CH 39

“Is that good? You are not allowed to go to your brother’s room for a while.” Mother Elyse, sitting next to the sofa, reminded Dianna. 

Dianna nodded her head.

“Does a while mean until tomorrow?” Dianna asked. 

It’s too soon. Elyse thought while patting Dianna’s head with a troubled look.

“Tomorrow is a little early. a bit longer okay?” Elyse said.

“I understand!”

Cain, who had done wrong at the embroidery party, was under house arrest in his room.

In the meantime, Dianna spent her time with Ilvalino, taking classes with Professor Yannis, practicing embroidery with her mother, and reading picture books to Ilvalino.

However, Dianne began to feel lonely for Cain, whom she could not see during class breaks, tea time, or meal times.

Cain had a full schedule, taking many classes and doing independent training, but he came to see Dianna in the gaps, so she never felt lonely.

While drinking tea with her mother after lunch, Dianne asked her the same question she had been asking her mother every day for the past few days.

“Can’t I see my brother yet?”

“No, not yet.”

Dianna puffed up her cheeks and glanced up at her mother.

“How long can I not see my brother?”

“Until your father says it’s okay.”

Elyse said this because there was no fixed deadline, but Dianna took it to mean something else. She smiled and raised her voice to a high pitch.

“I understand. I’ll go see my father and brother and see if I can stir things up!”

“Dianna!”

Before Elyse could stop her, Dianna jumped off the sofa and walked quickly out of the living room.

Elyse saw her off with a hand on her cheek and a troubled look on her face.

Knock, knock, slam!

At the same time as the knock, the door opened and Dianna came in. Her father Dismaya, who had been rolling his eyes in surprise at her vigor, lowered his gaze to find his little visitor, and his face relaxed with happiness.

“Dianna. If you knock, it doesn’t mean you can enter the room. When you knock, wait for an answer,” Dismaya said.

“I understand!”

Dianna was always good at answering. Though, the next time she knocked, she would probably open the door at the same time.

But she has made progress since a while ago when she used to open the door without even knocking.

“Father. May I see brother?”

Dianna’s adorableness made Dismaya almost nod his head, but he cleared his throat and regained his composure.

“Didn’t your mother tell you not to?”

“She did.”

“Then no.”

“But mother said I could see him if father said it was okay.”

“Ah…”

Dismaya thought of what Elyse might have said, and with a troubled look on his face, he grabbed his hair. He stood up and picked up Dianna, and looked into her face, which was now at the same level.

“Cain is now reflecting on his actions right now,” Dismaya said. “He is reflecting on what he has done and what he must do in the future, so please don’t interrupt him.” Dismaya added.

“Big brother is in the middle of reflection?” Dianna asked.

“Yes, he is. so leave him alone, can you do that for me?”

“Yes!”

Dianna answered well.

After saying goodbye to her father, she left the study and came to Cain’s room.

Delina, the housemaid who was going around collecting the laundry, saw Dianna standing in front of Cain’s room and called out to her.

“Dear Dianna, you can’t go into Master Cain’s room.”

“Yes!”

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She waved bye to Delina and started walking down the corridor. She was relieved to see that Dianna was no longer in front of the door of Cain’s room and walked off to resume her work, but then she remembered something and turned around.

She turned around, remembering something: “Yes, Lady Dianna…”

When Delina turned around, Dianna was no longer there. A long, unmanned corridor stretched out.

“I see Lady Dianna is very quick on her feet…?”

In a room with simple wallpaper, there was only a bed, a desk, and a bookshelf. On the bed in the cramped room, Ilvalino was sitting. He was reading a book but was distracted by something that surprised him.

“Ilu-kun, shhh!”

It was the servant’s room, next to the master’s room. The duke and his family, the residents of the mansion, would never come here… supposedly.

Dianna was standing in front of the door, holding her index finger in front of her mouth in a “secret” pose.

Unlike the servants’ dormitory, the servants’ quarters next to the master’s private quarters had an unmarked entrance.

The entrance to the servants’ quarters, which was next to the master’s private quarters, was hidden from the eyes of the guests and the masters, as well as for safety reasons.

“Dear Dianna… how do you know how to get into this room?” Ilvalino asked.

“Hmmm… Di knows everything!”

She paused and said something like that. I wonder whose influence this is, Ilvalino thought and furrowed his brow. He could only think of one person who could have a strange influence on Dianna.

“You won’t be able to meet Master Cain”

“Yes.”

Dianna nodded and stood by the bed, pointing at the wall. She only turned her face toward Ilvalino and smiled.

“O-pen-Please!” Dianna said.

“How do you know that’s the door to the other room…”

Ilvalino sighed and stood next to Dianna, pulling an invisible knob to open the thin door.

It is a sliding door, which is rare in this country’s architectural style.

“you’re just going to sneak a peek, okay? He’s under house arrest, you know.” Ilvalino said.

“Middle of reflection, right?” Dianna corrected.

“… well, yes.”

They both looked into Cain’s room through a thin opening.

In the dimly lit room with the curtains closed, Cain was sitting on the sofa, nodding off.

They looked at him for a while, but he didn’t move a muscle.

“Big brother, does not look well.”

“I heard he did something and got in trouble. I heard he got scoldings from your mother,” Ilvalino said.

“Because of scolding, he’s in the middle of reflection?” Dianna said.

“Yeah,” Ilvalino said.

“Big brother doesn’t look well because of the scolding,” Dianna said.

“That’s right,” Ilvalino said.

“I see.” Dianna nodded broadly.

A single thought came together in Dianna’s mind. Middle of reflection means his mood is down! the words came together in Dianna’s mind. When the reflection is over, Cain can play with me. In other words, if Cain’s moods are up, he could play with me. …concluded Dianna.

“Di should make her brother feel better!”

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m sorry to bother you!”

Di followed her as she walked towards the exit of the servants’ quarters, and looked outside before opening the door.

You can’t be seen going in and out of this room.

“Ilu-kun. shhh, the fact that Di has been here.” Dianna put her index finger in front of her mouth. 

However, whenever Dianna wandered around the mansion, Elyse’s maidservant usually followed her undercover. There is really nothing secret about Dianna’s behavior.

There should be nothing secret but.

“It’s funny… there’s no sign of anyone,” Ilvalino said.

“That’s because Di had come all this way on her own,” Dianna said.

We quietly walked out into the hallway and looked left and right, but no one was there. Since Cain was under house arrest, no one comes around here except the kitchen staff who comes to deliver the food and Delina passes by to collect the sheets and nightclothes.

But there was no sign of the maidservant who was supposed to be secretly following them, even though Ilvalino searched for her.

“I can’t believe you really did this alone. Did you really come here alone? Did you shake off the babysitter?”

“Dee is a can-do girl.”

Bye-bye! waving goodbye to Dianna as she walked away, he once again wondered if anyone was really around. He looked around more carefully, but it seemed that no one was really there.

“Ahhh alright!”

Scratching his head, Ilvalino followed behind Dianna, trying not to make a sound.