Chapter 140

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

With Lord Yaakummo escorting me, I headed down to the dungeons.

“Rachel!” Edward-sama cried out, being the first one to notice that I had appeared with Lord Yaakummo.

“Edward-sama,” I said, breaking into a smile unconsciously, as I was so glad to see him.

Edward met eyes with me and returned a warm smile.

“Alright, alright. Let’s save the lovey-dovey stuff for afterward. Lady Rachel, please enter this cell,” said Lord Yaakummo.

“Yes, all right,” I said, entering the cell beside Edward’s, just as Lord Yaakummo asked me to.

“Ah. Let’s have the other girl in here with you, Lady Rachel. It will help put your mind at ease to be in a cell with someone else, rather than all alone,” said Lord Yaakummo.

“What? Me?” asked Yuki. Lord Yaakummo took Yuki out of the cell Edward and Makoto were in and led her into my cell.

“Yuki-sama,” I said.

“Oh, hey, you! Have you been doing alright?” asked Yuki.

“Yes. You too, I hope,” I said. She seemed in good spirits despite being in a cell. Her demeanor hadn’t darkened at all, and that put me at ease.

“Well, then, Lady Rachel. Please continue according to our plans,” said Lord Yaakummo.

“Yes,” I said, and Lord Yaakummo hurried out of the dungeons.

As he left me behind, I explained the plan from that point on to Edward, Yuki, and Makoto.

“Hah. It serves you right, Ray. Tell me, how pleasant it is down here in the dungeons? Miserable, isn’t it? Isn’t being forced to spend time in a dungeon torturous for someone like you, who was raised as a high-class lady?” asked Lord Naaotto.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

The day after I had entered my cell, Lord Naaotto had recovered from his blood loss and had come all the way down to the dungeons to see how I was doing.

It was clear that Lord Naaotto wanted to see me wasting away.

His abominable character never changed -it was as bad as it ever was, now.

“I’m not particularly bothered by living down here. Anyways, Lord Naaotto, have you gotten better from your blood loss?” I asked.

“I’m not the type to be very affected by that level of blood loss. Besides, haven’t your learned your lesson yet, Ray? You’ve become very strong-willed, indeed. Ah, but it might be better to bully you now, more than it ever was. I want to watch your composed face distort in pain, soon,” said Lord Naaotto.

Lord Naaotto spoke with a massive superiority complex because I was in a cell. His facial expressions were dripping with arrogance. 

“Ah, yes – you have a special meal prepared for you today, by the way. You are to eat it all without leaving anything on your plate. How wonderful. If you don’t eat it, I will reduce your loved ones to a state of pure fear, one by one,” said Lord Naaotto.

Lord Naaotto had continued to talk, saying everything he wanted to say for quite some time, and then laughed loudly.

My meal probably contained Lord Naaotto’s blood. Of course, it would have no effect on Yuki or me because of our healing magic, but it would affect Edward and Makoto. I assumed it would be all right as long as I quickly applied healing magic on them, though.

However, I didn’t want to eat any food that had Lord Naaotto’s blood in it in the first place.

“It’s not right to waste food, you know. I’ll stay here and watch you all eat, for your own good. I’m a very busy man, too. You should be grateful,” said Lord Naaotto.

“Well, who are my loved ones, then?” I asked. If it was Edward, Yuki, and Makoto he was talking about, I could manage to take care of them. If he were talking about people back in my home country, though, it would be difficult to help them.

“I’m talking about Lord Edward, Yuki, and Makoto, here. You can’t even figure that out? You’re as stupid as always. Yeah. You should feel hopeless. I’ve already made them drink my blood. In other words, their lives are in the palm of my hand,” said Lord Naaotto.

“…Oh, I see,” I said.

When I had spoken to them earlier, there was no evidence that Lord Naaotto was controlling them. It was probably due to Yuki’s healing magic.

Yuki, Makoto, and Edward didn’t say anything, though. They probably understood that it would be more advantageous to let Lord Naaotto think that his blood was working on them.

Soon after that, our meals were brought to us.

“Huahahaha. Huahahaha. Now, eat. Make sure you savor it,” said Lord Naaotto.

There was no avoiding eating it, now.

If it were revealed at this point that Edward, Yuki, and Makoto were never taken over by Lord Naaotto’s blood, the plan that I had devised with Lord Yaakummo would be shot to hell.

As I glared at the meal with an anguished expression, the lady servant who had brought me my meal met eyes with me discreetly so that Lord Naaotto wouldn’t realize, and as if signaling something, gave me a slight nod.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]