Resetting Lady - Chapter 114

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“What are you planning to do? It would be better to just stay put.”

“I’ll go alone if I have to.”

“Where to?”

“I’ll go to the execution site.”

“What a sick hobby. Are you planning to watch your fiancée’s neck get hanged?”

“No.”

Raymond calculated the amount of gunpowder he could obtain.

“I’ll go alone if I have to.”

“You’re insane. Do you think I’ll allow it? She’s now legally a condemned prisoner.”

“Duke, that’s why I’m telling you beforehand.”

Raymond said.

“How many people are at the execution site?”

“What did you just hear me say?”

“From what I’ve confirmed, there are many people gathered there, but no state executioners have gone.”

“Lord Raymond.”

“Even if I die, I’ll handle it so you won’t be implicated, Duke.”

“You’re like this because you’re young. Calm down first.”

“Duke, what I’m curious about is, are any of your private soldiers there?”

The Duke slammed his hand on the table with a bang. Raymond was too excited right now.

“…I don’t know what you’re talking about. Why would I send soldiers there?”

“Then killing them all wouldn’t cause you any trouble, Duke.”

“…Raymond!”

The Duke shouted loudly, but Raymond continued speaking.

“Isn’t it strange that they dragged a woman all the way there to execute her, and a whole unit of mercenaries moved?”

Raymond disliked Verdick. Raymond thought. What was Verdick’s reason for going there? Why drag Karen all the way there to kill her?

“I’m responsible.”

Raymond thinks of Karen’s back. He thinks of those wounds that clearly revealed a sadistic nature. Now Karen is his responsibility. If Raymond had chosen another woman, Karen would have just seen her family fall and married normally.

In truth, Raymond knows too.

Raymond was bringing his own reasons for having to go.

“This is now out of your hands.”

“She’s my fiancée.”

The one he chose.

“What are you going to do going alone? Think about your life. Think about how long it’s been since you met that woman. Wasn’t what you wanted Verdick’s demise? What are you going to accomplish by going now? It’s impossible. This isn’t something you can sneak into secretly.”

Raymond bowed his head to the Duke.

“Actually, I’ve already decided before coming.”

“…Why did you come here then?”

Raymond pointed out the window with his finger and said.

“To borrow some gunpowder.”

The Duke hurriedly opened the window. He could see a carriage loading something and leaving. The Duke turned and shouted at Raymond who was rushing out the door.

“Lord Raymond!”

“I’ve worked without pay for so long, so please advance me that much.”

“Stop!”

Raymond didn’t listen. He never thought the Duke would be persuaded from the start. If Raymond couldn’t even persuade himself, how could he persuade others?

“Xenon, let’s go!”

Raymond knows. This brings no benefit. There’s no honor in it. It’s throwing away everything he’s built up.

Even Karen herself doesn’t tell him to come.

“I killed them all.”

Karen said that, but Raymond doesn’t believe it. Raymond had never given money to Dulan. That was Dulan’s lie, Verdick’s manipulation. That much is certain. Karen is a victim who suffered at Verdick’s hands. Verdick pulled all sorts of tricks to get Karen on the gallows. So he doesn’t believe Karen’s words. He can’t trust her confession either.

And because he doesn’t believe it, Raymond could move according to his own will.

Karen woke up to noisy sounds at dawn. The sun was rising. Ah, is it time to die now? How much time has passed? Where am I this time? How old am I now? I’m so tired and time is getting crushed, but someone wakes me up.

“Get…get up, Karen.”

“…What is it.”

Karen rubbed her eyes. Dulan was shaking her. It was still early dawn.

“If you’re going to execute me humanely, can’t you do it while I’m sleeping?”

“…I need time.”

Dulan says something incomprehensible. Karen sat up in bed. The sky hadn’t broken dawn yet.

Unlike Karen, Dulan looked like he hadn’t slept a wink. His pale face was almost corpse-like in its pallor. Karen sat on the bed and asked Dulan.

“Are you doing the execution too?”

“Or, originally I was going to… I, I told Verdick that too.”

“Then why aren’t you killing me quickly? I don’t want Verdick’s axe.”

“…The, the bet.”

Karen grabbed Dulan’s hair and yanked it.

“I lost.”

Now it’s over.

Karen had said she didn’t love Raymond. Since love is something between people, she couldn’t love anyone.

Next time she’d have to try harder to deceive Dulan, but this time was impossible. Her initial plan to decide to kill people and rampage, her life had made everything a mess.

“Still, don’t you regret killing people?”

“…”

“Actually, I regret not being able to kill more. Because I lack strength. Next time I should try to kill Verdick too.”

Karen grumbled. But she was startled when Dulan pulled back the blanket.

“It’s cold?”

“Get up.”

“Why.”

“Ver, Verdick is coming.”

Karen faintly heard thumping sounds. Her face turned white. So it’s time now. Already? Already? I’m going to die now. It’s over now.

“Hur, hurry up and go to the window.”

At Dulan’s instruction, Karen hurriedly opened the window. Cold dawn air rushed into the room. Outside the window was a precipitous cliff.

“…”

The sound of rough wind could be heard. Karen looks at Dulan. He was blocking the door with the bed. From far away, the faint sound of a door breaking could be heard. Karen couldn’t understand what Dulan was doing.

“What are you doing right now?”

“I’m, I’m buying time.”

“To escape from Verdick? Do you think that’s possible? No, you’re the one who brought me… here in the first place.”

Karen looks at Dulan’s face. His face still showed no hint of what he was thinking.

“Look, look at the window.”

Karen approached the window. Verdick’s quarters were on fire. Karen pushed her fluttering hair back. She couldn’t understand how things were unfolding.

And Karen saw him.

Her knight.

* * *

Raymond held his gun.

He alone replaces an army.

It starts with sniping. Raymond installed bombs at dawn. Sion helped him.

“I won’t do any more than this.”

But until the end, he grumbled while installing all the gunpowder, then retreated and began ignition. As fire slowly began to rise, people screamed and got up. Raymond aimed his gun at the people rushing out in confusion.

One, two, three.

“Stop! Stop! There’s a sniper!”

People stumbled and crouched low. Raymond sees the heads of his targets dropping rapidly. He clicks his tongue. Still seven. Far to go. Raymond looks at people’s faces and clothing from a distance.

As expected, their clothes were civilian, but their movements were clearly those of trained soldiers. But no soldiers had officially withdrawn.

“As expected, His Majesty was very angry.”

The Current King must have ordered Karen’s death. Raymond reloaded. There was enough gunpowder.

* * *

Lord Raymond had returned.

Karen could tell.

She just could tell.

“He must be crazy.”

Karen pulled her head back inside the tower. Karen couldn’t understand why he had come. No, she could understand. Because he loved her. Why. She couldn’t clearly understand the reason why he said he loved her.

She had thought he would be late this time too.

“This time, somehow everything happened a bit faster.”

Karen muttered.

This time, perhaps because she had killed someone, everything happened a little faster than before. Entering Isella’s house was faster, Raymond sympathizing with her abuse and taking her away was faster, and even his confession was somewhat faster.

“But.”

But what meaning did such things have? This time too, she would die.

Karen still wanted to maintain her manners again. If she died this time, she remembered her resolve to die by his side. Karen looks at Dulan. He blocks the door with luggage.

“Dulan, Lord Raymond has returned.”

“…Yes.”

“Lord Raymond has returned. I told him not to come.”

Karen became sad again. This time too, he had returned, and he loved a woman who would be of no help to him, who would drag him to hell. And Karen couldn’t give him anything back. Not even emotions. But that was unexpectedly… burdensome.

Karen could never have emotions of equal weight.

But one thing was certain.

One single emotion was true. That one emotion at the bottom that she couldn’t let go of in the end, even when she held a knife to Tom, even when she held a knife to Donna, even when she tried to surrender to madness.

“I pity him.”

She would never be able to think of him as a person. The emotion of watching him make meaningless efforts. That shallow pity was an undeniable truth.

If she came back to life, he would forget everything too. That really made Karen hate it.

“I wish Lord Raymond would remember me.”

“…Yes.”

Dulan answered Karen. Strangely, Dulan’s voice was peaceful. It was the first tone she had heard from him.

Thud, thunk.

“Open up!”

At that moment, the sound of breaking down the door was heard. Verdick was standing outside the door with an axe. Now when that door opened, she would die.

Karen asked Dulan.

“…Why are you doing this here?”

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