Resetting Lady - Chapter 143

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“Let go of the axe, Karen.”

Why? Karen couldn’t understand. Why was he telling her not to? Was it because he didn’t trust her? Karen gripped the axe tighter. She could do it too. This kind of work should be shared. She didn’t want to leave everything to Raymond. Just as Raymond cared for her, she wanted to understand Raymond too.

“Hurry up.”

“…”

Karen let go.

If Raymond was going to kill the man in her place, Raymond would be more suitable for it. She had thought he would be dealing with Verdick, but Raymond was down here now. Had he already dealt with Verdick? So he came down to finish off the others too?

“This thing doesn’t even cut well. The smell here is nauseating, so it would be better to go outside.”

Raymond hoisted the man over his shoulder. Was he doing this because he thought it would be better to deal with him elsewhere? Had she chosen the wrong location? Karen looked at Raymond. But he carried the man back to the kitchen and placed him on the sofa where the other men were sleeping.

“Hmm, I don’t like how this man looks. I don’t like faces like this.”

“…”

“Don’t tell me, Cally, this type of man is your preference?”

“Raymond, that’s not funny.”

“I was being serious. I can’t change my face, you know.”

“…”

No matter how she interpreted Raymond’s joking behavior, it didn’t look like actions meant for killing people. Karen asked Raymond quietly.

“…What are you doing right now?”

“What do you mean what am I doing? I’m putting people back where they belong.”

“…You’re not killing them?”

Shouldn’t they be killed?

“How can you say such frightening things?”

“Raymond!”

“Shh, Cally.”

Raymond answered playfully. And he gently pressed Karen’s lips with his finger. Karen was dumbfounded and glared at that shameless face while biting Raymond’s finger.

“That hurts.”

“I asked what you’re doing right now.”

Karen asked while gripping Raymond’s hand. Raymond whined and used his other hand to grab Karen’s hand and pull his own free.

“Verdick is still waiting, so I’ll go up with the tea. Just wait quietly for now and wake the people up in about thirty minutes. I plan to send Verdick away around that time.”

“…What?”

“I’ll explain later.”

Karen stared blankly at Raymond’s back as he personally carried the hot water upstairs.

She couldn’t understand Raymond.

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“Have a safe journey home.”

“…”

Verdick didn’t even respond and threw his outer coat on the floor.

“Linde, give me your jacket.”

“Yes.”

When he extended his hand to Linde, one of his servants, Linde took off his outer garment and handed it to Verdick. Though it was inferior compared to what Verdick usually wore, it was incomparable to the clothes Raymond had provided.

Even though he was a servant, Linde, who had his clothes taken by Verdick, was a lawyer. What Raymond had given was clothing that laborers might wear. More than anything, regardless of quality, Verdick was disgusted by the fact that he had worn something Raymond gave him.

“I feel like my body might rot, I can’t stand it.”

“Ve, Verdick sir! Baron Raymond Seyertes is still…!”

Raymond was seeing Verdick off from behind. Unlike Verdick, he had a smiling face.

“To ignore my hospitality like this. My heart aches, Verdick Evans.”

“Ha, not even funny.”

Raymond said this while picking up the clothes scattered on the floor, but Verdick didn’t even look back. The humiliation Verdick suffered from Raymond in that room was no longer tolerable. Raymond had trampled on Verdick’s request while laughing.

How dare he do such a thing to him. Making him wear servant’s clothing was all to mock him. Verdick quickly left the manor.

“Ma, master!”

The servants hurriedly followed Verdick. Verdick got into the carriage and didn’t say anything for a long time.

“…Shall we go straight to the Evans estate?”

“…Wait. First, let’s take the carriage and make a big tour around the estate. I need time to think.”

Linde, who best knew how to please Verdick, asked him. Linde was quite nervous seeing that Verdick threw away even the upper garment he had given him as soon as he got in the carriage.

After losing Isella, Verdick seemed to go mad for a while. It was natural for a parent who lost a child to go crazy, but the problem was that Verdick was someone who took out his anxiety on his subordinates through violence.

Servants like Linde who were by his side always lived with bruises on their legs, and the butler was bedridden because of Verdick. This was because Verdick had beaten the old man with a whip for not managing the household properly. The people gathered now hadn’t been able to sleep properly for months.

‘Does he think everyone has good basic stamina like him…?’

At least the others were people who used their bodies for work, but for someone like himself whose profession was wielding a pen, it was the worst situation.

Verdick had exceptionally good stamina and believed that others should at least keep up with him. He couldn’t stand it when people rested even a little or talked about other things while searching for traces of Isella.

He slapped the maids’ cheeks when they cleaned Isella’s room, saying they were cleaning it, and kicked their shins when they didn’t clean, saying they weren’t managing it. When they ate, he glared at them until they got indigestion, and when they were hungry and their stomachs growled, he cursed at them for making noise.

Either way, it was suffering.

As time passed like this, Verdick gradually began to experience something called resignation.

“Bring me those documents I handed over last time. I think I’ve delayed work too much.”

‘Finally, master has come to his senses!’

The servants looked at each other and sighed in relief. The servants and maids were people who worked for money, not family. Some worried about Isella’s disappearance, but the pain they received from Verdick was too great compared to their sympathy.

Some quit their jobs saying they’d rather stop working, and thanks to that, those who remained became even more exhausted.

Just when work was about to return to normal, when hair presumed to be Isella’s arrived, the servants screamed. Some sympathetic people screamed because she was alive, and most people who only worked for money screamed in anticipation of the hell that would unfold.

Clatter clatter.

The inside of the carriage was quiet. The servants looked at each other nervously. Verdick was gripping his cane with bloodshot eyes. It seemed things hadn’t been resolved properly after all. The servants exchanged glances.

‘It… doesn’t seem to have been handled well, does it?’

‘Someone try talking to master.’

‘Mr. Linde, you ask.’

‘Damn it.’

Linde cleared his throat and carefully asked Verdick a question.

“…Master, was your business with Baron Raymond Seyertes handled well?”

“Why are you talking like that?”

What Verdick said was unexpected. Linde thought his master was just venting his anger unnecessarily. It seemed things hadn’t gone well.

“If, if I misspoke…”

“No, not that. Your pronunciation is a bit strange.”

“What?”

Linde raised his eyebrows at his master’s random comment. Verdick was staring intently at Linde’s mouth. He gulped and swallowed.

“Ah… I’m sorry, master. Actually, since your conversation with Baron Raymond was long, I dozed off for a moment.”

“…”

Linde closed his eyes. He thought Verdick would grab something and strike his head.

But he felt wronged too. He had been too tired lately, and Verdick had been working the servants too hard. He had only dozed off briefly while drinking tea served by a beauty in a warm place, but Verdick was glaring at them as if he would kill them.

“Really pathetic beyond words. To even think of drinking what they offered.”

“What’s the problem?”

“…Never mind. First, let’s go down to the town and observe.”

Verdick’s words were unexpected. Surely Verdick had come to receive authority from Raymond to track the shipment. That was important paperwork for finding his daughter Isella.

“Did you receive permission from Baron Raymond?”

Verdick’s face looked particularly bad, so he surely must have been refused, but fortunately it seemed he had received permission. But Verdick shook his head.

“No, he refused. And not only that…”

“What’s wrong?”

“I think we need to observe a bit more. Let’s not leave immediately and wait.”

“If you didn’t get permission, it will be difficult to investigate.”

Verdick gave the obvious answer.

“Feed them money.”

“The laws regarding bribery have been strengthened recently.”

“You figure that out.”

“Mr. Evans!”

Verdick gestured to Linde that he was being noisy and opened the window. Then he looked at his subordinates with disdainful eyes and ordered.

“For now, we stay in the town. Don’t you dare object to this.”

Verdick turned around and glared at the castle. His subordinates kept their mouths shut. They didn’t know about the conversation between Verdick and Raymond right now. But something bad had happened, and it was clear that it wasn’t particularly good for them either.

Karen sighed as she watched Verdick’s party disappearing into the distance. She wasn’t pleased.

“How about relaxing your expression? We’ll be leaving tomorrow, and I’d like to see your smiling face.”

“Do I look like I’m in a mood to smile right now?”

“In life, there’s nothing that should prevent you from smiling. Just having you by my side makes my laughter overflow… ugh.”

Karen elbowed Raymond.

“Why on earth did you do that?”

“What are you talking about?”

“What do you mean, what?”

Karen glared at Raymond as she spoke.

“Obviously, you should have killed them all.”

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