Chapter 60 – Past Sins Cannot Be Ignored

“I was by your side to avenge my sister.”

Ruina speaks in a meaningful voice as she looks down at Kiella, who is sitting on her naked body.

I guessed it to some extent from the contents of the diary, but otherwise Kiella was completely lost.

“Get revenge on me…?”

“Yeah, but I’m glad she remembers her sister. Does she even remember what exactly she was banished for?”

“For the crime of going to the human kingdom and intermingling with humans.”

“Do not be ridiculous!”

When Kiella hears Ruina yell for the first time, she closes her mouth and silence fills her room.

The first to break it was the elf who closed one of her eyes.

“My sister was an elf who followed rules and laws better than anyone else. She has never mixed with a human!”

“B, but it’s clear that Reina secretly visited the human country…”

“I didn’t secretly go looking for him. I just happened to find a lost human child and took him in. Don’t you remember? My sister said that at the trial.”

“…”

Kiella can’t speak because her memories are blurry.
At this, instead of raising her voice, Louisa laughed as if she was dumbfounded.

“Ha. You probably don’t remember. It’s because you didn’t even listen to what your sister said. They said the only reason an elf would secretly go to the human country is to have skin-to-skin contact with humans!”

“That…”

“And you banished her sister to a barren land. Poor sister, she was innocent.”

When she was High Chancellor, Kiella was the most powerful person in her kingdom, second only to her queen.

And her vicious personality at the time was clearly revealed during the trial.
So much so that if her guilt is certain to her self-standards or if her sinner’s attitude is poor, she will hand out heavy punishment without mercy.

It was clearly a problematic operation method, but the Queen did not interfere in any way.
Kiella has never put her kingdom at a disadvantage, and rather believes that her strictness increases the people’s awareness of law compliance.

“My sister was in so much pain. In the letters she exchanged with me, she never left out the words about wanting to die. It was inevitable. It was unfair to be unjustly kicked out and live alone, but if she came back, she would be branded a criminal. So in the end…”

She didn’t have to say anything to know that her older sister had taken her own life, just by the sad look on her younger sister’s face.

‘… ‘That happened.’

My heart, as I was listening from the side, became solemn.
I knew that her goal was to avenge her sister, but I didn’t know the details of her circumstances.

This is because the contents of her diary were full of her longing for her sister, her apology, and her determination to avenge her without fail.

Regardless of my feelings, Ruina’s story continued.

“That’s why I was so happy when you asked me to live with you. I came to you asking for revenge.”

“It can’t be… It can’t be… It’s already been 5 years since we lived together…!”

“Killing someone with my own hands wasn’t as easy as I thought. It was hard to muster up the courage, so I put it off, and so many years have passed before I knew it. Do you know how hard it was to hide your true intentions?”

As she continued, Ruina’s voice became even more subdued as she remembered her memories of the past five years.

“But my desire for revenge has not changed until now. I don’t know how many times I promised myself that I would stab your neck while you were sleeping and tell you everything I’m telling you as you die. But I never thought it would turn out like this.”

“Ruina…”

“… Kiella. Why did you do that? Why didn’t she believe what she said? She was so innocent. She begged so earnestly in court for me to believe her.”

Kiella’s lips were frozen so she couldn’t say anything.
However, Ruina’s face seemed as if it didn’t matter if I couldn’t hear her answer.

“…Aha. Because you are a beast obsessed with sexual desires… You thought other elves would be like you? I can understand it now, looking at you.”

“Did she really… Really stay by my side to get revenge? The Louis I knew all this time was all fake…?”

Ruina’s eyes were filled with disgust as she looked at the other person who still couldn’t accept her reality.

“Yeah, she’s all fake. She’s all fake and I knew you had other feelings for me.”

“How…”

“How could I not know? Every time he goes out at night with a knife, he calls my name and does all kinds of dirty things.”

This was why she did not want to have strangers in her house.
Because if there is someone else besides them, it will interfere with their revenge.

Of course, the important thing now was that she had noticed everything, even Kiella’s masturbation.

“Oh, did you know…?”

“You don’t know how disgusting it was. My sister kicked me out, saying she was blinded by sexual desire, and then she did something like that every night. To top it off, she invited a human to her house and played the ridiculous bitch game… I can’t believe she told you. “I never imagined I would be disappointed again.”

“No, Ruina! It was to protect you! I was trying to protect you from this man…!”

“Don’t make excuses because you don’t want to hear it.”

“Ruina, please!”

“There’s no need to get blood on my hands. I wanted to kill you miserably, but the way you look now is even more miserable. Just live as that man’s bitch for the rest of your life. I think that’s a better revenge.”

“Ruina…Ruina!”

Ignoring her mournful calls, Ruina went into her room and came out again.

In her hand was a simple baggage, and seeing as she had just come out of her room, it seemed like she was ready to leave at any time.

“Don’t go, Ruina! Please, don’t go!”

Until the end, she didn’t answer a single word and Ruina went all the way to the front door.
I thought she was going to leave, but she turned around and looked this way.

However, from Kiella’s perspective, unfortunately, the person Ruina was talking to was me, not her.

“…Mr. Dayk.”

“Why?”

“You probably stole my diary, right? Why did you show me this scene?”

On the surface, the reason was to separate Kiella and Ruina, but there was actually a bigger purpose.
Teaching Kiella the lesson that past sins cannot be easily erased.

Thanks to this, she was now lying down on the floor and sobbing.

‘If Ruina had known her true intentions, she would have done this a long time ago.’

I’ve been hesitating to bring in an innocent elf, but I think I’ve come back for no reason.

Of course, there was no need for her to tell Ruina this.

“Like you, I had a grudge against Kiella.”

“That’s right. In the end, it’s a good thing to be self-employed.”

“By the way. Will you keep what you saw today a secret?”

“Don’t worry. She will live in her sister’s land without meeting anyone.”

I am worried about whether I will be able to get along well as I have hearing loss and can only see in one eye.

I wish I could fix it with the Healing Hands, but unfortunately, the injuries that had been on my body for years were impossible to treat.

“…Okay, thank you for your hard work.”

“Kiella.”

“Ruina! I was wrong! I was wrong, so please don’t go!”

“The way you look now really suits you. Live as a happy bitch so you don’t get abandoned by Mr. Dake. Then, that’s enough.”

“Ruina!”

She was Ruina, who disappeared without any regrets beyond the front door.

The front door bell rang loudly, but it was not louder than Kiella’s crying.

—

Night has come.

Kiella, exhausted from her crying, went into her room, and a heavy silence filled the empty space of her living room.

I was also spending some time back in my room.
Waiting for her to calm down enough to have her conversation.

‘Let’s go now.’

I went to Kiella’s room and opened the door.

Before she knew it, she had put on her clothes and was sitting on the bed.
Her face was heartbroken and her eyes were swollen with tears.

“…Why did you come?”

She didn’t answer any questions asked.
As she just stared, Kiella, who was looking at her floor, asked again.

“Are you here to laugh at me? The day when I lost everything and had nothing left…?”

“…”

“No… But I can’t help it. It’s all my fault. I once trusted only my own strength… I thought I was right and lived like a fool.”

As I remained silent, the regretful elf muttered to himself.

“I was foolish. Ignoring past sins doesn’t mean they never happened. In the end, it all came back like this…”

She fell in love with Ruina at first sight and decided to be reborn to win Ruina’s heart.
But as she herself said, it is only a turning away, not atonement for the past.
In the end, I ended up paying this price.

Fortunately, Kiella seemed to be keenly aware of this even without anyone telling her.

After a few minutes of sobbing with her face buried in her palms, her room became quiet again.

“…Dake.”

“Why?”

“I refused when you asked me to go to the royal castle with you… Can I change my answer?”

“Is it okay for the lord to leave the village?”

There was no hesitation in the following answer.

“Now that Ruina is gone, there is no need for it. The reason she was liked by the village elves was because she wanted to be liked by Ruina.”

“Well, I’m not very happy that you’re following me after being abandoned by Ruina. I have pride, too.”

“Please.”

She got up from her bed and got down on her knees.

“Now I only have you. If I don’t atone to you, I feel so miserable that I feel like I’m going to die.”

“…”

“I will do everything you tell me to do. I will be a real bitch who only follows what you say. I will live my whole life in atonement, so please don’t abandon me like Ruina did.”

Following her heartfelt plea, tears, which she thought had dried up, start flowing again.

There was no sympathy.
Because this was the way it should have gone.

So, my job was not to comfort her or laugh at her, but to get a firm promise from her.

“As far as atonement goes, I haven’t received a real apology from you yet.”

“A real apology…?”

“Your sincere apology.”

The elf’s way of apologizing is to take off all of her clothes, lower herself as low as possible, and pray, meaning she is putting down everything.

It was an act as humiliating as that of humans, perhaps even more humiliating, but Kiella had no other options left.

“…Okay.”