Translator: thursdays Editor: Yahiko PR: LightBrin
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The Lady of the Silver Lily stood in the corridor in the dead of night.
Behind her was a large mirror.
A mirror big enough to reflect her whole body.
Smooth and clean.
The mirror where moonlight reflected only the lady's poised back. The mirror reflected just a ray of moonlight and silver hair, so the Lady of the Silver Lily looked like an island alone in a dark sea.
“You're speechless.”
“And you look troubled. Your expression is clear. Even at night, I can read it. Just by looking at your face, I can see that it's the [first one].”
The first one?
My heart had been quaking with anxiety from earlier. It was still doing so now. Why was the Lady of the Silver Lily speaking so kindly to me?
A heartless and rational sword toward everyone. She was the moon of the Ivansia family.
A reason to be kind to me, the butler of the Lady of the Golden Silk… didn't exist.
There shouldn't have been any.
“…I was being silent because I did not know what to say. Please forgive me if I was rude. Heiress Ivansia, this… Is this a dream? Are you appearing in my dream?”
The Lady of the Silver Lily reacted by looking at me with a strange expression. The smile on her lips somehow felt like a scar.
“That's an interesting question. Indeed, your dream has consumed my life. I now know that love is just giving one's life to support another's dream.”
What did that mean?
“I become your dream, and you become my life. This exchange of dreams and lives is what we call love.”
What could she possibly mean?
I didn't understand what she was saying. There were many other things I did not know, too.
The Lady of the Silver Lily explained one of the things I did not know with her scar-like smile.
“However, you probably didn't ask that question in a romantic way. I shall answer you seriously. Don't worry because you don't see any servants. I told them to go back.”
“Why…?”
“And I shall warn you. Never call me [Heiress] with your mouth again.”
The Lady of the Silver Lily smiled.
“I will tear out your heart and kill you.”
I didn't understand.
Just now, the Lady of the Silver Lily showed killing intent toward me. She wasn't joking when she said she would kill me. It wasn't a bluff, either. If I called her 'Heiress' one more time, her rapier would surely stab my heart.
That's what would happen, but…
'Why?'
Why was her threat not cold but rather warm and tender?
Was it possible for a death threat to be so heartwarming?
“Come here.”
Her voice beckoned me. I couldn't refuse her. As I approached the Lady of the Silver Lily, she pointed to the full-body mirror. “What do you see?”
“…I can see the lady standing next to me.”
“And?”
“The dark corridor… The moonlight is barely present. I see almost nothing beside you and me. It's all buried in the darkness.”
“And?” asked Lady of the Silver Lily.
It was bizarre. She wanted another answer, as if there was something else I should have seen in the mirror. But what was it?
“What else do you see?”
“Don't hide it. Say it.”
I tried to look harder into the mirror. I furrowed my brows and crinkled my forehead. Still, everything looked much the same.
'As expected, there's only darkness. Extraordinary red eyes and…'
It was then. Prick! My head ached.
Words I couldn't understand flashed before my eyes.
■■ ■■■: [■cher], [Lo■], [■■■ ■■], [■■■], [■■■], [■■■■], [■■], [■] ■■ ■■■ ■ ■■ ■], [■■■■ ■■■■ ■],
“Oof, whuuh…?!”
I retched.
-Kim ■ja ■■ pl■ ■ ■■ ■t!
[■■■■ war■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■■!]
I reflexively wrapped my hands around my neck. My neck hurt for a moment, but I didn't know why.
I couldn't do anything about stuff I didn't know, so I thought about something else.
'I'm glad my stomach wasn't full.'
I hadn't vomited. Throwing up in front of the Duke of Ivansia's daughter would be terrible. I desperately pressed down my nausea.
The Lady of the Silver Lily was calm.
“I asked what you could see.”
She was a very cold person.
There was a bitter taste on the tip of my tongue.
“Words… I see strange letters. And voices… Weird voices are… I don't really know.”
Can you hear it?
Gongja.
I love you.
Chapter end
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