Chapter 164 – Taming Arya

Arya hesitated, fidgeting with her hand, took the card on her table just in case, and did as I told her.

“Brother Winter… Play a game with me…!”

When I heard Arya’s older brother, who had never called me oppa before and after the return, not only did I feel good, but I also felt satisfied.

“Haa… You… Quickly… Shuffle the cards…”

Arya, whom I called her brother, glared at me with her scornful eyes, but, as she said, it was rather nice to have those eyes from Arya.

“Aria, do you know Chip?”

“You… Go to a gambling house, right?”

She explained how to bet with Arya and her 50 coin chips and get back 2x on win and 3x on blackjack.

“I’ll bet from five.”

“If Arya wins, she gets 10 chips back, if she blackjacks…”

“I understand, so stop explaining and hand out the cards.”

She showed a willingness that Arya would never lose, but her 1-on-1 blackjack had more to rely on sheer luck.

The sum of the two cards Arya received was 18, and the one card I turned over was an ace, which was a card hand in my favor.

“I’ll stop.”

“I’m…! 17… Is…?”

The second card I flipped was a 6 and from this point on I should have known that my luck was all gone when the blackjack landed a round ago.

“Haa… This doesn’t show 20 again…”

“You’re so bad it’s no fun.”

I lost 30 chips in a series of defeats, and Arya says it’s not funny, but she has a smile she can’t hide.

“Do you have 20 chips left?”

The cold-spoken Aria asked in her childlike voice, and I showed the remaining chips. Arya bets 20 chips this round, as she confirms that I have 20 chips left.

“If I win this round, it’s over.”

“I’m excited, I’m excited.”

“Are you nervous because you’re about to lose?”

Arya could put on both a contemptuous expression and a childish smile. Seeing Aria’s happy smile, she splits her hand and Aria rolls 20.

“If it’s a 6, I’d say I’ve won.”

When Arya saw that the number of cards I had turned over was 6, she said there was no way I could win, and she was sure of winning.

“Whoa… Here comes a 5.”

“You… Didn’t tamper with the card…?`

She came up with a 5 on her second card, and on the two cards that reached 11, Arya suspected I had tampered with it.

He will also achieve 21 if I draw the most 10 out of 52 cards in the state of achieving 11.

“I didn’t manipulate it. Arya drew two 10’s.”

“Yeah… I’ll believe I didn’t tamper with it.”

“Then… Flip it over?”

“Yeah… Turn it over…”

Even if Arya draws two cards of 10, she still has a good chance of rolling a 10. Arya puts her hands together and stares at her third card.

“Haa… That’s three…”

“Haa… It’s 3…”

It was the same sigh, but my sigh and Arya’s sigh had a different feel, and the sum of my cards was 14. The sum of the cards was 16 or less, so I had to draw a card, and the probability of the sum of the cards was 21 or more.

“Turn over…?”

“Yeah… Turn it over…”

Arya puts her hand together again and looks at her fourth card, and the number of cards I flipped is surprisingly 1.

“Haa… I can’t do it because my heart is scared.”

“Ha… Don’t say anything weird… Do it quickly…”

Arya’s heart skipped a beat every time the card was flipped over, and the fifth card I drew decided the winner.

“5, 6, 3, 1, 10… 25! Burst!”

“Of course… 10 comes out…”

The fifth card I drew was a 10, and Arya jumped up from the sofa to enjoy her victory.

“Ah… I couldn’t win once.”

“You’re not very good.”

“How come Arya never burst?”

“I don’t know because you handed out the cards.”

Satisfied with the joy of her victory, Arya looked at me as I had to do everything she asked me to do, and she said what she had been thinking about since before the game.

“Winter, call me sister until you return to the grand duchy.”

Hey, what Arya asked for by my name, not yours, was to call her by her older sister, the same way I had asked her to call her older brother.

“Yes, Aria Nunna.”

“Huh…? You… Have no pride…?”

Arya, who was sure that she would hate the title of her older sister, turned into a puzzled face when I took it for granted that I referred to her as her eye.

Aria, whose limbs shrank and her face blushed when she called me oppa, looked at me calmly and cupped her hand.

“I told you I’ll do anything you ask. Nunna.”

“It’s not Nunna, it’s older sister…! Don’t change it in a strange way…!”

Aria is that she wanted to see me embarrassed, she didn’t want to hear the eyes or titles that emphasized the first part of a word.

I didn’t go back to the Grand Duchess and called Arya her snow me and Arya said she please don’t call me snow me she yelled.

“If you don’t like being called Noonna, play one more game.”

“Haa… You’re so nasty.”

I started playing Arya and her second blackjack with the best rave reviews in the game and Arya’s luck passed me.

“Here’s a burst.”

“Eww…! Stop worrying about it… Shuffle the cards…”

The aria that busted because the sum of her cards exceeded 21 three times in a row did not come closer to 21 than I did in the subsequent rounds.

“I’ll bet you 10 chips.”

“I don’t think I’m all-in…”

“I’ll take care of it.”

Arya went all-in with her remaining 10 chips and was dealt a card. The two cards returned to Arya were 10 and 7, and the one card I turned over was 8.

It was natural for my second card to come out as 10 when calculated based only on the odds, and Arya knew that, so she was deeply troubled.

“I’ll take another one…”

Arya, who had been bursting in succession, boldly threw the odds on what might be the last round, and she turned over the last card she drew.

“10. Burst.”

“Ah…! Did I lose…?”

Arya made her own defeat, and I said the victory reward. Arya was terrified of what embarrassing demands I might make, but mine were ordinary.

“Arya, I won’t call you sister, so bring me some cookies.”

“Cookies…? Why are cookies…?”

Frightened in advance, Aria made a dazed noise at the cookie out of the blue, and I pointed at the chocolate cookie on the table.

“I want to take it because my older sister and younger sister will like it.”

“My older sister… Younger brother…”

Arya was sad that I thought of someone else when she was alone with herself, and as her words disappeared, she quietly called her maid.

Arya ordered her handmaid to come into her common room and pack her cookies, then she sat down on a sofa far from me and took out her book.

“Upset?”

“No. I didn’t fall.”

Arya reacted uneasily to the caress of her hand on her chin and had already learned the tired reaction of her offended woman.

She likes Arya putting on a contemptuous look, but she doesn’t like reacting tiredly and I hug her from behind.

“Away.”

“I was wrong.”

“What… Did I do wrong…?”

Like a woman’s instinct, Arya asked more tired questions, and I put her chin on top of her head, stroking her Aria’s chin.

“It’s heavy…”

“I hate to say that.”

I started planning to train her aria as a lover who would do anything I asked her to do even with her contemptuous expression.

When Aria said she hated her behavior, her eyes trembled as she remembered her past, which she didn’t want to recall.

“You… Don’t like me…?”

Her proud and reluctant aria, her way of speaking and her attitude, made the ladies of her aristocratic family at her tea party unable to handle her aria.

Although not isolated at her tea party, Arya could tell for sure that her young ladies watched her words and actions, and that she noticed them.

“If you say it like I just did, you might hate it.”

“What do you… Hate… Tell me exactly…”

To Arya, I was the only friend who could reveal her true personality and have a conversation with her, and hating her from me like that is something Arya shouldn’t be.

“If you tell me?”

“Fix it… Let’s see…”

I told Aria, her willingness to correct, the behavior I disliked in detail, and Aria pricked up her ears even more than when she listened to her rules of blackjack.

“When you’re with me… Think about me. Don’t think about anyone else… Like this…?”

“If you have any regrets, tell me honestly.”

Arya blushed when I asked to tell her what was on her mind, but she gave me exactly what I wanted.

Arya made an opportunity to openly tell me what was on her mind, and I spent the morning focusing on her.

“Thank you for the cookie.”

“If you need something like cookies, tell the lady-in-waiting, not me.”

Even at the moment of separation, Aria spoke honestly about her inner feelings, and I was looking forward to Aria growing in the direction I wanted.

“Brother! It’s too late!”

“Illina, since when did you wait for your brother?”

“From an hour ago! I hate the princess who took away my brother!”

Ilina, tired of playing alone while waiting for me on my way to the imperial house, ran up to me and hugged me, burying her face in my neck.

“Who is Freya?”

“Brother went into a secret space and didn’t come out.”

“Illina is also in.”

“When my sister practices what she learned from my brother… I’m alone… It’s boring.”

Ilina, who had spent some time alone since Freya didn’t play with her as she practiced her assassination skills, stuck out her lips and I pushed out my cheeks.

“Hey… Oppa!”

Ilya smiled at her eyes and kissed my cheek several times, and I went into the secret room holding her Ilyna in my arms.

“Sister Freya.”

“My sister didn’t come out even when I called.”

“Okay? Then I’ll keep getting kisses from Illina.”

“Um… Oppa! Don’t kiss me on the cheek!”

Ilya found her lips, not my cheek, and Freya, who was hiding in a secret room, hiding her breath and her presence while practicing the use of her magical powers, also witnessed this sight.

“Winter… When did you come…?”

“Freya, wait for your turn!”

Seeing Ilyna’s affectionate kiss, Freya also wanted to kiss her with me, so she revealed her hidden presence.

Even receiving Ilyna’s kisses, I caught my eye on the black spandex outfit Freya wore to practice her assassination skills.

Freya was gradually becoming a woman’s body, and I could see her full breasts, narrow waist, and widening silence followed underneath.

“Nuna, you’ve improved a lot. When I came in, I didn’t know where you were hiding.”

“Hey… Did you…?”

Illina’s eye smile was also cute, but her eye smile was, of course, Freya’s. Her personality changed a bit, but her characteristic eye smile was still the same.

Freya’s haughty eyes curved and became her half-moon, and when Ilina’s kiss was over, Freya came over and stuck out her lips.

“Sister! Oppa! Let’s eat and go out to play!”

“Winter, do you have time to go out with me?”

After being kissed by my older sister and her younger sister, who had a strong bra-con temperament, I decided to go to the estate of the Grand Duchess as Ilina suggested.

“Dad! Can I go out to play with my sister and brother in the afternoon?”

“Hmm? Illina, did you get permission from Freya and Winter?”

“Yes! My sister and brother are going out together!”

“Honey, tell them to go with an escort.”

There was a good reason why her mother, Aner, allowed us to go out before Borden gave her permission.

Mealtime Borden and Aner, who allowed us to go out, met eyes and entered the room as soon as we left.

“Today, Heman and Heidin will be in charge of the escort.”

“Okay.”

The escort knights the butler informed me were Heman and Heidin, who were familiar from before returning, and Freya and Illina, who had finished dressing, walked up to me.