How does it feel to step into a B-grade horror game? - 68

Episode 68.

The eyes of the aristocrats, who were walking leisurely, were focused on the two women getting out of the carriage with the Swald family emblem. The Swalds were a talkative family. The Swald family, who have a lot of wealth, had a social scene abuzz when the family changed hands a year ago. His only son had driven out his father and taken his place, and there were constant rumors about him.

He even pointed the finger at Isota, who had risen to the position by directly accusing his father, of being a heartless child, but when he saw Isota increasing his fortune day by day with more power than the original householder, he kept his mouth shut and was busy lining her up.

The new Swald was flanked by a beautiful woman who looked just like her. As if it were a precious treasure, Isota was devoted to her.

Above all, Isota, who had looked very depressed for nearly a year and was so cold that he could not approach him casually, had a smile on his face.

“Who’s that woman?”

“It’s the first time I’ve ever known Prince Isota to smile so well.”

Ignoring the gazes of the nobles who were staring at him with admiration, Isota was dragged out of the costume shop with Fidelis.

“What’s wrong, Reese?”

“You said you have a lot of clothes.”

“It’s different here.”

“I can’t wear them all!”

“You don’t have to wear it, you can hang it up as a decoration.”

“Sister.”

When I called out to Isota with a stern face, she calmly walked out of the dressing store with a look of melancholy. The word “sister” came out of Fidelis’ mouth, and the crowd whispered even more.

“Sister?”

“Did Prince Isota have a brother?”

“They definitely look alike, but…”

Curious glances glanced at Fidelis, but Isota had no intention of answering their questions. Fidelis wanted to go to the general store, and Isota willingly took her to the largest general store.

At the grocery store, where there was nothing but clutter and writing materials, Fidelis slowly looked around, choosing a notebook and a pen.

“I’m going to use it when I’m studying.”

“Cute….”

Rubbing his own ball against Fidelis’ ball, Isota tried to buy all the notebooks and pens in the general store. If Fidelis, the flagship, hadn’t been discouraged, he might have taken the notebooks and pens from the general store.

After leaving the notebook and pen in the paper bag to the user behind them, the two began to wander around in earnest. She went to the shelter and sat on a bench and chatted, and went to a flower shop to buy a bunch of seedlings she wanted to plant.

I even bought a bunch of desserts for Hakan, Edu, Esie, Zion, and Alvin, who were waiting for me at the mansion. They had nailed it down to dinner, so they headed to the restaurant just as the sun was setting.

It was a place where you had to wait for more than a month to get a reservation, but Isota used his position and power to get in easily. I sat at a large table and listened pleasantly to Fidelis’ chatter of excitement.

“Speaking of which, what happened to the applicants?”

When he returned, he was only talking about himself, so he didn’t know what had happened.

“Didn’t Chester say anything about Hart?”

“Right. At the end of the day, I heard that you wanted to break the curse no matter who it was.”

The more they searched for hints, the more they lost hope of breaking the curse, so the remaining volunteers begged to be able to get out of this mansion without having to claim their rewards. When Chester—Fidelis, to be exact—lifted the curse, they admitted without hesitation.

“So…, did it turn out that we are of the manor’s blood?”

Fidelis muffled his voice as much as he could, his face close to Isota, and whispered softly. Isota, who smiled kindly because his younger brother was cute, touched her cheek.

“Nope. The note with the hint on it is gone, and none of the remaining volunteers have figured it out.”

If it was a good thing, it was a good thing. It was a long time ago, but at that time there was a lot of talk about the disappearance of the Merwynga and the reappearance of a nobleman named Swardgar, who had the same white hair as him. There had been many rumors, such as “they are the survivors of the Merwyns, they may curse again, they must be destroyed.”

But the new Swald family, who changed their family name, remained silent about it. I didn’t affirm it, I didn’t deny it. At that time, only the emperor knew the truth, and he gave the emperor a small sum of money to keep his mouth shut.

The emperor received it and dismissed the rumors as untrue. Even the aristocracy, who had been strongly opposed at first, gradually lost interest in the silent Swald family. They hadn’t harmed themselves, and there was no reason to keep pushing them to take care of themselves.

And all of this was possible because the face of the survivor of Merwynna was unknown. In Merwynga, Sarha’s presence was unique. Only Sarha was in the limelight, so the faces of the children beneath him were faint in the minds of the nobles.

Thanks to this, the Swards were able to change their family name and wash their identities safely. And although he was overshadowed by Sarha, he was still quite good, and the wealth of the Swards grew. However, as Isota and Fidelis’ father became the head of the family, the fortune was slowly leaking out.

Isota took over the position of the head of the family, and blocked all of that. On the contrary, Isota’s abilities were increasing the Swald family’s fame and fortune. All of that effort was done solely for Fidelis. Fidelis heard the details of his family for the first time.

“It must have been quite eventful.”

“Well, it was before I was born.”

It doesn’t matter if the family was so despised in the past. Now, no one could ignore the Swards. That was it.

“So the candidates have gone back to their original positions?”

“That’s right.”

“Excuse me for a moment.”

The waitress stopped their conversation for a moment. Gorgeous food was neatly placed on the table, and the waitress greeted politely before leaving.

Isota took the demi-glace steak in front of Fidelis to him, cut it into bites, and placed it back in front of her.

“That’s the most popular dish here.”

I put the properly cut steak in my mouth and savored the taste of the filth. Fidelis’ eyes widened at the first taste. Isota smiled cheerfully at her.

“I feel like I’m so excited to come here.”

“I always will.”

It was so much fun to get to know the flavors of foods I had never tasted before. He put another piece of meat in his mouth and ate it, and this time he put a piece of meat in Isota’s mouth. Otherwise, she felt that she would not eat and would continue to stare at what she was eating.

“Reese feeds it, so it tastes better.”

“Let’s eat together. It doesn’t taste good if you eat it alone.”

Fidelis said gloomily, pointing to the steak in front of Isota, which hadn’t even been cut yet, and Isota nodded eagerly.

“Yes, let’s eat together. We still eat together, and we’ll continue to eat together every day.”

“Yes, we always eat together.”

Isota, who was eating with a smile on his face, didn’t know if the food was going into his mouth or his nose. It was so nice just to see them face to face like this.

It was amazing to see something that I had imagined hundreds of times in my imagination being carried out in reality. Fidelis hesitated as he watched Isota eat, his lips pursed.

“What’s wrong? If you have any questions, you can ask them all.”

“… Mmmm. It’s a very uncomfortable question.”

“It’s okay.”

“What happened to Astin?”

“Of course I put it away.”

Isota grinned. Even after the molestation, he brazenly insisted that he was not guilty and that everything was Isota’s fault.

In the Cursed Mansion, he had tried to put everyone in danger with Eland. Moreover, when the curse was lifted, he even pounced like an unbridled colt. I couldn’t show him any mercy.

When Isota sent his father into exile, he sent Asin with him. As disgusting as his father was, what Asin had been doing. He had been dignified in front of others.

He was dipping his toes in the forbidden slave market with his father. Some had their lives ruined at Asten’s hands. He was the one who did not treat man as a man. The slave market alone was enough to bury him, so she tied him up with his father and sent him into exile.

“I’m sure he’s in the middle of the desert by now, hauling sand to the ground.”

In the Hor Desert, where the temperature difference between day and night was severe, the sun scorched the flesh during the day and the bone-chilling cold at night. But it wasn’t tidy. They would somehow survive there.

No matter how much he suffered, there was absolutely no escape. I had to live there until I died. But Isota didn’t bother to tell him all of this. Fidelis now had to see and hear only the good.

“You don’t have to worry, he won’t appear in front of us again.”

After that, Fidelis didn’t ask any more questions. To be honest, I wasn’t that curious. I was worried that he would show up again and bother me, so I asked. But it was a good thing that he went into exile.

After he had finished his last dessert, Fidelis stood up, patting his stomach with satisfaction. It was so much fun that I wondered if I could spend my time without thinking about it. My sleepless life with worries and anxieties every day turned upside down in an instant.

Everything that happened in the cursed mansion was still insanely vivid. The sensation of my heart being pierced to the point that my blood was cold couldn’t be erased no matter what I did.

But his time with Hakan and Isota made him forget all about that. Guilt was as much fun as work. Before, I was in a position where I had to take care of someone, but now I am in a position where I am protected because it is the opposite. To a family I thought didn’t have that either.

On the way back in the carriage, Isota didn’t let go of Fidelis’ hand. We clasped hands warm enough to envelop everything.

“I had a lot of fun today.”

“What did you like best?”

“I’m with my sister.”

Fidelis’ answer was so good that Isota rolled his eyes and fell into her arms. Fidelis was so happy in every little thing, and it was both sad and lovely.

“Let’s go to the festival next time.”

“Good.”

There was plenty of time now. Very.

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