Taming Her Highness the Princess

38 – Between Misunderstanding and Truth (6)

Jenial moved the bookshelf and blocked the passage to the secret room.

After that, when I opened the door of the office and came out, I saw Radne biting her lip while leaning against the wall.

She was hiccuping with her eyes half-open, and each time her shoulders shook slightly. Judging by the clear marks of her tears on her face, she must have been crying all along.

“…… Are you okay?”

No answer. Radne intentionally kept her mouth shut while not making eye contact with her. She wondered what it would do to build her ego, but she was desperate.

She was afraid of the people of the empire, so she asked for help, because she herself was not forgiven, and if she answered her now, her cries would come out.

Jenny Earl, who seemed to have a rough idea of her heart, pulled out a handkerchief from her bosom and held it out. She rang and handed her a handkerchief, which was funny, but couldn’t let it go.

“Tears don’t seem to have dried yet, so take it.”

“Poetry, no-“

“Do you want to cry more?”

Huh! Ladne, who had a hiccup, glanced at Jeniel. After a brief moment of thought, Radne accepted the handkerchief that Jenny Earle gave her.

However, she didn’t use it to wipe her tears, she just held them up, but it seemed to be Radne’s last pride, so Jenny Earl didn’t bother to point out that.

“You seem to have stopped crying, so tell me. From now on, I will go to the village of Teldoran on the outskirts of the archipelago. I’m going to take you there, so get ready and come out to the front yard.”

“Te, what is Teldo?”

“Yes. I heard that a werewolf appears and the village chief has put in a request to the adventurer’s guild. Since the situation seems urgent, I plan to go and subdue them myself.”

Werewolves are demons. Jeniel was telling the demon, Radne, to prepare to go to kill the demon.

It was ridiculous and resentful Radne, but he had no right to refuse. If he turned down that name after being caught trying to dig up Jeniel’s secret, he might be really upset.

“…… Okay.”

After hearing the answer, Jenial moved ahead and passed Radne. The sound of Jeniel’s footsteps was getting farther and farther away, but Radne couldn’t move easily.

Because her legs were wobbly under the influence of being caught earlier, it seemed that she would fall over if she moved hastily.

“Heh, ugh… ….”

Crying again because the tension was relieved also played a part.

*

Jeniel, who came out to the front yard of the mansion with his car keys, was about to walk towards the car but hesitated. It was because Seryl was entering from the entrance of the mansion.

Unfortunately, the moment she was about to leave the mansion coincided with Seryl’s time off work. Jeniel, wondering what to do, decided to greet Cheryl.

It will take some time for you to get ready and come out anyway, so she thought it would be okay to talk for a while.

‘…… Brother?’

Cheryl was taken aback by the presence of Jenny Earle at her mansion’s front door, but she soon regained her composure and moved on. Eventually, as Cheryl approached, Jenial opened her mouth.

“Ceryl. You have suffered a lot today.”

It was a warm word, but somehow Seryl couldn’t treat her brother the way she used to. It was because the strange book that her brother had given her kept popping up in her mind.

I’ve thought about it several times, but it’s not something that can be overlooked. Seryl took a deep breath and looked up at Jennie Earle, who stood on her steps, stiffening her resolve.

“You are talking to me calmly. Have you lost your conscience now?”

It was Jeniel who was embarrassed to see Seryl come out so harsh. Maybe she was stressed out because the work was so hard. Unable to know that Cheryl’s misunderstanding had deepened thanks to the book she had received from Ruinel, Jenial could only remain silent as she guessed why Seryl was angry.

On the other hand, Seryl judged that Jeniel’s silence was a silent affirmation. Since that complicates her mind in many ways, Seryl sighed softly and said,

“I…… No, in general, I think there are things that siblings shouldn’t do. So let me ask you one more time. What does my brother think of me?”

I didn’t understand the intent of the question, but it wasn’t too difficult to answer.

“You are my beloved sister, Cheryl.”

Seryl’s eyes wide open, and the ends of her hair float in the air. In the midst of her reddening face, Seryl blankly opened her mouth.

Her heart was beating wildly and her mind was going white. The answer she wanted to avoid as much as possible came out of Jenn Earl’s mouth, and she was more embarrassed than she thought.

Of course, Jenny Earl was only saying that he loved him ‘as a family’. However, with many misunderstandings piled up on top of each other, Seryl misunderstood that remark as saying that she loved her “As a member of the opposite s*x.”

“Four…… What?”

“He said he loved you. Is there any problem?”

Thanks to Jennie Earl who conveyed her sincerity again, Seryl gasped. Seryl, whose face was redder than before, screamed in anger.

“Brother, are you really crazy!?”

Is saying that I love my family to be called crazy? I was a bit dumbfounded and was staring at it, but Seryl, who had finally cleared her mind, spoke in a voice that didn’t seem to go away.

“Lee, go inside and talk. Her brother’s taste is absolutely unacceptable, but…… Still, I think we need to talk about it so we can understand why he made me feel that way.”

“Ceryl.”

“I am not doing this because I want to scold my brother. I just want to somehow resolve this strange relationship. It’s not normal for an older brother to be s*xually attracted to her younger sister-“

Cheryl stopped talking and shut his mouth. It was because Ladne was covering her mouth with a surprised expression beyond the open front door.

How long have you been there? It was her mistake that she had been distracted from talking to Jeniel and hadn’t noticed that the front door was open.

Jeniel, who was about to ask what nonsense he was talking about s*xual desire, followed Seryl’s gaze and turned around.

“Oops… ….”

Then, she found Radne, who was making an expression of ‘I misunderstood’ even when she pretended to. Her head was pounding, but she didn’t have time to explain right now.

“Ceryl. I’ll listen to your story after I’ve done my business. It won’t take long, so please wait at least until then.”

“Ah. Yes… ….”

Seryl, who seemed to have unintentionally caused a nuisance to her brother, calmly agreed. Jenny Earl exhaled a low breath and said to Radne, who was looking this way from the hall of her mansion.

“You follow me. We have a long way to go.”

As Jenny Earl takes the lead, Radne bows to Cheryl and slowly moves her steps. However, not approaching at a certain distance was clearly wary of Jenial.

Unaware of that, Jeniel walked over to the car parked in the front yard and opened the driver’s door. Then, as I look behind her, I see Radne, who is far away.

“…… What do you do?”

Radne didn’t answer. But he just stood there with a strangely tense face. Jeniel, who didn’t like that, furrowed one eyebrow.

“Are you thinking of going on foot?”

Radne, who didn’t like that, shook her head, approached the vehicle, opened the passenger’s door, and got in.

Jeniel, who saw that, also got into the driver’s seat, started the engine, and stepped on the accelerator. In the moving car with a faint noise, the two kept their mouths shut as if they had promised.

Jenial usually doesn’t talk much with Ladne, but today, this silence is very uncomfortable.

“Radne.”

So she decided to talk first to change the subject.

“Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever asked about your past. I guess I’ve lived a life that can’t be seen as flat. Am I right?”

Suddenly, she wondered why it was a story from the past, but Radne, who had nothing to do while on the way, responded to Jeniel’s question. It was the same with Radne that the silence was awkward.

“…… That’s right. I have lived alone in the Empire since I was very young.”

“I lived alone.”

Radne nods her head.

“My father came to visit me every birthday, but other than that, I had to spend it alone. I received a lot of money, but being alone in an empty house is unbearably lonely. The reason I started learning imperial magic was to soothe my loneliness.”

“Is it the same reason why you entered college?”

“…… Because I needed a place to spend my time.”

Time passed quickly when I was engrossed in college classes or taking care of assignments one by one. Then, before he knew it, he had become a genius who had never missed the seat of the chief.

However, no matter how much he devoted himself to magic, he could not solve his essential loneliness. Radne was like an isolated island among undergraduates who subtly discriminated against different races.

There were a few guys who would talk to me from time to time, but most of them approached me not to make friends but to satisfy their s*xual desires.

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Even if they were of different races, Radne’s appearance was very beautiful, so it was natural for men to get twisted.

At that time, Radne coldly rejected the confessions of the men who approached her, and the rumor spread quickly throughout the university, and she had to be accused of being a high-nosed b*tch.

She is ostracized just because she is a heterogeneous tribe, but what will happen when it is revealed that she is a demon?

She felt that insecurity and helplessness made her think that she would never be able to become an Imperial citizen. So he had a plan to return to the demon realm by asking her father when he graduated from college.

I’m sure you’ll hear consolation, not consolation, that you’ll just have to be a little more patient and persevere.

‘It’s gone now, but… ….’

Since she was captured by Jenny Earl, there was no way she could return to the Demon Realm. It was impossible for her to escape from the eyes of the Malay family in the island without knowing if it was another remote territory.

So she gave up halfway, and Radne looked out the window indifferently. It was the moment he was idly watching the procession of streetlights installed one after another along the road.

“It must have been difficult.”

Jeniel’s brief consolation makes Ladne turn her head. Afterwards, Jeniel didn’t say anything, but there was something about the comfort he heard from someone for the first time that made his heart melt.

Radne, who had been staring at Jeniel’s profile, looked out the window again with a strange feeling. Then he slowly licked his lips.

“…… It must have been difficult for you too.”

“What do you mean?”

“You love your sister.”

How hard it must have been to live with that hidden in the world. At Radne’s sympathetic consolation, Jenny Earl sighed and involuntarily tightened his hand on the steering wheel.

‘It will turn.’

To be honest, I couldn’t even figure out where to start explaining.