Chapter 69
Chapter 69
Ch. 69 .｡.:✧ The Helpers (1) ✧:.｡.
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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Tap tap tap tap.
The sound of toes tapping on the carriage floor echoed.
Alicia folded her long ears completely and bit her nails.
She was nervous.
She had no idea how to face her sister.
Yerina had always been skilled at reading people’s thoughts and emotions from their expressions.
Normally, Alicia might not have worried much.
But ever since that bastard stole her rosary, her poker face had crumbled…
‘That bastard. Every time I think of him… Ugh. I’m getting wet again.’
She wasn’t sure if she could successfully deceive her sister.
She had done laundry and bathed multiple times, so there was no way Yoo-jin’s scent could be on her body.
She just had to act well.
“Phew. My heart is beating too fast… Eek?!”
“Alicia!”
Knock knock knock.
At that moment, she turned to the side at the sound of knocking on the window and nearly fainted in surprise.
Her sister’s face was peeking out from outside the window.
She thought it was a ghost for a moment…
“Huh?”
Wait a minute.
Wasn’t this carriage moving at full speed right now?
“Driver! Stop!”
Only then did she realize her sister was running alongside the carriage.
She hurriedly had the carriage stopped.
As the carriage slowly decelerated and came to a halt, her sister matched the pace, walking, then climbed onto the stopped carriage.
And the carriage slowly started moving again.
“Oof! I just happened to run into you while jogging.”
“…”
That was jogging?
Judging by how she wasn’t even out of breath, it must have really been light jogging.
Her stamina was amazing as always.
“Are you on your way back?”
“Y-yeah. From Basel…”
“You stopped by the Clockwork City too, right?”
“Oh, yes! Right! I went to the Clockwork City from Basel. I’m on my way back now.”
She hurriedly corrected herself, startled.
Come to think of it, she had made the excuse that she had gone to the Clockwork City while she was in Elvenguard.
She had almost been caught in a lie from the start.
“You said you saw something suspicious while wandering around Basel, so you went all the way to the Clockwork City? And there… Hmm? You look prettier somehow?”
“What?”
“Did something change? Your scent seems slightly different too…”
Sniff sniff.
Her sister’s ears perked up as she buried her nose in Alicia’s chest and kept sniffing.
Her scent was different?
There was nothing unusual about her clothes…
At that moment, her sister smiled mischievously and said:
“Aha. I see. You’re in heat.”
“N-no, I’m not!”
“Don’t deny it. The pheromone scent is wafting off you. You finally decided to go without your libido suppressor. Good decision. You look much prettier like this, I tell you. You look more natural. Before, you were too stiff and machine-like.”
“…”
So her sister thought that way too.
That it was better for Alicia not to have the libido suppressor…
She had been aware that her dependence on the libido suppressor was quite high.
She also knew well that even though rabbit demihumans had strong libidos, it was only slightly stronger than normal people and didn’t interfere with daily life at all.
But obsessed with showing a perfect, iron-willed image, she had ended up overusing the suppressor.
As a result, her body had become one that would go into heat at the slightest breeze without the suppressor…
But after forcibly spending a few days without it, her dependence had improved a lot.
Now she felt like she could live without the suppressor.
“I like this more Alicia-like you!”
“I see…”
But did her sister know?
That the reason Alicia had tried to conceal her libido and become an emotionless iron person, was all because she wanted to be like her sister.
She probably didn’t know.
And she wouldn’t need to know in the future.
Because Alicia had learned that her sister could live her way, and Alicia could live her own way.
“I still couldn’t find any trace of the man you’re looking for in the Clockwork City.”
“Hmm. That’s too bad. You worked hard. It must have been quite a long journey. Wasn’t it difficult?”
“It was fine… I did lose my magic tool though…”
“Oh my. Your magic tool?”
“Yeah. It’s okay now. I got fitted with a new one. This ring…”
As she continued explaining, Alicia sensed something odd about her sister.
She had thought her sister would probe more about Yoo-jin.
Unexpectedly, she moved on to other topics without saying much.
Her sister’s mood was quite different from when Alicia had left Palana.
Back then, her sister had been extremely anxious and restless.
She had looked so precarious, as if she might collapse at any moment.
Now that sister looked completely fine.
She even seemed relaxed.
It was as if she had regained her mental stability.
‘Did her feelings for Yoo-jin cool off in the meantime?’
Had her desire to find Yoo-jin diminished greatly?
This was welcome news.
After all, he wasn’t someone her sister should be so worried about.
He was just a bit handsome with a charming smile, willful and reckless but occasionally caring, which was heart-fluttering, but that was all.
He wasn’t a suitable match for her sister.
It was natural to forget him as time passed.
This was really fortunate.
This way, it wouldn’t be like taking him away from her sister.
The sense of guilt that had been weighing on a corner of her heart seemed to disappear.
“You look in really good shape too, sister. Did something good happen?”
“Ahaha. Is it that obvious? I guess it can’t be helped. Actually, I think I found the person you went to investigate. Yoo-jin.”
“What…?”
Alicia’s heart sank.
What did she say?
She found Yoo-jin…?
“What do you mean, sister?”
“Elvenguard sent us a request for cooperation. It seems the invasion from another dimension has officially begun. But it’s strange, you know? Those stupid pointy-eared ones couldn’t have noticed that already. There’s only one thing this means. Yoo-jin visited Elvenguard.”
“…!”
“I was really scared, you know? I thought he had really disappeared. I thought I was the only one who remembered. I was so scared, thinking I might have gone insane… But I found him. Finally. Yoo-jin definitely exists. He’s definitely alive and breathing in the same world. Now I just need to track him down and find him. I still wonder why he didn’t come to me first, but… Ah! Maybe he hit his head and lost his memories of me! Maybe that’s why he’s living on, forgetting about me…! Oh no! I need to find him before it’s too late!”
This was bad.
The reason her sister had regained her composure wasn’t because she had given up her obsession with Yoo-jin.
It was the opposite.
Because she thought she had found Yoo-jin.
Because she thought she could meet him soon.
She had only regained stability after confirming that everything wasn’t just her delusion.
“C-could it be a mistake?”
“I’m certain. At this point in time, the only person who would know about that spider monster, Kali, is Yoo-jin. He must have told the pointy-ears. There’s no other possibility.”
“…”
Her sister’s attitude was resolute, without the slightest wavering.
Alicia shuddered at this.
It seemed her sister had gained certainty through something only she and Yoo-jin had known in the past.
“How… how will you track him?”
“There’s no choice but to confront them head-on. I’m going to notify Elvenguard. If they don’t give up information on Yoo-jin, I’ll spread Elvenguard’s secrets to the whole world. As it happens, I know a few of the pointy-ears’ secrets.”
“…”
Alicia realized just then.
The relationship between Yoo-jin and her sister was much deeper than she had thought.
And her sister missed Yoo-jin far more than Alicia had expected.
There was nothing that could break her sister’s resolve.
There was nothing that could stop her sister.
At this rate, her sister would find Yoo-jin soon.
‘I need to contact Yoo-jin quickly!’
Once her sister started tracking, it was only a matter of time before she caught up to Yoo-jin.
So she had to let Yoo-jin know right away.
That her sister had started tracking him.
Because Yoo-jin absolutely must not be caught by her sister.
‘Huh…? But why. Why shouldn’t he be caught?’
At that moment, a primal question enveloped her.
She couldn’t let her sister meet Yoo-jin.
She had taken this for granted until now, never doubting it.
After all, Yoo-jin was the bastard who had stolen her libido suppressor from their first meeting, and made her wet herself right in front of her.
She thought she couldn’t bear to see her sister fall head over heels for that guy, giving him her liver and gall.
But after traveling briefly with Yoo-jin,
Observing his character and strength up close,
She realized her sister’s feelings weren’t just a simple infatuation.
Though his personality was a bit twisted, Yoo-jin was clearly a good person.
He was even strong enough to beat her sister.
Objectively evaluated, he was a match with no shortcomings as her sister’s husband.
Then shouldn’t she bless them as a younger sister?
For the revival of Palana, for the future of the Frost family, shouldn’t she rightfully hand Yoo-jin over?
Why had she been hiding Yoo-jin so thoroughly?
Such questions suddenly arose, and she felt a sense of dissonance.
“Alicia? Are you okay?”
“Ah, yes… Sister.”
“What is it?”
“That man. Can I ask why you’re looking for him?”
“Hmm. I guess it was too much to keep it secret even from someone helping me? The truth is, he’s a very precious person to me. We separated due to circumstances… But I want to get him back.”
“By any means necessary?”
“Yes.”
“What if he says he doesn’t want to?”
“That won’t happen. He must be waiting for me desperately too.”
“…”
Alicia came to her senses.
There was no need to agonize over this.
She had been caught up in strange questions.
‘I can’t let them meet after all. I can’t let sister meet him.’
She would admit it.
That Yoo-jin was fully qualified to stand by her sister’s side.
But if he himself had no intention to do so, that was a different story.
Her sister might long for Yoo-jin, but Yoo-jin didn’t.
She didn’t know what had happened between them, but at least Yoo-jin didn’t want to return to her sister.
That much was certain.
‘I have no choice. It’s because I feel sorry for Yoo-jin.’
No matter how loyal she was to her sister, she couldn’t completely upend an innocent person’s life for her sister’s sake.
She couldn’t drag back someone who had run away saying he didn’t want to, and make him kneel before her sister.
“You’ll keep helping me, right?”
“O-of course. Since he’s someone precious to you, sister…”
“Hehe. Thank you, Alicia.”
“…”
So that was why.
Because she respected Yoo-jin’s wishes.
That was why she was helping Yoo-jin escape.
There was no other reason.
Really.
Probably…
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