I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 47

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“Heleneeeee. Sniff… Why is Edgar being like this? We’re friends…”

Shocked by the unexpected declaration of ending our friendship, I practically wailed.

Helene, who had followed without knowing what happened, calmly listened to my incoherent explanation and patted me like an older sister.

“You must be really upset. You two were best friends… Edgar was mean.”

“Sniff… Sob… I thought, hiccup! we were close… hiccup! Waaaaah.”

Maybe from crying too much, my head felt tight and my body shivered, making my skin hurt.

But I was so upset that I couldn’t stop the tears.

“Should I go beat up Edgar for you?”

“No. I have to beat him up myself. Waaaaah.”

“D-don’t cry, Lilliana.”

When Chris joined in patting my back, I suddenly felt embarrassed and struggled desperately to stop crying.

Just as I barely managed to stop crying, the maids came looking for us.

“Miss Helene. Young Master Chris. You need to go now.”

“We want to stay with Lilliana longer.”

“If you’re late, the adults will scold you. You can go now. I’m not crying anymore, see?”

“Are you really okay?”

“Mm-hmm. I’m fine.”

“Lilliana. T-talk to Edgar properly. I h-hope you two make up for sure. Helene and I had a b-big fight before and made up too.”

“Yeah. Thank you, Helene, Chris. Let’s play together again next time. Then we’ll eat delicious food and play many more fun games.”

“Okay. I’ll definitely come back with Chris.”

I wiped my puffy eyes and saw Helene and Chris off.

Helene worried about me until the very moment we parted.

Chris waved at me from inside the departing carriage until he was out of sight.

When I returned to my room sniffling, the ground spun around and around.

It was a very familiar feeling. Soon I’d have a fever and my whole body would hurt as if breaking apart.

I opened a bottle of medicine that Liliana had kept in the room, drank it, and told the maid sisters.

“I think I’m going to be sick. Please call my sisters.”

As soon as I lay down on the bed, my head became hazy and I fell fast asleep.

* * *

When I came to my senses, instead of my sisters, Marius was beside me.

“Little sister-in-law, you’re awake? Your sisters are sleeping since it’s so late.”

I checked the clock and it was 4:50 AM.

After drinking the water Marius handed me, my foggy mind cleared up completely.

“Let’s eat something. You didn’t even eat dinner and got sick, so you need to have a meal.”

“Mmm. I don’t want to eat.”

“No. If you take medicine on an empty stomach, your belly will hurt. Your fever was so high that Uncle Francois came by, and your sisters were really worried.”

My whole body was sweaty and sticky, so I wanted to bathe first rather than eat.

Marius didn’t seem to mind that I was dirty and smoothed back the hair stuck to my face from sweat.

Then he had someone bring soup.

“Lilliana doesn’t want to eat.”

“Just one bite. Here, open up.”

When Marius brought the spoon right to my lips, I couldn’t refuse.

Gulp. After swallowing one bite, the next bite was sneakily delivered.

“Jelly says ‘Hurry up and eat the soup to get healthy!'”

“Wow. Little sister-in-law eats soup so well? I should tell Edith to praise you!”

With Marius’s skillful coaxing, I kept swallowing bite by bite until I had emptied the entire bowl.

I did finish it all, but even I was bewildered, and while I was going “huh?”, I also swallowed the medicine.

Ugh. It was bitter and I couldn’t spit it out or swallow it, so I frowned, and Marius shouted.

“Wow! It’s powder medicine so it must be bitter, but you’re eating it well? You’ll become a hero when you grow up? Since you’re so brave, I should give you chocolate as a reward!”

Pop. A piece of chocolate went into my mouth.

As I gulped down the powder medicine and sucked on the melting chocolate, I thought.

I felt like I’d been completely fooled by Marius.

I crossed my arms and puffed out my cheeks. Then I put all my strength into my eyes and glared at Marius.

“Huh? Did brother-in-law do something wrong?”

“You’re not my brother-in-law! You’re mister.”

“Since we’re married, I’m brother-in-law now.”

“Hmm. That’s true but… anyway! You did something wrong to me!”

Come to think of it, I was going to confront Marius about the soul oath but I forgot.

If he’s going to insist on being brother-in-law, he should keep his promises with his sister-in-law properly.

I should let him know how scary his sister-in-law can be. Hmph!

“I did something wrong? What?”

“Mister needs to sit in the thinking chair too. Go over there and reflect for ten minutes.”

“Is that so?”

Just as I opened my mouth to scold him, Marius asked.

“Should I give you one more chocolate?”

My head thought I should be angry, but completely different words came out of my mouth.

“Good. But I want chocolate with almonds inside.”

“We don’t have that. But we do have pumpkin chocolate.”

“I don’t like pumpkin. Just give me whatever you have.”

“Okay. Oh right. Don’t tell your sisters you ate chocolate, okay? They said not to give you any because it’ll rot your teeth.”

His tone treating me like a child snapped me back to attention.

I gripped the chocolate that had somehow ended up in my hand and clicked my teeth.

I was trying to show him that I have strong teeth that can bite hard, but instead he burst out laughing “Uhahahaha.”

I’m actually a very scary person… I’m Mace Fist the hero…

“Don’t laugh.”

“Are you sulking because brother-in-law didn’t grant your wish? Lilliana is still a baby, huh?”

“I’m not sulking! Am I a baby? I’m all grown up now!”

“Hey. You’re sulking, I can tell from how angry you are.”

“…I hate you!”

I stuck out my lips and kicked the blanket with both feet.

Marius pulled the blanket I had kicked off back up to cover me to my stomach.

“I’m sorry about that matter. We can’t avoid the soul oath, but I did arrange other measures… You’re still too young to understand, Lilliana.”

“Right. I’m too young to understand. But I still hate you. You made Edith suffer. Even if Edith is annoying, don’t be mean to her. I won’t forgive you.”

“I never found her annoying.”

“Liar.”

“It’s not a lie.”

Marius’s voice became much more serious.

Even though it was late at night and he should be tired, he didn’t look exhausted at all but rather deep in thought.

“I know. Not everyone in the world loves their siblings like our sisters do. That’s why our brother doesn’t love Lilliana either and went to the countryside.”

“No. Andrea really, really loves Lilliana.”

“If brother likes me, that seems like a strange kind of love. Love isn’t like that.”

“Pfft. Does this little one know about love? What is love?”

He probably asked because it was funny to hear a child talk like an adult, but I was quite serious.

It was because Edgar and Marius’s relationship seemed similar to mine and brother Andrea’s situation.

I put the chocolate in my mouth.

“Love doesn’t make you walk on eggshells.”</Human: You are an ELITE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR for Korean web novels (COMMERCIAL QUALITY).

“….”

As the chocolate melted, a sweet taste spread throughout my mouth.

“…Being considerate?”

“Yeah. Lilliana can’t act the same way with oppa as she does in front of her sisters anymore. She’ll eat nasty spinach well and won’t throw tantrums asking for toys. Because Lilliana likes oppa much more.”

“Lilliana, Andrea is―”

“I’m scared oppa will forget Lilliana. So I send letters often and pray every day for him to remember Lilliana.”

“You don’t think that’s love?”

“Yeah. It’s love that only Lilliana does.”

Thinking of oppa made me feel dejected as always.

Every day I remember oppa’s face a little less, so oppa must be forgetting my face too.

What if there comes a moment when we can’t remember each other anymore?

Then I might not be able to love oppa and we wouldn’t be family anymore.

The sisters and oppa grew up together so they’re close, but I’m not.

“Edgar would be the same. He wants to be mean to his brothers and throw tantrums, but he can’t. I know. Lilliana is in the same situation. You want to throw more tantrums with your sisters but you hold it in every day.”

“No. It’s okay to do that. Edgar and Lilliana can both roll on the floor asking for toys, and ignore nagging while eating only sweets. Everyone loves you so much. They just couldn’t express it properly.”

“Mister is a fool, isn’t he?”

“Huh?”

“You can only become a disobedient child when you believe you’ll keep being loved even if you act selfishly. You’re an adult and you don’t even know that?”

Suddenly Marius’s complexion turned pale.

His lips trembled and he clenched his teeth so hard the muscles in his jaw stood out.

Why is he acting like that? Did I make some mistake?

Is he upset because I ate chocolate by myself? Should I give him a bite?

Just as I was about to slip a piece of chocolate into Marius’s hand, he pressed his large palm firmly against his eyes.

I thought his eyes hurt, but looking closely, he was breathing in a pained, sobbing way.

What, what is it. Did I hurt an adult’s pride?

Was it that infuriating to say an adult doesn’t understand love?

“Right. So… so that’s why you pointed a sword at me… because you trusted me. You thought I would stop if you put yourself at stake.”

I couldn’t quite understand what he was muttering, but I could definitely tell he was crying without tears.

“It’s, it’s okay.”

In my panic, I reached up and gently patted him.

Compared to Marius, my hands were too small, and my arms too short to even reach his back.

But he seemed to need comfort in some way.

At that moment, Marius suddenly hugged me tight.

“…Where did such a pretty child like Lilliana come from.”

What would I have done without you.

He muttered softly while stroking my head.

He stroked me saying he was fine, but his eyes, expression, and tearful voice didn’t look fine at all.

So I had to let him stroke my head for as long as he needed.

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