The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 206

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Side Story Episode 6

“That’s….”

“Don’t be afraid of me. I like you.”

“….”

But Isadel did not answer.

“Not going to answer?”

“I….”

“I love Jackvell Marquess, you could answer with just those words and it would be fine.”

Jackvell Marquess laughed playfully.

However, Isadel must have felt the clear sincerity contained within his joke.

While holding the hot chocolate cup he had offered in a daze, Isadel only chewed on her lips.

Jackvell Marquess stared intently at Isadel, then soon shrugged his shoulders and smiled.

“I was wrong. Your lips are bleeding, so don’t bite them.”

Biting her lips until they bled was her long-standing habit.

Until now, no one had ever cared about her lips getting hurt.

But Jackvell Marquess quietly watched her. Then he laughed softly.

“The bleeding continues.”

Isadel showed a flustered expression.

There had never been anyone who cared about her lips bleeding. She blinked and looked at him.

“What? I’m sorry.”

“No, there’s no need to be sorry. I just don’t like seeing your lips bleed.”

“What? What does it matter….”

Isadel showed a puzzled expression. She truly seemed to have no idea.

Jackvell Marquess gently rubbed the tip of her nose and answered.

“Did you forget? I said I like you.”

“….”

“Ah, should I say I love you for you to understand?”

“I…!”

“Since I’ve come to love you, I want you not to be hurt. That’s all. Why?”

“So, that means….”

Isadel had never once been hit by the emotional fastball called love from anyone.

Especially not from someone of incomparably higher status than herself.

Isadel couldn’t say anything and just moved her lips wordlessly.

Jackvell Marquess, watching her like that, chuckled.

“Why, is it too burdensome?”

“Rather than burdensome….”

It was closer to not knowing what to do.

As if noticing that fact, Jackvell Marquess grinned.

“Then endure it. I want you to feel burdened by me. That way you’ll keep thinking about me, won’t you?”

Jackvell Marquess slowly pulled his body away. Finally, the distance between the two people widened by one step.

Isadel looked up at him, now one step further away.

The man who had always only approached her had stepped back.

It’s not good for someone of high status to take interest in her. So if his interest waned, it should be something to be happy about.

Why did this widening physical distance feel so sorrowful?

Isadel lowered her head. She somehow felt like she had to say these words and moved her lips.

So….

Isadel quietly looked at him and opened her mouth.

“I won’t keep thinking about you.”

Even so, the smile on his lips deepened further.

And right at that moment.

His rough hand firmly pressed against her bleeding lips.

As if applying pressure to stop bleeding. Or, as if tenderly embracing her wound.

Isadel was a woman who had never received something like love even once in her entire life.

So she….

Smack!

With a loud noise, she slapped his hand away.

“…Please don’t touch me.”

“Why?”

“Do I need a reason for not wanting to be touched carelessly?”

“….”

Jackvell Marquess looked at Isadel indifferently. Seeing his gaze, Isadel lowered her head.

“…I’m grateful that you picked me up from the snowy plains. But nothing more than that.”

Now, she took a step back.

She had already been hurt countless times by her sisters, by her family.

She didn’t want to be hurt anymore.

Isadel whispered softly.

“So please don’t play around with me anymore.”

Looking at her sideways, he chuckled.

“I don’t want to.”

Step, step.

He quickly approached with two steps.

Looking at the woman with the pure white face before him, he said.

“I just decided – I want to love you until I die.”

“…What?”

“So try to endure my love.”

He grinned and touched her lips again with his fingertips.

“Soon you’ll come to love me too.”

It was an arrogant declaration.

Isadel looked up at him with trembling eyes and moved her lips.

“…I won’t.”

Isadel quickly turned her head and escaped from him.

He didn’t catch her as she fled like a bird.

Instead, he watched her retreating figure with his eyes.

Until her retreating figure disappeared from his sight, continuously.

* * *

…The two people who witnessed all of that, Berry and Airi.

As soon as they saw that scene, the orb suddenly glowed red hot….

Soon, they returned to reality.

The two people were looking at each other while barely holding their breath.

The first to speak was Airi.

“Berry.”

Looking at Berry’s stiffly hardened expression, Airi firmly grasped his sleeve and smiled brightly.

“Your father is really romantic! Right?”

At the half-joking remark, Berry’s stiff expression relaxed.

“…I suppose so.”

“Yes! Super romantic!”

When Airi smiled brightly, Berry lowered his head deeply and laughed softly.

“I could be more romantic.”

“Huh? Really? Isn’t that coming on too suddenly?”

It was right then, as they were playfully lightening the mood.

Berry looked at Airi quietly, then smiled gently.

“…Then.”

“Hm?”

“The next orb too…. Should we see the rest?”

Airi’s eyes widened.

At first, Berry had clearly been reluctant to check his family history somehow….

“You’ve become brave, Berry!”

At those words, Berry buried his head on Airi’s shoulder and muttered quietly.

“…I realized something.”

“What?”

But after asking “What?”, Airi also came to realize it.

Karhen, who had been a ‘Hybrid Monster slave’, had worried countless times about his origins until now.

But….

‘He must have learned that he was conceived from love.’

So perhaps Berry was now gradually building up his sense of self.

‘Was that why? He showed me even the dark memories.’

Somehow, it seemed like she would be able to understand what Jackvell Marquess had said.

Airi smiled brightly, feeling deeply happy about that fact.

“Then let’s quickly see the next scene too!”

Even though their ending might be marked by tragedy.

Nevertheless, she wanted to see their process.

So Berry and Airi held hands tightly.

Their bodies were slowly drawn into the orb that stored memories once again.

* * *

Again, Isadel’s Small Room.

She opened her eyes brightly on the bed in the small room with a warm fireplace.

The air inside the room was warm because of all the wood that had been burned.

But even in such a warm room, Isadel Marquess was wearing clothes that covered her entire body.

Beads of sweat had formed on her forehead.

Isadel Marquess wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand and bit her lips lightly.

“…Hah.”

Only sighs kept coming out of her mouth.

She was deeply troubled.

This might be because of that man’s attitude. He had said he wanted to embrace all the scars on her body. But Isadel knew.

“A lie.”

It must be a lie.

No, it had to be a lie.

Because her body didn’t just have simple scars.

Isadel quietly looked around her surroundings.

And after confirming no one was around, she rummaged through the nightstand drawer and picked up a small hand mirror.

Quietly, very slowly, she lifted up the lace that had been covering her hand.

“Hah, it’s gotten worse….”

Small scales had sprouted on Isadel’s hand.

They were still scales that wouldn’t be visible unless you looked closely.

But nevertheless, Isadel knew.

She looked down at the sharp scales that had sprouted on her hand and muttered blankly.

What would happen if she became a demon?

Her mother and father had said.

If you become a demon, you will become ferocious.

“That can’t happen. Absolutely not.”

Berry and Airi remained silent as they continued to watch her repeat words that were close to a vow.

They knew the future.

In other words, they knew the future where she would naturally fall in love with Jackvell Marquess.

Airi and Berry held each other’s hands.

And finally, the two moved on to the next memory.

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