Episode 162
“You never believed me. Yes?”
“Then did you believe me?”
Lucerne said affectionately.
“The poison you drank. It's rose poison. It's a very insignificant poison. The information you instructed and heard from Mimosa. If you put all of that together, you might not have known your intentions?”
Elisha's hands trembled. She held it in
“You have dug a trap. I meant to do this from the beginning.”
“Trap? Okay. Even if it was a trap.”
Lucerne ducked her.
“When did I tell you to crawl into this trap? If not.”
The tone of voice became more friendly.
“Did you really think you were on top of my head?”
“…….”
“You are the one who broke the rules I set.”
Something was thrown in front of Elisha. Elisha's eyes narrowed. It was information about a person's identity and Imperial bank account.
[Lipras.]
At the very bottom was written something like this: Elisha seemed to freeze her blood blue.
Lyprase is the most secretive and secretive in the Empire. It was a secret information guild that only accepted the upper class as customers. From money laundering to creating fake identities. The work done through it has never leaked out.
A few years later, it was called the best secret guild in her previous life, where Jacob as well as the Duke began to secretly work.
'I taught Illione how to make a request to this guild.'
And she asked me to create her own secret identity and account. That it's in Lucerne's hands…….
“They said you could trust me by being pretty. He was doing bad things behind the scenes.”
“…….”
“Throw Carola and get rid of it. Were you thinking of retiring from my position as her wife with some credit for that?”
“Ah!”
Elisha felt her jaw break. Her lucerne pulled her tight. His hand gripped her chin, gradually gaining strength.
“Because you broke the rules in the first place. I don't think there's any need to tune it any further to your tune. Right?”
“…….”
“Because it belongs to me anyway. I'll take care of it now I think that would be good for you too.”
“Lucerne. Don't do this.”
Elisha tried to calm him down. I was really afraid when he got angry.
“If you're going to beg me like that, you shouldn't have disobeyed me.”
“It was wrong to try to create a fake identity. But I have never defied you.”
Elisha said calmly. She had never once refused to sleep with him. Because he has so far defined himself as an underling. She kept her line as a contract wife forever.
“I still don't know.”
“…….”
“I said If you damage my property, I won't let you go.”
Lucerne looked her straight in the eyes and said.
“You are mine. And now I will take away even your limited freedom for yourself.”
“…….”
“Look forward to what will happen next.”
It was. Being entangled with the duke's family, no, nothing good could happen while staying there.
No, trust between Lucerne and her could not have sprouted. Despair like water filled Elisha's lungs. Lucerne rose from her seat.
“Prepare to go home.”
Elisha opened her mouth to say something. Lucerne's cold words cut her off.
“I know I will never see the sunlight again.”
Bang. The door is closed. However, there was nothing on Elisha's body. So she had nothing to prepare for.
Elisha was dressed in light pajamas as if her clothes had been changed while she passed out.
Just like the day she first visited Lucerne. Like that. Elisha's body was covered with nothing.
* * *
“Sorry. Lady. I will see you.”
Elisha was 'transported' by the knights of Lucerne. No one knew her face.
They surrounded Elisha and watched closely until they got into her carriage.
“Drink.”
“…… I do not like it.”
“Does drinking by force make you feel better?”
Lucerne said. She held out her water bottle to her as she sat in her wagon. Elisha's lips were dry. She was terribly thirsty. But there was nothing she could do now. Other than the slightest rebellion she has against him. Nothing.
“If you don't want to be shackled and dragged away like a real slave, do as you say.”
Elisha saw Lucerne. He looked very unconcerned and calm now.
'Why the hell?'
Elisha couldn't fully understand his mind. And will this situation be resolved? She thought it However, the answer was not immediately visible.
She drank the water slowly. Her throat was damp. And leaned her back against the wall of her carriage.
“What the hell did I do wrong?”
Elisha thought, feeling her hair.
“I did a lot of things wrong.”
Lucerne said. The carriage started moving. Elisha bit her lip hard. I couldn't even think of it. Stupid, Elisha spat out.
“Are you taking sleeping pills now?”
She wasn't trying to run away. Just. She, too, wanted to prepare a way for her life. By the way, Lucerne's attitude.
Alicia said she really felt like she was being treated like a bundle. He was trying to move her as if handling her purchases.
“It's your fault for trying to run away from me.”
“But even so, in an instant, people like this…….”
Can people's treatment change? At that moment, Elisha realized.
Originally, that was the relationship between the two. It just changed his mood.
'Equal?'
Elisha was stunned. She, too, was toxic.
Twice, she almost got seduced by this man. Shaking for a while. The price for all of that was cold.
'That's why he did a good job.'
He recalled Lucerne's attitude, which had been extremely affectionate recently. Elisha realized that it was all her own illusions.
Elisha slowly closed her eyes.
Right. She was In her previous life, she couldn't ask anyone 'why'.
* * *
Oh okay. It's not good to see someone as your lifeline.
Elisha thought in a dream. Even if everything is fine. Even if she gets her powers. The lifeline was blown away at the gesture of the person who held it.
Pop. Pop.
There was the sound of dripping water. Elisha felt something warm wrapped around her body. Her throat was dry and she was tired.
Her limbs were heavy. She couldn't move at will.
“Um…….”
Elisha opened her eyes slowly. She was on the bed Soft silk bedding wrapped around her body. There was a silver basin next to the bed. Drops of water on the bowl were dripping little by little.
“You are awake!”
Then someone made a loud noise. It sounded like a thrilling voice.
“Sophie?”
Elisha said while touching her neck. She flinched at her body. A strange sensation was felt in her ankle. Elisha pulled back the covers with her trembling eyes.
Shackles were placed around her ankles. Elisha was startled. Upon closer inspection, her chain was tying the shackles to her ankles, and was long enough to allow her to walk in very small strides.
“I was really worried. Lady. I heard you drank poison. Heuk heuk, someone with a weak body like the madam is poison. You didn't even get poison training. If you took rose poison and ended up like this, you're very lucky. When the madam drank poison, she swallowed very little and almost spat it out. Be so wise! Besides, the healing priest came at the right time and took out the poison, right? He's been asleep for a day and a half, but the doctor says there's no poison in his body anymore.”
Elisha's head hurt when Sophie's words exploded like a rapid-fire cannon.
“Why the hell is Sophie here?”
“Stir. Starting today, I heard the order to take care of the mistress. The madam needs help…….”
Sophie added a tidbit of story.
“Do not worry. I'm good at makeup, but I'm also very good at serving. The madam won't be uncomfortable. I'll take the madam's tea too.”
Only then did Elisha take a closer look at Sophie's face. Elisha said she wanted to burst out laughing.
Shackles on her ankles. A room like a secret room where you don't know where it is. And she was the maid who pretended not to know anything until yesterday and took care of Elisha.
The situation was once a masterpiece.
“Sophie, you were also an agent in Lucerne. Yes?”
Sophie blinked her big eyes and rolled her eyes. She had a simple, unpretentious, and cute impression. However, contrary to her watchful attitude, she nodded her head quite confidently.
“Yes……. Right.”
“…… That's amazing. The Lucerne. You put a watch on the place closest to me. Since when the hell did you treat me as a pre-traitor?”
“It's not like that!”
Sophie waved her hand.
“Because I was trained. It was a card to escort her wife even in her mansion in case of emergency. When Jain appeared in front of her before, she didn't use force because the general was nearby.”
Elisha was stunned.
“Hand.”
Said Elisha.
“Yes?”
“Your hand. It was not the hand of a swordsman.”
“Yes. I don't hold a sword. I use a different weapon. In the first place, if you train well, the traces of holding a sword will not stick to your body. People like me are trained that way. I know that a lady like you checks your hands first when you see a person.”
“…….”
“You looked at my hand the first time you saw me……. I thought that the madam is a really smart person.”
Enraged, Elisha didn't even want to say more.
Only then did the room come into view. She realized that she was sitting in a very beautiful and colorful room.
The walls were covered with red silk wallpaper with gold embroidery. And on the four-poster bed, there was a white silk duvet. The room was filled with expensive ebony wood furniture.
“Where the hell are you?”