Chapter 1: Enter, <Hounds in the mansion>

{Ps : I already said that this is not my original work

I do not own this novel}

「Crown Prince Axelferion- The Fris Empire was slaughtered and the victory was won. Who is the ‘Annette’ he is looking for? 」

As I was reading the newspaper, my pupils shook.

The headlines contained the news of the crown prince’s victory, but in fact, it was not surprising that he won.

Because the crown prince was such a powerful person – one with magic powers.

It was surprising, however, that the only reason for the war was to find a woman named Annette.

‘Wasn’t it money?’

In the article it was written:

As soon as the crown prince, who was not originally interested in war, heard that Annette was hiding in the Fris Empire, he swept the continent at once.

Gulp, wahh–

Saliva pooled.

Because…

Because I was the Annette the fearsome prince was looking for!

But below that was another formidably shocking headline.

「The next Tower Lord, Grand Duke Heinrich, put a reward of 5.8 trillion gold on the older sister he lost when he was young. 」

“…Crazy.”

That was as good as a one-year budget for a huge empire.

“Who bets the state budget as a reward…?”

Who was this? It was Heinrich, the scoundrel I raised as a younger brother.

It wasn’t just that. I found an even more disturbing article beneath it.

「According to the available information, Larva declares war on Delphi, “You touched the bakery, so I will destroy the three tribes”」

‘Are you going to destroy the three tribes just for touching a bakery?’

They touched a bakery…?

As the owner of that ‘bakery’, I really want to stop you, Kyle.

The three of them, really.

“They’re out of their minds…”

It was when I was talking to myself as if I was tired of it. The door opened with a heavy bang.

The moment I looked back in surprise, I had no choice but to freeze immediately.

The man who took on the role of a new ‘door’ in place of the one blown away was about 190 centimeters tall and had shoulders broad enough to fill the door.

His muscular chest, which was exposed under the thick collarbone, was so wonderful that there was nowhere to place my eyes.

‘Why are you opening your shirt again?’

Regardless of my doubts, he began to walk towards me with graceful yet beastly movements.

The moonlight slanting in an oblique line illuminated his body unrealistically.

His armor-like chest, countless scars, and stomach clearly split along the shape of his muscles.

(T/N: in case it wasn’t clear, the latter part of the sentence is describing abs hahaha.)

The atmosphere was raw enough that it almost felt barbaric.

The man approached me and lightly supported my chin with his long index finger.

“You are here, Annette.”

Finally, under the moonlight, the man’s face was revealed.

Under his black hair that was like the night when no one was out and around, were eyes that were red to the point of being scary.

I muttered his name like a moan.

“Sislin…”

He was the crown prince of this country, Sislin.

The one I just read about in the newspaper.

As if answering my call, Sislin rolled his eyes and smiled. It was clearly a smile of madness. He whispered;

“I thought I was going crazy because I missed you. Annette.”

‘Excuse me, but it looked like you had turned enough already (?), Your Highness.’

(T/N: the ‘(?)’ is in the raws.)

Clang–

Then something cold touched my wrist with a metallic sound. Crazy, it was shackles.

“Now if you want to run away…”

Broad shoulders leaned towards me. As I instinctively breathed in, I could feel the man’s strong body scent.

“Cut off my wrist and run away.”

The cruel red eyes that followed the shackles attached to us flashed brightly.

Thump thump. That was when my heart started beating fast.

Whoosh–

Suddenly, a wind blew. I quickly looked out the window and found a man sitting on the window sill.

A handsome man with dazzling silver hair was relaxing in the pouring moonlight.

“…Heinrich?”

“Sister.”

He jumped in. The noble purple eyes were still beautiful even though I had not seen them in a long time.

‘How did he find me?’

The last time I saw him, those pretty eyes were full of tears…

Now, Heinrich had a mature gaze, and his smirk and charming hands were completely a grown man’s.

Like flowing water, he approached and hugged me like when he was an 11-year-old boy, and buried his head into my back.

“I missed you.”

A hot whisper pierced my heart.

“…Why didn’t you keep your promise? Sister, you decided not to leave me behind.”

Every time he uttered in a pained voice, my skin kept tickling.

“Heinrich…”

Heinrich raised his head and looked sideways down at my cheek and whispered in my ear.

“Lies are a bad thing.”

The long purple eyes were bent innocently and cruelly.

“What punishment should be given to a child who has done something bad?”

Hmph! That was the moment when I hardened my body. A damp voice came up from my feet.

“Owner.”

“Oh!”

What! I was surprised for a moment and looked down to see a handsome man kneeling at my feet.

‘When did you appear, Kyle!’

The man, with curly brown hair and green eyes, was wearing disheveled, tilted glasses.

I hadn’t seen Kyle in a long time. To explain, should I say he’s a little guy who always lingered around me?

Kyle was a regular customer of our bakery.

“Owner, please.”

“…!”

‘Kyle, please put ‘bakery’ in front of ‘owner’. If you use such an unconventional abbreviation, people will misunderstand you!’

He grabbed my ankles with his big, pretty hands and kissed the top of my feet.

“Please stay by my side forever. Please, please.”

He lowered his long eyelashes and whispered with his red lips.

Like a soft deer, he was infinitely obedient.

But, him, him…

‘According to the available information, you are the leader of the killers of Larva!’

‘I know you’re a scary person even if you pretend to be obedient in front of me.’

‘How can there be no normal person among these three?’

I suddenly had a reality check and the corners of my lips twitched.

“Annette, I can’t release these shackles until I die. No… I can’t even let it go even if I die.”

“Sister, you know right? I love you.… forever…”

“Please be with me for the rest of my life, my owner.”

With these three obsessive maniacs clinging to me, I thought with blurred eyes.

‘How did all three of them go crazy?’

I was starting to worry about my future being entwined with these obsessive maniacs, but now I actually needed to look back on my past.

The reason why these three obsessive maniacs couldn’t eat me and made me anxious must have been from the past.

So maybe… It seemed that all incidents started from that day.

Just ‘that day.’

The day I first met Sislin.

* * *

In the night when everyone was asleep. That night, I was hiding in the kitchen.

It had already been a week. To meet Sislin, I put a savory cheese bread on the counter and waited.

‘Huh? He came out!’

Mmph–

I covered my mouth as I watched the little hand fumble for the bread.

‘He finally showed up… I’m so nervous.’

As soon as the little hand found the bread, he hid like a busy squirrel.

And after a while, the sound of eating bread ‘munch munch’ was heard from behind the hidden counter.

‘Cute…!’

My heart was pounding very hard. It was the moment where I would finally meet the boy for the first time.

Until now, he was just a character in an ‘obsessive maniac’ novel, a synonym for obsession, madness, and decadence. Of course, he was only 11 years old now.

‘You should approach it as quietly as possible.’

Although he was still a child, he was a high-level Awakener who had already realized his abilities, so his five senses were as sensitive as a wild beast.

Munch munch.

When the sound of eating got pretty close. I cautiously reached out and revealed myself to the child.

“… Hey, hi?”

“…”

Finally, the boy raised his head.

Black hair tangled like a chimney cleaning brush.

Frightened red eyes hidden by bangs, but it’s so pretty.

He had dark soot all over his clothes and cheeks.

It was certain.

This boy was Sislin.

‘Ah, more than I expected…’

‘Really much more.’

‘You are so cute!!!’

I squeezed my lips to hold back my inner scream.

Heuk, he looked like a dirty little wolf.

I cautiously reached out and opened my mouth, fearing that the boy might be surprised.

“My name is Annette, let’s get to know each other—”

“……!”

It was then. The boy turned around like a cautious wild animal and went into the cabinet under the countertop.

“Ah! Wait a minute!”

I stretched out my arms straight away, but my arms were short because I was just a child.

‘Damn it.’

Meanwhile, the little beast went into a small hole in the lower compartment and disappeared. In the place where Sislin had left laid bread that had barely been bitten a couple of times.

“…He should’ve taken the bread.”

I was so upset that I muttered so. He must have been hungry.

It had been three months since Sislin awakened his powers and was trapped in the mansion’s cave.

This mansion was also called ‘Forest’, and in the forest, children who awakened their abilities like Sislin often appeared.

The characteristics expressed in Sinlin during awakening were extraordinarily sensitive hearing, sight, and smell…

It was from then. The boy hid in the cave to avoid the noise, the smell, and the scary things in the world.

This mansion was originally renovated from a site where a small tribe lived, so there was a cave as an emergency passageway.

‘Adults can never get in.’

Not only that, even if children could enter, it was easy for them to get lost in the cave maze.

The boy hid there, so no one could find him.

A sigh leaked out.

“I can’t believe he barely comes out at night and steals food.”

It was a much worse environment than expected.

And, in a little while, the madam would set a trap for beasts at the entrance to catch this guy. Then he would seriously injure his ankle.

‘I have to rescue you.’

It must be lonely and scary, but I couldn’t leave you alone like that anymore.

When I saw it with my own eyes, it became even clearer.

“Okay, I’ll do my best.”

But the next day, Sislin did not appear.

Even though I purposely prepared a sausage that smelled amazing.

The next day too.

And the following day as well.

For several days, not a single hair of the boy was seen.

For a week, every day he starved, my stomach burned black.

‘Ah, it’s finally here!’

To my delight, I saw a small hand carefully picking up the oat loaf.

That hand looked just as sensitive as a snail’s antenna, so I didn’t move and opened my ears this time.

Fortunately, there was the sound of rustling and eating.

‘I should be quiet.’

‘Please fill your stomach and go.’

I quietly held my breath and waited for him to finish eating.

I felt like I became an anxious mother cat watching a stray pick a can and secretly eat from it.

In the end, I missed the right time to talk to him. Still, the feeling of relief that the boy had eaten and had a full stomach calmed my heart.

For a week like that, I waited, listening only to the sounds of Sislin eating.

I also changed the menu daily.

Cheese bread, sausage, fruit, stew, salami and so on.

‘He has to gain 10kg of flesh first.’

He was too skinny, like a skewer. In such a state, it was unbelievable that he would grow up to be 190cm tall later.

Then one day, I accidentally placed barley bread on the edge of the counter.

Tuk–

As usual, his hands, which had been moving in search of bread, shook a little as if he was bewildered.

“Haha.”

The moment I saw it, I laughed without realizing it and he was startled. Fortunately, the boy did not run away.

Reluctantly, I slowly revealed myself.

Even if I hadn’t talked to him, wouldn’t he have known I was there?

It must have smelled like a human.

Sure enough, Sislin didn’t avoid me even when he saw me. However, unlike before, he ate a little bit of bread.

Within a week, the boy became even more skinny, and my heart ached.

“……”

I sneaked up to the boy. Like a giant trying to stand next to a very delicate and fragile flower.

But when I sat next to the boy, we were about the same height.

For a while, without saying a word, I waited for the boy to eat.

The boy looked at me and ate bread without making a sound, whether he was hungry or not. Still, he couldn’t hide the cute movement of his cheeks because he was chewing.

‘Be still. My heart.’

I finally carefully asked the boy.

“Hey, are you Sislin?”

“Do not talk to me.”

The boy’s voice was rough because he had not spoken for a long time, but it was a beautiful voice that was enchantingly pleasing.

I blinked and asked belatedly.

“…Why can’t I talk to you?”

“I am a dirty kid.”

A dark shadow fell over the boy’s red eyes.

“If you talk to me, you will get dirty too.”

“…….”

Ah…

My heart ached terribly at Sislin’s unexpected response.

What the heck had that little boy been hearing… so that he would talk like that?

We were at an age where we should only be happy without worrying.

I needed to say some pretty things.

“No, you’re not dirty at all. Later, you will become a better and higher person than anyone else.”

I looked at Sislin and smiled brightly on purpose.

“That’s what I believe.”

“…….”

For a moment, Sislin forgot to eat the bread and looked at me blankly. Then, his ears became as red as ripe berries.

‘Ah, what a pitiful and cute child.’

This cute and adorable child… You mean he would grow up to become a terrifying obsessive maniac?

‘I can’t believe it at all, Writer.’

Wasn’t it too dark of a blackening?

When I thought of Sislin as an adult, it was almost at the level of a child’s rotting!

‘Dangerous. It’s very dangerous.’

I realized once again the enormous danger of the novel I possessed.

* * *

The novel I now possessed had the exhausting BL genre.

Titled .

It was an extremely erotic novel with all kinds of triggering elements such as coercive s*x, confinement, kidnapping, and assault.

(PLEASE take note : (1) Though they call her ‘Sister’, they’re not actually siblings, no ****** here!)

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