Please Save My Child

Everyone was busy from early morning.

Peter was also someone who contributed to the busyness. He saw the morning sun rise and stood right in front of the office door.

Just as he was about to knock on the door as usual to announce his arrival, Damian opened the door first.

“Come in quietly. You will wake her up.”

“Are you awake? Oh, is the lady here by any chance?”

“No, Reina Borton.”

Reina was asleep, leaning on the long sofa. She had a jacket over her, and she didn’t have to ask who it belonged to.

Peter glanced at Reina and the number of foreign books piled on her table.

Damien spoke after reading his question.

“Last night, Reina Borton asked to talk.”

“What did Reina Borton want to talk about? Is there something wrong with her daughter?”

Peter also thought that if Reina asked to talk first, it would be about Bonita.

“No, it’s a story that might be helpful to the empire.”

“Help the empire…”

Peter realized that Reina had stayed up all night with Damian at her door during her own assignment. And it was natural that other questions arose.

“Your Excellency, have you made peace with Reina Borton?”

“Peace?”

“Yes, weren’t you avoiding her?”

“The expression ‘reconciliation’ seems a bit strange.”

In fact, Damian sometimes forgot it, but Reina was actually Damian’s employee.

She was the servant of this mansion, and Damien was the owner of the duchy.

‘Even if master forgot, you would come to your senses when you called Reina Boton, right?’

Peter didn’t seem any different from Damian.

Actually, Damian, the person involved, is also forgetful, but is it any different with Peter?

“Ah…! I see.”

After a moment of silence, Peter also realized that there was something strange about what he said.

“Yes.”

“Then why do you keep coming to this mansion when you could be placed somewhere else if it’s inconvenient?”

Damian was now speechless.

He had to come up with an excuse to keep Reina by his side. It was actually a valid reason, but for some reason I thought it was just an excuse.

“She is Estelle’s benefactor.”

“To be honest, it was a problem that could be solved if we hired a few trustworthy knights to serve as Reina’s guards.”

“She is the person Estelle likes and follows the most.”

“Considering the young lady’s social development, it is strange to have only one Reina on her side. We will have to hire more maids in the future, but your Excellency does not seem to have any intention of doing so.”

Damian had to think of another excuse.

‘Why do I feel like I’m being interrogated in the first place?’

“Umm…”

Reina tossed and turned at the conversation between the two.

The two burly men stood still and silent, looking at her as Reina froze, frowning and tossing and turning over.

“…You’re not awake.”

“Right.”

Perhaps because her posture was a little uncomfortable, she tossed and turned and fell asleep again.

Damian and Peter heaved a sigh of relief, but suddenly wondered why we were watching Reina.

And the two made eye contact. The feeder opened his mouth first.

“…In the first place …It’s better to let people who are asleep sleep.”

“That’s right, they say you shouldn’t touch them when they eat or sleep.”

“That’s right, Your Excellency.”

“Then let’s go out and share the rest.”

It was that or doing something similar.

Just wake her up and let her go to her room, or call another employee to move her to her room.

The two men looked at each other with solemn faces, nodded, and left the office, as if they hadn’t even thought about that.

Damian said as he kept an eye on Reina to make sure she was asleep properly and closed her door quietly… very gently.

“A few days ago I had a conversation with Reina Borton.”

“What were you talking about that made your relationship so delicate?”

“It’s between the employer and the employee in the first place.”

Being too tight was not good either.

“You sound similar to Reina Borton.”

“I guess Reina Borton and I have similar values ​​in that area.”

Damian put his hands in his pockets while holding the documents next to him to Peter.

Then, of course, he headed toward the outdoor garden and said,

“First, listen while reading the document.”

“Yes.”

Even though it was a document, it was full of unorganized sentences. There were cancellation lines drawn here and there, and there were places where the letters overlapped. It must have been written by Damien, as the handwriting was neat and impersonal.

Peter had never received such messy documents from Damian before, so he worked hard to decipher and read through the stack of paper, which was so close to scribbles that it was embarrassing to even call it a document.

“She asked me to kill her.”

“Oh, yes I see. Did she ask you to kill the maid in the basement? Reina Borton is more like a sword than you think…”

“No, she asked me to kill her.”

“What?”

There was a squeak in the voice asking the question.

He could see how dumbfounded he was and how embarrassed he was by Damian’s words just now.

“What on earth happened there?”

“Therefore…”

“Shall I fetch the knight who escorted Reina Borton? It was definitely Sir Dean Peronte.”

“Dean Peronte.”

Damian thought of the man and shook his head.

“Reina Borton probably asked him to keep it a secret. I can’t have a knight betray the other by weighing his promise to the Lady and his lord’s promise.”

“Your Excellency was more attentive in this regard than I thought.”

“To be precise, I think that knight would prioritize his promise to Reina Borton. I just have a feeling.”

He wouldn’t be able to get any information through him anyway, so why would he call him and ask? That was Damian’s attitude.

‘For some reason, I don’t think I would feel very good even if I answered straight away when I asked.’

So Damian just chose not to call Dean.

He continued speaking against the cold winter wind.

“She must have heard the public’s unfavorable speculations and comments. So, she must have asked someone to kill her if she crossed the line.”

“Reina Borton crossing the line is an award.”

It didn’t seem to be acceptable.

In Demian’s eyes, Reina Borton was a person who was very far from being greedy.

And he wasn’t exactly wrong.

That’s why Damian was able to casually give Reina a living space in the mansion and provide her with various conveniences.

“Right. So I thought about it for a while.”

“Can I ask what you’re thinking?”

“If I kill her, how should I kill her? What should I do?”

“Your Excellency, have you gone crazy after working a lot lately?”

“I think you’re crazy for asking your master such a question.”

Damian’s hands were not clean to begin with. He had already killed someone before, and Peter knew that it wasn’t just once or twice.

However, the answer that he was worried about how to kill Reina was truly shocking.

“Reina Borton asked seriously, so I should also think seriously. So, if she ask me to kill her later, I will gladly oblige.”

“I don’t have any questions about this part, but that’s the answer.”

He brushed his hair away. The reason Damian put such a condition on Reina was because he knew that in reality, she had no intention of granting his request.

“Reina Borton. Is that so?”

“It’s a little strange.”

“Yes, so I secretly investigated her for a few days.”

“Hasn’t she already investigated it before?”

She asked, remembering the documents she had organized about Reina.

“I wonder if there’s anything else.”

Damian frowned at him as he said that.

It seemed like he didn’t like something.

“But it turns out exactly as you researched.”

“So, I can’t think of anything more than that.”

“Is that possible?”

“A capable human is near us now.”

Damian vaguely remembered Reina’s always tired face.

It was a pretty unpleasant feeling.

“A person with little greed has people but has nothing. She is like a dead person.”

Reina didn’t seem like a living person.

She was more empty than any person he had ever seen.

At least that’s how Damian saw it.

“…”

“People who have children. No matter what, they are bound to have a few close people around them.”

It was more troublesome to search for information in blank spaces than to extract the necessary information from a vast swamp of information.

Damian also didn’t tend to have people around him, but he had administrators and assistants who helped him.

To begin with, he wasn’t really living alone.

There was a chief butler, a chief maid, and numerous servants and knights who followed the family that managed the mansion.

‘All Reina Borton has is her child.’

When asked who was most suitable for a monastery, Reina Borton immediately came to mind. Reina was the least greedy person Damian had ever met.

Raina was kicked out when someone kicked her out, and she was fired when someone fired her. Through background investigation, they were able to find out that she had never had a conflict with anyone.

“Humans seem like empty shells.”

It was a soft sound, like talking to oneself.

 

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