do you want to do?”

I hesitated whether to talk about this, but I soon decided.

“I intend to pay back everyone who has scorned me.”

I said words that could sound infinitely distant to them, that I would become the Head of Family.

Yuri and Rife looked at each other.

Soon, as if they had made a promise, the two lowered their heads.

It was Rife who spoke first.

“Well, if I may be so presumptuous… Young Lady, whom I’ve seen up close, is not like someone her age. I think I would have had a hard time enduring this environment, so I wanted to stay with Young Lady for a long time.”

A complex and painful expression flashed across Rife’s face, who always smiled brightly.

“Perhaps it overlapped with my situation where I couldn’t give my heart to anyone after leaving my hometown…”

Soon, she smiled as usual.

“If my insignificant talents can be of help… Young Lady, I want to live as someone who is needed, if possible.”

Rife knelt on both knees. She bowed to me as she was.

“Really? That’s great.”

I deliberately spoke in a bright and cheerful voice.

“Then, Rife, you’ll become an intelligence agent for the organization I create. I’ll give you the position of vice-commander.”

“Yes… Yes?!”

I didn’t mention that the organization only had a commander and a vice-commander yet.

They’ll find out soon anyway.

‘Because the number of people will increase in the future. Yes.’

Soon after, Yuri knelt down next to Rife.

Unlike Rife, Yuri’s posture was closer to that of a knight making an oath.

It was a straight posture as good as Rainante’s.

“I couldn’t become a formal knight, but if Young Lady needs me, please use me willingly.”

Yuri whispered kindly.

“If I may also share my story… I lost my family in Woodtail, and when I see Young Lady, I think of my older sister’s daughter, and I wanted to protect you. They all died together.”

She said she had lost her family and all her relatives. Yuri calmly revealed a story I didn’t know.

“I can pick up a shield again for Young Lady.”

“…….”

“……I want to continue serving Young Lady.”

I slowly nodded.

Perhaps I thought this might happen, but my desire to give them a place if they wanted to go somewhere else was greater.

‘It seems I’m really blessed with people this year.’

I smiled brightly.

“Then Yuri, would you like to be a knight? Shall I recommend you to the Knight Order?”

“……No.”

Yuri answered carefully.

“There was a time when I wanted to become a knight, but now I like the daily life of choosing clothes for Young Lady and tying her hair. I want to be by your side now, would that be okay?”

“Well, of course, it’s okay with me. Then, if the opportunity comes, will you pick up a sword again?”

Yuri did not answer my question.

However, I did not miss the ambition that flashed in Yuri’s eyes and saw it clearly.

So that’s how it is.

“Okay, please take care of me from now on.”

* * *

“How is Roy Oppa’s condition?”

A week later, the number of people at the 3rd Training Ground that Roy used had increased.

First, one person was the second one, Stefan.

The other person was Stefan’s master, Chief Knight Tesias Caron.

He was commonly called Sir Tess, and he seemed distant with Rainante and Ruben, even though they were all Chief Knights.

Or rather, it felt like Rainante didn’t care, and Ruben was cautiously watching them.

“I am Tesias Caron. I greet the Young Lady.”

Well, it couldn’t be helped. Sir Tess was the vice-commander of the Winter Knights.

Moreover, he was the master who had taught Stefan swordsmanship since he was four years old.

I didn’t think someone like that would show up here.

When Sir Tess first appeared here, he seemed to have a rather displeased expression, but looking at his current appearance, it was difficult to read his expression.

Anyway, Stefan started training at the 3rd Training Ground where I was, instead of the training ground he was given. I thought it was unnecessary, but I didn’t stop him.

However, it wasn’t like Sir Tess was watching over Roy together, so Roy’s training was still being done by Rainante and Ruben.

“What are you planning to do in the future?”

I raised my head.

I could see the faces of my knights looking down at me from both sides.

“We just need to train from now on.”

Me, Roy, and Stefan too.

“And it would be good if you knights become stronger as well?”

“Hahaha, me too?”

“Yes, Ruben too, and you too. Ah, you said Sir Rainante is stronger than Sir Ruben, right? Can you train Sir Ruben too?”

“If Young Lady wishes, it is possible.”

“Ugh… N-No, I can do it alone!”

I just lightly asked if Ruben could also train, but Ruben’s face turned pale.

It seemed like there was something related to this in the past between the two.

I stared at the bickering two for a moment and opened my mouth.

“Tell me how you two have lived someday. I’m curious.”

“…….”

The two’s voices stopped.

“I’ve become curious about your pasts.”

“If you wish, please tell us anytime…”

I nodded.

And then I turned my head and looked at my two older brothers who occupied both ends of the training ground.

“What we need to do now is… wait. While training.”

I won’t be easily defeated again. Kyle Blackwinter.

“There won’t be the same defeat again.”

Time will flow. And that time will surely be on my side.

I’m waiting for an opportunity.

‘Because I know the opportunity.’

ch 1.5 – The Secret You Don’t Know

“Do you understand?”

A cold and chilling mansion. There are rules in this place where people as solid as the high walls live.

“It means you are no longer useful.”

You cannot survive unless you become stronger. No, you cannot live.

“Perhaps it was like that from the beginning.”

“…….”

Roy Blackwinter realized this at the young age of seven.

“You are being thrown away because your skills are worse than a bug.”

The Blackwinter family was a harsh environment for a child.

“Don’t call me master again.”

At least, it was like that for a child who had neither talent nor ability and was out of interest.

Because they did not receive attention, they were not protected either.

Therefore, the adults who were warm to Roy Blackwinter died or disappeared for various reasons.

However, only one person, the knight who was his master, remained for a long time.

That was only until he was seven years old.

“There is no hope. My advice is, please do not forget that you are a useless existence in this family.”

The only remaining existence, the master, disparaged and mocked Roy’s talent, revealing that his warm appearance until now was a lie.

Then, he abruptly returned to the Winter Knights.

Roy was left alone like that, but he was not lonely, or tired, or resentful.

He was a child who was naturally devoid of emotions.

He was closer to being uneducated.

He had experienced loneliness before learning it, so he did not know what it was.

Nevertheless, he had to live.

Thus, he lived desperately.

As Roy Blackwinter grew, there was a name he inevitably heard.

Kyle Blackwinter.

The firstborn of this family, an unparalleled genius.

The boy who would become the Head of Family in the future, who had a talent that no one could beat.

And his older brother.

Whenever he heard that name, Roy Blackwinter pondered his own usefulness.

There was none.

It felt like a heavy stone was placed on his chest.

Could it be that he could not become a person needed by anyone?

The boy who was thrown away because he was not needed had been striving to find his own need and usefulness since some time ago.

Let’s train the sword.

Yes, let’s train.

If I train, someone will look at me someday.

Someone.

……But it didn’t improve.

There was a limit to training alone.

Since some time ago, the desperation that he would be left forgotten in a corner of the family, as if falling off a cliff, engulfed the boy.

At least until the day he turned thirteen.

* * *

“Oppa!”

When he turned his head at the bright voice, he saw a girl waving her hand happily.

It was his younger sister Leia Blackwinter, whom he had met exactly one year ago.

Because she was wearing bright clothes today, Leia’s skin looked even whiter and paler.

The nine-year-old girl, who would turn ten soon after this season, looked a little sickly rather than lively.

Sometimes she looked fragile, as if she would collapse at any moment.

Roy recalled the first time he saw Leia Blackwinter.