Episode 135

“Arien's memorial service?”

“Yes. You know. Memorial rites are events that only people of the same sex as the deceased can live with. Besides, I have to go into the temple alone all night and pray and honor Arien. But in the first place, I wasn't on good terms with Arien in my lifetime……. I happened to take it on, and I don't know how the hell I'm going to do it.”

“That wouldn't be normal.”

“Yes. Sitting alone in an old temple all night would be terribly frightening. Then the thought of dealing with Carola the next day makes her head hurt already.”

Ilione pondered over Elisha's words.

'Certainly the head of the Cartier family takes the deceased Duchess very seriously.'

Ilione felt sorry for Elisha. In a family of photons and monsters like the Cartier family, being the wife of an illegitimate child would not be comfortable. In it, Elisha seemed to be struggling to support Lucerne in her own way.

Besides, if the head of the family had ordered her to hold a memorial service, she would not have been able to refuse Elisha.

“Isn't Elisha's situation the same as confronting dozens of monsters with a single sword?”

“…… It's similar.”

It was an appropriate analogy since the members of the Cartier family are close to brutes. Elisha thought Ilione was a pretty interesting woman.

“Then I'll see if I can help you.”

“Yes? The princess?”

“Yes.”

Elisha tilted her head as if she couldn't understand her meaning.

The heavy story ended with that. There was a chat on the tea table, and the seats were ripe.

When Ilione got up to say goodbye to her, Elisha followed her out and saw her off.

“Then see you soon. Elisha.”

“Yes.”

Elisha bowed on her knees. However, when Ilione left her seat, her Elisha expression disappeared. She touched her lips with an expression of her courtesy, as if submerged in deep water, her heart unknown.

'Princess Ilione. If you do well, you will have a very nice sighting.'

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Pansy was pacing around Carola's powder room with a worried look on her face. In the powder room, Pansy's fiancée Jain and Carola entered and talked for a while.

'Carola-sama called Jain again today.'

Pansy couldn't understand Carola's heart at all. She knew that Jain and Carola had been lovers before. Pansy had been taking care of her carola for a very long time.

But now it's a completely settled thing, she said. It was a playful love affair in Carola's girlhood. Besides, she said that at the time she was young and she had no physical relationship with Carola.

Pansy believed in both. Until recently.

'What if she changed Jain's mind?'

Pansy really loved Jain. Besides, Pansy had a duty to build her household. Therefore, she had to marry Jain, who was wealthy for a knight and had a solid status.

'Does Carola remember my engagement with Jain?'

Carola has shied away from her pansy lately. She whispered to Mimosa, but she would stop talking when Pansy approached.

“Pansy, what's wrong?”

“Mimosa. That is…….”

Mimosa noticed Pansy's restless expression in front of her room and quickly noticed everything.

“Pansy. I have something to tell you.”

The corners of Mimosa's mouth drew an arc. Mimosa, who ate because of her inferiority complex in everything and because of her poor intelligence, once opened her heart to her Carola, and her hatred for her intensified.

She said, 'I ignore Elisha because she came from a laundry, but she, he and she have become a lady. What's different about Carola? Both beauty and character. The fact that she is loved by the family head is similar to Elisha, isn't it? After all, she's not very high on Carola's level.'

Mimosa had been thinking such shameless thoughts lately.

“Actually, Carola-sama is planning something……. That is……. It's related to Jain, so I think you should know too.”

Upon hearing Mimosa's words, Pansy's face turned white.

“You're trying to resurrect Zain and Elisha's marriage? No. Rather than that, the two of them wrote a marriage contract.”

“Because it is. I'm telling you secretly because you're so pitiful. Pretend you don't know in front of Carola-sama. Carola's personality. You know that. You and Jain won't be safe if you carelessly tease her.”

Mimosa laughed inwardly and said.

Carola succeeded in convincing her Jain. If he attacks Elisha and resurrects her marriage, and if he testifies in front of people that he is married to Elisha.

As a reward, she said, she would give her even more money than that, as well as Elisha's vast fortune.

Moreover, the stupid and greedy Jain was quickly shaken by the whisper that he could become Count Laure if he did well. In the past, Elisha was as empty as a slave. But she was different now.

Elisha became a woman with considerable wealth. She is married to wealthy Lucerne. She was favored by the family head and was bestowed with her property. So Elisha's case has remained a legendary anecdote in her family.

That stimulating anecdote made even a person like Jain harbor the delusion that 'I can reverse my life through marriage.'

Mimosa thought that she was lacking in Jain.

'That's stupid. Really, if Jain succeeds in attacking Elisha, she'll be dead no matter what.'

Or suffer retaliation from Lucerne. Get caught up in family affairs and die. In any case, they are put in a position where they will be destroyed together with Elisha.

But those who are pacified are always in a state of deception. Jain does not know the destruction that is approaching. Mimosa was laughing at her self-esteem in her heart.

But at the same time, Mimosa was carrying out Elisha's orders. Elisha gave a strange order. She meant to inform Pansy of her Jain situation.

“What about me? Mimosa. If Jain decides to live with Elisha…….”

Pansy bit her lip. Mimosa observed it with pleasure, as she had always been jealous of her pansy, who was more beautiful than herself.

“What? You too must find a way to live!”

Mimosa whispered her story in her pansy's ear. Her pansy eyes widened.

*​ *​ *​

After all, the season was summer. Fresh summer leaves luxuriantly adorned the duke's garden.

The old and elegant castle of the duke looked down upon its members as always, showing off its majesty in the summer haze.

Around the castle of the duke, small outbuildings where family members lived and old temples were showing off their beautiful appearance. In particular, the temple was located right next to the duke's house. It was even connected by a passage from the corridor on the first floor of the duke's house.

Originally, this temple was a building placed further away. However, after the death of the duchess, only the head of the family decided to move the temple right next to the main house of the mansion. It was because they believed that the soul of the deceased Duchess would stay there.

Elisha had been staying at the duke's house a few days before the Duchess's memorial ceremony. She was preparing for a memorial service and a memorial service.

She said, 'It's not just preparing for the event. Let's take this opportunity to learn how the duke's household works.'

The householder said so to Elisha. It was something you wouldn't normally expect to say to the wife of her illegitimate son. In addition, she attached a butler to the duke's family as an assistant.

The duke's shrine. In one room inside the place, there was a memorial room to comfort and honor the ancestors of the duchy.

The room was the place where memorial services and memorial services would be held. On the one hand, the memorial room was renowned throughout the empire for being extremely beautiful.

The beautiful murals and ceiling paintings painted over several months by the best painters of the time a long time ago were so splendid that they looked down on the people of the Duke's family.

When the temple was moved, the contractors who worked to carefully move these beautiful statues and murals were known to have sweated in many ways.

In the murals and ceiling paintings, numerous ancient gods laughed, cried, and shed tears like humans. Below that is the lower deity, the guardian deity of the duchy. Demon gods were painted on every wall. One of them was a very beautiful halo of light.

The figure of the demon god was painted and occupied one wall with paint mixed with real gold leaf.

“What kind of painting is this?”

Gail replied politely.

“This god is called 'Ramun', and he is the highest ranked among the demon gods dwelling in the Duke's family. He is said to have powers comparable to that of a real higher god.”

“It is a very nice picture.”

Elisha said quietly. Gail added.

“The guardian deity dwelling in Lucerne-sama's body. You know the shadow That shadow is the most powerful monster among the guardian deities that have dwelled in the successive duchy. And the only God above the shadows is Ramun.”

“Okay.”

Elisha listened carefully to Gail's story.

“There is a reason a shadow is called a shadow. Ramun's 'shadow' is a shadow monster. So if a shadow appears, the main body will surely appear someday. Could it be that the appearance of Ramun is imminent?”

Gail wanted to build a friendly relationship with Elisha. So, he slightly hinted at the fortune teller Muto's prophecy. Elisha looked at Gail's face and then calmly nodded her head.

“If that happened, it would be the duke's congratulations.”

“You are right.”

At that time, several of the duke's servants brought the goods wrapped in a large cloth on a cart. Dozens of them trembled and carefully put the item down and rolled up the cloth.

“This is the famous Crystal Crown.”

Elisha approached the coffin. Her dazzling crystal crown was adorned with lilies of real gold and diamonds.

“Look inside.”

The butler kindly opened the coffin. Inside, the name of the previous duchess, Elona, ​​was written on a gold nameplate and inserted into the groove. Beneath it was another space for a nameplate.

“What is this home here?”

“Ah, these nameplates are made as a pair.”

Gail whispered.

“A nameplate was also made with the head of the family name.”

“The head of the household corrected it, but why did you do such a thing…….”

“I was thinking of the time when I will die one day. At that time, the coffins engraved with each other's names side by side. You thought you wanted to lie down in that coffin.”

“Ah. That's why it's romantic. Is that why the coffin is so big? The two of you seem to be able to get in.”

“Yes, that's right.”

Elisha also thought that all the men of the Cartier family were individually insane. No matter how much she likes her dead wife, what kind of gross obsession is that?

'Besides, someone who has a stronger attachment to life than anyone else.'

Elisha wanted to laugh.

“But it also sounds ominous. If the living person's name is put inside the coffin.”

Gail was serious and waved his hand.

“Sure. Sure! Although there is a nameplate made in the name of the family head. You should never put it in here. Because that's a very ominous meaning. I will never forgive anyone who does such a thing.”

Elisha nodded her head.

“Of course. Besides, I have no way of knowing where the nameplate is.”

“Haha. It is.”

Gail humbly nodded at Elisha's words.