Chapter 44: Leonard suddenly rubbed his fingers through his ears as if he were bored.
Leonard suddenly rubbed his fingers through his ears as if he were bored.
âYou were brought here as an substitute of Yvonne.I thought youâd be good at mimicking.â
I prayed with all my heart.
âyouâve made a rumor about crossbow chimpanzee, and youâve brought in a slave boy who donât know his origin of, and youâve already lost your reputationâŚâ
It was always the back of prudence and disregard.
âI donât know how long youâre going to make a chisel in this mansion.â
Someoneâs face overlapped with Leonardâs face, which he scoffed at by twisting the corners of his mouth.
-Why do I have to come all the way here and see the beggar walking around?
An auditory voice rang out in my ears. Iâve never said I didnât want to see anything like that. Iâm afraid Iâll be kicked out.
ââŚa substitute?â
But why did it make me think of what happened earlier that I managed to calm down?
âHave you ever treated me as a substitute?â
My mouth chattered on its own, as if âThe Crossbow Shooting Chimpanzeeâ had become my switch. Leonard, who didnât even listen, growled straight at my question.
âThen you donât even know the root of it. I picked you up and made you a princess. How much better do I have to treat you? Or should I treat you like a queen?â
âYes. Be nice to me at least once.â
ââŚâŚwhat?â
âYou know what? If I feel good, Iâll give you a copy of your missing sister.â
I clenched my teeth, sarcastic, and laughed with a messy face. On the other hand, the sarcastic corners of Leonardâs mouth slowly went down.
I felt the temperature in the room getting colder every minute. If it was just such a quarrel a little while ago, the present-day Leonard was ferocious enough to tear me apart and kill me right away.
âHeyâŚâ
He called me in a subdued voice. AndâŚ
âFavorability -2%â
Something that I was worried about happened.
âBe careful of what you say, donât be so rude. How dare you.â
âWhy? Because weâre on this on topic, just better to speak up.â
âYou.â
âYou think youâre the only one who hates me, right?â
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Twelve-year-old Penelope was pictured in front of my eyes. I knew I couldnât do this anymore, but I couldnât stop myself.
âSo am I. If I had known Iâd starve with a great Duke, I should never have come no matter how much you asked me to come with you.â
âPenelope Eckart,â
âHow did I seduce him? Itâs nothing, just like you said to me, itâs just a bunch of crap.â
âStop right thereâ
Leonard warned grimly.
âFavorability-1%â
The favorability has fallen again.
He looked angry but inwardly embarrassed. Itâs always been their privilege to look scornfully at and sarcasm.
Penelope would be surprised to see him like this, because when he got angry, he rushed in with a groan. Perhaps I was surprised by the sudden change in my apology for not going against my feelings as much as I could.
Either way, I felt sick and tired of it.
âIâve been starving for days and days without my motherâs funeral because I donât have any money, and one day your father called me a daughter and said to go with him.â
ââŚâŚâŚâ
âHave you ever tried the rainwater falling next to a decaying corpse?â
The 12-year-old Penelope, painted before my eyes, gradually turned into a 14-year-old myself.
âWhat about the leftovers of someoneâs? Have you ever mixed up what you put together to buy food that tastes like trash? Youâve never had one, have you?â
ââŚâŚâŚâŚyouâ
âWhy did I wish your sister would never come back?â
âFavorability-1%â
[Favorite 4%]
Leonardâs favorability dropped in an instantaneously. If I didnât want to die, I had to shut up immediately and at least boil his knees.
âIâm afraid Iâll go back to that time.â
But instead of praying that I was wrong, I chose to reveal the fear and desperation that I hid desperately.
Because Penelope would have done that at that time, and I would have prayed to God that the real princess wouldnât come back.
âIâm afraid Iâm going to go back to my life, looking on the streets all day, begging someone to drop some food.â
ââŚPenelope.â
âSay it, Iâm listening.â
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Leonard called me in a stifling voice. My still cry is over. I faced him, breathing heavily.
The fear that favorability would fall and die has disappeared.
Even if I die right away, I wonât regret it. For Penelope, who grew up in lost anger and disgust. AndâŚ
âIâmâŚ..â
It was just a moment of silence and quietly waiting for the end to come. His head flashed like a flash.
[7% likability]
âI, uh, thought you wereââ
Leonard was speechless with a stiff, frozen face. He deserved it. Itâs a story of those low-down lives that heâs never heard of before.
After a long pause, he managed to broach a word.
â⌠âŚI didnât know you had such a hard time.â
In an instant, things turned around. I felt indescribable when I saw Leonard puzzled, who had no idea what to do, just like me who was sweating and choosing what to say.
âYou must havenât knowâ
ââŚâŚ Penelope.â
âYou think that I, youâve always thought I was, in fact, so clever that I twisted the Duke of Eckart and took your sisterâs place.â
âThatâsâŚâ
âIf so, I hope you know now.â
I stared at him with cold eyes and I felt a prick of my brain
âWhen you accused me of being a necklace thief, I was a 12-year-old commoner who couldnât even write properly.â
Leonardâs mouth, which was opened to answer something, was as sweet as a lie. I could see the blue pupil slowly being colored by shock, but none of it was refreshing.
It was then.
Piyu Woo Yong-Pyong!
Beyond Leonardâs back, a loud roar rang through the sky out of the open window. During the meaningless war of attrition with him, dark darkness lay outside, even with the sunset.
Piyu Wu, Phuong-Pyong!
Fireworks have begun. Leaving behind the beautiful sight of colorful fireworks embroidered in the black sky, we both looked at each other silently.
Every time the firecracker exploded, the colorful shadow of light shone on Leonardâs face and repeated that it would disappear.
Maybe thatâs why. His expression staring at me, I thought, seemed a little bit nervous. At that moment, the top of the pink hair glistened once again.
[14% likability]
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The favorability has risen sharply. It was almost at the same time that a white window appeared before my eyes.
[Festival View] Quest success with [Leonard]!
Would you like to receive a reward for quest?
[Yes. / No.]
ââŚha.â
I smiled disheartened at the quest window, which suddenly appeared in a situation that should not have appeared.
âWhether or not the favorability is broken, will you succeed if you meet the requirements of the quest?â
But in the end, <b>[Yes]</b> .This situation, which had to press âYesâ , made me shudder.
reward [Favorite +3%] and [Crosboww] of [Leonard] for has received
Looking at the sensitivity of rising straight away, I felt the steam ahead just subsided like a dying embers.
Poof! Piyu, Phuong-!
Unlike me, a brilliant fireworks display was still in full swing outside the window.
â Even if I get kicked out of this house, Iâm just going back to being a poor commoner. Itâs weird.â
I muttered to myself through the loud firecrackers.
âYou always make me miserable, like a beggar worse than a slave.â
Leonardâs wobbly face was completely distorted by my voice. Perhaps, it was from this point on. What I began to imagine after I left the Dukedom.
I looked at him for a moment with my burning eyes like ashes and turned around.
âPenelope!â
Leonard called me and tried to catch me with an urgent gesture. But I left the attic without even pretending to look back.
Coming down the dark stone steps alone, I alternated with Leonardâs likes and impulsively non-talking conversation.
[Favorite 17%]
It was a really generous result for a person determined to die. Of course, the past of Penelope I poured out was all a great lie.
âI donât know her past that didnât even come out of the game.â
He said he ate rainwater next to the dead body, and that he ate leftovers and leftovers. All those nasty, nasty stories, âHe must have been like this. Itâs just an assumption I want to make.â
âŚâŚnot my story.
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Other rewards earned by completing the âLeonard and the Festivalâ quest were paid shortly after that.
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