SPMB - Chapter 15

Isabelle Addis.

She was the last person in the family to return home. Thanks to her, this situation was the hardest for her to accept.

“What’s this!”

How could Kanna come back?

Seven years ago, when her older sister got married, she thought she would never see her again. She was never seen in the social world, as her father firmly warned her to ‘stay out of sight.’

Indeed she was. For the past seven years, Isabelle hasn’t seen a single strand of Kanna’s hair.

It was a very satisfying time. Because she was ashamed of her older sister for tarnishing her family’s honor.

The marriage was well done, so fierce jealousy boiled over, but it soon faded.

According to the rumors, people said that even in the Valentino family, Kanna was treated as a lump of scrap metal.

Everyone knows that the plan was created by Duke Valentino to prevent the princess from attacking him with love. However, Kanna is back?

“Mom, what the hell happened?”

“Looks like Kalen signed a contract with Kanna. So that she can stay here on condition that Lucy gets well.”

It’s crazy! Isabelle ran straight to Kalen’s room. Kalen Addis, to her twin brother.

“Brother!”

“Isabelle.”

“I heard about it. Why did you do such a strange thing? Can she be a doctor?”

“Lucy had one treatment yesterday, and she has gotten a lot better.”

“Don't be ridiculous!”

It can be! Kanna, that filthy girl knows what to do!

“Brother, do you trust her? Does it make sense that Kanna knows how to practice medicine? Even if she really heals Lucy, would you only let her in for that reason?”

“...Why?”

Oops, Isabelle made a mistake. She kept her mouth shut, but she had already spoken the truth.

“Is Lucy’s illness the only reason for you?”

Actually it was. What does it mean to know whether Lucy’s face is distorted, the daughter of a lowly maid?

Isabelle was embarrassed. No matter how much it is, he glared at Isabelle for making a stupid slip of the tongue.

“I am your twin sister! Why do you love Lucy more than me?”

“Isabelle Addis, get out of my room.”

“Brother!”

But Kalen lowered his head. It was complete ignorance, not even paying attention.

Isabelle, gasping for breath. eventually ran out of the room.

‘What the hell did I do wrong!’

This time, she ran to her eldest brother, Orsini.

“You are home, brother!”

Orsini was sitting on a bench in the gymnasium. It was an usually stunned face.

“Brother, this is so ridiculous! Kalen says that a lump of filth is back in our house!”

“...”

“Brother?”

But Orsini did not answer.

He wasn't listening to Isabelle at all. It's a completely different idea.

“Why are you like that?’

Anyway, Orsini wasn’t in a state to talk too. Who should she complain to now?

Isabella thought for a long time before going to her father’s office. But just before she entered, she changed her mind and reversed her steps.

‘As expected. I can't do it because I'm scared.’

From an early age, her father was a feared object. She was always afraid even though she was never punished or scolded.

Is it because of the appearance that does not age like the vampire in the legend? To be honest, no matter how much she looked at him, her father looked like he was in his late twenties.

A handsome young man with a handsome face. Even the head of a Duchy.

Maybe that's why he was still the unrequited love of many women despite being married and having children. Even friends of Isabelle’s age suffered from love sickness.

Some envied Isabelle. They say they are envious of having a father who was cool, transcendent, and even has his own power.

Bullshit that she don't know anything about him.

‘To my father, I'm just like an inanimate object.’

Things like rock trolling on the side of the road or wind brushing a cheek.

Alessandro loves no one, none of his family.

So her opinion doesn't matter to Alessandro. It's useless to say anything.

‘Then what should i do? I hate having my sister in this house! I mean, everyone curses at her, embarrassing. Why was she born as my older sister?’

It was when Isabelle was chewing her lips and walking.

“...”

Outside the window, the back of a woman taking a walk in the garden stands out. Black color. Because of that deep black color that seems to have been dyed by the night.

“Sister!”

The anger boiling in Isabelle’s chest finally finds its way and rushes. She ran out and approached Kanna.

“Sister, long time no me! How have you been doing?”

She deliberately shouted cheerfully and crossed Kanna’s arms.

Ugh, dirty filth. Isabelle was heartbroken, but she persevered.

“I've been fine. Isabelle, how have you been?”

Isabelle widened her eyes. Why wouldn't she shrug her shoulders and talk?

“Nice to meet you, sister. How happy I was when I heard that my sister had arrived!”

“Are you serious?”

“Of curse! How much I missed you! Why have you been locked up all this time? You didn't come to our house to play, and you didn't even come out to parties.”

Isabelle’s chattering eyes scanned Kanna’s face.

What? Is Kanna’s skin this good?

Seeing Kanna’s face up close, the cheeks and lips exposed under her bangs were more beautiful than she thought.

“By the way, sister, is that true? Kalen said that sister heals Lucy?”

“I’m trying to heal her.”

How funny. What kind of skill did she have?

Brother Kalen said Lucy was getting better thanks to Kanna, but that couldn’t be true. Maybe Lucy was healing naturally.

In the meantime, Kanna intervenes and gets the benefits..

“This is amazing!”

Even if that’s not the case, even if it’s really Kanna who is healing Lucy with her skill, she hates it. Isabelle really hates it. She hates Lucy too. Sisters of low blood!

“How do you treat her? Other doctors can’t even touch it, how do you do it?” Can you let me know?”

“No.”

“...Huh?”

“I can't tell you, Isabelle. And…”

Slap.

Kanna shakes off Isabelle’s arm as if it were dirty. She says, bruising her crumpled collar.

“Don't pretend to be friendly with me.”

***

“Crazy bitch.”

As Isabelle recalled what had happened earlier, curse words burst out of her mouth.

Don't pretend to be friendly, she says.

After saying that, Kanna quickly disappeared.

“She must have gone mad at last.”

Although there was a gap of seven years, Isabelle is Kanna’s younger sister. She is her family,

So, she knew very well what kind of person Kanna was.

‘My older sister who wandered around because she liked it when i treated her well. She said don't pretend to be friendly?’

Anyway, Isabelle couldn't leave it like this. What if Kanna sits in her house?

‘Why did you have such accident? Why did father allow it?’

Kanna is like a pest.

It was not a figurative expression, but it was an existence that actually caused trouble to the family.

Isabelle knows the story, but when Kanna was born, the Addis family was plagued by a great scandal. That Alessandro Addis colluded with the Black Apostle, that he had a child with the Black Apostle, and so on.

Such accusations grew and grew, and later it was even said that she should be stripped of his title.

Of course, it was just words.

Just in time, monsters erupted explosively from the Black Fog and disturbed the capital, and it was her father who dealt with the monster.

Even the anecdote about her father killing black dragon felt like an exaggerated legend, to the point where even her own daughter, Isabelle, couldn't believe it.

‘Yes, there’s no way a father like that would have had a child with a dirty Black Apostle!’

Suspicion was completely dispelled , but the ominous gaze still followed.

Kanna’s black hair, black eyes. It gives her goosebumps every time Isabelle sees it.

Even though she's a family, it's this much, but what about other people? It probably looks like a pest.

‘No.’

To think that Kanna would be living in her house. She was terrifying, like living with a cockroach.

‘But her sister said she wrote a contract with Kalen…’

Brother, why the hell did he do such a stupid thing?

Isabella’s expression, which had been rolling her hair for a while, suddenly brightened.

Kanna asked for permission to stay in the mansion in exchange for curing Lucy. That’s what it means.

‘Isn't it fine if Lucy continues to get sick?’

Why did the idea come up only now? In the end, if Lucy continues to get sick, it will be resolved!

Even if the current disease, the distorted face is cured, if it hurts on the other side, it will go back as Kanna’s fault. Everyone will think something went wrong during the treatment.

“I am a genius!”

Isabelle laughed to herself and pulled on the gold string hanging from the ceiling. A jingle, a clear bell rang.

“My Lady, did you call me?”

“Wasn't your father an herbalist?”

“Yes.”

“Okay.”

After thinking for a while. Isabelle apple brightly.

“A poisonous plant with a weak effect, can you get it?”

“Yes?”

“Not the famous one. Something people can’t easily recognize. Yes, the East Continent herb would be nice!”

Then the maid’s face turned white.

“Even things from the eastern continent are hard to find. Especially for a commoner like me…”

Isabelle did not speak at length. She pulled out a diamond brooch the size of her fist from a drawer and held it out.

“Now, can I get it?”








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