Chapter 60 – Sister’s Empty Seat (4)
Booth’s eyes opened, and it took Mason a moment before she came to her senses. All around her was immersed in darkness, and her body was in a confined space, so she could not move easily.
“… !”
Jump-
“… Aww!”
Momentarily, as the blood in her body cooled down, Dun Mason stood up and came to his senses only when he heard Lucia’s sound of her arm being crushed by her mistake.
“Lou, Lucia.”
“Sister… ? My arm hurts…”
Little by little her eyes got accustomed to the darkness, and it was only after her slumber slipped away that Mason was able to caress her heart.
Reminding that the past, the terrible days spent in her crypt, are now in the past, he caresses Lucia as she rises a little annoyed.
Mason apologized to her Lucia, squeezing her arm and looking at her candle, which had been placed by her bedside. The length of the seconds, obviously shortened, indicated the time the two of them were asleep.
“… Lucia? Don’t you know how long we’ve been sleeping here?”
“Um… ? Uh?”
It was a voice full of drowsiness, but Lucia’s voice sharpened by her words, she also looked at her candle and spoke in a trembling voice.
“… Maybe an hour or two?”
It was a little after lunch when the two of them came out, so fortunately it wouldn’t be dark. Mason let out a sigh of relief.
“Sorry, I fell asleep without realizing it.”
“Ugh, no. It’s the same with me sleeping, but what?”
The two got up, dusted off their clothes, put the blankets and mats they had spread out on the floor back into the basket, and slowly headed outside. Fortunately, it was still bright outside. Rather, it took me a while to get used to the light because I was in a dark place for a long time.
“… Whoa.”
Her breath rose as Lucia covered her mouth and yawned. Mason calmly took her hand after tidying up her more disheveled hair.
“Let’s go back.”
Lucia nodded, holding her hand.
“Hmm?”
Grace, a dark-haired, golden-eyed woman, was walking, examining the forest floor, when she saw the footprints and crouched down.
“… Two people?”
It wasn’t the kind of footprint she was looking for, but she had heard that no one usually visits this forest in winter, so she frowned at the slightly unexpected situation.
Tidying up the quiver slung around her waist, she moved in the direction of her footprints.
Although it was a place where wild animals didn’t find many, it wasn’t her temper to leave a bad impression on her since she was newly appointed as a watchman here.
If you run into a wild boar looking for something to eat, you will face terrible consequences.
She moved her steps pretty quickly, but in fact, Grace, who was too trained to take on a position like a watchman, was able to find the owner of the footprints shortly after.
“… Ah.”
Even though they were far apart, Grace’s sharp eye recognized the two at a glance.
A while ago, a sister who was indebted to getting a carriage.
The atmosphere she felt at first was so different from now that she wondered for a moment that she was mistaken.
Her sister, who seemed anxious, seemed much more stable, and her younger sister, who fiercely attacked her sister, seemed quite friendly, sticking close to her sister, as if it had always been like that.
“His name is probably, Mason… , Was that so?”
Grace tried screaming and pretending to know for a moment, but then he gave up. It was because he didn’t have to buy and earn the stinging eyes he was receiving at that time.
“Hmm.”
Grace scratched his head as she watched her sister recede from a distance.
“… Am I wrong?”
Her excellent intuition, which she has had since childhood, and the ability to easily read the atmosphere of a person’s first impression that she feels instinctively, she has what could be called an ability.
In addition, since she was young, because of her character that she is unstoppable in good terms and unapologetic in bad terms, she talked about her first impressions in front of her face, and as a result, she grew up listening to her dislikes as if she were eating rice.
Uncomfortable laughter from her grown-ups, and whispers of creepiness behind her back.
Her childhood peers blushed and huffed at her, and many times they hated her golden eyes for being creepy.
So as she grew up she learned to hide. She is good at being nice, and bad at it, giving off a broad impression, and she has learned to live moderately.
It’s just that her world didn’t turn around for her.
“There are not many cases like this…”
But her golden eyes, of which she had been told so many times that she was creepy,
She still recalled the look in her eyes on her brother’s side that she had seen that day.
By the time she returned to her house, the sun was setting little by little. It was not dark but not bright, and the early sunset characteristic of winter was still beginning.
Kiik-
When she entered the house, unlike before, she felt the air of a place inhabited by people. A sense of sanctuary that she has not felt in a long time.
Mason busily took off her coat and hung it on her hanger. She went outside and came, and because she was in dire need of a bath as much as she lay on an old blanket in the cave.
“Lucia, do you want to wash first?!”
Mason asked her Lucia, gathering her hair behind her head to tie her hair back. Her hair, from her bob to her shoulders, was a bit unwieldy because she had stopped taking care of her hair at some point.
“No!”
Lucia answered loudly as well. Mason asks again, stopping her frantic hand.
“Then I wash first?!”
“No!”
Raising her eyebrows, Mason tied her hair up and went downstairs. I still see Lucia sitting in her chair in the kitchen on the first floor.
“You don’t like being early, you don’t like being late, are you not going to wash?”
At her question, Lucia smiled brightly.
“No, are you going to wash together?”
“… Huh?”
Mason’s slightly, half-joking, half-serious furrowed eyebrows were instantly cleared. Normally, she would have passed it off as a joke, but because of the increased skinship these days, it was hard to figure out if she was serious about something.
“What’s wrong, sister, don’t you want to wash together?”
Lucia and Mason, who were making faces as if they were hurt, felt a little embarrassed.
To be honest, it was a bit uncomfortable. It was after they had both grown up, and they were no longer children.
But if you think about it again, wouldn’t it be strange to think deeply because it’s family? The thought on the other side of my head.
Also, it’s hard to tell if Lucia, who usually gets along well but whines in groups in a strange corner, is doing it on purpose, or if it’s an expression of longing from a lacking childhood.
“Um…”
Well, it wasn’t even objectionable. After all, during my life as a knight, what I was tired of seeing countless times through group life was the body of the same sex.
No, would you rather think this deeply?
Is it because thoughts bite their tails, and subtle expressions appear on their faces without their knowledge? Lucia suddenly changed her expression to a sinister one, covering the front of her dress with her arms.
“Oh, sister. Hopefully by now…”
Watching her imitate her excessive fluttering and trembling voice, Mason chuckled.
What was she thinking? Looking at Lucia’s reaction, she was dumbfounded when she thought this.
“Okay, let’s wash, wash.”
Mason smiled and turned around. It’s because she’s just having a weird idea.
As she climbed the stairs, she even faintly thought that she was disgusted. Why did she feel that way? Is it because of the intimate skinship that Lucia shows these days?
Mason, who smiled and moved her steps, she seemed to suddenly.
She stopped at the end of the stairs.
She thought she was relieved, and she wished she remembered it.
Two women undress, enter an enclosed space, making suppressed noises.
Even thinking about it again, the relationship between the two is vaguely incomprehensible.
The love affair between the two younger brothers was clearly drawn in my head that day.
It’s because I remembered that the beginning of the futile delusion was like an unpleasant nightmare that I don’t want to remember.
Feeling a slight chill, Mason reflexively flinched at her.
Indeed, she herself sees her sister’s body and her own naked body in her bathroom, not recalling the ever-increasing groans of Isabella and Cianna,
“Ugh…”
She reflexively put her hand over her mouth. I feel sick to my stomach at the slight sourness that builds up in her mouth.
Mason cautiously went to her bathroom so that Lucia wouldn’t notice, and after pouring the phlegm down her mouth, she looked at herself in the mirror.
She hated herself as she would still recall the face of her own brother, at that vivid sight of her which gave her a terrible nausea.
And likewise, her own face would also come to mind.
Even though she knew it wasn’t her fault, Mason had to shudder at her.
“Ah…”
Should I say I’m sorry or that I can’t wash?
The moment she was overcome with nervousness alone, her inner insecurities reared her head.
Even now she was certain that Lucia would not abandon her.
The monster that haunted her, eating away at her insides, was still there.
-No way.
No.
– Just in case, really just in case.
Shut up. It’s your delusion. Against her brother such a terrible-
-Really, it’s very unlikely…
There was a little bit of laughter mingled with laughter. Even though she was hers, she sounded like a sly old woman.
-Lucia to Isabella-
“Sister?”
“Uh?”
“What are you doing? The bath water is almost done. Bring a quick change of clothes and come out.”
