Ignis’s deliberately vile laughter echoed down the hallway, growing fainter until it disappeared.
I suppressed a sigh. I had deliberately provoked him into losing his control. But I hadn’t anticipated it would go this far. That he would try to kidnap me regardless of the bullets lodged in his body…
“…is what it seems.” Then, Viego murmured something.
“Brother? What did you just say?”
After scanning the room, Viego finally met my gaze. “The stench is overpowering.”
“…”
The stench? Is it blood?
Indeed, the blood Ignis had shed was substantial. Four bullets had pierced his body accurately. But…
No. It wasn’t the smell of blood Viego was referring to.
“You don’t actually believe what he said, do you?”
Viego replied with a tone that seemed almost amused. “Is this supposed to smell like flowers then?”
It was incredibly embarrassing, but being misunderstood was out of the question. I clarified decisively. “That person did it alone. In front of me, he—”
“Alone, in front of you?”
“Yes.”
It wasn’t my doing. It was Ignis indulging in his perversion. Thus, I answered without hesitation.
“That’s all. He just kept looking at me but didn’t lay a finger on me.”
Witnessing the start, peak, and end of a man’s pleasure was quite an awkward experience. The only saving grace was that Ignis’s appearance was so handsome that it was, at least, somewhat less repulsive.
“…go wash up and come to my room.” Whether he believed me or not, Viego retrieved his cane from the wall. “That disgusting smell has seeped into your body.”
“…”
Watching his retreating back, I was certain. That Viego Windsor was angry.
* * *
A little later, I arrived at Viego’s room.
“Explain.” He was drinking whiskey. “Explain everything, from the beginning to the end, in a way that I can understand.”
So, I began my explanation.
“I suspected Ignis from the time of the carriage attack.”
I had traced the origin of the used bullets. It was coming from Count Cedric, a close friend of Raios. Though the trail had been laundered through several identities, I had managed to trace it back. That’s why it was suspicious.
“Someone was deliberately trying to make Raios suspect.”
“Deliberately?”
“Yes. It was too easy to find out.”
Although they had to use an enormous amount of bribe money to uncover the trail, that was all it took. It was too easy to find out.
“If it really were Raios, he would have used bullets that had no connection to him. He wouldn’t have used bullets that could be easily traced back with money.”
Someone had deliberately left breadcrumbs to lead them to Raios. They had staged this whole scene to make me suspect Raios. Who would do such a thing?
As I pondered, at that moment, there was someone beside me who kept fanning the flames of suspicion. So that the suspicion towards Raios would spread like wildfire. Making me doubt my own family, the Windsor. So that I could trust no one. It was as if to made me want to leave everything behind and run away.
Ignis de Windsor – that man.
“He kept urging me to distrust the Windsor family. Not only that but during the carriage attack, he wasn’t hit even once.”
In fact, he only got hurt when he embraced me to protect me.
Half convinced, I tested him, and, as expected, it was indeed his doing.
“So.” After listening to my story, Viego tilted his head. “Why were you in that room?”
“To deal with the scripture.”
“Why didn’t you take the scripture immediately after finding its location?”
“Taking the scripture immediately would have been meaningless. He could just make another fake scripture.” I explained calmly. “So, I wanted to show that if he brought another fake, it would be useless. If he knows there’s a way to prove it’s fake, he won’t do it again.”
Of course, Ignis had a reason for confidently presenting the fake scripture as the real one.
“That scripture couldn’t be erased by ordinary means. He must have used a special technique.”
“So?”
“If he had asked the Pope to verify the scripture, he could have made it look like the letters were written with Holy Blood.”
That meant it could have been recognized as the real scripture. If that happened, the Windsor family would have been annihilated.
“So, I used knowledge from my original place to erase it.”
It wasn’t difficult. Rubbing a paste made from baking soda and water could remove ink from paper. So, if it weren’t for me, the Windsor family could have been swept away by that scripture, and the family’s survival would have been at stake.
But why does he look like that? A surge of irritation welled up within her.
After solving the problem, instead of being happy,
“…”
Viego was giving off a cold vibe.
So, I ended up saying this as well. “…I deliberately made Ignis cause a commotion. That was the only way to send him to court and jail.”
I deliberately provoked Ignis to anger. To make him attempt to harm me or cause a disturbance and use that as a reason to take him to court.
“We could hand him over to court for forging the scripture… but Brother has no intention of doing that, do you?”
Viego would bury this matter. Anything related to the scripture would be completely silenced. It was a story that wouldn’t benefit Windsor in any way. If that happened, the reason for taking Ignis to court would disappear.
“But I thought he had to be sent to court somehow, for a reason other than the fake scripture.”
I hadn’t planned to say this, but Viego’s displeased face left me no choice.
“There must be someone behind Ignis. And that person will definitely get Ignis out of prison. So if we keep a close watch and find which force is trying to get Ignis out…”
“…”
“We might be able to uncover the identity of the group that forged the fake scripture.”
I couldn’t understand Viego. This proved the scripture was fake, and we could even catch the person behind Ignis’s actions, yet he still wore that expression? Isn’t this only beneficial for the Windsor family in many ways?
“So…” After a long silence, Viego finally spoke. “You used that body of yours?”
“Huh?”
“And you even went as far as to provoke Ignis’s lust to achieve your goal.” A cold contempt flashed in Viego’s green eyes. “You exploited a man’s desire for your body.” His lips twisted sardonically. “Don’t you think that’s vulgar?”
I clenched my fists. It’s okay. I’m almost there. Think of the deputy head’s ring and the holy relic. Soon, I would part ways with this man forever. So, I just had to endure a little longer…
“Even if that’s the case, does my vulgarity matter?”
Ah, but why was I so angry?
“If, as Brother said, I did something vulgar, so what? Didn’t things turn out as you wanted?”
What an annoying person. He saw people as tools but now treated me like a human because I was useful to the family. Does he expect me to play the role of a capable aide, a saintess, and now a chaste younger sister?
I found myself approaching his desk. My irritation had reached its peak.
“Thanks to me, the scripture was proven fake, the scammer was expelled, and we might even find out who’s behind that scammer.”
I defiantly sat on Viego’s desk. At that moment, Viego looked straight ahead, not at me.
I spoke softly, gazing at his neatly combed platinum hair. “How could I have done any better?”
I picked up the whiskey bottle. Then, I poured it into the empty glass Viego was holding.
“Everything Brother has asked me to do, I’ve done well, haven’t I? Isn’t that commendable?”
Then I snatched the glass from his hand and downed it in one shot. Gulp, gulp, the hot liquid warmed my throat as it went down. Viego looked up at me with a frown as if he couldn’t believe it.
I looked down at him and smiled gently, handing the empty glass back to him. “So, please praise me, Brother. If you keep scolding me like this, I’ll get disheartened.”
“That’s Windsor’s body.”
“It’s my body now. And I always treat it with care.”
“Even after what happened today?”
“It’s not my fault, is it? It’s the fault of a man who couldn’t control his own lust, used me as material for his self-gratification, and sprayed his filthy liquid. He’s less than an animal.”
The moment my sharp words ended, Viego’s jaw tensed. He closed his lips and lowered his head. But I didn’t stop and pressed on.
“The vulgar one isn’t me but the man who indulged in secret masturbation in front of me… Isn’t that right?”
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