Published at 23rd of November 2022 9:43 am

Chapter 13-14: Opportunity To Pay Off Debts Legally

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"Sa, save me......."

Tears rolled down onto Kevin's dirty cheeks stained with blood.

Islay smiled.

"When are you going to make a fuss, and now you're afraid of losing your life?"

"Please, please......."

"If you were so afraid, you should have kept your mouth shut."

Kevin was silent."Huh? No, nothing."

Wiping away tears with her sleeve, Evelyn tried to laugh.

Bianca faced Evelyn with a strange face.

As soon as she saw the expression, Evelyn realized that her nonchalant face was very sloppy.

Tears that began to fall, one or two, soon poured out uncontrollably.

"Mom......."

The child called her in a trembling voice.

She shook her head.

No, I can't cry in front of Bianca.

"You were very surprised by Mr. Jones earlier, weren't you? Mom, I'm sorry......."

"Why are you sorry, mom? The bad guy is Mr. Jones!"

Bianca, who said so, patted Evelyn on the back.

The sadness broke into her heart, and Evelyn unknowingly stretched out her arms.

Embracing the small warm child's body as it collapses.

I tried not to show a weak appearance in front of the child, but I couldn't breathe because I kept crying.

"I'm sorry, Bibi. My daughter......."

I'm sorry I took your father away from you.

I'm sorry I hid you.

It was my mother's fault that I couldn't let you go, even though he showed up before me.

But you know, my mother is such a weak and pathetic person...... I can't live without Bianca.

Evelyn pressed down on the words that were about to pop out.

'Actually, Lay, I missed you.'

It was really nice to see you again.

I wanted to be happy with someone else, but in fact I couldn't give up the selfishness that he didn't want to be with anyone.

But this heart can never be confessed.

I'm afraid there's still Islay standing outside, so I'm afraid he'll hear me cry.

Evelyn sobbed with bated breath.

That evening, Islay met Kevin.

To be exact, he went to Kevin's house freely.

"What the hell, a girl who has a daughter she doesn't even know......!"

Drunk as a fiddle, Kevin huffled back on what happened today.

She's got the Duke of Neidhart on her back, and she's a girl with a stiff head.

Kevin, who couldn't beat his anger, tried to visit Evelyn somehow and argue about today's work, but he couldn't even meet Evelyn because of the escort the new Duke attached.

In the end, while I was in a fever, I drank until I lost my temper.....

"You're late."

I heard a cold voice.

At that moment, Kevin froze to the spot.

I felt like I was wide awake.

Turning stiffly, the expressionless Islay was looking at Kevin.

"Du- Duke?"

"You're in some gambling debt."

Leaving out the slightest pretense of knowing, Islay said so out of thin air.

Kevin felt his stomach getting cold.

It was a debt that I didn't even tell my parents, not to mention my friend.

I was in trouble because of the considerable amount...How did you find out?

Kevin's mouth dried up.

"By the way, I'm going to make you a good offer."

"What good offer......."

"A chance to legally pay off the debt."

Saying so, Islay leans at an angle.

A faint smile spread over his lips.

"Of course, you'll never be able to say no. Because......."

Kevin swallowed his dry saliva.

Islay's delightful voice was as if the devil were whispering.

"Because your gambling debt has been handed over to me as of today."

"Well, what do you mean!"

"And I've also thought of ways to get my debts reimbursed by you."

The eyes of Islay are much darker than the darkness that has dyed his son-in-law.

He shrugged lightly.

"It's the clearing of the wasteland under Neidhart's direct command."

"......What do you mean wasteland reclamation?"

"The duchy, Sperdo of the South."

"Stop, don't tell me!"

Kevin was appalled at the moment.

Sperdo in the south.

It was a land that the Hildesheim Empire could not have known.

The Duke of Neidhart, a Southern British family, had the greatest obligation to match the greatness of the family.

Thus, the land that Neidhart ruled was the estate of Sperdo.

"Are you telling me to die now?"

Kevin shouted desperately.

The clearing of the wasteland was almost an excuse.

The Sperado estate was a wilderness where predators came down every time and barbarians invaded, with few civilians and a main presence of peacock soldiers.

But Islay nodded gently, not a wink of an eyebrow.

"Well, if he dies, I don't think he'll be bad."

"Your Excellency!"

Kevin felt like he was going crazy.

But Islay still smiled nonchalantly.

"Yeah, I'll be leaving for Sperdo soon, so I'll be disrespectful to you."

"Yes, yes?!"

"Did you think you could raise your voice to the only Duke of the Empire and get away with it?"

When asked a blunt question again, Kevin was left speechless.

Islay was right.

The cold blade seemed to be pointing at the neck.

What do I have to do?

Kevin was confused.

Even with his heavy head under the influence of alcohol, he couldn't help but know that he was walking into hell in real time.

"The daily wage is five rdims a day. And your debt is roughly 2,000 derk......."

But Islay didn't seem to care for Kevin's confusion at all.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have just talked about what I had to say.

Islay, who seemed to be calculating something inwardly, lifted his head a moment later.

Gently curled his lips, he said.

"You'll pay me back in about 109 years. Isn't it?"

There was a grin, but there was not a shred of warmth left in the black eyes.

Kevin swallowed his breath.

Afraid of that bright smiling man, I was going crazy.

I feel like I'm about to grab his neck and push him off a cliff.

Islay stared at Kevin.

Ask in a light tone.

"Oh, don't you think it's a little too hard to calculate?"

Kevy was silent.

I don't know what to answer.

Islay shook his head slightly.

"But debt must be settled neatly so that we don't get complaints and backbiting."

Islay, now, was sincere.

That light tone, that casual attitude.

For Islay, Kevin would be worth just that much.

Maybe Islay will let Kevin go to Sperdo and then forget it.

His life and death wouldn't matter to Islay.

When I realized that, I got shivers in my spine.

Suddenly, a sudden sense of reality bit my whole body violently.

"Your Excellency!"

Kevin opened his mouth.

It was a voice suppressed as if it were strangled.

Islay, raised his eyebrows, faced Kevin, a sheep for what's wrong?

Kevin got down on the floor right away.

The drunken body didn't move properly, but somehow had to beg for mercy.

Before Islay puts Kevin in hell, with a bright smile.

Kevin pounded his forehead on the floor.

But mixed with drunkenness and fear, I didn't even know I was sick.

Kevin trembled all over, squeezing words of apology.

"It's because I'm, like, stupid, I can't learn. Please let go of your anger."

My voice was cut into pieces.

Tears that flowed freely were wetting both cheeks.

"What the hell is wrong with her, should I be like this?"

I'm going crazy with anger.

But the Duke is too frightening.

Kevin continued to stutter.

"Think it was a country boy, and if you forgive me just once......."

"Forgiveness?"

At that time, Islay asked back sluggishly.

Even the gentleness that was surrounded like a mask was gone, and it was a bitter voice.

Kevin hardened like a mouse in front of a predator.

Islay uttered a word.

"Forgiveness has already been overwhelmed."

"Yes, yes, forgiveness...... yes?

"I didn't take your life, I didn't touch your family."

In a calm answer, Kevin was speechless.

Islay looked at Kevin with a blank face.

"I just gave you a chance to pay off your debts, but how can you make such a rude request?"

At that word, Kevin's face turned white.

What do you mean, a chance to pay off a debt?

But Islay was cool-headed.

"I acted that way to Eve, no one else."

"Please wait a moment, it's......!"

"That's a good price to pay. Don't you think so?"

"I-I'm sorry! I'm begging you for what I've done wrong!"

Kevin thumped his head on the ground and cried out in fits.

After a while, he raised his head.

"If I had known Miss Martinise was your lover, I wouldn't have spoken to her!"

However, even with the cry, the expression of Islay only subsided further.

Islay opened his mouth.

"Well, what you said now is."

There was a deep bone in the marble-smooth brow.

His face, asking again, was full of signs of astonishment.

"If Eve wasn't my lover, of course I was going to molest her...... is that what you mean?

"Of course...... yes?

Something felt strange, so Kevin hurriedly shut up.

Slay twisted the tip of his lips up.

"What a laugh."

"Your Excellency......?"

"No matter what position the other person is in, such rude harassment shouldn't happen."

Islay took a step closer.

Kevin stepped back as much as he followed, secretly me.

"If you're related to a man of high status, you're still afraid of retaliation.

There was a slight heat in my voice.

The heat is as if he is going to grow up and eat Kevin right away.

"If you're not capable of retaliation, it doesn't matter if you harass."

At the same time, he stopped walking.

A beautiful stranger, like a painstaking sculpture, sinks coldly.

"......what, is that what you mean?"

"No, I'm not saying that......."

But now, Islay is just looking down at Kevin with a hateful look on his face.

After a while, Islay glanced at his chin.

As if sentenced to death, a bitter order fell on Kevin.

"I don't want to hear any more. Drag him away."

At the same time, articles popped up that didn't even know existed in the dark.

Kevin opened his eyes wide.

"Argh, let go!"

Kevin struggled frantically, but was helpless as several knights clung to him.

Tough hands weighed down and held on to Kevin.

Kevin, who was dragged away by knights, was overcome with evil.

"What the hell is that girl?"

Besides, Islay wasn't even paying attention to Kevin being dragged.

His lingering drunkenness and anger over the current situation paralyzed his reason.

Kevin began to babble at random.

"Dear God, do you have any idea how many men she met?"

At that cry, Islay paused for the first time.

"Shut up!"

"How dare you... in front of someone......!"

The knights hastily tried to shut Kevin up.

But Kevin was already halfway through his eyes with bitter resentment and resentment.

Kevin's evil voice rang loudly.

"I'm a single mother who gave birth to a child who doesn't even know who the father is!"

"......."

"You're not going to be so angry, and you're not worth it's worth it!"

Of course it was a lie.

As far as Kevin knows, Evelyn has never met a man since settling in Annette.

He always responded indifferently to Kevin, and rejected suggestions from people who wanted to introduce men to her.

Some trashy men even bet on the subject of seducing her, burning the spirit of victory.

But the words, full of evil, were also enough to stir up Islay's mind.

The Islay turned slowly.

The black eyes were eerie.

"......."

"......."

A sharp silence enveloped the surroundings.

The knights looked back at Islay, shoulder to shoulder.

There was no expression on the face of Islay, looking this way, as if it were a mask.

The face that seemed calm at first glance, but sharpened like a sharp blade.

The knights knew from experience that Islay was most dangerous when he had that face.

But Kevin still hasn't got the hang of it.

Kevin struggled wildly and screamed.

"Your Highness is asking whether she will come or not, and she will not know the subject, but she will be open minded."... kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

Kevin opened his eyes.

The hand in the white glove clasped Kevin's neck.

How strong that grip was, Kevin's lips began to drool.

Kevin scratched Islay's fingernails, but he didn't budge.

From Kevin's lips, a strange groan leaked out.

"Oh, my God, oh, my God....!"

At the same time, Islay raised his other hand and slapped Kevin in the face.

Puck!

With the sound, Kevin flew to the other side and rolled around.

In shock strong enough to shake his head, Kevin lifted his eyes and flipped them.

"AHH!"

There was a piercing scream.

Islay lifted himself up.

The knights looked at the back of the master, who was stuttering.

Kevin was still squirming on the floor and losing his sanity.

Islay looked at Kevin, with a calm face, crawling on the floor like a bug.

After a while, he lifted his foot.

"Argh!"

Kevin cringed, bending over and his stomach. At the same time, kicks began to pour out like rain.

It was calm and brutal violence.

It seems as if the only purpose on earth is to kill and destroy the opponent.

The knights stepped in to stop their master.

"Calm down, sir!"

"He's going to die!"

After hearing that, Islay stopped kicking.

Kevin was almost knocked out.

Nervously, the knights looked at Islay.

With a long sigh, Islay reached out.

Grabbing Kevin by the collar, Kevin managed to lift his swollen, bloody eyelids.

He whispered like a moan.

'I'm shaking all over, so it's hard to even come to my senses.'

"The next time you talk about Eve......."

"Laughing......"

"At that time, I think you're prepared to take responsibility for your actions."

Kevin, who had been beaten so hard, couldn't keep his head in shape.

Slouching on the floor, Islay took off his gloves.

As if he had touched something dirty, he threw his gloves over Kevin, who had fallen.

Islay, who squinted his eyes, commanded with an arrogant look.

"I've touched something you shouldn't have touched, incinerate those gloves."

"Yes, your excellency."

"Let him go to Sperdo right now, so that he will never see me from tomorrow."

Nodding, the knights raised Kevin from his seat.

Kevin has already disappeared, but the words uttered earlier persistently rang in his ears.

"Darn it, do you have any idea how many men she's met?'

I knew it from my head.

Evelyn had already said goodbye, and whether he accepts it or not, the fact that their relationship is over.

Evelyn has the freedom to choose someone other than Islay, and besides, Evelyn was a very lovely person.

Just as he fell in love at first sight as soon as he saw Evelyn, there was a good chance that another man would embrace her deeply.

Above all

'......because there is Bibi.'

Islay admitted painfully.

There was Bianca.

Proof that she loved someone else.

Kevin's seizure of words caused numerous ripples over his heart like a rock that fell on a lake.

One strange thing was himself not feeling negative for Bianca, the daughter of another man.

"Maybe it's because she looks a lot like Evelyn."

I had a lot of imagination.

Maybe she's with someone, maybe even if she finds out, she doesn't like it.

There were times when I wondered if he was dead.

Then my heart sank with real fear.

But of all those imaginations, I never thought of a 'child'.

"Whoa......."

Islay let out a long sigh.

It was a funny thing.

Worrying that Evelyn would be with another man, I never thought of a child.

It's because she vaguely thinks that if she gives birth, the child will be her own.

But it was still fine.

Now that Evelyn is back, that's all.

'Bibi, you don't have to be my child.'

Sincerely, I was confident to raise Bianca like a daughter.

Every time I saw a child who looked just like her, I smiled on my own.

As his expression softened a little, the secretary, who was being wary, spoke.

"It's getting cold, sir. You'd better go home now."

"Okay, I will."

Nodding his head, Islay loaded himself into the carriage.

Meanwhile, there was an object that touched his eye.

"......this is."

It was a cookie box.

The box Bianca gave me earlier, saying it was a gift.

The box, meticulously wrapped in dog-patterned wrapping paper, is beautifully knotted with red ribbons.

Reaching out, Islay picked up the cookie box.

After caressing the cookie box for a long time, he carefully untied the ribbon.

"......."

As I tore through the wrapper, a sweet and savory aroma filled the carriage.

Cookies filled with crumbles appeared in the box.

The cookies were in various animal shapes, reflecting Bianca's taste in animals.

As he looked carefully at the cookie, Islay picked up the chick-shaped cookie and took a bite.

Crunch, cookie pieces crumbled in my mouth.

The sweet and savory taste wrapped around the tip of the tongue.

"From now on...... everything will be fine."

He whispered low.

It was just a cookie, and the sweet taste touched a strangely painful heart.

And that night.

It was Evelyn, not Bianca, who brought up the topic of Islay first.

"Bibi..."

Evelyn bent over and set eyes on her little girl.

With Evelyn's hand on her shoulder, Bianca looked at her mother silently.

Her mother's eyes are still red and puffy.

Evelyn opened her mouth.

"Remember the man we met in the afternoon?"

"Yes, Mom."

Bianca answered politely.

Evelyn tried to put on a nonchalant look, but she couldn't help but shake her hand on the child's shoulder.

Bianca pretended not to know that her mother's hands were shaking.

"You can't call him 'Mr. Lay' from now on."

Evelyn made up a calm voice and opened her mouth.

Bianca faces her with a mysterious face.

"Why? You said you could call me."

"Because......."

Evelyn blurted out the end of her speech.

"......because he's a different person from the world we live in."

"Why is the world different?"

"Because Bibi and her mother are commoners, and he's a nobleman."

"Noble?"

Bianca could not hide her puzzled look.

Bianca, who was young, only had an abstract understanding of the concept of nobility and commoners.

Annette was a very small city, and it was not a lordly land.

Only the mayor's family had a close status to the aristocracy, and technically, the mayor's family was close to a managerial position appointed by the imperial family.

Bianca, therefore, had not yet, actually encountered the nobles.

Evelyn fully understood her daughter's confusion.

"......Yes, nobleman."

Nevertheless, Evelyn drew the line firmly.

Their mother and daughter have only lived in special circumstances so far, and the limits of nobles and commoners are clear.

Although we live in the same world, the eye level itself was different.

'To Bibi, I tried to tell her the difference between nobles and commoners.'

I didn't want Bianca to realize the reality in this way.

My heart aches as if I've been cut with a knife.

"I didn't know until now, so let's say we were friendly, but not anymore. All right?

Bianca blinked her eyes.

Today's mother was very different from usual.

The friendly smile that had been made like a painting disappeared, she had a very determined face.

And Bianca, she knew well when her mother had that look.

A mother at a time like that, never breaks her will.

'......when I asked my mother what my dad was like and what his name was.'

My mother at that time had a similar look.

She answered, 'A very good and wonderful man,' but she never put father's name in her mouth.

Bianca replied, drooping her shoulders.

"Yes."

"......yes."

A mess of pity and sorry, Evelyn wasn't comfortable either.

She held her daughter tightly in her arms.

–

Last night, Evelyn stayed up all night worrying about Islay.

I met Islay, and I got his help.

'I'm really... You didn't even feel the slightest joy?'

I couldn't be free from that question, it was so painful.

When she met Islay again and confessed that he still loved her and missed her.

Trying to avoid Islay, didn't she feel a secret joy in his desperate desire to help her?

All right, let's stop thinking.

Evelyn shook her head with effort.

It's just a worry, she had to take care of Bianca.

Evelyn woke Bianca up, fed her breakfast, and helped her wash up.

Bianca sometimes glances at her mother with worried eyes, but still treats Evelyn as usual.

Maybe it's because I remember my mother crying and falling apart yesterday.

Evelyn felt sorry inwardly, as if she had given Bianca a burden of uselessness.

"Oh, my God, if you don't go fast, you'll be late."

Evelyn opened the front door, trying to be cheerful.

By the way, there was a man in front of her who she had never thought of.

"...Duke?"

Evelyn froze to the spot.

With the clear sun shining down, Islay was looking at the mother and daughter with his back leaning to the wagon.

The moment when my eyes met the black eyes with eager light.

My mind, which had barely calmed down, quickly became as dizzy as muddy water stirred up at will.

"No way, you've been waiting outside for us all this time?"

Bianca's grip on her bag was strained.

Last night, Islay stayed up all night, almost wide awake.

To be exact, my heart was beating like crazy and I couldn't sleep.

'I met Eve again.'

With that fact alone, the whole grey world has regained its brilliant color.

Although she doesn't seem to want to get involved with him again.......

'But it's okay.'

It's impossible to give her up in the first place, so I was going to try to convince her somehow.

I can't wait for the morning to come.

Thinking so earnestly, he went back to Evelyn's house as soon as the sun rose.

After waiting outside for a long time.......

"...Duke?"

I could face Evelyn, whose eyes were all red, as if crying the day before.

Islay felt his heart rattling down.

"Eve, what's wrong with your face......."

"It's none of your business."

The voice of the line was drawn, and there was a dark shade on Islay's face.

At that time, Bianca opened her mouth.

"Uncle Lay... What's wrong with you, Duke?"

At that word, there was a dark shade on Islay's face.

Slightly bent, Islay smiled, eye-to-eye with Bianca.

"Hi, Bibi. Why don't you call me Uncle Lay today?"

"Well, that's."

Bianca crept through her mother's wits with an embarrassed face.

Evelyn, who took a deep breath, said in a sober voice.

"I told you not to call me."

"Eve."

Islay's voice was slightly lowered.

But Evelyn, far from backing down, continued in a rather obdurate tone.

"My daughter is a child of commoners and you are a noble."

When he heard it, Islay gently pulled his lips and bit.

Even if you don't draw the line like that, I know that Bianca is not my daughter.......

"Of course, you should use the appropriate title when calling the Duke. Isn't it?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't think that's for Eve to decide."

But Islay also had no intention of making concessions on this part.

Slowly lifting himself up, he added.

"It's up to me to call myself."

"But......!"

"I'll let you."

In a determined voice, Evelyn failed to protest further.

Most of all, Islay was right in principle.

"So Bibi wants you to call me 'Mr. Lay' in the future."

The voice towards Bianca was fluffy.

To Bianca, blinking her eyes, Islay nailed it once again.

"Do you mind if I do?"

Instead of answering, Bianca gave her mother a look.

Looking at her amber eyes, Evelyn pulled her lips.

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