"You're still here?"
This time, it was I who was surprised when I entered my private bedroom.
Previously, I had deliberately left Luna behind when she came to me.
"Did you just try to cultivate?"
"Isn't your supernatural energy already broken?"
"Are you just trying to act as if you can cultivate?"
She had said all those things with an innocent face, as if she didn't even realize how insulting her words were.
Since I didn't want to hear her words, I had deliberately left her without even asking why she was looking for me.
I had left her to get some warm water.
Now, I already have a wash basin with warm water in my hand to wash myself.
"L-Let me apologize." She hurriedly let out a forced smile and came over to me. She took the wash basin in my hand and said, "Before you wash your body, let me help clean the abrasions and bruises on your body."
She took out a handkerchief, poured some wine, and tried to clean the cuts on my face.
She also tried to put some plantain or yarrow that she had pounded on top of my wounds.
"You yourself made the wounds on my body and face, but you yourself are trying to help treat the wounds on my body?"
I tried to provoke her tomboyish nature a little, but she managed to restrain herself and only clenched her fists slightly.
When her face was close to mine, I couldn't resist the cringe scene she wanted to show.
I stood up and took off the top clothes I was wearing while hoping that she would be embarrassed and go out, but it seemed like I had underestimated her tomboyish nature.
"Why don't you come out?"
"Why should I go out?" She was confused, but when she saw my body, she said, "With your body in such bad shape, did you expect me to blush and run away?"
'Ugh!'
Luna's words were not wrong.
I ended up letting her do anything to my body.
She took a towel and dipped it into the water in the wash basin. From my hands, shoulders, neck, to my back, she casually continued to clean me.
Throughout the process, she kept apologizing... which I knew she was saying reluctantly.
Not only for the mistake of accusing and beating me up last night, but she also strangely apologized for ordering me around all this time.
"Before you came here earlier, I had already thought of a few things. It seems that you've changed. I apologize for using you too much in the past to bear the mistakes I made before our parents."
"Is that so?"
"Maybe you don't remember, but back then...."
She began to tell me about the past, where her tomboyish nature was just starting to emerge.
She often went to bars and started beating people up, lost a bargain and started using her fists, and many other deeds that could bring down the Ralstone family.
Instead of Luna receiving the whipping from Marquess Ralstone, all the fruits of her deeds were passed on to the previous owner of this body of mine.
The passing of the blame ended when the previous owner of this body of mine had fallen into alcoholic bliss.
"I cannot accept your apology."
".... Yes. It doesn't matter if you don't forgive me. The important thing is that I've apologized."
"No, no, no, it's not like that."
Her brother Kieran was dead, while the Kieran in front of her now was my earthly self, so I couldn't answer her apology.
'Come to think of it...'
Although she was the sister of the previous owner of my body, we had almost nothing in common in our physical features.
Whether Luna or Patrick, they both have wide eyes and dark brown hair.
Unlike me, who instead had slit eyes and jet black hair color.
'Is it because I was adopted?
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Luna asked with a frown. "Do you want to receive my spanking?"
"No. I just think you look awesomely beautiful."
I returned her harshness with a smile.
Certainly not the shy response that I got from Luna. She looked ready to give me another punch. But she suddenly stopped and held her stomach instead.
"Krgh!" She whimpered in pain.
Seeing her sudden change, I started thinking about what was really going on with her.
Until finally, I knew why.
Grab!
I grabbed her shoulders and immediately lay her down on my bed.
Her body temperature, which I felt on the palm of my hand when I hugged her shoulders, seemed to change. Sometimes it feels cold, but in a few seconds it turns out to be very hot.
"Do you want me to heal?"
"Kurg! S-stop joking around. Just let me rest here for a while. These symptoms will stop any minute now."
Luna's body was curled up on the bed.
A normal person would think that she was on her period or something, but I knew that this was not the case with her body.
The pain Luna was experiencing came from a poison administered by Patrick.
Patrick's obstacle to becoming the head of the family might have been just me, but if he had wanted to be the one to truly set the policy and make the absolute rules in the Ralstone family, then he would have needed to get rid of Luna at once.
If Patrick had ignored Luna's existence, before she married someone else and left the castle, her influence—her voice—would still have been very strong in the policies he made.
'Fighting Patrick should be Simon's duty as the main character.'
Luna was one of Simon's harem candidates.
In the original story, it was told that the poison in Luna's body would be cured by Simon. He used the holy energy he had to purify the poison in Luna's body.
'This time, I won't let Simon show his usefulness as the main character. Especially, I will prevent him from showing off his skills to the harem candidates.'
Although I reassured myself with such optimistic words, deep down I was not that optimistic.
I did say that I would take all of Simon's harem, but I actually didn't have the confidence to hope that all of Simon's harem candidates would actually be able to fall for me.
I'm not like the main characters of various fictional stories, after all.
'Just do what I can do without any expectations...' Enjoying every breath I take, that's my life motto. 'It looks like it's looking better.'
[You are using external supernatural energy control.]