That night.
Blie ran away from home.
The timing was bad.
This is because one of her relatives, whom she calls 'uncle' for convenience, had been drinking that day and slipped on the rainy road, and took out his anger on Blie.
Blie, who was about to hit him a few times, could not stand the violence that continued so viciously that day and killed him.
Then she searched his pockets, stole the money, and ran away.
“Ronta. Take me to the Piretta estate in eastern Ronta.”
It was a day when heavy rain was falling.
Blie changed cheap public carriages several times and, as she got closer to Ronta, she started buying newspapers compulsively.
'How can people look so alike?'
Blie's hands trembled as she stroked her striking blonde hair, which had been dyed black with Rossi's help.
A portrait of a beautiful girl smiling brightly next to a beautiful man.
They were so similar to each other in their clothes, and it was hard to find a single part of them that wasn't similar, from their smiles to their eye colors. No, they were exactly the same.
It was a different atmosphere from herself, who had seen all kinds of hardships and lived like a naked man, but it was definitely like that.
“Adrienne... Piretta.”
Where her mother works. Piretta, eastern part of Ronta.
She knew her mother was working as a nanny for a noble family, but what are the odds that it was the Piretta family, a great noble family that ruled the East?
And just in case..
What are the odds that this girl who looks exactly like her is the nanny her mother, Olivia, has?
The money she had stolen from her uncle had already run out, and Blie was exhausted beyond belief.
The heavy rain did not stop even after they reached the Piretta estate. Several days had passed, and it was more than enough time for Olivia to learn of her departure.
Blie hurried to the mansion to get there before Olivia could find her.
The house, which was too large to be called a mansion, was familiar to her because she had vague memories of it from her childhood.
The place that she came across in the middle of the night.
Blie watched Olivia packing her bags in confusion. It was clear that she was going to Elacon to find her.
Only then did Olivia take a sharp breath as she discovered the intruder in the mansion without any escorts.
"Mom."
“B, Blie? Blie?”
“Who is Adrienne Piretta?”
The newspaper she had been holding in her arms spilled all over the floor.
A wet newspaper clattered against her dirty shoes.
“I... who am I?”
There were no excuses.
Mother, no, Olivia, the nanny she thought was her mother, burst into tears like a dam that had burst.
And with a face soaked even more than her own, she poured out unbelievable truths through the pouring rain.
My eyes are dizzy.
My heart boiled with injustice.
Born without a father and raised apart from her mother, Blie endured severe humiliation and persecution in her relatives' home, and grew up fighting, becoming accustomed to anger.
But she has never felt such intense emotions in her life.
“...How did I live.”
“Blie, it’s all my fault.”
The mother who respected her was so unfamiliar. Blie shook her head, shedding large tears.
“How did I live there, without my parents, trying to protect myself...”
When the suffering reached its peak due to continuous abuse.
“I was originally a person who didn’t have to live like that?”
Blie's eyes, soaked with something that was either rainwater or tears, suddenly contorted. Her eyes, like those of a wounded young animal, began to gleam darkly.
“These clothes my mom sent me... Are they that girl’s clothes?”
All the fancy clothes she had worn until then should have been her own.
The old clothes that Adrienne was wearing!
“F*ck, seriously...”
No good words could come out of Blie's mouth, who had already lived a rough life.
Actually, Blie knew too.
Olivia originally did not come from a wealthy noble family.
The reason Blie didn't starve while living with her relatives was because of the living expenses Olivia sent to the relatives who took her in.
Even though Adrienne's dresses and accessories were too small for her to wear and were thrown away, they were precious things that she wouldn't dare touch if they were flat. She could just stretch out the small sleeves and short skirts.
But that day, sadness exploded.
Olivia's love for Adrienne, who wanted to give Blie what she had enjoyed, was so great that she didn't know where to direct her anger.
“Don’t look for me.”
“Blie!”
“Don’t even call me ‘Blie’, please!”
Blie was overcome with betrayal and anger and screamed for the mansion to leave.
“Tell me anything you want. But please, please...”
Olivia ran to Blie as she tried to run out of the mansion, grabbed her by the hem of her clothes, and said.
“Please, don’t go to the Duke of Piretta’s mansion. Don’t cause trouble here... I will definitely, definitely kill Lady Blie. This is my first and last request. Please...”
Boom-!
A powerful thunder crashed down, seeming to pierce through the mansion. Just like the day the other twins of destiny were born.
Only then did Blie glance at the old mansion.
A leaky ceiling.
Olivia's frugal outfit.
Even if she works as a nanny for a wealthy noble family, she will have nothing left if she sends money to feed more than 10 people.
'I'm so stupid.'
She couldn't tell whether that was something she was saying to herself for living like a fool or to Olivia, who was living alone in an old house and hearing such complaints from her.
“...Don’t look for me.”
“Blie. Blie! You must never, ever return to Piretta! Contact me wherever you are. When you feel better, someday... someday... !”
“Why would I go there when they’ll try to kill me as soon as I get there?! Stop acting like a loser and stop sending your living expenses to Elacon from now on. I’m not going to live there.”
Blie opened the door to the mansion. A gust of wind blew into the small mansion.
Olivia tried to grab Blie with trembling hands, but Blie turned away.
“...I’ll contact you. Don’t worry.”
Blie barely managed to suppress her anger was on the verge of exploding and jumped back into the rain.
It was the middle of the night, but she could still catch the last stagecoach and cross the border into town.
She stopped by a store just before it closed and traded the shabbiest and most unattractive dress she had brought with her for Adrienne's clothes.
It was a new outfit that fit perfectly without needing any stretching.
Blie cut up the dress she had brought out that day with scissors.
“No matter how shabby the clothes are...”
Every time the pouring rain hit the window, she muttered with her face soaked with tears.
“I like new things.”
Blie cried sad tears as she cut off the lace and frills with sharp scissors.
“I’m never going to wear anything that’s not new, f*ck.”
Upon returning to Elacon, Blie headed straight to Rossi's cabin.
“You ran out like that on a rainy day, what happened at home? Your relatives are all over the village looking for you.”
“They must be looking for me now that the master is gone. And they’re not my relatives anymore.”
Her only consolation was that she was not related to those guys by blood.
Rossi looked at Blie, who was wearing shabby clothes instead of the fancy clothes her mother always sent her and felt unfamiliar with them.
“I’m going to live with you now, Master.”
"What?"
“Master, you said you were going around looking for abandoned mines or something? You also need to find some records that Master wrote a long time ago. I’ll help you with that.”
“How can you help me? I couldn’t find it either. I don’t know about the mine, but the records are definitely in a place that ordinary people can’t easily get to.”
“Somehow. Can’t I find a clue while I’m alive?”
Rossi accepted Blie without much resistance.
Although she was always annoying, Rossi felt more at ease taking Blie with her than leaving her behind, a walking magic bomb. She was a child who could go anywhere, so she would definitely be useful.
Although they had been staying in this small forest for a long time because of Blie, Rossi was originally a wanderer in search of records and mines, so they started wandering right away.
At that time, Blie was working in the mines and stealing pieces of mana stone.
The mine, located near the border of Ronta, was discovered only recently and was still untouched by Elacon.
Blie secretly sold the remaining pieces of mana stone from there or gave them to Rossi for future use.
If you go to the Piretta Territory, you'll die? Then, why don't you meet your father or something somewhere other than the Piretta Territory?
For Blie, who had been wearing only the finest items since childhood, wearing new but shabby clothes was an unbearable insult.
It must have been about two months since Adrienne Piretta had been living a life of luxury as the Grand Duchess.
That day was the day when Blie had an encounter that would turn her life upside down.
A man who is a long-time customer of the mine where Blie works appears.
The day she silently served the mine owner who ordered her to prepare refreshments for a special guest who had come to Ronta.
Blie glanced at the man with an unusual aura and it felt like her breath had stopped.
'Noevian Trovica!'
Inside the newspaper, she looked at every day.
A man who could, perhaps, really be her husband.
Adrienne's husband, who had taken her place, was right in front of her.
And the important thing is.
Even though she had dyed her hair black as always, her appearance was incomparably more shabby than before.
It was the dumbfounded face of a man who had obviously forgotten to breathe as much as she did, who had clearly recognized who she resembled.
Blie ran away from home.
The timing was bad.
This is because one of her relatives, whom she calls 'uncle' for convenience, had been drinking that day and slipped on the rainy road, and took out his anger on Blie.
Blie, who was about to hit him a few times, could not stand the violence that continued so viciously that day and killed him.
Then she searched his pockets, stole the money, and ran away.
“Ronta. Take me to the Piretta estate in eastern Ronta.”
It was a day when heavy rain was falling.
Blie changed cheap public carriages several times and, as she got closer to Ronta, she started buying newspapers compulsively.
'How can people look so alike?'
Blie's hands trembled as she stroked her striking blonde hair, which had been dyed black with Rossi's help.
A portrait of a beautiful girl smiling brightly next to a beautiful man.
They were so similar to each other in their clothes, and it was hard to find a single part of them that wasn't similar, from their smiles to their eye colors. No, they were exactly the same.
It was a different atmosphere from herself, who had seen all kinds of hardships and lived like a naked man, but it was definitely like that.
“Adrienne... Piretta.”
Where her mother works. Piretta, eastern part of Ronta.
She knew her mother was working as a nanny for a noble family, but what are the odds that it was the Piretta family, a great noble family that ruled the East?
And just in case..
What are the odds that this girl who looks exactly like her is the nanny her mother, Olivia, has?
***
Blie had always written to him through the telegraph office, but this was the first time she had come in person since she moved to Elacon.
The heavy rain did not stop even after they reached the Piretta estate. Several days had passed, and it was more than enough time for Olivia to learn of her departure.
Blie hurried to the mansion to get there before Olivia could find her.
The house, which was too large to be called a mansion, was familiar to her because she had vague memories of it from her childhood.
The place that she came across in the middle of the night.
Blie watched Olivia packing her bags in confusion. It was clear that she was going to Elacon to find her.
Only then did Olivia take a sharp breath as she discovered the intruder in the mansion without any escorts.
"Mom."
“B, Blie? Blie?”
“Who is Adrienne Piretta?”
The newspaper she had been holding in her arms spilled all over the floor.
A wet newspaper clattered against her dirty shoes.
“I... who am I?”
There were no excuses.
Mother, no, Olivia, the nanny she thought was her mother, burst into tears like a dam that had burst.
And with a face soaked even more than her own, she poured out unbelievable truths through the pouring rain.
My eyes are dizzy.
My heart boiled with injustice.
Born without a father and raised apart from her mother, Blie endured severe humiliation and persecution in her relatives' home, and grew up fighting, becoming accustomed to anger.
But she has never felt such intense emotions in her life.
“...How did I live.”
“Blie, it’s all my fault.”
The mother who respected her was so unfamiliar. Blie shook her head, shedding large tears.
“How did I live there, without my parents, trying to protect myself...”
When the suffering reached its peak due to continuous abuse.
She was using her dragon to protect her body, and then her magic powers were revealed. Blie went to see Rossi and begged for help to calm the pain that felt like her heart was burning.
Since she was told that if she used her magic on ordinary people, she would never be helped again, Blie learned dagger fighting through Rossi.
Olivia came over to hug her with shocked eyes at the pouring out of resentment from Blie.
“Why didn’t you tell me, why didn’t you tell me...”
“What can I do to a mother who doesn’t even know her own daughter’s clothing sizes because she’s already a mother to Adrienne who has everything...?”
Adrienne Piretta was enjoying a comfortable life, hanging out with her friends at the Academy, and inviting merchants to her home to sit and pick out gems and flowers.
Blie herself went around searching for mana stone mines for Rossi's research.
Then, when she needed money, she would climb over other people's fences, steal roses until her hands were sore, and then sell them.
However...
Since she was told that if she used her magic on ordinary people, she would never be helped again, Blie learned dagger fighting through Rossi.
Olivia came over to hug her with shocked eyes at the pouring out of resentment from Blie.
“Why didn’t you tell me, why didn’t you tell me...”
“What can I do to a mother who doesn’t even know her own daughter’s clothing sizes because she’s already a mother to Adrienne who has everything...?”
Adrienne Piretta was enjoying a comfortable life, hanging out with her friends at the Academy, and inviting merchants to her home to sit and pick out gems and flowers.
Blie herself went around searching for mana stone mines for Rossi's research.
Then, when she needed money, she would climb over other people's fences, steal roses until her hands were sore, and then sell them.
However...
“I was originally a person who didn’t have to live like that?”
Blie's eyes, soaked with something that was either rainwater or tears, suddenly contorted. Her eyes, like those of a wounded young animal, began to gleam darkly.
“These clothes my mom sent me... Are they that girl’s clothes?”
All the fancy clothes she had worn until then should have been her own.
The old clothes that Adrienne was wearing!
“F*ck, seriously...”
No good words could come out of Blie's mouth, who had already lived a rough life.
Actually, Blie knew too.
Olivia originally did not come from a wealthy noble family.
The reason Blie didn't starve while living with her relatives was because of the living expenses Olivia sent to the relatives who took her in.
Even though Adrienne's dresses and accessories were too small for her to wear and were thrown away, they were precious things that she wouldn't dare touch if they were flat. She could just stretch out the small sleeves and short skirts.
But that day, sadness exploded.
Olivia's love for Adrienne, who wanted to give Blie what she had enjoyed, was so great that she didn't know where to direct her anger.
She envied and hated Adrienne, who would have grown up with the same face, the same eyes, and seeing something different than her faceless father.
“Blie!”
“Don’t even call me ‘Blie’, please!”
Blie was overcome with betrayal and anger and screamed for the mansion to leave.
“Tell me anything you want. But please, please...”
Olivia ran to Blie as she tried to run out of the mansion, grabbed her by the hem of her clothes, and said.
“Please, don’t go to the Duke of Piretta’s mansion. Don’t cause trouble here... I will definitely, definitely kill Lady Blie. This is my first and last request. Please...”
Boom-!
A powerful thunder crashed down, seeming to pierce through the mansion. Just like the day the other twins of destiny were born.
Only then did Blie glance at the old mansion.
A leaky ceiling.
Olivia's frugal outfit.
Even if she works as a nanny for a wealthy noble family, she will have nothing left if she sends money to feed more than 10 people.
'I'm so stupid.'
She couldn't tell whether that was something she was saying to herself for living like a fool or to Olivia, who was living alone in an old house and hearing such complaints from her.
“...Don’t look for me.”
“Blie. Blie! You must never, ever return to Piretta! Contact me wherever you are. When you feel better, someday... someday... !”
“Why would I go there when they’ll try to kill me as soon as I get there?! Stop acting like a loser and stop sending your living expenses to Elacon from now on. I’m not going to live there.”
Blie opened the door to the mansion. A gust of wind blew into the small mansion.
Olivia tried to grab Blie with trembling hands, but Blie turned away.
“...I’ll contact you. Don’t worry.”
Blie barely managed to suppress her anger was on the verge of exploding and jumped back into the rain.
It was the middle of the night, but she could still catch the last stagecoach and cross the border into town.
She stopped by a store just before it closed and traded the shabbiest and most unattractive dress she had brought with her for Adrienne's clothes.
It was a new outfit that fit perfectly without needing any stretching.
Blie cut up the dress she had brought out that day with scissors.
“No matter how shabby the clothes are...”
Every time the pouring rain hit the window, she muttered with her face soaked with tears.
“I like new things.”
Blie cried sad tears as she cut off the lace and frills with sharp scissors.
“I’m never going to wear anything that’s not new, f*ck.”
***
Upon returning to Elacon, Blie headed straight to Rossi's cabin.
“You ran out like that on a rainy day, what happened at home? Your relatives are all over the village looking for you.”
“They must be looking for me now that the master is gone. And they’re not my relatives anymore.”
Her only consolation was that she was not related to those guys by blood.
Rossi looked at Blie, who was wearing shabby clothes instead of the fancy clothes her mother always sent her and felt unfamiliar with them.
“I’m going to live with you now, Master.”
"What?"
“Master, you said you were going around looking for abandoned mines or something? You also need to find some records that Master wrote a long time ago. I’ll help you with that.”
“How can you help me? I couldn’t find it either. I don’t know about the mine, but the records are definitely in a place that ordinary people can’t easily get to.”
“Somehow. Can’t I find a clue while I’m alive?”
Rossi accepted Blie without much resistance.
Although she was always annoying, Rossi felt more at ease taking Blie with her than leaving her behind, a walking magic bomb. She was a child who could go anywhere, so she would definitely be useful.
Although they had been staying in this small forest for a long time because of Blie, Rossi was originally a wanderer in search of records and mines, so they started wandering right away.
At that time, Blie was working in the mines and stealing pieces of mana stone.
The mine, located near the border of Ronta, was discovered only recently and was still untouched by Elacon.
Blie secretly sold the remaining pieces of mana stone from there or gave them to Rossi for future use.
If you go to the Piretta Territory, you'll die? Then, why don't you meet your father or something somewhere other than the Piretta Territory?
For Blie, who had been wearing only the finest items since childhood, wearing new but shabby clothes was an unbearable insult.
It must have been about two months since Adrienne Piretta had been living a life of luxury as the Grand Duchess.
That day was the day when Blie had an encounter that would turn her life upside down.
A man who is a long-time customer of the mine where Blie works appears.
The day she silently served the mine owner who ordered her to prepare refreshments for a special guest who had come to Ronta.
Blie glanced at the man with an unusual aura and it felt like her breath had stopped.
'Noevian Trovica!'
Inside the newspaper, she looked at every day.
A man who could, perhaps, really be her husband.
Adrienne's husband, who had taken her place, was right in front of her.
And the important thing is.
Even though she had dyed her hair black as always, her appearance was incomparably more shabby than before.
It was the dumbfounded face of a man who had obviously forgotten to breathe as much as she did, who had clearly recognized who she resembled.
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