Chapter 61 – Allegory
Ellie looked at Violetta in surprise. Liam frowned.
“That doesn’t sound like anything…….”
Liam blushed in excitement. She looked like she would pour out resentment and scolding at any moment. But then she sighs, and she takes a few deep breaths and opens her mouth in an adult, soothing voice.
“…… Don’t be a child, Violetta. You should know that I am carrying a great burden just by keeping you quiet. It’s full of people who raise their voices to kill you right away. Your existence alone is a threat to the imperial authority. Do I have to explain this basic thing? If you were born into the royal family and enjoyed your rights, you should now shoulder your responsibilities.”
Duty of royalty. It was literally.
The royal family enjoys all kinds of pleasures and rights just because they were born with good parents.
But that right is not something you get for free. The rights of the nobility were, after all, a debt owed to the people. When the time comes, you must pay back the amount of duty you enjoyed. If you are born to be a leader, you must fulfill your role. To contribute by sacrificing oneself for one’s country. It is their duty
The easiest way to fulfill one’s duty as a woman’s body is to find a good marriage partner and establish a marriage alliance.
No matter how powerful Violetta was once, she was now just a girl who had lost the race for succession. No, on the contrary, they are treated worse than ordinary girls. Anyway, unlike Ellie, who lived a quiet life, Violetta had a history of revealing her ambition over her crown.
She literally put her life in danger if she did n’t get married and prove her usefulness her properly. That’s why she needs to fulfill her duties as her as the imperial family as soon as possible.
Of course, Violetta must know that too…… Was
“Sir, I hate it. I hate it…. Why should I…….”
“Violetta, you…….”
“Uh, sister…… ? Why the hell are you doing this all of a sudden?”
Ellie looked at her half-brother and stopped Violetta in a fidget.
Liam looked at Violetta with a curious expression. Why the hell are you making a lot of noise like this? Although she once was, she is a contender with whom she has ever contended for the crown. She was, of course, as much a thoughtful child as she was. She was like this and it was definitely not her personality to act like a kid. It was inevitable that she felt a strange strange feeling.
Whether Liam felt out of place or not, Violetta continued to bully her. Finally she turned her gaze to the man standing behind her. Her eyes match There was no conversation whatsoever. He just kept her eyes on her, as if to tell her to speak.
“…….”
A short silence followed.
‘To break through the situation…….’
Naturally, the thought reached the man’s ability. A very easy and simple solution was right in front of me.
But no matter how much it is, it can’t be that it’s a very awkward thing to manipulate the family that has been connected by blood. Not only Ellie, but also Liam was her family. I didn’t want to touch her.
‘However…… It can’t be helped.’
Yes it is unavoidable what can’t you do? I do not know. Anyway, there is no breakthrough without borrowing the ability of a man. So, isn’t that just ‘unavoidable’?
Circular reasoning lacking rational logic. A series of accidents led to Jung-gu Heating.
He does n’t brainwash his family as much as he does. This was her bulwark. She did n’t make a separate strict commitment, but she naturally drew a line in her unconscious.
She was about to cross that line now. Just once. Yes, she evers her eyes from her conscience her just once. It was at that time that she immediately opened her mouth in the name of a request. Liam asked a question with a puzzled face.
“What are you?”
“…… What?”
“Even the emperor cannot live doing what he wants to do. What are you what are you saying, you’re going to spend a lot of time going over what you want to do and what you don’t want to do? Even Ellie, younger than you, accepted the duty. What the hell are you doing? You act so insolently.”
“I…”
It was a really trivial question. It may be a question that can be easily answered by some. She, too, reflexively tried to spit out an answer. But Violetta felt that something was caught in her chin and her throat. She didn’t know why she was feeling this way now.
‘I…… What?’
Violetta. Royalty woman. She was a person with nothing. Except that I’m getting a little protection from that man.
It was as if she had been hit with cold water on her head.
Since when has she been in a position to trust her thoughts to a man’s ability?
“…….”
Violetta was at a loss for words and pursed her lips.
The request I was going to ask the man went into the back of the road.
Now, what were you going to do?
Did you try to lay a hand on your family, and even on Ellie?
Line.
Violetta was conscious of the line drawn in her head.
A line that was engraved in the unconscious. Boundaries of conscience.
At first, a relatively wide line was drawn: “You mustn’t manipulate other people’s thoughts.” Sun narrowed the scope little by little, unknownst to her, every time she abused the power of a man. Just as her conscience her melts away every time she does something bad, each time she becomes a little freer.
Narrowing and narrowing, what remains now is an extremely small range. The last piece of conscience that you shouldn’t lay your hands on only your family.
I tried to erase even the last remaining lines. Just before that
I knew from the beginning that it was a dangerous ability.
You can get anything you want, and you can easily get rid of anyone who annoys you. There was nothing wrong with that, and his power was more addictive than any petty power she had enjoyed in her short life.
Not to mention, the thought that even that omnipotent man would cater to her likes made her feel an unknown sense of satisfaction. It was like the fox exerting the power of a tiger, but the awareness that it was being shamed for itself was vague.
He even had the brazen notion that the present situation was a just recompense for the pain he had suffered. It would have been a natural step for him to become more and more free from his hesitation as he added a rationalization soaked in compensation.
You can achieve anything you want, so there is no need to think deeply. However, she stopped her foolishness and looked back on the situation a little rationally.
She said, ‘Since when did she stop seeing people as people?’
Early on, she studied royal studies as a resource for her would-be monarch. A monarch rules over others, but in order to do so, he must fully understand the position of the person being ruled. However, the power of men ignored even such minimal dynamics. No matter how selfish he behaved, there was no backlash, so there was no need to consider the position of suffering and no need to feel guilty.
Even though he had only lived like this for a month or so, his powers had a powerful effect on her way of thinking of her. She now seemed to know how a man looked at the world. Why did she do such atrocities to herself without any guilt? He doesn’t even have to go far. Isn’t she becoming herself like that right now!
‘Perhaps the world seen by that man is very different from that of ordinary people.’
It was unnerving to see him smiling and looking at himself. It seemed like he was just having fun. He treated such a thing like a wish-granting fairy and ate it…….
Violetta gathered her thoughts in a daze. Her Liam looked at her like that and opened her mouth.
“It looks like she needs some time to clear her mind of her. Let’s talk again later. I’ll give you time to think.”
Violetta silently nodded her head. Ellie looked at the two and was confused, then she nodded her head together.
***
Violetta left her Liam behind and returned to her own room. The man quietly followed her. To those who don’t know, it looks like a silent attendant following the master. In fact, even though the relationship between the two is close to the opposite.
“Ha… Ha…”
Kik, thump.
After closing her door, Violetta leaned against her door, breathing heavily. Through her back she could feel the knurled bumps adorning her door her. She wasn’t particularly running, but her breath was strangely rough. Maybe it’s because my heart keeps shaking. Suddenly, her legs she gave way and her strength she gave out, and her body she slid down the door and landed on the floor.
She looked at the man who had followed her into the room with a displeased expression. She licked her lips again and again and then she barely opened her mouth.
“…… Now, if possible, I will not rely on your ability. I won’t ask for anything unless it’s absolutely necessary.”
“Then are you saying that you will borrow my strength again if you need something?”
The man grinned and grabbed his horse by the tail.
Violetta glared at him with a growl.
“Don’t keep arguing exhaustingly. Anyway, I won’t be asking you for anything anymore.”
“‘As long as it’s okay’?”
“…… Under. Okay. Not at all, never. I will never borrow your abilities from now on. If you want a definite answer, I’ll do whatever you want. Never! Never!”
Violetta screams in anger.
The man pretended to be startled and covered his ears her with her fingers to shield his eardrums her from her noise her.
Violetta sighed for a while longer, and her man just stared at her. The look on her face that I can’t understand what she’s thinking is eerie.
When Violetta shut her mouth, a long silence ensued. The man stared at Violetta in silence, and Violetta, not wanting to lose to him, deliberately met her gaze at her and glared at him.
The confrontation went on like that for a while.
In the end, it was Violetta who broke the silence first. She popped out a question that came to her mind.
“…… So, are you going to abuse me again like you used to?”
“What?”
Unsure of the intent of the question, the man tilted his head crookedly. Violetta immediately added her explanation of her.
“Your plan went awry. I’m not going to ask you any favors now, so there’s no meaning to freeing you like now…… ?”
“So, are you going back to the old teaching assistant method? You don’t have to set me free now?”
“…….”
Nod.
Violetta nodded instead of answering.
Then, the man gave off an unpleasant laugh.
“What, what is it? Are you laughing at me now?”
“That’s because it’s fun to see you tremble with anxiety. Why, I made up my mind at best, but I guess being treated roughly like before is still scary?”
“…….”
“Don’t worry. Because I don’t think so anyway. If I get tired of the current situation, I might go back to playing rough like I used to, but I’m still far from getting tired of it. More than that, I wonder if you can keep your word that you really won’t ask for anything in the future. The way I see it, you can never keep that resolution. It is already too late.”
“…… Don’t try to provoke I will keep my promise Even without someone like you, I lived well.”
The man stared at Violetta. Violetta didn’t lose either and made eye contact with him and hers.
“…….”
However, because the staring eyes were burdensome for several tens of minutes, in the end, I avoided my eyes first at the end. I feel like I’ve lost somehow. I felt like I had become a person who was not proud of my oath.
