A Terminally Ill Villainess Refuses To Be Adopted - Chapter 7

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“When was the last time you said the soup looked weird? And now it is the third bowl? Be honest. It’s delicious, right?”

So praise me, villain.

Raven flinched when I said it jokingly. Then he slowly lowered his eyes, frowned, and nodded his head lightly.

“Haha.”

Oh, the more I look at it, the cuter it gets.

After laughing for a while, Raven’s cold eyes barely stopped my giggling. Still, his face color had returned a little, probably because he had something to eat.

After eating, we drank tea together at the end of the day and looked out the window. Raven didn’t fall from me while monitoring, so he ended up sitting next to me.

“Is it worth living for?”

“……”

At my question, Raven glanced at me and nodded slowly.

In the early evening, Raven’s eyes, full of sleepiness, were shining softly like stars. I knew that he had already been clenching his fists hard so as not to fall asleep.

‘You hit the palm of your hand with the fingernails.’

I know because I’ve tried it, but it doesn’t work that well. But it was also proof that this young villain was not losing his vigilance towards me. Although the atmosphere of the conversation was more relaxed than I expected.

I smiled a little and concluded.

‘I think it’ll be fine for today.’

Probably because he was different from the villain who lost everything and went crazy in the main story. After all, it’s bound to be different from the incarnation of revenge, which kills everyone if they wrong him.

‘Because he hasn’t lost his father and vassals yet.’

I’ll send him away nicely after taking care of him and getting along well.

….Now I had to say that we can’t always eat as much as today.

Yes, this was the right time.

Time to answer the question of living together even though you don’t have money. Naturally, let’s start with another topic first.

“Well, Raven, starting tomorrow, we won’t be able to eat as much as we did today. Are you okay?”

“Better than starving.”

The answer made me cringe a little. So I kept my mouth shut for a while, then answered with strength.

“We will not starve at all. Promise.”

Although Evelyn is a child who is ostracized in this neighborhood, still, there must be a way to get some money or bread. Anyway, let’s take a look at the original settings.

Of course, I didn’t intend to starve, but I made a stronger commitment. At my resolute words, Raven blinked his eyes and looked at me.

Looking at his unknown expression, I clapped my hands and asked.

“Okay, how old are you now? Do you know?”

I asked because children on the street sometimes don’t know their age.

“……Twelve years old.”

“Um, what’s your birthday? You know that too?”

Raven wrinkled his eyes as if questioning why I was asking something like that.

“……December 2nd.”

Yet, he does give me all the answers.

“You were born in the middle of winter.”

While nodding my head, I suddenly remembered Evelyn’s birthday.

“I am on April 1st.”

“So what?”

Raven, who sensed an abnormality, narrowed his eyes and asked back. Even with the cold eyes, I did not give in.

“I am the older one.”

“And?”

A cold pressure started to come out of him, but I could not stop my mouth.

“Would you like to call me Sister?”

“No.”

That reply was the most decisive comeback of the day.

Sheesh.

However, since the other opponent is that Raven, I gave up without asking twice.

If you don’t kill me, I’ll be glad to be your friend instead of your sister. In fact, right now, I was constantly playing around as I was trying to lighten the mood.

“Well, okay. Then I’ll call you Ray, so you call me Eve. What do you think?”

I think it’ll be easier to get close to each other when you get used to the nickname. I don’t know anything else, but it’s comfortable to decide the name early.

“Okay.”

The boy nodded his head with a look that he was talking about something taken for granted.

‘Why can I read his expression so well?’

I smiled softly as I thought of such an absurd thought, and I calmly said to him, who was starting to feel sleepy.

“All right, Ray. Once you gain some weight, let’s look for work. Maybe you can find a job in this town too.”

“…Get fat? And work?”

“Yo-You are too skinny.”

When I answered by cleverly omitting some parts, a dumbfounded gaze glared at me openly.

Are you in a position to talk about others?

“What, I can’t help it.”

“You can’t help it?”

“Um… yes. I have a body type that doesn’t get fat.”

In fact, there is no time to gain weight because of the disease. Anyway, there would be no need to show weakness already to a child who could have killed me.

‘I’ll get caught because it’s so obvious during treatment anyway.”

Still, it’s better to get closer before getting caught. In fact, I was sweating a little bit because of the pain. But at this level, it could be easily dismisse because the dinner soup was hot.

“…All right.”

Raven who said so, suspiciously looked at me for a moment, and after staring at the sky for a while, he spoke slowly.

“Then I will exercise for a while.”

“Exercise?”

“I need it.”

“Ahh.”

In other words, to eliminate the effects of poison, which has a paralyzing effect, the body must be warmed up. Knowing Raven’s situation, I nodded without asking anything.

“You remember the backyard where I said you can get water, right? It’s not inside the village, it’s open toward the forest, so you can exercise without worrying about other people’s eyes.”

Then Raven, whose expression became sharp again, looked at me and said,

“I don’t think I ever said I care about other people.”

“If you weren’t paying attention to others, you wouldn’t have to tell me that you wanted to exercise. You must have said it because you needed something. Is it not?”

“……That’s right.”

Seeing that he was convinced, I naturally turned around.

“By the way, it’s already dark.”

Night comes early here.

There are four seasons, but it was not spring, summer, autumn, and winter. It’s just a cold spring or a less cold winter, and so on. Given that, the weather at night is always winter.

‘The mysterious and dangerous northern land.’

My brother said that it’s a fitting place for a tragedy, but I can’t quite agree.

‘I’m really looking forward to the flower snow that will fall in the cold spring and the warm snow that will accumulate in the less cold winter.’

Look at that, it looks like a beautiful bonfire in the snow. But we are not that lucky. Staring out the window where the dusk was setting, I naturally told him.

“Go to bed first. I have something to do.”

“To do?”

“Yes.”

Now that the atmosphere is drowsy he’s affected by sleepiness.

This was my chance.

I naturally spoke about the economic situation.

“Actually, it’s about a month, no, about 15 days? I only have enough money to buy food for so long.”

If I were alone, I would last a couple of months.

“Since the number of family members has increased, I need to figure out a plan to win money.”

When I smiled brightly as if he had nothing to worry about, Raven raised a question as expected.

“……When you said you wanted to live together, what were you thinking?”

“I told you. I like your eyes because they’re pretty.”

“Stop talking nonsense.”

At my reply, Raven looked at me with a cold, subdued expression at once.

“It can’t be all that, you think I’m a fool?”

“I was lonely.”

With a gentle smile and an answer as if it was nothing much of a reason, Raven opened his eyes slightly wide.

Would he have understood?

Evelyn in my memory honestly felt that way.

And right now, me too.

Shaking away the thoughts that were about to continue, I spoke courageously.

“And money just needs to be earned!”

His golden eyes fluttered slightly. After confirming this, I continued speaking with a bright smile as if to revitalize the atmosphere.

“Well, if nothing else, we will just live to the point where we don’t starve, right? I think this much is okay. It’s still not dying, right?”

“Sigh…….”

The doubts seemed to have been resolved, but instead, I felt as if he was taking me for a fool who had a flower garden for brains…

Maybe it’s my imagination?

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