I Ran Away And The Reverse Harem Started

Chapter 3 Daniel left a note saying he’d be back tomorrow morning with a carriage. He was probably staying at an inn outside of town.I don’t know what I was thinking, but after finishing dinner, I laid my tired body down on the bed.As I turned over in the narrow bed, I saw the old wooden ceiling that I had been familiar with for 10 years. I let out a deep sigh without realizing it.Lynne and I have been living in the same room as sisters for 10 years.Of course, it was because there was not enough room in the small house, and Lynne would probably cringe at the word “sister,” but somehow, the thought of leaving this room in one day made me feel disturbed.I was tossing and turning under the blanket, tired, when Lynne came in after taking a bath.Lynne, probably tired from doing business all day, lay down on her bed in silence.“……”It was so quiet outside the window that I could faintly hear the cawing of flying birds. Neither of us said a word.I quietly turned and looked at Lynne’s bed. I saw Lynne’s silhouette lying still in the darkness.She really is a mean girl. I knew she had an unfriendly personality, but how could she know that I was leaving tomorrow and not say a word?‘She’s a mean girl, really.’Although Lynne was a bit mean, I still felt like I would be very disappointed if we parted ways without saying anything.After a moment of thought, I was about to open my mouth.Lynne spoke up.“You remember.”“Yes?”“10 years ago, the day you were sleeping in front of my house.”Lynne spoke while looking at the wall. I thought Lynne had fallen asleep quickly, but I was embarrassed and spoke out loud.“Huh? I remember. After leaving the orphanage, I passed out while moving around, so the uncle and aunt brought me into the house and made potato soup for me.”“…….”“You told me not to come near you because you might spread beggar germs.”Lynne was silent for a moment.Could it be that this mean girl is trying to deny that she never says anything like that? I heard it clearly…Still, I was 13 years old on the outside at the time, but I was an adult on the inside, so I wasn’t hurt by those words. It was also true that I was messy.Lynn took my words in silence.“You said before, there were three boys at the orphanage that you were close with.”“……”“That’s the boy I saw at lunch, the one you said you were best friends with.”I blinked my eyes in the dark.At that time, Lynne quietly turned around and looked at me. Unwavering brown eyes stared straight at me.“That man is Daniel Leandro, right? A new rich man who appeared in the newspaper.”Lynne spoke with stern eyes without even listening to my answer.“Follow that man. You don’t belong here.”“……”With those words, Lynne turned her back again.And she didn’t say anything, probably because she was asleep.‘I don’t belong here…’I quietly thought about what Lynne had said.‘That hurts a bit.’* * *The next day came, and Lynne’s restaurant was closed for the day.I woke up early in the morning, tried to put my hair up in a tight bun out of habit, but let it fall loose. In the small mirror I shared with Lynne, I saw myself with messy red hair hanging down.I can’t believe I left the restaurant I worked at for 10 years overnight.I felt strange.As I packed up and came out, Uncle Hans and Aunt Marylin greeted me, wiping their noses.“Rosieta, come here often. Whenever you come, I will make potato soup for you. I’ll even add the lamb you like.”“Dear, take this and eat it in the carriage. It’s your favorite fig jam and scones.”“Thank you, uncle, auntie.”I smiled brightly and hugged uncle and aunt.Then I got out of their arms and wiped my noses.It was because I felt depressed for no reason.‘One day, I thought I would stay at the restaurant with Lynne and take care of them.’I guess I thought, without realizing it, that I was family with these people. That’s right, 10 years is a lot of time.“Now that I think about it, Lynne isn’t here? When I woke up in the morning, she wasn’t even in the room.”As I looked around, Uncle Hans smiled awkwardly.“Oh, that’s… that child, she said, she will be going to dig up mushrooms in the morning.”“Mushrooms?”“I even tried to stop her, and told her she could dig it tomorrow so she could see you off, but… sorry. I’ll apologize on her behalf.”“It’s okay.”I answered casually.I never expected a sweet and tearful send-off from Lynne. After all, she is a mean and not cute friend.While I was carrying the bread basket and luggage, I saw a carriage coming in from afar. A carriage that looked luxurious at first glance stopped in front of the restaurant, and Daniel got out.“Hi.”“… I thought you ran away during the night.”“No, what do you mean?”While Daniel was looking at me with distrustful eyes, the coachman got down and loaded all my luggage without a word.Anyway, it would be nice for the nobles.As I was about to get on the carriage, Daniel looked at me intently.“Why?”When I asked, Daniel stared at me in silence. It almost made me wonder if there was something on my face.I quickly said, “Ah.”“I’m telling you just in case, don’t think that I’m following along because I like it. Once the inn is built, I’ll come back and repay my debt!”Daniel invited me to come to his mansion on the condition that she not repay the interest.But the idea of forgiving my debt without doing anything was too good to be true. Since I am leaving the restaurant, I have no way to repay my debt to Daniel.So I insisted.“I don’t want to live for free. I’ll pay off all my debt to you by working there!”Once I pay off the debt, he won’t be able to tie me down anymore.Perhaps due to the cost of living in the capital, Daniel’s maid’s salary is four times of my salary working at a restaurant. A whopping 200 billing per hour.If I have to repay my debt to Daniel anyway, it would be better to earn more money and pay it back as soon as possible.Daniel had rolled his eyes at the idea of me working in his mansion, but he didn’t even stop me from doing it.But now, Daniel was looking down at me with his eyebrows raised. Then he asked in a blunt tone.“When did I ask that?”“Then what is it?”“Finish saying your goodbye. You’re missing one.”Daniel glanced at Uncle Hans and his wife and said. He saw her just once yesterday, and he seemed to have noticed that Lynne was not there.I hesitated for a moment and then spoke.“Ah, Lynne won’t come anyway…”She went out to climb the mountain early in the morning, so I didn’t know when she would return. Besides, I don’t think she’ll come back early on purpose for my sake…“Rosieta.”The words trailed off, and I glanced back..I don’t know when Lynne returned, but she was standing in the alley.“Lynne?”“Take this.”As I looked at her with a puzzled face, Lynne suddenly handed me something.“What’s this?”When I looked closely, I saw that it was a basket full of raspberries. Lynne said as I looked at her curiously.“You’ve been singing for a few days now about wanting to eat raspberries.”Oh, I did.To be precise, I was begging for someone to pick raspberries from the mountain behind, because I was too lazy to climb the mountain.Lynne walked by with her usual, wondering ‘Where is the dog barking?’But you remembered.I held the basket full of raspberries tightly.“Thank you, Lynne….”“Don’t cry because you’re going to look ugly. I can’t watch it.”When I dropped my eyebrows, Lynne responded with a sword-like expression.Lynne burst out laughing as I wiped away my tears.“I’ll be back when the inn is fully built, so what are you worried about?”“You’re right. You have to come back, okay?”I chuckled. Daniel, standing next to me, scowled“Why do I seem like a villain who tore apart a happy family?”“It’s not wrong.”Lynne responded calmly and quickly entered the restaurant.Uncle Hans and his wife were sniffling, their noses turning red as they looked at the two of us.“I’ll be back, uncle, auntie.”I smiled and said a quick goodbye.  * * *  The carriage set off slowly and left Danten.As we traveled over the bumpy dirt, I munched on raspberries. A sour and refreshing taste spread in my mouth.“Delicious?”“I won’t give it to you.”“……”Daniel’s eyes were wide open. He wondered who had asked for it, but it seemed like he was hurt by the words thrown out like a knife.“Snif, would you like one?”“You eat them all.”I belatedly handed him a raspberry, but Daniel folded his arms and closed his eyes as if he didn’t want to see it.Somehow, his face looks a little more tired than the day before, and it looks like he didn’t sleep well, perhaps because the inn was so bad.‘Well, both this village and that village are shabby inns for nobles.’At that moment, sunlight streamed through the carriage window and illuminated Daniel’s face.Black hair fell across a pale face. His downcast eyes were lined with thick lashes, and the line from the bridge of his nose to his lips was fluid.I stopped eating raspberries and quietly looked at Daniel’s face.Ten years had passed, but Daniel was incredibly handsome both as a child and as an adult.But his statuesque features reflected a weariness and fatigue that didn’t match his youth age.I remembered how miserable Daniel’s life was in the original. To be exact, the orphanage burned down and how hard he had to make a living.In the original, Daniel does not hesitate to do bad things to make a living after the orphanage he lived in burns down.There was a time when he joined a group of delinquent boys and pick-pocketed other people’s money, and there was also a time when he went into a mine at a young age and earned money by working as a miner.The other male leads also had no money, but Daniel was particularly sensitive to money.This is because he thought that all the misfortunes he experienced were due to lack of money.The original Daniel, who went through early puberty and did whatever he could to earn money, met a man who became his teacher at the age of 15.Instead of doing pickpocketing, Daniel learns how to do business from him and builds his own business with the money he earned while working for him.His shop becomes one of the most capable and largest on the continent, and the Emperor honors him with a castle and estates.‘Anyway, no matter how rich he is, he is a man who doesn’t waste even a single penny, has brought all my debt.’I opened my eyes sheepishly and stared at Daniel.I heard that he spent a lot of money on hiring someone to look for me.“You know what?”“What.”Daniel answered with his eyes closed.“… How are Colin and Lucas doing?”Daniel opened his eyes at my question.I was worried that I may have offended him for no reason.Daniel was silent for a moment and then spoke.“They’re both at the mansion.”“I guess so….”Well, your mansion is the main setting of a reverse harem novel, so they both will be there….As I said, Colin and Lucas are the other male leads in “The Mistaken Saintess”.Colin was two years older than Daniel and me, a friend at the same orphanage, and our moral supporter.He’s a literary boy who loves books enough to read the shabby books in the orphanage about a hundred times, and a child who is kind to everyone.Colin was always the mediator whenever I fought with Daniel.Lucas was a cute boy who was 5 years younger than us.In the original work, he was set as a younger man with a rough but cute charm like a kitten.‘Still, it feels strange to see each other after such a long time. Besides, it’s been 10 years, so he’s probably changed a lot.’I snorted.“If you were that curious, you should have shown up.”Daniel responded in a cold voice.“The newspapers have been talking about me all day, so you probably would know that I’m still alive.”