I Became The Younger Sister Of A Dying Woman - Chapter 55

55. It was an inexplicable situation. Hehe

Hernan spoke. Izekiel had informed him about Miller.

It was the story I wanted to share, and what I knew all too well.

“……I would have killed Marquis Miller right away, but Izekiel stopped me.”

Upon hearing Hernan’s story, Izekiel’s face, which I looked at again, turned pale.

“Don’t even talk about it. We’ve all been in trouble for holding onto that wild horse.”

Izekiel wiped his hands over his face for a moment.

“Wild horse……?”

“So what? Don´t you know he is something like a horse? He is just brutally strong.”

“Izekiel.”

Hernan called Izekiel’s name quietly and then placed his hand on the hilt of his sword.

“Linzel. Please calm him down a bit.”

Izekiel’s plea seemed quite desperate.

“Your Highness Hernan. I don’t think it’s wise to subdue Marquis Miller or his Highness Izekiel by force.”

Hernan nodded his head like a well-behaved child.

Then he neatly withdrew the hand he had placed on the sword hilt.

“You’ve just subdued Hernan so easily? Earlier, several members of the Olive Knights were shaken…!”

Izekiel exclaimed, but no one paid any attention to him.

“…But Linzel, why didn’t you tell me about your meeting with Izekiel yesterday?”

Hernan’s face, as he asked, began to stiffen.

It didn’t seem angry, but rather a little hurt.

“I was going to tell you, but we were so busy yesterday. So, I just forgot about it.”

I looked at Izekiel and finished my sentence.

“…It’s an important matter, but the person who told me about it wasn’t someone important…”

“You guys are really…! No, you two are unbelievable!”

Today, Izekiel seems to be getting agitated more often.

On the other hand, Hernan’s face relaxed incredibly quickly.

“I see. It could be because it’s an incident involving an unimportant person.”

“Thank you for understanding, Your Highness.”

I linked my arm with Hernan’s and thanked him.

“Ahem.”

Hernan’s face, unable to fully relax, turned red.

Just be honest.

“Enough with the jokes now. Let’s get to the main topic.”

Hernan, who had blushed, supported Izekiel’s words.

“Linzel, I apologize for not consulting with you first, but I discussed our situation with Izekiel.”

“……You mean about trying to get into the royal archive?”

“Yes. Since we couldn’t see through marquis Miller’s scheme, I thought of seeking advice from Ishar, who is strategically skilled.”

“It’s alright.”

It was no secret that I was trying to get into the royal archive.

Izekiel seemed like someone who could be quite helpful.

“So, Izekiel, do you have any idea why Highness Illiya is shutting himself off from the world?”

Izekiel stated firmly.

“I don’t know.”

“…….”

It was a disappointing response.

“I may not have been on the battlefield like Hernan, but I’ve been quite busy in my own way. I even attended the academy at some point.”

I whispered to Hernan.

“It seemed like it could be helpful, but it’s turning out to be not at all.”

“He’s always been a big talker.”

“So, there’s no substance?”

“An empty wagon makes the most noise.”

At that moment, there was a voice that interrupted our conversation.

“You know I can hear your whispers, right?”

Izekiel was clenching her teeth.

“You see, we had high expectations of you, Highness Izekiel, being strategically skilled. Haha.”

“But I do have a plan.”

“Oh!”

I looked at Izekiel in surprise.

“I called you in to talk about the plan.”

“What is the plan?”

“Feeding false information to marquis Miller.”

Izekiel shrugged confidently.

“He won’t be able to prove it anyway.”

It was a plausible suggestion.

Without realizing it, I found myself nodding along.

“Nobody knows Illiya’s true circumstances, not just us. I can guarantee that. Even my parents, who visit regularly, don’t know.”

“That’s a good idea for an empty carriage.”

“Excuse me?”

“Oops. My mouth slipped.”

I needed to steer the conversation away before Izekiel could press further.

“But what if that slippery marquis realizes it’s a lie? Even if we don’t know the truth, we can still guess if something is false or real.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Hernan parted his lips.

As if he had been waiting, as if his turn had come.

“If he dares to doubt us and questions the words of two princes and my fiancée….”

“…….”

“I will tear his mouth off.”

It was a statement that was not to be taken lightly. If there were any bystanders, their faces might have turned pale.

But I had encountered this side of Hernan several times before and knew that he was the possessor of a warm heart.

Perhaps that was why he didn’t seem terrifying to me.

In fact, I felt a strong resonance with his words.

“Shall we tear it apart together?”

The phrase “tearing apart together” wasn’t just an empty expression.

Well… it’s a shame that Miller is handsome. At the moment, his good looks didn’t matter.

“Linzel…….”

Hernan seemed moved by my response.

“You’re the first woman to say something like that to me.”

“So, is our first task together going to be tearing apart the marquis’s mouth?”

“If necessary.”

At that moment, another voice interrupted our conversation.

“Are you two foolish newlyweds?”

I glared at Izekiel.

“Your language is too harsh!”

“Let’s continue the discussion then. We need to decide what false information we’re going to give the marquis.”

“Well, does that mean we have to create a reason why Prince Illiya has severed ties with the world?”

Izekiel replied shortly, “Yeah.”

“By any chance does His Highness Hernan have a reason in mind?”

“A reason…….”

Hernan was lost in thought for a moment.

Before long, his lips twitched, and a muffled voice escaped.

“How about we blame Izekiel?”

Izekiel immediately retorted.

“Absolutely not.”

“I understand where you’re coming from, Izekiel, but for now, let’s hear more from Hernan.”

Izekiel pursed his lips and twitched the tip of his chin.

Then Hernan continued.

“Though it may not seem like it, Izekiel is the oldest among us siblings.”

“It doesn’t seem that way, indeed.”

“……Linzel.”

Izekiel clenched his teeth again.

I decided to stop this teasing.

Pushing it further might make Izekiel truly angry.

“Furthermore, Izekiel has a reputation for being intelligent.”

“Well, that’s true…”

Izekiel’s stern expression softened.

Izekiel and Hernan, they’re quite transparent.

At times like this, they were like fraternal brothers.

“How about the fact that Izekiel, the smart one, punished Illiya, the not so smart one, for his lack of education, and that Illiya was hurt by it and became a loner?”

“It wouldn’t make sense for me, a soldier, to have educated Illiya.”

Izekiel began responding up to that point.

“That’s a good idea? …… You’re asking me to be the bad guy.”

“…Did I give it away?”

Hernan looked puzzled.

Like a man whose plan to make up a plausible lie and still make Izekiel look bad had failed.

“Never mind. It’s my fault for expecting too much from you two. I’ll think of something.”

I raised my hand quickly.

“What? Tell me.”

“How long are you going to think about it?”

I had expected Izekiel to respond playfully or coolly.

Hernan and I should have teased him a bit.

However, his response was unexpectedly serious.

“It won’t take long. It’s something urgent concerning your health, after all.”

Izekiel even gave a gentle smile.

And then, his dimple, which I had never seen before, deepened.

A sophisticated dimple that could enchant even those who disliked him.

I heard Izekiel’s words echo in my ears like an auditory hallucination.

“Somehow, talking to you makes me feel at ease. Is it because I know you from before?”

‘…….’

‘Or is it because I know you as……. No.’

I’m not…….

What was I about to say after that?

I was curious about the conclusion of that sentence.

A large palm covered my eyes at that moment.

“I don’t really like it.”

The owner of the palm was Hernan.

“You don’t think you’re in heaven, do you?”

I lifted Hernan’s hand that was covering my sight and brought it to my lips.

Then I slightly pushed my lips against his palm.

His hand trembled slightly and dropped down.

I looked at Hernan’s face.

A face filled with concern.

Even amidst that, a face that blushed from a simple kiss on the hand.

“It’s not exactly a face for heaven.”

Though it was an exaggerated statement, there was no falsehood in it.

Of course, Izekiel was handsome too, perhaps as striking as Hernan.

However, from the very beginning, I had thought of him as ‘Letty’s man’, so my heart was never swayed by him.

“Is it a difficult request to ask you to like only my face… No, to like only me?”

“It’s not a difficult request! And I already like you plenty, Your Highness.”

I pinched Hernan’s finger weakly in his drooping hand.

“Linzel…”

“Your Highness…”

It was Izekiel who shattered our romantic atmosphere.

“Please! Stop it already!”

Izekiel was scowling as if he were in pain.

Who told him to eavesdrop on us.

It was an inexplicable situation. Hehe

Before we parted, Izekiel would often ask me subtly if I was still feeling unwell these days.

I replied curtly.

“Well, yeah. I’m weak, so I get sick a lot, and I get cuts and bruises, Your Highness, it’s a misunderstanding on your part.”

Izekiel was embarrassed.

“I want to get better, so you don’t have any misunderstandings, Your Highness.”

“……Hmm.”

And I asked something I was curious about.

“So, Your Highness Izekiel, you have never been able to enter the <Royal Archive> either, have you?”

“No. I didn’t have time, and I didn’t see any reason to go in.”

And I expressed my gratitude one last time.

“Anyway, thank you for helping me.”

“If you get better, Hernan will become more docile, and I won’t misunderstand you either…”

Izekiel’s eyes twinkled as he spoke up to that point.

“And above all, it’s related to Marquis Miller. I can’t just stand by and do nothing.”

“I will help you, Your Highness.”

Izekiel could be someone who becomes my brother-in-law.

At least as much as I received help, I wanted to offer my help to him as well.

“If Linzel is helping, then I will help too.”

“Hernan. You’re helping me by not buying my clothes.”

Now that I think about it, Hernan hasn’t been buying clothes like Izekiel’s lately.

Hernan said, mocking him slightly.

” Izekiel, there are people who know about fashion besides you.”

“That means…”

Izekiel and I said at the same time, in unison.

“Do you have a new copy target?”

“Do you have a new copy target?”

Hernan simply smiled crookedly.

It was a meaningful smile.