Volume 8 - CH 12

Valheil’s eyes widened slightly in surprise.

“Could you perhaps plant some people in that hunting ground?”

“It’s not that hard.”

The positive response relieved me.

‘Perhaps, if my prediction is correct……’

The hunting grounds of the Crawford family are entirely under Camilla’s management. In a variety of ways, caution was required.

Because the remedy must have already started.

Destroy her until I find the perfect evidence to get out of here.

The play could not be ruined until the planned ending was reached.

“……Perhaps Mother will give you a harsh stupor soon to test you Can you follow it?”

“I don’t feel guilty. Didn’t I tell you before?”

He was trying to reassure me.

But that’s not what concerns me.

I put his hands, which were much larger than mine, to my lips.

Then I met his gaze with my lips pressed down as if stamping a seal.

I know how hot those blue eyes, which are as cool as an emotionless person, get when they look at me.

As a result, I couldn’t help but inquire about the situation in case it occurred.

“Even if my mother instructed you to strangle me with these hands…… You must do so, Valhail.”

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“What do you two talk about in such a fun way?”

Shannon inquired, half-lying on my couch and massaging an egg on her bruised cheek.

I furrowed my brows as I alternated between looking at Cedric and Shannon.

“Don’t believe you should do some self-reflection in your bedroom?”

“Uncle told me not to do it, right?”

Shannon gave Cedric a sly nod.

“Yes, Selina. Since I heard that…… she was doing it so she could help you.”

I looked at Shannon again, surprised.

‘Did this kid have such a quick wit?’

It was certainly too much for what she said to Cedric, the elder of the family and the knight’s commander.

“However, you must not cross the line. Did you expect Mother to remain silent when she heard that?”

“At the very least, I expected to be hit.”

“……”

“She won’t talk about marriage for a while now. How can I meet a man when my face is like this?”

After Camilla put Shannon on a diet, she tried to set up a meeting with a certain baron.

I had heard that as well, but I had no idea Shannon was reluctant.

“…… I heard that he was young and handsome.”

“Do you get married just because of face?”

Shannon said as she raised her eyes.

“Eonni, do you only look at men’s faces now?”

“Then what exactly are you looking at?”

“Of course, the most important is family. Money! Honor! Power! Got it?”

“You… I thought you liked a soft and lovely boy?”

“It’s just a personal preference. I’m not allowed to marry a priest. A man for marriage, a man for romance. Don’t you know?”

“……”

That’s why, in the original story, she tried to covet the Archduke.

As she was a child who liked beautiful men who grows like wildflowers, I wondered why she wanted to marry the Archduke to the point of harassing Selina.

“Ehm, ehm.”

Cedric coughed as if our conversation was embarrassing.

I turned to him as soon as I came to my senses.

“Uncle, please negotiate with my mother as I told you when I open my eyes in two days.” Said that I’ll punish Penny and kick her out of the Count’s castle.”

“My Lady!?”

Penny, who was listening, screamed in surprise.

“Please don’t kick me out! I can’t possibly leave you!”

“Even if you don’t like it, you have no choice but to leave.”

“My Lady! No! I can’t!”

Even if she agrees to a deal right away, Camilla will try to kill Penny one day if they keep seeing each other in the castle.

“I, too, don’t want to let you go. But what can I do when you’re so important to me?”

“My Lady, I was wrong. I will go and beg Madam. If she tells me to get beaten up, I’m going to get beaten up! Please, My Lady, do not let me out……”

“It’s because I need you to do something else outside.”

Penny was on the verge of crying. So I smiled and stroked her hair.

“Are you really not going to help me?”

“Th-that……”

Shannon, who had been quiet, threw an egg while Penny was embarrassed.

Crack!

Shannon, who shattered the raw egg, walked out of the bedroom, causing me and Penny to come to our senses.

“I can’t listen because I’m disgusted. Anyone who sees it would believe she is your sister.”

There was a deep sense of jealousy in his sarcastic voice.

‘She’s tiring me out. I am so tired of her.’

Seeing her stumble in front of the door for no apparent reason, I knew she’d be upset if I didn’t hold her.

“Shannon.”

“Why!?”

Her nervous expression returned to me as if she was waiting.

“My sister is you.”

Flinched.

“You should help me, too, where are you going?”

I only hold her lightly, but Shannon returned as soon as her face at ease.

“That’s right. Your sister is me, not her.”

Hearing that, Penny pursed her lips, holding her tears back.

I patted Penny on the back and winked at Shannon.

“You clean the eggs.”

“Yes, eonni!”