Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 90

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Chapter 90

When Evnia hesitated and couldn’t easily continue speaking, Ram instead made a troubled expression and came to comfort her.

“Kind-hearted miss. Don’t worry about it unnecessarily. At this age, such things really become nothing at all.”

He was the one who had spoken of his sad past, yet somehow the situation had turned into him comforting her.

Evnia wanted to ask him.

Does time really make such wounds feel like nothing?

Even if not as much as you, when I too age and become close to being an elder, will I be able to treat matters related to my parents as nothing more than faded past?

Evnia, who had been frustrated by stories she couldn’t reveal before him, suddenly realized she had been worrying unnecessarily from the start.

After all, it was a conversation that began with absurd assumptions.

If lies could be spoken as truth, then it would be difficult to notice if truth were spoken as lies.

Evnia lifted her gaze from the ground and answered in a calm voice.

“I was just surprised. Actually, I’m the same way.”

“…You had that kind of setting?”

“Shh. Focus, Lord Ram.”

After some adjustment, they left reality behind and returned to their role-play.

Ram looked up at Litberg Castle rising high above the distant trees and whistled.

“For an orphan, you seem to live in quite a nice house.”

“Fortunately, I was adopted by a wealthy family.”

“How fortunate that such luck followed you at least.”

“Well, my adoptive parents weren’t particularly good people either.”

“Oh my, then we were both lonely.”

Ram slightly furrowed his brow and muttered as if to himself.

He seemed to inwardly regret not choosing a happier story when starting the conversation.

If he had, Evnia would have told a joyful tale to match.

As if Ram didn’t quite like the story Evnia had chosen, he pointed out her setting again with dissatisfaction.

“Why did your adoptive parents bother adopting a daughter just to make that child unhappy?”

“An adopted daughter is only an adopted daughter and can never become a real daughter. So I was never loved—that kind of obvious story.”

Evnia answered smoothly while walking diligently.

She thought it was quite a natural flow, but Ram stopped in his tracks as if he had received an unexpected attack.

He spoke as if he felt wronged.

“Why is the conclusion so depressing?”

“Was it too burdensome a story to tell a man I just met?”

“Yes, and I just felt like my real self was being attacked.”

Evnia’s eyes widened at Ram’s answer.

She had merely told the story of House Hessen, but since the setting was Litberg Castle, it seemed to have reached him with a slightly different meaning.

So the explanation about real daughters and adopted daughters was an allegory about his real wife and fake bride.

Evnia felt terribly sorry toward Ram.

She really hadn’t brought up this story to resent him.

Evnia muttered with an awkward expression.

“I suppose so. I didn’t think about it, but that… Um, you might have felt that way.”

“…”

“Don’t worry about it. We were just playing around anyway. Let’s stop now.”

Evnia hastily tried to salvage the situation.

Stories ultimately depend on how you write their endings, and if this gentleman ran away with the unhappy adopted daughter, it could meet a typical happy ending, but he wasn’t her male protagonist to begin with.

It was a story that wouldn’t be particularly regrettable to end anticlimactically at this point. Their ending, that is.

Their steps had also nearly reached their destination.

After a moment’s consideration, Evnia spoke.

“Lord Ram, about the pact. Just hypothetically, if it’s not possible then it can’t be helped, but…”

“…”

“Isn’t there really a way for us to part safely? I mean, without… anyone having to die?”

Thinking he might peer into the truth contained in her eyes, Evnia couldn’t easily lift her head.

The fact that her sister was alive was an undeniable truth, and Ram would have to know that fact someday.

So she needed to prepare countermeasures to solve the problems surrounding them in advance. Unless she really wanted to sacrifice her life for her sister.

If the pact could be broken in a non-dangerous way, that would be best, and other cases…

Either way, it wasn’t a situation she particularly wanted to accept.

Whether Ram risked death to divorce her, or she became a huge burden interfering with his love.

Or whether she made some decision for his sake…

“No, I can’t divorce you.”

At the answer from above her head, Evnia unconsciously stiffened.

Ram, who had approached her at some point, was standing right in front of her.

When Evnia unconsciously tried to lift her head, Ram raised his hand and pressed down firmly on her head.

Flustered by this, Evnia stammered a rebuttal.

“Last time… you said the pact could be broken too. That there wasn’t no way…”

“Then I also concluded I’d just try living well with you, as Seven said.”

“…”

“Why, after living a bit, is your husband not good enough? Do you want to part even at the risk of sending me to the afterlife?”

“No! That can’t be. I just thought if we looked into it more, maybe another method might come up…”

“There isn’t one, and thinking about it, I don’t want to die just because of divorce either.”

Ram firmly cut off Evnia’s words.

Evnia tried to persuade him further, then gave up and closed her mouth.

If he was predicting his wife’s reincarnation hundreds of years in the future, this would only feel like a meaningless hypothetical to him.

But saying he can’t divorce her.

Even when sister comes, will you think the same way?

Will you say you won’t part from me even then…

“Let’s go inside now.”

At his gentle touch patting her back, Evnia faintly nodded.

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Ram loosened the tie constricting his neck as he entered the room.

He had certainly gone out wearing clothes he usually enjoyed wearing, but he couldn’t understand why his chest felt so stuffy.

No, when he had started feeling this way was actually clear without needing to think about it.

His mood had become unbearably twisted from exactly the moment Evnia asked him about ways to break the pact.

‘Did meeting that guy from her hometown cause some change of heart…’

Or maybe she wanted to make new future plans reflecting her newly acquired ability.

Certainly, many changes had occurred in Evnia compared to when she first arrived at this castle.

She smiled more, seemed to find fulfillment in helping people, and perhaps…

“…”

Ram quickly brushed away the faces of suitors that flashed through his mind.

Why did his thoughts keep returning to such points?

He thought he wasn’t qualified for such things.

He didn’t have enough confidence now to entertain such presumptuous thoughts about her circumstances.

“Levi, what are you reading right now?”

The noise coming from the corner of the room irritated his already frayed nerves.

Levi was standing on the table near the bed, making rustling sounds as he turned pages.

He had even banned access to the study after causing several accidents that turned it into a mess, so where had he gotten the book from?

Ram approached Levi with a puzzled feeling.

Levi, who would normally have flown away to escape by now, was waiting for his master’s arrival with glass-like eyes sparkling.

As soon as Ram reached the table, Levi tapped the open page with his foot and asked.

“This Nina, right?”

“…”

“Personality, somewhat trash-tier.”

At the incomprehensible sounds, Ram frowned and peered at the book Levi was pointing to.

Though the margins were filled with scribbles, the handwriting was so atrocious that what he read first was the large printed subtitle.

-The Outbreak of the Great War and the Treaty Written in Blood

What was certain was that this was definitely not a book from his study.

Since there was no reason for him, a living witness to history, to keep such a basic history book that only young nobles would read.

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