"...Why?"
Why is he here?
"..Why?"
Rather, he's a face Kanna doesn't want to see, even in her dreams.
She closed her eyes, not wanting to see him any longer, and she realized.
'...It can't be a dream.'
It must be a dream to see her brother, Seon-hong.
Her consciousness, which had been dreamy, gradually returns to reality. Kanna opened her eyes again.
"Are you awake?"
Kalen Addis said calmly.
"..."
Kanna looked at him blankly and then looked around.
A high ceiling. The drape of the bed drooped in pure white. It's a place she's used to.
'Why am I lying here?'
She was talking to her father in the lobby...
Kalen said, perhaps recognizing the question.
"You passed out."
"Ah."
She knew it. Kanna nodded her head.
It was plausible. She went through so many strange things today that she seem to have lost all strength.
"What is the wound on your shoulder?"
"You don't have to know."
Kanna said it insignificantly and got up from the bed.
Looking out the window, it was finally evening, the sunset is setting, but she didn't want to sleep like this. As she draped the shawl over he body, Kalen came over and tugged at her.
"..."
What? Kanna looked down at his grip and whimpered to free the shawl.
But it didn't move at all.
"What are you going to do?"
"We are talking."
"What am I talking to you about?"
"I have things to say and things to be heard."
"I don't have anything to say."
"Sister!"
Oh really!
Kanna could not stand it and opened her eyes sharply.
As if realizing his mistake, Kalen quickly bit his lip.
"...Aren't names important now? What are those wounds?"
"I fell. A rolled over on the stairs and got stuck on the corner."
"Are you telling me to believe that? And where are you going at this time?"
"Lab. I have something to do."
"How?"
When Kalen raised his voice, Kanna's shoulder trembled in surprise.
"..."
Kalen's distorted face blurred.
'Ah.'
Kanna also noticed that she was trembling. She would rather die than show a weak side like this in front of Kalen, so she took a deep breath. However, it was not as easy as she thought to calm down.
'I saw people die, and I almost died too.'
She has never actually seen anyone die. Not to mention, she must have seen a terrible scene where her throat was cut off with a single knife. Maybe that's why, the remnants of fear still remained. But her mind couldn't tolerate it.
What is it that changes because she is afraid? Let's not be weak.
"... I didn't mean to surprise you."
"I know, so let me go."
Squeak.
The shawl slips from Kalen's grasp.
Then Kanna put it over her shoulder and quickly left the room.
'Lab. Lab.'
As she walked downstairs, she heard footsteps following. In the end, he only looked back at Kanna as she entered her lab. As expected, Kalen was there.
"Why?"
"you may fall again."
Those words pierced through her inside.
Kanna's eyes froze more and more ferociously.
Was it because it was a difficult day? It was harder than usual to be patient.
Why?
"the wound, please tell me who did it."
Why is this guy like this?
"And I think you'd better get some rest today. Your complexion is pale."
Why?
"...Sister."
Snap!
The taut string of patience was severed.
Kanna heard the sound clearly. The sound of something snapping in her head.
"What are you doing?"
She couldn't stand it any longer. No, she didn't want to put up with it.
"I told you not to call me that."
It's annoying. Even this wound on her shoulder. Not even in Korea, but in this empire. Having to look at the family she won't see.
"Who is your sister? Who?"
Kalen gritted her teeth. Even watching him hold back something, her anger did not diminish. No, it got stronger.
Kanna shouted, glaring at him as if to kill him.
"What are you meddling with? Who are you giving me advice?"
"...Sister.."
"I told you not to call me that!"
Shouted, like spitting it out.
"Don't call me sister! You are nothing to me! And me too! I am nothing to you!:
Kalen's face was turning white. It was even more absurd that he looked as if he was in shock.
Is he shocked by this? Just this much?
These words are nothing compared to what he did to Kanna.
"I don't know what you think of treating me as your sister, but stop. I know it's just a fleeting whim anyway."
Kalen, who had been silently listening, finally opened his mouth. Is it because of the mood? His lips seemed to quiver.
"I was immediately regretting the past. I want to fix the relationship even in the future..."
"Whit whom?"
Kanna couldn't stand the ridicule that came flooding in. She blatantly giggled and spoke harshly.
"You're always on your own, Kalen Addis."
When she was young, and even now. Kalen is terribly selfish.
"When you hate me, I have to crawl on my own, and when you don't hate me, I have to be nice to you. Do you want that? Why should I?"
"..."
"Why do I always have to adjust to you!"
"Something like that."
Kalen clenched his fists. His cheeks turned red as if he had been insulted.
"It's not like that. Don't talk like that."
Before Kanna could say anything, he added quickly.
"Aren't we going to keep seeing each other anyway? Are you going to keep rejecting me in the future? Regardless of the past, we are brother and sister. You are my sister too..."
He licked his dry lips as if he was nervous as he spoke. It was a glimpse of anticipation in his eyes.
"Sister, didn't you look for me while you were sick?"
"...What?"
"You looked at me and said I was your brother. There must be a wish somewhere in your heart that you want to rely on your family."
Kanna was completely speechless. She found Kalen? Herself?
'No.'
Yes, she definitely found her brother. Unconsciously, she found her Mom and Dad, Ttotto and Seon-hong. When your mind and body are weak, you can't help but think of a person you want to lean on, that is your family.
But Kalen seems to believe she has found him. That the "little brother" she called was himself.
What a heinous delusion.
"Rely on me. Sister has only me."
"..."
"Are you going to rely on your older brother? Or Isabelle? To mother?"
Unaware of anything, Kalen passionately expressed his will.
"Or are you going to rely on Father? Father just watched sister fall. Do you know?"
"..."
"Sister has only me."
"..."
"Only me."
A dejected laugh came out. Because Kalen's arrogance is the same. Also, the father's behavior was terribly predictable. As expected, it was clear that his father did not care whether he died or not.
She thought her father was a little surprised to see the bloody clothes.
'Surprised and worried are two different things.'
How long do I have to listen to this bullshit?
There are not one or two drugs that need to be made right now, but time is wasted.
So Kanna decided to tell her the truth.
"Not you."
"...Yes?"
"the brother I found, it's not you."
"If not me, who? Isabelle? Or Orsini?"
"Not them all."
"Then.."
"It's someone else."
Kalen's face froze. She looked like she had been slapped.
"It's been 7 years since you and I have been apart. Wouldn't it be strange to say that I've had something like a younger brother?"
"..."
"I have someone. He is a man of the same age as you, and I consider him like a younger brother. No, he is my brother."
So could you turn it off now? Kanna looked at her with eyes that said that.
"I found him, not you."
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