Chapter 123.2

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“You dare!”

Marquis De Flon kicked Karion’s knee with a red face. Karion swallowed his momentary moan into his mouth, but his body swayed so much that he stumbled and fell to the floor. Red blood flowed from his wounded forehead and ran down his cheek and dripped down his chin.

“Are you ignorantly going against my will?”

This was the moment when Marquis De Flon lifted the staff over his head. The locked doorknob moved quickly and made a clicking sound.

“Father, father!”

Along with an urgent knock, Lydia’s crying voice flowed inside. Marquis De Flon shouted at the servants who were waiting outside.

“What are you doing? Come on, take Lydia to her room!”

“Let me go! Can’t you hear me? Father!”

Lydia’s voice, which was close to a scream, suddenly gradually faded away. Karion listened to her voice and clenched his weakened hands into fists.

“I think I would be really upset if something happened to Lady Carthia.”

He didn’t regret going against Marquis De Flon’s wishes and stealing Yurina’s maid and sending her back to Carthia mansion. However, seeing Lydia screaming like she was choking made his heart ache. This was all he planned because he didn’t want to see her sad.

Now it was time for Marquis De Flon, who had rolled up his sleeves, once again to raise his staff. There was a sound as something blunt hit the door. The screams of the servants and the incessant knocking on the door were so loud that it hurt the ears.

Bam, bam, bam. The dull sound continued. Then the door cracked, the wood splintered, and small fragments began to fall down. Marquis De Flon sighed and dropped his staff to the floor. The locked door opened with a click.

The doorknob turned and Lydia ran inside. Seeing that Karion was bleeding, she screamed and then hurried to grab his shoulders.

“Let’s go. Wake up.”

Even though she must have seen Marquis De Flon standing in front of her eyes, she pretended not to see him and tried to raise Karion.

However, it was hard to imagine that a cherished noble lady could lift a healthy man, and besides that a man who was beaten and emaciated. Unable to stand up properly, Lydia fell and sat on her floor.

Only then did Lydia’s teary eyes turn to Marquis De Flon.

“How can you do this!”

She screamed again, not paying attention to the attitude of Marquis De Flon, who didn’t hide his disgust, and raised her eyes.

She screamed again, not hiding her attitude.

“WhatKai did wrong to deserve this!”

“Milady, stop…”

Karion tried to stand in front of Lydia as usual, but he fell on top of Lydia’s body because his body was weak. Lydia clasped her arms around him as best she could to keep him from feeling the pain.

“Even my father can’t do this!”

Marquis De Flon looked down at Lydia, who seemed about to cry at any moment, with an expressionless face. He watched her in silence for a moment, then gestured to employees, who were watching from outside the door. The servants who were called quickly ran and helped Karion and Lydia.

“Milady, please return to your room.”

“You, take Kai to my room.”

After shaking off the maid’s touch, Lydia glanced at Marquis De Flon’s back and quickly left the office.

Upon returning to the room, Karion’s injuries were more serious than expected. Lydia bit her lip as the maids carefully wiped the blood from Karion’s face and body.

“Don’t do that again.”

Karion muttered as he opened her eyes, and his gaze turned to Lydia’s bloody hands.  She had been hurt by hitting the door with a vase to break the locked door. Lydia noticed Karion’s intention to reach for her hand and quickly hid it behind her back.

“Who cares about whom now? How are you going to treat this with that body?”

Lydia tried to keep calm, but the tears continued to flow, and her eyes blurred. Lydia wiped the blood from her palm on her dress and wiped the tears away with the back of her hand.

She was helpless. She couldn’t do anything for him, even when she knew that her father often insulted and spanked Karion  when he was angry.

When Lydia was still very young, she tried to hide Karion in a closet, hugged him and screamed not to take him away, but her father always took Karion away from her.

She don’t know how Karion offended her father, but isn’t this too much? Lydia asked the maid, taking a deep breath through her nose to contain her crying.

“Why isn’t Joseph coming?”

De Flon family’s doctor, Joseph, was a talented person who knew how to use healing magic. Despite Lydia’s urgent question, the maid hesitated and avoided answering. When Lydia urged her uncharacteristically, the maid finally opened her mouth.

“This… Master ordered not to treat him”

“What?”

For a moment, Lydia thought she had heard the maid wrong.