I Won't Go Back To My Family Who Abandon Me novel Chapter 77

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“You don’t think you can end it with an apology, do you?”

Leticia said this to Keena in a dry emotionless voice, as they sat alone together in a room. Keena was sitting across from her and was quietly looking down at the teacup in her hand. She avoided her gaze without saying a word.

“You were the reason that Emil and Xavier were here, right?”

“….”

“Who are you?”

Leticia knew from the beginning that she wasn’t an ordinary person.

Looking at Keena, who was always hovering around her. Hiding her name, her age, and everything else, Leticia certainly realized that there was something she didn’t know.

Nevertheless, she didn’t ask because she didn’t want to know. She had a strong feeling that she wouldn’t want to know the answer for some reason.

However, it seemed like it was too late to turn a blind eye now.

“Who are you?”

“Keena.”

“I’m not asking for your given name, but your family name.”

“Keena Erebos.”

“….”

When Keena calmly revealed who she was, Leticia paled and closed her mouth. The sound of her heart dropping was faintly heard in her ears.

Leticia vaguely remembered the Erebos family from her childhood, but she couldn’t remember the exact details no matter how hard she tried.

There were three capable families in the Helios Empire[1]. Unlike the Leroy family, who were born with unique abilities, the Elgar and Erebos families had specific, determined fields of study. Elgar had abilities related to academics and knowledge, but the now destroyed Erebos family were famous for their prowess in martial arts and swordsmanship.

[I’m confident in using my body.]

‘That’s why she beat Xavier in the Swordsmanship tournament.’

No matter how good Xavier was at swordsmanship, he couldn’t beat an Erebos, who specialized in martial arts.

“But as far as I’ve heard they’re all…”

“Do you know they’re all dead?”

“….”

“Right. Everyone is dead except for me.”

Keena lightly stirred her tea with a bitter smile. That terrible sight that she’d been struggling to forget still came to mind clearly.

Blood splatter that covered the walls and floors, her ears filled with a mixture of fresh screams and the gasping of the dying. Even though her body was sticky with the still-drying, she couldn’t move because of the knife sticking out of her back.

‘I awakened at that time too.’

Keena’s awakening, which her father had wanted so badly, was after losing everything.

It wasn’t enough that she survived that hell, but she gained an ability too. When she thought about it now, it was a miracle. No, it was her punishment.

“I don’t have to hide what happened any longer.”

Drinking a sip of her cold tea, Keena continued.

“Did you know the cause of the destruction was all because of your father?”

“What…”

“It’s because your father framed us.”

Erebos was definitely a family that contributed to the founding of the country. Thanks to this, they received the emperor’s trust and favor more than any other family. As Erebos family’s fame grew, the imperial family sensed a threat, and immediately began to keep them in check.

It was the Marquis Leroy who took advantage of this estrangement and cut off the strings of their relationship.

“Is that why you approached me?”

Leticia, who’d been quietly listening to Keena, looked crestfallen while she bit her lip.

It was beyond belief. No, it was more correct to say that she didn’t want to believe it.

“Are you going to get revenge?”

Her voice trembled slightly when she asked this question.

Before she was excommunicated, Leticia was confident that she knew her family better than anyone else. Now that everything she’d known had been refuted, she couldn’t confidently say that Marquis Leroy couldn’t have done this.

Rather, if it was her father, he seemed like the type of person who could have done it.

“I think I said this before, but I don’t have a quarrel with you.”

“Do you expect me to believe that?”

“There’s nothing to worry about. The person I want to take revenge on is your father, not you.”

“Keena.”

“I thought revenge would be easier if I approached you.”

Keena thought that Leticia had the ability to make others unlucky and take away their happiness. Such an ability would’ve been useful for her revenge if true.

“There were moments when I wanted to help you, regardless of your use. I meant it when I said I wanted to become closer to you.”

At first, she’d definitely tried to use her for revenge, but at some point her purpose had become blurred. Leticia was incredibly nice and sincere for a child born into that family, and soon she spent time with her without a second thought.

So she hated it, her extraordinary kindness.

“It’s also true that I wanted to make your father pay by using you.”

Leticia clenched her hands tightly as she quietly listened to Keena. She remembered the day when she encountered Keena as she was being chased by someone.

‘Was she being chased by the people her father had sent? Or did she catch the attention of the Imperial family because she participated in the Swordsmanship tournament?’

Come to think of it, Leticia was the only reason why she’d participated in that tournament.

“Why did you help me?”

“….”

“Why did you help me when you wanted to get back at my father?”

Why didn’t Keena just leave Leticia alone when Xavier ignored her?

Maybe at that time, her help was also a plan to make her look good so that she could use Leticia. Strangely though, she thought that Keena was being sincere towards her at that moment.

“That’s something that you don’t need to worry about.”

“Keena.”

“Also, I will never appear in front of you again.”

As soon as she finished saying that, Keena put down her teacup, and stood up.

“Then why did you come this time?”

Leticia asked Keena as she turned away without a second thought. Keena mumbled under her, without turning around.

“Well…”

Keena couldn’t put into words what she was thinking at such a difficult time, so she grabbed the doorknob, and left the room. As soon as she stepped out, she encountered Enoch standing right in front of her and had to stop.

He looked her up and down, as if inspecting to see if she was a dangerous element. Keena smiled crookedly from the pressure she felt in his gaze.

“I’m sorry for causing a fuss. I can’t say for sure, but I think there are miners who worked at Marquis Leroy’s mine living in your territory.”

What she meant was that he should visit them and make it clear that the nobles hadn’t fallen ill because of the party that had been thrown at Achilles’ mansion.

Enoch immediately understood and frowned slightly.

“Is there a reason why you’re telling me this?”

“Let’s just say that I’m sorry.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Keena passed by Enoch and tried to leave the mansion. However, Ian held something out to her before she could leave.

“Take this.”