◈ Episode 9
“My husband is quite busy these days with water security issues. It is a scary thing for a wild man to appear near the capital. “I guess this is something that happens quite often in the North?”
“… To the people here in the capital, wild people are just a strange and interesting story.”
However, to the northern people and soldiers, the wild people were a fearful entity.
The enemy nation was targeting the border by capturing wild people, brainwashing them into weapons of war, and then attacking them.
Perhaps he was really a werewolf as rumored, but the strength of one wild man was equivalent to that of a dozen soldiers.
It was a topic she knew well, but Irina was displeased.
Although Shannon noticed such signs, she continued speaking without paying attention.
“They say the Colosseum is in full swing these days due to the news that wild men have been brought in as gladiatorial slaves.”
“It’s not a fun rumor.”
“… Hehehe. “Do you need to find more juicy gossip, ma’am?”
Shannon’s delicate voice quietly penetrated Irina.
Irina couldn’t believe her ears. Although she had a noble and polite sentence, her tone was outright mocking.
In social circles, it meant that you, Irina Arkensis, were the most interesting.
It was truly an aristocratic way of speaking, insulting the other person with a gentle smile.
Although Irina was not used to the social world, she had been living as a monk for 10 years.
It was an attack based on the precise calculation that he would not be able to use enough speech to counterattack, but that he would be understood.
Shannon tilted her head, trying to look as innocent as possible.
“Why are you looking at me like that, ma’am?”
Irina chuckled. She was thankfully as expected.
Sweet.
Irina put the teacup down on the table.
“baroness. “You know, I’m from the North and I don’t know how to speak fluently.”
bang!
The salon door opened outside with a loud noise.
Ferris showed up with his disheveled clothes untidy.
“Sha, no, Baroness. When did you come? Why did you invite me so suddenly without even telling me? huh?”
Ferris mumbled and hurried over.
“Oh my, Ferris. Did you run? “He was short of breath and his hair and clothes were disheveled.”
Shannon felt sorry. Their appearance caught the eye of Irina at a glance.
A sparkling nobleman and an innocent noblewoman. It was a combination of beauty that seemed staged.
“under.”
A small smile left Irina’s mouth.
Those eyes dripping with honey as I looked at Shannon Yevny were definitely love.
At the opera house, I only saw Shannon on top of the Baroness.
Disgust stirred in my lower stomach. It was a deplorable thing.
It’s so blatant, I never knew about it.
A feeling of regret came over me, thinking that I had lived my life badly.
Irina’s stern voice came out as if to shatter the atmosphere.
“I don’t think you need to look for it. Interesting rumor. “It starts here.”
Irina’s eyes were cold as she looked at Shannon and Ferris in turn.
“Isn’t it the social world where you rush in like a pack of hungry dogs when it comes to someone else’s affair, Baroness Shannon Yevny?”
“… … !”
Shannon and Ferris stopped breathing at the same time.
“W-what are you talking about, Lina?”
Irina slowly stood up, glaring at Ferris.
“I gave you a chance. “You are the one who betrayed it.”
He flinched and took a slight step back at the fiercely hostile look in his eyes.
Irina’s husky voice growled like a wild animal.
“You two. “It was exhilarating and nice to eat something that belonged to someone else, right?”
“Oh my god, such vulgar words…” … ! Please stop, ma’am.”
Irina looked down at Shannon’s calm tone.
Shannon was calm, her complexion not changing at all. She then gave Irina a mocking look.
“There is nothing more ugly than a woman driven mad by jealousy and suffering from hypocrisy.”
“Yeah, yeah. “You said you were sorry, but you were still doubting me behind my back!”
Ferris raised his voice excitedly.
Okay.
Irina took the letters out of the envelope on the table and threw them at them.
Letters read over the past week fluttered onto the tea table and the floor.
“It’s no use working together to make me into a weird person.”
“This is… … !”
Ferris opened his mouth after reading the contents of the paper on the table.
Ferris’ heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was going to jump out of his mouth.
He urgently grabbed the paper. He shook his hands so much that the paper made a rustling noise.
“This… under! Did you investigate me? “Are you stalking me?”
Ferris’ carriage purchase details and destination overlap with Shannon’s movements.
Details of the house, carriage, and various items purchased for Shannon were listed.
“You come here with this piece of paper and accuse me of cheating on you with Shannon…” … .”
“is it so. Ferris and I have a relationship that is indescribably hot.”
“Shannon!”
“By the way, ma’am. “Her husband cheated on me. What should I do now?”
Shannon stiffened her neck and looked down at her well-manicured fingernails.
“There is no way a woman can get divorced. Is she planning on asking her cheating husband to kick her out? Commander Levart’s only daughter? “I don’t think she’s the type of person who can tarnish her family’s honor on her own.”
Shannon leaned against the back of her chair and began fanning herself gracefully.
In her common sense, such a thing could not have happened.
The most important things in a woman’s life were love, reputation, and honor.
She looked like she was dying of laughter at Irina.
“But it’s surprising. She pretended to be polite, but then made a fuss out of fear that her husband’s love would cool down… … . Ah, the social world will be excited by this interesting rumor. After all, your wife is a woman too! “Hehehe.”
“under… ha ha ha!”
Irina burst out laughing.
“Hahahahaha!”
Shannon and Ferris flinched at Irina’s sudden action. Her laughter was bizarre.
Even though he raised his head and laughed, it didn’t sound like laughter at all.
Shannon and Ferris looked at her as if they were wary of a dangerous creature.
As Irina slowly calmed down her laughter, Ferris suddenly noticed something.
He reached out a trembling hand and picked up a piece of paper left on the table.
“This is… … .”
Irina took a breath and looked at Shannon coldly.
“You were braver than I thought, Baroness. but.”
At Irina’s unwavering attitude, anxiety began to appear in Shannon’s dark eyes.
“A small dog must bark so that it does not know that it is prey for wolves.”
Before Shannon took the paper from Ferris, Irina spoke first.
“Arista Vixi. “My husband is the one sending me 500 gold every month.”
“Irina. Lina, wait a minute. “Listen to me.”
“Born in November, two years old. man. Blonde hair. Purple eyes!”
Irina spat out the words as if spitting them out.
It seemed as if he was roaring with boiling anger, or even crying.
“And Vixi… … .”
Irina, who had said that much, eventually bit her lower lip.
Because her voice began to tremble.
She twitched her neck as if swallowing something.
Irina clenched her fists so much that her nails dug into her palms.
“It’s the name Baroness Yevny used when she was a commoner before she got married.”
She glared at Baroness Shannon Yevny with eyes that were slightly wet, but hot as lava.
Irina slowly turned her head towards Ferris. Her words came out as if she was squeezing them out.
“The day the fire broke out in my daughter’s room, you were making a son with another woman.”
dump.
There was the sound of someone collapsing outside the door.
“mother… that is… “Is it true?”
* * *
The sunset turned bright red. The garden of Baron Yevny’s mansion was unusually noisy.
“Ariel! Please stop there. Look at mom. huh?”
Shannon desperately cried out in a tearful voice and grabbed her daughter’s arm.
“Let go of this!”
Ariel violently slapped her mother’s arm away.
Shannon almost struggled to free her arms as she clung to them again.
“Let go! Let go, you dirty cheapskate!”
Shannon stiffened like a stone at the scathing words her daughter spat out in a lark-like voice.
Ariel didn’t miss the opportunity and pulled out her arm.
Ariel’s face as she looked at her mother was stained with hatred and contempt.
Shannon began to hear tinnitus as she saw this expression for the first time in her life.
“How, how could you say such vulgar words… … .”
“Cheonhae? You are the lowly one. If you were a commoner, it doesn’t mean that half of my body was also a commoner! How can you fake something like that? You hypocrite. liar!”
Shannon felt like she was going out of her mind due to the sudden stimulation.
Her lips trembled with an expression of disbelief.
“that is… Is that what makes you angry? That I was a commoner… … .”
Shannon resisted the urge to collapse and slowly approached her daughter.
“How did I raise you… I tried so hard to raise a lady as cultured as a noblewoman… … .”
The Baron did not like his daughter’s involvement in the clowning entertainment called opera.
Although he himself fell in love with his wife’s angelic singing voice and proposed to her.
Art play was thought to be a tool for women to appeal to men about their charms.
He became convinced of his thoughts when he saw that his wife never spoke about singing after they got married.
In order to persuade her husband, who was so stuck, Shannon had no choice but to frantically sell her legs to other noble families.
“So you’re making an excuse that you owed money to a great nobleman? “Is it because of me?”
“Ariel!”
A beep sounded and Ariel’s head turned. Shannon ended up slapping her daughter in the face.
Shannon, surprised by her own actions, raised her hand to cover her mouth.
Tears fell from her eyes.
“This… no. I’m sorry, Ariel. This is my mom… … .”
“dirty.”
Ariel’s eyes shined even more viciously.
Her eyes were attacking Shannon as if she were an evil spirit.
“Look at this. Because they have low blood, they do things like this when they are cornered. “You make excuses, but in the end, you didn’t do everything you wanted to do!”
She glared at Shannon and rubbed her face with her sleeve.
Ariel was almost frantic.
It was such a violent reaction that none of the maids watching around could understand.
