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HELHEIM SCANS
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Chapter 29: The Grand Duke's Plan (2)
Ten days after Selina and Janus returned to the capital, Janus gave Will a secret order while assigning tasks.
[Go to this location at 10 o'clock tonight and meet the Grand Duchess's maid.]
Will confirmed the order, burned the memo he received by candlelight, and prepared to move at the appointed time.
At the same time, Cathy was also preparing for today's meeting.
'The young lady trained me for this day.'
If she were an ordinary maid, she would only need to study how to make tea better, or figure out the Lady's taste in furniture, dress style, and favorite snacks. But Selina always asked Cathy for more than that.
Thanks to the eccentric young lady's orders, Cathy had to undergo physical training that other maids couldn't even dream of.
She learned to read and write for the young lady, and practiced climbing walls for her.
"Come with me. This is not the place for you."
Cathy, who was a street urchin, met Selina and became a maid in the Count's household.
It was Selina who gave Cathy her current life.
'So no matter what happens, I must obey the young lady's orders.'
Cathy was a grateful person.
Cathy, who had entered the designated place first at 10 o'clock, soon heard the knock that was the designated code.
"Since there is no eternal night..."
The knock was correct, but there was no answer to the code.
'What's going on?'
"Since there is no eternal night..."
When there was no answer, Cathy thought something was wrong.
As she tried to sneak out the back door of the empty house, which was the meeting place, an arrow suddenly flew in.
Cathy, who barely avoided being hit in the head by an arrow by 3 centimeters, was not flustered even after seeing the arrow stuck in the door, and immediately hid behind the open door.
When she heard the sound of another arrow flying, a figure suddenly appeared from the darkness and said.
"This way!"
Cathy instinctively knew that this person was not on the same side as the person shooting the arrows.
So she ran without hesitation to the place the person was guiding her.
'I have to survive here to save the young lady.'
There was no resentment about why she had to risk her life when she could live a peaceful life working as a maid in the mansion.
Cathy thought that now was the time for her to live and do great things for the young lady.
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Will, who had come to meet Cathy, saw a few men in black approaching the location before him. He deliberately kept a distance to observe the situation.
The men soon surrounded the house and knocked carefully.
'That's the knock we decided on.'
After a brief moment of surprise, when asked for the code from inside, but the men outside couldn't answer.
Seeing the man near the back door shoot an arrow, Will thought he couldn't just stand by and watch anymore and took Cathy away from the place.
The two ran away for the time being.
Since they were outnumbered and unarmed, running away was the most efficient choice.
Will was a soldier.
He instinctively knew what was most needed in battle.
"Is there a place we can hide?"
"Let's go to where I'm staying for now."
Cathy ran quickly towards her hideout without even taking a single breath.
'Not bad for a maid? She's quite a fast runner.'
So, the two went to the place where Cathy was temporarily staying.
"What the..."
There were obvious signs that someone had already been there through the front door.
"Stay back. I'll go in first."
While protecting Cathy, Will entered, checking for signs of presence.
The house was a mess, but no one was in sight.
"I think this was the problem."
Cathy sighed as she looked at the half-burned paper.
Selina had been giving Cathy orders through notes.
Every time Cathy went to the East Wing to receive orders, she would burn the note thoroughly, but because she didn't burn the last note properly, the knocking method remained.
"It seems like this house has been exposed."
Cathy nodded at Will's words and packed up her necessities.
"We can change the location anytime. I just need to take this with me. This place is not safe, so let's go somewhere else and hide."
"It won't be safe anywhere we go. How about coming with me to the Grand Duke's mansion right now?"
It was natural for Will to make such a suggestion.
To protect the maid trusted by the Grand Duchess, he had to take her to a place with tight security.
But Cathy had other priorities.
"It's not difficult for me to go to the Grand Duke's mansion. But if I do, it will be more difficult to go back and forth to the East Wing."
"......"
"Just like someone found my residence today, someone will find out that I went to the Grand Duke's mansion. If it becomes known that a maid from the Count's household is going back and forth between the Grand Duke's mansion and the East Wing, the Lady's reputation will worsen. Then who knows when her confinement will be lifted?"
After listening to her words and thinking for a moment, Will's lips curled up into a gentle smile.
"No, Cathy. We should use that to our advantage."
"Yes?"
"Come with me to the mansion now. I'll explain it there. Perhaps the Young Lady, no, tHer Highness the Grand Duchess, will praise you for your clever thinking."
* * *
"Failed?"
Ingrid Hazel's small face contorted in anger.
"Can't your guild even handle such a trivial matter? Did I ask you to kill a high-ranking official? I just asked you to kill a maid, is that so difficult?"
"Watch your words, young lady. Even if we're doing this for money, we have our limits."
"Yes, those limits of patience, I have them too."
Ingrid glared at the guild leader in front of her.
"You got paid, so do your job. That's what you're for."
"Fine, if you want, I'll return the money. Will that be enough?"
The man said so, defiantly drawing his dagger and licking the blade with his red tongue.
"Then you're no longer my client, young lady. You won't be able to utter a peep, no matter what I do."
"Is this how your guild does business?"
Ingrid laughed mockingly at the guild leader's provocation and snapped her fingers.
It was instantaneous.
The guild leader's vision suddenly shifted, and he realized he was face down on the floor carpet.
"What the..."
"Shh... You'll soon become disoriented, so let me tell you one thing before that. Do you know why I hired you despite having this kind of power?"
Ingrid knelt down and whispered in the guild leader's ear.
"It's not the time to reveal my power yet. So you should have just done your job when you got the money."
After confirming the guild leader's death, Ingrid pulled a string.
As expected, instead of a servant, Baron Hazel entered and was surprised to see the man collapsed on the floor.
'D...Dead?'
Sighing at Baron Hazel's terrified face, Ingrid waved her hand dismissively.
"Take him out and dispose of him."
"Dispose of... him?"
Baron Hazel had moved around with Ingrid's money and even forged a few documents while living with her, but this was the first time he had seen someone dead.
He was now sweating profusely, not knowing what to do after being ordered to dispose the body.
"Why? Not enough money? Do you need more to move?"
"No matter how much money you give me, killing someone like this..."
"That's why."
Ingrid stepped towards Baron Hazel and said, thrusting her face forward,"Dispose of him without anyone knowing, Father."
Startled by the title "Father," Baron Hazel tried to drag the large man away.
Shaking her head at the sight of the old Baron Hazel struggling, Ingrid snapped her fingers.
The body and the Baron were instantly transported to the wooded hill behind the mansion.
"The fact that I can use this much power means the dragon's power has been unlocked. Is that woman really his mate?"
Ingrid, seemingly tired from using her power, sank into the single sofa in her lavishly decorated room.
"I need to speed up the plan. Before that woman dares to take my place."
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