Two Sides of the Coin

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[WARNING! MENTIONS OF DARK THEMES WILL OCCUR IN THIS CHAPTER. PLEASE READ IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!]

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"N-NO! L-LET GO OF ME! *sob! *sob! …. D-DON'T TOUCH ME!"

The third young master's retaliation shocked them the most when the servants tried to touch him, only for the young child to crawl away from them and cried in anguish in the corner like a wounded animal while trembling in fear.

Felicity saw how the youngest tried to move himself to the corner to hide and she immediately strived towards the youngest and when she was in front of the youngest, still trembling while hiding his face from everyone, the eldest young lady carefully bent down to align herself with her youngest sibling.

"H-hello, Ezekiel. Don't worry, we won't hurt you. P-please let us help you out first."

She tried to be gentle as much as possible, but when she saw her youngest sibling lift up his head and looked at her, he paled immediately and backed away.

"N-no! *sob! *sob! …. P-please! S-stop!"

The eldest young lady got startled to see the youngest crawl away from her. As she was about to comfort him, someone tapped her shoulder and she turned around and saw her second older brother, Harrison, who wasn't behaving in his usual carefree and playful manner.

"Felicity, move out. You're just aggravating him even more."

Unlike his usual teasing manner whenever Harrison pestered his younger sister, Harrison's cold and indifferent tone makes others wanted to submit to him, especially right now he's being serious and not playing around.

Felicity felt offended by Harrison's words and refuted back; "What do you mean by that?!"

Harrison looked at his younger sister with a deadpan expression; "Don't you look at yourself in front of the mirror? That should be the answer."

The eldest young lady lost her composure because of her second older brother's remarks, and she felt insulted by the way her second older brother addressed her like that, and she won't backed away.

"Why you—?!"

"ENOUGH! BOTH OF YOU! THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THE TWO OF YOU TO BICKER WITH EACH OTHER!"

Both siblings flinched upon hearing their eldest brother shout at them and Felicity looked away from Harrison's sight and directed her sight to their eldest brother.

"B-but big brother…"

Altron cut her off and said bitterly; "Harrison is right, Felicity. You're just aggravating Ezekiel because of your appearance. Y-you…"

He paused mid-sentence as he didn't want to continue and from his words alone, the eldest young lady finally realized her mistake as she bit her lips and immediately stood up and walked away from her youngest sibling.

'It's because of my appearance that's almost identical to my mother…'

The eldest young lady felt guilty even though she didn't do anything wrong, but she felt responsible for the trauma that her youngest sibling had, and she knew from this moment on, whenever Ezekiel would look at her, he would remember this unpleasant incident.

"GUARDS! Detain the Marchioness to her room and allowed no one to visit her until further notice."

Marquis Augustus finally said his verdict after a long silence when he first got into his youngest son's quarters and saw the scene in front of him.

The guards outside heed on the Marquis' command and immediately took the Marchioness but the woman struggle off from them and immediately went over to the Marquis' side, kneeling and begging in front of him.

"D-dear…. P-please….! H-hear me out first! T-this… I-is… n-not…"

Before she could explain herself, the Marquis, who had enough of this and felt his pride being trampled over, kicked the Marchioness off before he could do something that he might regret it.

"FATHER, STOP!"

Altron yelled out but didn't approach her mother and tried to comfort her, like how he usually done if his mother was upset because of their father, because right now, he couldn't look directly at his mother because of the scene that was imprinted on his mind and his youngest brother's pleas for help still within his memory.

'Is it possible that the reason why his temper is so bad was because… h-he… w-was….!'

The first young master seems to connect the dots and the reason for his youngest sibling to become what he was today….

'I know there are rumors surrounding about mother from her younger years and I thought they were just talking nonsense and didn't mind those vulgar rumors surrounding but right now…. it seems that those rumors were true all along….'

Altron wasn't the kind of person who would listen to rumors that often but that only serves him as some sort of intelligence gathering since most of the time, rumors and gossip tends to be their source of information.

Although he had heard about this rumor about his mother during her younger years, he often brushed it off as nonsense since his mother is a distinguished Marchioness from a prominent household and Altron believed that their mother wouldn't do such a thing.

However, this incident proves that he is wrong all along.

"I'll be taking Ezekiel out of here. Pack all the third young master's things and move them to another room. Guards, tear down this place."

Altron snapped from his thoughts when he heard his second little brother, Harrison, speaks and ordered the servants to pack Ezekiel's belongings and had the guards to tear down these quarters.

The first young master observed his second little brother's movements, and he frowned as he noticed strangely before they got here.

His second little brother, Harrison, known for his mischievousness and carefree manner, it's not a secret within the noble society how eccentric he was if he is in the mood to play around or prank someone if something interest him.

However, it seems that others tend to forget that Harrison is still from the Chevalier's main bloodline household and that alone serves them as a warning if someone dared to make a wrong move then, Harrison had no qualms of punishing someone who dared to mess up with their household.

« ... "A bit odd for non-blood relatives to seek themselves in the middle of the night sky, am I right… Big Brother? ~~~" ... »

The first young master suddenly remembered those words from earlier and he looked at his second little brother with a conflicted feeling.

'Does it mean…. Harrison knew something?'

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