Don’t Look for the Resurrected Villainess - Chapter 186

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Chapter 186

How long had I waited with my head tilted in curiosity?

Finally, beyond the rocky mountain, a black dot revealed itself. The sight of its black wings spread wide was truly majestic.

The black hawk floated in the high sky, seeming to look down and observe this way. However, it flapped its wings as if it would descend at any moment.

But for some reason, it only looked down and didn’t come this way.

“Why is it acting like that?”

Palides muttered in a puzzled voice. At that moment, the hawk made a large circle in the air before swooshing away behind the rocky mountain.

…Huh?

“…I guess it was just a real hawk.”

At Palides’ disappointed words, Jigol spoke as if finding it strange.

[I don’t think so…]

The whispering Dura’han gathered opinions to try calling out loudly once more. Just as the animals huddled together were about to make loud sounds in unison.

“Huh? It appeared again…!”

Palides, who had opened his lips in a delighted tone, looked at the sky with a bewildered face.

Behind the black hawk, small-bodied birds could be seen following in a line. They were too far to see clearly, but they seemed like young hawks.

The Dura’han whispered in definitive tones.

[Ah, it’s Soana.]

[Right, it’s Soana.]

[Wow, it’s Soana.]

I became a little anxious.

…It wasn’t enough that Mori was a life philanthropist, now a Dura’han nanny has appeared?

* * *

The temporary residence was pathetically small and old compared to the original Roam Estate.

Perhaps because of this, the air in the study was unbearably cold. How much more so when receiving the Duke of Roam’s cold gaze alone in that space.

Seiri’s already poor complexion turned sickly pale. His pale cheeks trembled.

Seiri, who had been looking at his parents with eyes that seemed ready to burst into tears at any moment, struggled to speak.

“It’s true. It was a Dura’han.”

The Duke of Roam stared at Seiri expressionlessly. The Duchess of Roam, who had been looking at her frail son with worried eyes, couldn’t hold back a sigh this time.

“Seiri.”

“Mother, please believe me. The cat, it was that cat. Little sister planned it all!”

On the day the Roam Estate burned, Seiri claimed he had met Anelli.

At first, everyone listened to his words. They would have continued taking a serious attitude if Seiri hadn’t immediately started talking about a cat that transformed into a Dura’han.

A Dura’han? A Dura’han appeared at the Roam Estate, threatened only Seiri, and disappeared without a trace?

“Seiri, have you forgotten that Anelli received certification as the Creator’s Reviver?”

Unable to listen any longer, the Duke of Roam asked in a stern voice. However, Seiri only stamped his feet in frustration and emphasized.

“I saw it with my own two eyes!”

“Seiri, I know you were interested in Anelli’s animals. But a Dura’han? Do you know how much damage would occur if such a monster appeared in the heart of the capital?”

Places where monsters rampage leave traces. And there were no monster traces at the Roam Estate.

Unless you count the traces of merciless flames.

However, even at the Duchess of Roam’s words, Seiri still wouldn’t bend his will.

“Little sister was controlling those things!”

“Didn’t you see illusions from being startled by the fire?”

Finally, a disgraceful suspicion spilled from the Duke of Roam’s mouth.

The Duchess of Roam interjected with a pale face.

“Dear, illusions!”

The Duke of Roam gave his wife a glance before turning his gaze to Seiri.

“Seiri. Judge rationally. You must know what weakness your single word could become.”

That gaze was so cold and heavy that Seiri stood with hunched shoulders as if crushed by a giant rock.

“I seem to have been too lenient with your lifestyle until now. Take this opportunity to properly end such childish living. Stop running around the garden too.”

When even his few hobbies were forbidden, Seiri’s complexion turned pale. However, Seiri couldn’t properly rebel.

“Now go.”

Seiri, who had been hesitating, finally turned around without managing to say a single proper word.

The Duchess of Roam, who glanced at Seiri’s drooping shoulders, swallowed a sigh and spoke.

“He’s not a child who would make up lies.”

“Then are you telling me to believe that Anelli is now controlling shape-shifting Dura’han to threaten Seiri before leaving?”

Even as he spoke the words, perhaps feeling absurd emotions rising, the Duke of Roam let out a hollow laugh.

The Duchess of Roam, who had been staring at the Duke of Roam with tired eyes, spoke in a weary voice.

“It’s true that animals went in and out of Anelli’s room strangely often.”

“Even if that were true, we must prevent rumors from spreading that Roam’s second daughter knows how to command Dura’han.”

The Roam Family was already constantly plagued by gossip these days. The existence of the eldest, who left the family through a terrible hasty marriage, was headache enough.

Not only that, but if rumors spread that Roam’s second daughter was revived as a monster, wouldn’t that also tarnish the Roam name!

To the Duke of Roam, this was too simple and obvious a calculation. It was also why he was particularly angry at Seiri’s narrow perspective that couldn’t consider this.

“Even stepping forward to control tongues wouldn’t be enough, yet how can he so thoughtlessly speak it aloud!”

The Duchess of Roam understood her husband’s anger. So she quietly sealed her lips.

“If you truly think Seiri is worthy of being made heir, you too must stop coddling the child.”

“Yes, my thinking was short-sighted.”

The Duke of Roam, who had been staring with complex eyes at the Duchess who obediently nodded, irritably turned his gaze away.

The Duke of Roam’s eyes swept the study. The temporary study that was pathetically small and shabby compared to the study in the main building of the Roam Estate.

Seeing this utterly unfamiliar space, anger of a different meaning bubbled up inside the Duke of Roam.

“But the point that Anelli is suspicious, yes. I think that’s possible.”

“Pardon?”

“The study vault was robbed.”

The Duke of Roam’s face had turned cold as he said this.

Though both the main building and annex had burned completely, the secret vault was intact. It was natural since it had special treatment and protective magic cast on it from the beginning.

When the massive flames were extinguished and the estate was hideously burned, the Duke of Roam checked the vault first. The vault was empty.

“I estimate it was on the day of the fire. We’re looking for traces, but it’s difficult to find anything because of the fire.”

“What would Anelli want to use the vault’s contents for…”

The Duchess of Roam muttered reluctantly. The Duke of Roam found this puzzling too.

The items in the vault were Roam’s secret slush funds and things related to private soldiers. While these could threaten Roam’s political life, it was hard to readily guess what Anelli, who wasn’t active in politics, would aim for with those items.

He wondered if she might give them to Heinrih. As a way to grasp and shake Roam’s weaknesses.

But if she had wanted Roam to support Heinrih, wouldn’t she have revealed her intentions long ago?

Having such thoughts, the Duke of Roam recalled someone else who would have many grievances against Roam.

“If not Anelli, it might be Prisian.”

“Prisian?”

“Baron Kendall’s movements are unusual. He’s moving as if he knows something. Since there’s no way he could have found out anything, ultimately Prisian must be moving behind the scenes, right?”

The Duke of Roam remembered how resentful Prisian had been after losing the position of minor duke.

Prisian would do his best to reclaim that position. The Duke of Roam was not unaware that Prisian’s sudden marriage was chosen as one method in his own way.

However, he only thought that with Anelli present, the married-out Prisian couldn’t do anything.

“Now that Anelli has disappeared, he probably won’t stay still.”

At the Duke of Roam’s muttering, the Duchess of Roam furrowed her brow.

“You mean he would dare attack Roam?”

“Do you think he wouldn’t?”

The Duchess of Roam recalled Prisian’s letters that she had put in the drawer without even reading.

Now she couldn’t check them even if she wanted to. They would have all burned up.

However, she could at least guess what the contents might be.

“…I’ll try talking with that child.”

The Duchess of Roam answered in a sunken voice. The Duke of Roam didn’t bother to respond to those words.

It was tacit agreement.

* * *

Soana didn’t come down.

It was incomprehensible, but I had no skill to forcibly bring down a hawk that only circled in the sky.

And I couldn’t shoot an arrow at the hawk either.

“Let’s camp nearby and wait for now.”

It was Jeon’s suggestion. I wasn’t keen on camping when there was a small town nearby, but thinking it would be troublesome to leave and come back, I decided to accept his proposal.

Around that time, Samuel, who had returned after sending Chechye back, joined us, and we finally set up tents and prepared to camp for the first time in a while.

“Since it’s been a while, I put some effort into it.”

The dinner duty naturally fell to Jeon.

“The menu is different.”

“You just eat what you’re given.”

“You’re quite petty for a mage.”

“What are you saying, you glutton of a Holy Knight?”

…After the somewhat noisy dinner that resulted from it being too long since we’d done this, night quickly arrived. The rocky mountain was hidden in darkness, not even a shadow visible, and only the crackling campfire illuminated a narrow radius.

Jeon, perhaps a bit tired, went to bed early, and Samuel entered his tent saying he had to offer evening prayers. Thanks to that, only the Dura’han and I were sitting outside now.

The topic of conversation among the Dura’han gathered around the campfire was Soana. Now that she had recovered quite a few memories, the stories that emerged were varied.

[Soana was a strict teacher.]

Tristan, who was attached to Bak’s fur, said.

Soana, the sixth knight, was said to have been a cleric who served the God of Dawn in those ancient days. Perhaps because of this, she was learned and often taught others around her.

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