“…….”

“Oppa, what’s going on?”

“Hyung, you look like a dried-up sea cucumber.”

“Sea cucumber? What’s that?”

“It’s there. Something ugly.”

Nine years old this year.

Lily and Lotus came to Hevetsman Marquis’s mansion to play, following Robenhaf and Ludwick Marquis.

The twin siblings with pink hair started a serious discussion, looking at Robenhaf sitting on the sofa with a vacant expression.

“They say Robenhaf got rejected by Sister Liche.”

“Wow. Did he confess?”

“He did. Jed told me.”

“Fool. Robenhaf. I told you it wouldn’t work with Sister Liche.”

For the past three years, when Robenhaf visited Ludwick Marquis’s mansion, persistently aiming for the position of Liche’s close brother, the twins had followed Robenhaf.

Thanks to that, Lily and Lotus were quite familiar with the people of Ludwick Marquis’s mansion.

The ruthless touch of the younger siblings stabbed into Robenhaf’s cheeks from both sides.

Although the merciless touch of the younger siblings could have been painful, Robenhaf showed no reaction.

Liche’s words, “I… won’t do it,” ringing in his ears constantly tormented Robenhaf.

It’s all ruined. He not only destroyed the sandcastle of first love that he had been building layer by layer but also stamped on it and even jumped on top of it.

“Hyung, it’s not fun.”

“Lotus. Should we go to Sister Liche, leaving our brother alone?”

“Ask Sister Liche why Robenhaf hyung got rejected.”

“Why?”

Why ask such an obvious question?

Even if I were Sister Liche, I would have rejected my brother. If a flaw is left in the perfect Sister Liche, who is a perfect beauty, wouldn’t that be the case?

Lily jumped off the sofa.

“I miss Sister Liche.”

On the other hand, Liche, who came out of the reception room, rushed into Deon’s room as if escaping.

Then, sitting on the sofa opposite Deon, she was calming her heart, surprised by Robenhaf’s unexpected marriage proposal.

“I was surprised.”
“Serdia Marquis, since Zig himself didn’t hear what was said directly, he naturally considered it an adult’s joke with a child in mind.

Robenhaf, facing the altar, said to Blake like that.

“Did he really mean it?”

Whether it was a sincere remark or a joke, Robenhaf saying that he wanted to marry himself right in front of everyone. That too when everyone was watching.

The embarrassment that surged was pounding in sync with the heart. Liche’s confused thoughts were tangled. I, I, marriage…

“I… won’t do it.”

That was what came out of her mouth.

Afterward, seeing the shocked face of Robenhaf, not knowing what to do, Blake brought him out of the reception room. It was right around then that they came to Deon.

She was still blushing from how embarrassed she had been.

“I should have said it properly; I couldn’t think of a single word.”

It was even more so because it was an unimaginable situation.

In fact, Liche hadn’t even thought that someone might like her romantically. Even looking at Agnes’s life as a whole, Liche had never had such an experience.

Should she go back to Robenhaf and properly reject him? But in this situation, she didn’t know if it was okay to act like that.

“I wonder if Python knows.”

If Python, who had lived for thousands of years, was by her side, she would seek advice. However, he hadn’t returned yet before the next full moon.

Liche looked at Deon, who was lying on the sofa arm, leaning. Deon, feeling bored with the wooden cube he had been aligning, was lightly tossing and catching it repeatedly.

“Oppa, have you ever liked someone romantically?”

“What are you talking about.”

Deon made a strange expression at the out-of-nowhere question.

A little while ago.

Deon had tried to go to Liche immediately when he heard that Robenhaf had come, but instead, Liche had come to the temple.

Thanks to that, Deon, who had no chance to leave the room, was completely unaware of the commotion caused by Robenhaf’s public proposal failure.

“Where’s that.”

Liking someone romantically. Even thinking about it was dreadful.

Even without doing that, when he grew up, he would roughly find someone suitable for marriage within the family. It was because he had to be the next head of the Ludwick family.

Ludwick, inherently uninterested in others, mostly found marriage partners in that way. Blake, who had a love marriage, was a very rare case.

“Why is your face red?”

It didn’t feel good. It was clear that Robenhaf had done something to his sister.

“What did you say to her?”

As he was about to say that, someone knocked on the door and turned the doorknob. Through the slightly open door, a girl’s voice flowed in.

“Derckedion oppa, is Liche unni here?”

“Lily?”

“Oh, I hear unni’s voice! She’s here!”

At Liche’s words, Lily finally opened the door wide and entered Deon’s room. Lotus followed behind her.
The twins rushed toward Liche, who was sitting on the sofa. Liche instantly became entangled with both of them and asked, “Why, what’s going on?”

“Unni! Our oppa has turned into a dried cuttlefish, blocked by you!”