Episode 8
Jacob came home late. Reports of Lucerne's arrival upset him. If an outstanding illegitimate child is a general with even power, it becomes a presence that makes the ugly nephew tremble just by looking at it.
When his subordinate told him what had happened between Carola and Lucerne during the day, he was perplexed.
“If you are a maid……. That……. Where do you lock up your collateral? How many are there now……. Isn't it time to slowly weed out?”
Jacob thought deeply. Carola was sitting next to Jacob with a nervous expression on her face.
“You were so pretty? Who was it?”
Carola asked carefully.
“Carola, I don't know. Do I even need to know her maid's name? Just looking at it, I looked like an adult. So, isn't she going to die soon?”
“That's right.”
Jacob's mouth went wide.
“You should taste it before you sell it.”
“Ugh, is it this time?”
Caroline's face frowned.
“It's been a long time since Lucerne coveted a woman. I wonder what he would say if he ate it right away and showed him the body tomorrow. That woman, what did she look like?”
“It looks common with her blonde hair. His skin was very white…….”
Jacob pondered.
“Ah, she is that doll-like woman! It's Elisha. Okay! She was such a name.”
“All, you…….”
Caroline's face turned into tears. Jacob was overjoyed and hurried to the maids' quarters.
“Baby, I don't know. You've never been like this before!”
Apparently, the fact that Lucerne was the woman he was interested in made Jacob's head spin.
She makes no progress in seducing Lucerne, and Carola, who has only made Jacob an opportunity for her affair, begins banging on her table in anger and clucking like her own child.
“What if the maids are cracked down! I never thought there would be eyewitnesses among the articles. Disintegration of the child. Why isn't everyone helping Carola?”
* * *
'Tell me to take off?'
After all, it was a body that had lived through Jacob's countless verbal harassing and beatings. Elisha didn't think her own body was that precious. However……. Lucerne was scary. Her whole body trembled and the strength kept coming between her thighs.
Elisha gritted her teeth and took off her nightgown. Her shabby underwear was exposed.
“Raise your arms.”
Lucerne whispered. At first glance, it sounded like the way she spoke to her lover.
“Ah!”
Elisha raised her arms. Lucerne grabbed Elisha's wrists at the same time and pressed them against her bed.
“Shadow, investigate.”
A shadow formed behind Lucerne's back. It was Lucerne's ability that he had only heard of from her words, the ability to control her magical beast. Elisha closed her eyes tightly.
“Huh…….”
The Shadow Witch slowly scanned Elisha from her forehead to her toes. Even the secret vulva covered by a thin cloth. The shadow finally stopped acting.
“There are no hidden weapons.”
Elisha nodded her head.
“Sometimes they hide weapons inside their bodies.”
“Hand……. Please let go.”
Lucerne slowly let go of her hand. Her gripped wrist felt as hot as if it had been burned. When Lucerne winked approvingly, she pulled up her sheet and covered her body.
“Whatever you want to say, say it.”
Lucerne whispered. Elisha felt the tension as if she would be violated by Lucerne at any moment. But Lucerne wasn't even laying her hands on Elisha.
“Firstly. Tell me how you got here.”
At Lucerne's words, Elisha held her breath.
* * *
“A secret passage?”
Lucerne was dumbfounded by Elisha's words.
“Yes, I can show you. So, go…….”
Elisha showed her a map. Lucerne snapped her hand. A black shadow appeared.
“Come see me instead.”
Whispered to the shadows It flew into an empty closet. Elisha opened her eyes wide.
“You can only do it very close range. It's only possible to check the space.”
Lucerne immediately nodded her head.
“There really is space behind the wall. You found it by accident?”
“Yes. Really by chance……. It was.”
“What does that have to do with you knowing your mother's will?”
Elisha swallowed her saliva. From the point she thought she had a regression, she replayed it in her head several times and said what she had prepared.
“I came here when I was fourteen. And as soon as she knows the secret passage, she finds her way……. I lived as a ghost in this mansion for six years. They roamed the mansion and stole information.”
Elisha knew how to make her lies look like the truth. It is to tell the truth with a little bit of lies.
Six years from the age of fourteen. Except for that, it was mostly true.
In fact, Elisha from her previous life roamed the secret passage and lived as a ghost in the mansion. Most of the days she was in vain, but one day she caught a glimpse of things.
'Jacob and Carola used me as an errand boy and made me do all sorts of nasty things. But they didn't let me access any really important information or secrets.'
There was another person who took care of such secret matters. Elisha wondered if it would be a way for her to live. She collected information with her eyes on. She died so absurdly that she couldn't really use it.
“She came up with that idea at fourteen?”
“I grew up in a monastery. The Archbishop was there. She is……. So. Archbishop Rosaria is a military veteran of the temple. I grew up learning and studying like his disciple.”
Lucerne seemed lost in thought.
“I know Archbishop Rosaria, too.”
“Yes, ask him about me. You probably remember me.”
It was true. Elisha was able to survive her previous life thanks to the strategies and knowledge she learned from seeing and learning from Archbishop Rosaria.
“Therefore……. I found a way to get in and out of Jacob's office. Jacob's office was also through a secret passage. Jacob is not careful. The materials reported to his subordinates are casually arranged on his desk……. I gathered all the secret information I could.”
“You want me to believe that?”
Lucerne seemed to have wasted his time. Elisha clenched her fists. Desire makes people adventurous. Elisha now had to sell her fiction.
“I know your desires.”
“What desire?”
“It's obvious what a brilliant person like you would think if he were an illegitimate child. He will want the position of the head of household. If that doesn't work…….”
“…….”
“You're thinking of destroying the family. What you can't have, you can destroy…….”
“You want to die.”
Lucerne covered Elisha's mouth. As she was, she squashed Elisha's lower jaw.
Elisha did not avert her eyes. Lucerne met her eyes for a while, frowned as if holding back something from her, and lowered her hand. Elisha moved her lips again.
“I can help you become a family head.”
“I will say one more time.”
Lucerne spoke slowly.
“There is no way an illegitimate child can become the head of a household anywhere in the world.”
“…….”
“If there is such a way, guess. Then what do you want?”
“…… Please lend me money.”
“What?”
Lucerne's brow furrowed. It was the look of what this was again.
“The excuse I'm caught here is debt. Please pay off that debt instead. And please get me out.”
Lucerne was also known for his wealth, although not as much as business-crazed Jacob.
'I can probably afford 30,000 gold coins.'
She was independent from her family and had property given away by the head of the household, and she had no land, but she had accumulated wealth during the war, and I heard that the gifts she received from the imperial family were great.
“Why should I pay for uncertain information?”
Elisha moistened her dry lips.
“I'll bet you as collateral. You can think like your subordinate until you prove my information is correct. I will do anything you ask.”
“…….”
“I am good at anything.”
Elisha looked at her lucerne lips, she said. She hoped that the good words would fall from her lips. Lucerne seemed to be contemplating. Her brow furrowed as she suddenly stared at her.
“Jacob will sell me if I give him the money. I am 20 years old this year, and the transfer of land or property is one year after I become an adult……. Then it takes effect. So Jacob has already taken everything he could take away from me.”
“How much is the debt?”
“30,000 gold coins.”
“What do you do to get into debt like that?”
Indeed, the amount was such that even Lucerne would stick out his tongue once. The value of a small manor landed on her shoulder.
“…… Territory war reparations. My father was Count Rohr, a nobleman of the Old Kingdom.”
Lucerne seemed to know.
“There are no thieves, Jacob.”
“Slap that Jacob in the back. You like that.”
Lucerne looked at Elisha with her dim eyes.
“My cousins prefer to stab each other behind their backs more than to eat.”
“Yes. So- if money buys me, and I show more value than that money……. We'll be able to pump up Jacob. Therefore…….”
The more I spoke, the more I became self-praise. Elisha's ears turned red.
“I know many of the secrets of this family. From miscellaneous things to important things. I've been grinding my teeth for six years, collecting secrets……. I thought that was the only way for me to live.”
“Living as a ghost in a secret passageway?”
“That's it.”
Elisha nodded her head. In reality, Elisha in her previous life really wasn't a ghost or ghost. Because she was a being that everyone ignored and despised as if she had no substance.
“And, if you find that my information is useful and valuable, then please cancel my debt.”
Elisha got to the point of her most important point. Then she showed Elisha the back of her neck.
“As long as I have this pattern, I cannot escape from this family. I heard This tracking pattern is a magic used only by the Cartier family.”
Lucerne checked the nape of her neck.
“You carved everything.”
Lucerne clicked his tongue. He seemed still lost in thought.
“It's a little ghost in the secret passage, so it's pretty cute.”
“…….”
“That's why I've been listening. Unfortunately, your words are groundless.”
“That…….”
“The chance of being stabbed in the back by Jacob is too high. You're attractive, but you're not stupid enough to buy this information.”
“…….”
“Don't think I'm the first swindler to tell me about my mother. Dozens of scammers and spies approach me every year just because I am Cartier's bloodline. Oh, there are already precedents for wills and patterns. The will-smooth bastard has no tongue now. The impostor was right.”
Lucerne said boredly. Elisha didn't show it on the outside, but on the inside, she broke into a cold sweat. He even seemed to have no interest in her birth mother.
'This far?'
After Lucerne gave her some information that might interest her, she tried to dissuade him. However, Lucerne was not as easy as I thought. He had to write some numbers.
It was then.
Jiing-
At that moment, Elisha was shocked as if her bones were ringing. She reflexively grabbed the nape of her neck.
'Uh, how?'
Apparently, the girls in the same room were sleeping soundly. Did someone wake up and report the absence of Elisha?
The pattern on the back of Elisha's neck was evidence of her subordination to the Cartier family. That the tattoo is burning.
Jacob was looking for her. It's also insanely fast.
