Instead of My Beloved Sister, I Married a Monster - Chapter 54

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Chapter 54

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‘As expected, it’ll be difficult to recruit people from neighboring estates going forward.’

Evnia thought this as she looked down at the crowd below with the most indifferent eyes possible.

As the atmosphere grew serious, the quick-witted ones began stopping their dancing one by one, and now everyone on the first floor was watching this way with fearful gazes.

It was because the baron’s voice calling Ram’s name echoed far too clearly through the already quiet interior.

Since they had deliberately come up to the second floor to be seen by everyone, there was nothing to worry about.

The possibility of job seekers emerging from this region could now be considered completely eliminated.

And for good reason, since they were planning to punish the lord of this place quite cruelly from now on.

“Frank Schwaiger, you won’t say you don’t know why I’m here.”

“Hik, hiik…!”

Ram approached Baron Schwaiger with a rarely dignified expression.

Along with him, all doors leading outside closed simultaneously. He had completely blocked even the slightest possibility of Baron Schwaiger escaping.

The baron made strange breathing sounds like someone who had forgotten how to breathe and staggered his body.

He tried to avoid Ram by dragging his buttocks and backing away, but soon the second floor railing blocked his back.

In a way, he had avoided falling thanks to the structure, but he didn’t seem to consider this fortunate at all.

The opponent who could take his life at any moment was approaching from the front.

“Pl, please spare me. Please spare me! Ju, just now I misspoke…!”

“You mean when you asked me to be killed? That was pretty funny.”

“I, I didn’t mean it sincerely. It, it was just that my wo, words came out a little wrong…”

Baron Schwaiger was so shocked that he couldn’t even think of a single plausible excuse.

Well, what kind of explanation could he give for inciting someone’s death right to their face?

“Think carefully, there’s probably not just one thing you did wrong.”

Ram said this while lightly tapping his middle finger and thumb together.

With a sharp snap, the railing that had been supporting Baron Schwaiger’s back instantly turned to ash and scattered into the air.

Gasps of shock erupted from all directions at the unbelievable sight.

Baron Schwaiger, who barely managed not to fall, collapsed flat on the floor.

Worried that Ram might destroy the spot where he was standing too, he hurriedly began listing his crimes.

“I, I recently sent soldiers for an investigation, and if that offended you, I’m truly sorry…”

“Come to think of it, that did happen. My bride sent those guys back too nicely, didn’t she?”

Ram looked toward where Evnia was and winked.

When Evnia coolly raised her chin like when she had faced the soldiers, he added an exaggerated comment in a theatrical tone: “She could have killed them all, how merciful.”

Evnia was inwardly bothered by his voice full of laughter, but that cheerful demeanor seemed to feel even more terrifying to the others.

Baron Schwaiger began panting as if he might collapse at any moment.

“If, if not that, then pe, perhaps because of Enbeck Village…?”

Enbeck was Schwaiger’s village built on Ritberk land.

Ram wasn’t the only one Baron Schwaiger had plundered that land from.

For the baron’s greed, many people including Yens lost their homes and were driven out, and quite a few died.

Some were framed as criminals and executed under the baron’s orders. The rest couldn’t adapt to the harsh living conditions and died of illness after suffering.

Whether it was direct or indirect harm, the fact that Baron Schwaiger had killed them remained unchanged.

But what Baron Schwaiger actually considered a crime seemed to be somewhat different.

“I’m sorry for trespassing on your domain without permission. It, it wasn’t with any other intention, just because it was a shame to see good land lying idle…! I just thought to manage it well until the original owner started activities, I absolutely never intended to act as the owner myself!”

Baron Schwaiger’s words had no persuasive power whatsoever.

As soon as he spouted his flimsy excuses, people downstairs began pouring out rebuttals like “Enbeck Village was Ritberk?” “I visited there recently. My goodness, I unknowingly stepped on Ritberk land?!”

If Baron Schwaiger had really intended only to manage that place as he just claimed, he shouldn’t have hidden the fact that Enbeck was in Ritberk territory.

“Shut up over there! What are you babbling about when you don’t even know properly!”

Frustrated that people kept babbling facts that shouldn’t reach Ram’s ears, Baron Schwaiger whirled around and shouted.

Immediately turning his head back toward Ram, he changed his expression as if nothing had happened and bowed his head.

“Pl, please forgive me. I’ll relocate the Enbeck people immediately and make sure they never cross into Ritberk again. I, I’ll also return all the value of crops harvested from there!”

“Why are you being so shameless? If they crossed into my land, they’re all mine. Where do you think you’re going, trying to take away the manpower first?”

Ram made this absurd claim while extending his hand toward Baron Schwaiger.

He had merely stretched his arm forward, but somehow a classically designed cane was now in his hand.

When Ram poked Baron Schwaiger’s cheek with the tip of the cane, the man couldn’t bear the humiliation and sobbed pitifully.

“I, I’ll give them. I’ll give them all!”

“…”

Was this revenge for Count Max, or conversely, had Giyermo learned and copied Ram’s behavior?

While Evnia was lost in thought, Ram approached Baron Schwaiger with elegant steps.

Stopping right in front of the baron, he looked down at the man’s distorted face with an unreadable gaze for a moment.

Ram pressed the shaft of his cane painfully against the baron’s cheek and asked.

“Right? If you can finish by just handing over what crossed the line, you’re getting off cheap?”

“Yes, that’s right. That’s absolutely right!”

“So then, you wicked lord. Bring me every last one of the domain residents you framed as demons and drove out. Do just that and I’ll cleanly forgive all the insolent acts you’ve committed.”

Baron Schwaiger couldn’t immediately understand Ram’s words.

Domain residents I framed and drove out?

Of course such people existed, but he couldn’t understand why they were suddenly mentioned by the monster.

And to hand them over. How was he supposed to find and present people whose life or death was now unknown?

While most of them, led by his cousin Yens, had fled quickly, it was uncertain how many would still be alive after 15 years.

Baron Schwaiger answered with an anxious expression, rolling his eyes.

“Th, they’re probably mostly de, dead…”

“Right?”

“…”

“There are things in this world that cannot be undone.”

Ram answered, completely wiping the smile from his face.

Baron Schwaiger momentarily felt as if all the blood in his body was draining away.

Why had the monster demanded the return of people who had nothing to do with him?

Where and how were they living by now?

No, did they even exist in this world?

What price would he have to pay for committing irreversible acts…?

Amid all the confusion, there was one certain fact.

Something was going very, very wrong.

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