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Chapter 214 : Chapter 214
It was then.Reina, who was turning her eyes, met eyes with Oliver who was stealing glances at her.
Oliver felt a prick in his conscience inwardly but looked forward as if nothing happened.
But Reina was not like that.
“Is there something you want to say to me?”
She stuck close to Oliver’s side and asked.
Oliver immediately ignored her with an annoyed face, but Reina wasn't a pushover.
“Excuse me? Excuse me? Mr. Oliver. Mr. Oliver?”
“…….”
“Why did you look at me just now? Huh? Huh? Huh?”
Oliver felt strength entering his jaw muscles little by little.
The thought ‘……What a tiresome girl’ came to mind automatically. To that extent, Reina was persistent.
“Ey. Don’t pretend you don’t knooow! You just looked at me with an expression that you had something to say.”
Her voice was so loud that even the mercenary members walking at the lead turned back once in a while.
Eventually, Oliver, unable to endure it, had to declare surrender and open his mouth.
“……Stop it already. I got it.”
“Hehe. Is that so?”
Reina smiling brightly.
Seeing her, Oliver crinkled his expression fiercely but let out a deep sigh.
“There’s no special reason. I just looked.”
“Then it’s a coincidence?”
“Right. It’s a coincidence.”
“Aha. I see.”
Reina shook her head up and down.
“Aside from that. Why didn’t you help yesterday? Even though I asked you to help like that. Honestly, I was very disappointed.”
“That’s because it’s annoying. I absolutely hate annoying things. Like right now.”
“Eh? Does that mean, right now I am annoying?”
“Yeah.”
Reina, who gasped ‘Heek’ in surprise at being rebuked to her face.
“That’s too much.”
Immediately after, her shoulders slumped, an appearance that made one feel pity just by looking at it.
Even while doing so, she diligently moved her crutch to match Oliver’s pace.
For a moment, Oliver wondered what he was doing dragging this kind kid around, so he hurriedly opened his mouth.
“Is, isn’t it hard?”
“Yes?”
“I’m asking if it isn’t hard. Doing mercenary work.”
Asking that, Oliver looked at Reina’s left leg.
“It’s okay. I am a mage, you know.”
“What circle are you?”
“1st Circle!”
“…….”
Oliver felt the need to revise his evaluation of them.
Although mages among mercenaries are rare existences, no matter what, 1st Circle is a bit…….
‘……It’s a level where it’s better not to have one instead.’
“Hehe. Actually, it hasn’t been long since I learned.”
“How long has it been?”
“One week.”
Oliver looked at Reina.
Based on what he had observed so far, she wasn't the type to lie.
So he thought it was a joke.
‘Though for a joke, it isn’t funny.’
Oliver changed the topic.
“What is that woman’s name?”
“Mitchell Unni?”
“Mitchell.”
Oliver chewed on her name a few times and asked.
“What is your relationship with her? Seeing you call her Unni, are you perhaps sisters?”
“Eh? Can’t you tell just by looking? I think anyone would know we’re twins just by looking.”
Oliver’s head tilted to the side.
“……Twins you say? Just where?”
Looking again, the two people’s appearances were polar opposites.
It was natural.
Currently, the two people had their appearances changed with Face Masks.
Reina, who realized that belatedly, quickly changed her words.
“Ah. Ahahaha. It was my personal wiiiish!”
“…….”
“Anyway, how did Mr. Oliver come to be an herbalist?”
It was then.
“……Why do I have to tell you that?”
“Yes?”
“I asked why do I have to tell you that. You don’t need to know.”
Oliver’s attitude suddenly turned cold like a sheet of ice.
At that, Reina couldn’t hide her bewilderment.
“…….”
And there was no reaction.
Awkward silence.
When Oliver, feeling strange, glanced to the side.
He ended up being flustered.
Because Reina’s eyes had become completely red and it looked like she would drop tears at any moment.
‘ was I too harsh?’
Feeling his heart sink, he spoke.
“You…….”
“I’m sorry. Please don’t look upon it unfavorably. So please don’t mark the request as a failure. I absolutely have to succeed in this request……!”
“……Huh?”
Oliver made a sour face.
‘What nonsense is she talking about?’
It seemed she was having some strange misunderstanding on her own.
In any case, if other people found out, it would become annoying, so Oliver corrected the facts before she really burst into tears.
“Don’t worry since there’s nothing like that. Even if there were, I wouldn’t do that.”
“Uh? Really?”
“Yeah. So if you’re done chatting, just go to your sister. Because now I really want to be alone.”
All his energy was drained by Reina.
Oliver wanted to rest.
“Please.”
When Oliver said that much, only then did Reina move away.
However, she didn’t withdraw her suspicious gaze.
“It’s a promise. I really trust Mr. Oliver!”
Watching her like that, Oliver sighed inwardly and shook his head from side to side.
‘She’s a kid who really makes people tired.’
She drains all energy with too many words and unmanageable energy.
But why?
Oliver, who absolutely hated being bothered, strangely didn’t dislike her.
Not long after, the two sisters’ conversation sound dug into his ears again.
“What’s wrong, Michelle? Your expression isn’t good. Did you hear something bad from Mr. Oliver?”
“Ah, that is.”
He didn’t intend to, but before he knew it, Oliver was gathering all his nerves on his hearing.
“……He said we two don’t resemble each other at all. Mr. Oliver did.”
“What. You were making a face like you lost the world just because of those words?”
“Yeah. I wanted to resemble Unni and thought I did, but Mr. Oliver said no. He said he just knew for the first time just now that we were biological sisters. That is so, so shocking to me.”
“…… just what is shocking about that, you idiot.”
His pulse relaxed and Oliver almost burst into laughter.
She was truly quite the erratic girl.
At the same time.
‘How can their actions be so identical? Being erratic, lively, and even having a clumsy side, everything.’
Once more, her face came to mind in his head.
Now, Oliver had no choice but to admit it.
In Reina’s appearance, he kept seeing his dead younger sister.
***
Looking at her lying on the bed, Oliver shouted in anger.
‘Again? Did you go outside again, Daria?’
‘Ah. Oppa?’
‘Why on earth are you overdoing it like this when I said there’s no need? Huh!? I told you even a gently blowing wind is fatal to you?’
‘Aing. Because I want to be of even a little help to Oppa. Hehe.’
She smiled brightly like a flower shaking in a gentle breeze.
And seeing that smile, Oliver melted softly again this time too and ended up chuckling.
‘Sigh. I really can’t live because of you, can’t live.’
Oliver sitting next to her bedside while beating his chest.
‘In your eyes, does this older brother’s ability look insufficient?’
‘Eeh? Noo? Oppa’s medical skills are already the best in our family. What is insufficient?’
‘Then? Just why are you risking your life on something like herbology? A kid whose body isn’t even good.’
‘Because.’
Since I am dreaming the same dream as Oppa.
Chirp, chirp…….
Oliver woke from his sleep.
Why did I wake up when I was sleeping well; as he raised his senses, something like a foreign sound was heard amidst the sounds of grass insects.
‘……A shout of spirit?’
Oliver raised his body.
Passing the mercenaries dozing off while nodding in front of the bonfire, he went to where a small stream flowed.
There was a small shadow wriggling there.
‘Michelle.’
It was Reina, who was acting as her.
She appeared to be training.
She was extending her hand while looking forward, and looking closely, small pebbles were floating in the air.
‘It’s telekinesis, isn’t it? But…… is that degree of power possible with telekinesis?’
And a 1st Circle at that?
It was then.
Perhaps her concentration bottomed out, the pebbles fell with a clatter.
And Reina sitting down and panting.
Like that, she seemed to rest a little, then soon sprang up from her spot, grabbed her crutch, and walked around here and there.
When Oliver revealed himself was when her crutch got caught on a protruding stone and she fell.
Reina, who was in pain while lying prone, was startled seeing the shadow that suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.
“Uh? Mr. Oliver!”
“Are you doing training under the moonlight or something?”
“That’s right. Hee.”
“…….”
Oliver looked down at her quietly, then flopped his butt down on that spot.
Reina also raised her body and sat next to him.
“Why aren’t you sleeping?”
“I slept. Just woke up early.”
“Aha.”
Chirp…….
“How did your leg become like that?”
“This? I don’t know well either. It was like this from the time I came to my senses.”
“From the time you came to your senses?”
“Actually, I was sick for quite a long time. I suffered from a disease no one could cure, so I lost consciousness and was passed out.”
“Was it an incurable disease?”
“It’s similar. I can’t give you a detailed explanation but…… anyway. In the midst of that, Unni met some thankful people, and with their help, the incurable disease was treated and I also came to my senses.”
Reina continued speaking.
“But in exchange for treating the incurable disease, my left leg became like this, you know?”
Oliver didn’t believe it.
Is there an incurable disease where the left leg breaks if you treat it?
He had never heard of nor seen such a bizarre illness.
“Who treated it?”
“I cannot tell you that. Sorry.”
Oliver nodded his head.
Secrets one cannot tell anyone exist.
Even he himself was the same.
However, the doctor who treated that incurable disease must have been a villain impersonating a doctor or an incompetent quack.
‘To leave this kind of serious side effect on a young girl.’
Oliver felt pity for Reina.
“Any thoughts of fixing it?”
“Of course I have! I also want to fix it. But, it seems it can’t be fixed. It can’t be helped. I am okay. I am okay but…… I am very sorry to Unni.”
“Why?”
“Because Unni is running around tremendously to fix my leg. I know that.”
Reina smiled.
Oliver saw the sadness hidden behind her smile.
And it overlapped.
With his sister’s smile he saw in the dream just now.
……Silence came.
Reina looked at her hand with greatly flustered eyes.
On top of the back of her hand, another hand was superimposed.
It was Oliver’s.
She lifted her gaze and looked at Oliver’s side profile.
“……!”
He was staring piercingly ahead.
As if he didn’t want to be caught with his reddened eyes and tears gathering at the corners of his eyes.
Since the night in the mountains is extremely thick, it might not have been visible if he did that.
However, unfortunately, Reina was a thief who had learned [Night Vision].
So she could see.
The tears flowing down his cheeks.
‘Just what story does he have…….’
At that time, Oliver opened his mouth.
“It’s because of my younger sister.”
“……Yes?”
“You asked during the day. Why I became an herbalist. It’s because of my younger sister. She was a bit sick. So while studying herbs, it became like this.”
Oliver took his hand away.
“Sorry. I thought of my sister without realizing it. Pretend you didn’t see it.”
“Ey. It’s okay. That can happen. But, you were a cooler Oppa than I thought?”
“……Me?”
“Of course! Isn’t it the exact same situation as my Unni? Unni who runs around to fix my leg. And Mr. Oliver who became an herbalist for the sake of his younger sister!”
Oliver nodded his head.
He was just thinking that as well.
It was a fascinating thing.
To think not only the actions resembled, but the situation was also similar.
“Hehe.”
Like that, Oliver was permeating into Reina little by little without realizing it himself.