The Male Leads Are Trapped in My House

Sorry for the late upload, I lost some of my finished translations and repeated them (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)

Btw thanks for the kofi miu ~

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I had a dream.

The extravagant three-story townhouse of the Sinclair family.

I had a fever that day, too. It was four years ago. I was fifteen years old, and I was always sick because my immune system was weak.

“Your father finally brought the medicine.”

One day, my father suddenly brought home some medicine and insisted that I take it.

After taking the medicine for about a year, my health improved. A bit too much, actually.

“Aurora. You must remember that name. If a child with that name is ever in danger, you must help. Don’t forget that you have to help that child.”

And my father had said words in a language I couldn’t understand while looking at me. At that time, I didn’t know who Aurora was.

Yes, my father had definitely talked about Aurora. If Aurora was in danger, I had to help her too…

Wait a moment, what?

I blinked.

It was a memory I had forgotten for a very long time.

Why did I dream this now, of all times? A dream where my deceased father mentioned Aurora’s name.

As I regained my senses, my field of vision returned. Sunlight was streaming into the room through the window.

Chirp, chirp. A sparrow was perched on the windowsill.

As I regained my senses, the contents of the dream I had just became fuzzy again. My father had said that he needed to save someone, but I couldn’t remember the name. Who was it?

I was sitting on the bed in the middle of the room. I must have fallen asleep after crying.

Eden must have been lying on the bed…

“Finally awake, huh?”

Then a man’s voice came from above my head.

I saw his long legs by my side. When I lifted my head a bit more, I saw Eden sitting on the edge of the bed, looking down at me.

I was taken aback by the deep blue eyes that stared at me intently, with his arms propped on his thighs and his upper body slightly bent.

“….”

“….Uh, hello.”

Eden didn’t respond. He stared at my face in silence for a while, and then opened his mouth after some time had passed.

“What’s the situation now?”

Did I hit the back of his head? I glanced at him subtly, wondering if he remembered.

“You fainted. So, I brought you home.”

“….”

“…Haha.”

“…I remember that Miss Cherry hit the back of my head. Very clearly.”

Darn, he remembers that, of course.

“The village was in chaos. There were far more monsters than survivors. If we had left it as it was, Lord Eden could have been in danger.”

“There were many people in more danger than me.”

I knew that as well.

But Eden was more important to me than people I didn’t have personal connections with. I couldn’t save everyone.

An uncomfortable silence persisted for a while.

“Well, it’s already happened…”

Unexpectedly, Eden seemed to open his mouth without intending to blame me.

He looked at me with an inexplicable expression, as if I could never figure out what he was thinking. Then he greeted me.

“You saved me… Thank you.”

“….”

Hearing those words, I felt like I might burst into tears.

But I couldn’t save the person I truly wanted to save, Susanna.

My tightly closed lips trembled.

“Why are your eyes so puffy? They’re swollen.”

Eden, whom I thought would tease me relentlessly, unexpectedly asked something else.

And then, as he asked, the agony I had pushed to the back of my mind came flooding back.

“Susanna…”

I held my breath. As I grabbed my chest in pain, Eden looked at me with a slightly surprised expression.

“Susanna turned into a monster… So, I… With my own hands… With my own hands…”

The shocking realization from yesterday that I had forgotten overwhelmed my mind again.

I felt like I was about to vomit. I covered my mouth, and Eden quickly hugged me and laid me down on the bed.

“Take deep breaths.”

He looked down at me and spoke.

“Inhale and exhale.”

I was on the verge of bursting, with blood rushing to my face due to difficulty breathing. Eden slowly calmed me down.

“It’s okay. Everything will be alright now.”

Eden reassured me with an unchanged expression.

I followed Eden’s lead, inhaling and exhaling repeatedly. The sensation of blood gradually circulating made my breathing feel more comfortable.

“Are you feeling better now?”

I nodded in response to Eden’s question.

“Thank you.”

Only then did Eden exhale a soft sigh and shifted his body from above me.

“I really want to ask how all this happened…”

After scanning the room briefly, Eden looked down at me on the bed and spoke.

“For now, just rest.”

“No, it doesn’t seem like the time to rest now. Since the sun is up, we need to deal with the creatures. There are monster corpses outside.”

Of course, resting wasn’t on my mind. If I lay still alone, the memories of yesterday would likely resurface.

I feared that those memories would relentlessly haunt and not let me go.

Eden studied my expression for a moment before readily nodding.

“Understood. And as soon as we assess the situation, I’ll head up to the capital.”

Well, judging from what he said, it seemed he still hadn’t fully grasped the situation.

“My younger sister is in the capital, so I need to make sure she’s safe.”

“The capital…”

I started to say, then swallowed my words. I couldn’t bring myself to say that the capital would likely be in the same state.

Moreover, Eden was someone who didn’t exactly hold a friendly view toward me and the Sinclair family. I didn’t want to add to that suspicion.

I was sorry I couldn’t tell him the truth, but Aurora would be safe. The main character can’t die. That much was clear until this situation was resolved.

The problem was that Eden was here, not by Aurora’s side, but here.

I got up from the bed and asked Eden.

“What happened to the village exactly?”

Eden, who had been walking out of the room with me, closed his mouth as if pondering over yesterday’s events. After a while, he cautiously spoke.

“I was at the police station all afternoon yesterday.”

Yes, I had been fine until I left Brunel for Kint. There were still a few days until the destruction…

“But suddenly, there was a report. A murder case had occurred at the carriage rental station.”

The carriage rental station.

As soon as I heard those words, I could guess what had happened. Clearly, something had been transferred from another area.

While not very far from the capital, Brunel was a small rural village that was so insignificant that even people from the capital didn’t know about it. Let alone a train station.

But if the virus had spread to Brunel…

‘The capital is already…’

I tried to shake off the ominous feeling as I opened the front door of Happy House and stepped outside.

“But it was already too late. It was similar to what we saw in the garden of this mansion last time. People turning into monsters, and when those transformed attacked others, they also turned.”

Eden recalled yesterday’s events, his brow furrowing in anguish. Then he cursed and ruffled his hair.

“Darn it, what the hell is all this…?”

He seemed to be frustrated and continued to curse, with a face that showed he was perplexed and worried about Aurora, who was left in the capital.

His confusion wasn’t incomprehensible. After all, I was worried about Harrison as well.

We walked through the vegetable garden slowly.

“Are these the monsters?”

Then, Eden discovered the monster corpses he had piled up on one side and asked me.

The bodies of the creatures that had been left there since yesterday were lying on the ground – one in the shape of a bear and the other resembling a wolf. I nodded in confirmation.

“The one that looks like a wolf is probably Susanna…”

I couldn’t bring myself to finish the sentence and turned my back. It hadn’t been like this when the monster appeared in 61st Street or when the farmer turned into a monster on the farm.

I sighed deeply and sank down onto the soil.

Eden didn’t pat me on the back or offer any comforting words.

But when I stood up, he handed me a neatly folded handkerchief. He did it without looking at my face.

“I’m grateful to have been saved, but I still feel like I should have saved one more person.”

I didn’t reply to Eden’s words.

For me, my own life was a priority, while for Eden, others’ lives were more important.

It was so frustrating that the man who had to survive for the sake of this world had such a mindset.

“I understand. You don’t need to bend your sense of duty.”

However, I didn’t think it was a bad thing for Eden to maintain such a kind heart.

Even in this hellish world, people like Eden were necessary. So, I hoped he wouldn’t change.

If Eden tried to sacrifice himself for others…

I would stop him then, even if it meant earning his resentment and hatred.

At that moment, Eden poured oil over the creature’s body. Then, he lit a match and threw it. Flames immediately roared to life.

Sizzle…

For a while, both Eden and I stared silently at the fire.

Crackle, crackle.

As the stench of burning flesh filled the air, the corpse gradually turned to ashes. We continued to watch it without saying a word.

‘I’m sorry, Susanna. I couldn’t protect you.’

I prayed for her once again in front of him, and then again. It was difficult to stop my body from trembling.

I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry.

I shed tears once more in front of him.

Eden stood next to me in silence, still watching the flames.