Siena Dating Agency - Chapter 62

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62.

It was exactly 3 years ago.

It was when Castillian had completed all the educational courses at Tiarosa Academy.

He graduated together with Trosian, who was in the same year.

“Lian hyung! Rosi hyung! I’m going to miss you so much.”

“….”

“Please send me letters often! I’ll write back quickly, sincerely, and with great care…! Hehe!”

After exchanging farewells with Roderick, they boarded the ship bound for the Empire.

The ship sailed for several days and arrived at the port of the Carnon Empire.

Chase was waiting for them.

“It’s been a year. Seeing that your faces haven’t changed much, it looks like you both did well.”

Chase, the oldest among G4, had graduated a year earlier.

Trosian boarded the Rocksherd family carriage that had come to pick him up.

Chase leaned diagonally against the carriage door.

“Rosi.”

“Now that Roderick isn’t here, don’t call me that, will you? It gives me goosebumps.”

“It’s up to this hyung how I want to call you.”

“….”

“Keep in touch often when you go back. The north gets a lot of snow, so once you go in, it’s hard to come out.”

Trosian raised his eyebrow with an expressionless face.

It was an ambiguous response that could be neither positive nor negative.

Soon the carriage carrying him left the port.

Then Chase gestured toward his own carriage.

“Hurry up and get in. I’ll take you there.”

Castillian had contacted the Imperial Palace in advance.

He told them not to come pick him up, as the Imperial Palace carriage staying at the port would draw people’s attention.

Then he had sent a letter to Chase asking if he could help him.

Aizet Baron’s carriage began to run, carrying the two men.

During the ride, Chase made a suggestion.

“Lian, would you like to look around the city before returning to the Imperial Palace?”

Castillian blinked his eyes.

“…The city?”

“Our Prince, you were always curious about the capital.”

In fact, he had never directly said he was curious about the capital’s scenery.

But Chase had noticed perceptively.

Whenever stories about the city came up, Castillian couldn’t hide his curious eyes.

“I’ll show you around. Don’t worry and just follow me.”

“Still….”

“If we just play a little and then go in, there won’t be any problem. It’s not like we’re going to stay up all night in the capital.”

“….”

“…Don’t tell me you were planning to stay up all night? Prince, were you such a passionate and promiscuous man?”

Chase threw out a joke while raising his eyebrows.

Castillian, who had been facing his relaxed smile, eventually agreed.

‘…I want to see the capital.’

Since he was someone who shouldn’t dream of deviation, he had longed for things beyond his reach more than anyone else.

This decision would lead him to resolve on an even greater deviation a few hours later.

* * *

On the way to the capital, Chase stopped briefly at a waypoint.

It was the Willow Estate.

“Lian, just wait here for a moment.”

“….”

“I need to get more money to have fun with our Prince. I’m going to take a little from Soren hyung’s safe.”

Castillian’s eyes widened.

‘Taking money from hyung’s safe…?’

Chase laughed casually.

“Haha, it’s nothing. Don’t worry. Soren hyung is clueless anyway, so he won’t know.”

“….”

“When I established my own household, hyung didn’t help me with anything. So I’m just receiving the help I didn’t get back then now.”

It was truly nonsensical talk.

Chase had a talent for packaging nonsensical words as if they made sense.

Castillian stared intently at Chase, who was preparing to get off the carriage.

He finally opened his mouth.

“Never mind, don’t do that.”

“I’m going to do it.”

“I have a lot of money.”

“I know. How could I not know The Prince’s financial resources?”

Chase placed his hand on Castillian’s shoulder.

“But I also have a lot of money. And today, hyung wants to treat you.”

“….”

“So would Your Highness please wait quietly?”

Chase, who finished his words with his habitual wink, got off the carriage without giving him a chance to say anything.

Castillian watched his retreating figure growing more distant.

“…Really… there’s no need for that.”

Chase had already become so small he looked like a dot.

Castillian’s gaze began to sweep over the Willow Estate.

The neatly built architectural style, the well-maintained garden.

‘I’ve only heard about it in words until now, but this is my first time actually coming to Willow Manor.’

Soon, a certain room came into view.

A place with larger windows than other rooms, with dark curtains drawn so the interior couldn’t be seen.

Suddenly, Chase’s voice flashed through his mind.

“My hyung always draws those dark curtains and just works. You can’t imagine how boringly he lives.”

“….”

“Sometimes when I go into his office, he says with dark circles that reach down to his knees, ‘Get out of here!'”

Castillian unconsciously nodded his head.

‘…That must be Soren Willow’s Study.’

In fact, this was Castillian’s first time visiting a noble’s estate.

No, his first time visiting a friend’s house.

After experiencing bad things in the past, he had never been anywhere other than the Imperial Palace or the Academy.

Perhaps that’s why.

“….”

He felt somewhat awkward.

His chest felt ticklish, and he kept touching the back of his neck.

‘I’m not sure what this feeling is.’

Castillian at that time didn’t know that it was the emotion called ‘excitement.’

That’s when it happened.

…Step, step.

Suddenly, the sound of someone’s presence could be heard from outside.

Castillian, who had been looking down at his feet, suddenly held his breath.

It was because an old memory came to mind.

“My Castillian.”

The air, humidity, scent of that time….

A black nightmare instantly seized him by the nape of his neck.

In truth, he hated carriages.

Whether it was the Imperial Palace carriage or any other carriage, they looked completely different from the carriage he’d been kidnapped in as a child.

But he still felt aversion to them.

“We’ll be together forever. I’ll find you again.”

When trapped in the space called a ‘carriage,’ he kept thinking of that woman.

‘Though it was fine until just now since I was with Chase….’

Of all times, now that Chase was gone, he could hear unfamiliar footsteps from outside.

Suffocating tension bound Castillian’s entire body.

Step… step step.

The mysterious footsteps stopped in front of the carriage.

Castillian fumbled through his coat pocket with trembling hands.

‘Q-quickly….’

His appearance-altering glasses came into his grasp, and he hurriedly put them on.

And a few seconds later.

Creak!

The carriage door opened.

“…Ah, seriously! What is this.”

Castillian, who had been frozen while holding his breath, rolled his eyes.

‘…A woman?’

No, it was a girl.

The voice that suddenly leaked in was immature, with a somewhat youthful feeling.

The woman immediately poured out complaints like rapid fire.

“I mean, brother! I understand you came suddenly, but why did you have to park right in the middle of the garden?”

“….”

“Did you want to advertise to everyone in this manor that brother came?”

“….”

“Even so, this isn’t right. People need to pass through, but now there’s no path.”

The grumbling woman suddenly stuck her head into the carriage.

“Chase brother, are you listening to what I’m saying….”

The woman’s and Castillian’s eyes met.

Frozen in place, she screamed exactly 5 seconds later.

“…Eek!”

Castillian also made a sound in response.

“Ugh.”

“Aah!”

“…Urk.”

“Waaah…!”

Startled by the woman’s resounding roar, he pressed himself tightly into the corner of the carriage.

After screaming several times, the woman took a deep breath.

Then she exhaled a breath similar to a sigh.

“Haaah….”

Soon she clutched her startled chest and asked.

“Wh-who are you?”

Castillian stared blankly into the woman’s eyes.

‘The same golden eyes as Chase….’

No, they were similar to Chase’s but slightly different.

The woman’s pupils sparkled much brighter and clearer than his.

Like stars in the night sky viewed from the top of the Imperial Palace.

When Castillian didn’t answer, the woman added.

“Um…. This carriage belongs to Aizet Baron’s mansion.”

“….”

“Are you acquainted with Chase brother?”

Castillian finally realized.

The girl who had suddenly invaded the carriage and screamed passionately.

‘…It’s Siena Willow.’

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