I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 2

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01. A Suspicious Guest

“What a pretty child.”

I blinked as I looked at Rebecca Marchione.

Rebecca, the protagonist of this world, was a more ordinary-looking woman than I had imagined.

However, her flame-red hair did catch the eye.

“Little one. How old are you?”

“I’m six years old. You’re pretty too, miss.”

Whether from shyness or fear of Rebecca, I unconsciously hid behind Edith’s legs.

A month ago, when I suffered from a severe fever, the contents of the tragic reverse harem novel 【Rebecca Marchione】 flowed into my mind.

The plot of 【Rebecca Marchione】 is simple.

The female protagonist Rebecca leaves her hometown of Trobancha for revenge and establishes herself in the Empire.

There, she accidentally gets entangled with the male leads and receives their love.

The male leads desperately tried to possess her using their power, and Rebecca used this to start a war that turned her hometown into a sea of flames.

In that process, our family was sacrificed despite committing no crimes.

Edith died in battle, and the war ended with Trobancha’s defeat.

And I was taken to the Empire as a prisoner.

‘I need to do something to prevent things from following the original story…’

The problem is that now that I know the original story, I’m just a six-year-old kid.

And from what I can guess, my mental age doesn’t seem particularly high either.

Perhaps because the original story ended when I turned fifteen, I seemed to be a little younger than that.

‘Honestly, I don’t even know if I reincarnated or possessed this body.’

Until I learned the original plot, I was just an ordinary six-year-old child.

Even now that I know the original story, I don’t remember my past life.

One day, as if struck by lightning, I suddenly just knew the original story…

“She’s not usually this shy.”

“It’s okay.”

Rebecca took something out from her bosom and handed it to me.

It was chocolate, a luxury confection that was hard to obtain in Trobancha due to its isolationist policy.

“Wow…”

I unconsciously opened my mouth and reached for the chocolate.

Rebecca casually gave me the chocolate as a gift.

It’s amazing enough that I met the original female protagonist during this ship party, and I even got delicious sweets!

“You like chocolate, don’t you?”

“Yes! Lilliana loves chocolate!”

“Hey, youngest. You should say thank you.”

At Liliana’s advice from beside me, I quickly offered my thanks.

“Thank you!”

“Um… may I pet Lilliana’s head just once?”

“Yes. If Lili is okay with it, then I’m okay with it too.”

“Lilliana. Would it be okay if this lady touched your head just once?”

“Yes! I’d like that!”

With my mouth already covered in chocolate, I didn’t hesitate to allow Rebecca’s touch.

She crouched down in front of me to meet my eye level, then gently stroked my head.

Her long fingers caressed my slightly curly hair.

“…I’m sorry… so much…”

“Huh?”

Rebecca seemed to say something, but I was too distracted by the chocolate to hear properly.

“What’s your dream, Lilliana?”

“I want to live happily with my sisters!”

“Really? That’s a wonderful dream.”

Somehow Rebecca’s smiling face seemed bitter. She stood up and said.

“Lili. Please grow up healthy.”

That was the last I saw of Rebecca.

That day, someone fell over the ship’s railing, and despite a month-long search operation, they couldn’t find the body and concluded she had died.

That person was Rebecca.

My sisters were very flustered by the investigation cooperation requests, and I was also extremely confused.

‘The original story ended before it even began…’

And because the original female protagonist took her own life.

‘Could this really happen?’

Why? Why on earth?

My mind was in chaos due to the unprecedented event of the female protagonist’s death.

If Rebecca really died, then what was the original story in my head?

* * *

Transparently breaking sunlight, the warm air of a family home, the smell of delicious food.

To think this cozy world is inside a tragic reverse harem novel.

One where the male leads would even wage war to win the female protagonist’s favor.

‘I can’t believe it.’

I swallowed the rising sigh while sneakily picking out bell peppers.

If the original female protagonist died, would the future war not happen?

Or would the war still be an unchanging future even with the female protagonist’s death?

Politics isn’t simple enough to change with just one or two people’s changes.

“Sigh.”

“What’s wrong, our youngest? Why are you sighing again?”

Edith looked up from her newspaper and asked in a gentle voice.

With her jet-black hair sparkling in the sunlight, Edith is truly beautiful and wonderful, not just because she’s my sister.

Kind and gentle… anyway, Edith is the most wonderful person in the world.

“Nothing. It’s nothing.”

“What? Did you make some secret behind your sister’s back? Can’t you whisper it just to your big sister?”

Edith carefully patted my head, being careful not to mess up my twin braids.

“Sister. She’s just upset because she doesn’t want to eat bell peppers.”

Emilia, my youngest sister, interjected with a cold tone.

Since I had filtered out the bell peppers to one side of my bowl, I felt quite guilty.

Emilia, who always lacked sleep, warned me with a half-dead face since it was morning.

“Little one. While I’m being nice, eat all your bell peppers without leaving any.”

“Sigh. But I don’t like bell peppers.”

Having stayed up reading until dawn yesterday, Emilia looked very sleep-deprived.

In other words, she looked to be in a bad mood.

With Emilia glaring at me with bleary eyes, I quickly stuffed the bell peppers into my mouth.

“That’s right. You need to eat well to grow tall. You can’t stay a shorty forever, right?”

Despite how she looked, in the original story, when war broke out and I was dragged to the Empire, she made every effort to save me and even infiltrated the Imperial Palace.

Then Regina came out of the kitchen carrying a pot.

By the way, Regina and Emilia are twins.

Regina was born 7 minutes earlier.

“Hehe. Little one. Even if you don’t like bell peppers, you need to eat everything to grow tall and stay healthy.”

“Hey. Just how long are you going to make people wait? I only slept one hour yesterday.”

Liliana didn’t even pretend to listen to our youngest sister’s scolding as she opened the pot lid.

It was a dish of octopus and shrimp cooked with cream, and though I didn’t know the name, the smell was so good it made my mouth water.

Liliana served shrimp onto my plate and said.

“Little one. Eat lots so you can grow tall and healthy. Got it?”

“Mm-hmm. Got it.”

The moment I bit into the plump shrimp, I realized what I had to do.

Continue eating such delicious food and spend my whole life with my loving family.

Fortunately, the original story had ended before it even began, so now I only had peaceful days ahead of me.

“Mmm. Liliana. It’s so delicious!”

“Eat lots, Liliana. Oh right. Edith. I heard the Imperial Family is visiting this time – do you know why they’re coming?”

“How would you know about that? It’s an unofficial visit, so it’s top secret.”

“Someone I know got hired as a chef for the government banquet hosting the Emperor. They even offered me to come work that day.”

The Emperor is visiting here, Trobancha? Was there such an episode in the original story?

I searched through my mind, but since events before the original story began were never mentioned, there was no way to know.

The original story wouldn’t start until six years later when I turned twelve, so the story I knew was still far off.

But since the female lead died, even that possibility was gone.

“Who’s supposed to come from the Empire?”

“Regina. You absolutely cannot mention this outside. Got it?”

“Really, sister. Am I the type to go around talking about such things?”

“The Emperor and Duke Baltrahen are scheduled to accompany him as the Emperor’s escort.”

My ears perked up at their conversation.

The Emperor and Duke Baltrahen were male leads from the original story.

“The Emperor and our government officials might make a soul oath for a peace agreement. Duke Baltrahen is scheduled to be the Empire’s witness.”

The Empire had been devouring nearly all neighboring countries since starting its conquest wars one hundred fifty years ago.

Among them, the only country that remained safe from the Empire’s clutches was our Trobancha.

This was possible because Trobancha was an island nation far from the Empire and had many outstanding talents.

And Trobancha maintained a strong isolationist policy, having been in a state of tension with the Empire for decades now.

But what’s a soul oath?

Only memories of the original story had entered my mind, but my knowledge about this world remained at the level of a six-year-old, so I knew nothing.

“Emilia. What’s a soul oath?”

Emilia, our youngest sister, answered while eating breakfast with a half-dead expression.

“It’s an oath that stakes your life. If you break the oath, the hearts of both the witness and the parties burst and they die. Our little one shouldn’t even think about such serious things. If you ever make such an oath, you’ll die by my hands. Got it?”

Though it was her usual indifferent tone, knowing Emilia’s fiery personality, it didn’t sound like she was just talking.

“Yes. I absolutely won’t do it!”

When I nodded, Emilia smiled with satisfaction.

I wanted to hear more of Edith and Liliana’s conversation, but Emilia suddenly said she had somewhere to go after washing up and made me stand.

Thanks to that, I didn’t have to finish eating the carrots, which was nice.

“Emilia. Where are we going?”

“Mm. We’re going to buy pretty clothes.”

“Clothes? But I have clothes.”

“No. You don’t have clothes.”

“We bought some last week.”

“That’s not enough.”

This is strange. When she talks like this, she usually takes me to the hospital for shots…

Emilia holding my hand tightly made me even more anxious.

‘It’s like she’s making sure I can’t run away.’

My spine felt chilly, but Emilia, oblivious to everything, took me to some cafe.

Upon arriving at the cafe, Emilia looked around searching for someone, then eventually approached a man sitting by the window.

“Wow…”

Seeing the man, I unconsciously let out an exclamation.

His sparkling silver hair and beauty so stunning it made you wonder if a person could really look like that caught my eye.

The man looked at me and greeted me with softly curved eyes.

“Hello. Little miss.”

“Hellooo.”

The man was so handsome that I stuck close to Emilia’s leg and greeted him shyly.

Emilia, as if she couldn’t even see the man’s appearance, asked in her usual indifferent voice.

“Are you Francois Cassel?”

At that question, I gasped and held my breath.

Francois Cassel.

A genius magician and owner of the Magic Tower, he was a male lead who held the position of a madman in the original story.

And he was the very person who, in the original story, imprisoned the female lead in his tower and pushed me in as the female lead’s servant.

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