Between Your Letter and My Reply

Chapter 95

[Translated By Divinity]

Lilliana was startled, and Damian reflexively pulled her behind him.

“I’d rather talk to Lily,” Casey said to Lilliana, who was peeking out from behind Damian’s shoulder, in a languid voice. Before Lilliana could reply, Damian spoke first.

“There’s something I want to ask you.”

“Then ask away.”

Casey shrugged, and Damian shook his head.

“It’s something I want to ask when we’re alone.”

“What is it?”

Lilliana tugged at Damian’s clothes from behind him. But Damian didn’t budge, and Casey said to Lilliana with a regretful tone,

“That’s what he wants, Lily. Sorry, but we’ll talk for a bit.”

“Lilliana, go to your room. The protective magic won’t let Casey in, so you don’t have to be scared.”

Damian stepped aside to let Lilliana pass. Lilliana looked at them in turn and then said with an anxious look,

“Can’t I listen?”

“It’s not that you can’t listen, but I’m worried Casey might do something rash in front of you.”

“Rash? What are you talking about?”

Even Casey was bewildered by Damian’s words. Damian just glared at him and pushed Lilliana into her room.

“No, wait a minute. Tell me what you’re going to talk about. I need to know before I can decide whether to leave you two alone or not!”

“I’ll tell you later. I promise.”

Damian shamelessly used force to prevent Lilliana from leaving the room. After a brief struggle, she finally walked into her room on her own and said in a stern voice,

“I don’t know what it is, but… don’t do anything weird, either of you.”

“If anyone’s going to do anything weird, it’s Casey, why am I being told that?”

“Damian, you don’t seem to realize it, but… you can be quite reckless sometimes.”

“I’m not being reckless. I have my own manual, and I’m just acting accordingly.”

“Just drop it…”

She pointed at Casey and said the same thing to him.

“Don’t hurt Damian, brother!”

“Lily, I don’t hurt just anyone.”

“So you hurt people who aren’t just anyone?”

“…”

As Casey remained silent, Lilliana’s face turned pale. Damian didn’t want her to exchange any more words with Casey, so he slammed her door shut.

“Let’s go to your room. My room is next to Lilliana’s, so if she put ear to the wall, she’ll be able to hear our conversation.”

“So what is it?”

Damian marched into Casey’s room without waiting for an answer. Casey didn’t seem offended, though.

He simply followed Damian into the room, driven by pure curiosity and anticipation for what Damian had to say, and locked the door behind him.

It wasn’t to trap Damian but to avoid being interrupted. If Casey hadn’t done it, Damian would have locked the door himself.

Casey turned on the light, and Damian, staring intently into his eyes, said,

“Edenfallen was a nice place. What were you doing with Lilliana for two years in that secluded place?”

At those words, Casey’s eyes changed, and he lunged at Damian, grabbing his throat with one hand. Almost simultaneously, Damian’s revolver was pressed against Casey’s chin.

“Who are you?”

Casey asked in a cold tone, unlike his usual demeanor, but Damian replied without changing his expression,

“This sudden outburst, I’m just returning the favor, using your own words from earlier. We can’t show this in front of Lilliana, can we?”

“Just answer my question.”

Casey growled, but Damian, still unafraid, said in his usual indifferent tone,

“Lieutenant McCord.”

“What?”

The hand gripping Damian’s throat loosened slightly. Damian shrugged and said,

“I’m Lieutenant McCord. Didn’t Lilliana mention it before she lost her memory? If you were living with her, you should at least know who she was exchanging letters with.”

Casey’s eyes widened. Damian, seeing that, thought it was exactly the same expression as Lilliana’s.

“You’re Lieutenant McCord?”

“Yes. And the person who used the name Lintray when exchanging letters with me must be Lilliana. You mentioned the alias Ray, you took that from Lintray, didn’t you?”

Casey was visibly flustered. He immediately withdrew his hand from Damian’s neck and took a step back. But Damian’s gun was still pointed at him.

“And originally, Lintray was you, and Seyra was Lilliana, right? Lilliana borrowed Lintray’s name to exchange letters with Lieutenant McCord. Ah, it’s complicated even to say. Why did you keep changing and switching names like that?”

Damian grumbled.

Casey just stared at Damian, as if he didn’t know what to say. Damian felt a strange thrill at flustering Casey for the first time.

“What do you want?”

Casey looked ready to lunge at Damian again at any moment. To Casey, who was acting like a cat with its fur standing on end, Damian slowly lowered his gun and said,

“Don’t worry. I was just curious who Lady Lintray was.”

“What?”

“That’s all.”

Damian casually sat down on the desk chair without asking for Casey’s permission.

“Don’t just stand there, sit down. Let’s talk.”

It was funny how he was telling him to sit down as if he owned the place, but Casey did as Damian said and sat on the bed opposite him. He then looked Damian up and down and asked,

“So, you’re… Lieutenant McCord?”

Casey still had a confused look on his face.

“That’s right.”

“How can I believe that? Do you have any proof?”

“Damn it, I burned the letters, so I can’t show them to you.”

Damian ruffled his hair roughly in frustration.

“Would you believe me if I told you the contents of the letters?”

“I respect Lily’s privacy, so I don’t know the contents of the letters.”

“Ah… then…”

Damian thought for a moment, then snapped his fingers and said,

“According to the picture Lady Lintray sent me, Timo had five puppies in total.”

“…That’s right.”

“And one of them has a star-shaped mark on its forehead.”

“That’s also true. But…”

Casey still spoke skeptically.

“You could get those answers easily by asking the villagers of Edenfallen.”

“Ah, this is driving me crazy.”

Damian lamented, and Casey nodded after a moment of thought.

“The fact that I was originally Lintray and Lily used the name Seyra, and that you were sending letters to Lily under the name Lintray – these two things would be difficult to deduce unless you were directly involved in the exchange of letters, so I’ll believe you for now.”

“Really? Thanks for that.”

“But how did you know I was Lintray? Everyone would think Lintray is a woman.”

“With your build, I thought you could probably pull off dressing as a woman. I actually mistook you for a woman when I first saw you.”

Damian knew of a spy who had infiltrated enemy lines dressed as a woman during the war. So he was quite open-minded about that sort of thing.

“Well, you’re right. It actually worked. But…”

Casey glared at Damian again and asked,

“What’s your motive for bringing this up?”

“I told you, I wanted to find out who Lintray was. So I was just checking…”

“Why? Why did you want to find her?”

“Why… well, that’s…”

Damian was momentarily speechless. He didn’t know how to answer. He had told Lilliana everything, but he didn’t want to repeat it to Casey.

‘I want to confirm the nature of my feelings for Lady Lintray.’

…He couldn’t say that directly to anyone, let alone Lady Lintray’s brother.