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“S-Sir Victor?”
“Brother?”
Seeing Victor who suddenly appeared, Kedrick and Lillia were astonished.
Victor stared at the two with cold eyes for a long time, then reached out his hand to me.
“Can you get up?”
“Oh, mm…”
I tried to hold his hand and bit my lip, frowned as if I was still in pain.
Of course it’s just an act. It wasn’t so painful that I couldn’t get up.
Shocked, Victor gritted his teeth and suddenly leaned over.
“B-Brother?”
He stood up, with an arm on my back and the other under my knees.
Seeing Victor holding my body, which weighs quite a lot, without any effort, I realized that Victor was a natural ‘kind’ person.
[T/N: 무골 which literally means “spineless” or if applied to someone, it can imply a “yes man”, someone who agrees with any opinion. Another source implies it can also mean someone who is kind or gentle to everyone. In this case she probably wants to say that Victor likes to help others]
Victor, who turned around while holding me, glared at Kedrick and Lillia.
“Are you crazy? What are you doing? You push people down the stairs?”
“Sir Victor, this is a misunderstanding. Rubette fell on her own, I didn’t push her on purpose.”
“You want me to believe that now?”
“No, if you don’t believe it…”
Kedrick, who swept his hair in frustration, narrowed his brows with an unpleasant look.
“Sir Victor, I understand you’re angry, but shouldn’t you be polite? We’re not even close to each other when we were young.”
“If our position were switched, I’m sure you’ll be arrogant too.”
“Huh…”
Kedrick, who was bewildered, soon chewed his lips.
Victor was hot-tempered, and when he got angry, he didn’t like nonsense. In other words, he’s the type of person who’d make his enemies tired in a fight.
“B-Brother Victor, it’s a real misunderstanding. Rubette really fell down on her own.”
Lillia, who passed by Kedrick and came down, clung to Victor’s arm, crying with a pretty face.
Swish. At the same time, Victor frowned and turned his body. Lillia’s eyes widened in surprise.
“Whether it was a mistake or not, I didn’t like the way he talked to Rubette. It’s the same with you, who didn’t even think about helping someone who fell down.”
“Oh! I-I… I-I was about to help her get up…”
Lillia, who could not tell which part Victor had heard from, shuddered with contemplation.
Victor, who was staring down at her, stared up at Kedrick.
“Apologize.”
“I didn’t even push her. Why should I apologize?”
“Brother.”
This is the time to intervene. I hugged Victor’s neck and made the most pitiful expression possible.
“It is true that I accidentally fell due to my carelessness. Don’t fight…”
“…”
This is what I said, but Victor didn’t believe it because he heard everything when Kedrick and Lillia mocked me after I fell.
Kedrick thumped down the stairs as if his pride was hurt by Victor.
“You heard it. She says she fell by mistake.”
“You bast—”
Victor was about to shout at Kedrick’s incitement, but I held his neck tighter to stop him.
“…”
And, Lillia’s, who was left alone, complexion was still pale.
It is reasonable for Kedrick to incite Victor because of his pride, as he doesn’t run into Victor very often, but what about Lillia?
As a member of Diollus family, she must know that she should look good to the two brothers.
“Rubette, I’m sorry. I should have looked at you first, but I was so surprised that…”
Yeah, I knew you’d fix it this way.
I immediately sighed and accepted.
“No, Lillia. I understand your feelings. Now, I won’t… disturb you and Kedrick anymore. So please don’t hate me…”
Wiht my lips pouted, I glanced at Lillia whose mouth was wide open. Such a counterattack seemed unexpected to her.
‘How does it feel to be hit by the technique you’ve always used?’
I was struggling to hold back my laughter, but Victor passed Lilia and climbed the stairs.
As if there was something more to say, Lillia hurriedly grabbed him.
“B-Brother! Wait a minute, I’m telling you…”
“Let go.”
As Victor turned with a hardened and fierce face, Lillia was startled.
“I’m disappointed in you.”
“…”
Grinding his teeth, Victor continued to climb the stairs.
Lillia’s contemplative face was quite worth seeing.
***
Victor, who held me and carried me to the bed in the room, said with a very angry expression.
“I’ll get a doctor. Let’s see how you are.”
“No, Brother. You don’t have to do that. It’s all right now. It wasn’t even that high.”
“Still…”
“It’s really okay. I’ll tell you if something’s wrong.”
Victor, who seemed dissatisfied, immediately sighed and pulled up a chair and sat himself down.
“Hey, have you been hearing that from Kedrick all this time?”
“Ah, no… He was just joking.”
As I smiled bitterly as I spoke, Victor retorted as if he were bewildered.
“Joking? Joking, you say? Did you feel it was a joke?”
“Don’t be angry, Brother.”
“How can I not be angry? Didn’t I tell you many times that you shouldn’t like him? Until how long are you going to follow him all the way around?”
“I don’t do that anymore.”
“What do you mean you don’t—! Ugh! Nevermind that. And Lillia, what the hell is she…”
Victor, who was trembling with his teeth clenched, messed up his hair nervously.
‘Nice.’
With this incident, Lillia seemed to fly out of Victor’s eyes. I pretended to be gloomy, trying to hide the corners of my lips that were about to raise up high to the sky.
Seeing me like that, Victor barely managed to cool down his anger, and opened the leather bag on his shoulder.
“Take this. I bought one on the way. You like this.”
“Wow.”
The shape of the luxurious wrapping paper was familiar. It was chocolate from a famous dessert shop.
‘It’s my favorite. The person who looks the most unlikely is secretly the most attentive.’
It can be said that this is the first time I feel being taken care of by my own flesh and blood after I woke up as Rubette…
It was more touching than I expected. The tip of my nose is slightly sour.
“Thank you, Brother. But these days, I’m trying to lose weight, so I don’t eat desserts…”
“What?”
“I’m trying to lose weight. I’ve been running 10 laps a day in a vacant lot just past Serburn Street. Cough.”
As I spoke with a proud expression on my face, Victor, who was still for some reason, wrinkled his face.
“Why all of a sudden? Don’t tell me it’s because of that guy Kedrick…”
“Oh, no no no. Really. I’m not following Kedrick anymore. I’m just taking care of my health.”
Victor’s eyes narrowed as I waved my hand. He didn’t seem to believe it at all.
“Then give it to me. I’ll buy you something else. Is there anything you want?”
“No!”
I blocked Victor’s hand who was about to take the box of chocolates again, and held it in my arms.
“I have to lose weight, but my brother bought this for me on purpose, so I want to eat it. Wouldn’t one a day be okay?”
“…”
Victor, who was looking at me who was smiling playfully with my tongue out, turned his head and muttered.
“…Well, then.”
“Hehe. Thanks, Brother. But I didn’t know you were coming today. What’s going on? But I missed you so much, so it’s nice.”
“Ah.”
Victor, who was scratching his cheek, turned his eyes away for some reason.
“Umm… Actually, there’s something I want to tell you. A favor? Uh, yeah. I’m here because there’s something like that.”
“Mm? To me?”
“Mm-hmm, you know what? The prince…”
It was then.
Bang Bang Bang—!
Crack.
While waiting for Victor to continue, there was a cracking sound.
After three knocks that broke the door, the door opened without permission.
‘Brother Viego?’
The uninvited guest seen over Victor’s shoulder was an unexpected face, Viego.
“… Brother?”
When Victor turned around, he stood up in a daze and bewildered manner.
“What is it, Brother? Why do you open the door of a grown-up without permission?”
Viego had a very angry face for some reason. I glanced at him and quickly got up and followed Victor.
“You guys.”
A cold voice, as if covered in thin ice, called us.
‘Why are you so angry?’
No one is more frightening than Viego when he’s angry. Victor and I were startled at the same time.
He was infinitely tolerant of the twins, but he was harshly strict with his younger biological brother Victor, so our reaction was half understandable.
‘Did we do something that put us in trouble?’
I thought about it, but nothing came to mind. Even Victor just got home…
“I’ve told you so many times. Lillia and Ricky are like our siblings, so take care of them like a brother.”
“Ah.”
Don’t tell me…?
“Brother, what are you talking about all of a sudden…?”
I realized when I was guessing.
“Kgh.”
As expected. Behind Viego’s back, Lillia, holding the hem of his robe, poked her tearful face out.
Viego’s handsome eyebrows crumpled to a ferocious extent when he heard a whimper.
“By any chance, did you make her cry?