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Tia Bernard was easily antagonized by others.
“…. where are you walking around looking?︎ You’re standing in front of me like you want to bring the house down so bad.”
When her personality was terrible. At one party held before she turned ten years old.
Tia’s terrible attitude was bursting out as usual.
The girl was just talking to her friend, the daughter of the viscount’s family, and Tia was just a little bit annoyed with her.
“I-I’m sorry!”
“I’d like to say I forgive you because you apologized ……, but I got pretty angry…”
The daughter of a viscountess and her friend bow their heads desperately.
The other party is a duchess. Even if she was a girl who was disliked in social circles, her position was different
If she continued to throw a tantrum, something might happen to the house or to herself.
That is why the girl looked frightened as she bowed her head.
At that moment…
“Wait a minute!!!!”
A boy intervenes.
He has short, neatly trimmed brown hair and a handsome face.
It is only recently that Tia has come to describe this boy as “familiar.”
“Why are you interrupting?”
“No, no, I’m bothering you, you’re acting weird again!?!”
“Shut up.”
“But then, you’re just a nasty little babbler, aren’t you?!”
He’s her stepbrother, and even though he doesn’t have noble blood running through his veins, he’s still trying to get in her way.
Tia was even more annoyed by this and slapped him on the cheek as she always does.
However, Yuran was still undeterred and pushed himself back to pull away from the girl.
“I-I’m sorry to scold you, but …… you’ve got to hold back here. You see, if you poke around too much, you won’t be able to make friends, you know. If you don’t get along with everyone, you’ll just end up having to go through all the hardships and tearjerkers later on, I’m serious.”
It’s annoying. It’s really annoying.
Even though I am acting like this, he always never try to leave.
Isn’t there some ulterior motive? ︎︎It’s so hard to believe───
“W-What!?”
“The power’s out!”
“Where are the lights?!”
And then…
The lights in the hall suddenly went out.
And then,
“…..Eh”
Tia’s consciousness was also lost there.
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The next time I woke up, somehow I was in the carriage.
“Hmmm!”
My hands and feet were bound with rope.
My mouth was also wrapped in what looked like a hand towel to prevent me from screaming.
And in front of me, a number of men dressed in black were looking down at me and laughing.
“That was surprisingly dumbfounding”
“Well, I can afford to take one of these kids away,”
“Then we can just hand her over to the client and be done with it.”
Why, why?
The question comes up in Tia’s mind, as she suddenly can’t understand the situation.
Then, one of the men looked into Tia’s face and gave her a mocking look.
“Really, you have to be a good girl, okay? How much of a grudge you’ve got against you, ……, you don’t get requests nowadays to keep tormenting until die, do you?”
How much the word “death” has resonated in Tia’s mind.
I can’t move my body, I can’t call for help, and now that I’m being rocked in a carriage, I wonder where I’m going and what they’re going to do to me.
If it had been the usual Tia, I would have shouted as hard as I could, “Who do you think I am!” and hit the other party.
But I could not do that.
As the questions filled her head, she finally felt another emotion – simple fear.
Of course, no matter how unmanageable and selfish Tia is, she is still a girl less than 10 years old. It’s impossible not to be afraid.
(Scary ……)
I’m so scared, I can’t help it.
(Someone please come help me quickly ……)
But the moment I thought that, I realized.
Who among all the people who I have done terrible things to will really be able to help me?
I have said so many terrible things to my parents. I have thrown cold water on my knight many times. I have said nothing but abuse to girls my own age.
Who will help me? I wonder if it’s because of the terrible things I’ve done that I’m resented like this.
Still, I can’t help but think.
(Someone…)
Even if I realize it, even if I know it won’t come.
I couldn’t help but wish.
(H-help me!!!!!!!)
And then…
“I found you.”
The roof of the carriage suddenly fell in, along with a boy.
“Who are you ……?”
“I don’t have to tell you that, do I?”
The boy was a boy I had become accustomed to seeing recently.
The boy who had been with me until just now, and whom I had just hit as hard as I could.
Yuran swings his arms to the side.
The pipe attached to the collapsed roof struck the man’s cheek as hard as he could.
“Bah!?”
“You messed with someone’s sister. ……No matter how much I do, I don’t want things to turn out like this either.”
From there it was terrible.
In the small space, the angry men all attacked Yuran at once, and Yuran waved his arms in the air.
For some reason, both the knife they were holding and the sword that suddenly appeared attacked the men just as Yulan swung his arm.
“You’ve got to be kidding me ……!”
“What the hell is this magic?!”
“We’re …… this little shit!”
Overwhelmed. The scene is one that fits the word
The carriage collapsed and Tia’s body was ejected onto the road.
When she got up and looked up to check the situation, there was nothing but the wreckage of the carriage and only Yuran was standing there.
Then Yuran slowly approached Tia and said…
“Ah, I’m sorry about that ……. To be honest, I didn’t have enough time, or I didn’t expect you to be thrown out.”
I know he was apologizing for getting myself rolled on the ground like this.
But there was something I didn’t understand.
“Why……”
“Hmm?”
“Why did you save me ……?”
You should have been gone.
After all the terrible things I’ve done to you, you should be gone.
Yuran came to my rescue all by himself.
He was using magic that I don’t understand. How could he have such power, even though he was only a child? That was one question, but above all, that was Tia’s biggest question.
Yuran scratched his cheek a little at her words.
“I don’t really want you to get hurt, I just want you to fix your personality. Well, if I can help you, I’ll help you…we’re family, after all.”
Yuran carries the stunned Tia on his back and begins to walk slowly.
“I don’t know what onee san will think about this, but if possible, I would like her to reflect on this and change her mind.”
That’s it.
Yuran said it casually.
“I’ll stay by your side like I did today. If I can make a happy ending where no one gets hurt, that would be better.”
To be honest, Tia did not know what to do.
She still hasn’t sorted out her current situation, and fear still rules her body.
But she was happy.
Obviously, she thought, she will never forget what happened today in the future.
Yuran’s warm body heat that she could feel. The words that Yuran had spoken to her
she will never forget. There was no way she could forget.
Her heart raced violently. As if to contradict this, in the middle of the quiet street, Tia cried on Yuran’s back as hard as she could.
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