Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 88

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Chapter 88

“Your daughter?”

“Yes. Just like how she’s living alone with her grandson now, that old woman was raising her daughter by herself back then too. Since I have no memory of seeing a husband, it seems she fled to Litberck carrying a fatherless child. Well, or maybe she was running away from her husband…”

“…”

“Which do you think it was?”

“…Well, I wouldn’t know.”

“Hmm, well it’s not really an important story anyway. In any case, that woman’s daughter absolutely despised Litberck. She desperately wanted to leave this place. Why wouldn’t she? Youth always yearns for the city, for the stimulation that glamour provides.”

Giyermo dramatically quoted a line he had once heard in a play.

Since no particular response came from Evnia, he soon had no choice but to continue the story with an awkward feeling.

“At that time, I was gathering a shabby reputation by granting the petty wishes of lowly people who came seeking me through word of mouth. That old woman’s daughter was one of those unremarkable visitors. From the atmosphere, it seemed she had fought with her mother and come to me in a fit of anger. While she was making her wish to me, the old woman came chasing after her daughter.”

“…Don’t tell me you sent the daughter to the city right in front of her?”

“Of course I did. The daughter saw her mother and immediately pressed me to grant her wish right away. It was a contest to see if I could complete all preparations and successfully cast the teleportation magic before the mother could catch her daughter. Well, I could have detained the mother, but that wouldn’t have been very thrilling, would it?”

“…”

“Anyway, I succeeded. I sent the daughter to the capital just as her mother’s hand was about to touch her sleeve. Whew! Even thinking about it now, it was truly exhilarating. It was truly a nail-biting match.”

It should have been a moment for applause, but for some reason Evnia let out a small sigh as soon as Giyermo finished speaking.

Then she looked at the apple in his hand with suspicious eyes, apparently starting to suspect another poisoning attempt.

Thinking that human hearts were indeed unknowable, Giyermo explained what happened next without omission.

“The woman who saw her daughter disappear collapsed in shock. Then she grabbed me and begged me to grant her wish too. That woman wanted her daughter to return to her side.”

“Did you grant that wish as well?”

“No, that wouldn’t have been proper courtesy toward the person who had just made a wish. I’m a spirit who knows at least that much common decency. I refused with silence and returned to the castle interior. I absolutely hate getting involved in troublesome matters.”

“…”

“That’s the end.”

Having concluded his story, Giyermo took another bite of the apple.

Giyermo thought it would be nice if Evnia would determine the safety of this food soon, but she was still lost in deep thought.

Evnia looked up at the sunset that was already fading and asked.

“Did Marika Grandmother think that if Lord Giyermo hadn’t been there, her daughter wouldn’t have left?”

“Anyway, that daughter came back later, which is why she’s raising her grandson like that now, isn’t it? In the end, things turned out as she wanted.”

“Then conversely, did she think that if Lord Giyermo hadn’t been there, her daughter might not have returned?”

“…What do you mean? If she didn’t like her daughter leaving, she should be happy that she came back. Why am I being blamed for both?”

“I heard from the villagers. Marika Grandmother’s daughter passed away while giving birth to her son. That’s why the grandmother is raising her grandson in her place.”

“…”

“Perhaps, Marika Grandmother believed that her daughter ended up that way because of her own wish. So…if she had just let her stay where she wanted, her daughter might still be alive.”

Giyermo was dumbfounded.

So she had been treating me as a monster not to be associated with all this time, bound by a wish I didn’t even grant?

Or had she been directing all her resentment toward him, who had merely granted a wish in place of her runaway daughter?

Either way, it was equally unfair.

If she harbored resentment over such a thing and poisoned me, I will never forgive her.

Giyermo spoke in an indignant voice.

“How absurd. Whatever happened, that’s something to blame the daughter for, not me.”

“Maybe Marika Grandmother came to acknowledge that through this incident…”

Evnia, who had made that vague speculation, lifted the fruit basket in her arms and quietly added, “And she gave you apples too.”

Giyermo raised the fruit in his hand to eye level and glared at it fiercely, then gradually came to a stop.

He examined the spot where his bite marks remained with a fresh look and said.

“Anyway, there doesn’t seem to be any poison.”

His stomach didn’t hurt, he wasn’t dizzy, and his mouth wasn’t peeling.

Since none of the symptoms one might experience when poisoned appeared, this seemed to be just an ordinary apple.

Then was the thanks he received earlier also sincere?

When she said there was nothing more to say, was it because there really was no resentment left…

Giyermo suddenly murmured.

“…This is a first.”

“What is?”

“A human who hated me reflecting on their own foolishness.”

“Does that count as such…”

Evnia let out a troubled laugh but didn’t bother to correct Giyermo’s words.

At this, Giyermo felt inexplicably good.

It felt as if he had received acknowledgment from her that he wasn’t the one in the wrong.

He spoke smugly.

“Gratitude, huh. It’s nothing special, such things are just useless empty words…Strange, now that I’ve actually heard it, it doesn’t feel too bad.”

“That’s good. I’m glad Lord Giyermo’s mood has improved.”

She even laughed along as if matching his rhythm.

No, perhaps it should be seen the other way around.

Had this woman brought him here from the beginning just to laugh together?

“I’m the same way. When I hear words of thanks, it makes me feel really good. So when Marika Grandmother said she wanted to express her gratitude, I thought I absolutely had to bring Lord Giyermo along.”

Giyermo looked down at Evnia with eyes that seemed to find her strange.

He couldn’t understand at all why this woman kept going to such trouble for his sake.

It was understandable that he would help humans.

Regardless of the other party’s satisfaction, it was something he had been doing like fate throughout his lifetime.

But when humans offered to lend him their strength, it felt somewhat different.

Wasn’t it ridiculous just to hear?

It was like pouring salt into seawater.

It was like scattering a handful of sand in the desert, blowing breath into the sky, and in a way, it was also throwing away that much heart. To someone who couldn’t appreciate its value at all.

Thus, no one had ever indulged in such waste for his sake.

Giyermo suddenly recalled the uncomfortable sensation that had spread through his chest when he sent Ram to Evnia.

Perhaps at that moment, he had thought of this human…

That he didn’t want to lose her?

“You, do you still have no intention of getting along with your master?”

“That’s not a matter of my will…”

“Then let me ask this way. Do you still think there’s no hope for your relationship with your master?”

At Giyermo’s sudden question, Evnia made an expression of not understanding.

Her face showed she couldn’t understand why he was suddenly asking such a thing.

“I was thinking you might use that time a little differently from now on.”

“…You’re not planning to plot Lord Ram’s assassination, are you?”

“Of course not. I just started wondering if there’s any need to try so hard to connect two people when neither you nor your master wants it, and you don’t match very well either.”

Evnia who heard Giyermo’s answer closed her mouth with a choked expression.

Though she was the one biting her lips, Giyermo somehow felt as if he himself was becoming anxious.

He took a step closer to Evnia and said.

“Didn’t you say you would teach me what it’s like to live as a human?”

“…I can teach you that anytime. It has nothing to do with Lord Ram.”

“I don’t want that. I want to learn how to monopolize you.”

“…What?”

“Hmm, so…I believe this is called romance lessons?”

It was just as Giyermo was about to launch into a long explanation about the educational course containing his personal desires.

Giyermo used his animal instincts to lift his eyes from looking down at Evnia and shifted his gaze behind her shoulder.

Then he began belatedly checking what might have been wrong with what he had said.

And for good reason, since Ram was approaching them with a terrifying expression, grinding his teeth.

“You conscienceless old man, what the hell are you babbling to the girl?”

Giyermo was certain.

If he hadn’t been standing so close to Evnia like this, he would have been helplessly buried somewhere without even noticing Ram’s arrival, just like last time.

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