I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 149

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“Lily!”

Antonio shrieked as he snatched the drink from my hand.

“You really need to stop this.”

“I can use this to show Chris my ability.”

“With this?”

“Over there, let’s pour it on that flower.”

In the direction Antonio pointed, there was a half-wilted flower.

“Ah.”

“What’s going on? Chris, do you understand?”

“Well.”

I explained to Helene, who looked confused.

“My ability is a bit unusual. It’s not visible to the eye.”

When I gestured, Antonio created a chunk of ice on his palm.

Chris’s eyes didn’t just sparkle or flash—they gleamed.

“Usually people use visible abilities like Chris does. Even though they’re versatile, the range of abilities is limited. But I’m… um…”

As I drew out my power, light appeared in my hand.

It was extremely bright, as if sunlight had been compressed, but it wasn’t blinding.

When the light touched it, the glass bottle gleamed brilliantly.

“In my case, the range is broad.”

The light spun around my hand in circles, then whooshed into the glass bottle containing the drink according to my will.

“I have various powers like purification, healing, recovery, and so on. What’s interesting is that after going through awakening fever, another power emerged.”

As the light seeped in, the drink began to bubble and boil.

Antonio and I both tilted our heads in confusion.

“Did you use purification?”

“No? You know well that I can’t separate the effects.”

I can control the intensity of my ability, but I can’t separate effects like purification, healing, and recovery.

In other words, all the abilities I can use get bundled together and burst out at once.

Because of this, the density of my ability is very high, so I get tired more easily than other ability users.

Of course, they said this disadvantage would resolve itself naturally as I got older.

“Water boiling like this means there’s something strange in it. Someone must have put laxatives or something in the drink.”

“If this happens one more time, I’ll have to formally complain to the school. Why are they all picking fights?”

The drink in the glass bottle bubbled and boiled, gradually becoming transparent in color.

When the drink became clear, rippling water, I sprinkled it on the wilted flower.

The petals fell off with soft thuds, and new petals sprouted.

“Anyway, this is what my ability looks like. Since multiple abilities overlap at once, it creates life force.”

I explained awkwardly to Chris, who had covered his mouth after seeing my ability.

“I can’t bring dead people back to life or heal a broken leg in one day. But I can make it possible to recover from wounds that couldn’t heal before.”

“Wow…”

“But it’s a bit difficult for me to control the range of my ability. Once I use it, everything around gets purified, so I have to be careful. Because…”

“She used it in Francois’ research lab once and turned all the magical items there into junk. She purified the magic and dispelled it.”

Antonio finished the explanation.

Chris, who had been gleaming with excitement just moments before, now stepped back with a pale face.

“Please try not to come to our house if possible. And, and it would be better if you didn’t go near the entire Magic Department! There are so many important items there.”

“Chris. Do I look like someone who uses abilities carelessly? That’s too much, really.”

I don’t think he was like this when we were young—how did he become a kid obsessed with magic?

I shook my head disapprovingly and poured out all the remaining water.

* * *

Complaining that history class was boring, Antonio was dozing with his head deeply bowed, while I was doodling on one side of my textbook.

That’s when I saw Edgar through the window facing the corridor.

Edgar, who had been looking around the classroom, and I, who spotted him, made eye contact.

‘Huh?’

At that moment, Edgar smiled gently.

Though he resembled Marius greatly, his mature and calm demeanor stood out more than the cheerfulness Marius showed.

‘I’ll wait.’

Edgar said silently.

His blonde hair sparkled in the backlit sunlight. His olive-colored eyes gleamed vividly beneath his deep-set eyes.

Perhaps feeling embarrassed that I was just staring blankly, he swept his bangs back with an awkward expression.

How strange.

When I first saw him after coming to the Empire, his face showed that everything in the world was boring, but where was I seeing anticipation in that behavior?

And why was I thinking that I couldn’t take my eyes off that face?

Whoosh.

I quickly turned my head and pretended to examine my book.

‘Why, why am I like this?’

Heat rushed to my face.

It was September, but maybe it was because the afternoons were still hot like summer.

Ignoring the teacher’s droning voice, I sneakily glanced at the corridor again.

Edgar wasn’t visible. Where did he go when he said he’d wait?

As I stealthily checked the front and back of the corridor, I pouted my lips, thinking I looked a bit foolish.

“We’ll have a quiz next class, so everyone review today’s material.”

When class ended, Antonio came to his senses as if he’d been waiting.

“Ugh. Wasn’t that too boring?”

“You were sleeping from the start.”

While I was stuffing my textbook into my bag, Edgar appeared.

He plopped down in the empty front seat whose owner had already left the classroom.

Suddenly remembering the expression I’d seen earlier, I examined Edgar’s face thoroughly.

Straight forehead, neat eyebrows, handsome eyes, straight nose, full lips…

‘He’s much more handsome than Noah.’

Incomparably so.

He was tall and had a calm atmosphere that was hard to find among our peers.

He was so handsome that his gaze was almost burdensome.

‘But I don’t feel that same feeling from earlier?’

Looking again, I became certain that the reason my face had heated up was because the weather was still hot.

“Why, why?”

When I stared intently at him, Edgar scratched his cheek and asked.

“It seems like you’d be born if my older brothers-in-law got married.”

“Pfft!”

Antonio, who had been quenching his thirst with a drink beside me, spat out water.

Edgar gaped in shock.

“You, you, you… how can you say such things…!”

“Since they’re both cousin brothers, you could resemble them.”

“Wahaha! Edgar. You’re lucky to have two fathers!”

“Hey! Stop laughing!”

While Edgar and Antonio were wrestling and fighting, I gathered my bag and stood up.

“Edgar! Bring Antonio and come out!”

“Did you hear? She said to bring me.”

“Phew.”

As I exhaled sharply, my bangs fluttered and revealed my forehead.

Restraining my gaze from drifting toward his fine blonde hair, I explained my after-school schedule to Edgar.

“According to the original plan, we were supposed to go to that ice cream shop in the commercial district today.”

“But Lily and I changed our minds and decided to study instead.”

“Right. You just need to help us get home and then you can go back.”

We attended classes all day at school, and now we have to study at home too.

It’s too harsh, but there’s no choice.

Yesterday, Antonio and I finally failed the math quiz together side by side.

My older brother, who used to say we should just grow up healthy, became serious for the first time and called us over yesterday to say:

“You should at least get half the answers right. Kids, you can’t just live doing only what you like.”

If Liliana or Uncle Francois had said that, I would have let it go in one ear and out the other, but since it was my older brother, I couldn’t ignore it.

In the carriage on the way back, Antonio and I just kept sighing deeply.

“They won’t make Francois tutor us, will they?”

“If uncle teaches us, let’s just run away. Uncle is someone who doesn’t understand that we don’t understand the formulas.”

“Right. That guy doesn’t seem to understand a life where 44 points is the highest score.”

Edgar, who was sitting alone on the opposite seat, asked with a dubious expression.

“44 points… you said?”

“Why? Don’t you believe it either?”

“No, well. That could happen. Sure.”

It’s clearly a face that doesn’t believe it.

When I glared at him for acting cocky despite being a servant, Edgar scratched his cheek.

“Should I help you?”

“You?”

“Middle school math isn’t that difficult. I helped you study when we were young, don’t you remember?”

Did I even study when I was young? My childhood memories consist only of moments spent playing around.

I’d scrape my knees while playing and cause all sorts of trouble that shocked the adults.

“Don’t try anything funny and stick to your duties.”

“What are my duties?”

“Being a servant, what else.”

Edgar glaring at Antonio really looked like he was about to strangle someone.

Even though the air around us felt sharp enough to create an illusion, Antonio didn’t even blink.

If I were Antonio, I would have been completely intimidated and avoided Edgar from then on.

“You two stop fighting. I’m in a bad mood.”

I’m already feeling twisted at the thought of going home to study, so what are you two doing?

At my single comment, both of them quickly relaxed their expressions.

“Then Edgar, help us study. You’d be better than uncle or my sister.”

Edgar looked at Antonio and smiled crookedly.

I take back everything I said about Edgar looking mature. He seems to be at exactly the same level as Antonio.

…I take that back. Edgar is definitely not at the same level as Antonio.

“If you don’t understand, memorize it. Now, I’ll explain once more. Pay attention.”

Gripping my pencil so hard it might break, I glared at Edgar.

The reason he said he’d help us study was definitely a plan, not goodwill.

And I naively fell completely into that plan!

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