Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32

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“Master!”

As soon as he entered the room, Ram watched Levi fly toward him with a delighted expression and thought he couldn’t remember the last time his pet had searched for him so eagerly.

Of course, this materialistic crow wasn’t welcoming him with pure intentions.

Levi flew to Ram’s shoulder and perched there, asking with obvious ulterior motives.

“Did you buy eggs? Caw! Did you buy eggs? Caw!”

“Yes.”

“When do we eat pancakes? Caw! Now? Caw!”

“No pancakes today. I wish there weren’t any tomorrow either, but I don’t know how the person making them feels about that.”

Ram answered Levi’s questions in an indifferent tone.

Levi just tilted his head in confusion, but after a moment understood his words and began flapping his wings frantically. It looked like he was having a fit.

“Why not! You promised me two pieces, so why not! This is tyranny! Oppression! Fraud!”

He was so excited that he completely forgot to caw like a crow.

Since he was a creature close to a spirit, acting somewhat un-birdlike wouldn’t be a problem, but that aside, it wasn’t a pleasant sight to behold. Of course, it wasn’t pleasant to hear either.

Ram shook his shoulder to send Levi flying elsewhere and said.

“Don’t even think about going to complain to her. If you do, I’ll make sure you never see another pancake in this castle for the rest of your life.”

“Tyranny! Oppression! Fraud!”

“And stop pestering her for food. She didn’t come here to take care of your meals. You know that, right?”

“I know! She came to marry you, though I don’t understand why.”

Levi snapped back irritably.

Ram fell silent.

Walking aimlessly while talking with Levi, he naturally found himself standing in front of the bed at some point.

Here last night, he had shared a blanket with another person for the first time in a very long while.

They had truly only slept together, doing nothing that a man and woman who climbed into bed together might do, but even so, that time had indeed become an opportunity to learn more deeply about the other person.

Ram sat on the edge where Evnia had lain and stared down at the pillow she had used.

He reached out to lightly brush over it, but the tears shed last night had all dried by now.

‘I was hoping it was just a nightmare she happened to have.’

Ram had awakened at dawn to the sound of someone quietly sobbing.

The child who had been sleeping like the dead as she had promised before falling asleep had suddenly begun shedding sorrowful tears.

She cried out for her family members.

At first she just repeated the word “mom” like a child, then sometimes urgently called for dad, and finally even mentioned her dead sister.

Unconsciously drawn in, he listened to her barely audible sleep talk when suddenly strange sounds began to reach his ears.

That she was sorry, that she was wrong, that she wouldn’t do it again.

He tried to dismiss it as her dreaming about being scolded by her parents as a child, but something about it seemed ominous.

Ram eventually couldn’t bear to watch and wiped away her tears, then recited a spell to chase away bad dreams.

Thanks to this, Evnia quickly returned to a peaceful expression, but the face she had worn before that still remained unErased in his heart.

He was curious about why she had made such an expression. What had made her so desperate even in her dreams.

“Ram, are you in there?”

Just then, Seven’s voice came from outside the door.

It seemed he had come to finish the conversation they hadn’t completed earlier.

Ram gave permission to enter without turning around.

He too had things left to say to his friend.

As soon as he heard the door open and close, Ram said briefly.

“Go upstairs and apologize first.”

“Are you really saying that because you think I did something wrong?”

Seven shot back in an incredulous voice, as if he knew perfectly well why Ram was saying such things.

Ram also knew that if the previous incident had happened between them, it wouldn’t have been much of a problem.

Strictly speaking, it was behavior closer to a mistake than a wrongdoing. However, Ram somehow didn’t want to see only Evnia apologizing.

He wanted to add another person’s share to the countless apologies she had already uttered, to lighten that scale even a little.

“I wasn’t going to scold her. It’s just that I was bothered by her wearing a dead girl’s wedding dress, so it came out that way.”

“So go tell her that.”

“You’ve been subtly making me out to be the only thoughtless one since earlier, but giving her the room you prepared for Nina in the first place was inconsiderate, you know?”

“That’s the only room suitable for a girl to stay in, so what was I supposed to do.”

“You could have put away the important things beforehand.”

“That’s something that requires courage from me too.”

When Ram answered in a gloomy voice, Seven looked at him with an expression full of things to say.

Seven tapped the floor with his toes while standing on one leg for a while, then opened his mouth after a long silence.

“There’s a reason I’ve kept quiet about Giyermo’s plan all this time and just let you sleep like the dead. Want to hear it?”

“No.”

Despite Ram’s refusal, Seven stubbornly said.

“Find a new love.”

“Be quiet.”

“Let’s make you happy now too!”

Seven spread both arms and argued with a desperate attitude, but Ram didn’t even pretend to listen.

Unable to bear his frustration, Seven strode over to the bedside where Ram was sitting.

Ram inwardly thought it was fortunate he had kept last night’s sleeping arrangement secret from everyone.

Seeing that even the friend he thought was least interested in his romantic affairs was hiding such feelings, there would be nothing good about giving them unnecessary ammunition.

“Isn’t Evnia pretty good? She seems like a girl with a wounded heart too, but since you’re also hurt, I think the balance works out pretty well.”

“Just so you know, you’re talking like complete trash right now.”

“I haven’t even said the really offensive stuff yet. The food she makes is really delicious, isn’t it?”

Ram flopped down on the bed as if the comment wasn’t worth responding to.

Even though he pulled a nearby pillow over to cover his ears, Seven showed no signs of giving up.

Seven sat right next to Ram and chattered non-stop with sounds that were indistinguishable between persuasion and provocation.

“Doesn’t she kind of resemble Nina too?”

Even Ram, who had maintained silence throughout, couldn’t let that question pass without comment.

Meeting someone because they resembled a dead lover would be cruel to everyone involved, and in Ram’s view, there were no particular similarities between the two.

Ram looked at his friend with irritated eyes for constantly getting on his nerves with worthless talk.

“Where exactly?”

“Her cooking skills.”

“As long as someone takes good care of your food, that’s enough for you?”

“The girl has a sense of justice too. Did you see how she brought back that Max or Mickey guy while we were out? An armed army came looking for him, but instead of just hiding somewhere safe, she went out to save that bastard again. I think that spirit is quite admirable.”

“It sounds like you’re being sarcastic.”

“No, I’m serious. It’s not easy for a person to value someone else’s life more than their own. You occasionally see kids who live as if they’ve already given up on their own lives, right? But then they usually try to die together, not tell you to live instead of them. Seeing that made me think, ah, maybe they’re similar because they’re sisters?”

“….”

“Nina doesn’t know how to back down when she has something to protect, right?”

Ram thought it was excessive interpretation.

If you analyzed people in such detail that way, you could probably find at least one similar piece in anyone.

Even while thinking this, Ram reflexively recalled Evnia’s face the moment he heard Seven’s words.

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