Volume 6, Chapter 52 – Sister?

A very nice look. If she didn’t know the information Evelyn had, she would have surely suspected that Evelyn had already guessed that she had known the answer all along—that the monsters were attracted by magic power. The excuse at that time was really clumsy, and it was only natural that it was seen through. But in Evelyn’s eyes, she was just a ‘person who is a little strong and good at using throwing weapons’, and she hadn’t thought too deeply about her.

Was Evelyn just dense and hadn’t thought in that direction until now, or had she already made the connection but was unwilling to face it?

Even someone as strong as Yisi had no way of knowing. Perhaps only someone who was very good at mental magic, like Hetty, could know.

If Evelyn was unwilling to face the facts because she trusted her very much, then she should feel guilty. In fact, there were already some signs of it now. Although she knew that Evelyn’s wish was to leave this place, she was still letting Evelyn walk the path she had set.

What had initially seemed a matter of course had, after their relationship had grown closer, become something stuck in her heart.

In the time they had spent together, it wasn’t just Evelyn who had changed, but also Yisi. Evelyn’s position in her heart had already changed from ‘a somewhat familiar person’ to ‘a very close friend, yet a friend she could not acknowledge for some reason’.

No, if I continue to think about this, it will be endless.

Yisi shook her head, pushing the heavy thoughts out of her mind. When Evelyn had come to her for the magic medicine before, she had already asked her if she would stay in the church if she had the chance to become the Pope. Evelyn had agreed to such a proposal, but she felt that such a thing would not happen and that she could not place her hope in Julius dying of old age.

I shouldn’t trouble myself.

Something suddenly flew past her eyes, and Yisi’s gaze refocused.

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Evelyn was tilting her head with concern, and like someone testing a patient with a fever, she reached her hand towards her forehead.

“Are you alright?”

Setting aside her usual nasty personality, isn’t she quite attractive like this? If she could be like this to everyone, Evelyn would have been quite popular long ago.

Yisi turned her face slightly to the side, avoiding Evelyn’s touch.

“It’s nothing. I just suddenly thought that you also have a caring side, Evelyn. You feel like a big sister.”

“Is that so? It’s the first time I’ve heard someone call me by a title other than ‘little witch’ and ‘Pope’. A big sister…” Although she had a serious look on her face when she was pointing at the map, now her expression had turned a little happy, but more triumphant. “Come to think of it, I’ve never had any siblings since I was born. You look younger than me, so I’m the older sister. I’d be very happy if you called me ‘big sister’.”

Hey, hey… that’s going too far.

Or rather, too cunning.

If Evelyn had said with a very smug expression, “If you like, it’s not impossible for you to call me big sister,” or had straightforwardly said, “little sister Yisi,” the former she would have definitely refused because of Evelyn’s smugness, and the latter she could have treated as Evelyn’s own arbitrary action. But Evelyn had given the choice to her.

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Hmm, no. If my relationship with Evelyn gets too close, I’ll be tempted to tell her the whole plan. That would be bad.

To do so when the time is not yet ripe would be too cruel to Evelyn. There are some things she must explore and understand for herself.

Yisi pouted, feigning indifference.

“Don’t be fooled by my appearance. I’m a very popular type. See, my snow-white skin and moonlight-like silver hair, and a face that can bewitch countless men. If I wanted a big sister, many gentle girls would easily become my big sister.”

Praising herself made Yisi blush a little, but she really wasn’t lying. She had already verified this at the entrance of the Blood Clan Noble Academy before. Although those students had gotten close to her because of her pureblood status, if she hadn’t been cute enough, those male students wouldn’t have invited her to their homes as a guest.

Although Yisi had tactfully refused, Evelyn still leaned in beside her with a very annoying expression and nudged her shoulder with her own—just like a friend from middle school trying to sell a dirty magazine.

“They are they, and I am me. You won’t find a second next Pope on the continent. Opportunity knocks but once.”

“I refuse. It would be more appropriate for you to call me ‘Onee-sama’, Evelyn.”

Counting by mental age, she was actually a few years older than Evelyn.

“Tsk…” Evelyn’s face showed dissatisfaction, and she muttered to herself under her breath, “I thought I could take this opportunity to get a useful little sister.”

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“Hey, hey, you’ve already said your inner thoughts out loud. So you were planning to use me as a convenient tool.”

And here I was, hesitating for a moment.

This wasn’t about being unfaithful to Andrea. She had never thought of developing a relationship with Evelyn like the one she had with Andrea. Not now, and not in the future.

Evelyn raised her eyebrows in annoyance.

“It’s not impossible. Shouldn’t sisters help each other?”

“That’s called exploitation, exploitation. I don’t get anything from you, Evelyn.”

As if racking her brains to think of what she could possibly give Yisi, Evelyn fell silent for a moment, then clicked her tongue in unwillingness.

“…Tsk, that’s true. If you were a man, I could at least pay you with my body. Ah, don’t misunderstand. I don’t mean I want to marry you, just that kind of relationship. I don’t want to be tied down by marriage. I want to go to a place where I can better display my talents. Well, that’s what I say, but it’s a pity you’re a beautiful girl just like me, Yisi.”

“The ‘just like me’ part is unnecessary.”

Yisi felt a sense of helplessness, at a loss for words.

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To be able to say such things without batting an eye, as if it were a matter of course, she didn’t know whether to say Evelyn was overly confident or just unconventional. If it were the her who had just arrived in this other world, she would surely have been attracted to Evelyn’s strange personality. But she had matured.

“Weren’t you not finished just now, Evelyn? Those monsters always appear in places with magic power, so we need to send people to guard the locations that hide magic power—if the problem could be solved just like that, you would have stayed obediently in the temple today instead of venturing out.”

Sighing helplessly, Yisi took a step forward, straightened the map that was about to fall for Evelyn, and brought the topic back on track.

Evelyn pouted.

“Mmm, can’t you just pretend that I thought of the answer and was happy, so I wanted to share it with you?”

“If you were that kind of person, I’d eat this map. If it were something you could do without me, you would have kicked me away long ago.”

“Tsk, so in your eyes, I’m such a despicable person. Sob, sob.”

Evelyn pretended to be wiping away tears, but the action, which was completely out of character, only made Yisi give her a look as if she were looking at an idiot.

“So disgusting…”