CH 109

I took Leona and Arsene down the spiral staircase.

“Leon, don’t run! You will get hurt!”

Leona seemed excited about Cain’s unexpected arrival, and she jumped up and down the stairs. 

Leona always said that Cain was shameless or boring, but her friend seems to still be a friend. 

Creighton didn’t show up, and it seems like he went with Kendrick. Only Cain was in the garden with the Snake Clan knights. 

“Cain!”

She waved her hand, calling Cain’s name aloud, and Cain looked at her. 

The fine black hair fluttered along Cain’s gaze.

Cain opened his mouth while touching his hands with blue gloves on.

“Hello, Lincy.”

“Welcome, Cain. How have you been doing?”

Maybe he spoke awkwardly because Leona made him nervous.

We met last week, but Cain didn’t meet as often as Leona did.

“We met not too long ago to ask how I’ve been.”

“He used the annoying tone again… let’s just go.”

When Leona heard Cain’s words, she looked at him with a bored expression.

At Leona’s words, Cain blushed as he rushed after us.

“Hey, hey! Go with me!”

“Come quickly, or I’ll leave you behind.”

This time it was Arsene. Leona and he fought like that when they were alone, but maybe she gets along well when he teases Cain. 

“Let’s go together, really…” 

“Did you come because Creighton came?”

“Yeah, I heard he was going to the Wolf Territory, so I asked him to go with me. He said I couldn’t come alone from now on.” 

“The atmosphere is not good, so maybe that’s why.”

“I know, I’m a successor. I was educated in advance…” 

“Hern, we have to go to Hern’s lab to play!”

When Cain shrugged his shoulders again and lifted up to show off, Leona covered Cain’s mouth and said. 

“Leon, the lab… that wouldn’t be fun, right? I’d rather go to the horse riding arena. Hector will be waiting for you.”

I tried hard to get Leona’s interest back.

I haven’t been to Hern’s lab yet, but—.

As it is a laboratory, there must be many dangerous and precious things, but it was difficult if Leon turned everything upside down like the kitchen. 

“You go to the horse riding field every time, do you want to go to the lab? Even Hern will listen if you ask!” 

That’s right, I’ll beg her until she listens—.

I sent a helping eye to Cain and Arsene, but—.

Arsene wasn’t interested in the situation, and Cain didn’t seem to mind doing anything either.

Leona eventually dragged the three of us to Hern’s lab and knocked on the door.

“Yes, I am going~.”

I hear Mr. Hern’s voice from inside, and it’s not too long after that! There was a sound of something falling and breaking. 

And then.

“Who… Lady? Lady Leon?” 

Hern opened the door abruptly and turned his head left and right to look around, then slowly lowered his head when no one was there.

“How did you get here? I never told you…” 

“Eung, the maid told me.”

Leona didn’t bother to say that she grabbed a maid and kept her company until the maid told her where Hern’s lab was.

“Hern, Hern! This is my first time in the lab, can I go in? I was bored at the time, but it turned out really well. I want to see the lab!” 

“Well, you can’t, there are a lot of dangerous things…” 

However, Leona had already moved out of the way to go into Hern’s lab.

“Ah, you can’t, Lady Leona!” 

Mr. Hern gasped after Leona, but he couldn’t stop her.

He gave us a desperate look, as if to ask for help.

I, Arsene, and Cain shook our heads quietly.

There was no one in this world who could stop Leona.

Eventually, Mr. Hern let us into her lab.

Instead, there are a lot of things she shouldn’t touch, so he told us to keep our hands behind.

“You know right, Lady Leona? If you touch anything carelessly, you’ll be in real trouble. I can get rid of the dangerous stuff, but—” 

Mr. Hern’s gaze touched something like a small box on a wooden desk and soon fell.

“Eung, I know.” 

“The same goes for the Lady, the Young Master, and the Young Master Cain.” 

“Eung.” 

“Okay.” 

“I’m not interested in all this junk.”

At Cain’s words, it seemed that Mr. Hern’s patience had reached its limit for a moment—.

I quietly ignored it and sat on the sofa in the lab.

Cain and Arsene were also not very interested in the lab, and they were following Leona, so the two children sat next to me.

Leona was excitedly snooping around the lab with her hands behind her back.

It was true that everything dangerous had been removed, and apart from a small box on the wooden desk, nothing looked different from Kendrick’s office.

“Come to think of it, I’m sure I bought some snacks the other day, but I’ll be back soon, so you have to stay calm.”

We nodded eagerly to Mr. Hern’s words.

Mr. Hern disappeared from view for a moment to find a box of snacks that he had ‘well placed’ somewhere.

But

“Linsy, what’s in this?”

Leona finally touched the box, unable to overcome her fierce curiosity. 

“Leon! He said not to touch it! Put your hands behind your back, quickly!”

“Eung, okay. I will put my hand on my back. But aren’t you curious? The box is very pretty.”

As Leona said, the box was very fancy. As if it were a jewel box.

But I had a feeling I had seen it somewhere.

Uhm, is it a mistake? 

I tried to remember where I saw it, but it didn’t come to mind properly.

Anyway,

“Don’t touch it, Leon! What are you going to do if you get in trouble, really?” 

“Yeah, please stay still. With no dignity…” 

“You be quiet, Cain Hezeth.”

Leona opened her eyes in a triangle shape and glared at Cain.

“I won’t touch it, I just want to look… Can’t I take a peek?”

Leona stood near the box with her hands behind her back. 

Arsene curled his brows and stood up and blocked Leona’s face.

“He told you not to touch it. why are you not listening?”

“I didn’t touch it! I was just trying to watch.”

“You just tried to touch—” 

At that time. 

Arsene sighed and lowered his arm, then hit the box with his elbow.

And,

Clank—! 

The box fell to the floor with a loud bang.

“….” 

“….?” 

“….!!”

“….?!” 

We looked at each other face to face at the same time.

“…H, huh?” 

Arsene panicked and lifted the box.

I opened my mouth carefully.

“Ugh… wouldn’t it be okay since he said he got rid of all the dangerous things? But, once I put it on…” 

I scrambled out of the sofa and accepted the box in Arsene’s hand.

But—.

‘Isn’t the cover open?’

I slowly looked down to the place where the box fell, just in case.

“What is this…?” 

There was a small amount of dirt on the carpet.

Leona and Arsene were far away, probably afraid of being scolded.

Since Cain didn’t even get up from the couch in the first place,

It was my job to organize the boxes.

I quickly crouched down to scrape up the fallen dirt and put it back in the box.

However—.

‘The color is strange…’

The color was too dark for normal soil. It was black, but it seemed to be slightly reddish.

But I didn’t think much of it. It was because it was similar to fertilizer.

I’ve seen gardeners use fertilizer, and it looks just like this soil.

However,

‘Why did you put soil in this precious box?’

The doubts didn’t last long.

It was because I had to quickly collect this soil and put it back in the box.

I hesitated for a moment, wondering if it was dangerous soil, but—.

He said he got rid of all the dangerous stuff, so it’s okay, right?

I carefully scooped up the dirt with my fingers.

However,

Paaaa-!!

The moment my fingers touched the soil, light green and red lights burst out from the fingertips.

“W, what is this?”