Chapter 48

Count Brumayer pointed his finger in a frenzied manner.

“Laritte wouldn’t have been born without me! That little girl dared to–”

He choked on his words as soon as Ian appeared.

“The Count has never thought of her as your child, so how does it matter now?”
“D-Duke!”
“Very well. If the Count relentlessly curses Laritte, I shall hold no judgment before ending his life. I’ll make sure of it.”

The Count stuttered in response.

“W-Where is Laritte…..?”
“She doesn’t wish to come out here. I doubt she has any reason to care about you.”

Rose, who was hiding behind the Countess, yelled.

“It can’t be true!”

Ian flashed his smile at Rose.

“I see the lady still hasn’t come to her senses. She came all the way here.”

He took heavy steps toward Rose.

“Have you been dreaming when Laritte saved your life?”
“Eek!”

Rose hid behind the Countess in fear again.

The Countess fell to her knees on the floor.

“I beg you! Please have mercy on us! There’s nowhere we can go. Doesn’t our family’s property appear as dust in front of the Duke’s?”
“Indeed. Why have you come here then?”
“T-That…..”
“Do not worry about your journey from now on. I hear the Marquis lacks the resources to rule the cold north. Many people keep freezing to death.”

Ian gestured to his knights.

“Prepare to send them to the North.”
“Yes, Captain!”

The knights obeyed and captured the Brumayers with both arms.

The Countess realized that their entire plan had failed. She screamed.

“Then, Duke! How are you any different from us?!”
“Hmm.”

Intrigued, Ian raised his right hand, and the knights stopped dragging the family at his command.

“Go ahead.”
“We admit that we’ve mistreated Laritte! But we had fair reasons!”

Ian once received a report on Laritte’s frail figure to have numerous injuries.

The fact that those injuries had to be covered by clothes was very pressing.

your reasons? Funny. Laritte had been treated as a thorough underdog in your family, wasn’t she? Was it a fair manner to mistreat such a child?” “Y-You are the

load of trash’, Ian thought.

a living, and the

He shrugged.

coarse as you are. So what if I am?” “What…..” “I’m sorry, but I’ve never pretended to be nice.”

as Ian beckoned again.

“Duke! Arghhh!!”

as the Count’s

Ava approached

them, Duke?” “Present the stolen dress to Laritte in a box. Burn the rest.” “But the goods seem valuable. Especially Count Brumayer’s. He’s only known to possess luxury items all his life. Even his cane is from a popular social workshop. Why don’t we send some useful furniture to an orphanage we have nearby?” “Fair enough. Clean

dress and stepped

in time, Butterfly appeared in the front yard and

mother been feeding you a lot?”

of them walked back to the

That was it.

as a contributor to the foundation of the empire, came to an eternal end.

one calm

***
Ian declared as he walked into the study.

a present for you,

out a long box,

when you went to

as she

to them? They’re not dead, are they?” “You don’t want them

indifferent eyes seemed to

for it,

far away from here.

now had no chance of running into

Her living a peaceful life in this mansion

a look at your

she opened the box.

was the dress that used to belong to

given it to Laritte, who in turn lost it to

“Oh……”

she lost the dress

her

the royal court decided to covet because of the dragon’s fabric. This dress made you suffer

understand that he was trying to

it to you again to be sure no one

as she stared at the dress in

of Ian’s mother, whom she

me another chance, I

She firmly committed.

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