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โ€œ๋ฌด์„œ์› ์–ดโ€ฆ.โ€
โ€œIโ€™m scaredโ€ฆโ€
๊ทธ๋ž˜, ๋ฌด์„œ์› ๊ณ  ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Yes, it was scary and necessary experience.
์ด๋ฒˆ ์ผ๋กœ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฏธ์•ฝํ•œ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๊นจ ๋ฒ„๋ ธ ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๋นˆ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
This time, Leslie completely broke the feeble hopes of being loved. And she was looking for something to replace the vacancy.
์–ด๋‘ ์˜ ํž˜.
Black magic.
๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ‹€๋ฆผ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Itโ€™s unmistakable.
๋ณธ๋”” ๋ฅด์นด๋””์šฐ์Šค ์ œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ„ ๊ท€์กฑ๋“ค์€ ๋งˆ๋ ฅ, ์‹ ๋ ฅ, ์ •๋ น์ˆ  ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํž˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
In the Rucardius Empire, each noble house possesses unique divine powers, or magic.
๊ทธ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๋น„๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋˜ ์–ด๋‘ .
The Sperado family secretly possessed the most powerful magic, the ability to manipulate darkness.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์–ด๋Š ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ํ›„์ž‘๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋Š” ์–ด๋‘ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ›„์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋ ˆ ์‡ ๋ฝ์˜ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑท๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
However, the Sperado family gradually stopped giving birth to black magic users, so naturally, the Dukeโ€™s family started to decline.
โ€˜๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํž˜์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ž๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ง€ 1๋ฐฑ ๋…„์€ ๋„˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋“ค์—ˆ๋Š” ๋ฐโ€ฆโ€ฆ.โ€™
โ€˜I have heard that itโ€™s been over a hundred years since a child was born with these powersโ€ฆโ€™
๊ทธ ํž˜์ด ์–ด์งธ์„œ ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋Š”์ง€๋Š” ๋ชฐ๋ผ๋„ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ทธ ํž˜์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด์•„๋‚จ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
The reason why that power appeared was unknown, but Leslie could survive thanks to that.
โ€˜๊ทธ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ.โ€™
โ€˜Is it connected to the voices from earlier?โ€™
๋„ˆ๋ผ๋„ ๋„๋ง๊ฐ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ฐ€์–ด๋‚ด๋˜ ๋˜๋ž˜๋“ค์˜ ์†. ๋ถ„๋ช… ํ•œ๋‘ ๋ช…์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์ง€.
Even the hands of the peers pushing me to escape quickly. It was clearly not just one or two.
โ€˜๋ชฐ๋ž˜ ์„œ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ์ง€๋„ ๋ชฐ๋ผ.โ€™
โ€˜I might find some answers if I secretly search in the library.โ€™
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๊ฑด ๋‚˜์ค‘์˜ ์ผ์ด๋‹ค.
But thatโ€™s for later.
์–ธ์ œ ํ›„์ž‘์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ด ์†์— ์ง‘์–ด๋„ฃ์„์ง€ ๋ชฐ๋ž๋‹ค.
I donโ€™t know when the Marquis will put me in the fire again.
์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ด ์†์— ๋„ฃ์€ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ„๋ช… ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์„ ํ„ฐ์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์™ธ์ณค ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
I donโ€™t know why they threw me in the fire, but it certainly would have been related to Eli. So I cried.
์“ด์›ƒ์Œ์„ ์ง€์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํŒ”์„ ๋“ค์–ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ๋ถˆ์ด ๋ถ™์—ˆ๋˜ ์™ผํŒ”์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
With a wry smile, Leslie lifted the arm that caught fire and stared it.
ํ™”์ƒ์˜ ํ”์ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์œ„์— ๋ถ•๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์–ด์„คํ”ˆ ์†œ์”จ๋กœ ๊ฐ๊ฒจ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Traces of burns. And a bandage on it was wrapped with a dreadful skill.
์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ ค ์ฃผ์ง€๋„ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ์„œํˆฐ ์†œ์”จ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์•„ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ํ•˜๋…€๋‚˜ ํ•˜์ธ์ด ๋Œ€๊ฐ• ๊ฐ์•„ ๋†“์€ ๋“ฏ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
It seemed as if the maid or servant that had wrapped the wound had a very clumsy skill.
ํž˜์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด.
I need strength.
์ž์‹ ์„ ์ง€์ผœ ์ค„ ํž˜์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๋ฌด๋ ฅ์ด ์žˆ์–ด๋„ ์ž์‹ ์€ ๊ณ ์ž‘ ์—ด๋‘ ์‚ด.
I need the power to protect myself. No matter how strong my magic is, Iโ€™m only twelve years old.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ง‰์•„ ์ค„ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
And I need someone to stop my father.
๋ฅด์นด๋””์šฐ์Šค ์ œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์•„์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ชจ์˜ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•˜์— ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋„๋ง์น˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ํ›„์ž‘ ์€ ๊ทธ ๋ฒ•์„ ํ•‘๊ณ„๋กœ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ด ์†Œ๋ฆ„ ๋ผ์น˜๋Š” ์ €ํƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด์˜ฌ ๊ฒŒ ๋ป”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
In the Rucardius Empire, all children have to be under the protection of their parents. Even if she escaped safely, Marquis Sperado will drag her back to his horrific mansion with the law as an excuse.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ํ›„์ž‘์—๊ฒŒ์„œ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ณดํ˜ธํ•ด ์ค„ ์–ด๋ฅธ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๊ฐ„์ ˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
So, an adult who will protect her from the law and the Marquis is what sheโ€™s been most desperate for.
์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ํ›„์ž‘์€ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‚ถ๋„, ์ฃฝ์Œ๋„ ์˜ค๋กฏ์ด ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
I believe Marquis Sperado will use my life and death for the benefit of sister Eli.
๊ทธ ์ง‘์ฐฉ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ชปํ•ด๋„ 6 ๋…„์€ ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์ธ์ธ ์ฒ™ ์†์ด๋ ค ํ•ด๋„ ์ ์–ด๋„ 4, 5๋…„์€ ๋” ํ˜๋Ÿฌ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
It took me 6 years to get out of that obsession. And itโ€™ll take at least four or five more years to pretend to be an adult.
๊ทธ ๊ธด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ด ํ›„์ž‘๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋ณด๋‚ผ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
I cannot spend that long time in the Marquis residence.
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๋‹ค ์–ธ์ œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์‚ด๋ ค ๋‘˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž€ ๋ณด์žฅ๋„ ์—†๊ณ .
And thereโ€™s no guarantee that theyโ€™ll keep me alive until then.
โ€˜๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋ณด์ž.โ€™
โ€˜I need to find a way.โ€™
์ž ๊น ์ œ ํŒ”์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋˜ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค๋‚ดํ™”์— ๋ฐœ์„ ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ์›€์ง์ด์ž, ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž ์†์— ์ˆจ์–ด ์žˆ๋˜ ๋ฌด์–ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ง ๋”ฐ๋ผ์™”๋‹ค.
When Leslie, who was looking at my arm a moment ago, put her foot in the slipper and moved, something hiding in the shadows followed her.
โ€œโ€ฆโ€ฆ..๊ดœ์ฐฎ์•„.โ€
โ€œโ€ฆItโ€™s okay.โ€
์‚ด์ง ์›ƒ์–ด ๋ณด์ด์ž, ์–ด๋‘ ์€ ์ œ์ž๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
When I smiled a little, the darkness returned to its place.
๋ผ์ด์ต-
Creek-
ํ›„์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ๋”ธ์ด ๋จธ๋ฌด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ํ—ˆ๋ฆ„ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์„๋‚˜์„œ ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ง, ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ง ๋ฐ‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์‹ธ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์กŒ๋‹ค.
After that, I walked down from a shabby room you wouldnโ€™t believe a Marquisโ€™ daughter would stay in, and the atmosphere surrounding changed bit by bit.
ํ™”๋ คํ•˜๊ณ , ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šฐ๋ฉฐ ํฌ๊ทผํ•˜๋‹ค.
Fancy, beautiful and cozy.
๋‚ก์€ ์‹ค๋‚ดํ™”๋กœ ๋ฐŸ๊ธฐ ๋ฏธ์•ˆํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ๋ณต๋„์™€ ๋น„์‹ผ ์œ ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ์•„๋†“์€ ์ฐฝ. ๊ทธ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆˆ๋ถ€์‹ค ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ํ–‡๋น›์ด ์Ÿ์•„์ ธ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.
Iโ€™m sorry for stepping in that spotless hallway and expensive glass. There, dazzling sunlight poured down.
์—˜๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐฉ๊ณผ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์ง€๋ฉด ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ์งˆ ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋ณต๋„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฐ์ƒ๊ณผ ์„ธ๋ฐ€ํ•œ ์ดˆ์ƒํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
The closer you get to Eliโ€™s room, the more statues and detailed portraits in the hallway.
๋”๋Ÿฝ๊ณ  ์ดˆ๋ผํ•œ ์ž๋Š” ๋ฐœ๋„ ๋“ค์ด์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๋Š” ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ’๊ฒผ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ฑฐ์นจ์—†์ด ๋ฐœ์„ ๋‚ด๋ฐ€์—ˆ๋‹ค.
My dirty and shabby feet reeked of shouldnโ€™t be allowed in there, but I stepped in without hesitation.
์˜ˆ์ „์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด ๋ณต๋„์— ๋ฐœ์„ ๋‚ด ๋””๋”œ ์ƒ๊ฐ ๋”ฐ์œ„ ํ•˜์ง€๋„ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น™ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ”์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
If it had been before, I would not have been able to put my foot in this hallway.
์—˜๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด ์–ธ๋‹ˆ ๋ฐฉ ์•ž ๋ณต๋„๋ฅผ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณค ํ•˜์˜€์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
Sister Eli would have been angry just because I was walking around the hallway in front of her room.
๋”๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋˜๊ฐ€? ์ž์‹ ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ์Œ์นจํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ ๋„ ํ–ˆ์—ˆ์ง€.
Itโ€™ll get dirty? They told me I wasnโ€™t suitable for the place since it was disgusting.
โ€˜๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ˆ, ๋‚˜์™€ ์–ด์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํž˜์ด๋„ค.โ€™
โ€˜Come to think of it, itโ€™s my power to match.โ€™
์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์ด ๊ทธ๋Š˜์ง„ ๊ณณ.
Sperado familyโ€™s shady place.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๋Š” ์ด๋ผ ๊ฐ™ ์€ ์Œ์Šตํ•œ ์•„์ด.
A kid growing like moss in a shady and damp place.
๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ.
Because it was herself.
์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋”ฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋น›, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ ๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์ข€ ๋จน๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Š˜. ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ค‘ ์–ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋˜ ๋ง์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Sister was like warm light, while Leslie was its shade. It was a loud word among the people.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํ›„์ž‘ ๋ถ€์ธ์ด ์ž์‹ ์—๊ฒŒ ์„ธ๋‡Œํ•˜๋“ฏ ๋งค์ผ ํ•˜๋˜ ๋ง์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
And the marchioness brainwashed her every day.
โ€˜๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ, ๊ฑฐ์šธ์„ ๋ณด๋ ด. ๊ฑฐ์šธ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋„ˆ์™€ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ๋งž์ถฐ! ์ž, ์ด์ œ ๋งํ•ด ๋ณด๋ ด. ๋„ˆ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์•„์ด๋ผ๊ณ ?โ€™
โ€˜Leslie, look in the mirror. Look at yourself in the mirror! Now tell me what kind of child you are?โ€™
โ€˜์“ธ๋ชจ์—†๋Š” ์•„์ดโ€ฆ.โ€™
โ€˜A useless childโ€ฆโ€™
โ€˜๊ทธ๋ž˜, ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์“ธ๋ชจ ์žˆ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ธธ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ–ˆ์—ˆ์ง€?โ€™
โ€˜Thatโ€™s right but, what are you decent at?โ€™
โ€˜์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์‚ถ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ ์–ด์š”โ€ฆ.โ€™
โ€˜Living a life for my sisterโ€ฆโ€™
๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„์ฃผ ๋“œ๋ฌผ๊ฒŒ ํ›„์ž‘ ๋ถ€์ธ์€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์–ด ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Very rarely, Mrs. Marquis smiled at her.
๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋ป์„œ, ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์›ƒ์–ด ์ค€๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ป์„œ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งค์ผ ๊ฑฐ์šธ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์–ด๋จธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋œป๋Œ€๋กœ โ€˜์“ธ๋ชจ์—†๋‹ค.โ€™ ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์„ ๋˜์ƒˆ๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
It is delightful to see that mother smiles at herself and that she is so happy that I look at the mirror every day and is โ€˜uselessโ€™ as mother wants.
๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž์กด๊ฐ์„ ๊นŽ์•„๋จน๊ณ , ๊ณ„์† ์–ต๋ˆ„๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ ๋ฅด๊ณ .
Cutting down her self-esteem, continuously suppressing her chance.
โ€˜์ด์   ๋“ฃ์ง€๋„ ๋งํ•˜์ง€๋„ ์•Š์„ ๊ฑฐ์•ผ.โ€™
โ€˜From now on, I wonโ€™t listen nor speak to them.โ€™
์ž‘๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๊นŒ๋”ฑ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ์žฌ์ด‰ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์–ด๋””์„ ๊ฐ€ ๋‘๋Ÿฐ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.
As I quickened my pace, I heard a voice somewhere.
โ€œ๋ฐ˜๋…„์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์š”?โ€
โ€œHalf a year?โ€
๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„๋˜๋ฉด ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋Š๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ค๊นŒ ์‹ถ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋ง‘๊ณ  ๊ณ ์šด ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ.
A soft and clear voice that sounds like a soft wind.
์—˜๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜€๋‹ค.
It was Eliโ€™s voice.
โ€œ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ˜๋…„์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค์š”!โ€
โ€œHow can I wait half a year!โ€
โ€œ์•„๊ฐ€, ๋‚ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์—˜๋ฆฌ์•ผ.โ€
โ€œSweetie, my lovely Eli.โ€
์งœ์ฆ์„ ๋ถ€๋ฆฌ๋“ฏ ์นญ์–ผ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋’ค๋กœ ๊ณง ํ›„์ž‘์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋“ค๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.
The Marquisโ€™ voice was heard right away after that tantrum.
โ€œ๊ทธ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ๋‹นํ•œ ๋‚ ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ˆ. ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์•„๋ผ.โ€
โ€œWeโ€™ll know when the right time comes. You be patient, please?โ€
โ€œ์•„ํœด, ์†์ƒํ•ด์š”. ์ € ๋ฉ์ฒญํ•œ ๊ฑด ์™œ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ํŠ€์–ด๋‚˜์™€์„œ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ถˆ์— ๋จน ํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€.โ€
โ€œGeez, how displeasing. Why did that idiot not get burned by the fire?!โ€
๊ทธ ๋’ค๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด ๋ณผ๋ฉ˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์—˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ๋œ๊ฑฐ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
After that, Ellen grumbled in a sullen voice.
โ€œ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ €๋Š” ์–ด๋‘ ์„ ๊นจ์šฐ์น˜์ง€ ๋ชป ํ–ˆ์ž–์•„์š”. ์ œ๋ฌผ์„ ๋ฐ”์ณ์•ผ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ํ…๋ฐ. ์ด ๋Ÿฐ ํฌ๋ฏธํ•œ ํž˜๋งŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ์ด ๋ญ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•˜๊ฒ ์–ด์š”? ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํž˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๋ถ€ํฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ์‹œ๊ฒ ์ฃ ?โ€
โ€œBecause of her, the powers within me werenโ€™t awakened! If we had successfully sacrificed her, then I would be able to properly use my powers! What will people think of me if I canโ€™t properly use my powers?โ€
โ€ฆ๋ญ?
โ€ฆWhat?
๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ €๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์‚ด์ง ์—ด๋ฆฐ ํ‹ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฉ ์•ˆ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
Leslie looked into the room with a small open gap.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์—ญ์‹œ๋„ ์–ด๋‘ ์˜ ํž˜์„ ๊นจ์› ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ.
And I realized. Her sister Eli also awoke her dark power.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ๋ฏธ์•ฝํ•œ ํž˜์ด๋ผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์“ธ ์ˆ˜์กฐ์ฐจ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
But it is too weak to be able to use properly.
โ€œ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€๋Š” ์ € ์• ๋ฅผ ์•„๋ผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ฃ , ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ ์‚ด๋ฆฌ์‹  ๊ฑฐ์ฃ ?โ€
โ€œFather, the reason you keep that girl alive because she is precious to you, isnโ€™t it?โ€
๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ๋ด๋„ ์–ต์ง€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ง์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„์ž‘์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ๋์œผ๋กœ ๋ˆŒ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐ์œผ ๋ฉด์„œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ถˆ๊ธธ ์†์— ์ง‘์–ด๋„ฃ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜ ๋˜๊ฐ€.
It was difficult to see anyone. Then she did not put her in the flames until she pressed the small end of her window.
ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋’ค์ด์–ด ๋“ค๋ ค์˜ค๋Š” ๋ง์€ ๊ทธ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋ง์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
But the words that followed were more shocking than that.
โ€œ์•„๊ฐ€, ์ €๊ฑด ์˜ค์ง ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‚ณ์€ ์ž์‹์ด๋ž€๋‹ค. ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ํ˜น์—ฌ๋ผ๋„ ํž˜์„ ๊นจ ์šฐ์น˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ™ฉ๊ถ์—์„œ ์‚ด ๋„ ์œ„ ํ•œ ์‹œ๋…€๋กœ, ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ํž˜์„ ๊นจ์šฐ์นœ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋„ค ํž˜์„ ์ฆํญ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ œ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๊ณ„ํšํ•ด์„œ ๋‚ณ์€ ๊ฑฐ์ง€.โ€
โ€œSweetie, that child was born for your benefit. If you hadnโ€™t awakened your powers, I wouldโ€™ve put you as a lady in waiting at the palace, but since you did, we gave birth to her for the sole purpose of transferring her magic to you.โ€
๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œ ๊ท€๋ฅผ ์˜์‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„๋ฌด ์ง€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์ดํ•ด๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.
Leslie could hardly believe her ears. She did not understand the situation now.
โ€œ์ €๊ฒŒ ํž˜์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์œผ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์š”.โ€
โ€œWhat if she awakens her powers too?โ€
โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด. ์ž, ๋ณด๋ ด. ๋„ˆ์˜ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ๋ฐ€์ƒ‰ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ๋„, ์ด ๋…น์Œ์„ ๋‹ด์€ ๋ˆˆ๋™์ž๋„, ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์˜ ํŠน์„ฑ์ด์ง€. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €๊ฑด ๋‘˜์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ํƒœ์–ด๋‚˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์–ด. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์“ธ๋ชจ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ํƒœ์–ด ๋‚˜๋Š”, ์ƒˆํ•˜์–—๊ฒŒ ์ƒˆ์–ด ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๋…ธํŒŒ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฎ์€ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ˆ.โ€
โ€œThereโ€™s no way thatโ€™ll happen. Your golden hair and green eyes are all characteristics of the Sperado family. While she doesnโ€™t even possess these characteristics. Her hair is white like that of an elderly woman.โ€
โ€œโ€ฆโ€ฆ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋ Œ๋„ ๋‹˜์„ ๋งŒ๋‚  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์…จ์ž–์•„์š”?โ€
โ€œโ€ฆWhen I met sir Arlendo didnโ€™t you make me meet him with her?โ€
์ œ ์•„๋น„์˜ ๋ง์ด ํฝ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ๋“ค์—ˆ๋Š” ์ง€ ํ•œ์ธต ๋ˆ„๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ์—˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์„ ๋‚ด๋ฑ‰์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Eli had spoken out in a more relaxed voice that my father liked.
โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ €๊ฒƒ์ด ์ œ๋ฌผ์ด ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋” ๋ผ๋ฉด, ๋„ค ๋’ค๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์‹œ๋…€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์›€์ง ์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋˜ ๊ฑฐ์ง€. ํ™ฉ์ž๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์—Ž๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์— ์‚ฌ๊ต๊ณ„์— ๋ฐ๋ท”์‹œ ํ‚ฌ ์ผ์€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ๋‹ค๋งŒ.โ€
โ€œIf that child wasnโ€™t a sacrifice, I wouldโ€™ve made her your maid. If she didnโ€™t spill tea on the prince, then she wouldnโ€™t be debuting at the party.โ€
โ€œ์‚ฌ๊ต๊ณ„์—๋„ ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด์‹ค ์ž‘์ •์ด์…จ๋‚˜ ์š”!?โ€
โ€œYou were planning on making her attend the party?!โ€
โ€œ์„ค๋งˆ! ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ˆ. ์ €๊ฑด ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋‚ด๋”ธ, ์—˜๋ฆฌ์•ผ. ์‚ฌ๊ต๊ณ„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์™” ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ง์ด๋‹ค. ์Šฌ์Šฌ ๋“œ๋ ˆ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถœ ๋•Œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ˆ?โ€
โ€œNo way! Of course not. Thatโ€™s for you. My lovely daughter, Eli. The story came out in the social circle. Isnโ€™t about time for you to put on the dress?โ€
๊ทธ ๋’ค๋กœ ๋‹ค์ •ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋…€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋“ค ๋ ค์™”์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋„๋ง์น˜๋“ฏ ๋‹ค๋ฝ ๋ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ผ์™”๋‹ค.
After listening to the father-daughter conversation, Leslie ran up to the attic room.
๋Œ€ํ™”๊ฐ€, ๋งˆ์น˜ ๊ดด๋ฌผ์ด ํฌ๋ฅด๋ฅต๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ™์•„ ์—ญ๊ฒจ์›Œ ๋”๋Š” ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
The conversation was disgusting, like a monsterโ€™s sound, and I couldnโ€™t hear anymore.
โ€˜๋‚ด ํƒ„์ƒ๋„, ๋‚ด ์‚ถ๋„, ๋‚ด ์ฃฝ์Œ ๋„โ€ฆโ€ฆ. ๋‹ค ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์˜€ ๋‹ค๊ณ ?โ€™
โ€˜My birth, my life, and my deathโ€ฆ Everything was for my sister Eli?โ€™
๊ทธ๊ฑธ ๊ณ„ํšํ•ด์„œ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋‚ณ์€ ๊ฑฐ์˜€์–ด. ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ๊ฑฐ์˜€์–ด.
They gave birth to me as planned. Everything was planned from the beginning.
๋งŒ์•ฝ, ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ํž˜์„ ๊นจ์šฐ์น˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋”๋ผ๋ฉด ํ™ฉ๊ถ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ์—˜๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹œ๋…€ ์—ญํ• ๋กœ, ์—˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํž˜์„ ๊นจ์šฐ์นœ๋‹ค๋ฉด.
If Eli didnโ€™t awaken her power, she would become a lady in waiting in the Imperial Palace, and if she did awaken them,
โ€œ์ œ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ์— ๋„ฃ์„ ๊ณ„ํš์ด์—ˆ ๊ตฌ๋‚˜โ€ฆโ€
โ€œThey were planning on throwing me into the fire as a sacrificeโ€ฆโ€
์˜ˆ์ƒ์€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋“ค์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•ด ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ ์„ ๋–จ๊ถœ๋‹ค.
Although she already expected it, the shock of hearing it was so strong Leslie shed tears.
ํ›„์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ‘๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ ์ฃผ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ˆ๋ฒฝ์— ๋–จ์–ด์กŒ์„๋•Œ ๋Š๊ผˆ๋˜ ๋ถ„๋…ธ๊ฐ€, ์ ˆ๋ง์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ณค๋‹ค.
Then the Marquisโ€™ people showed her the bottom. The anger felt when she fell on the cliff, the despair once again came upon her.
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โ€œ์ด ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์–ด๋””๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ƒ.โ€
โ€œWhere are you going so early in the morning.โ€
๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ค๋คํ•œ ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœ ํ›„์ž‘์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
Leslie looked at the Marquis with calm eyes.
๋จธ๋ฆฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ ๋’ค๋กœ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๋ฉ€๋”ํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ฆผ์„ ํ•œ ํ›„์ž‘์€ ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์ค‘๋…„ ๊ท€์กฑ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ˆˆ์—๋Š” ๊ดด๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์—†์–ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.
The Marquis is an ordinary middle-aged nobleman with his hair combed back and cleanly dressed, and Leslieโ€™s eyesโ€™ looked like the ones of a monster.
โ€œ์ด์   ๋Œ€๋‹ต๋„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์•ผ? ์“ธ ๋ชจ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ.โ€
โ€œAnd now you donโ€™t reply? Useless trash.โ€
์ž์‹ ์„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์ด๋กœ ๋ฐ€์–ด ๋„ฃ์€ ์ผ์€ ์•„๋ฌด ์ผ๋„ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ œ ๋ฌผ์Œ์— ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๋ผ๋Š”๋“ฏ ํ›„์ž‘์ด ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ํ˜€๋ฅผ ์ฐผ๋‹ค.
Pushing me into the fire was nothing, not answering the question is whatโ€™s important, it seems that the Marquis has a low tongue.
๊ทธ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ž ์‹œ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฒœ์ฒœํžˆ ์ž…์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
After staring at him for a while, Leslie slowly opened her mouth.
โ€œ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์“ธ๋ชจ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ ์š”?โ€
โ€œIโ€™m useless?โ€
๋ถ„๋ช… ์‚ฌ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ•  ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ. ๋˜๋ ˆ ๋ฌผ์Œ์ด ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค.
He thought I would apologize. I returned the question back.
๋„๋ง๊ฐˆ ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ง ๋” ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ›„์ž‘์€ ๋ˆˆ์„ ์ฐŒํ‘ธ๋ ธ๋‹ค.
He thought I was going to run away, but he watched Leslie coming one step closer and then frowned.
โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€์š”. ์ž˜ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”, ์ŠคํŽ˜๋ผ๋„ ํ›„์ž‘๋‹˜.โ€
โ€œI donโ€™t think so. Think about it, Marquis Sperado.โ€
์ƒ๊ธ‹, ๋ฏธ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ž…๊ฐ€์— ๊ฑธ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋”˜๊ฐ€ ์„ฌ๋œฉํ•œ ๋ฏธ์†Œ์— ํ›„์ž‘์ด ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋’ค๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ฐœ์ง ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค.
Smiling sweetly, with a smile at the corner of oneโ€™s mouth. Somewhere of that frightening smile made the Marquis take a step back.
โ€œ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋ฉด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ณค๋ž€ํ•  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋‹น์‹ โ€ฆโ€ฆ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ์š”?โ€
โ€œIf Iโ€™m not here you would be in a difficult situationโ€ฆ Right?โ€
โ€œ๋ญ, ๋ญ?โ€
โ€œWha- What?โ€
ํ‰์†Œ์™€๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ–‰๋™, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋งํˆฌ์— ํ›„์ž‘์€ ๋ฏธ๊ฐ„์„ ์ขํ˜”๋‹ค. ์ฃฝ๋‹ค ์‚ด์•„๋‚ฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ๋ฏธ์นœ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ, ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋งˆ์ € ๋“ค ์ •๋„์˜€๋‹ค.
Unlike usual behavior, after narrowing down the other small talk. Even though I thought I was going crazy.
โ€œ๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋ถˆ๊ธธ ์†์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ” ๋‹ค ์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํƒœ๋„๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด๋ฐฉ์ ธ์กŒ๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งค๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„์•ผ ์ •์‹ ์„ ์ฐจ๋ฆด ์ฐธ์ด๋ƒ?โ€
โ€œYouโ€™ve become very cheeky just because you survived the fire! Do I need to beat some sense back into you?โ€
๊นŒ๋“œ๋“ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ›„์ž‘์ด ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ˜‘ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
The Marquis threatened Leslie in a low voice.
โ€œ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค ๋„ค ์–ธ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ผ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ฌธ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ผ์ธ๋ฐ.โ€
โ€œThis is all for your sister, for the family.โ€
โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”.โ€
โ€œThen jump in yourself.โ€
โ€œ๋ญ?โ€
โ€œWhat?โ€
๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ๊นŒ๋‹ฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ›„์ž‘์˜ ๋ง์„ ๋ฐ›์•„์ณค๋‹ค.
Leslie answered back to the Marquis once again.
โ€œ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€์‹œ๋ผ๊ณ ์š”. ์ง์ ‘. ์ €๋Š” ์ด์ œ ์•ˆ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ˆ์š”.โ€
โ€œGo jump in the fire yourself. I wonโ€™t do this anymore.โ€
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งํ•œ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด์ œ ํ• ๋ง์ด ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๋“ฏ ๋ชธ์„ ๋Œ๋ ค ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
Leslie said that there was nothing to say now, turned around and went out.
โ€œ๋„ˆ, ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ ์•ˆโ€ฆโ€ฆ!โ€
โ€œYou, donโ€™tโ€ฆ!โ€
ํ›„์ž‘์€ ๋ง์„ ์ž‡์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ๊นŒ๋งฃ๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์•ผ๊ฐ€ ์ ๋ฉธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
The Marquis didnโ€™t say anything after that. His field of view suddenly flickered.
โ€œํ์–ด์–ต.โ€
โ€œUgh.โ€
ํ›„์ž‘์ด ๊ดด์ƒํ•œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ๋น„ํ‹€ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์„ ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.
As the Marquis twisted in a weird voice, Leslie exited the door.
ํ›„์ž‘์˜ ๋ˆˆ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ ธ๋˜ ์–ด๋‘ ์ด ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฐœ์ž๊ตญ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์™”๋‹ค.
The darkness that covered the Marquisโ€™ eyes followed her footsteps.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋Š” ๋ฌธ ์•ž์— ๋Œ€๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์ƒˆํ•˜์–€ ๋งˆ์ฐจ์— ๊ฑฐ์นจ์—†์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ”๋‹ค.
Then I got on a white carriage that was waiting in front of the door.
โ€œ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ ์•„๊ฐ€์”จ, ์ด๊ฑด ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์•„๊ฐ€์”จ ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ฐจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€
Miss Leslie, this carriage is for Miss Eli.
ํ•˜์ธ๊ณผ ๋งˆ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋‹น์žฅ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ผ๋Š” ๋“ฏ๋ฌด์„ญ๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋…€๋ฅผ ๋…ธ๋ ค๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.
The servant seemed to be scared and wanted her to come down from the carriage immediately.
๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋„ ํ˜ผ์ž์„œ ํ›„์ž‘ ๊ฐ€์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•ด ๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Leslie had never used a carriage from the Marquis before.
์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ํ›„์ž‘ ์˜์• ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์ด ์•„๊นŒ์šธ ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ฑธ์–ด ๋‹ค๋…”๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ ์‹ ์ „์— ๊ธฐ๋„๋ฅผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐˆ ๋•Œ ํ•˜์ธ๋“ค์ดํƒ€๋Š” ๋งˆ์ฐจ์— ๋ชธ์„ ์‹ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.
The Marquis always used a carriage worth a lot for her esteemed daughter, while I went on the servantโ€™s carriage when I went to pray to the temple.
๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๋‹ค ์ด ์ƒˆํ•˜์–€ ๋งˆ์ฐจ๋Š” ์—˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•„๋ผ๋Š” ๋งˆ์ฐจ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋„์— ๋‹จ ๋‘๋Œ€๋ฟ์ธ ๋งˆ์ฐจ์˜€๊ณ , ์—˜๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž๋ž‘์ด์—ˆ ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€ ์™ธ์—” ํ›„์ž‘์กฐ์ฐจ ๊ฐํžˆ ํƒ€์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋งˆ์ฐจ์˜€๋‹ค.
And this white carriage was Eliโ€™s favorite carriage, the only two carriages in the capital, and Eliโ€™s pride. No one dared use that carriage beside her.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‹น๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ฐจ์— ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.
By the way, Leslie was riding on a carriage for Eli.
โ€œ์•Œ์•„. ์‹ ์ „์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ž.โ€
โ€œI know. Take me to the temple.โ€
๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์˜ ๋ง์„ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•œ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด ๊ท€ ๋’ค๋กœ ๋„˜๊ฒผ๋‹ค.
Leslie, who ignored the words of the two men, tucked her hair behind her ear.
โ€œ๋ฏธ์น˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ์—˜๋ฆฌ ์•„๊ฐ€์”จ๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ ๋ฐฉ ๋‚˜์˜ค์‹ค ๊ฑฐ๋ž€ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์žฅ ๋‚ด ๋ฆฌ โ€ฆโ€ฆ.โ€
โ€œHave you gone crazy? Miss Eli is coming out soon. Get out nowโ€ฆโ€
ํ•˜์ธ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ธ‰ํžˆ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ทธ๋…€ ๋ฅผ ๋Œ์–ด ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ ค๋Š” ๋“ฏ ํŒ”์„ ๊ฝ‰ ์žก์•˜๋‹ค. ์—˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ๋… ์ž˜ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ์ด ํ•˜์ธ์€ ํ‰์†Œ์—๋„ ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น ๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚Œ์ด ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค.
One of the servants approached hastily and grabbed her arm as if to pull her down. This servant, who follows Eli with her poisonous attitude, has always been unconcerned with the rough handling of Leslie.
์ž ์‹œ ๊ทธ ํ•˜์ธ์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ ˆ์Šฌ๋ฆฌ ๋Š” ์†์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค.
Leslie looked up at the servant for a moment and then raised her hand.