Chapter 15
I knew it.
What normal person could possibly be able to play with Illumi?
I ruthlessly forgot about Hisoka's information.
After browsing through other meaningless online information for a while, Illumi returned.
"A message from Mrs. Adrian," he asked as he opened the door, "haven't you replied?"
I:"……"
Seriously? Has the mother's controlling nature escalated even further after the engagement?
Has it gotten to the point where we need to contact Illumi?
What kind of people are around me?
“She asked me to think about the wedding guest list,” I said honestly, “but I don’t think I have any particular people I want to invite.”
“She said you’re not even answering the butler’s calls anymore,” Illumi added.
...What's good to listen to?
"Anyway... nothing important," I thought for a moment, "it's probably just something like telling me to behave myself on Kukuroo Mountain."
Illumi remained silent.
"I just want to be with my older brother," I said with a smile.
It's been like this since I was very young; whether my mother is present or not doesn't have a significant impact on my life.
They are usually sent to boarding school, and after returning home from school, they go to Kukuroku Mountain.
The butler of Adrian Manor has changed three times, and the maids have come and gone.
As long as her subordinates' salaries arrive regularly, she doesn't need to worry about taking care of me.
It's not that there's anything wrong with this. Our family's intelligence business has actually grown quite a bit... I've heard a lot of similar advice. I'm her only child, and she won't really abandon me.
I support the view that mothers should not be held hostage or have their hands tied by their children.
However, it is undeniable that precisely because of this, I didn't have much communication with her.
After the incident with the imposter brother, our relationship plummeted to its lowest point. Even our occasional phone calls were completely cut off. We would only pretend to be perfectly innocent and greet each other when we occasionally bumped into each other at the manor.
偶尔脑子里会闪过：嫁进揍敌客，似乎是不错的选择，母亲至少没有亏待我……的想法，但是很快，那样的想法就会被更清醒的计算所取代。
She doesn't really care whether I'm doing well or not. Even without me, she would still have to deal with the Zoldycks.
I will not interfere with her actions or damage the career benefits she has worked so hard to build, but she also has no right to completely control my life.
I just slightly stopped replying to her messages and didn't want to hear her commands.
Is this some kind of unreasonable request?
I rarely revealed the complicated details to anyone, except that when that person was still around, he would act as if he knew everything and stop Mrs. Adrian for me.
“…If Lai isn’t feeling well today, she doesn’t need to force herself to go to school.” He would send the driver away for me and say to my mother, “You can go out now, I’ll stay and take care of her.”
“They all told me that even if I’m sick, I should act the same as usual… because it’s not a big deal.” I was puzzled.
"Is there a compelling reason to go?" he asked.
No.
I shook my head.
"But there's no reason not to go, is there..." I countered.
“Of course there are,” he said. “If you don’t want to go, you just don’t want to go, that’s enough.”
...If I don't want to go, I just don't want to go; if I don't want to reply, I just don't want to reply.
Even if Illumi himself came to ask, I wouldn't reply.
—This is the new thing I finally learned after leaving him.
However, such reckless behavior is not very effective against Illumi.
He held out his hand to me, but I didn't budge: "Cellphone."
Me: "Big brother..."
Illumi did not respond.
This person doesn't consider other people's opinions when deciding what to do.
Reluctantly, I handed over my phone. He opened the blacklist and added the housekeeper's and mother's names back to the blacklist.
“It’s just a matter of listening to your request, nothing serious.” Then Illumi said, “You can’t get more and more willful, Rai.”
He switched to a lecturing tone again.
I replied perfunctorily with an "Mm".
...
After being released from confinement, Kal't took on several missions at Illumi's request.
Illumi himself was even busier, flying to several different locations a day, supposedly to adjust his schedule or something...
Miji is probably scared of me, because he runs away whenever he sees me these past few days.
No one in the Zoldyck family plays with me anymore, and the days are getting more and more boring.
With my week here almost up, I started to consider whether I could go down the mountain.
If all else fails, I can be asked to take one of them on a mission.
I made this wish to Illumi.
He thought for a moment and agreed, saying on the phone, "You can go with Milluki; he's going out in a few days anyway."
I was just about to ask him if he knew where Milluki was planning to go when my phone started buzzing like it was malfunctioning.
A familiar yet unfamiliar name kept sending message after message:
【got engaged】
You're engaged.
Why did you get engaged to that lunatic?!
Looking at the screen full of questions, I blurted out, "Who is Miki going to book... no, where is he going?"
Illumi asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"
Me: "It's nothing... I said it's fine, I'll go and discuss it with him right away."
“Oh, right,” Illumi said, as if he had suddenly remembered something, “the new ring is almost finished. Remember to ask the butler for it.”
I twirled the ring on my finger: "We can put the old one away now."
“Trade-in for a new one, free of charge,” Illumi said seriously.
"Who would do such a losing business..."
“I helped him get rid of his business rival.”
"All right……"
Rings are better; if you don't like them, you can go to the store to exchange them.
If only I could find a new fiancé.
I think it's regrettable.
Anyway, there are quite a few people with the surname Zoldyck.
My phone kept vibrating persistently. Illumi had already hung up. I tapped on the sender's profile picture; he was questioning me:
Aren't you afraid of waking up in the middle of the night to find your head gone if you're with him?
What a venomous mouth!
After reading his verbal attacks for a while, I couldn't help but reply:
Young master, he is your brother.
As a result, the verbal attacks from the other side escalated further.
That's how I realized he wasn't a good person.
He said.
【It's not Kurt either, you're not allowed to think about it!】
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I changed it because being with my older brother is just too mentally exhausting.
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