She's Not My Sister You Fool

  ────── 〔 ✿ 〕────── Her voice was so firm I couldn’t even think of refusing and hesitantly stood up from my place.  “Why did he suddenly call for me?” “You will know once you get there.” I looked around to see if anyone would be able to save me from this difficult situation, but I couldn’t find Lancel or Marilyn anywhere. “Well, all right.”  In fact, even if they were around, it was impossible to refuse to see Derek who called for me -- he was my father and the head of the family -- without any valid reason.  I had no choice but to follow her.  ‘Why is Derek Lagrange calling for me?’ As I passed the corridor where faded leaves piled up one by one by the window, I fell in deep thoughts.  ‘I’m sure he’s up to something.’ It was definitely suspicious.  My heart dropped thinking that something had happened to Dietrich, but thinking about it, Derek wasn’t someone who would tell his children the news that any of their siblings had died.  “Please go inside.”  I nodded towards the chilly maid

  ────── 〔 ✿ 〕────── ‘I miss you, Dietrich.’ Dietrich touched the already mottled sentence once again. [1]  ‘When do you think you’ll come back?’ ‘I heard that Henri was gravely injured. Are you all right, Dietrich?’ ‘When Dietrich comes back, I want to go to the square. There’s going to be a festival.’ Even when he was staying in Lagrange, he intentionally didn’t visit her, but Anissa only sent tender letters as if she didn’t feel the distance he tried to place between them.  He clenched his fist as he looked at the letters which he couldn’t reply to. Some sentences were full of resenting him, while others were full of missing him.  However, at the end of every letter always contained her wish for him to come back soon. “.....I don’t even know what I’m going to do if I go back.” Dietrich muttered low, raising the corner of his lips. In a place where no one knows,  it was a lonely smile shown in some corner.  On a night when the demon was sleeping, and even the moon did not rise, readi

  ────── 〔 ✿ 〕────── Note: Devil and demon are the same in Korean. In this chapter I will be calling the demons contracted by a human as demons, but I will use ‘the devil’ as a reference to a singular entity - in here, Dietrich is referred to as ‘the devil’.  ────── 〔 ✿ 〕────── I didn’t see any stairs leading down to the basement but it was strange. Was someone sneaking in and out of the lab like me?  “Hm.” There was probably some kind of hidden staircase but it wasn’t visible to the naked eye. With a small sigh, I got up from my position and picked up the axe hanging on the wall.  Kwang! Kwaang! Kwang! “Phew.”  Fortunately, it was an old wooden floor so with just a few hacks from the axe it quickly collapsed.  ‘When Josef comes back I’ll just say there was an intruder.’  It’s faster this way than looking for the secret entrance he had deliberately hidden.  Before I knew it, I had wiped the sweat from my forehead and then pushed my head toward the hole in the floor.  ‘Someone might thi