Chapter 34 – At the End of the Fall (2)
Cianna heard Isabella clearly, but she couldn’t move her body, as if frozen. She looked at Isabella with a pale expression, hoping that she must have misunderstood her.
There is a reason why Cianna has been able to persevere even though she has been through many things during her time at Isabella’s mansion. Of course, her desire to be hated by Mason also played a big role, but her biggest reason was Mason’s absence.
Although she was forced to stay away from her loved ones for the change of seasons, she was otherwise very fortunate. The reason she stays away from Mason is because she has no reason to be found out by Mason.
Just like that, Sianna began to get used to Isabella’s being her assistant. She is Isabella’s space, she lives in her mansion every day and gradually loses her sense of reality. No matter how embarrassing, nasty, and unreasonable behavior of Isabella’s request was, Mason wouldn’t know it.
In this way, she closed her eyes to her own reality, and to Shiana, who got used to her life with Isabella.
Just as Isabella had done for her assistant, she climbed onto her lap and played with her, and when someone knocked on her door, she hid her naked body as if she were familiar with it.
The news of Mason’s visit, which Isabella told her about, was enough to send Cyanna to her horror.
Isabella’s purple eyes shone. It’s something she couldn’t be, but Cianna had a clear eye on it.
“Wake up, Siana. You can’t show that to Mason, whom you love, can you?”
Isabella spoke in her bright voice and pulled her by the arm of Cianna. She was dragged out of her body powerlessly. Seeing the bright light instead of under her dark desk, Cianna instinctively covered her eyes.
The lights in her room felt so bright. To the point that her eyes were blinded.
“Hurry up, get dressed and come out of the bathroom. If Mason sees you… Shouldn’t I have to tell you everything?”
Isabella said and laughed. As if it was really funny. At her words, Shiana was taken aback and headed to the bathroom where her clothes were.
Sianna ran over and covered her breasts and lower back. Suddenly, she felt so ashamed and unclean of herself.
After hastily closing and locking the door, Siana stood in front of the mirror and looked at herself.
Her slender body was still the same as before entering her mansion. Her gray-white hair had grown a little longer and came down near her hips when she stood upright.
Cianna reached out and touched the nape of her neck. The leather’s texture was different from her skin, and Shiana slowly reached out her hands and moved her cold metal buckles. After a while she threw away her leash, which was gently untied.
Widely-.
Hearing the small sound as it hit her floor, Cianna looked into her mirror again. She felt both refreshed and awkward at the same time as her air touched the place where her leash was always wrapped. Perhaps because she had been wearing it for a long time, the place where her leash was located seemed to have a whiter glow than the rest of her skin.
Cianna, not wanting Mason to notice her change, picked up her clothes from the floor and put them on. Wearing her purplish blouse and long skirt, she lifts her head again to look in her mirror.
Even though she obviously had the face she had seen countless times, Cianna looked so awkward in her mirror.
At that moment, there was the sound of the door opening beyond the bathroom and Isabella greeting her.
Mason.
Siana’s heart thumped. She held back the feeling that her hair was going to grow and her eyes were going to go white, and she grabbed onto her washbasin. Sianna caught her breath and tried to regain her composure.
“… Calm down, Siana.”
Muttering it over and over again in small, like her spells to catch herself all over herself.
Only today
If you hold on for today, you can go back.
Siana suppressed the dizziness and anxiety that crept up inside her, she repeated herself over and over again.
“Sister, how are you?”
“… Ah yes. Did she get along well with Isabella too?”
Mason reacts a beat late to Isabella’s greeting, and she smiles weakly. As soon as she opened the door and entered, she looked around her room, but Ciana didn’t seem to be there.
“Come in quickly and warm yourself up, sister.”
Isabella gently brings her mason into her room and makes him sit on a chair in front of her fireplace. She took her coat with her own hands, hung it directly on her wall, and sat down across from Mason.
Mason couldn’t hide her nervousness. It was clear that she was greatly hurt by her words and actions of Sianna, but the thought of protecting her still remained unchanged.
Her sore finger, the projection of guilt over her younger brother for not taking care of her as a child. To Mason, Ciana would always be a target of protection. Isabella hesitated as to when to bring this up, and she unknowingly tore the shins off her fingertips.
“Sister.”
Mason raises her head. Isabella was smiling with her soft eye smile.
“… Is it because you’re worried about Sianna?”
Mason smiled bitterly at her revealing her true feelings. Already, she kept forgetting that Isabella had grown up to be a smart, quick-witted young lady.
“… She’d be lying if she said she wasn’t worried.”
At Mason’s words, Isabella frowned as if she didn’t understand, and she said,
“I think she talked about it once before, but I don’t really know why she cares so much about Shiana.”
Mason couldn’t hide his surprised expression. When Isabella saw her expression, she shook her hand and spoke again.
“Oh, don’t get me wrong, sister. I know that her sister feels responsible for Ciana, and Ciana is now my friend. But it’s true that Sianna has hurt her sister a lot, right? She also suddenly insisted on staying away from her sister for a while.”
Mason pondered her words with mixed feelings. There was nothing wrong with Isabella’s words. The day that became the last dinner the three of us were together.
And the day he heard the news unilaterally, and that through Isabella, that she wanted to stay away for a while, also left a big scar on Mason. If Cianna wasn’t resentful, she’d be lying.
However,
At the same time, Mason remembered the whispers of that night that Cianna had secretly confessed.
She’s having heartburn in her that she can’t take herself.
She has another poor little brother of hers.
“… Because Siana is my sister.”
“… Yes?”
Mason, involuntarily, gripped her hands tightly. It was difficult for Sianna to accept each of her clumsy and sharp emotions. But Mason felt sorry for her. She felt her sympathy for her. She knew that her nature was a good, upright child, and it was so sad that her pure self was spoiled by the winds and waves of her world.
“Because he is the younger brother I love.”
Mason was also in love with Cianna, even though Cianna was in a different direction than she wanted her love to be.
“… Ah.”
Isabella’s smile subtly changes. Her soft smile turned into a sharp sneer for a moment. Her voice is also something much thicker than anything she has ever heard.
“Your sister loves Siana too.”
It must have been Mason’s illusion that the way she spoke for a moment felt like her childhood. She has a lot of greed, and she looks like that child who used to pout.
At that moment, someone walks out with the sound of the door opening. A beautiful woman with off-white hair, wearing a purple blouse and long skirt.
The moment she sees her, Mason takes a short breath and mumbles her low.
“… Siana.”
However, Mason feels awkward with her changed atmosphere of Shiana. Her hair, her face, her looks were all the Shiana she knew.
If the old Cyanna looked like a bristling hedgehog, now she has the darkness of a widow. Cianna’s jade-green eyes met Mason, but she seemed to be out of focus somewhere. Seeing the light shade under her eyes, Mason hesitated what to say.
“… Uh, once-“
“-Sit down, Siana.”
Mason tries to open her mouth with difficulty, but her Isabella’s words overtake her. Mason is a little surprised by the cold and coercive tone, as if giving a command to a dog. Maybe she couldn’t hear what she was saying?
As Isabella beckoned, Cianna sat down next to Isabella and faced Mason. Mason was confused as to what to say when she heard Isabella’s voice suddenly bright,
“Siana, did you hear what we were talking about earlier?”
At Isabella’s words, Cianna shook her head. Isabella burst out laughing. Mason felt uncomfortable with Isabella’s change from earlier. She somehow felt like she was angry.
“… Oh no.”
Shiana barely answered in her crawling voice. Then Isabella suddenly grabbed her hand and dragged her, and said,
“Okay? Hehe, I told you the story you wanted to hear so much-“
Mason listened to Isabella and she tried to catch the conversation, but she didn’t understand what the hell she was talking about. Mason felt her head start to hurt a little, and she interrupted the conversation,
“Wait, Isabella, what are you-“
“I love you Siana. Isn’t that the story you’ve been wanting to hear so much?”
After listening to Isabella’s words, Cianna slowly looked back at Mason. Her beautiful jade-colored eyes lost their luster as before. Her small, beautiful lips trembled in a weak feeble smile.
“… Mason.”
It was the first time that her beautiful, birdlike voice had sounded so sad.
“Mason, do you really love me?”
It was this.
Cianna had been with Isabella, and she was used to reading her manners, tone of voice, and mood. She behaved to the point of seeming disrespect in her dealings with Mason, something she had never shown before. And the story of ‘love’ that came out of her mouth. And her eyes seemed to urge her to do something.
Shiana had a hunch that this was a small event prepared by Isabella.
The uncomfortable truth she and Mason both knew, but closed their eyes to each other.
Shiana’s precarious wish, which she believed that if she turned away and buried it, it would be as if it never existed, that she would be able to stay as it was.
“Does Mason love me?”
By taking it out of here and now.
Siana forced a smile. The corners of her mouth trembled, but this was Sianna’s best. She fails to meet Mason’s eyes.
Silence sets in In a room full of heavy and uncomfortable air, there is only one thing that holds back laughter that is about to explode.
“… Love you. Siana.”
“… I see.”
Mason’s squeezed answer. But Cianna knew that Isabella would not be satisfied here.
“But,”
Sianna opens her mouth in her cracking voice. She looks Mason in the eye for the first time. Her eyes are wishing that Shiana would no longer open her mouth.
But Shiana opens her mouth.
“It’s a little different from the love I want, isn’t it?”
Your cheeks are hot. Her eyes begin to blur. In the end, Sianna’s words made the atmosphere in her room cold.
Mason’s answer was exactly what Cyana had expected.
“… I’m sorry, Siana.”
Just like that, leaving only an armful of scars on each other, Shiana drives her awl into her own feelings.
The ending of the little meeting Isabella had prepared was the worst. Neither Shiana nor Mason remembered exactly how it ended. When she came to her senses, Mason was heading to her house, and Cianna was just looking at Mason’s back in Isabella’s room.
“Oh, it’s a pity, Siana.”
A disgusting voice from behind. Cianna helplessly turned her head.
“…”
Cianna looked out of her window again in silence. Nothing meant anything anymore. Isabella’s violence, and her daily life with Mason, which she longed for.
Rather, she said she didn’t want to go back, and I wondered if I was crazy when I saw Mason’s face again and felt she couldn’t live.
In order to pick up her outpouring words with the support of her single moment of emotion, Shiana had to drop everything of hers.
Even though she gave up everything, in the end she had nothing left of her.
“Shall we take one last walk with Siana?”
Not even willing to refuse, Shiana turned away from her window. As she prepares for a walk, she touches the spot where her leash used to be, but pauses at the touch of her leash, which is missing. Isabella doesn’t miss it and laughs and talks.
“Today is an ordinary walk. Would you freeze to death if you did it in the current weather? Ruler.”
Shiana staggers slightly at her sudden, something slung over her shoulder. She had a thick coat to keep out the cold wind outside.
“Let’s go out for a while.”
Isabella took her Sianna’s cold hand and dragged her. Cianna Doesn’t Shake Her Hands Off
Because she had nothing to do otherwise, and no reason to refuse.
