Chapter 329 – Uninvited Guest (2)
“Eunbyeol, lock the door.”
“… I understand, master.”
Maid Eunbyeol locks the door without hesitation at the command of Doshihee, who speaks firmly with a displeased expression.
As soon as the lock on her door was closed, Do Ye-hee’s voice called her quietly from beyond her wooden door.
“I told you to open the door, Eunbyeol. Are you going to disobey me, the eldest daughter of Dokyung Group, even though you are just a servant?”
“… I’m Doshi-hee’s exclusive maid, so I’m just following Doshi-hee’s orders with priority.”
“I just want to talk for a moment. Open the door when you say something nice, Eunbyeol.”
“I have nothing to say to you, Do Ye-hee. I’m going to take a break from now on, so please don’t disturb me and turn off.”
“What is it that makes family members feel sad, Si-hee? You don’t call me sister like before.”
“I would rather bite her tongue and die than call you sister.”
“Oh my, that’s too much.”
At the voice of her half-sister, who calmly responded as if she was relaxed from beyond the door, Doshi-hee was overcome with feelings that twisted her stomach.
What has Do Ye-hee done to herself so far?
Every time he reported something meaningful, he made a mockery of himself in the group by raising a comparable performance.
After picking up the personal connections he had accumulated at the foundation and using them to his heart’s content, he threw them away like a devoted couple in the end, ruining his relationship with himself.
Do Ye-hee has always been a thorn in the eye of Do-shi-hee when she recalls that she even tried to do similar things to Eun-byeol, her closest aide.
Filled with indescribable rage, she spat out an accusing decree at Do Ye-hee outside her door.
“I hope you don’t use the title of proud older sister for the seed of her side room. Even if I die, I have no intention of recognizing you as my sister.”
“…”
“In the first place, I don’t want to breathe the same air with you even for one minute and one second, so I ask you to go away right now. It would be better if you get out of the mansion altogether.”
“Your master seems tired today, so why don’t you go away for now, Mr. Do Ye-hee?”
“Si-hee, since you’re my little sister, you can understand if you act so arrogantly, but Eun-byeol, can you say such arrogant things to me?”
“…”
“Right now, on the subject of being an employee.”
Do Ye-hee, who suddenly changed her target and spoke in a different tone, felt a considerable sense of crisis.
She immediately delivered a half-shout warning to Do Ye-hee beyond the door.
“… Just do something to Eunbyeol! Then I won’t be alone!”
“Of course, ‘I’ will not do anything, Si-hee. But our farewell… No, if Nari finds out that she is hiding in the Dokyung Group’s mansion, I wonder if she will stay still in the Geumhyang Group~?”
“… !”
“… !”
As soon as they heard Do Ye-hee’s half-threatening words, the bodies of the two people in the room froze for a moment without being able to answer.
Belatedly, pretending to be okay, Eunbyeol desperately ‘played’ Doshihee’s exclusive maid.
“I didn’t understand what you were talking about, Do Ye-hee.”
“If you’re going to keep being shameless, I won’t stop you. It’s been quite a while since I left home, so I want to go back to Geum-hyang soon, right?”
“…”
“Who do you prefer to come to meet you, sir? Rose, the eldest sister? Or do you want to be the little sister? I will give you that much of a choice.”
Eunbyeol couldn’t deny Do Yehee’s words, which she was already convinced of, and remained silent.
After confirming her expression, Doshi-hee hid Kim Seong-cheol’s clothes that she had been holding until now inside her clothes and said to Eun-byeol.
“… It’s okay, Eunbyeol. Let me open the door.”
“No, Master. I can’t trouble my master with my problem…”
“You know that to me, your disappearance is more of a nuisance. Listening to whatever she has to say is a hundred times better than losing you.”
“…”
“Nari~? Should I open the door now? You’re not going to refuse even your master’s orders, are you?”
Hearing Do Ye-hee’s voice knocking on the door several times from the outside and threatening her, Eun-byeol quietly opened the door to Do Hee-hee from the inside.
At the same time, a red-haired girl appeared outside the door.
The restrained dress that seemed to cover her entire body with a single long piece of cloth, and the voluminous roll hair tied to one side, made even the person who looked at her for a moment able to figure out what level of status she was.
Do Ye-hee, who appeared with an aristocratic atmosphere and a different feeling from Do-hee, made eye contact with her Eun-byeol once and said.
“Behave well. When my recognition is still there.”
“…”
“Nari, if you don’t climb up and get along well with Sihee, then I have no intention of hurting you…”
“Didn’t you come here because you had something to say to me? Stop harassing my poor employee, right?”
“… Yes, it’s a rare opportunity, but I have to talk to Sihee. I almost wasted my precious time.”
Do Ye-hee, who shifted her gaze from Eun-byul at Do-hee’s call, moved with her graceful steps to the table where she was sitting.
As I lightly sat down on the chair across from her, the red sidetail flew off once.
Do Ye-hee sits leaning halfway toward herself with her right hand, all five of which are painted with red embroidery, on the table.
Doshi-hee carefully pushed her own body behind her, as if rejecting her with her whole body.
“What’s going on, Do Ye-hee?”
“Do you even need a reason for your sister to come and see her little brother’s face?”
“Well, you have always been a man who only acted out of spite. This time, I wonder in what other ways he personally went to torment me.”
“Are you bothering me? My Si-hee seems to be misunderstanding something with her sister.”
“Shamelessly pretentious…”
Seeing that calm expression on her face, as if she had forgotten everything she had done to her, something twisted in Doshi-hee’s heart.
Seeing her expression like that, Do Ye-hee smiled as if she was having fun, and went straight to the main topic of her visit today.
“Is gathering party members going well these days, Sihee?”
“… It’s going very well thanks to you.”
“That is very fortunate. Sihee: To say that you are feeling grateful to your unnie. Is Si-hee finally starting to understand her sister’s feelings?”
“I’ve never felt so grateful… !”
“I heard that you’ve been acquainted with a saint from the Vatican for some time now, isn’t that quite remarkable for a poem?”
“… That, how do you… !”
Underneath her surface, Doshi-hee, who had even seen through her own personal connections she had built in top secret, grimaced at her with an expression full of rage.
It was because Do Ye-hee, as always, had her connections taken away, and when she became useless, she naturally associated with her future, where she would be abandoned like her devoted mate.
From Hae-na Lee, a B-class hunter who was a young lady of the New Year Group, to Yeong-ae Seong Eun-seo, a hunter who was a third-generation conglomerate of the Seonghwa Group, and Ha-yoon Shin and Ji-min Shin, who were younger sister hunters of the Dongshin Group.
There were already countless cases of her hard-earned connections being stolen and lost by Do Ye-hee, so it was natural for her to be wary the moment the newly acquired connections popped out of her mouth.
“You, I can’t believe my party members this time…”
“If it’s a saint from the Vatican, don’t worry. After all, that person is someone who can’t move in my line.”
“…”
“In the first place, I don’t think that person will ever betray you. If I had to go out, it would only make me worse, right?”
“… Heh, it seems that there are things you can’t do as you please…”
“Wouldn’t you have purposely aimed for that part and brought in a person that I wouldn’t dare touch? It’s a good mindset. If you’re the successor to Dokyung’s group, you should have that level of grit.”
“… Tsk.”
That expression looking down arrogantly as if he was already in the palm of his hand.
Even though I was proud of having created a network that was out of her reach this time, for some reason, I couldn’t shake off the strange feeling that I was being made fun of.
Doshi-hee expressed her displeasure by clicking her tongue openly with a nuance of disapproval.
“So, is that all there is to it? Are you just going to complain about the fact that I made connections out of your reach?”
“No way. Unni Sihee is not an idle person like you think.”
“… So, what is it?”
“My sister is not interested in the Saint of the Vatican… It’s because Sihee is the other Hunter you’ve been meeting at the Guild lately.”
“… !”
“… !”
As soon as the word referring to Kim Seong-cheol came out of Do Ye-hee’s mouth, Si-hee and Eun-byeol’s bodies hardened once.
Seeing her like that, Do Ye-hee, who had confidence in her, smiled at her half-brother.
“I wonder who Si-hee is making new connections with, shouldn’t I meet her at least once as her older sister?”
