A rat would be better if he’s going to tease me. I tortured myself, knowing that the young master couldn’t even touch a mouse.

No one knew that Jade, who gave me crowns, smiles, and puzzles from the age of eight to ten, would become such a naughty fourteenyearold. Always doing his best, yet Jade only teased and didn’t know me at all.

As if Olivia really hated to death.

Swallowing the bitterness, Olivia waited for Jade’s mischief. But maybe it was better to be teased like that than to be ignored like my father who never looked at me.

But no matter how long she waited, Jade didn’t come in. Olivia, who was holding her breath waiting for the door to open, finally cautiously opened it.

Jade was in the dimly lit hallway. Perhaps he had stolen and drunk some liquor, for the smell of alcohol pervaded. With a blank face, Jade slowly turned to Olivia.

For a moment, Olivia tensed.

Jade, a full three feet taller than Olivia, had grown closer to an adult physique than a boy since learning the sword. Although he had never hit her, Olivia had often seen how drunken adults could turn while at Turningbell Street.

But Jade did nothing. Standing there, he held a large rabbit doll and a small rabbit doll.

Slowly recognizing Olivia, his stillchildish face slowly twisted. His amethyst eyes focused and glared at Olivia.

“……But.”

A long time later, a mumbling sound came out. Olivia unknowingly took a step forward, listening, and for a moment, couldn’t breathe.

“……My sister, why aren’t you my sister…….”

“…….”

“I thought you were my sister.”

“…….”

“Why aren’t you my sister…….”

Tears welled up in the eyes that glared at Olivia. For a moment, a younger Jade overlapped with the one before her.

Always making crowns, playing with puzzles, and eventually handing the puzzle to me, Jade. Jade, who was smiling happily at the Lady Countess’s kiss baptism.

“Father and Conrad were too much. Didn’t you eat?”

Jade, who didn’t know why his father and Conrad were doing that, secretly brought bread and dolls to comfort me.

“Was it because of you? Because of you, our mother!!”

And Jade, ten years old, who screamed in rage when he found out everything.

Olivia bit her lips hard. Always insisting that she was also a sister, now Olivia could not say a word to Jade.

Jade staggered to Eshela’s room and set down the big doll.

And he threw the small rabbit doll towards where Olivia was before disappearing into his room.

Only then did Olivia slowly walk towards where the doll was. A pretty rabbit doll. When she hugged it, it felt warm. Just like the dolls that Jade brought to her when she was young.

That night, Olivia could not fall asleep easily. Something pricked her chest. The fleeting happiness of childhood came back to her.

Certainly! Here’s the translation of the provided text:

Perhaps Jade also considered me her sister in some part of her heart. If only I had tried a little harder.

“Olivia is Princess Emerald.”

I thought that happiness would come back to me.

BANG The closed door echoed. Olivia’s bowed head flickered. As Jade shook her head to erase the afterimage, she spat out an expletive.

“That crazy fool, they say his head has gone mad, what is this!”

I had waited for today. Thinking that the day to go to the victory banquet would come, having been bent for a year and a half.

Just when the intelligence that Hepherity’s remnants were present had come in. That mad Duke told me to single out and resolve it.

The intelligence was false.

It was incomprehensible why he had waited for the victory banquet. Such banquets were common.

Yet.

What poured cold water on the rising expectation was one of the knights I met when I entered the territory.

The knight, who said he was on his way home from the banquet, rambled strange words.

The Duke swore to a Lady?

Jade sneered. It seemed like a clever move by the Emperor to tie his dog. He must have sworn to the Empress.

“His Majesty the Emperor has really planned it. Is he going to marry even the national spirit?”

“No, Deputy Commander. It is not the Empress! The one to whom His Majesty has sworn is……”

Heat rising, the knight suddenly saw Jade and trailed off.

“……Come to think of it, Deputy Commander. She is your sister, isn’t she?”

“What?”

My vision went white. The only Madeleine princess who could attend the banquet was Olivia.

Returning to the mansion in anger, Olivia was not there.

With everyone sent away, Jade, who had been sitting on the first step, stood up as soon as Olivia returned. And holding back a nagging heart, she asked.

The one who received the Duke’s oath was Olivia?

That stupid thing.

Knowing what kind of guy the Duke is.

Anger rushed to the tips of my hair. Jade grabbed any gift from the side and threw it against the wall.

As the box fell, a glove dropped out. It was the same glove that Olivia had been wearing. Jade caught her rough breath and stared at the piledup gifts.