I Became The Villain’s Master - Chapter 1.6
Entering the garden, I saw Rory curled up with a gag in his mouth.
“Stop! Stop it!”
When I shrieked, Sugar and Cream hesitated and turned around.
Spotting me, they approached with broad grins.
“You’re cute today too, Merchen.”
“Merchen! You’re up early!”
As they came closer with outstretched arms, I kicked at them.
The startled maid put me down as I struggled.
“What on earth are you doing?! Why are you hitting the child?!”
“Haha. Even your frown is cute. Come here. Come to your big brother, Merchen.”
As if he couldn’t see that I was angry, Sugar crouched down and reached out his hand.
Exasperated, I slapped his hand away.
“Ah. Merchen stroked me. Jealous?”
Sugar’s cheeks flushed.
Not noticing my contorted expression, Sugar showed off his hand to Cream, bragging.
“Merchen! Me too! Pat me too!”
“I-It’s not patting! I hit you!”
Even though I tried to look stern out of embarrassment, it was no use.
Seeing Cream reaching out with sparkling eyes, the anger that had risen to my head suddenly cooled off.
“Why are you doing this to Rory? What did Rory do wrong?”
“Rory? You mean this slave?”
Sugar smirked and shook his head as if he couldn’t believe it.
His attitude, like looking at a troublemaking youngest sibling who knows nothing, made me feel disgusted.
“Merchen. Cutie pie. Don’t tell me you’re trying to make that slave your friend? Slaves can’t be friends with nobles.”
Right, this was a society with a class system.
Although slave trading is illegal, not just the Hauser family but numerous noble families casually buy slaves.
Treating them like animals, not humans.
There’s nothing I can do about the deeply rooted social atmosphere.
But… violence is a bit much, isn’t it?
“Rory is a gift from Father. Don’t touch him anymore.”
I said coldly and approached Rory.
No, I tried to approach, but my body was suddenly lifted.
Sugar had picked me up and put me on his shoulders.
“Ah! What are you doing? Put me down! Won’t you put me down right now?”
As my body swayed, I pulled Sugar’s fine sand-colored hair.
A few strands were pulled out, but he didn’t budge.
“Father said so. Slaves who climb up should have their tendons cut. I don’t know where the tendons are, but that slave climbed onto your bed, right? He deserves punishment.”
“Let go! I asked him to sleep with me!”
“Seems like this ill-mannered slave has thoroughly bewitched Merchen with his pretty face. Merchen does like beautiful things.”
“Then shall we flatten his face?”
Cream drew out the wooden sword at his waist.
I shuddered in shock.
“How about stabbing his eyes?”
Sugar muttered ominously.
“No! Don’t do it!”
I shouted urgently.
“Hm? Merchen. What did you say?”
“P-put the sword down. Calm down and let’s talk! Okay?”
I tried to soothe them, thinking it might be dangerous to provoke them, but it didn’t work at all.
“Merchen. Go have breakfast with your big brother. I’ll trim this guy’s hair a bit. I’m going to make him completely bald.”
Cream adjusted his grip on the wooden sword and approached Rory.
Rory’s frightened eyes trembled.
Tears fell from his beautiful eyes.
Sugar turned his body abruptly.
“You heard, Merchen? Let’s go have breakfast first.”
“Are you crazy? Cream! Put that sword down right now! Don’t do it! Cream! Hey!”
I shouted while hitting Sugar’s head and pulling his soft hair roughly.
As I yelled looking back, I kicked Sugar’s head hard and fell to the ground.
I closed my eyes tightly, waiting to feel the pain in my head, but Sugar caught my foot, leaving me hanging upside down.
“Let go. If you don’t, I’ll bite your arm.”
Sugar, giving up, put me down on the ground.
I jumped up and ran towards Rory.
And I collapsed onto his back.
“Move aside, Merchen.”
Cream put the wooden sword he was fiddling with back on his waist and tried to remove me.
I clung tightly to Rory’s clothes and wouldn’t let go.
“Would you move if you were me? You rascal! Won’t you get lost?”
“Rascal? Where did you learn such a bad word?”
“I learned it from you! So what!”
My heart was pounding.
What on earth is going on?
Where did all the little ones who were nice to me go?
What’s happening to this small child right now?
Cream finally peeled me off in my confusion and threw me to Sugar.
“Eek!”
Sugar caught me gently.
“Don’t worry, Merchen. I’ll protect you from that wicked little boy.”
Wicked little boy!
This isn’t a conversation at all.
I bit my lip hard and raised my nails, scratching Sugar’s cheek with all my might.
“Ouch. That hurts, Merchen.”
“Stop it right now! Tell Cream to stop!”
“No. Why should I?”
Damn, there’s no reasoning with them.
Tears burst from my wide-open eyes.
My breath trembled.
At that moment, Sugar’s eyes widened in surprise.
Could this be the right answer?
“Waaah! Big Brother is mean! I won’t play with you anymore! I’ll never see your face again for the rest of my life!”
I screamed at the top of my lungs in an ice-cold voice and burst into tears.
“Me-Merchen!”
“Let go! I’m scared! Big brother is the worst in the world!”
Startled by my crying, Cream also ran towards me.
“Merchen! Why are you crying!”
You’re asking that because you don’t know, you fool!
I cried even louder, dumbfounded.
The sudden train accident, being reincarnated as Merchen of all people, unfamiliar people, violent and unreasonable kids, the frightened look in the eyes of a small, battered child.
All sorts of sorrows rushed to their limit.
Tears flowed like a waterfall on their own.
I had never cried out loud like this before.
As I sobbed as if I was about to pass out, Sugar and Cream finally realized something was wrong and started to apologize.
I had been prepared to get hit, but inwardly…
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Merchen. I didn’t know you’d hate it so much.”
“I’m sorry too! I was wrong, Merchen! I won’t scare you in front of you again!”
In front of me…?
“If you don’t do it in front of me, does that mean you’ll do it secretly?! Do you really want to cut ties with me properly? Should we become strangers from now on?”
“No! No! I won’t do it! I won’t do it behind your back either!”
Cream answered quickly first.
I glared at Sugar.
He hesitated for a moment, then sighed and answered.
It was a reluctant answer, but.
“Alright. I won’t do it.”
I wiped my tears and exhaled deeply, unable to calm my rapidly beating heart.
I heard Sugar grumbling discontentedly.
“…Who did you take after to speak so well?”
“Hmph. I’m warning you. Don’t forget. The moment you touch even a fingertip or a single strand of Rory’s hair, it’s over for you, big brothers.”
I stared at them with determined eyes.
The red scratch on Sugar’s cheek had swollen up.
Seeing the wound I’d made on a child’s cheek made me feel uneasy, but I pretended not to notice and kicked my feet.
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