Episode 85
Translator : Missme Editor : Aru
There was such an accident when Ash turned 4 years old . He was playing tag with his sister in the garden of the mansion . His sister Lydia tried to catch him and climb the tree then fell in the middle . Ash was surprised . Quickly, he jumped off the tree .
“Noonim . ”
Lydia fell and didn’t move . He shook her, but no response came out .
At this time, Ash was suddenly frightened .
“Are you dead?”
In the 4 years since he was born, Ash has realized that there are too many weak things in the world, whether living or nonliving . The inanimate object was easily broken, and the living thing died easily .
So easily .
Except for himself, everything was weak .
Around that time Ash knew roughly what death was .
To die means to disappear, which means that he will never see it again . Forever .
The world seemed to turn black .
Ash burst into tears on the spot with unbearable fear, a sense of loss, and a great deal of despair .
Fortunately, Lydia jumped up as soon as Ash cried to calm him down, but that day’s accident gave Ash some deep commitment .
His sister is weak . So he has to protect her if he doesn’t want to lose her .
Since then, Ash has decided to protect his precious and favourite sister with his own hands .
And after a little more time, Ash was already seven years old .
Ash slowly realized that he was different . The others were weak while he wasn’t . There was another difference in this simple fact .
And he was amazed by the people . They easily tried to cherish and protect things that had nothing to do with them . For example, they said that flowers blooming on the side of the road are also precious . And while seeing small animals that they do not know of their existence, they said that they should protect them from death or injury .
Ash always didn’t understand those words .
What does it matter? Whether the flowers on the roadside are broken or trampled and crushed, or a small animal, such as a bird or a rabbit, was run over by a carriage and killed .
He didn’t care . He didn’t feel the need to .
Someone said to him if he didn’t feel pity for the weak and he needed to protect the pitiful ones .
Well . Everything was weak in Ash’s eyes when it came to that . Whether it’s a person, a small animal, or a flower blooming along the road .
All three were not very different in that, since they were weak . It was always like that in Ash’s eyes .
Then should he feel pitiful for everything around him and protect them?
No .
Ash didn’t want to . Being weak was weak, and it had nothing to do with him, whether it was weak or not . Both before and now, there was only one person Ash wanted to protect for any reason .
His sister .
Other than that, he didn’t know anything about it .
So to be honest, he was really surprised and upset when his sister Lydia, on her eleventh birthday, hit him in the head when she received the gift he had carefully prepared .
“Ouch!”
“Ouch? Is ‘ouch’ coming out now? What the hell are you doing?”
“Why are you angry?”
“Then do you think I shouldn’t be angry?”
It was a gift that he prepared with all his heart .
At first, he tried to get something like the doll of his sister, which was destroyed by a maid in the mansion, but he couldn’t find it .
So he thought about what to do and decided to give the maid as a doll .
He thought she’d like it . His sister usually cared about the maid quite a bit . To the point where she forgave ‘the doll case’ without punishment .
The process of making a maid into a doll was simple . First, the doll was gagged because it was not allowed to talk and tied the whole body because it could not move .
He didn’t kill the maid . When they die, they disappear over time . The doll couldn’t have disappeared .
So he put out a ribbon and a dress just like the doll and put it out with confidence . And the angry Lydia beat his head mercilessly while he felt falsely accused .
“Is it because you don’t like it?”
He asked in wonder, but the answer he got was a bigger scolding, standing against the wall while keeping his hands up .
After that, the sermon followed . His sister Lydia said something long, but in the end, there was only one conclusion .
Life is precious .
‘Why is life so precious?’
Ash couldn’t understand . Life is life . That was it . It wasn’t very precious .
‘Though my sister is precious . ’
It was his sister’s words, not anyone else, so he nodded for now .
A few days later, he made the doll with more care and took it to her .
He also changed his gender after much consideration . From a maid to a servant .
“You like this doll, don’t you?”
“Why aren’t you talking, noonim?”
Got hit again . Similar things have been repeated ever since .
Rather than being a tearful ache, he was heartbroken and discouraged, and while eating a honey chestnut, Ash diligently took the doll and held it out to win Lydia’s favour .
Then, when he realized Lydia didn’t really like dolls, he stopped .
And there’s one more thing Ash learned during the time: people were afraid of him .
“I, to be honest, am a little scared of young duke Ash…… . ”
“Hey, don’t say that . ”
“But I do . Did you see what the young duke said about dolls?”
“That’s because the young duke was still young, so he doesn’t know anything…… . ”
“Not just that . Yeah, the young duke has been scolded so much by the lady that he doesn’t do that anymore . But do you know what he used to say to me?”
“What did he say?”
“I used to secretly bury a dead bird bitten by a cat in the yard, and he asked me if it was my family . He asked me if I buried the dead bird because it’s my family member and if people and birds can be a family . The young duke, at least he doesn’t really understand why I take care of a corpse-like that if they aren’t family-related . ”
“That’s……”
“It was a bird at the time, but frankly he would have said the same thing if one of us had died and made a grave and honoured the spirit . You know . You guys really didn’t feel that way?”
“……actually, when I see the young duke, I sometimes feel creepy . ”
“It’s true that the young duke feels different from us . ”
“I’m getting goosebumps . I’m scared, what the hell will happen if our master and his wives leave the young duke like that…… . ”
“Shh, shut up, and what can you do if they don’t leave him like that? Let’s stop talking about this in case anyone hears it . ”
Then Ash could see why people often look down in surprise when they see him, and when they come near him, they always make a reluctant face .
It didn’t really matter even if he knew anyway . It didn’t matter much whether they were afraid of him, reluctant or avoiding him . He’s not interested in that .
But he was worried about this one thing .
“Noonim . ”
He’s afraid his sister will do the same .
“Am I scary?”
“Huh?”
Lydia looked up while painting Ash’s face on a white canvas .
In their break time, she was trying to make a painting with Ash as her model . Lydia had a serious look on her face and answered .
“You asked, are you scary?”
“Yeah . ”
“Well, you’re not scary, but your face is scary . ”
“……my face?”
“Because you’re so pretty . I’m not sure if I can move your face to this piece of paper, I should have not made a mess . Oh, this is so scary . Yeah . It’s really scary . ”
Then Lydia narrowed the middle of her forehead, measuring Ash’s face from side to side with a brush in her hand .
He blinked at the sight .
“You’re saying I’m not scary, are you?”
“Why are you scary?”
“Because I’m weird… I’m different . ”
“You’re pretty different with everyone else . But why is that scary? By the way, stay still, Ash . Don’t move . I’ll do my best to draw your beauty close to reality . ”
The portrait Lydia completed on the day was so terrible that it was not good enough even in empty words .
If she didn’t say it, no one would know that the model was Ash .
Lydia stared bitterly at the results of her own hands and lamented incomprehensibly, “If I had a photoshop, I would have saved it . ”
But the painting eventually became Ash’s long-standing treasure .
Ash stole the painting from Lydia, who was heading for the fire-stove seriously, saying she had to burn it right away .
Then he put it in a frame and secretly kept it in his room drawer .
Later, Lydia was surprised to learn the truth belatedly, but she couldn’t help it because it had already become his memory and treasure .
Ash liked Lydia . It got deeper and deeper . He also has a growing desire to protect her in proportion to that .
Fifteen years old, when his parents died side by side from the illness, Ash thought that he should have power .
As Ash grew up, the power he learned was largely money and force .
The more the two, the better . The more so, the more likely he could protect his sister in any situation .
Ash firstly visited the Dark Knight organizations, killed the leader, absorbed them, and carried out business at random to enrich his fortune .
He grew the organization, got more money and used the organization to run projects that were not publicly revealed .
The work was smooth as he hung on day and night without taking care of himself . He was lucky that there was a competent partner .
Then it was one day . It was a place where he celebrated the success of his new business with his partner .
Perhaps excited, the partner drank heavily that day and was really drunk .
Then he talked .
“Your sister . Princess Lydia . I think it’s time to find out her marriage partner, hiccup, why don’t you hand her over to me?”
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