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He didn’t even know what to do, as Sophia’s death was unexpected.

While Katie was away for a while, Sophia opened the locked window and threw herself out.

When Katie came to the room, she found an open window and an empty room, but she didn’t expect Sophia to jump from there.

The maids were sent to search the inside of the Outer West Palace, but they could not find her. It was only after a long search that Sophia could be found in the flowerbed outside the Outer West Palace.

After discovering Sophia, Katie thought hard and ran straight to Leon.

Leon ran fast first with Ahil and saw Sophia.

A little later, Dana and Lisa arrived.

“Ah…”

Leon approached Dana first and covered Dana’s eyes in fear of seeing a terrible sight.

“…Don’t get too close.”

Thanks to this, Dana could not see Sophia, but she could vaguely grasp the situation from his rough breathing and voice.

“What… What happened? Leon? Are you okay?”

“…Don’t look at anything. I’m fine.”

Leon, who was covering Dana’s eyes, turned around and hugged her. He was shaking with a lot of strength in his arm around Dana.

“Leon.”

Dana carefully reached out and stroked his back. Behind Leon, the body was being processed according to Ahil’s instructions.

And Owen arrived late.

Leon did not cry, but Owen knelt on the floor and shed tears on the spot.

Owen certainly didn’t love Sophia.

Therefore, no one but himself knew whether the tears he shed were of sadness or about not being able to know all her sins.

Anyway, the Ex-Duchess of Tertius Castle had ended her life like that, and everyone was in a hurry to prepare for the funeral.

* * *

It rained in autumn.

Leon was wearing a black trench coat, raising an umbrella, and sharing it with Dana.

Dana also wore a calm black dress and shawl.

Owen stood with them without an umbrella and with an expressionless face, closing his eyes and silent. It felt like he was saying something to her inside, but she couldn’t tell what he was saying.

He muttered to himself and suddenly disappeared without saying hello.

Sophia’s remains were buried a little out of the tomb where the royal family of Tertius’ history was buried.

Although she could not uncover her sins when she was alive, that did not eliminate them. If it turned out later, it would be a disgrace.

Although she was the mother of the Grand Duke and the Duchess of Tertius, the agreement between the two men was to bury her ashes in the flowerbed next to her and build a small monument.

Only a few people participated in the funeral. They couldn’t even hear a sad cry.

There was only the gloomy sound of the rain, and Sophia’s funeral just passed by as if it were nothing.

Dana occasionally stood there silently, looking at Leon’s side.

“…You go in first.”

Leon, who had been quiet all along, first spoke with a subdued voice. She insisted that she wanted to stay with him, but he looked down at her and replied that she eventually knew.

When Leon tried to hand Dana an umbrella, Dana refused and went into Lisa’s umbrella.

“You use this. I don’t want to see my husband look like a rat in the rain. I can share with Lisa.”

“Okay, go ahead.”

Eventually, Dana left Leon and left her seat. She looked back several times as she entered.

Unlike Owen, Leon didn’t even mutter to himself, and he was just standing in a floating position and looking at the tombstone.

Seeing him, Dana couldn’t easily deliver comforting words, so Dana sighed deeply and went inside.

It was about half an hour after that Leon followed in.

Dana, who was changing clothes, seemed a little surprised to see Leon.

Lily and Wendy rushed to help change and went outside.

Rain-soaked black hair fell under a white and sharp jawline with water that dripped on the carpet.

Dana hurriedly picked up the towel and approached him. With a fixed gaze, Dana quietly wiped the moisture off his head and face.

Leon watched her behavior slowly and silently and grabbed her diligent wrist slightly.

The blue eyes trembled, and Dana carefully opened her mouth.

“Are you okay?”

A sigh of silence flowed for a while, and his lips clapped.

“It’s okay.”

“Your clothes are wet. You need to change.”

Dana loosened his trench coat buttons one by one, with water dripping down. Leon’s gaze at her trembled slightly.

“Before giving birth to a baby…”

After undoing all the buttons, she tried to take them off, but he remained silent.

Dana left him alone and finished undoing the vest button that was locked inside.

“Let’s have a wedding first.”

Her hand stopped in the middle of the button.

Dana glanced up at Leon. Leon looked at her with a straight gaze.

“Of course, even now, you are already my wife, the mistress of this castle, and the Grand Duchess. But it needs to be officially informed. I think it’s better to hurry before you’re full and have a hard time moving around.”

“That’s true.”

“Hmm?”

Dana straightened her back and scratched her cheek. She had an ambiguous smile and looked somewhat troubled.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s a bit out of the blue. I thought it was after giving birth to a baby if I had to.”

“Then it’s too late.”

“I don’t know.”