Yohan Loves Tite

opened my eyes, I was not in a cold basement, but on my soft bed.

His lies weren’t perfect to the end.
He told my parents about my treatment, you see.
I guess he couldn’t act perfectly because it hurt him to see me suffer in the basement.

I left the basement after a little over a year.
The morning sun was so bright.
My siblings didn’t care about me, and the maids and servants treated me like a ghost, but anyway, I left the basement, didn’t I? I was happy, so I smiled sweetly.

People thought I was on a trip.
I deceived people by pretending to have traveled because I didn’t want to lay out my parents’ sins.
I said I had a good rest in a place with good air and water.
And people were asking me like this.

“Are you sane now?”

“I was always sane.”

Goodness.
They were so rude.
How could they ask such a question to the eldest daughter of the Rivero family.
When I got angry, people asked me again.

“What do you think of Cardinal Yohan?”

My answer was obvious.

“I really love him.
His Eminence said he loves someone else other than me, right?”

“Oh, my.
You are really.”

“In truth, he loves me.
I know everything.
He can’t fool me even if he can fool the Demon Lord.”

“Not sane.”

My father told the Temple that they could use force as long as I didn’t get seriously injured.
From the proud first daughter of the Rivero family, I was deprived of the right to succeed and only became the first daughter.
The Holy Father closed the Temple, an open space for all, tightly only to me, and people started pointing fingers at me.

I’m fine, though.

I’m not crazy and Yohan loves me.

***

Had it not been for the gag, Reese’s upper and lower teeth would have bumped mercilessly.
Reese was too scared to shake.

Snip.
Snip.

The horrifying sound didn’t stop coming to Reese’s ears.
Reese repeatedly closed her eyes tightly and opened them.
When she opened her eyes, the reality, which felt like all this would end as a nightmare overnight, betrayed her.

The eerie coldness of metal tickled Reese’s neck.

“Mmrf.”

Reese closed her eyes again and prayed to God.
May someone come to save her.
May Yohan come to save herself.

“Just hang in there.
I’m almost done.
Don’t move, okay? You might get hurt.”

Snip.
Snip.

As the sound grew longer, Reese’s head became lighter and lighter.
An unusually large teardrop fell from Reese’s wet eyes.
The sound stopped and the creepy scissors that scared Reese also left the back of her neck.
But Reese’s tears didn’t stop.

“It’s done!”

Reese’s beautiful hair that she had grown all her life.
The long hair of a woman was in the hand of Tite.
Reese shook her head in disbelief of this reality.
It wasn’t there.
The glossy black hair, which she had been preciously took care of, was cut short under the ears.

“Actually, I’m a little curious.
What color was the hair in that locket? It’s not blonde, so black hair? If it’s black, he might have cut his hair.
Well.
It must have been easy for him to get hair because Yohan is popular.
Even if he didn’t ask anyone for it, everyone would put their hair in the letter and give it to him.”

It was exactly like what she said.
Reese had also sent Yohan a few cuts of hair in a letter with no names written on it.
Any girl who lived in the capital did it at least once.
They dreamed of that beautiful Holy Father.
Would that be such a big mistake?

Enough to get her life threatened like this?