When the Main Protagonists Broke Up

“Yes, but those children think the duke is in a similar situation to them, so please pay attention to that part.”

“Yes I will.”

“Above all, it is a place that has nothing to do with me, so no one will know that the Duchess is there. So you can rest assured.”

“Thank you.”

I smiled softly at her thanks.

“I’ll be back soon, so you can stay there.”

While talking with the Duchess, we arrived at the orphanage in Hemoa.

We got off the wagon and entered the orphanage.

In the playground of the orphanage, children were running around and playing lively.

“Sister!”

“Sister!”

The children recognized me and ran to me in a month.

“How have you been?”

“Yes! But your brother didn’t come?”

“I can’t see my brother.”

Lucy and the children, noticing that I was alone, were looking for Clayton.

“Rian couldn’t come today because he was busy. Maybe I won’t be able to come for a while. In the meantime, if you eat well, sleep well and play well here, you will come, so don’t be too sad. Understand?”

“I want to see my brother….”

Lucy’s tears welled up at the mention of not seeing Clayton.

I gently stroked Lucy’s hair to soothe the child.

“How many nights do you have to sleep?”

“Huh?”

When Adrian, the blue-haired boy, asked me the exact duration, I was momentarily taken aback and couldn’t answer right away.

But after a while, I quickly thought about how to answer before opening my mouth again.

“I can’t tell you exactly. I’m pretty far gone now. Maybe when you guys grow up and grow to this height, they will come.”

I put my hand on my forehead and said to the children.

“How many nights do you need to sleep to grow up to that point?”

I saw Adrian tilting his head, lost in thought.

“Ten nights? no. A thousand nights?”

“That much?

“If we grow up quickly, won’t hyung come soon too?”

“Then I will eat a lot of rice starting today. So I’ll see you soon!”

Noah said, drawing a big circle.

“Me too! me too!”

Each of the children competed with each other to see who could draw the bigger circle.

I thought it was cute looking at it, but it was a pity that I couldn’t tell the truth to my children.

“I want to meet the director, do you know where he is?”

“Yes! i know. Please follow me.”

“Thank you.”

After a while, I met with the director and asked permission for the Duchess of Louden to be here.

Of course, her identity was completely hidden.

I just told her that she was so important to me and that she was here to be kept a secret.

I exchanged greetings with the Duchess with a much lighter heart.

“I don’t think that’s going to happen, but if anything happens, send someone to Heitz Street. I’ll be back soon.”

“Okay. Thank you.”

“I will contact you when I find a butler. And maybe…no. I’ll tell you after everything is clear. Then I’ll be on my way.”

“Are you going to Clayton?”

“Of course I have to go. I have to tell you that your wife is here.”

“Please tell me I am in good health. And this….”

The Duchess handed me the ring I had given her earlier.

“I’ll ask for this too.”

And I don’t know when I wrote it, but I gave it to me.

“Because this ring belongs to Clayton. Give it back to him The letter was written a long time ago just in case. Please tell Clayton.”

“Yes, I will definitely tell you. Enough then.”

After saying that, I got on the carriage.

The carriage left the orphanage and arrived in the capital a few hours later.

‘It’s too late.’

After going to see the Duchess and going to Hemoa, it was already dark and it was dark everywhere.

“Let’s go home.”

“Yes, lady.”

It seemed to Clayton that he had to go tomorrow, so we went right back to the duke’s house.

As soon as I woke up the next morning, I got ready to go out.

Then, as I left the room, I was about to go down from the second floor to the first floor, when I ran into my father.

“Belita.”

“Father.”

“Are you leaving already?”

“Yes, I have somewhere to go.”

“There are only three days left before the interrogation. Are you okay?”

My father asked me in a worried voice.

“Yes, don’t worry too much, Father.”

I smiled broadly to reassure my father.

“Oh, by the way, Father.”

Then, when I saw my father, it occurred to me that I might like to enlist his help in finding a butler.

“I want to find some people.”

“People?”

“Yes.”

Few people in this empire could find people as well as his father.

“Who are you talking about?”

“I want to find a butler who has worked for the Louden family for a very long time.”

“The butler of the Luden family?”

“Yes, can I find it before the interrogation date?”

“Is it important?”

“Yes, it is very important.”

“Then I’ll have to find it somehow.”

“Father….”

I was touched by my father’s confident demeanor and slightly moved to tears.

“Thank you, Father.”

“Always take care of yourself.”

“Yes I will.”

After talking with my father, I headed straight for Clayton’s prison.

After warning the knights guarding the prison never to tell anyone about my coming in and out of this place, I gave them quite a bit of money this time to roll their eyes.

“I will never tell anyone!”

“Thank you!”

After nodding my head at the knights’ words, I entered the dungeon.

When I went to Clayton’s place, he seemed to have heard the voices of the knights, and he was pressed against the bars.

“Duke.”

“Are you here?”

“Yes.”

“Mother, have you met your mother?”

His expression looked very urgent, so I opened my mouth after quickly clearing my mind.

“Yes, we met.”

“Is that true?”

“Yes, you are in a safe place for now.”

“Where are you?”

I looked around carefully for a while.

Then, moving closer to him, he spoke in a very small voice that I could barely hear.

“It’s Hemoa.”

“Hemoah? Then maybe….”

“Yes that’s right.”

“Is your mother well? Did you have any discomfort or injuries anywhere?”

“Yes, there was no uncomfortable place for me to see. When I asked the Duchess, she said it was okay. I wanted to call a doctor to check, but I can’t be seen by anyone right now.”

“Yeah, I know.”

“Don’t worry too much, I’ll keep an eye on you.”

“Thank you, princess.”

“And here is the letter.”

“A letter?”

“Yes, my wife asked me to deliver the letter to the duke.”

I didn’t read the letter either, so I don’t know what it was written about.

I just guessed that it was about how he survived that cliff that day and how he worried about him.

“Read now.”

“You mean now?”

“Yes, I will burn it right after I see it.”

It was a pity to burn his mother’s letter to him, but this was the best way to get rid of the traces.

“All right.”

I reached out and summoned the fire.

Clayton nodded at me in appreciation and I waited for him while he finished reading the letter.

And after a while he raised his head and stared at me.

Tears filled his eyes.

“My mother…ha….”

Then he let out a big sigh as his chest tightened.

“Calm down.”

Saying that, I waited for him to recover his emotions, and soon he handed me a letter.

“Did you read everything?”

“Yes.”

I received the letter and immediately put it on the blazing fire.

Immediately the letter was burned and ashes fell to the floor. “Thank you. She said that she woke up on the riverbank when she fell off the cliff that day.”

“On the bank of the river?”

“Yes, and they searched for me around there for days and days, but they said they couldn’t find me in the end.”

“So you left a letter and went to your old house?”

“Yes, you knew that if I were alive, I would come for the ring. That’s why he left a letter and lived alone in the house where he hid.”

“Okay.”

“Because I lost my memory like an idiot….”

“It was unavoidable.”

I was sorry to see him blaming himself, so I gave him comforting words.

However, his expression was still distorted.

He seemed to be regretting himself as he continued to ruminate on himself that day.

I quickly brought up another story, hoping that he would stop thinking about the past.

“Ah, I have something to tell you too.”

“…yes? something?”

Fortunately, it worked, and he started paying attention to my words.

“I’m looking for a butler now.”

“A butler?”

“Yes, I have doubts after hearing the words of the Duchess.”

“If there is any doubt….”

“I’ll let the Duke know as soon as I can find him and be sure.”

“All right.”

“Then I’ll have to go.”

“…Go carefully.”

“Yes, take care of yourself.”

“The princess too.”

After talking with him, I got out of prison and returned home.

“Lady Belita, are you here?”

“My father?”

I asked the butler who met me in front of the mansion where my father was.

“The master is in his office right now.”

“Okay.”

I went straight to my father’s office.

Smart-.

“Father, it is me.”

“Come in.”

When I opened the door and went inside, my father was sitting at a desk.

“What’s going on?”

“Have you not found where the butler is yet?”

“I was going to call you soon about that. Sit over here.”

“Yes.”

My father sat in the top seat on the sofa and I sat on the left sofa.

“You still can’t tell me why you’re looking for him?”

“It’s not that I can’t tell you, but I think I’m still not sure. I don’t want to upset my father with words that are not clear.” I also wanted to tell my father what I was doing.

It was the same for Clayton, who believed in me.

But to do that, he had to tell them about Aiden.

I should let you know someday, but not now.

I was going to tell everyone about Aiden at a better time, at the right time, so I had no choice but to move on this way for now.

Still, the good thing was that even though I went over it bluntly, my father and Clayton also believed in me.

With that in mind, I wanted to repay you somehow.

“Hmm, I know. I checked the whereabouts of the butler, and he said he was sold to the slave market two years ago.”

“A slave market?”

“Yes.”

Was it that day two years ago?

It must have been after Clayton and the Duchess fell off a cliff after being betrayed by their butler.

Was he sold to the slave market for failing to do his job properly?

“We’re tracking it now, so we’ll find it soon.”

“Ah, I’m glad. Thank you always, Father.”

“All of a sudden.”

“No, thank you very much. You believe in me even though I can’t say anything properly.”

“If parents don’t trust their children, who will?”

“Father….”

“There is not much time left until the interrogation day. You have to prepare thoroughly and get revenge on the Bayern family properly. Do you understand?”

“Yes, got it.”

After talking with my father, I returned to my room.

And as soon as the day slowly went down and night fell, he said to Mary, getting ready to go to sleep.

“I’m so tired today, so don’t wake me up until morning.”

“Yes, lady.”

When I lay down on the bed, Mary and the servants went out of the room.

I waited for the mansion to be quiet, just like I had sneaked out the other day.

Soon, when I couldn’t hear any sounds around me, I got up from the bed and changed my clothes.

And I sneaked out of the mansion the same way I escaped the mansion the other day.

This time I had to ride a horse, so I headed to the stable.

To this end, Porta had gone to the stable on the pretext of wanting to see him, and there he quietly approached one of the servants looking after the horse and ordered him to tie a horse to a large tree behind him outside the duke’s house tonight.

Of course, all of this was a secret between the employee and me, so I was told not to tell anyone.

After leaving the mansion, I ran at high speed to the tree at the back of the mansion I had told the servant.

As promised, a horse was tied to a tree.

I quickly mounted my horse and galloped off.

In the silence of the son-in-law, there was only the sound of gasping for breath and the sound of horses hooves shaking the earth.

Reminded of the person waiting for me, I ran to my destination in one month at the highest speed I could run.

After driving for an hour, I arrived in front of an old mansion in an offthe-beaten-track area east of the capital.

“Heh heh….”

Before entering the mansion, I ran nonstop and caught my breath, which had risen to the top of my neck.

Then he got off his horse, opened the door, and entered the mansion. A man stood in the middle of an unmaintained garden.

“Eden!”

I greeted the man by name and ran to him.

“Bell.”

He also came to me calling my name.

I immediately fell into his arms and Aiden hugged me tightly.

“I missed you.”

“I missed you too.”

It hasn’t been that long since we haven’t seen each other.

But since I hadn’t seen him since the last banquet, I missed him very much even in that short time.

“How have you been doing?”

“Yes, what about Bell?”

“I was fine too. But I was very busy.”

“I did too. It is cold. Let’s go inside.”

“Yes it is.”

We entered the mansion hand in hand and sat side by side on the sofa in the drawing room.

The clasped hands were still unresolved.

“When we met at the banquet, I had set the next date and place to meet, so I almost didn’t even see them.”

“I mean.”

“There are so many things to talk about. First of all, did you hear that I was being interrogated?”

“…Yes, I heard.”

Aiden’s brow crumpled violently.

It was a pity that his handsome face was distorted, so I put my finger between his forehead and gently caressed him.

“Don’t worry.”

“But the Duke of Bayern is not an easy opponent.”

“I know. That is why I am thoroughly preparing myself.”

At the same time, I told Aiden the story of meeting Clayton and the trip to find the Duchess.

“The butler was said to have been sold to the slave market. So I am looking for that butler.”

“The butler was also manipulated by the Duke of Bayern, to what extent….”

“I see.”

“I need to find a butler quickly, but do you think it will be possible until the interrogation day?”

“Because my father said so.”

“Is there anything I can do to help?”

“No. I just want you to always be by my side like this.”

“…That is what I want to say.”

“Is it so? Then I’ll do what Eden did.”

Saying that, I laughed out loud when I saw him.

“Bell What if, what if I was with the Bayern family….”

“No, I do not want. I won’t listen.”

I thought I knew what he was going to say, so I covered his mouth.

Only the Duke of Bayon, Adela Bayern, and me knew that Aiden was not from the Bayern family.

In other words, everyone but us knew he was Aiden Bayern.

If my work went well and the Bayern family collapsed, there was a high possibility that Aiden would also be involved.

“You have to listen.”

“No, I won’t.”

Didn’t want to hear

I’ll never let Eden do that.

So there was no need for such a terrible thought.

“We will continue to be together as we are now. OK?”

“…All right.”

After hearing his confirmation, I buried my face in his arms.

He hugged me and gently stroked my hair.

After breaking up with Aiden, I returned home before the sun rose in the morning.

And time passed and it became interrogation day.

After getting ready to enter the palace, I went out alone.

Mother and father came out first.

“Mother, Father.”

“Belita.”

My mother came up to me and held my hands tightly.

The mother’s face was full of worry.

“I’ll be back, mother.”

“Yes, be careful.”

“Yes.”

I smiled broadly, pulling the corners of my mouth all the way to relieve my mother’s worries.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes, Father.”

We got on the carriage and headed for the imperial palace.

“As of today, either our family or the Bayern family will disappear without a trace from this empire. Just like the Luden family, who were accused of treason before.”

The father’s expression hardened.

“So you have to be alert.”

“Yes, Father.”

I also answered in a firm and loud voice to show my will.

While talking about what to do today with my father, the carriage arrived at the imperial palace.

The interrogation of this case was specially conducted personally by the emperor.

In order to clearly reveal the truth of the case, nobles were allowed to watch the whole process.

My father and I went into the conference room.

Then all the eyes of those inside turned to us.