When night came, Ayla opened the secret safe using the tree branches she had picked up during the day.
Although she did manage to get her finger caught in the wall crack, the incident also left her with hand injuries. She did this because she believed using tools would make things more convenient for her.
Seeing her pick up tree branches, Laura scolded her and asked what she was using such things for, but since she often picked up tree branches to practice swordsmanship, she didn’t seem to think it was too strange.
After changing into the comfortable clothes she had hidden in the secret safe, she opened the opposite wall and left the room.
Getting outside wasn’t difficult, but the problem started now.
‘Because I don’t know where the letter is.’
It was Cloud who caught the bird in the morning. There was no way the bird could talk, so it must have had a piece of paper with news written on it hanging from its leg.
But she needed to find out if Cloud still had the letter or if something she didn’t know had passed it on to Byron.
If she thinks about it with common sense, there is a high probability that he reported the contents to Byron and passed them along, but he could also have just conveyed the contents orally.
If the contents contained therein were confidential, they could have just confirmed the contents and burned them.
When she was infiltrating the Duke’s house, Byron used to handle letters sent through Laura that way, so it was possible.
‘But you can’t give up without checking.’
To fight an enemy, she has to know that enemy well, but right now there is too much information she doesn’t know.
Moreover, unlike her last life, this incident occurred suddenly. If she doesn’t know the reason, she will have to continue to live with anxiety.
‘Let’s take a look at Byron’s room first.’
If there are still any documents left, the most likely one is from Byron’s room. So, thinking that she should check Byron’s room first, she climbed the tree next to Byron’s room, just like yesterday.
However, even though it was still a little early for Byron to go to sleep, the lights were off in his room.
‘Is he sleeping already?’
Ayla hid herself in a tree and looked into the dark room. She had to wonder because there was no way he was sleeping already, but if he was really sleeping with her, it was the perfect opportunity for her.
Byron’s room was completely quiet. It was dark, and it was hard to see inside her, but she squinted her eyes and tried to look inside her.
Meanwhile, she vaguely saw a human shape near the bed. It seemed that Byron was sitting there.
‘It’s a surprise.’
She mistakenly believed he was asleep, but what was he doing in the dark? A gleam was shining in Byron’s golden eyes.
‘If I had just gone in, I would have been in big trouble.’
She would have met Byron if she had entered thinking he was merely dozing asleep because the lights were off. She rubbed her surprised chest, satisfied that she had done a good job of checking it.
By the way, what was he doing in that dark room? The sight of her just sitting in a dark room was frightening.
Ayla bit her lip nervously. She wanted to check the contents of the letter right away, but she couldn’t do that with Byron staring into space like that.
However, it was not possible to spend time here until Byron fell asleep. There was no certainty that the letter was from him.
‘Then shall we take a look at Cloud’s room first?’
Ayla gave up on entering Byron’s room and attempted to focus on Cloud. But she suddenly realized that she had no idea where Cloud was staying.
‘It’s definitely not that far from Byron.’
Cloud was Byron’s lost right hand and his loyal companion. So he wouldn’t stay that far away.
After thinking about it, she thought about just searching through the nearby rooms. It was a truly simple and primitive method, but other than that, She couldn’t think of any other sharp numbers.
It won’t take long if she just looks inside the room from outside the window. It wouldn’t be a lot better than just killing it here.
But unfortunately, she couldn’t find Cloud. She nimbly hid her body and looked around the room on the second floor, but she couldn’t even see his shadow where he was.
‘Why isn’t it there?’ Are they using a room on a different floor?’
No, That couldn’t have been possible. Byron searched for Cloud all the time. But there was no way Cloud was living on a different floor from Byron.
It was clear that he had left the room for a while for some other reason.
It could be that he went to visit his sister-in-law and nephew. She wasn’t sure, but she couldn’t help but check.
Ayla took steps without hesitation when her thoughts reached that point. Her destination was Laura’s room, which she shared with her mother.
She was wrong this time too. Ayla sighed.
She hurriedly found the room that Laura and Capella were sharing, but unfortunately, Cloud wasn’t there.
Where is Cloud, and what he is doing at this late hour that she can’t find him?
She was about to go back to the attic, wondering if tonight would be a waste of time.
Cloud had come to find Laura and Capella after a long search. It seemed to be an emergency.
“Sister-in-law, what about Laura?”
As she hid in the dark and tried to watch them, Capella, who seemed to have just woken up, greeted her brother-in-law, who suddenly came to visit her in the night, looking disheveled.
“sleep.”
Capella said in a slightly annoyed voice. It was late at night, as Ayla had wasted time looking for Cloud’s room, so normally it would have been time to sleep.
“This is difficult. My Lord is urgently looking for me…”
Cloud said with an embarrassed face. Capella widened her eyes at his unexpected message.
“What about Laura?”
Ayla felt the same way as Capella. Why would Byron be looking for Laura in the middle of the night? But Cloud shook his head.
“No. “That kid.”
‘Shit.’
Hearing Cloud’s next words, Ayla felt a chill run down her spine.
Once she locked the door and locked her in, She couldn’t find her until the next morning, so she was free to roam around. They are looking for her all of a sudden.
“Please wait. “I can at least wake that girl up and take her away.”
‘… Ruined.’
Even if it failed, it wasn’t an ordinary failure. There was no time to hesitate at all.
Now, before Capella arrived at the rooftop, she had to go back to the attic as quickly as possible and without anyone noticing her, change her clothes, lie down on the bed, and pretend to sleep.
‘Can I do it?’
She felt like her hair was turning white from nervousness, but she couldn’t waste even a few seconds.
Ayla alerted all the senses of her body and moved quickly. Luckily, she didn’t encounter anyone on her way to the entrance to the secret passage, and she began to climb her ladder with great strides.
She felt like she had to muffle the sound of her footsteps, but if she kept the noise down and climbed up quietly, She wouldn’t be able to get to the attic before Capella.
Her hands were slippery from sweat, but she couldn’t stop. By the time she finally reached the attic, she felt like she was out of breath.
But Ayla didn’t even have time to catch her breath. She was in the distance because her footsteps were starting to get closer and closer.
She was glad she didn’t keep her pajamas in a secret safe. If that were the case, She wouldn’t have to open her secret safe and change her clothes while she was busy.
Ayla hurriedly took off her training clothes and quickly put her arms into her light one-piece pajamas.
And then she heard footsteps on the ladder just below the trapdoor.
There was no time to put the changed training clothes back in the secret safe. She quickly packed her clothes under her bed, laid down on her bed, and pretended to sleep.
She was catching her breath and waiting for Capella to open the trapdoor and come in. Capella’s voice was heard from underneath the trapdoor.
“Lord, my lord. What brings you here? If you waited comfortably in your room, I would have taken you there in no time…”
“Done. “I will go in myself.”
The answer to Capella’s puzzled question was none other than Byron’s voice.
Ayla also couldn’t help but be embarrassed.
This was the first time that Byron had visited her at this time of night, and it was also the first time that he had come to her room in person.
He could always lock her in the most remote part of his hideout and call her when he needed to. In the past, she loved her father so much that she would run in front of him at any time.
She was worried about how she should react in a natural way.
She Should keep pretending to sleep. No, no matter how young a child is, if someone enters the room where he or she is sleeping, he or she will wake up.
If she was really asleep, what would she think when she saw Byron suddenly come into her room?
She should look surprised by her beloved father’s visit, or she should be very happy.
Perhaps, if she were who she was in the past, She might have thought it was a dream.
Okay. She probably thought it was a dream. A very happy dream.
In that brief moment when Byron was climbing the ladder, she had a thousand thoughts.
But by the time Byron opened the trapdoor and entered the room, she had not yet decided how to act.
Thanks to this, she missed the right moment to pretend to wake up and just closed her eyes when Byron came striding up to her bed and stretched out his hand for her hair.
Although her eyes were closed, Ayla could clearly see Byron’s hand approaching as if she were seeing it, thanks to her keen senses.
“Ophelia”.
