Chapter 166
Chapter 166
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 166
Chapter Title: Day and Night #7
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〈 Chapter 165 〉 Day and Night #7
166 ? Day and Night #7
I decided to take a shower first.
After washing my body with cold water and sorting through my excited feelings and boiling questions, I felt somewhat stabilized mentally and physically. Then I got dressed and stepped outside.
In my hand was the toothpaste tube I had just used.
“Milady.”
I called out to the Draco lady in a calm tone. She had showered first earlier and was now leaning against the balcony window, gazing at the fading sunset.
“Sir Theo, can you see the sun setting over there? Isn’t it beautiful?”
The sunset visible beyond the Draco lady’s back cast a long shadow that stretched across my face. Her expression was blurred in the encroaching darkness, but those red eyes of hers stood out vividly.
It felt like three suns were hanging in the sunset.
Shaking off a creeping chill, I mustered my courage and spoke up.
“Milady, how long do you plan to keep up the lies?”
“…Lies? What are you talking about, Sir Theo?”
The Draco lady played innocent. But I now knew full well that it was an act. No, everything since this morning had been an act.
“I knew something was off all day today. Narmi. The one who’s been with us today is you, isn’t it, Lady Narmi?”
“…What are you saying? Why bring up Narmi? I clearly told you not to mention her in front of me anymore.”
Narmi Draco.
Narmi spoke coolly, as if disappointed in me. At a glance, her words and actions gave no hint that she was Narmi, but I had proof.
Swish.
I decided to present that proof to Narmi.
“Look at this.”
“…….”
She flinched slightly, her body trembling with unease. She looked utterly flustered. Of course she would be. This was irrefutable evidence.
Worried she might deny it again, I drove the point home with a few more words.
“This toothpaste tube. See how it’s squeezed from the end? You definitely complained that Lady Mirna squeezes it from the middle like a savage.”
“…….”
“Habits are hard to break, it seems.”
Narmi, who had maintained a leisurely, superior attitude until just now, let out a quiet sigh.
Her expression hardened coldly in an instant, like a villain revealing their true colors after being exposed.
“…Busted. I didn’t think you’d remember something like toothpaste. Right, Mirna would’ve crushed it from the middle in a chunk. Tsk.”
“Lady Narmi, what did you do to Lady Mirna? What happened?”
The realization that Narmi had fooled me all day left me utterly confused. The one who smashed the mirror and caused a scene this morning—was that not her sister Mirna, but the younger one, Narmi?
I’d been worrying about Narmi every hour, but in truth, she’d been by my side the whole time, and it was Mirna I should’ve been wondering about.
“Lady Narmi, what did you do to Lady Mirna?”
“…….”
Narmi fell silent at my question. That silence was unnervingly heavy. Criminals caught red-handed often snapped and went berserk—it happened all too often.
What if Narmi tried to flee or attack me? Could I defend myself?
It’d be tough, but not impossible. So I steeled myself to draw the tail wand coiled around my left hand and aim it at her if needed.
I’d have to chant a spell as quick as a gunslinger from the West.
“…….”
“…….”
The silence between Narmi and me dragged on longer than expected.
Just as I started wondering if I should draw my wand on her—
“Sister is—”
Narmi finally spoke.
“Sister isn’t here right now.”
“What do you mean? Not here?”
“Sister spoke to me so carelessly. She didn’t respect me. She even tried to rip out the earrings I got and throw them away. So she deserves punishment.”
That was all Narmi said.
I didn’t get the full details, but a sisterly quarrel flashed through my mind.
Mirna woke up in the morning, spotted the earrings, and confronted Narmi. They argued loudly, and in the end, the younger sister Narmi took full control of the body?
There was probably more to it, but that was the big picture.
「Calm Situation Assessment!
You gain experience from the talent 《Calm Thinking》.
All job experience +5」
Once I grasped the situation, I regained my composure relatively quickly. But the issue wasn’t resolved yet, so I stayed alert.
“So what’s happened to Lady Mirna now? Is she just sleeping inside?”
“The one here right now is me, Narmi. That’s what matters. I’m going to live my own life from now on. Sister looked down on me, but I can survive just fine without her.”
Narmi spoke in a measured tone.
* * *
“Sister belittled me. She said I couldn’t last a single day without her. That I should just obediently do as she says.”
“Did Lady Mirna really say that?”
“Yeah!”
The younger twin sister, Narmi, explained the whole story to me.
Her older sister Mirna woke up in the morning, saw herself in the mirror, freaked out, and started grilling Narmi. She scolded her for piercing her ears without permission and for all her recent reckless behavior.
If Narmi’s account was true, it was enough to make anyone angry.
Of course, from Mirna’s perspective, waking up to find her ears pierced would piss her off too.
But Narmi, fed up with grievances, didn’t hold back this time. They hurled vicious words at each other, fought, and ended up smashing the mirror.
“It was probably shock from the fight that made her pass out. She’ll come to in a few days. Though even when she does, I’ll live during the day and Sister at night.”
“Is that even possible?”
“It is! The body’s control feels like it’s mine now.”
Body control.
Normally, the right to dominate and manage the body belonged to Mirna. That’s why she could live on her own schedule.
But after their huge fight, their souls clashed hard, and that control switched.
I wasn’t involved, so I couldn’t fully grasp it, but put simply, it was like Narmi now held the remote—or the knife hilt.
“I want to live during the day too. Throw stones into the sunlit pond. Eat lunch together with everyone. Have tea parties in the lazy afternoon.”
“…But.”
“But?”
Narmi, who had been listing her complaints, looked at me.
“But what…! If you have something to say, spit it out…!”
Her challenging attitude nearly made me shrink back.
But after serving the mad Queen Airana and the bratty Liz-era Elga up close, Narmi’s prickliness was less intimidating than a bristling cat.
“But here’s the thing.”
“Say it.”
“Living during the day isn’t all good. You’ll have to handle all of Lady Mirna’s duties alone. Think you can manage?”
“Duties?”
“As the female lord of House Draco. You’ll have tons of paperwork to process. Meetings with people for contracts and deals.”
“Hmph, no way I can’t handle what Sister did.”
Narmi declared confidently.
And so, the next day.
Rustle. Thud.
I dumped a mountain of paperwork and books in front of Narmi.
“What’s this?”
These were the documents and miscellaneous tasks that Lady Mirna, the female lord of House Draco, normally handled—now all Narmi’s to do alone, without her sister’s help.
“You’re the one living during the day now. You have to finish everything Sister used to do.”
“…This much?”
Narmi was utterly flustered.
Probably because the workload exceeded her expectations. And it didn’t end there—I pulled out my notebook and recited her upcoming schedule.
“This is what you need to finish by morning. After lunch, you have meetings with contractors for villa maintenance.”
“I have to finish this by morning?”
“Then after those meetings, there’s a banquet with House Draco’s collateral branches scheduled, I believe. Also—”
I had Mirna Draco’s schedule memorized. I kept Elga’s and Airana’s in my head too. It helped me conquer them smoothly.
Frankly, Elga and Airana’s days were all play, no work. They were a blessing just for not causing trouble.
But Mirna lived the busiest life among the ladies. The young head of House Draco, Lady Draco handled countless tasks alone every day.
The twin Narmi, however, seemed oblivious.
“Sister really did all this? How do you finish by morning? When do I get tea parties?”
To the panicking Narmi, I explained patiently.
“Tea parties come after all the work. Lady Mirna divided her day into minute and second units once she started. Surely you can too, Lady Narmi?”
“Hmph, piece of cake!”
Narmi acted tough.
Of course, she couldn’t ace unfamiliar work right away, and soon she was slumped exhausted over her desk.
“When does this end—!”
“These over here need signatures by this morning. Please sign quickly.”
“Eek…!”
Burned out in half a day.
For an outgoing type like Narmi, paperwork was the dullest torture. I added a stern reminder.
“And this isn’t just for today. Tomorrow, the next day, the day after, and every day after that. You’ll work days like this for life.”
“…Sister never told me about this! What is this? So boring and pointless….”
“But you can’t go out until it’s all done.”
“Ughhh….”
Narmi glared at me with utter grievance, but I was only stating facts.
I wasn’t punishing her for fooling me yesterday out of spite—I was just making her do Mirna’s actual work.
That’s what daytime was.
The time when people toiled diligently. Narmi, the sister, hadn’t known Mirna’s struggles?
People always think their own life is hard and others’ easy.
Roll her like this, and she’ll bring Mirna back herself.