I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 30

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Why had I never properly thought about it even once?

‘I don’t know how the original story ends.’

No matter how much the original story had been distorted from the beginning, I should have been curious about my story in the novel, but I never even thought about it.

‘What happened to me after I was locked in the tower.’

After being locked in the tower, days of crying while thinking of my family continued.

Then one day, the Imperial Palace started becoming chaotic.

For some reason, Marius had thrown Rebecca Marchione into prison…

‘Huh?’

I can’t remember the story after that.

It’s strange that I’ve overlooked this fact all this time. But does it matter now?

What I want to know is whether I died of illness in the original story.

‘I don’t know.’

The world spun round and round. My body collapsed. Edgar’s voice calling me in surprise grew distant.

* * *

“Lilliana. Ah, here. Let’s take medicine. Ah.”

Edith carefully helped me sit up.

My whole body ached as if it would break from the burning fever, so irritation washed over me.

“Sister. I don’t want to eat it. I don’t want to.”

“Just one bite. Okay?”

The syrup-mixed medicine pushed into my mouth tasted bitter.

I couldn’t hold back the overwhelming sadness, so I could only whine with a tearful expression.

Shh.

A warm hand patted my back. The more it did, the more I acted spoiled, and I started crying with hiccups.

“Edith. Am I going to die?”

“You won’t die.”

“Huuung. I don’t want to die. Waaah.”

“Regina, it seems like she has a fever fit, so we need to lower her fever first. Let’s wipe her body until the doctor comes.”

Edith gave Regina some instructions and took off my clothes.

The air didn’t seem cold, but once I was naked, I felt too cold.

“Give me a blanket. I’m cold…”

My sisters didn’t even pretend to listen and brought wet towels to start wiping my body.

I heard Regina sniffling quietly in surprise. I whined because it hurt every time the towel touched my skin.

“I’m cold. Huuuung!”

I struggled desperately and resisted, but Edith held me down with strong force so I couldn’t move.

My mind was dizzy and my vision was spinning, but I could hear familiar voices intermittently.

“I used healing magic, but it only enhances natural healing, so there are limits as long as the child is sick. So…”

Francois and Liliana were having a frantic conversation, though I didn’t know when they had arrived.

It was noisy and I wished everyone would leave, but no voice came out, so I just cried until my throat was raw.

Then at some point, I fell asleep as if fainting.

* * *

I hadn’t gotten sick even once since coming to the Empire, so I thought I had good constitution, but trouble finally struck.

After having fever fits continuously for several days, my sisters’ faces became haggard.

I heard Francois came at dawn to infuse me with mana, and thanks to that, when I woke up in the morning, my body felt refreshed.

“For the time being, going outside to play is forbidden.”

Edith declared while spooning thin soup into my mouth. My lips jutted out, but I couldn’t say I didn’t want to.

‘I didn’t know I would suddenly collapse like that either.’

Whether it was from the shock of directly witnessing the tower where I had been confined, or from fatigue that had unknowingly accumulated, I was really severely ill.

According to Regina, I also talked nonsense intermittently.

Liliana apparently grabbed Francois by the collar and appeared, screaming for him to do something about it.

And I…

‘I want to know what my illness is too.’

I lowered my head to check my palms.

Other people’s hands were reddish, but mine were pale without a trace of blood.

I even often had fevers and my body ached weakly, so I frequently couldn’t eat properly.

I’m this sick, but I don’t know what my illness is called. They said it was a rare disease, but they wouldn’t explain more than that, saying I was too young.

‘But I probably won’t die. My sisters won’t let that happen!’

I trust my sisters. My sisters are the strongest and most wonderful adults in the world.

“Lily. Even if you don’t want to eat, you have to eat to get better quickly.”

“I never said I didn’t want to eat? I was just thinking a little.”

“What were you thinking about?”

“That I should eat spinach well from now on! Then I’ll grow tall like my sisters, right?”

I need to grow tall and healthy quickly to become Mace Fist.

When I become Mace Fist, I’ll put Edgar in his place and make Marius tremble before my dignity.

“What’s this? The youngest got sick and became mature.”

“Yeah. So I’ll only leave three pieces of broccoli here.”

“Sister cooked this herself from dawn, so you can’t leave any.”

Regina’s eyes flashed uncharacteristically, so I had no choice but to clean my plate.

After finishing the soup, powdered medicine inevitably followed.

Just as I was thinking I didn’t want to eat it and wanted to lie down, I heard a knock-knock sound.

“Come in!”

I shouted, even forcing up my stomach strength, wanting to delay taking the medicine even a little.

Then the door opened slightly and Edgar poked his head out.

“Edgar!”

When I tried to get up from the bed in delight, Edith pressed down on my shoulder while Edgar desperately shouted.

“I’ll come to you! Stay sitting!”

Edgar, who came running in with a patter, looked at me with a face full of worry.

I heard that Edgar, who was with me when I suddenly collapsed, was very shocked.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah. I don’t hurt at all anymore.”

“Liar. Your face is white like a boiled egg.”

“I’m originally white.”

Edgar ignored my answer and suddenly thrust something wrapped in a handkerchief toward me.

“It’s a get-well gift.”

The gift wrapped in the handkerchief was an olive branch with a few leaves attached.

When my eyes widened, Edgar said.

“The garden was continuously being maintained so you couldn’t go. You’ve been able to enter again since a few days ago, so I went and picked this. I haven’t found the lemon tree yet, but I’ll let you know when I discover it.”

“Wow! Thank you!”

Olive trees were common in Trowance, but they were hard to see in the Empire due to the different climate.

I guess they managed the garden with magic so olive trees could grow despite the different climate.

Even while sick, seeing these leaves made me feel good.

Unlike me, who was holding the olive branch and giggling, Regina tilted her head in puzzlement.

“Young Duke. The garden was being maintained so entry wasn’t allowed?”

“Yes. They said we couldn’t enter because they were planting flowers.”

“At first we planned to play in the garden, but since we couldn’t go to the garden, we went to see the tower.”

At my answer, Liliana’s expression instantly hardened.

Since she was always someone who laughed carelessly with “hohoho,” seeing Liliana with a serious face was more frightening than our youngest sister screaming “Kwaaaak” in anger.

When Edgar and I exchanged glances in confusion, Liliana smiled brightly as if nothing had happened.

“Would it be inappropriate to bring olive branches as a get-well gift?”

“No. I’m just curious about the garden myself. I’ve never been there even though I’m staying at the Imperial Palace.”

That doesn’t seem right. From what I could see, Edith also seemed to know why Liliana was angry.

Having lived among my sisters for six years, I could immediately tell that her hands unwrapping the medicine packet were subtly rougher now.

What? Did I cause trouble?

Feeling like I had somehow pressed the wrong button, I obediently took the medicine.

The white powder medicine was horribly bitter.

* * *

After Lilliana fell asleep again after taking her medicine, Edith left her youngest sister in Regina’s care and headed to Marius’ office.

Though she had acted as properly and quietly as possible since coming to the Empire, now as she went to meet Marius, she emanated an intense aura overwhelming enough to dominate with its presence.

“His Majesty is in a private meeting with the Mage Tower Lord. Please wait a moment.”

Max, the chief aide, blocked Edith at the door.

“Open it.”

Though spoken in a quiet voice, an irrefutable sense of intimidation flowed through.

Max had felt this eerie sensation before.

It was like when Marius drew his sword to protect the throne.

Overwhelmed by the fear that dominated him as if standing before a beast, Max unconsciously bowed his head and stepped aside.

Edith entered through the door as if Max’s behavior was natural.

“If there’s no data in Trowance, there won’t be any here either. I’ve searched through both the Magic Tower and the Imperial Palace Library since arriving at the Empire, but nothing proper came up.”

Upon entering the office, she saw Marius and Francois having a serious conversation.

“We need to develop a treatment ourselves.”

“I’ll provide all the research funds or whatever you need, just find a treatment— Max, didn’t I tell you not to enter without my permission? Do you want to die?”

She had entered without making any footsteps, yet he had skillfully detected her presence.

Edith stopped walking at Marius’ cold voice. He was the embodiment of a cold and sharp monarch.

Francois, whose head was throbbing from research stress, pressed his forehead. When he didn’t hear any signs of departure, he shouted irritably.

“Can’t you see we’re talking? Get out!”

“I didn’t expect you two to discuss this without the child’s guardian.”

“Miss Edith?”

When Edith spoke in a cold voice, Marius greeted her with a slightly surprised expression.

Francois also hurriedly stood up to greet her.

“I was actually planning to greet you today anyway.”

Since they had become acquainted somewhat awkwardly while Lilliana was sick, meeting again like this felt a bit embarrassing.

“Is Lilliana feeling better?”

“Her fever broke so she’s past the major crisis. She’s started eating and taking her medicine well.”

“That’s a relief. The little one was burning with fever, so it must have been hard. You must have worried a lot too, Miss Edith.”

“It wasn’t me who suffered, but my sister.”

“Huh?”

Edith ignored Marius’ offered comfort and approached, lightly striking the table.

Though she clearly hadn’t put much force into it, it made a loud bang! sound. And then.

Crack, crackle.

The table split in half and toppled over to the side.

“Wow…”

Francois, who had frozen up uncharacteristically under Edith’s intimidating presence, clapped his hands like a ball-jointed doll.

Marius laughed “haha” while looking up at Edith.

“I was just thinking of changing desks anyway, so you broke it well.”

Edith looked down at Marius steadily with coldly settled eyes.

Edith, radiating cold energy, looked fierce enough to kill someone if provoked.

‘Emilia Berchio was spirited but not this wild.’

Francois secretly stuck out his tongue, thinking the sisters each had completely different personalities.

“Francois, could you excuse us for a moment? And meet me in my room in an hour. I have something to discuss separately regarding Lilliana’s treatment.”

“Understood. I’ll see you later then.”

Francois jumped up as if he’d been waiting and left the office.

Marius still had a calm expression despite the broken desk.

“Let’s sit down and talk first.”

“Lilliana was denied garden access simply for being from Trowance. Unlike Regina, who entered the garden every evening with Duke Baltrahen.”

“Really? I should call the person in charge. Which do you prefer – being beaten until one side of the body is unusable, or a long prison sentence?”

Despite the smooth and gentle tone, it was a cruel question.

Edith looked into Marius’ blackly dead eyes and suppressed a hollow laugh.

‘An apology should come first.’

He thinks of giving cruel punishment first without any concern.

The image of him frivolously laughing and joking with Lilliana was just one of the many faces this man possessed.

His cruel aspect that felt no guilt about bloodshed and treated human lives like flies – that would be his true face. And she had made a contract with that man.

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