Chapter 155 – Carol Siberia
Her adoptive sister, Carol, who opened the door and appeared, was a mysterious woman with the same short red hair as her mother.
The first impression I got after seeing Chuck was a woman from a well-established prestigious family.
As the expression Myoryeong says, his age was in his late teens or early twenties.
She looks very much like her mother.
She looked so much like her that she looked just like her mother’s daughter.
If her mother was a noble lady with a mature charm, Carol was a young lady with a burning vitality.
Red hair, black eyes.
Carol looked straight at her and her companions.
“Mother, who are these people?”
“This is my master, Siberia, you can call me Jun. This is your older brother, as I’ve said several times before.”
“My older brother, Mother. Have you officially returned to the family?”
“Yes, your honor has been officially restored. Of course, just because Jun has returned doesn’t mean your status will change, so don’t worry.”
“Don’t worry about that. A person who will become the Grand Duke of Siberia needs those qualifications. If my brother is a more suitable person to succeed the Grand Duke of Siberia, I will gladly step down.”
A few conversations with her mother give a rough idea of what kind of personality she is.
They said that the greens and that rice were the same, and he looked like a big boss, as if he was not the successor chosen by his mother.
Carol’s dress was in the form of a combat uniform, probably to make it easier to move in case of emergency.
Underneath the pleated mini skirt that came up above her knees, she would have worn leggings or something.
Her shoes were also pure white sneakers, not heels.
Looking at it like this, it looks like the school uniform worn by academy students.
“This is Carol Siberia. Please take good care of me from now on. …Older brother.”
“Please take care of me too.”
After her mother’s overly brief introduction, Carol greeted her gracefully, lifting the hem of her skirt.
The reason my mother didn’t mention my party was that even her mother herself didn’t know who they were.
She was asking you to see and understand with your own eyes, and Carol seemed to understand that without a word from her.
She could see what Spartan training she usually went through.
‘It’s a road I once passed. It doesn’t matter now.’
“Mother, then may I rest before supper? I would like a suitable room.”
“Yes, just coming here from Ratel Kingdom would not have been an ordinary forced march. There are enough empty rooms, so you can use one according to the number of people. Carol, will you guide your brother? It’s a chance to get to know each other.”
“I will.”
Carol nodded her head and she drew closer to me and her group.
She led her down the hallway and began briefly explaining what the room was like.
‘It’s boring.’
In fact, only women need guidance, not me.
Because this is where I spent my childhood.
I’d rather know more than Carol about things like attics and secret passages.
I crept over to Carol, listening to her explanation in one ear.
“And in case of emergency, the stairs on each floor… What’s going on? Brother?”
“You don’t have to be so rigid. You can just call me oppa.”
“I’ll be grateful for your consideration. But I’m more comfortable this way. Please don’t mind.”
“How come you feel a bit sharp? What is it, why?”
“It’s not so, brother.”
“…?”
Carol seemed a bit wary of me.
She felt a rare, pure kindness for her first-born sister.
Oh, maybe that’s it?
“Is it because you consider me a competitor? Don’t worry.
“Ugh…!”
“So let’s be close. We’ll continue to be brother and sister, but it’s okay if we fight or something. What if I can’t see this handsome face because it’s awkward?”
“Don’t say that with your own mouth! I never cared about that, did I?”
Carol fired at Pak, avoiding her gaze.
“Really? You seem to care quite a bit.”
“It’s a misunderstanding! It’s a pity that my older brother has bad eyesight. I’m just disappointed.”
“Disappointed?”
“I like my mother. She is a noble and proud person. I think she is a person who can be respected by everyone.”
“Well, that’s true. Mother is a great person.”
“But my brother, who is a direct descendant of such a person…”
After saying that, Carol looked at me intently.
If not contempt, I felt quite negative emotions.
I, who abandoned my duty and left the territory, would die of unreliability.
“I’m sorry, but you’re the type I don’t like. An irresponsible person with a touchy, shameless personality.”
“Well… That’s shameless.”
“Don’t worry, you don’t intend to inherit the territory? Do you have no honor? I really can’t believe it. As long as you’re my older brother, I’ll treat you with that level of respect, but please don’t expect any more personal friendships.”
“Hmm…”
‘Isn’t it more irresponsible to accept it when you can’t even take responsibility?’
But I didn’t have any objection.
The distrust in Carol’s eyes was very deep.
Women of that age often take a very long time to make a first impression determined by preconceived notions.
Especially if you have a strong-willed and stubborn personality like Carol.
It was very difficult to change that later.
Whatever I say now will only sound negative to Carol.
‘I wanted to live like a normal brother and sister at least once, but it’s not easy.’
At that time, I felt an uncomfortable energy from somewhere, so I turned around to see Wolf Dancer frowning.
Carol’s reaction would not have been very pleasing to her, who values her honor and is absolutely loyal to me.
But then she suddenly opened her mouth.
“Carol Siberia. If you don’t like your brother that much, why don’t she compete with her skills?”
“Excuse me, but who are you?”
“I call it ‘Dances with Wolves.’
“I see. But isn’t that quite sudden? My brother and I are having a conversation right now.”
“I don’t know the manners of nobles. I’m an outlaw. But you don’t hate it either?
“Stop it. Wolf dance.”
I tried to stop it, but the wolf dance didn’t care at all and continued to encourage her carol.
She looked at Jia and Rudy, but they also only slightly averted their gaze.
I didn’t step out like a wolf dancer, but Jia and Rudy were also unhappy that I was being criticized.
“You’re saying that, it seems like you think you’re going to beat me.”
“I don’t think so, it will happen. You’re a strategy wizard, but you’re a kid who doesn’t know how to fight. You can’t beat a princess… Your brother.”
“Is your brother a body-strengthening mage? I guess that’s what I’m assuring… Certainly, a body-strengthening mage has an advantage against Ilto, but don’t you know that it’s only for small-scale engagements?”
“Don’t worry. We’ll lend you magic, so you’ll fight as a strategic wizard. It’s not cowardly to fight for the heir to the territory.”
“You’re only going to give me magic? That’s not fair!”
“I don’t care if you won’t win.”
“…Even though you’re possessed by my older brother, you seem to be possessed firmly.”
As the Wolf Dancer continued to provoke her, Carol seemed to have caught her fever, and her voice was low.
And…
“No, really… Why did this happen?”
“…Ask the person who gave his soul to you.”
10 minutes later, when I asked in a puzzled way, Carol also blushed and said dumbfounded, as if she was embarrassed.
We were standing at the training ground behind the mansion and were about to start a duel.
At first, Carol probably didn’t intend to go this far.
This is the result that led Wolf Dance to continue to scratch his pride and become like this.
Are you still young and easily swayed by the atmosphere?
‘I thought that even Elroy and the King of Fair Wheels would join us…’
The match was prepared in the form of Elroy, who could be said to handle strategic magic itself, passing on the magical power of the King of Wheels to Carol.
I thought that those two would not like to interfere in other people’s family quarrels, but unexpectedly, they voluntarily stepped out as if to help Wolf Dance.
Did they do that to save face, or did they just not show it off and got angry with them?
“Brother, by the way, who the hell is that person? The transmitted magical power far exceeds 5,000…7,000 people. It easily exceeds the amount of magical power an individual can possess.”
“Have you calmed down? To realize that only now. You should be a bit more alert. I’ll introduce you to you at dinner.”
The power of the King of Fair Wheels is approximately 15,000 or more, so that is only half of her strength.
Carol wouldn’t know it, but the fact that she couldn’t even meet her eyes with the King of the Fairies made her feel a piece of her power.
Said Carol, who trembled and touched her fingertips.
“This… If you do this, you can’t win. No matter how much, this is a bit…”
“It’s all as long as you have a lot of magic power? It’s okay, so go for it.”
“Is it time to build up your pride? Then you die! And your brother hasn’t hated fighting until now?”
“Who’s the one who leaked my words into their ears? Since it’s like this, we’ll have to fight until one side agrees. 7,000 magical powers? You can’t kill me anyway with that, so go for it. I’ll train you.”
“…Ugh!”
Carol hardened her expression, as if her provocation had worked.
I don’t think she’ll lose her cool to this extent, but I’ll just throw it.
She couldn’t help but go with the good brother concept.
She gritted her teeth as I threw her sneer at her slightly pissed-off Carol.
“I won’t die, but I won’t know if I get hurt!”
-Roar!!
When Carol called out to her, her ferocious magic radiated fearfully, and her heat wrapped around her.
Is it a heat-manipulating magic?
Inherent magic similar to mother, but not the same.
The firepower as well as the way they handled the flames were crude.
It is an unavoidable phenomenon that comes from a lack of experience.
A problem that will be solved with time and experience.
But for now, enough weaknesses were visible.
-Fault!
I moved as quickly as I disappeared, and Carol lost my position for a moment.
She speaks as if she knows body-enhancing mages, but I don’t know who she’s seen, but she won’t compare to me.
My personal magical power was outstanding from the beginning, and my physical abilities were gradually strengthened by collecting poisonous energy.
“Hi?”
“Oops!”
In an instant, she turned around behind her and patted her on the shoulder and spoke to her, causing her Carol to reflexively gather her heat around herself and try to explode it.
But the next moment the movement receded and I got out of the attack range without any damage.
‘It’s also a lack of experience.’
Strategic magic is also a skill that people use.
It boasts the strongest firepower, but it also has weaknesses.
Broadly speaking, there are two things: being very vulnerable to close combat in the case of magic involving the army and yourself, and being unable to move while using magic.
I had just pricked her on the dot and approached her in an instant.
Carol had just suppressed her own firepower, recalling her teachings that it was strictly forbidden to fire her firepower at close range.
Even though there was no corps around, and thanks to the heat resistance unique to the fire mage, there was no need for that right now.
I haven’t gotten out of the textbook yet.
If she did this to her mother, she would have been roasted right away.
“He knows, Carol? If I just attacked, you lost.”
“Ugh…! How dare you look down on me…”
“A while ago. When I said that I had no intention of inheriting the territory, were you relieved? Not having to compete with me. Being able to become the successor to my mother, whom I respect, without any hurdles.”
“What? I told you, even if I’m forced to step down because of my lack of ability, I won’t give a damn!”
“I know. But in my heart, you’ll cry and understand, won’t you? You’re a fine aristocratic girl, but you’re not born with that temperament.”
“That…”
I knew a girl with pink hair who was naturally naive and noble.
Carol says she’s not really strong, she’s just trying to be strong and noble.
On the inside, she’s just a normal 20-year-old woman.
Well, I’m not saying that Carol is inferior to Elroy.
Being born noble, and Pina overcoming her nature through her efforts, both of which are wonderful.
This is just a provocation to upset her Carol’s composure.
Carol, who had been biting her lower lip for a moment, seemed to have cleared her mind. She took a deep breath and glared at me.
“I get it now, are you trying to piss me off? To exploit that gap.”
“I noticed, it took two minutes.”
“…Yes, it is true that you are good at fighting people.
“Carol. As for your mother, she actually seems to have acted as the Emperor’s dog because she was smitten with the chosen people’s consciousness. She’s not as clean as you think.”
“What…”
“You didn’t know at all? See. I know a lot about her mother. You really didn’t know anything about her mother.”
“How dare you say that… Aww!!”
Enraged by my self-pad-lip, the control of magic power was disturbed, and there was a gap.
I took advantage of that moment and hit Carol on the forehead.
A clear, clear sound rang out.
I retreated back to her seat and waited for her Carol to straighten her up with tears in her eyes.
“No matter what… What?”
“…”
Carol glared at me, rubbing her red eyes.
“Don’t worry too much. Her mother was immature when she was young. And she had good reasons for that when she got involved with the Emperor.”
“…You mean that wasn’t a lie?”
“You have to tell the truth so that the other person gets stabbed and becomes agitated. A 100% pure lie is useless as a provocation. Keep that in mind.”
“This way…”
“I don’t mean to say that I’m cowardly.”
Dueling is not a sport.
If this wasn’t a friendly match, Carol had already died a few times.
Carol didn’t even talk about the rules, although she knew that much.
“But if you lose like this, you’ll feel unfair. Well, psychological warfare doesn’t work against beasts. So I’ll do it like this.”
-Fault!
As soon as I finished speaking, I jumped into the flames Carol created.
“What are you doing?! Then you die…”
– Whoa, whoa…
I put a sheet of poison into my breath and blew it.
The barrier of fire that Carol created, made with the magic power of hundreds of people, melted and shattered with just that.
Carol, who was frozen in the same posture as she was saying something, blushed.
I put my finger on her forehead and said.
“Okay, strike out. I won.”
“…”
“Carol?”
Carol didn’t answer, as if she was in quite a shock.
He sat down and patted her buttocks, leaving her mouth open…
I jumped up with teary eyes and gritted teeth.
She said in a mosquito-like voice.
“I-I… Lost.”
“Huh? What?”
“I lost!!”
“Oh, what a surprise. I almost lost my ears.”
“I admit that my brother is far superior to me, at least in terms of ability. I lost.
‘Is that going to work?’
Carol cries and admits defeat.
Looking at this, it’s also cute.
I just wanted to tease you, so I smiled and said.
“Then call me oppa from now on. What is an older brother? Strictly.”
“Profit…”
“You don’t like it? If you can’t do something like this, I won’t force you.”
“…I know roughly what kind of person you are.”
“Really? What kind of person are you? Can you tell me?”
“Brother stupid.”
Carol, who was trembling as she teased her until the end, suddenly stuck her tongue out.
Finally, an outrageous response came.
Is this friendship?
I feel the emotions I feel for the first time.
I stroked her hair, and Carol sulkingly pursed her lips and ran away.
Looking at it, I muttered.
“It’s a big deal.”
“What?”
It was a wolf dance that sneakily approached.
When I narrowed my eyes at the person who instigated the brother-sister fight, Wolf Dancer smiled and passed my gaze.
It was done with me in mind, so this time they look at it specially.
“What’s the big deal?”
“I just tried to cast a strengthening spell on Carol as well while touching her hair. It seems like she’s still immature.”
“Then you can walk. They say you’re cousins?”
“It didn’t take. I guess it’s not my cousin.”
“What?”
Wolf Dancer widened his eyes.
I explained to her
“Imperial aristocrats have very complicated genealogies. In-laws and husbands are the basics, and there are a lot of older nephews and younger uncles. So, distant relatives are often simply referred to as cousins. It’s also normal.”
“Therefore…?”
“Despite her resemblance to her mother, Carol must be a very distant relative. She is almost identical.”
Did it go well?
I do not know.
If you want to cast an enhancement spell on Carol, it’s just impossible.
We need to deepen the relationship between body and mind.
It’s like feeding bodily fluids.
“Then what are you hesitating about? If it were you, princess, isn’t it the right time to hypnotize you by now?”
“What are you talking about. How could you do that to her sister.”
“…”
After I said something very obvious, Wolf Dancer looked at me with a strange expression.
