How to Steal the Protagonist’s Woman 488

Chapter 488 – Chapter 488 Between Family and Family

Beatrice looked at the half-destroyed house and began to laugh dejectedly.

“Wow… I’ve been emptying it for a long time, but I didn’t expect it to be this much.”

That is, it meant that it was not originally like this.

It was fortunate.

No matter how much it is, it’s because I’m at a loss as to what kind of comfort I should give if my old colleague lived in a haunted house from which any beggar would jump out at a single step.

I couldn’t comfort her by saying that it was a pity to live in a place like this, and I couldn’t be relieved that she had left even now.

Beatrice also started to laugh dejectedly at us, seeing our unexpected level of condition.

“I thought I could get enough rest here, but I can’t. To another place….”

It was the moment Beatrice was about to move to another place, waving his hand.

“Wow! Is this where Bea Bearce lived?”
“That, right… Nyan.”
“Wow!”

Viola didn’t care at all when she saw the shabby house, and started to open the door to Beatrice’s house and enter.

“Wait a minute! It’s dirty in there!”
“It’s the first time I’m going to that friend’s house!”

It’s not that she doesn’t consider Lena her friend, it’s more that she doesn’t think of Lena’s castle as her friend’s house.

When Viola went in first and took a look inside her, Beatrice started to notice us.

I shrugged and smiled.

“Now, if you invited me, let me take a look inside.”
“Ugh… I don’t know if I’ll regret it.”

With his neck relaxed and his head stretched out, Beatrice formally invited us to her home.

The house was an ordinary two-story wooden house.

Orange-colored sunlight streamed in from the windows, not missing a single dust scattering inside, and shining like a spotlight.

But more problematic than the dust was the condition of the interior furniture.

This house, which had the appearance of an abandoned house, had the appearance of an abandoned house on the inside as well.

The furniture is all broken, and there are traces of fire with the broken furniture here and there.

It was clearly proof that someone had trespassed.

But when Lena saw that, she immediately summarized the current situation and told me about it.

“Looking at the traces of the fire, it seems that someone stopped by a long time ago, not now.”
“Ah… I think it was just an empty house and came in and stayed there for a while.”

Even this house was at the beginning of the mountain.

It wouldn’t have been difficult to find while passing by.

Beatrice began to laugh as she looked at the ruined house.

“Puhaha! This is a bit harsh!”
“This is your house….”

Anyone who sees it will know it’s someone else’s house.

Beatrice grabbed his stomach and laughed, barely stopping his laughter and waving his hand.

“As soon as the war broke out, my mom and dad ran away with me… It might have been a big deal if I had stayed here all along.”

In other words, it was during the war that this house became like this.

Beatrice laughed heartily, calmed down, and began to look around.

Even with the naked eye, the first floor was already confirmed to be a mess.

So what about the second floor?

When we went up to the second floor, the second floor was divided into rooms on both sides of the stairs from the first floor.

‘One is a large room, the other is a small room.’

As you can see, the larger one was Beatrice’s parent’s room, and the smaller one was Beatrice’s.

The first thing she entered was a small room.

And in her room….

“Hey… It’s too bad here.”

In Beatrice’s room, except for the bed, there was not a single piece of furniture in perfect condition.

There were even quite a few papers flying around in the room.

Viola picked up one of the papers and began to look around slowly.

“Wow… Is it a painting?”
“….”

When you say a painting, it is a painting.

By the way….

‘What can I say… Should I call it a painting? Aren’t they just hieroglyphs?’

It was just a picture of a child who had just drawn a human figure with paint.

However, there were dozens of such paintings going around the room.

Lena also picked up another piece of paper and started looking at her drawing.

But the impression she gave was different.

“… This is paper that was produced in our country.”
“How did you know?”
“The seal remains faintly at the end of the paper. It’s amazing. This paper must be quite expensive. There are so many here….”

At Lena’s words, Beatrice shrugged her shoulders.

“Originally, there were a lot more. The guys who were sitting here probably burned it.”
“Where did you get this paper?”
“It seems that whenever I sell Myohonghwa, Dad always brings it.”
“Ah….”

I guessed roughly.

Before the war, humans and demons were interacting to some extent.

Due to the nature of the demons, they do not need currency, so they must have exchanged items to make a living in the form of barter.

But is the king of the Peron country desperately in need of Myo Hong-hwa?

The fact that he was able to bring such a large amount of expensive paper was proof that Myohonghwa was sold at a high price.

But here I have a question.

“As Lena said, it is so expensive, so why do you have so many?”

The question of how he got it was resolved. However, I was still puzzled as to why there were so many of them.

“That is….”

Beatrice continued with the saddest expression she had ever shown.

“Because I can’t sleep. My dad brought it so that I wouldn’t be bored.”
“Ah….”

In order to somehow take care of Beatrice, he had brought as much paper as possible, even if it was expensive.

No matter how much Beatrice was digging and selling myrtle flowers herself, she always brought these expensive papers that had nothing to do with her livelihood.

It was proof that he received a lot of love from his parents.

Such Beatrice….

‘… Aren’t you wasting too much paper?’

No matter how much sympathy I want to feel, I can’t believe expensive paper is used here just for drawing….

Or maybe you don’t know if your skills improve while you’re drawing… There was not a single sign of an increase in skill.

It was such a gruesome drawing that even in kindergarten, I wondered if I should praise it or not if a child drew it like that.

To put it simply, all the paintings are just drawstrings.

At least, it was a triangular ear on the top of the head, bone wings on the back, or just a tail drawn with the letter 1?

However, the interesting thing was that the figures in the paintings were consistent.

Viola put her hand on the painting and said.

“Is this Beatrice!?”
“Right! As expected, you have eyes for seeing pictures!”
“This is mother and father!”
“Right! As expected, you recognize me!”

Your skills aren’t improving because you judge whether you have an eye for painting or not….

The two started chatting and talking like children.

Thank god.

Armonia, who was looking at the two, told me.

“They are a really good pair.”
“Armonia.”
“Yes.”
“No matter how good your drawing skills are… Isn’t that too low?”

It’s straightforward, but it’s frustrating to just go over it, so I can’t go over it.

Armonia told me.

“I can’t help it. I have no talent.”
“No, even if you don’t have talent… If you draw it to some extent, won’t you feel it?”
“Just think of Karin Brandrup.”
“Eh?”

Why is Karin’s name being mentioned all of a sudden?

Speaking of Karin, she had only one stumbling block in her talent.

Magic.

In other words, it seemed like he was trying to explain by comparing Karin’s magic and Beatrice’s drawing skills, but there was a big error there.

“Ah, Karin couldn’t use magic at all.”
“It’s the same with Beatrice.”
“Beatrice can draw, right?”
“That… I cannot use the expression ‘painting’.”

You’re worse….

And he began to explain directly.

“There is not a single disposition related to painting in the disposition window.”
“….”

But unlike magic, I thought it would be a start because I could draw first….

The world of painting is also a world of talent….

It was impossible for Beatrice to even start like that.

“Armonia.”
“Yes.”
“Let’s keep it for now.”
“All right.”

Later, I’ll drill through his drawing talent with Enello. Wait Beatrice….

No matter how much Viola tried to deal with her, there was no way that the sleeping Viola could deal with her.

Having a hobby that you can enjoy when you are alone will be very helpful.

‘If I received help, I should do as much.’

It’s not just my honghwa that I received today.

In the meantime, the help he received from Beatrice was more than he expected.

In particular, I was a person who greatly benefited from Beatrice.

Dreaming, subordination, sleep.

I found sleep sparsely in other places, but those dreams and subordination were abilities that I wouldn’t have had in the first place if I hadn’t met Beatrice.

The help given by Beatrice was enormous.

While I was thinking to myself, Beatrice finished talking to Viola and started moving.

It was a big room.

“….”

As soon as I saw Beatrice’s expression, I wondered if I should move away.

And I could tell by looking around me that I wasn’t alone in thinking that.

Everyone just quietly looked at Beatrice.

There was no one here who did not know what this room meant.

However, Beatrice did not issue a separate celebration order and just started talking quietly while looking at the room.

“Dad, Mom was separated from the group because of me.”

Beatrice explained about his family.

Her father was a Miao, and her mother was a succubus.

Succubus were a nomadic race, though they formed herds, but in small groups.

In contrast, the Miao were an indigenous people who lived in large groups and settled in one place.

Beatrice’s parents had separated from the group for Beatrice’s sake and were living apart like this.

Fortunately, thanks to my Miao father, I was allowed to stay in Myohong Mountain.

While doing so… The war broke out and two people died.

The problem wasn’t just that he died.

“Dad and Mom both… I don’t know where he died.”

It was a large-scale war that shook the continent.

Finding a body in such a situation… It’s not easy.

Even Beatrice is officially a 2-star general in the Demon King’s Army.

If you can’t find the body of the two-star general’s parents, you’re done.

“… All my life I have been receiving from my parents and never gave anything.”

At least he would have wanted to make a grave.

Because that is the duty of the remaining people.

However, Beatrice had a gloomy heart at the fact that she couldn’t keep that duty.

There was someone stepping out in front of Beatrice who was staring blankly at the room.

“… ?”

Beatrice tilted his head and looked at the person standing in front of her.

It was Lena.

That too….

“….”

It was Lena who was shedding a lot of tears.

Lena lowered her head and opened her mouth without a groan as her tears flowed endlessly.

“Sorry. It’s all because of me.”
“Eh? What are you talking about?”
“I… If I had prevented the war then….”
“….”

It’s a tricky relationship.

It wasn’t Lena’s fault for causing her war.

Officially, it was Betel Kingdom and Peron Principality that took the lead, but before that, it was Viola’s older brother that started the war first.

If he didn’t show up in the first place, he wouldn’t have thought of going to war.

Even Lena was in the position of her princess.

No matter how much the position of a princess was impossible to ignore, it would not have been a position to block or mediate the flow of that huge war.

The reason Lena went to war in the first place was that all the generals were killed at the end of the war and she had no choice but to go out….

I decided to mediate just in case.

“Lena, everyone knows it’s not your fault.”
“No. I… At that time….”

Lena lowered her head and trembled her head, barely removing her mouth.

“The Duke’s cure… I was shocked to hear that it could be obtained more smoothly.”
“….”

All living things are simple.

The moment her own gain is placed in front of her eyes, reason is swallowed up by her greed.

Lena’s greed was her father’s illness.

A flower that only grows on Myohong Mountain. Ironically, the location where the flower grows was a flower that grows in the mountains ruled by the Miao tribe and the demon king’s limbs.

Although she did not welcome the war itself, Lena had no choice but to be led by the sudden flow of war.

And ironically….

“….”

Lena’s father, Beatrice, who increased the life of the duke, had to endure that wound.

I never criticized Lena, and I had no intention of blaming her.

Because she is completely unaware of this fact.

Let alone Beatrice’s existence, she was Lena who did not even know that there was an existence that dug safflower flowers.

She could not be blamed.

However… What about Beatrice?

“….”

She could blame Lena as much as she did, but she couldn’t blame anyone.

Intentions that lead to unintended consequences.

Beatrice closed his eyes and was silent, then put effort into his ear and stood up again, smiling.

“I guess I was really angry at first.”

Of course, she couldn’t have laughed lightheartedly when she heard the news that her parents had died.

“By the way… She thought about it all night, and after thinking about it, she realized that it was all useless.”

Beatrice’s day is longer than ours.

And it lasts forever.

Being lonely at night when everyone else was sleeping, I had no choice but to calm down.

“I… Like I had no friends.”

An entity abandoned by the succubus and Miao.

From our point of view, Beatrice may seem a bit unique, but the Miao and the succubus said this about her.

“Sick… The kids passing by always called me that.”
“….”

Severe but… Can not help it. Unpleasant Valley, it was no different for a demon.

There is nothing different about a human society.

Look at the suddenly born child with cat ears on her head and devil wings on her back.

Everyone will be frightened and try to keep their distance.

The proof was the painting.

There was one thing that never changed even if Beatrice drew such childish pictures all night long.

The figures in the paintings always represent only the family.

‘… No, they’re not family, so maybe I misunderstood them.’

How can you distinguish between so many stickman….

While I was deluding, Beatrice continued talking.

“I… I’ve always been hated. It was the first time people like you like me.”
“However….”
“No… It was the first time I even talked to you with a smile.”

It was thanks to her status that the beings here bowed their heads to Beatrice.

What if she had no identity?

“Perhaps everyone still hates me.”
“….”

While the others were silent, I thought.

‘Then don’t do that….’

I don’t like it because it’s a 2-star sweet and strange prank….

I thought about it again, but this time the story went on without being noticed.

It ended with Beatrice’s laughter.

“Then don’t talk about it. After knowing about you, I also felt that it was useless.”
“Beatrice. Heartily… Sorry. And… Thank you.”
“Hee hee hee.”

I looked at Beatrice curiously.

‘He looks like a child, but he’s more thoughtful than I thought.’

With Beatrice’s forgiveness, everything could be resolved.