Chapter 186.

I screamed briefly and fell over during the sudden Leonard’s appearance. He picks at his ears with his impressions.

“Hey..! Why are you yelling all of a sudden!”

“Ha, such as you are, why are you walking so somberly in the early morning?”

“Gloomy? Heh! What are you looking for in the wee hours of the morning that is noble?”

Rarely shutting up at the guy’s retort.

…Damn… I didn’t realize that even the training knights were asleep in the wee hours of the morning of the teeth, Leonard’s guy had two green eyes. Anxiety welled up when he was discovered by someone who didn’t know when he was brainwashed by Iben. Pursing his lips, not knowing what excuse to make, he racked his brain.

“Get up! The clothes are dirty.” The guy snapped and held out his hand to me. I looked at him in surprise for a moment, immediately ignoring it and jumping to my feet. Snapping the corner of his dirt-stained shirt, he asked.

“Do …… want to leave home?”

“Do you?”

“What?”

“Will you tell Dad?” Biting back, Blue Eyes falters for the moment.

He stared at me for a moment, then opened his mouth.

“If I tell Father. So …… you’re going to get out of here?”

His question was a bit strange. Ratting me out to the Duke for sneaking around and finding a dog hole, surely he wanted to stay, when it came to my doctor and all that, what mattered.

“Uh-huh.” I carefully imagined the worst case scenario. Just like that the escape was hampered, the dreaded anniversary of a motionless snatch of debris. And, the brainwashed humans gathered to bully the heroine’s malevolent opposite, horribly dead imagined …….

I want to try dying again, I don’t want to be dogged to death like that in this damn place. …So it looks like it failed this time because of the crazy auto-clearance, but wouldn’t it be possible to get away with it if I tried again?”

Suddenly the thought of being there is insane.

I muttered.” …… Just die again.”

“Yikes~!” At that time, Leonard burst into a rage.

“This in something like this! Are you out of your mind? Barely coming back from the dead and…!”

“Then don’t tell dad.”

I ate the guy’s words between them and muttered coldly.

“If you don’t want to see me die again.”

“You ……! Oh!”

He frowned and ran a rough hand through my hair. He cooed and glared at me, then reached out and grabbed my arm.” …… Come with me.”

“Uh ……!” Then turning straight around, I stumbled a few steps after him.

“Going somewhere?”

“Leonard. Where are you going?”

“Ah! Always nagging words, then run to dad and reach all of them. Uh?”

Not a strong enough force to take full root, but not in the direction of returning to the villa. Doesn’t seem to be to tell the Duke to extradite the current offender. So I followed him silently. Leonard, who had been walking for some time directly opposite where there had been a dog-hole, stopped high up at the base of a wall where there were few people. Under the outer wall, straw was piled up like a mountain. This was where the remains of the scarecrows used by the knights in training had gathered.

Looking around for a moment, Leonard drops my wrist and heads that way. Then ruffled the mountainous pile of scarecrows. Revealing a hole that looked to have been drilled some time ago.

“Uh ……” It’s hard to believe Leonard told me about it. Staring blankly at the new dog hole, eyes glazed over, the guy pouted.

“The one just now because your brother got in the way. Hence how much the knights cursed you …….” The guy who had casually spit it out suddenly shrugged and stopped talking. Reason unknown. Thinking it was no big deal, I walked over there and looked around.

Leonard asked in a careful voice.” …… Are you really leaving home?”

“I don’t know. Not sure about Watanabe Apricot yet.”

I backtracked without sincerity, even memorizing the terrain around me. So Leonard came back with words as unbelievable as telling his dog’s dog.” Must …… we go?”

“…… What?”

“Dad said you shouldn’t try to leave home, just get on with your life?”

“Why?” I asked back really puzzled.

“You hate me. Wouldn’t it be better for you if I was gone?”

“That’s ……” My words caused Leonard’s expression to twist strangely. Similar to the one built shortly after the fight in the attic. Like a man, even if it pained him to listen to me. Impossible.

Even though I wanted to, ridiculous family, I got away with it. Penelope, and the evil spirits who are pushed to their limits every time, would be sad.

“…… Right. I really hate you.”

Suddenly having his lips softened by my smile, Leonard struggled to say the affirmative.

“Because with you, Iben will never come back.”

It was the sound of a woodpecker in his ears. Nodding softly at me, the guy suddenly showed a scowl.

“Don’t nod your head! Didn’t you say that what character is fine? How badly you were beaten!”

“Huh. What did I say? Why the sudden gossip?”

“Trying to make up my mind to get along, do you know how mean you were to me? The scars you pinched the day before I was cognizant are still there!”

Seeing the inexplicably speechless me, the guy huffed and rolled up his sleeve. Suddenly, there were literally nail marks left within the wrist that were deeper than the rest of the skin. It’s kind of cool here I laughed painfully.

“Sorry. Okay?”

“Ah! This …….” Possibly medicated, Leonard snapped his chest twice.

He shut his mouth and an awkward silence fell between us. Having found the dog hole, there was nothing more to see. Vaguely, I looked up at the dawn sky and wanted to say not to go back to my room.

“…… The day of the Bar Mitzvah, when you suddenly bled out and collapsed.” Suddenly, the topic that didn’t really want to be brought up was brought up.

“At first I thought you were joking.”

“What ……”

“The day before my bar mitzvah, when I fell out of the tree in front of your room window and pretended to die and you cried so hard.” Thanks to you, Dad cut down the tree straight away, Leonard added humorously.

I didn’t know that, so remained silent.

“That old marquis might have taken poison, and that’s when the girl seemed to have another accident. In fact, I believe you.”

“You honestly, what’s there to be sorry for, even drinking poison and acting out your own drama? You’ve been given everything you need to buy and everything you want to buy has been done. Ibn came back, dad kicked you out, what did you do.”

“But the week you lay bleeding, I called all the knights to investigate ……”

Looking eastward toward me Leonard’s face grew pale. Like a suffocating man, he spoke as he picked temporary sharp breaths.

“No one knows what you usually do, where you go, who you meet. Even your very own maid.”

“How is that possible? Hell, how can the ones that are overpaid not know anything about you at all.”

He questioned me in a menacing voice. Fortunately, Emily faithfully fulfills the mission that unconditionally instructs her to be consistent. But the others weren’t what I knew.

“You built something like this.”

The words that had been said a million times had to be said. Now he was familiar with it too.

“But you know what.”

“Since then, it’s always …… me who remembers the things that were bad for you.”

“I know. Iben’s necklace was something I put in your room to put a charge on you and do a lot of wrong things on top of that.” Leonard poured it out like a barrage and shrugged. Without realizing it, the corners of his eyes filled with blood.

“But I don’t want to admit that then, begging you for more wrongs than I can count …… apologizing I’m sure you’ll accept.”

“…….”

“Since a certain point, you’ve thought of me, no …… our family, as someone else entirely.” Whenever he took a shallow breath, his cute pink hair would roam the sky. I just looked at it with that expressionless face. The guy who locked eyes with me looked at me who didn’t falter in the slightest, his face blurring like he was crying.

“Thought about it hundreds of thousands of times over the past few days. I didn’t look like a wimp then, just look like a brother again and you’ll …….”

“Isn’t that why you wanted to leave?”

That one I don’t know. Because at some point, when it came to “treating my family”, I was possessed.

But like he said, if only Penelope was treated a little better ……. She’s not dead, is she?

In that case, I probably wouldn’t even be possessed. I made a dry reply to Leonard’s words.

“If that’s the case, it’s probably even less like here than it is now.”

“…… Sorry, Penelope.” Leonard fumbled like a thirsty man to spit out the main words.

“I didn’t realize you were so …… fed up with wanting to die.” It was too late to apologize. The party listening to that one went nowhere. I’m not Penelope after all, so I can’t forgive him.

Now came the moment to raise his head to face him in order to answer that kind of words that didn’t make sense. I suddenly noticed Leonard’s look glaring.

He lowered his head and gagged me with his fist.

“Are you …… crying?”

“Crazy, who cries?!”

He cooed at my question, rubbing my eyes messily with the fist covering my mouth.

“I’m crying, I’m crying.”

Mentally, he yelled like he was having a seizure.” I’m crying!”

“Did you say something?”

“Crying!”

He kept protesting, glaring at me with icy eyes like a rabbit. Gruffly, his eyes relaxed after a while and he spoke.

“…… Don’t dawdle alone, just say if you don’t have enough money.”

“When we go out, we’ll go hire people and hire guards first. Even if you spend a little money, don’t go to an inn that looks like a beggar’s inn. Protect magic hanging weapons or scrolls or something like that. ……”

“Call me.” I stopped Leonard, who was making plans for me to run away from home, and greeted him lightly.

“Have a good day.”

At that moment, Leonard’s face rounded once more. He raised his fists in a panic and lowered his hands.

I stopped making fun and waited silently for him to let out all his stale feelings.