Chapter 38

Based on the residence of the Duke of Heinst, Lucius Street was to the south, Regis Street was to the west, and the place the Duke went to investigate was to the north.

After leaving the palace, the carriage ran and ran until it came to a three-ways intersection.

The driver looked for a moment and then went to Lucius Street.

After a while, a carriage just like her made its way to Regis street.

Was it about 3 minutes? This time the same carriage appeared and headed north.

***

The road leading to Regis street. It was a relatively uninhabited road, a white wagon with the Heinst emblem on it was slowly traveling.

A man hid in a tree and watches closely.

He rubbed the mask on his face once and then blinked at his colleagues who were also hiding in the trees around him.

Five men exchanged signs with him without saying a word.

Then, when the wagon passed under the tree, the man quickly jumped out of the tree and settled next to the driver.

Then his companions jumped and surrounded the carriage.

“Who are you ?”

The driver pulled the horse hurriedly and the horses stopped quickly.

The man grabbed a sharp dagger under the driver’s chin. When he moved the blade gently on his neck, a little bit of red blood came out from the blade.

“Calm down and drive the carriage into the Fairy Forest.”

The Forest of Fairies was a forest located to the east of the capital.

It was a place where hunting competitions hosted by the imperial family were held in the spring, and in the fall bears preparing for hibernation could appear, so it was a place that people did not enter often.

“For, why the Forest of Fairies…?”

“Doesn’t it seem that your life is not worth it? If you can turn around, do it.”

“Ah, I understand….”

At the time the driver was about to pull the horses with his trembling hands .

“Uh!”

“Ugh!”

Painful cries could be heard everywhere, followed by the clash of swords.

“What?”

The man took the dagger from the driver’s neck and quickly looked around. Knights with long swords were dealing with his masked comrades.

Two of them had already fallen to the ground, not moving, and one of them was standing with difficulty, bleeding profusely from his stomach.

The other two were fiercely fighting with the knights, but they were clearly no match for the knights.

“What the hell is this!”

That was when the man was about to jump off the wagon to help his teammate.

Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his side, lost his balance and rolled off the carriage.

The driver, who had kicked him hard, pulled the sword he was hiding under his feet and jumped out of the carriage.

Contrary to before, the driver’s eyes, which had completely erased his fearsome appearance, were as sharp as a sword.

The driver stepped on the man who was about to stand, moaning, and grabbed the sword perpendicular to his throat.

“You have the skill, you are likely to pass even if you take the entrance examination for our knights.”

The driver stomped on the man’s body even harder and smiled.

“If this talent is wasted in something like this, It’s useless.”

And drawn on the sword in his right hand the shape of a roaring lion.

***

“We found the culprit.”

Celine told Carcel after she put Ellie, who was hiding in her room, shivering in prison.

“We looked at the reactions by leaking different information to the three maids who were suspects. As a result, Ellie, the laundry room maid, was  the culprit. She is now imprisoned in a cell, and she also admitted that she did. In addition, two attackers were arrested.”

“go on.”

“The criminal gave information two months ago to pay for her sick younger brother’s medicine. The target is Young Master Theo, and she says she told them when and where he would go, but claims that she didn’t know what were they going to do.”

Carcel tore off Ellie’s report forcefully, with a cold face. The paper that was torn in two fell helplessly to the ground.

“This is a ridiculous excuse.”

“Yes, I think so too. It is naive to tell where the Young Master is and to think that they would do nothing with it. If she hadn’t been so naive, she would not have agreed to such a deal in the first place.”

“It would have been better if she had asked them to make a down payment.”

Chase did not hide his displeasure, and his face slightly wrinkled.

“However, the identity of the person who requested it has not been revealed yet, she said it was done for the price of medicines, but it appears that her younger brother is being held hostage and is being threatened.”

“Something like this could happen.”

It seemed that Carcel, who could have done anything for Theo, was able to understand Ellie’s heart, even just a little bit.

She would do anything for her sick brother.

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But that’s it. He understood a bit, but he had no intention of showing mercy.

“And the captured assassins have not yet been questioned. I confiscated the poison they hid in their mouths. Shall we interrogate the two?”

“I’ll go by myself.”

Carcel’s walked stomping on the report that had fallen to the ground. Naturally, Chase followed him.

But Celine did not follow them, and stood there licking her lips.

Chase felt strange and asked.

“Lady Celine? Won’t you be coming? I think you should come and explain everything to the master.”

“The thing is… .”

When Selene sighed, Carcel stopped his steps and looked back. He raised his chin as if asking him to speed up.

“Master, actually….”

Celine hesitated and then closed her eyes tightly.

“Miss Lannia knows about this!”

“…what ?”

Carcel replied a little late, wondering if what he had heard was true.

Celine quickly began to explain, cold sweat dripping down her forehead.

“Miss was faster than I imagined and noticed that there was a female spy among the maids.”

Charlotte asked Celine to keep it a secret from Carcel, but she kept feeling uncomfortable.

It also bothered her that she had deceived her esteemed master and that she had allowed a helpless Charlotte to meddle in the matter.

Even if she was punished, it was her pleasure because she was not a liar.

…. I made a promise like that to her, but after Carcel had been quiet for so long, she started to get worried.

He looked indifferent on the outside but was kind to his people. At the same time, when there’s a problem, he gets cold enough to throw anyone away relentlessly.

What kind of behavior will it cause? She wondered if she would be fired.

Celine was assuming the worst, but what he asked was something different from what she was expecting.

“Was it the miss’s idea to deceive the assassins by providing different information to the maids?”

“That’s right, the miss and her maid helped me get to the maid quickly.”

“What kind of strategy did you use?”

Celine explained today’s process while swallowing dry saliva.

The fact that Charlotte and Theo leaked information to the three maids that they were on their way to different places, and that the knights were lurking around.

As he listened to the explanation, his face became visibly stiff.

“Was the miss in the carriage?”

“No, she just rode it when she left, but with Lord Ahin’s help she could move into the palace again, there was no one in the carriage when it was attacked.”

“Have you ever thought that if something went wrong it could have been dangerous for her?”

A low sound leaked through his tightly closed mouth.

Sweat oozed out from Selene’s palm, thinking that Carcel was not in a good mood right now.

“I did, I tried to stop the miss, but she kept insisting that she should go by herself and said that it would be fine as long as she was with Lord Ahin.”

As soon as he heard the answer, Carcel felt heat writhing in his stomach.

He was angry. He was also angry at Celine who couldn’t keep a secret and made things like this happen. But he was also angry at Charlotte who had been involved in such a dangerous thing.

If something happens to Charlotte, Theo’s safety cannot be guaranteed.

Didn’t we have a solid plan to keep Charlotte safe?

But that wasn’t the case with Carcel’s mind now.

‘Is Miss Lannia not precious to me?’

Even having a pot hit her on the head instead of Theo, he simply thought Charlotte was an amazing person.

She is kind to everyone, and when others were in trouble, she stepped forward as if it were her own business. She also presented him with a handkerchief, and it showed her sincerity.

However, after she tried to prevent Theo’s body from being injured by a broken sword during training not long ago, he interfered with it himself.

This is not simply explained by the word ’empathy’.

Carcel did not know why he was so angry at her sacrifice.

Her attitude of not being proud of herself kept bothering him. He couldn’t control his emotions even though he knew there was no reason to be angry with Charlotte.

Carcel, who managed to control his anger by taking a deep breath, asked Celine to go for the time being.

Head to the third floor of the palace, not to the underground prison outside the palace.

Charlotte came out of Theo’s room. As she walked out of the room she felt a movement and then turned around.

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“Duke?”

Unlike him, who had a lot of ideas, she seemed more refreshed, probably because the spy problem that was annoying was solved.

“Can I talk to you for a second?”