Episode 236
4.
Next moment.
“Hehehe.”
Sylvia smiled darkly.
The girl’s sparkling innocence did not reject the moisture contained in that smile at all. Rather, they blended together well.
“As soon as I found out about this, I was shocked and hid the note. The fact that the Lady of the Silver Lily and I have been linked by the same fate since we were born, or perhaps even before we were born. “I hid the note that confessed the scary truth.”
As if he didn’t want anyone to notice.
“Of course, right? This is a very seductive secret. At social gatherings, girls laughing among themselves and saying, “This is a secret I overheard from a friend” or “Oh, I overheard a secret from my parents,” and just making tea time snacks — this [secret note] was completely different. Yes. yes. “It had to be completely different!”
There were still many young ladies of the same age at Eunbangul Social Church.
How can I get this secret note without them noticing?
How can I take it to the Lady of the Silver Lily and tell her about this amazing and mysterious coincidence? Young Lady Sylvia was very nervous.
“I am different from other Eunbangul members. Yes, very different. Even when those children were mesmerized by how beautiful the Lady of the Silver Lily looked today, or who she met and danced with for the first time, or things like that… … I was secretly looking for some mystical connection between the Lady of the Silver Lily and myself. Horoscope, horoscope, birthstone… . But it’s all useless now. name. “Because these two names prove the unbreakable bond between the Lady of the Silver Lily and me!”
“…….”
An exciting performance unfolded in the old yard.
Sunset slowly climbed over the mountain peaks like an old man tired from a long walk. As the day went by, the sun seemed to have already grown old.
When the old sunset was falling on the sky, the passionate performance of a maid on earth, no matter how hard she tried to express her voice, only sounded like the faded tone of the past.
“I don’t care about things like imperial law. ethics? moral? f*ck you. I was sure. The Lady of the Silver Lily does not know this yet, so if I succeed in handing her this secret note, I will be able to skip the strawberry vines in the courtyard where the social gathering is held, pass through the maze-like yard, and finally the Lady of the Silver Lily will enter the shrine. If you go up to the hall where people are dancing… … . “Go up to the hall and wait until the line of stupid men waiting to hold hands with the Lady of the Silver Lily disappears.”
I easily imagined that scene.
“Finally, finally, if I were to let you know this secret I discovered.”
Perhaps Sylvia, or Lady of the Golden Silk, must have been guilty at the time.
He must have been running frantically from the courtyard to the hall, so no matter how you look at him, it would not have suited the elegant dignity of a nobleman. Even if you try to secretly give a wedding invitation, ‘There is something I must show the Lady of the Silver Lily!’ And he must have thrown away the dissuasion from those around him.
and.
“My turn has finally come.”
The two people faced each other.
One of them is a flower of social circles who has been designated as the Crown Princess.
The other is a girl who is excited and longs for flowers.
-What’s going on?
-I, I, I am the daughter of Baron Evanail. May the moon of Ivansia have endless glory!
-okay. Why did you ask to see me? Lady Baron.
The Lady of the Silver Lily was tired.
She had been caught up in the social scene ever since dawn. Her mother was long gone. The person who had to play the role of hostess in this Vansia duchy was the Lady herself.
Therefore, not only did she plan, design, manage, and supervise all the dances, but, as the flower of society, given her name by the Emperor, she had the honor of reaching out to influential children who asked her to dance.
While dancing in the hall, I had to be careful not to step on the other person’s toes, and at the same time, I had to figure out in real time whether the dance was going well, whether there were any flaws in the orchestra’s song selection, and whether enough food and alcohol were being distributed to the guests.
In other words, despite her young age, Raviel Ivansia was already handling one axis of the empire. And quite skillfully.
The duke’s guards spread out throughout the ballroom and reported the rumors and secrets floating around here to the hostess. Classifying and interpreting that information was also the Lady of the Silver Lily’s job.
Thus, Raviel Ivansia lived in the [Empire]. The empire was her world.
“I was so nervous that I held out my hand to the Lady of the Silver Lily!”
on the other side.
Here was a young Baroness who didn’t yet know what an empire was and didn’t even need to know it. She has just discovered a shiny treasure. A treasure named coincidence.
The secret note was shabby because I had crumpled it up with my hands so that it wouldn’t be seen by other people. I felt embarrassed to present such trash on the beautiful palms of the Lady of the Silver Lily.
-But you will know!
Sylvia as a child may have believed that.
-Because, it’s really awesome! He said he would become a friend!
and.
“The Lady of the Silver Lily opened the secret note and looked at it for a while. what. Now that I think about it, I think you were probably imagining it as a [secret order sent by Ganja from an enemy country] or something like that. But no matter how much I look, I still can’t figure it out. “The Lady of the Silver Lily looked back at me expressionlessly.”
-What is this?
“At that time, I made eye contact with the Lady of the Silver Lily for the first time. Do you understand? I mean, our eyes met for the first time! Well, his expression was a bit expressionless and cold, but it was clear that his icy expression would melt away when he heard my explanation. “I told you this while calming my pounding heart.”
-Well, that’s my name… … .
-your name?
-yes! My name is Sylvia Evanail, and my name is Raviel Ivansia… … If we split the two names and list them… … Again, it’s the same.
-…….
– Poetry, isn’t it fascinating? amazing… Really awesome… … coincidence… … .
“The more I talked, the more I felt like, ‘Oh, this isn’t right.’ “I smiled awkwardly and looked up at the lady’s face.”
-…….
“ah.”
Sylvia Evanail, dressed in a maid’s uniform, lamented, “Ah!”
“I realized it when I saw those eyes. Yeah, whatever. That’s not even disappointment… … It wasn’t just an expression that said it wasn’t fun. What should I say? “The Lady of the Silver Lily’s red eyes looked down at me, and for the two seconds it took for me to look down, I felt like everything in me became cold.”
The feeling of one’s being being torn apart from the tips of one’s fingers.
“To that person, I was just trash.”
The Lady of the Silver Lily said nothing to the young lady.
Without insulting, ridiculing, or saying goodbye, he just turned his back and left for the ball.
After she left, there was a neatly crumpled note left lying around.
“…….”
Sylvia Evanail smiled.
“These are things that often happen in childhood. “Yes.”
She bent down and grabbed the broom.
And then I started wiping away the letters written on the yard.
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“For me. I didn’t really have any greed. The ladies around me squealed that the crown prince was handsome, but they said they were not interested in things like dating or marriage in the first place. Then I happened to catch a glimpse of the Lady of the Silver Lily, and she was just so beautiful.”
Sigh.
The consonants and vowels drawn on the ground were caught in the dust and disappeared.
“I just wanted to get to know you.”
“But how dare you insult someone like that?”
Sylvia raised her head.
A smile that was completely different from the smile that had appeared on Sylvia’s lips just moments ago bloomed on her face. Poison flower. Sylvia smiled brightly, exuding fierce poison.
“Is the empire that important? Is the task of gathering and classifying information so sacred? Sorting out the big and small affairs of the family, comforting the people, and getting engaged to the crown prince are so important that I am nothing compared to them, right?”
that.
“Then I will prove it to you.”
It was a curse.
“The crown prince considers you so important. I’ll be possessed. “It was simple, right?”
“Because I had a pretty face, pretty whispers, and pretty hand gestures, they fell for me right away. Ganja of a family you consider important? I asked the crown prince to move and kill some of the knights under the imperial family. Our Crown Prince’s thoughts about his lover are so deep… … ! “I was impressed!”
The Lady of the Golden Silk smiled brightly.
“You despised me every time I did something like that. Isn’t that so, Moon of Ivansia? [The future of the empire is something I have never thought about]. yes. that’s right. I’ve never thought about an empire before. But I was curious. “It really is that kind of thing.”
Sigh.
All letters drawn on the floor have been erased.
Stepping on the ground with her broom, Maid Sylvia bowed her head politely.
“I wonder if I can ruin your unlucky face.”
“For the empire, right? For the sake of the people of the empire. You are faithful to the imperial family and love your family. Me, just. Even after tearing the empire apart, throwing its people into chaos, turning the imperial family into a mess, and sending the family into the abyss… … “I wonder if you still love your empire and your family.”
or not,
“Maybe they hate me so much.”
“I was curious about that.”
Sylvia grinned.
“I was waiting for the day when the hatred for me would become much stronger and deeper than the love for the empire and family. That’s sad. “Look, a dishonest-looking laborer came in and ruined everything.”
Sylvia glanced at me.
Beneath the smile, the sparkling eyes were filled with bitter poison.
“…….”
Raviel was silent.
The incident that Sylvia just mentioned happened in the first episode of her life.
Raviel does not remember and cannot remember. My wife, she is the wisest woman in the world, was thinking deeply, with her chin resting on her head.
“know.”
So I answered instead.
“What do you mean?”
“I know how you must have felt and how painful it must have been.”
Sylvia paused.
The poison that had been pooling in my eyes poured out towards me.
“dare,”
The Lady of the Golden Silk said.
“How dare you say that?”
The Lady of the Golden Silk grabbed her sleeve. The crumpled sleeves created haze-like wrinkles all over the clothes.
She shouted hotly and passionately.
“How do you know that? Do you know my scars? Do you know how much pain I suffered? How much it hurt that day, how painful it was, how painful it was to be ignored by someone you looked up to! “What on earth do you know, that kind of bullshit,”
“know.”
I said it again and again.
“I know very well.”
At best, I didn’t say that something like that was why I invested my entire life in vain revenge.
At best, I didn’t say that something like that would have brought disaster to the entire world you belong to.
Being ignored.
Being treated as something that doesn’t exist.
Not being treated as a human being is a poison strong enough to kill someone over 4,000 times.
“….”
The Golden Silk gritted her teeth.
My teeth ground together in my closed mouth.
And then, I opened my lips again.
“If you know that, why are you disturbing me?”
“Your butler.”
There was silence.
“I don’t know much about your butler. I may have secretly loved you, and maybe even loved my wife. But what is clear is that the life in which you sharpen your sword to seek revenge would never have been happy.”
“…….”
“The deacons wanted someone to help them. Hamustra snatched that wish. I was merely dispatched as Hamustra’s representative. “In the end, you are the one who created the current situation.”
“Why is it because of me?”
“You couldn’t make the butler happy.”
“…….”
“There was someone who cared and loved you, but you ignored them. He was just focused on his revenge. “Then he should at least be happy with himself, but he couldn’t even achieve that.”
As a result.
“The deacon actually became a ‘non-existent person.’”
I said.
“If Raviel was an asshole to you, you were also an asshole to the butler who was closest to helping you.”
“……eww.”
Sylvia Evanail lowered her head.
“What is it…” “The story about the butler.”
Words flowed sparsely in silence.
“It’s cowardly to bring up the story about that guy… .”
Silence fell.
The sunset over Seosan has now become dark. The street lamp in the alley came on with a whistling sound. However, in poor villages, street lights were used as best as they could. Amethyst’s old hanok, where the scarlet streetlights did not reach, was just dark.
“sorry.”
It was Raviel’s voice.
“I was sorry. Sylvia Evanail.”
“And I’m sorry.”
Sylvia slowly raised her head. In the dark of the night, people appeared as if they were just shadows condensed into outlines. A shadow’s voice flowed from the shadow’s body.
“What do you mean… ?”
“Even if it wasn’t something I remembered, it probably would have gone the same way if the same thing had happened. I would have ignored you. I wouldn’t even remember you. Because the only thing that meant anything to me at that time was the well-being of the empire and the glory of my family.”
“…….”
“sorry. “I was a person who didn’t know how to hurt yet.”
Raviel stood up.
As she stood up, the main hall floor she was sitting on made an old sound.
Like a broken cassette spinning.
“You took away the promised future from me. She usurped the crown princess’s place and monopolized her heart from His Highness the Crown Prince. Ivansia’s moon. The flower of social circles. The one who will lead the empire in the future. “Because of this, all the promises were broken.”
“So what… … ?”
“That made my heart bleed for the first time.”
Step by step.
Raviel walked towards Sylvia.
“It hurt. It hurt. It hurt so much that he had to stab a knife into his own heart while looking at himself in the mirror. “Only then did I realize how much I had hurt so many people.”
“And then I met my love.”
Raviel looked back at me.
Even in the dark curtain, I could clearly recognize the temperature of her breath, the tempo of her breathing, and the scent in her eyes. She was speechless. Without saying a word, she was commanding me to come to her.
I approached her.
“My love suffered the same wounds as me. A regressor. The wounds of life that repeat endlessly. “I never knew there was someone who could share something like that.”
“I am grateful that I am cursed with eternal repetition.”
Yes.
“Thanks to you, I was able to meet Confucius.”
I am also thankful for life returning.
I became grateful.
“It was very painful.”
As Master said, it was a painful day.
“If it weren’t for that wound, I wouldn’t have recognized my beloved companion.”
Thanks to this, I was able to fall in love with Raviel at first sight.
“The reason I got hurt was just to meet someone who is bleeding like me. Confucius. I saw you and knew. Sylvia. “I came to know because of that.”
“Thank you. Sylvia Evanail.”
Raviel takes her time.
I knelt on my left knee on the ground where the night dust had settled.
He bowed his head towards his maid.
“thanks.”
Ah, as expected.
As expected, Raviel… … is my lover
Just as I have feelings for Yu Su-ha, Raviel’s feelings for Sylvia are probably just as intense. You will want to retaliate, you will want to take revenge. Nevertheless, Raviel knelt before Silvia.
Because the present moment of meeting me is overwhelmingly happy.
For everything in the past that made this moment possible, I am grateful.
“…Ugh.”
Sylvia gritted her teeth.
“shit… … , damn it! This is why. This is why I hate you. Why do you become happy on your own? Stay in misery! It keeps hurting! Keep crying and crying bitterly and lamenting your misfortune! Yeah, f*ck! “Be unhappy!”
This is how it is, said Sylvia. Not like this.
“This is why I… Don’t you think I’m a fool who wasted my life by focusing on my emotions…? !”
Sylvia covered her face with both hands.
“Not really. That’s not true. My wounds are deeper, more special, and cannot be understood by anyone, so I cannot forgive, so, so—”
Like a faucet whose water supply had been cut off, Sylvia’s voice grew drowsy.
There was silence.
After enough silence had passed, while Sylvia was holding her breath and shaking her shoulders, Raviel slowly stood up.
“okay.”
Raviel returned to the chair and sat down.
She rested both elbows on the table and placed her pretty chin on the backs of her folded hands.
“Then let’s think about how to deal with it now.”
She said.
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