Episode 61

Lucerne was unable to observe the auction as there was an important secret military meeting at the Imperial Palace today. Elisha didn't care, she just said, 'There's no need for you to step out on this level of work.'

The city hall was very quiet. The place of the auction was the largest hall, and visitors could only watch the auction from the second floor.

'The Cartier family is amazing.'

There was even a waiting room for the women of the Cartier family. Escort knights were not allowed to enter the auction house, so Elisha was able to have time alone.

Soon the door to the waiting room opened. Elisha raised her head.

“Elisha. It's been a while. I missed Carola a lot.”

Caroline was smiling sweetly. Arien was also standing behind him. It looked like the two of them had formed a united front.

“I don't think we are meant to say goodbye. What business do you have with me?”

“Carola wants to negotiate. Competing with money like this is so stupid. The land is not worth our exorbitant money.”

“…….”

“Lucerne has already spent a lot of her money to pay off Elisha's debt. If she wastes another money on Elisha, she will be hated by Elisha as well by her husband. Carola is so worried about Elisha…….”

Carola's acting skills were genius even today. Elisha wanted to bite her tongue. She looked at her sometimes, she called Carola and she wasn't just acting, she seemed like someone who really believed in what she was saying.

“Even if I give up, Arien won't give up. Isn't that right, Arien?”

Arien was looking at Elisha with her bluish face.

She said, “Looking at her, she really is a woman with no character. If you hadn't encouraged Lucerne in the first place…….”

“That is such a strange word. The beginning of the affair was because Marco proposed to me to have an affair in the first place. Wouldn't it be easier to blame myself?”

Elisha said calmly. Arien's face immediately turned red.

“This, this doesn't lose a word. Hey, I'm giving you a warning right now.”

“…….”

“I think. I don't think this is your plate. Even if the two of us compete, teaching you up and down comes first. You are the wife of an illegitimate child, and even if you wake up dead, you will not have a noble status. How can a penniless beggar pretend to be an aristocrat!”

Arien looked like she had a nervous breakdown.

'It seems that Marco squeezed Arien a bit. They seem to believe that the information about this land was leaked through Arien.'

It was what Elisha intended. Emotional people are easy to read. So, Arienne's nailing did not hurt Elisha in the slightest.

On the contrary, she felt sorry for Arien, who already had a pale complexion, although she would have to go through a lot in the future.

She said, “Is she a real aristocrat?”

Elisha asked calmly. At the same time, she thought that the situation was very interesting. In her previous life, she lived in fear of them in a lowly way. But now she is arguing in one room, wearing a dress that is prettier than them.

“What is it like to be a real nobleman?”

“Venerable, classy, ​​learned. I mean women like us.”

Arien looked at Elisha as if she was pathetic. Elisha looked at Arien without a single expression on her face.

“I see. That's right. He is an aristocrat with a long history.”

“…….”

“Arien's family is the 14th noble. Carola-sama's family is the ninth generation of nobles, so they are true nobles.”

“No, I'm glad.”

“And my family, the Count of Laure, is the 24th noble.”

Arien's mouth twisted.

It was too easy for Elisha to piss off Arien.

It was because Arien's regular comment when she looked down on her carola was, 'You're only a ninth noble.' It was a story she had heard in her past life.

As expected, both Karola and Arien's faces turned red.

“What is this called?”

Elisha added softly.

“Besides, judging from what you're talking about, I don't know if you have any dignity.”

Carola was in a state where her usual smile had been erased. She was so weird Usually, Carola was a woman who went crazy because she liked Arien whenever she saw him play tricks. Perhaps at this moment, her hatred for Elisha outweighed those feelings.

“Carola doesn't want to be with him.”

Carola looked at Elisha and pursed her lips.

“Aren't you like that too?”

“Right, really. Ha, the level is not right.”

Elisha checked the time. It was time for the auction to begin. Elisha didn't want to be in the same room with them anyway.

“You are where you belong.”

As Elisha tried to leave her room, Arien grinned. Elisha tried to fire a word, but she didn't want to deal with her anymore, so she closed the door and left.

The hallway was also empty.

'I'll have to go to the auction house first.'

The auction house was at the end of the room. Elisha started walking slowly toward it.

“Excuse me.”

Then Elisha bumped into her shoulder with a stranger who was walking across from her.

He looked like her scribe, judging from her old jacket, her hat pulled down and her cravat. As if she had just come on horseback, she had a whip at her waist.

Elisha only glanced at her and she tried to walk past him. That moment……. Her hair was caught.

“Town!”

The next moment her mouth was shut. Elisha opened her eyes wide. Her shawl, which Elisha threw over her shoulders, fell to the floor.

“Leave this!”

Elisha struggled and shouted.

'This inside……. It was forbidden to accompany an escort…….'

She didn't look out for anyone. Elisha had a hunch. It was either Carolina or Arien.

“If you stay here quietly, don't hit or harass me.”

Muttered the man. The man opened the door to the storage room under the stairs. And threw Elisha.

“Ugh!”

The man pulled his knife out of his arms.

“If you run away, I will tear your whole body apart.”

Elisha's eyes darkened. Iza was thinking of tying up her Elisha to keep her from entering her auction.

“Stay still! Don't you want to die?”

The man pulled out a rope that appeared to have been prepared in advance in the warehouse. Elisha realized that she had all this planned.

In her brief moment, many thoughts ran through Elisha's head.

'No, the value of the land……. That this is not the end.'

Lucerne, Carolina, Ariendo. No one knew Now, the land was absolutely necessary for Elisha to start. That was the beginning of Elisha's drawing.

Furthermore…….

'Failure is only death.'

Jacob's words from the previous life came to mind. Elisha didn't want to fail. Lucerne……. Like Jacob, she hated being criticized.

No, he hated that Lucerne thought of her as useless. She hated that she had her only pride taken away from her.

'They are just like my memories, no. He always does uglier things than I expected.'

Carola and Arien thought they could compete with each other. But she was not with Elisha.

To them, Elisha was a being who could never compete or stand on an equal footing even if the world turned upside down. Even this futile competition was like that. They tried to stop Elisha by committing her crimes.

'Did this mean teaching up and down?'

Elisha felt stuffy inside. She was even more so because she was stuck in the room under the stairs, with a knife stuck to her throat.

She lived in a warehouse room in Jacob's mansion in the capital. Carola and Jacobs shut up and gave her a job, and when there was something she didn't like, she didn't hesitate to raise her hand. It smelled like damp here.

She said, “I was instructed to stab you if you don't listen. If you stay still, I'll make a scar or two on her face after her auction is over and send her back nicely.”

Elisha politely pretended to hold out her hands.

“Ahh!”

The next moment Elisha pulled the whip from the man's waist. She hit the man on the cheek with a whip.

“Fuck you, bitch!”

The man screamed. Elisha ran outside. It was that moment……. Elisha felt a sharp pain in her shoulder.

“Oh fuck! I told you not to kill me!”

He pressed her shoulders tightly. Her blood came out Her eyes were dark. Elisha staggered to her auction house.

Elisha didn't look back at her.

Bang! She opened the auction house. The man reached out her hand towards Elisha, and she was seen gritting her teeth and running away.

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“Leave this to me, Carola.”

“Ugh, why? Is there anything on the land? Carola is very curious.”

“…… No big deal. However, I don't want to show Marco my incompetence. I'll give you anything you want in return.”

“Then …… Can you give me too? Carola wants it so very much.”

Arien's face went white. She said that she could never give up. In the first place, she said, it was something from her temple, so she didn't even have the ability to get rid of Arien.

“Sounds crazy! Wake up!”

“Well, then let's go where we are going. Carola can spend all her money.”

Carola and Arien were sitting side by side at the auction, talking. They have already written a number to Elisha. It was the first time that their hearts were united and gathered their strength.

'If we lose to that Lucerne, our husbands' pride will never recover.'

Anyway, everyone in the capital knew that Lucerne was the best in the family. They, too, knew that this was a contest of guest aircraft. It was more important not to lose to Lucerne's wife than to win. Her wife's victory was her husband's victory.

Bang!

Then there was the sound of the door opening. It was Elisha. She stood at her door with her pale face. They were freaking out

“What happened?”

Especially Arien, her face turned very pale. Her blood was dripping from Elisha's shoulder.

Elisha shook her hand. She drew in her breath with her pale face. She had gripped her whip so tightly that her knuckles turned white.