CH 83.2

In the meantime, the twin brother, who had paused for a long time because of the truth he had just learned, moved slowly.

“Check…”

“As if God was playing a prank on us, we stole the bloodline-checking equipment.”

The grand Duke, who looked unhappy the whole time, tried to smile. There was no way I didn’t know that he wasn’t laughing from the bottom of his heart and was faking it. His lips smiled, but his eyes were sad as he sat there.

As we looked at him in silence, he shook the little bell beside the bed. Then Cecilia came inside.

“Did you find it?”

“Tell them to go and get the item we stole from the Imperial Palace right now.”

“…Yes.”

Cecilia, who looked at us for a while in the gloomy room, moved out like that.

Meanwhile, there was silence in the room. No one could easily open their mouth. Only my whimper filled the quiet room.

“If you cry like that, your head will hurt later.”

“My mom keeps leaving me, so I’m hurt.”

I hurriedly lowered my head in case she hated seeing me cry more. I hurriedly wiped my eyes in case they didn’t like me crying and whining like a child.

Then my mother leaned towards me.

“Is it okay if I’m here? I… I’m not even your real mother and I pretended to be your mother even though I didn’t want to send you back to your real family. I have such a bad heart, but… will you be okay?”

I nodded my head louder than ever to my mother, who was at a loss.

“Yes I’m fine. I know how much you love me… so much. It’s all right.”

“Thank you, Bebe…”

“Mom.”

“Yes?”

“Do you really like being Bebe’s mom?”

Really Mom, do you know how much I like you? Mom is my world. Can you never abandon me?

I stared at my mother with words I couldn’t say.

Then my mother, who smiled so brightly that she couldn’t see, kissed me lightly on my forehead.

“Yes. I won’t throw it away. Even if Bebe tells me to go, I’ll stick with you.”

“Yes! That’s it! That’s it…”

And the Grand Duke, who watched us quietly, opened his mouth with a lonely expression.

“So… I need you to tell me what happened. You seemed to know Ellin’s story…”

“The child I gave birth to died shortly after birth. It was probably because she was weak. But fortunately, Ellin gave birth to her twins. She was captured, so she couldn’t run away with both children.”

“So…”

“So we decided to split the kids up and take them.”

The Grand Duke looked down at my twin brother standing next to me.

“And that decisive day had come.”

I couldn’t see the later part of the story since my twin brother and I were so focused on my mother’s words.

“As expected, we were moved to different places. Ellinson, who was the target from the beginning and was taken for different reasons, went to a different place… and that’s all I know. That was the last time I saw Ellinson.”

“Oh…”

“However, I heard from the Emperor later… that she died due to a magic explosion.”

“Magic… what do you mean by ‘magic’? Ellin had magic powers?”

The Grand Duke’s face turned cold.

“I don’t know for sure. I just heard that story. It was years later, too. And the child she was with disappeared.”

Our eyes turned at the same time to the twin brother.

My brother’s face, who had an unknown expression after the memories he had forgotten, became paler than before.

“Maybe… do you know anything…?”

The Grand Duke, who was mumbling as if he didn’t know how to call my brother, bowed slightly.

“I… I…!”

As if he had something to hide, my brother shook his head from side to side. Just by looking at it, my brother knew something. It was so obvious.

“You can say it. Whatever happened, it’s not your fault. Just tell me what you last know of Ellinson.”

“Now… I remember now. I don’t know if she destroyed his memories herself or if she sealed it.”

“You can say it.”

But my brother was silent for a long time. He bit his lips and dropped his head to the floor.

Tears trickled from my brother’s eyes.

At that time…

As if to break the atmosphere, the door swung open and someone ran inside.

“Y-Your Highness, we’re in trouble.”

“What’s going on?”

The servant suddenly came in, and his lips trembled as his voice suddenly spat out,”It’s… It’s… It’s gone!”