“To use and be used?”
“Yes. If Miss Eugenia is really a child kidnapper, wouldn’t you want to get caught? Then, of course, you will be careful about your actions and words. I would like to say that Miss Eugenia is, in some ways, the neatest opponent.”
Enrique was silent for a moment. There was nothing wrong with what Albery said. He couldn’t stay here forever. It was time for him to return and report as soon as possible. Enrique looked like he had made up his mind and let out a long sigh.
“You really like being around horses.”
He repeatedly clicked his tongue as if he was extremely displeased with this situation.
“That’s why sometimes I end up being tempted to say something even though I know it’s wrong.”
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Enrique stood up.
“Ehh. Go find that woman.”
“I will be happy to take you to the employment agency.”
Albery opened Enrique’s door wide with a brighter look on his face.
‘Ugh! The business trip is finally over! ‘I can finally go home.’
Albery’s steps going down the stairs were extremely lively.
* * *
As soon as Eugenia left her inn, she quickly put the hat on her robe on her head. She pretended like nothing was wrong, she said hello to Albury and came out with a calm face, but she wasn’t really doing anything. Her heart was beating fast. Her breathing had already lost its regularity and was running wild.
‘Oh, what should I do?’
She was an extremely petty person, far from her boldness. She had not committed any sins in her past life, and whenever she saw people wearing police uniforms, she would cringe and walk away.
‘I can’t believe I’ve become a wanted criminal!’
She couldn’t believe it, and she didn’t want to believe it.
Her mouth went dry. She knew full well that she couldn’t just block the inn door forever.
‘If I stand there like this, they’ll think it’s even weirder. Let’s go now.’
But it was very difficult for her to take that one step. Eugenia realized that she had been dropping her gaze without realizing it. She forced her head up again and looked. Her bow took her breath away. At this moment, it seemed like all the people passing by me were enemies.
‘Can’t we go back inside?’
She was so desperate for a place to escape that she even thought about it, but then she shook her head slightly.
‘If I run away, what about Selmia and Joshua? You have to think about the children.’
When she thought of the faces of the two children who only believed in me, strangely enough, my heart calmed down little by little. Eugenia took a deep breath and solemnly stepped forward with her right foot. Compared to how nervous she was, nothing happened.
Eugenia, encouraged by this, took the next step. But she had barely walked a few steps.
Tuk.
Something touched Eugenia’s robe.
‘What?’
Tootuk. Tuk.
Soon heavy raindrops began to fall from the sky.
“Auch! It was sunny from the morning, so why is it raining all of a sudden?”
“Today’s business was all messed up! men and horses! Come on and put a lid on the fruit! If you buy it, you can’t sell it!”
Eugenia walked, leaving behind the noisy voices of the merchants around her who were rushing to protect the goods lined up on her stall. She felt fortunate in her heart.
‘Heaven helps.’
It occurred to me that thanks to her rain, my appearance under her robe would not look strange. She continued her thoughts, walking briskly like everyone else trying to get out of the rain.
‘Anyway, I’m on a wanted list.’
Was it real? Could it be that that guy named Enrique just said something random because he didn’t like me? But Eugenia soon burst into laughter.
‘No matter how much I don’t want to believe it, I’m so desperate.’
Actually, she knew it too.
Such an assumption is probably nothing more than something she forced herself into because she wanted to ignore reality. But she didn’t think she could really feel it until she saw it with her own eyes.
‘Where can I check my wanted badge?’
She could go to the security guard, but she didn’t have the desire to jump into the fire like a moth, so she would pass.
‘Then… Hmm, I guess that’s the only place.’
A place where there were a lot of people coming and going, so your presence was relatively hidden. Eugenia, having decided on her destination, turned her direction with a solemn expression. The place she arrived at with her quick steps was the employment agency she had visited in the morning.
Rattle.
The doorbell sounded quite refreshing, but the owner of the agency did not even look at the door this time, just like he had in the morning.
“Come now. If you are looking for a job, please look at the bulletin board on the wall. If you are requesting a job, please put it in the wooden box next to the bulletin board, and don’t bother me.”
He waved his hands and spoke half-heartedly. This was also the same thing she heard in the morning. Perhaps because of the rain, there were not many people inside the employment agency. Eugenia, grateful with all her heart at her master’s indifference, approached the bulletin board, her footsteps muffled, so that her presence might be even more faint. She glanced at the smaller bulletin board next to the job posting board, which she hadn’t even looked at in the morning. It was a space where wanted flyers were posted. There were lots of wanted papers for people who had committed various crimes.
‘If it’s this much, at least I’ll be buried, right?’
In fact, she couldn’t see her face or name right away.
‘It’s probably underneath… Is it really there?’
Eugenia swallowed her saliva and stretched out her hand. She then began to carefully look at the number badges located at the top covering the other pieces of paper, one by one. How many pages did she turn over like that?
At some point, Eugenia’s hand, which had been moving somewhat mechanically, stopped. Her fingers tightened as she held on to the paper she was about to flip through without thinking. Even though the wanted badge on her back was not fully visible, she could easily guess that it was her. The three-quarters face was completely different from the men Eugenia had ever seen.
‘It’s a woman.’
Well. The wanted badge was the only portrait of a woman posted on this bulletin board. Eugenia bit the delicate flesh in her mouth and flicked away the paper she was holding.
“It was real…?”
The reason why my voice didn’t tremble as much as I expected was because the portrait drawn on the wanted badge was a portrait.
‘I’m glad it’s a worldview without photography.’
After secretly rubbing her chest inside her, Eugenia looked at her wanted badge again. Although she was painted as me, she was actually so crude that it could even be called a portrait. This was because she had heard Eugenia’s impressions from people around her and had just drawn a simple sketch like a montage. Unless they were nobles, commoners could not leave their faces in something like a painting no matter how much they earned throughout their lives. This was because buying and eating meat with that money was a much more lucrative business. So, you can’t expect high quality portraits to be used in chasing criminals like this.
‘But you captured the characteristics well.’
If you look closely at her, you can immediately notice her resemblance to the portrait.
‘But I think Enrique, the man who recognized my face after seeing this picture, has great insight.’
Eugenia took her gaze away from her montage and looked at the writing beneath it.
[Wanted prize
Eugenia (21)
Charge: Child kidnapping
Reward: 100 gold]
‘Fortunately, only my identity is written down, and Joshua and Selmia’s names are not listed.’
But at the same time, that was strange. Although the crime included ‘child kidnapping’, no information about the children was actually written down.
‘Are you saying you’re going to find it or not?’
No matter how much his title was revoked, he is the heir of a noble family. A wanted flyer that doesn’t seem to have the slightest interest in such precious children.
‘I don’t know the purpose of the arrest.’
Are they trying to find the children? Or is he trying to find them himself? If it was the former, there was little information about it, and if it was the latter, it made no sense.
‘What did I say? Why are you looking for extras who are just maids in such a big way?’
Moreover, the amount of compensation was strange. Compared to other violent criminals, the amount is extremely low. However, from a customary perspective, it was quite a lot of money to set aside for the kidnapper. Her initial mixed feelings quickly cooled down and she became strangely calm.
Eugenia’s head began to spin rapidly. She came from the capital of the principality to the borderlands. Naturally, the further away you are from the capital, the slower news and trends travel.
‘All crimes deserve condemnation.’
That was an obvious premise. However, the identity of the kidnapper, who was neither a vicious murderer nor an identified person, was quickly sent to a territory at the end of the earth?
‘They clearly sent an emergency dispatch…’
Even though it was just a assumption, it took her breath away. It was when Eugenia secretly fell asleep.
Bruises.
She heard someone walking behind her.
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