I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 75

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#75

Kalian’s hand, which had just picked up a document, hesitated.

“They say that person has been feeling depressed lately, complaining about not seeing His Majesty for a long time.”

Kalian let out a brief sigh and replied.

“…I know Duke Giltian visits frequently.”

“Duke Giltian is a duke, and His Majesty is His Majesty.”

That was true. Kalian nodded.

“Thank you for letting me know. I’ll visit soon.”

“And that person is also curious about Count Tebesa.”

Kalian picked up the documents and replied.

“It’s not time yet. When more time passes, then I’ll introduce that fellow to him.”

“When Count Tebesa becomes a baron?”

Kalian didn’t answer, but it was as good as an affirmation.

Well, that timing would be just right.

Too early would arouse suspicion from others.

Too late would earn a different kind of suspicion.

Ber agreed with Kalian’s thinking and offered his farewell greeting.

“Then I’ll take my leave now.”

“Wait.”

Kalian held out the document he had been reading to Ber.

“Look into this too.”

…Even a demon would be kinder than that man.

Ber cursed Kalian inwardly as he received the document he offered.

Ber’s eyes widened as he checked the document.

At the top of the document, the words [Abolition of Slavery] were written in large letters.

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After hearing news of the labor pains, Fillen rode his horse without rest toward the manor.

Because he wanted to see the child as soon as possible, even if just an hour earlier.

“Where is the child?”

Having arrived at his domain after two days, Fillen looked for the child as soon as he entered the manor.

Then the butler’s face darkened gloomily. The other servants were the same.

“What’s wrong?”

An ominous premonition crept up his spine.

Fillen roughly grabbed the butler’s shoulder and shouted.

“Answer me right now. Where is the child?”

“…The undertaker is here now, preparing for the funeral.”

The undertaker being here meant…

“The child… is dead?”

The butler couldn’t bring himself to speak and nodded his head.

“Hah.”

Fillen let out an empty breath and stepped back.

His golden eyes trembled helplessly.

“The child, the child is dead…”

“Master!”

When Fillen’s body swayed greatly from the shock, the butler and servants hurriedly supported him.

“Are you alright, Master?”

“…Do I look alright to you?”

His now hardened eyes gleamed fiercely with murderous intent.

Fillen grabbed the butler by the collar and shouted.

“How exactly did the child die? What did the doctor do!”

“Ma, Master, please let go…”

“No, I’ll hear it directly from the doctor. Bring Sisly’s attending physician.”

Fillen met Sisly’s attending physician in the drawing room.

Mabel, Sisly’s attending physician, was not the manor’s doctor but one Sisly had hired separately.

Of course, his background had been thoroughly checked before allowing him into the manor.

Mabel liked gambling and had some debt, but other than that there were no problems. He was a doctor with solid skills.

Facing Fillen, Mabel bowed deeply with a face clearly showing nervousness.

“I, I meet His Grace the Duke, the Empire’s Sword…”

“Explain the situation.”

Fillen cut off Mabel’s words and pressed him urgently.

Mabel couldn’t dare look directly at Fillen’s face and recited in a trembling voice.

Everything from Sisly’s labor pains starting earlier than expected to the child being stillborn after long labor.

“Stillborn?”

Didn’t that mean it was already dead in the womb?

He had thought something went wrong after birth, but stillborn.

“When I left the manor, didn’t you clearly say the child was healthy?”

“Th, that’s right.”

“Then why did the child die? What happened to Sisly!”

Under the piercing murderous intent, Mabel trembled his lips and answered.

“I, I need to check the details more, but from the circumstances, it seems to be because of… poison.”

“Poison?”

Fillen’s face turned frightening.

“Are you saying someone fed her poison?”

“I, I don’t know that far, but from the circumstances, it’s certain that Miss Sisly consumed deadly poison which adversely affected the child.”

As soon as Mabel finished speaking, Fillen shot up from his seat and called the butler.

“Harhen!”

Calling him by name instead of butler as usual.

It was proof that he was extremely angry.

The butler, who had anticipated this outcome from when Fillen said he would meet Mabel, quickly entered the drawing room.

“Did you call for me?”

“Gather the head cook and maids who were in charge of Sisly’s meals and snacks in the foyer right now!”

Since Sisly wouldn’t have consumed poison herself to harm the child, someone must have fed her poison.

With the purpose of harming her or the child.

In such cases, poison was usually put in food, so Fillen gathered all the servants who had handled Sisly’s food.

“Everyone has gathered in the foyer.”

Hearing Harhen’s report, Fillen nodded.

“Good. Mabel, you follow me.”

Fillen headed to the foyer with Mabel and Harhen.

The faces of the servants who had been suddenly summoned from their work showed clear signs of tension.

Because they could guess why Fillen had called them together.

“Surely he doesn’t think we did something to make that woman’s child stillborn?”

“I think that’s exactly it. Otherwise, there’d be no reason to call us together like this.”

The murmuring people suddenly closed their mouths because Fillen appeared at the railing of the long corridor connected to the central staircase.

Though the distance was considerable and they couldn’t see clearly what expression he wore, they could definitely tell he was thoroughly angry.

Of course he would be. It was the child he had been eagerly waiting for.

The servants, who knew this fact better than anyone, pulled their necks in like turtles and watched Fillen’s mood.

“If someone would confess by being told to confess, they wouldn’t have committed such an act in the first place. Then I’ll ask differently.”

Fillen came down the stairs, loosening the shirt buttons that were tightly constricting his neck.

“Has anyone here seen anything suspicious going on?”

He said this while scanning the servants who were glancing at each other nervously.

“Anything will do. I’ll provide proper compensation to whoever gives me information.”

Even at Fillen’s words, the servants remained silent, watching each other’s reactions.

Their behavior only made Fillen more irritated.

Bang-!

Fillen struck the railing hard. The impact caused his right hand wound to reopen, staining the bandage bright red.

Mabel looked at Fillen’s hand in alarm.

“Sir, your hand…”

“My hand isn’t what’s important right now! The child was stillborn!”

Red veins were clearly visible in Fillen’s eyes.

“My first child was stillborn. And it was because someone poisoned them!”

Poisoned?

The servants all gasped in surprise.

They knew something had gone wrong with Sisly’s child, but they hadn’t known about the poisoning.

Before Fillen spoke, only the attending physician Mabel, the butler Harwen, and her personal maid Elli knew this fact.

“Now that I think about it…”

At someone’s quiet murmur, all the servants’ gazes turned in that direction.

Fillen also looked at the person who had spoken.

Common brown hair with dense freckles.

It was Elli, Sisly’s personal maid.

Elli, now the center of everyone’s attention, panicked and covered her mouth with her hand.

“I’m, I’m sorry. I said something strange…”

“You saw something, didn’t you?”

Fillen, who had come all the way down the stairs, approached Elli and asked.

Elli couldn’t look directly at Fillen’s face and hurriedly bowed her head.

Her face turned white as a sheet.

“I don’t know if I should say I saw this or not…”

“It doesn’t matter what it is. Tell me everything you know.”

When Fillen pressed her, Elli hesitated before opening her mouth.

“That day, I saw the head maid secretly entering the kitchen with a strange bottle.”

“Misa?”

Fillen frowned as an unexpected person was mentioned.

Elli waved her hands frantically and hurriedly added.

“Of, of course I didn’t mean that bottle was poison. I just saw her carrying it in, and I don’t know what was inside either.”

“Come to think of it, didn’t the head maid bring Miss Sisly’s snack that day?

At one servant’s sudden remark, the servants began to stir.

Of course, no one said Misa was the culprit.

Everyone said there must be some misunderstanding, that Misa couldn’t have done such a thing.

“The head maid, Misa couldn’t have done that.”

Harwen felt the same way.

He spoke seriously to Fillen.

“Master, you know Misa isn’t that kind of person.”

“…It’s not something I can guarantee.”

After thinking for a moment, Fillen spoke meaningfully and looked around at the maids.

“Where is Misa now?”

At Fillen’s question, the maids looked at each other’s faces.

“Come to think of it, we haven’t seen the head maid since yesterday.”

“I thought she went to the village.”

“Harhen, where is Misa?”

If Misa had gone to the village, the butler Harhen would know.

That’s why he asked, but Harhen also seemed not to know and remained silent.

Entering the kitchen with a suspicious medicine bottle.

That day, bringing snacks to Sisly even though it wasn’t her responsibility.

And after the incident broke out, not showing herself.

There were more than a few suspicious points.

Misa was the head maid who had managed this manor since before Fillen was born.

She was like family to Fillen.

So if possible, he didn’t want to suspect her, but given the circumstances, he couldn’t help but be suspicious.

“Find Misa immediately.”

Fillen ordered the servants. The servants moved busily, searching for Misa.

“Harwen, guide me to Misa’s room. I’m going to search her room directly.”

“Yes, Master.”

Harhen led Fillen to Misa’s room with a solemn expression.

It was directly below the room Leilah used to use.

Her room was tightly locked.

“Open it.”

Harhen opened the door with the master key he had.

As soon as the door opened, a fishy smell of blood wafted out.

“…!”

Misa was collapsed on the floor with a knife stuck in her heart.

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