I Unintentionally Cured the Grand Duke’s Insomnia - Chapter 98
49. — His Trauma (2)
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“…Y-you’re not eating, Your Highness?”
It wasn’t until I finished the soup appetizer and a sandwich with baked salmon as an appetizer that Cain, who hadn’t touched a spoon, became visible. Somehow, I was embarrassed that I ate it alone, not caring about the person sitting in front of me, so I smiled awkwardly and added.
“Our chef is quite skilled in cooking. Perhaps even to Your Highness’s taste…”
“Why didn’t you dodge when you saw the approaching carriage?”
“Yes?”
“Where did you leave the maid who always followed you around? Were you pretending to be okay all this time just a deception?”
He seemed to think that I had harbored negative thoughts when he saw me standing dumbfoundedly in front of the approaching carriage. It was understandable that he misunderstood because even Lily thought that I had bad intentions and distanced myself from her.
His glowing red eyes demanded me to answer.
It felt like I was being interrogated, but there was nothing I couldn’t answer.
“Lily was at the other store because I asked her for something, and we were supposed to meet after she finished her task.”
“So, you were walking down that road alone?”
“It would be more accurate to say that the reason I couldn’t avoid the oncoming carriage was because I was so startled that my body froze.”
“….”
“Of course, there were some thoughts that crossed my mind at that moment, but it wasn’t because I harbored any ill intentions that I didn’t avoid it, as Your Highness might be thinking.”
“….”
“…Are you very surprised?”
I asked cautiously while looking at his frozen face.
Cain made eye contact with me for a moment before a sigh-laden voice escaped from his lips.
“…Yes.”
“….”
“When I saw your frozen face in front of the oncoming carriage, quite a few thoughts crossed my mind even in that brief moment.”
Rather than making excuses about it, I nodded cautiously.
When I regained my memory that I was the original author of this novel, the first thought I had toward Cain was feeling sorry. I was the one who pushed him into a more miserable darkness, making him feel that Irene should be his salvation and the only light. As he probably watched me nearly getting hit by the carriage, he might have been reminded of his younger brother Abel, who fell down the Vandro Gorge in his place.
He believed that everyone around him was unhappy because of him.
And just a moment ago, seeing me in danger, he might have thought that I would leave him, too.
“…I won’t die.”
“….”
“I, I’m not entirely certain, but maybe?”
The words I had spoken firmly became blurred.
Seeing Cain’s face crumple at my answer, I quickly added.
“That means Your Highness doesn’t have to worry too much. Of course, coming from me, who narrowly escaped death today thanks to you, it might be a little unreliable, but…”
“….”
“I don’t want to be a trauma for you.”
I didn’t want Cain, who had already lived through all the pain I had caused him, to have me as another source of his trauma. Despite the fact that I still might not be the one to save him, it was undoubtedly me who had caused him to live in such pain.
“You’ll be happier than anyone else in this world.”
As a writer, I sincerely wished for his happiness more than anyone.
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Cus, who had been wandering through the forest for a long time, finally found a clear flowing stream in front of him.
Seeing the water so clear that the bottom was visible, he rushed to the stream and plunged his head in without hesitation. Although he thought it was clean water, even the taste of the clear water was invigorating. He had wondered if he was going to starve to death, but it seemed there was no law telling people to die.
Gulp, gulp.
The cool water flowed down his parched throat.
‘I probably won’t forget the taste of today’s water for the rest of my life.’
Drinking water without restraint to the point where he could feel it gurgling in his stomach, Cus lifted his head with a satisfied expression.
“Still, at least the water fills my stomach…”
At that moment, the rustling sound of stepping on dry leaves resounded. As he turned around hastily, Cus discovered two children standing there with their heads tilted.
A sigh escaped from his mouth as he was dozing off from nervousness.
‘Oh, thank goodness. Children…’
After checking the children’s faces once again, he unconsciously took a step back.
Something was strange.
…Why were there children in such a deep forest like this?
“This is our village’s territory. How did you come all the way here?”
“Brother. Is it going to be okay?”
“…It will be fine. Humans aren’t all like b*stards like Jo Malone, right? The humans in the village now are like that, too.”
Cus felt a strange sense of strangeness in the children’s words. He even had a sense of deja vu, like he had seen those children somewhere before…
“Then, can we ask that uncle about sister Adelia? He might know because I heard that the story in our town was quite big in the newspaper!”
Adelia?
It was only then that he remembered where he had seen those two children.
It was in the newspaper.
They were the children from the shapeshifter village who had been interviewed about Adelia saving Winder Village.
“Ed, Enni. I told you not to go too far….”
At that moment, Cus’s face turned pale as he saw the face of the man who appeared behind the children.
Grand Duke Destro…?
The man in front of him unmistakably had the same face as Grand Duke Destro.
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