The Saint is Not My Sister, The Real Saint is Me - Episode 41

“Yuna-oneesama!”

Was it good timing or just unfortunate? My clueless and carefree little sister arrived at this chaotic scene with a bright smile.

“I’m so glad! I finally got to see you, Yuna-oneesama! I came to see you so many times, but for some reason, they wouldn’t let me inside the inn where you were staying!”

“…Obviously, I asked the Ainakura Ducal family to keep you out because I didn’t want to see you.”

“Yuna-oneesama, who is that?”

Emil’s attention was immediately drawn to the person holding me—Lord Rein.

I had a bad feeling.

My sister hates it when I get close to anyone besides her. She wants everything I have. Even if she has to take it away from me—

“There’s no need for me to introduce myself to you.”

Lord Rein spoke coldly, refusing her outright, tightening his embrace around me as if to make a point.

“P-Please don’t say that! You seem so close to Yuna-oneesama, so I’d like to get along with you too.”

“I refuse.”

“Ugh… sniff… That’s so cruel… I just wanted to be close to you like Yuna-oneesama is…”

For a moment, Emil bit her lip in frustration, but as always, she quickly shifted into her usual act—her eyes welling with tears, playing the role of the helpless little sister.

“Yuna-oneesama, don’t befriend this person! He’s a terrible man who is being cruel to your beloved little sister! He’s not worthy of you!”

What the hell is she saying…?

She’s stolen the few friends I’ve had in the past, and now that she realizes she can’t take this one, she’s begging me to stop being close to him? How stupid can she be?

“I decide who I befriend. This has nothing to do with you, Emil.”

“No… That’s so mean, Yuna-oneesama!”

I’d love to ask how exactly this is mean, but I doubt she’d understand, so I won’t bother.

“What do you want, Emil?”

“Eh? I’ve come to take you home, of course!”

“What?”

“Yuna-oneesama, you’ve finally come back to me, haven’t you? I’m so happy…! After all, we’re destined to be together!”

Her delusions never end. How could she possibly think I would return? I despise her.

“There’s no way I’m going back to you! Never!”

I’m not stupid enough to walk willingly into hell.

“Why…? That’s so cruel… I was going to forgive you for all the terrible things you did to me…”

“Terrible things? Are you talking about me supposedly stealing your power and pretending to be the Saint?”

“Huh? Ah, yes, that’s right. It would be best if we stick with that story, for both our sakes, don’t you think?”

She’s the one who’s been using my Saint’s power as her own all this time, and yet she can say that so nonchalantly. I hate her.

“Once Yuna-oneesama returns to my side and I become the Saint of Kotokoris again, it will all make sense.”

She speaks as if my fate has already been sealed—like I have no choice but to live as her shadow again.

“Right? Yuna-oneesama, you’ll live for me, won’t you? I love you, Yuna-oneesama.”

“…I hate you.”

“What?”

“I hate you! I will never live for you again!”

Even now, she keeps trying to hurt me so casually—I hate her more than anything!

“Why would you say something so awful…? I love you, Yuna-oneesama…”

“Awful? You’ve been using my Saint’s power as your own this whole time! And now you want to pin it on me?! Make it look like I was the fake?!”

“S-Stop, Yuna-oneesama! People are listening…!”

Emil panicked and tried to silence me.

She can lie about me all she wants, but the moment the truth about her is exposed, she can’t handle it. How pathetic.

“It’s the truth, isn’t it? The Imperial Court has officially recognized me as the true Saint of the Finable Empire.”

The royal family itself acknowledged it—there was no room for doubt anymore.

“T-That’s not true! Yuna-oneesama is just jealous of me again! She’s trying to ruin me by pretending my power is hers!”

“Isn’t that what you did to me? Since we were kids, you used my Saint’s power as if it were your own and called yourself the Saint of Kotokoris.”

“No! Everyone, please don’t believe her!”

She was desperate, but by now, no one was buying her lies.

“Lady Emil, you keep saying whatever you like, but without Yuna’s power, Kotokoris will never recover. Do you understand that?”

“Ugh! That’s why Yuna-oneesama just needs to come back to me! Everything will be solved if she stays by my side and lives only for me—”

So she planned to take my Saint’s power again and regain her position?

Enough. I shouldn’t have come here.

I don’t want to save my father or Emil.

I’m furious.

So—

“I’m leaving now.”

“What?”

Not just Emil, but everyone in the area—Aqua’s residents included—froze in shock at my words.