Chapter 4
With messy blonde hair, thick and well-groomed eyebrows, deep golden eyes beneath them, a height of around 175 cm, a sturdy body that looked like it had been trained through exercise, and a monocle resting perfectly in front of his right eye like the finishing touch—
Wow.
He looked a little older, but this handsome middle-aged man who seemed like he must have made both women and men cry in his younger days… who was he?
“Luna, do you recognize your father? Why did you go to the greenhouse that night? Just thinking about what could have happened if Count Schwindel had not gone out for a night walk…”
Ah, so this handsome older man who perfectly matched my taste was Luna’s father, Count Siltburg, Leite… what was it again?
Right, Leitepetique de Mirage.
They really made these names unnecessarily difficult.
When I read stories about people who got possessed into novels, they always remembered not only the plot but also every character’s name perfectly.
But this wasn’t a novel I wrote myself, and it wasn’t even something I had read on a platform. There was no way I could remember every little detail.
I was lucky that Sowooju had talked to me about the settings and storylines in detail while saying she wanted to discuss things with me. Otherwise, what would I have done?
“F-Father…”
Since she had been staring for too long, she decided to say something first.
“Yes, it is fortunate that you have regained consciousness safely.”
Count Siltburg turned to Lily, who had followed him inside.
“Luna’s body was weak, so perhaps she simply lost consciousness for a while. Do not go around making unnecessary fuss, understood?”
“Y-Yes… My lord.”
Lily wanted to argue that the Count should have seen what Luna had looked like earlier, but under the Count’s intimidating gaze, she could only lower her head without saying another word.
“Luna, you are the legitimate eldest daughter of the Mirage family. After your older brother Proint left this world so suddenly, your father has done everything possible to firmly protect our family. You must not harm your body over something insignificant, understood?”
“I’m sorry for worrying you, Father. It won’t happen again.”
Luri had no idea what exactly was happening, but she used her three years of workplace experience and succeeded in giving a vague but appropriate answer.
“Good. It should be that way.”
Count Siltburg looked at her with a rather affectionate expression and gently stroked her head with his large hand.
She was seeing this man for the first time, but when she thought, “Is this what a father’s touch feels like?” Luri felt a strange ticklish feeling in her chest.
The unfamiliar kindness of a man made her shrink her neck, and she felt like she might turn into a turtle at any moment.
Leitepetique looked at Luna’s face, which had regained a peach-colored warmth, and his expression became much more relaxed, as if he could finally breathe again.
Then he turned his head and stared at the boy standing awkwardly in the corner of the room.
“If you came to see your sister, you should come closer and greet her with a bright expression. Why are you standing there looking so gloomy?”
Even after the Count spoke, the boy could not answer and only hesitated.
The Count shook his head, then looked back at Luna and casually spoke.
“Since I have seen that you have regained consciousness, that is enough. I have already told the kitchen, so if there is anything you want to eat, tell Lily. I have a meeting with the retainers, so I must leave.”
At those words, Luri thought that since she had entered Luna’s body, perhaps she really needed to become Luna.
“Yes, Father. I will recover soon, so please do not worry.”
Although Luna’s face was still slightly pale, her small smile made the Count nod with a calm expression.
However, after turning around, the corners of the Count’s mouth held a warm smile that could only belong to a daughter-obsessed father.
The door closed, leaving only Luna, Lily, and the mysterious boy in the room.
He had rushed in together with the Count earlier, asking if his sister was okay.
Judging from the Count’s attitude, this child must be Young Master Reizent.
Sowooju said she would create a cute younger brother for me because I liked puppies.
Was this the child she created?
I had been too distracted by the unreal atmosphere of the handsome middle-aged man with a monocle, so I hadn’t properly looked at him.
But this kid was the real deal.
“Reizen…t?”
She carefully called his name.
The small boy, around 160 cm tall, looked at her with slightly nervous golden eyes while his curly blonde hair swayed as if he had gotten a perm.
“Y-Yes, sister. Are you feeling alright?”
Ah!
What was this kid?!
Was this a puppy turned into a human?
With those huge golden eyes looking up at her, she felt like she could see puppy ears that weren’t even there.
Inside Luna’s body, Luri wanted to hug this adorable boy who looked like he could be bitten out of cuteness.
But she didn’t know what their relationship had originally been like, so she couldn’t bring herself to reach out her arms.
“Reizent, how old are you?”
“I am fourteen years old.”
Wow.
Were fourteen-year-old boys normally this adorable?
When Wooju was fourteen, he had already grown tall, so he wasn’t this cute anymore.
Besides, in Korea, fourteen-year-old boys were usually right in the middle of their rebellious phase. There were countless kids who acted tough, talked back, and were full of unnecessary pride.
But this boy perfectly matched the emotional word “young boy.”
“Lily, I would like to have tea with Reizent since it has been a while. Could you go tell the kitchen?”
Luri hadn’t only read BL novels all her life.
She wasn’t at the level of an extreme fan, but she had also read plenty of romance fantasy novels.
She spoke to Lily while imitating the elegant atmosphere of the noble ladies she had seen in those stories.
“Understood, Young Lady. Please wait a moment.”
After Lily left, only Luri wearing Luna’s appearance and Reizent remained in the room.
“Come sit here, Reizent.”
His name was cute too.
I don’t know about other names, but this one really rolls off the tongue.
She tapped the side of the white bed and gestured for Reizent to sit.
Reizent’s face turned red as he hesitated before sitting carefully on the edge of the bed.
He couldn’t even make eye contact and kept biting his lips nervously.
So cute I could die.
But what exactly was the setting between this older sister and younger brother?
Right.
Luna had an older brother named Proint, who had passed away several years ago.
The little puppy-like Reizent sitting in front of her was the son Count Siltburg had brought from outside.
Hadn’t he come to this house when he was around five years old?
After entering the Mirage family, he had been severely mistreated by Luna’s mother and had become a timid child.
Still, Luna had treated him fairly kindly even if she wasn’t extremely affectionate.
With Sowooju’s personality, she probably wouldn’t have set Luna to be cruel to him.
If I had a younger sibling like this at home, would I have been less lonely while growing up?
“Were you very worried when your sister suddenly collapsed?”
“Yes, sister. Count Schwindel came running in while carrying you in the middle of the night. You were unconscious, and I was so shocked I didn’t know what to do.”
“Count Schwindel carried me in?”
“Yes, sister.”
“Why was Count Schwindel staying at our house?”
At her question, Reizent looked slightly surprised.
“I think I lost a little bit of my memory when I lost consciousness. If you tell anyone else, they might worry unnecessarily, so keep this only between us, okay?”
She quickly improvised and forced their little fingers together.
Reizent’s already red face became so bright it looked like it might explode.
“O-Okay, sister. About Count Schwindel…”
But Reizent still hesitated to answer.
“It’s alright. Tell me, Reizent.”
“That… it was the third anniversary of Brother Proint’s death, wasn’t it? He was staying at our house for the memorial ceremony. Since the two of them were close friends… Besides, he visited from time to time anyway, so it wasn’t strange. He has actually visited more often since Brother passed away.”
Ah, so it was around the third anniversary of Proint’s death.
That was why Count Siltburg mentioned Proint earlier.
Proint de Mirage, the eldest son of the Mirage family and a Sword Master, had died at the age of twenty while fighting monsters to save Crown Prince Panen.
Luna, who had adored her older brother, had fallen into deep sorrow afterward.
Then she began relying on Schwindel more like an older brother and became attached to him.
Her mother had died from an epidemic the year before, and then the brother she depended on had passed away the following year.
So it made sense that Luna clung to Schwindel so much.
It was probably similar to how I depended on Wooju.
Although we lived in the same neighborhood, Luri and Sowooju were complete strangers.
Even so, because of Wooju’s unconditional kindness, I shamelessly relied on him.
Wooju only took care of me because a girl four years younger than him followed him around so much that he found it cute.
Of course, as we grew older, our relationship reversed, and there were more times when I took care of Wooju.
But when it came to emotionally depending on someone, I was still the one who relied on him.
But wait!
It was Schwindel’s stay for Proint’s third anniversary?
Then what did Luna see in the greenhouse?
Luna had collapsed three days ago.
And in the memory that suddenly flashed through my mind earlier, Schwindel and Crown Prince Panen were tightly embracing each other, biting and kissing each other’s necks…
What?
They came to someone’s house for the third anniversary memorial of their friend and were doing that?
And Luna saw it?
No wonder she collapsed for three days.
Besides, it was the person she had loved unrequitedly for such a long time.
Luna in the novel was only seventeen years old.
Oh my god.
Could Luna have misunderstood what she saw?
No.
There was no way a young noble lady had happened to be in that greenhouse in the middle of the night.
And if something was shocking enough to make her unconscious for three days, what else could it be besides the scene clearly engraved in Luna’s memories?
Luri’s whole body trembled as if she had personally experienced it.
Seeing this, Reizent reached out with worried eyes and gently held her arm.
“Sister, are you alright? Does somewhere hurt again?”
“No, no. I think I’m just weak because I was unconscious for three days. Can I lie down for a while?”
“Yes, yes! Sister, please lie down quickly!”
Reizent carefully helped Luna settle down.
The fact that she still hadn’t woken up from this situation proved that this was not a dream.
Now, her path was clear.
The heartbreaking love between Schwindel and Panen was destined to come true.
So she had to avoid the death flag hanging over her own head.
To do that, she had to step away from this love.
How could BL lose?
Exactly.
In the real world, her mother had already passed away, and she had never even seen her father’s face.
The one person she trusted, Sowooju, had met a man she loved enough to have an engagement ceremony with and had flown away from her side.
The company wouldn’t collapse just because she was gone.
Luna clenched her fist while lying on the bed.
Her goal in this world was survival.
And she would survive proudly.
There was no longer an “Lee Ruri.”
There was only Luna de Mirage, who knew many of this world’s settings and future events.
Come at me, world!
Let’s see who wins!!
As Luna swung her potato-like fist toward the ceiling with fierce eyes, the little Reizent turned pale with fear.
“S-Sister… why are you doing this?”
