I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 119

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#119

 

Tears scattered as she shook her head.

 

“I never did such a thing! A fake pregnancy? That’s ridiculous!”

 

Sisly wrapped her arms around her now-sunken belly with both hands.

 

“Fillen saw it too! Everyone saw it! My belly growing bigger day by day!”

 

“….”

 

“If it was a fake pregnancy, if I wasn’t carrying a child, how could my belly have grown? Right?”

 

Since her words made sense, Fillen’s fierce gaze calmed down for just a moment.

 

Fillen let out a big sigh, ran his hand through his hair, and looked at me.

 

“Sisly is right. Her belly definitely kept growing until full term. That absolutely cannot be fake.”

 

“There’s a secret to that as well.”

 

I took out the spirit stone necklace from my reticule and held it up for everyone to see, especially positioning it so Sisly could see it clearly.

 

“This is the secret.”

 

“That’s a lie!”

 

Sisly jumped up from her seat and shouted.

 

“I’ve never worn a spirit stone necklace!”

 

Ah, she took the bait.

 

“A spirit stone necklace?”

 

I tilted my head slightly.

 

“I never said this necklace was a spirit stone necklace, so how do you know that?”

 

“…!”

 

Sisly’s eyes widened incomparably larger than before.

 

Unable to say anything, Fillen spoke for Sisly instead.

 

“I must have mentioned it before. That she also has the same necklace. So she could recognize it immediately.”

 

Does Fillen intend to protect Sisly until the very end,

 

or is he unable to accept the reality that the child he cherished was fake?

 

Either way, it didn’t matter. The important thing was only to prove Misa’s and my innocence.

 

“This spirit stone necklace has the ability to transform parts of the body. Transform.”

 

As I briefly chanted the activation word, my belly swelled as if pregnant.

 

The eyes of those who saw it changed with disbelief.

 

After returning my belly to its original state, I said,

 

“I believe she used this ability to deceive all of our eyes.”

 

“That’s ridiculous nonsense!”

 

Sisly sharply retorted.

 

“Where’s the evidence that I used that necklace?”

 

“The evidence is in your body.”

 

“My… body?”

 

“When spirit stones are used for long periods, traces of mana remain in the body. If you didn’t use it, there wouldn’t be such traces.”

 

At my gesture, the mage stepped forward perceptively.

 

“So please undergo an examination, Miss Sisly. If no traces are found in your body, then I’ll kneel and apologize.”

 

* * *

 

‘This doesn’t feel good.’

 

Mabel kept glancing at the hallway where the dining hall was located.

 

The servants’ movements had been unusual since earlier.

 

Lord Rohen suddenly barging into the dining hall with a mage and apothecary was no ordinary matter.

 

His instincts, developed from being chased by loan sharks for so long, were screaming that he should flee immediately.

 

Then he should run away.

 

Since he had already secured a good amount, it didn’t matter if he fled.

 

Mabel immediately packed his belongings and headed for the rear entrance used by servants.

 

With everyone’s attention focused on the dining hall, the rear entrance area was quiet. Only the occasional passing servants were there.

 

Just as Mabel arrived at the rear entrance, avoiding their eyes, and was about to open the door.

 

Swoosh!

 

Something sharp grazed his cheek and embedded itself in the door.

 

Mabel jumped in surprise, stepped back from the door, and looked at the spot.

 

Where something had embedded, there was only a dented mark and water traces, but nothing else.

 

“What, what was that.”

 

“Ah, sorry.”

 

A chilling voice that sent shivers down his spine.

 

Turning around with a creaking motion, he saw a man with his hood pulled up to the top of his head.

 

The suspicious-looking man gave off a dangerous aura.

 

“It’s a habit of mine to chase fleeing rats.”

 

Mabel knew he should say something or run away, but he couldn’t do either.

 

His entire body had stiffened with fear. Unable to properly grip with his fingers, Mabel dropped the bag he was holding.

 

The cheap bag immediately gaped open upon falling, revealing its contents.

 

Clothes, various medicine bottles, and a stethoscope.

 

“So you were a doctor.”

 

The man chuckled and looked straight into Mabel’s eyes. Blue pupils glinted eerily from within the hood.

 

“Are you by any chance the doctor who was treating Duke Williot’s mistress?”

 

“….”

 

Bang-!

 

When Mabel didn’t answer, the man struck the rear door hard with his fist.

 

The solid door shattered with a crack. It was terrifying strength.

 

Thinking he might be hit by that fist, his legs trembled and he couldn’t stand properly. Mabel collapsed to the floor.

 

The man looked down at Mabel and asked again.

 

“I asked if you were the doctor treating Duke Williot’s mistress.”

 

“Yes, yes that’s right! I, I was the doctor treating that woman!”

 

“Is that so?”

 

The man smiled slightly and bent his knees to match Mabel’s eye level.

 

“Then let me ask just one thing.”

 

“Any, anything….”

 

“Duke Williot’s mistress, was she really pregnant?”

 

At the sudden question, Mabel tried to think about what to do, but the man didn’t give him time to consider.

 

“Answer.”

 

The man had drawn his sword and pointed its tip at Mabel’s neck. Sharp pain came with blood flowing down the blade.

 

“Was Duke Williot’s mistress really pregnant?”

 

Mabel had only sided with Sisly for money. He had not even a speck of loyalty.

 

“That is…!”

 

Since that money would be useless if he lost his life, Mabel, wanting to live, spilled everything, even facts the man hadn’t asked about.

 

After hearing Mabel’s story, the man smiled slightly and straightened his bent knees. The sword that had been aimed at his neck returned to its sheath.

 

“What’s your name?”

 

“Ma, Mabel.”

 

“Right, Mabel.”

 

“…Guk!”

 

Suddenly the man reached out and covered Mabel’s mouth.

 

Soon something entered Mabel’s mouth.

 

Mabel’s eyes widened as he unknowingly swallowed it.

 

“Go to the dining hall where they are right now and tell them everything you told me, without leaving out a single detail.”

 

Before he knew it, his hood had been pulled back, revealing the man’s blue hair.

 

The man smiled eerily, his even darker eyes gleaming menacingly.

 

“If you tell even the slightest lie, your life will be forfeit.”

 

* * *

 

Sisly seemed reluctant to undergo the examination, but since Fillen ordered her to do it, she had no choice but to comply.

 

And the result was, naturally, positive.

 

There were traces of mana flowing through her body. In large quantities, too.

 

It was proof that she had used spirit stones for a long time. Using them once or twice wouldn’t leave such traces.

 

“Th-this can’t be evidence!”

 

Even with this much evidence presented, Sisly still denied it.

 

“Above all, where’s the proof that I had Elli buy feminine products for me? It’s all just their word!”

 

“Lord Rohen.”

 

Rohen handed me a small box. Inside the box was a gem the size of a fingernail.

 

“Do you remember this gem?”

 

“How would I know such a thing!”

 

“This is the gem you gave to the shop to buy feminine products.”

 

If she wasn’t really pregnant, she would have continued menstruating while acting.

 

To deal with that, she would have inevitably needed to use feminine products, but she couldn’t openly request them from the manor.

 

And using the cheap ones that the maids used would have wounded her pride.

 

So Sisly sold gems to secretly buy high-quality feminine products.

 

But that gem was suspected of being stolen goods and ended up with Lord Rohen, eventually reaching my hands.

 

“N-no, I don’t! I don’t know that gem!”

 

“…No, you do know it.”

 

It was Fillen who answered. His darkly sunken golden eyes stared at Sisly.

 

“Because I gave you that gem as a gift.”

 

So he remembered even that.

 

It was a bit unexpected, but it helped me.

 

Sisly’s face turned ashen.

 

“It, it could just be a similar gem!”

 

“Don’t you know, despite being a princess?”

 

I chuckled softly and refuted Sisly’s words.

 

“To prevent them from becoming stolen goods, all gems are engraved with markings.”

 

“…!”

 

Judging by her widening eyes, she didn’t know. Or had forgotten.

 

Sisly stumbled backward. Her ashen face had turned deathly pale. Her wide-open eyes shook helplessly.

 

Meanwhile, Fillen’s turbulent eyes had hardened with resolve.

 

He bit his lip hard enough to draw blood, then shouted loudly.

 

“Bring Mabel here immediately!”

 

It was Mabel who had cared for Sisly during her pregnancy, and who had diagnosed that she had a stillbirth.

 

But if Sisly’s pregnancy was fake, it meant Mabel had also made a false diagnosis.

 

So interrogating him would bring us closer to the truth than using these roundabout methods.

 

If Mabel showed pathetic loyalty and denied everything, the case would fall back into mystery, but.

 

“Th-the pregnancy diagnosis was all fake! Miss Sisly was never pregnant!”

 

Fortunately, Mabel confessed everything.

 

Everything, without leaving out a single detail.

 

The fake pregnancy was shocking, but what was more shocking to me was that Mabel was the one who killed Misa.

 

Of course, he said he didn’t do it alone and had help from Sisly and Elli.

 

“…That’s all.”

 

Crack—!

 

As soon as Mabel finished his story, the sound of something breaking was heard.

 

It was the sound of the chair Fillen had been gripping tightly breaking apart.

 

The chair made of solid wood couldn’t withstand his terrifying grip strength and shattered.

 

“Argh!”

 

Soon, with a roar, Fillen hurled the chair.

 

“D-dodge!”

 

The people standing there turned pale and fled.

 

“Argh, aaaahhh!!”

 

As if throwing the chair wasn’t enough, Fillen grabbed whatever was within reach and hurled it all.

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