One Day My Sister Died - Chapter 3 - Part 2

Chapter 3 Part 2

“Yuan. I will make sure this is resolved. Just tell me what you want.”

In this strange and frightening conversation, Louise is absent.

They have erased Yuan’s existence and sent Louise out of the mansion.

Even though Louise has returned dead, no one asks about her or mourns her death.

Relatives, Louise, and Yuan.

The cost of deceiving herself into believing that this was the most perfect form of family under the name Felice was horrific.

“Family is something that cannot be torn apart by anyone.”

The uncle, the aunt, and the cousins.

They had never been Yuan’s family, not even once.

Still, the thought of being an inescapable family was only Yuan’s own delusion.

“Didn’t you say you wanted to go to Eloyd’s tailor shop? Even that desolate ‘Loxenhard’… How can you go there? How could you, who lived so luxuriously here, serve that person in a place where even the imperial support has been cut off?”

The aunt’s voice buzzed in Yuan’s ears, and her mind turned blank.

Thoughts ceased, and no words came out.

‘Family? My home?’

The words that Yuan had tattooed in her heart from longing had all been erased.

Only the fact that she could escape this beautiful and horrifying mansion with just a single word remained, burning in her mind.

No longer needing to endure the sacrifices made to help her uncle and avoid being kicked out of this house.

For an entire year without Louise, and indeed, throughout the time since her parents had passed away and she was crushed, she had endured the pain of being neither belonging to this mansion nor able to leave it, all while silently passing through the quiet.

Even now, she felt as if the pain of the strangers she had encountered yesterday still lingered in her heart.

The terrible pain had already passed, leaving only the memory of it, but that didn’t mean it was not still painful.

“Yuan, you still don’t want to part from your family, do you?”

She no longer wanted to suffer for her uncle or for Felice.

Under normal circumstances, she might have sweetly accepted even the fake warmth mixed into that voice, but not now.

A corner of her heart flickered with what felt like a warning signal, but more than that, her whole body rejected staying in this mansion.

She now had a place to go.

And that place was somewhere the uncle dared not reach.

A chance that will never come again.

*“I’ll come to get you.”*

Louise’s voice tightly gripped Yuan’s mind and kept pulling her outside.

Her white teeth, which had been biting her lower lip to the point of pain, finally parted, and a faint voice flowed from Yuan’s lips.

“I’ll… go.”

“Y-Yuan?”

A house without her parents and without Louise.

People who, without feeling any guilt, lied and took her suffering for granted…

As Yuan’s trembling lips stopped and her bloodshot eyes grew more resolute, she raised her voice.

“I want to go.”

It was a simple word.

It took a long time for her to utter that one word.

The anger that had been burning in her head flickered and then faded away.

Perhaps it was because she could leave this house without any regrets.

Or perhaps it was because of her uncle’s foolish face, as if he had been slapped on the back of the head.

“That was a good decision.”

The Marquis of Compani relaxed his furrowed brow and gestured to his attendants.

The somewhat chaotic surroundings were quickly tidied up.

The uncle spoke just as Yuan was about to rise and take the Marquis of Compani’s escort.

“This is nonsense!”

The uncle’s face was burning like a piece of metal just pulled out of a forge.

As if he did not even remember being supported, the uncle stumbled quickly towards Yuan and grasped her wrist tightly.

Pulling Yuan away from the Marquis of Compani as if trying to snatch her back, the uncle breathed hotly into her ear.

“How dare you!”

Reading the fear in her eyes, the uncle twisted his lips and whispered fiercely.

“Do you think you can achieve anything there? Do you think you will be treated well there? You didn’t get sent to a place where monsters live just to repay kindness with ingratitude. You could die there. No, you will definitely die! You must stay here to live!”

Yuan, who had been turning away from her uncle, slowly shifted her gaze towards him.

Count Felice hesitated for a moment.

“I want to go.”

Yuan’s eyes, which had always been submissively looking downward in fear, were now bloodshot and different from usual.

As if she were daring to blame him.

“I don’t want to live or die here anymore.”

Her eyes, filled with hollow anger, finally met her uncle’s gaze directly.