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Chapter 94
Downfall
The source that had allowed her to play the part of this house's mistress had vanished.
-What?
-Isn't something strange?
The voices of men chattering outside pierced her ears.
They started chattering about that matter as if it were even more important than chasing the mansion intruder.
Е̌ num̈а́
-Feels like my head's cleared up.
-Right. A weird feeling just hit me hard.
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-What is it? What were we caught up in?
Then one of them asked.
-Come to think of it, didn't that phantom thief call Tilda, that bitch, a witch?
-Did that witch really use some trick?
Е̄ṅ_ú m̀.ӑ.id_
-Could be.
At the same time, she heard footsteps approaching this way.
'No!'
Tilda instinctively ran to that door and locked it.
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Click-click!
-Open the door, Miss Tilda!
Ě n ûm.а̀ . ïd
-Are you alright? Please say something!
Bang-bang!
They pounded on the door, but Tilda didn't answer.
Confusion soon turned to anger.
-She really was a witch, just like that phantom thief said!
-That witch definitely cast magic!
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-Break the door down!
Everyone who had been loyal to her screamed their lungs out from the backlash of the magic breaking.
A cornered rat, nothing more.
'I have to run.'
But Tilda had prepared for even this worst of worst scenarios.
She ran to the bathroom, threw the rope she'd prepared out the window, and climbed down.
Е̌ ň u̇ m̊ â.ї d
She untied and gathered the rope so no one would know which way she'd fled, then escaped the mansion and started running.
The last sound coming from the chaotic mansion was this.
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-The Family Head has passed away!
-That damn witch killed even the Family Head!
Rico Dandolo's death.
Tilda didn't know the how or why, but either way, it didn't matter.
W е̊b̀ n о v̄е̇l Е̂ n̈úm̀ а
She was the witch who had undone the magic on the mansion, an unforgivable existence.
She'd kept her life, but only for a moment.
Her life was like a candle before the wind.
'Where should I go?'
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How could she survive in this worst of situations?
She thought and thought, but there was no future.
Е̊n̆ u̇m̄а
She was incompetent, just as Yor had said.
She'd wanted everything, but lacked the qualification to possess it.
She'd even gained power, but couldn't protect it.
'I'll survive.'
Even so, she struggles pathetically.
She ran and ran through the dark forest.
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'I'll survive!'
But even that thought soon scattered like a midsummer night's dream.
"Aah......"
Veils hiding in the dark night squirmed and revealed themselves.
Men wearing black masks approached her.
Tilda Pascal tried to resist, but ultimately lost consciousness.
W̃ еb n̄ о vēľ Е̌ n̊ ū mа
* * *
A road not far from the Dandolo Mansion.
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Three wagons disguised as a merchant caravan waited there.
A man with a brown ponytail boarded a wagon and let out a heavy breath.
"Phew! Not as easy as I thought."
"Did you really have to go to all that trouble?"
Е̄ n̄ù m а̄ ._і́.d
Jed grinned and answered.
"Had to. Otherwise, it never would've ended in a single day, you know?"
"No loose ends?"
Garnet asked with a 'are you serious?' face.
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"Barnie Swallows?"
"Fun name, isn't it."
Ẁе̄b̂ñо́.v ё ľ Ě ǹ ũ ḿ а
Garnet glared fiercely, but Jed countered with a smile.
She sighed as if admitting defeat.
"I knew you had a uselessly silver tongue, but didn't know you had that kind of ability too."
"It's our clan's secret technique. Disguising as a circus troupe to scout out marks to fleece."
"Don't Troupe Leaders usually do that?"
"Can't avoid it when your old man's the Troupe Leader."
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"I see. So that's how it is."
Garnet nodded.
Jed sensed a presence outside and glanced out.
Men wearing masks were loading a large bundle.
"So what about that lady?"
"She'll be delivered to the castle. Gotta move according to the contract."
W̌ е́b ǹӧ vе l E n̊u̇m а
"Hmm, then we're heading the same way. No problem, right?"
"......Not entirely none."
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"What is it?"
"Wuuung, Jeje?"
The moment he heard that nasal voice, he realized.
A pink-haired woman in a bunny girl outfit sitting across from Garnet was hehe-ing with a smile.
Еǹ ů m̊а
Like someone dead drunk.
"What's wrong, Pepe?"
"Uhehe, Jeje. I was totally awesome, right? For something I practiced for a day, I did damn well, right? Huh? Huh?"
"......?"
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"Where in the world is there a phantom thief like me? Even I think I'm damn sexy. Look. Sexy~."
"......Did this girl hit her head?"
W̄ ĕb ǹ о̇v е́ l Е̂ n ūmа̊
Garnet nodded calmly.
Jed glanced at the back of her head and an arrowhead was stuck deep in it.
No wonder she's gone.
"Ahaha! Arrows whoosh flying at me, couldn't dodge them all~. Ah~ who knew one would stick in my head!"
"Hey hey, don't shake your head."
She laughed emptily and grabbed Jed's arm.
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Garnet sighed and said.
"Checked, high probability it's just temporary shock, so no need to worry. We'll meet up with a healer on the way, they can pull the arrowhead out there."
"What, missy. You're sexy AND smart? Wanna burn the night away with this unnie? I'll treat you good."
Penelope growling like a sleazy old man.
Garnet turned stone-faced and spoke seriously.
"Seems a major head injury twisted even her sexual preferences. Dangerous if not treated fast."
Е̌n̆ um а . і d̆
That's how she always was.
But it was hard to bring herself to say it.
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* * *
Tilda opened her eyes in the darkness.
She didn't know where she was, but one thing was certain.
That she couldn't escape her own karma.
Е_num a
Who is the one carrying it out?
Merkat?
Stefan?
Herman?
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Or Rico??
All kinds of thoughts raced through her head and her breathing grew ragged.
W еb̆ ñо̄ve l_ Е̌n ü m̂ ӓ
Either way, survival was unlikely.
Screech-
Soon, a door opens in the dark space.
Someone enters.
Click-clack
Visible by a single candle on the wall: neat black dress shoes.
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"We've met before. Tilda Pascal."
A young man's voice, yet carrying a middle-aged weight - a strange feeling.
Tilda knew this voice well.
It was the voice that had humiliated her.
"Fe, Ferda Regent-nim......?"
He leaned back against the chair then leaned forward.
Ẃе̇ b n̄о́vе l̇ Е ń ǔm̈å
Gray hair and blue eyes reflected in her eyes.
"Tilda Pascal."
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Ferda called her name again.
"From our first meeting I didn't like you...... But you're beyond imagination."
Not a shred of emotion in that voice.
That's why it was endlessly cold, felt like a chilly blade.
Е̄n̈ u̇ m а̄
"Did you think you could harass a merchant supporting the Grand Duke's Territory and survive?"
Tilda opened her mouth.
"It wasn't me. Everything was my fiancé......"
Slap!
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Ferda picked up a document and threw it to the floor.
The document contained Tilda Pascal's history.
Еn u mã
The information had been provided by the Black Bandana side.
"Keep talking."
Tilda could only shut her mouth like a clam.
But only for a moment,
"......I had no choice."
Her mouth trembled and words poured out.
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"That bastard father only ever intended to leave it to that damn Stefan from the start."
She exploded with emotions she'd bottled up for so long.
"It doesn't make sense! Why can't I have it? I'm the same blood! That blood......! I contributed to the Pascal Company too, so why only me......!"
The emotion she was feeling.
Ferda could understand it.
A boy named Ferda who wanted to live as a proper knight family member, but was always below standard.
E ňu m̌а. іd
There was no warmth to be felt from family.
Ferda hated such a father.
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"Even so, the fact that you damaged the Grand Duke's Territory doesn't change."
"I deeply reflect on that sin. Really! I'll compensate."
Tilda struggled while tied to the chair and toppled forward.
She slammed her head to the floor and begged.
Е.ñ üm̂а̃ .і̃d̆
"From today I'll live a life fitting my station. Please pity this girl and show mercy."
Tilda wept, sobbing.
Ferda quietly looked down at such a Tilda.
"There's one thing I'm curious about."
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Ferda spoke.
"If you answer that properly, I'll consider letting you go."
W ӗbno̊v̂ êl̆ Ӗň ù ḿа̄
"Wh, what are you curious about? I'll answer anything."
"Jed told me."
"Jed......?"
"The bastard who broke into your house. And the bastard who smashed the Garden Contract medium."
She clenched her fist tight and showed brief anger at that name.
Ferda continued.
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"Anyway, he said. That the medium you chose was a family photo."
What Jed saw was a family portrait with everyone drawn in it.
A photo from childhood where everyone was smiling and having fun.
"Why did you choose a family photo as the medium?"
Ferda was curious about the reason.
Why would a woman desperate to devour her family choose a family photo?
Е́ ǹ ŭmа̊
He needed the answer to that contradiction.
"That's......"
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Then she answered through tears.
"Because they're my beloved family, of course."
Ferda lowered his gaze following those flowing tears.
"So that's how it was."
Е ṅ umа. і̆ d
Ferda muttered.
"Di, did that answer it? Will you spare me?"
"I never intended to kill you anyway. You'll live."
At the word 'will' attached, she felt something off.
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Nuance like he'd take everything but her life.
"I answered, didn't I? Why......?"
Е̃ ǹu ḿ.ӓ. і d̂
Ferda looked down at her.
"In the western continent's Mist Valley, there's a monster called a Fluriman. Know what it is?"
She doesn't know.
No way she'd know.
"It remembers the last words of beasts it devours. And when eaten in turn, it speaks that beast's voice. Why do you think that is?"
Ferda answered coldly.
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"Because it knows if it says that, it'll be spared. Doesn't know what it means, but knows it'll be spared."
Ferda knows why she chose the family photo.
To appeal for recognition and survive to the bitter end, struggling pathetically.
"Your actions are no different from that."
The words about contributing were lies.
The words about doing terrible things were lies too.
Е n̂ ú m̄ а.і̇ d̊
Everything was just lies thrown out for her own survival.
"Thanks."
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Ferda said to her with sincerity.
"For making yourself into trash that doesn't even need to be remembered."
Ferda rose from his seat.
He vanished from the light into darkness.
Е̌n̈ ú m̄а́
Screech-.
Thud.
The door closes.
Alone in the space again.
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The question of whether she could survive lasted only a moment.
She wasn't alone in this room.
Е̂n̊um а́. і d
Someone had been there since before Ferda entered.
Just waiting in the darkness, unseen until now.
It walked here and revealed its identity.
Tilda doubted her own eyes.
What her two eyes saw: silver scales and a pair of horns piercing the sky.
That form alone was dignity, became wonder, led to awe.
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A dragon.
'That's......'
Her pupils shook.
'Fake.'
There's no way a dragon like that could be in such a cramped space.
Common sense, logically, it was obvious.
Ẁ ѐb̌ ń оvӗ l Ӗ n ů ṁ а́
She tried to hypnotize herself that way, but it was futile.
Immortal mystery that paralyzes even such reason and logic.
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With each exhale, hot wind and a low rumble faintly vibrating the eardrums grew clearer.
Dragon Fear.
Even if she hypnotized herself it was false, the unknown source becomes truth.
And that truth becomes fear a mere human cannot bear.
En̂ŭḿ ӓ . іd
"Kyaaaaaak!"
A long scream rang out helplessly.
But no one was there to hear that scream.
* * *
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Garnet and Black Bandana agents in black robes waiting outside the castle gate.
With things at the finishing stage, they grew anxious.
Ӗn ǔ mӓ .і́ d̀
Soon, a man emerged from the castle gate.
Garnet stepped forward and greeted politely.
"I greet the Valdrova Regent."
"I've prepared it as you requested."
Soon after, Tilda Pascal appeared.
She was ruined beyond belief for a beauty who'd received countless suitors.
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Hair disheveled, face haggard, eyes unfocused.
Drool flowed from her blankly open mouth.
She descended the stairs in staggering steps, not even resisting Ruri's touch.
Alive but not living - a walking corpse.
Mind broken by overwhelming fear, only the body remained.
Garnet expressed thanks politely.
Еñ úm̈ а́
"Thank you for fulfilling the promise."
"Too early for thanks."
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"Is there something else?"
"There is."
Ferda pointed a dagger at Tilda Pascal's throat.
Garnet was startled by the sudden hostage situation.
Е̌.n u m а
"What is the meaning of this, Regent-nim?"
"Isabella told me. How corporate acquisition works."
Ferda spoke.
"Mobilizing all knowledge, I searched imperial laws and precedents, but no matter how I looked, normal acquisition is difficult, she said. Even with Black Bandana involved."
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"Are you saying we lied?"
"I'm curious too. One of the two lied to me, but I can't tell who."
Ё ñ ŭm а
Ferda tilted his head slightly.
"So you tell me."
"......I didn't lie."
"Then Isabella lied?"
Garnet bit her lip then answered.
"That person didn't lie either."
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"There won't be a third time. You'll have to convince me."
"That's......"
Garnet couldn't easily open her mouth.
She had a duty to keep secrets.
At the same time, she had to complete the mission.
Especially at a critical moment like this, letting go wasn't easy.
Е n̈ū m̄_a. ǐ.d̄
Garnet knew that, and Ferda knew it too.
It was an impossible situation, but Ferda needed an answer.
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Who the client was, and why they tried to drive her insane.
"It's entirely possible."
Instead of Garnet's excuse or explanation, a middle-aged voice was heard.
That voice continued.
Ѐn u mӓ
"If the CEO judges corporate management impossible, they can delegate a new manager on their own authority. That's the rule in the Dandolo Company."
A middle-aged voice.
A voice from among the men wearing black robes.
The voice from between them walked out and removed their hood.
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"You are......"
But the client was truly unexpected.
Е̂nu.m̄ а . id̆
That man approached and greeted Ferda thus.
"Dandolo Family Heir, Henri Dandolo, greets the Great Fire's Spouse."
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