When The Moon Tilts West - Chapter 9 - [Part 2]

Chapter 9 – [Part 2]

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Olivia couldn’t finish her words and began to sniff again.

She then carefully asked Jane, as her body had been panting for a while because of the crying.

“You said that you would look for a job for me at that time, right? Can you please help me with that?”

“Of course.”

Jane was kind. At first, she thought Jane wasn’t a good person. However, it wasn’t long after she met that she was someone who was completely trustworthy.

So, Olivia was crying in front of her. That’s how much she missed people. She never had a chance to meet anyone she could trust, or to reach out to anyone she had since she was always insecure about her position.

“What happened? Your body became like this, did the Duke somehow, forcibly…?”

“…He did not use violence.”

Olivia shook her head flutteringly.

She whimpered and continued, “It’s just that I’m the bad one.”

“Oh no, don’t blame yourself. You did nothing wrong.”

Jane said kindly. People who have suffered such things usually blame themselves. It seemed like everything was their fault—the clothes, the self who was there that day, and the attitude towards the perpetrator…

“No, no, not that, I, I mean, I wanted to sleep with him, so…”

Olivia gasped for breath.

“So, I…”

She couldn’t keep up with her words.

Hearing the slurred words, Jane put on a puzzled expression on her face.

“But, my heart kept hurting, and I couldn’t help it.”

Jane didn’t know what Olivia was talking about, though she just hugged her.

Suddenly, she began to sob again, crying so sadly. When Jane was in the brothel, it was the cry of women she saw so much. Though when Olivia’s own weeping grew louder, she was so startled that she bit her mouth again.

“I’m, sniff, I’m, sorry, such a…nuisance.”

“What are you talking about? It’s the Imperial Palace, so soundproofing is good. You can cry all you want.”

“….”

“It’s true, even His Majesty can’t even hear you. I’ll be the one who knows. Come on, cry. Crying will make you feel better.”

“I….”

“You’ve always wanted to cry, haven’t you? It’s not a nuisance. You’ll do the same if I cry. Right?”

She nodded her head at Jane’s words.

As if reassured by her words, Olivia wrapped her hands around her face and began to cry. A sad cry filled the room. It had been a long time since she poured out her feelings. Once she burst into tears, her cries grew louder and louder.

It was the first time she did something called wailing.

“Actually, it was wrong from the start.”

“….”

“His Excellency, returning from the battlefield, found out about my relationship with brother Kevin. I think he saw him and I sleeping together.”

“….”

“So, he asked me if I couldn’t live without a man.”

“Oh my God, I can’t believe that crazy bastard.”

Jane spit out her cursing coldly.

At that, Olivia was startled by this and stopped her.

“No, no. His Excellency loves brother Kevin, so he said brother Kevin shouldn’t marry a person like me…”

“….:

“…I think he thought that I was a promiscuous woman.”

Olivia stopped her crying and spoke up. But, the tears that welled up in her eyes were pouring nonstop.

Jane let out a sigh.

She understood why he said that. Leon was in love with Olivia.

Even on the battlefield. It was natural for him to feel anger when he saw her mixing her body with Kevin. However, with what emotion did he spoke to her, or what he omitted, Olivia, of course, did not know. Therefore, Leon’s words only hurt her.

“All this time, no one tried not to listen to my true story. I was hoping that His Excellency would listen to me, yet His Excellency did the same. He had already concluded everything and asked! No one knows anything about me.”

Olivia continued, clenching her fists.

“Actually, I never slept with Kevin because I wanted to, but His Excellency…”

“What do you mean? You didn’t want it?”

Jane heard about her from Eric, and he did from Leon.

Olivia Claudel has a close relationship with the first of the family, Kevin Deorc. Leon said she loved Kevin. When actually, it was an illusion in his mind.

Because of that, she never bothered wondering why Olivia, who liked Leon, slept with Kevin. Leon seemed to attach a lot of meaning to a physical relationship, though it didn’t mean much to Jane.

Though Oliva just said she never slept with Kevin because she wanted it…

“Literally, the moment he held me was so terrible.”

“Olivia. Does that mean he forced to hold you? You didn’t even want it?”

Eventually, she nodded her head.

Jane realized what had happened to her. She had been r*ped. Olivia had a painful expression on her face.

“Tell me more.”

“Since the age of sixteen, after the death of the Duke, the man secretly entered the room…”

“….”

“He said he’ll marry me, so I had to accept it. Even though I didn’t like it, I thought if I refused, I would be kicked out, so I accepted it.”

“….”

“I was stupid, so I believed it. Because I’m not as smart as Jane… therefore…”

“No. That would have been the case with my country.”

Jane thought as she looked at her.

When she found out about Olivia Claudel, the Countess of the fallen Kingdom of Roheim. From a very young age, she lost her family, and she lost her mother in a brothel, and she came here led by the Duke…

In such a ruined kingdom, a girl who had virtually no place to lean on, Jane could only imagine how precarious her position must have been after the Duke’s death.

Beast-like bastards that prey on such a weak woman were everywhere. That was to say, she was in a cage with a beast like Kevin and she had no protection.

Because of that, the beast did not leave her alone.

“Miss Claudel is not at fault.”

“No, I actually know it was bad. I even tried to say I didn’t want it. However, no one helped me. If I don’t like it, I can just leave, so why am I here…?”

Hearing the maids chattering, Olivia always fell into a sense of shame. ‘Didn’t she eventually give up her body and chose to be the Duke’s woman,’ so the maids denounced her.

“It’s not that I didn’t run away. One day, Kevin held me with a fever. The next morning, I couldn’t take it anymore, so I left the house….”

“….”

“But again, men…”

Jane could guess what happened behind the scenes, even though Olivia didn’t say it.

No matter how she was treated in the Duke’s family, who would have left a woman with a beautiful appearance, who was raised to be precious, going outside?

The beasts were remarkably good at distinguishing the weak and preyed on them…

“I lost everything I had… They dragged me down the street and—”

“You don’t have to tell me.”

Olivia began to shake her body.

Even now, when she recalled that day, she still cried. It was then that she fully experienced the horror.

The giggles, grinning faces remained in her memory. She thought they were just like animals. Even though she screamed and screamed in pain, it was just a sting in their ears. They giggled at her screams.

At that time, Olivia realized…

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