CH 123

Dana did not doubt that if she had nowhere to return to now, she would probably have killed Rian.

He wanted revenge on Rian, but as Lisa said, she could not kill him in vain like this.

“Dana…”

She heard an urgent voice below.

“…Lisa.”

Lisa, who came out of concern, called her from the stairs. Dana was about to come down slowly, but the door opened again.

“Ugh, stop there, Dana!”

Rian bled from his head, chasing Dana with a monster-like appearance. Dana was surprised and ran down the stairs quickly.

“Dana, get behind me.”

As soon as Lisa stood on the ground, she hid Dana behind her. And he kicked Rian in the shin as hard as she could.

“Argh!”

Rian rolled forward, grabbed his shin, and grumbled.

“Dana, are you okay? What did he do?”

Dana clasped her palm on her lips with surprise in her eyes while holding Lisa’s hem. With what he did, and what she went through, the words he said earlier felt somewhat trivial.

However, she couldn’t stop her body from shaking. Seeing Dana’s state of being out of spirits, Lisa concluded by herself.

“I’ll kill you right now.”

Lisa was trying to kick higher with her leg raised when she heard a sharp voice from afar.

“Oh my god, Head! What are you doing? Huh?”

After Lisa stopped in the middle of her strike, the high-ranking Deniz merchant had come looking for her because she hadn’t come back. And following him, merchants and workers from the top were running. They were already calling Rian a representative.

“Head, are you okay? No, your head is bleeding…!”

“Oh, it’s too loud… Lock them up right now…!”

“I’ll call security!”

“Tuth… No, no… Okay, uh, ah…”

Rian tried to stop him by groaning and shaking his hand, but he became dizzy and couldn’t continue his words. In the meantime, one person ran quickly.

The merchant group officials were surrounding Dana and Lisa to prevent them from running away with terrifying looks.

Rian was carried on a stretcher, and soon the security forces arrived.

Upon hearing the circumstances, the security forces, of course, arrested Dana and Lisa. From their point of view, Rian was a nobleman, and the two women who hurt Rian were commoners. There was nothing else to hear.

“Lisa, I’m sorry… Because of me.”

Then Lisa winked as if she was okay. Dana was also trapped and had to go as they led her.

“It’s hard.”

Dana hesitated, biting her lips. If Leon’s name was given, she could have been released. But maybe not.

Dana was the future Grand Duchess, but it was only a “future” and could be overturned as much as possible. Although she had been treated as a noble next to Leon so far, Dana was a commoner until she officially married him.

If Leon turned a blind eye to Dana in the end, her defense was nothing.

If she were to state that she was “Dana Deniz”, that she almost died to Rian, and that he took the Merchant Group, could she be released without Leon’s help?

Dana sighed at the slim possibility. In the first place, it was questionable whether they would listen to the common people who hurt the nobility.

If she had been there as a “Dana Deniz” and the owner of the Deniz merchants, she would have been treated differently even if she was a commoner, but she was not now anyway.

“Lisa…”

Dana and Lisa were taken to different places. Fortunately, Tom and Geras, who came with Lisa, ran away without being caught.

Dana, trapped in a cage, paced around helplessly and bit her lips hard.

But I can’t just be doing nothing…

She pondered over whether there was a way to contact Leon, but there was no quick way in this trapped situation.

“Don’t be so distracting and sit down.”

An annoying voice flew in.

The place where Dana was trapped was not a prison where Dana was alone. Each person’s crime was unknown, but several were together in the space.

Eventually, Dana sat on the cold floor and buried her face in her lap.

At first glance, the facilities in the prison were poor. At least, when she saw that there was no bathroom, it didn’t seem to be a place to lock them up for a long time.

Then maybe…

While waiting here, after a summary trial, fate was decided.

Think about it, Dana. I don’t know what will happen later, but I have to get out of here first. Let’s borrow Leon’s name… Just once.

Then she suddenly heard a rustling sound in her arms.

It was fortunate that she had a letter envelope in her arms without being caught yet. If everything went as planned, she would just find it and go back to Leon.

Dana quietly took out the envelope after sneakily checking the surroundings. She was very curious because she didn’t know what was in it yet.

I also don’t want to look at it if possible. If nothing happens, it’s a meaningless piece of paper anyway.

Dana opened the envelope and tried to take out the paper inside, but suddenly the door opened and closed with a bang, and she heard the voice of a woman

“Dirty guy! You said you’d let me go if I did it often with you! But the death penalty! Why was I given the death penalty?”

Dana hid the envelope again, crouched down, and quickly examined the situation.

“If I saved your life, Viscountess Alice would foam in the mouth, so how could I?”

“His son is safe in the end! I didn’t do that on purpose!”

The man who appeared to be a junior official of the security forces pushed her into the cage helplessly. The woman cried, but the iron window went shut, making a loud noise.

On the back of her neck, which was seen above the stretched top, there were clear marks of biting and sucking, as if proving the previous conversation.

The woman, who was crying as if she was about to run out of breath, eventually became quiet when the caretaker disappeared. Her eyes were filled with resentment, but she closed her eyes as if she had given up quickly. Dana only sighed silently.