
People say time goes twice as fast when we are with our loved ones, and Edna now understands why they say so. It was like just now he was hugging his father who was sulking because he was not hugged, but suddenly the morning sun had come.
The purple-browed girl sat in front of her bedroom dresser while daydreaming. Last night he did not sleep at all, his time was spent looking at the sleeping faces of his parents while wondering in his heart, was this time he able to see their wrinkled faces that he could not see in past lives?
"They died at a very young age.. "
Sophia stopped combing her hair and glanced at the mirror. "Yes, miss? Did you say anything to me?" her question was as soon as she heard Edna's faint murmuring
".... No. gabe. I was just wondering if Rery had come" Edna said, shaking her head
"Last time I checked, Mr. Rery hasn't arrived yet, miss"
"Ah... That's it." half-heartedly said
Noticing something strange about the boy, Sophia asked again. "Are you okay, miss?"
".... Aye"
"Did you sleep well last night?"
"... Aye." Yeah."
"Aren't you taking a shower this morning?" asked the woman deliberately even though she had obviously bathed Edna earlier
"... Aye"
"Then... Do you miss Mr Jeffrey?" Sophia went back to fishing, this time using the name of a very sensitive person in the ears of the girl
".. Iy-What? Nah! Why are you suddenly talking about Jeffrey?!" Edna immediately turned her head with an expression that turned annoyed from before just a moody silence. Sophia was a little surprised by the lady's response, but she was grateful that Edna was still fine
"You keep daydreaming from here, did something happen? You can tell me everything, miss"
"I... Just a lack of sleep" Edna retorted. She couldn't tell Sophia, but if I'm honest, she's scared right now
Imagining that today the lives of his two parents were in his hands that were still not ready to save them made his stomach feel like nausea. It felt like now Edna wanted to escape from everything and curled up to hide under the covers.
Edna is now not as brave as she used to live as an antagonist character, also unlike the main characters of reincarnation novels who like to forget what fear is once they enter the body of another person whose life is threatened by the storyline. He was very worried that one small mistake he made later that night could end up taking the lives of his Mother and Father.
"Then do you want to rest in your room today, miss? I'll tell Mr. Rery when he comes later that you're not feeling well" bargained the woman who had been caring for Edna since she was a baby was worried, managed to revive Edna back from her negative reverie
"... It's okay"
Sophia knelt down to line up high with her nona sitting on the chair and grabbed the girl's hand. "Miss Edna, I don't understand what's on your mind right now, but you don't have to push yourself too much. Your health is more important than anything"
'No, Sophia. My parents' safety was more important than my health or anything in the world' Edna's inner self replied, but outside she just nodded slowly
"Thank you for worrying about me, but I wanted to play with Rery and Gretta today"
Nanny Edna sighed, she nodded obediently. ".... Well then. Miss can call me as soon as miss body feels bad, I will call the doctor immediately. Even though it hurts so little please call me right away. Miss understands, right?" the message is serious
"Alright, I'll call you right away if anything happens." Edna replied, printing a relieved smile on Sophia's lips
The purple-eyed girl got down from the chair and walked towards the playroom after finishing dressing up, she stepped casually while greeting some of the servants she passed by when her ears heard something from the direction of her parents' study
Curious, Edna approached the door silently and sharpened her hearing
".... The person who was so angry and felt unfair sentenced to 5 years in prison and decided to run away because of reluctance to rot in prison suddenly committed suicide because of guilt? It doesn't make sense"
It was his mother's voice. Edna frowned trying to remember someone who had escaped from prison on this date, but her mind went blank as soon as she heard another voice that she recognized as her father's
"Right, Rouvin Blume was not the type of person who would commit suicide on such trivial grounds. But the officer who found her body confirmed she was actually dead because of a rope that had wrapped around her neck"
That name... Rouvin Flower... Is the name of someone who should have come to kill Edna's parents tonight. True, he was Eleanor's uncle who was very vengeful with Edna's mother for not accepting being sentenced to 5 years for her mistake and then coming sneaking into Schnee's mansion to kill the girl's parents
But what is this? Why is it different from previous lives? As Edna recalled he had not made such a big change in the present that it affected other events. But why is that man dead? Thenwhat? A suicide? No kidding. Who would allow him to commit suicide like this? He should have died slowly and painfully in Edna's hands!
"But they also found punch scars on some parts of his body"
Although still upset because of this sudden news, Edna decided to return to listening to the conversation of her parents
"Maybe he was beaten up by the people who lent him money because he didn't pay at all. After that he was cornered and could not escape anymore so the only way was to kill himself."
"And before that he still had time to leave a will that contained an apology and please put his two nephews into a state orphanage? It's too suspicious for a suicide, Jason"
"Annora, however, was still an uncle of the two children. He must have been worried about the fate of his two nephews after the suicide, let alone their very young age, one year younger than our little Gretta. I heard there are private orphanages that are of high quality, but there are also those that are so bad that they are not worth living in"
Wait for.... Two? As Edna remembered the son of a bitch was just Eleanor, but now there are two? Who's one?
"Not appearing in a novel means either he is very insignificant to participate in the plot, or he is dead before the story begins..."
"What story?"
"Oh, jeez!" Edna flinched in shock as she turned to the side quickly, she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Rery who was winking innocently. "Rery, you surprised me! Since when are you there?!" yells pissed
"just now. You look so serious until I get curious. Tell me, what story?" rery countered casually, Edna glanced towards the door once more before turning around and shaking her hand
"You won't understand. Already, let's play"
"Eh, come on Edna.... You really won't tell me?"
"Isn't this your last day to play and relax before your private classes start? Are you sure you want to spend it listening to unimportant stories instead of playing with me?" edna asked, looking over.
Rery raised an eyebrow in shock, "B-How did you know? I thought I'd asked everyone to keep it a secret." she asked in surprise.
As a fellow firstborn who is getting older, without the need for memory of life and then Edna was able to guess that Rery will receive private lessons around this time. He himself will also soon get it, although later it will be more to the ethics class and various things related to femininity since the girl from the beginning was prepared to be Jeffrey's wife, not the successor to the Schnee family.
"What is so shameful about it that it has to be kept secret? All children our age also get private classes, whether it's the successor class or just the education of ordinary nobles" replied Edna did not understand, Rery lowered his head with pouting lips
"I'm afraid you're sad because from tomorrow I won't be able to play with you often. Ck, why do we have to study anyway? Sucks"
'We just received official education at the age of 11 years was actually very late, Rery. In my first life the children who are much smaller than us have already got education in a place that if not wrongly called school' the purple unravel girl satin while sighing, sighing, he then held onto the shoulder of the friend and looked at her seriously
"Rery, didn't you promise me you'd marry me instead of Jeffrey? You have to learn the smart thing about beating the bad boy so Mom can give me to you" Edna said, covering her face dramatically and continuing. "Or are you going to let me marry Jeffrey? Ah, I can't believe this, it's so sad~"
"What's? Of course I won't let it! Take it easy Edna, I'll be the smartest so your mother will let you marry me!"
Edna smiled with excitement as she grabbed Rery's hand and held the boy. "Good, that's my best friend. But now let's play first, Gretta must have been waiting"
"OK, go!"
"Start!" Edna exclaimed back, she glanced at the door once more before laughing cheerfully with Rery as she left the Marquis's study room heading to the playroom
...*****...
Edna opened the door to her parents' room slowly, she walked up to them and waved in front of her face.
"Good, the medicine is working" the girl muttered, from behind her nightgown Edna pulled out a dagger given by Sir John. She wanted to insert the sword into her parents' room as the main weapon, but Sophia caught it and took it
Those purple eyes turned to look at the window of the room that was still tightly closed. According to his memory, the perpetrator who killed his parents entered through the window and killed them by stabbing them directly into the lungs so that they could not scream before stabbing another part of the body because of emotion.
It's cruel, but tonight it's Edna who's going to stab that guy until his whole body holes up.
But isn't Rouvin Blume dead? True, it's a pity that he was dead before Edna could take revenge on him, but that bastard's death doesn't mean Edna's parents will just survive.
There are many self-destructive bastards like Rouvin Blume who is vengeful for his parents, besides that Eleanor's uncle died in a very suspicious way until Edna became vigilant even though the main suspect was dead
Crackling!
Hearing the rustling from the window made Edna flinch and then immediately moved under the bed before anyone noticed. With her right hand tightly grasped the dagger, the girl stared intently at the pair of shoes that had jumped into her parents' room
'He came.' Inner Edna. His heart suddenly pounded with vengeance as well as nervousness, he took a deep breath and exhaled slowly to calm down
"I can't believe this, you can sleep this late after ruining my life" the suspect said, laughing.
"Listen, you've already punished the wrong person. Wh why? Because I'm innocent. In fact, my actions are good because they have cleaned up the street children who make our territory dirty. I didn't kill them either, I just caught them and sold them so that at least they would be useful as other people's slaves."
'Edna's inner 'kidnapping and trafficking' watched the pair of black shoes move back and forth as the suspect continued to speak despite no one responding to him
"But what? You guys gave a hero like me a life sentence! You guys are so stupid!"
Edna took a stab at the man's leg in case his parents woke up to the loud noise just now, but before he could do so, another pair of shoes jumped into the room.
'There's two? As I recall Rery said, both of my parents died at the hands of the same man. Did their numbers change because of some present that I changed from the plot of the novel? Ah, shit' Edna thought in a panic, she hastily grabbed the dinner knife she picked up at dinner last night to keep watch and aim for the second suspect's foot
"Who are you? Ah... Why do I ask, at most you also came to kill these two fools. They really don't deserve to lead this territory, do they?"
The first suspect asked, Edna waited for the suspect's response before attacking him but she did not hear any answer
"... Don't like to talk? Yeah, I'm just gonna kill them without your concern. Goodbye, stupid Marquis and Marchioness Schnee"
Jem!
From below Edna thrust the dagger in her right hand firmly into the lower calf of the first suspect, she immediately prepared with a dinner knife while turning to the second suspect
'Submit, let me stab you in the eye' The girl's mind, but instead of the second suspect looking down like her mind, the first suspect suddenly collapsed to the floor with his head turned to look at Edna
"Ukh! B-Duck!" the first suspect said, spewing blood before closing his unconscious eyes. There was a blood patch on the man's stomach that Edna guessed came from the second suspect's gun prick
Edna was concerned about trying to digest a situation that was already far out of her control. Didn't they come to kill his parents? Why kill each other?
"I didn't come to kill your parents"
The purple unraveling girl gasped, she immediately swung the knife in her left hand towards the second suspect's leg but the man avoided her shrewdly
"Hey, I said I didn't come to kill them. Why did you stab me?" he said with his shoes now facing Edna.
"....." Edna did not reply, she just continued to stare intently
"Not believe it already. The important thing is that my work here is done, I got rid of the culprit"
".... He was not dead" said Edna finally made a sound, a pair of shoes that had turned around and walked a few steps away had stopped.
"Didn't you have waited a long time to stab the perpetrator of your parents' murder? You have to end it yourself then"
"...!!" Edna widened her eyes in shock and then crawled quickly out from under the bed. "How did you know!"
The second suspect has disappeared.
'I let my guard down, someone was watching me all this time' Edna's inner self as she stared at her parents who were still sleeping among this commotion. It seems like the sleeping pills that Edna put in their tea this afternoon were a bit much
"U-Ukhs... Sh-Damn.. I-I'll finish you all off"
Turning his gaze to the suspect, Edna's purple eyes lit up. The girl moved her knife to the right hand and then hissed, "Let's see who's finished first here. You almost killed my parents, or I'm gonna kill you right now"
...*****...
A few of the mansion's servants rushed towards their master's room when they heard a loud cry, Sophia who did not find Edna in her room was participating and was in the front row out of worry
"Master! Madam! Miss Edna no-" the woman was at a loss for words and involuntarily sat limp to the floor after seeing the scene in front of her. The other waiter also fell silent in shock
Edna knelt behind the body of a man lying on the floor. There was a dining knife on her right hand and many blood spots that looked contrasting in the little girl's white nightgown.
"Shhhh... Do not be noisy, later Mom and Dad woke up" said Edna with her purple eyes that look horribly lit, she then looked down and a sweet smile appeared. "I did it, Sophia. Now Mom and Dad won't die like they used to"
"No-Miss... "
"What's? Ah... Right, we should clean this up before Mom and Dad wake up, right?" the girl stood up, and the servants reflexively stepped back in fear
"..... Why just shut up? Don't worry, I've given them a pretty strong sleeping pill, they won't wake up for the next few hours no matter how noisy you are. Let's clean it up"
Sophia was silent for quite a while before shaking her head and then getting up and turning to the other servants, "What are you doing standing still? Hurry up and do first miss's orders!" at his command, he rushed over to Edna and grabbed the knife from the girl's hand
"No-Miss... What's going on here - no, I mean why are you here at night? Let's go back to the room" Sophia said, Edna who understood the other meaning of the woman nodded and walked out of the room first
"Thank you, Sophia."
After Edna left, the nanny and butler of the Schnee family threw the blood-soaked knife in his hand with trembling hands before staring at the other servants. "Clean this up without leaving anything behind and let not the events of tonight be known to outsiders as well as great masters and mistresses. I'll take care of Miss's clothes"
"B-But, did Miss E-Edna really just soar-"
"No. Miss Edna was just delirious and involuntarily walked into her parents' room." Sophia cut coldly, the woman's heart pounded in fear but she tried to ignore it
"Why.... You're protecting Miss Edna, Sophia's head?"
"Because Miss is a good child. The events of today... There must be a reason. I'm sure it is"
Sophia closed her eyes while taking a deep breath, Miss Edna.... What is really going on here, ' he said in his heart
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To be continued...
(*) BONUS
Because her insomnia was severe enough to worry her parents, Edna received sleeping pills from the family doctor who examined her at the time. Every night she had to take the medicine to sleep, but the last two days Edna hid the medicine she was supposed to drink and put it in the tea her parents were about to drink this afternoon
"Seat the tea, mom, dad"
"certain. Today's tea tastes better than usual"
"Maybe because we drank it with Gretta and Edna today. Gretta doesn't usually want to come"
"My mood is good today so I'm coming with ehehe"
Edna just smiled hearing them, the girl sipped her tea while glancing at them from the crack of her cup
(**) BONUS pt.2
"I just received information that the man we sent tonight failed to carry out his mission, master"
"What's? How could?! Don't tell me they already know my plan?!"
"I doubt that, master. According to the scouts in charge of overseeing the mission, there's a third party coming in and killing our man"
"third party? Hurry up as a third party or whoever the fuck got in the way of my plan!"
"Good, master"
On the other side...
"You're sure you told your master that the one who killed that man wasn't Edna Schnee?"
"Sa-I swear I told the center that someone else killed our man. Please forgive me"
"Hm... Okay, let him go"
"Thank you k-"
Sreth!
The chief of the scouts in an instant rolled on the ground, the figure carrying the sword turned his head and his expression looked dislikeful. "My mood is bad because you disobeyed a hundred percent of my orders so quickly get rid of the corpse before you come!"
"Good, master"
"Ck, how dare I dirty my girl's hand"