Resetting Lady - Chapter 191

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This is not the end

Isella opened her eyes in a dark space. And she was confused. The place where she opened her eyes was not a bed. She could feel a hard floor. Where is this? Did I fall from the bed?

No, her room had a wooden floor. This is stone. Isella hurriedly got up. Her head was dizzy.

“Hah, haah…?”

It’s dark. Isella rubbed her eyes. But nothing was easily visible.

Why? Her room has a large window. It couldn’t be this dark. She frantically groped around with her hands. Then she touched something.

“Kyaaaaaaah!”

It was a person’s hand. Isella was terrified and screamed. But Isella’s mouth was covered by that hand. When she, terrified, clawed at the other person’s hand with her nails, the person behind her groaned in pain.

“…Ugh, Isella… Stay still.”

It was a familiar voice. But Isella couldn’t calm down easily and struggled.

“Isella, calm down.”

When the other person calmly pressed down with force, her strength gradually drained and she came to her senses. Even in this endlessly dark place, the voice could be heard clearly. A soft yet firm voice. Even before her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she could tell who it was.

“It’s okay. If you calm down, everything will be fine. Understand? If you become calm, I’ll let go.”

Isella nodded. The hand covering her mouth slowly fell away.

“Karen? Where is this? Is this the Cathedral? Why is it so dark?”

She hoped it would be so. Isella voiced her hope. But Karen immediately denied it.

“No, it’s not there. This is… a place we shouldn’t have come to. It’s a place I’ve been to before.”

“Where is this?”

Karen moved away from Isella. The sound of shuffling footsteps could be heard. Isella asked again to Karen who was moving away.

“Where is this place!”

“Isella, I think it would be better to light a fire, but promise me you absolutely won’t scream. And don’t be curious about where this is. It would be better that way.”

“Tell me where this is!”

“It’s better not to know.”

Though Isella shouted as if having a fit, Karen didn’t answer.

“Where on earth is this? Why are we here now? I clearly…”

Where is this? It’s a completely unknown place. The floor is cold and chilly. There are no windows but it’s not a narrow place. Isella groped along the floor while searching her memory.

Where was the last place I was? Where was I? Her head was dizzy. Isella touched her head. Something was flowing down from her head area, which was bothersome in this already dark and confusing situation.

“…Hiek.”

Her head was soaked and wet. At first it seemed like sweat was seeping out. She hoped it was water, but it didn’t seem to be. Once she realized it, her scalp began to sting. Her arms and legs hurt too. Pain was rising from various parts of her body.

Why?

Isella began to search her memory.

* * *

“Shh, Isella.”

Karen raised her finger to her lips and made eye contact with Isella. Isella stopped trying to speak. Karen seemed to be looking somewhere behind them for a moment. Her whole body was tense.

Isella tried to speak to Karen but stopped. The wind was still gentle and the water sounds were quiet, but suddenly the atmosphere became serious. She hadn’t said anything yet, so why? Isella was confused by Karen’s sudden change in expression.

“Why…”

“Turn around right now. Quietly. It’s okay, so slowly…”

Her face was hardened. Isella didn’t understand. But she couldn’t ask more, overwhelmed by Karen’s firm attitude. Isella’s gaze swept around the area.

It was getting dark before they knew it. And a fishy smell and stench wafted faintly. Isella frowned. It was a place she’d never seen before. They had walked too far along the river. She tried to move as Karen said. If only she hadn’t seen something.

Isella held her breath.

“…Hiek.”

There were people. They were all young and middle-aged men with quite large builds.

Their clothes weren’t neat and their beards were unkempt, so they were men of a social class that Isella would almost never encounter. Curses could be heard mixed in too.

“Ugh.”

“Hurry.”

Was Karen trying to turn back after seeing that? Isella hurriedly tried to turn back.

Splash.

They grabbed something and threw it into the river. There was a splashing sound as it was thrown. They were dumping something. The stench seemed to be coming from there.

Isella saw them playfully holding up an arm and moving around from a distance. An arm? A human arm. Already severed from the body.

‘Those people are disposing of a corpse right now.’

When Isella couldn’t move at all, Karen gently pushed Isella and whispered.

“Slowly… we need to get away. Quietly.”

Karen moved slowly behind Isella.

Isella turned around without even being able to scream. As Karen said, they had to get away from this place. Right now.

Isella slowly lifted her foot. She had to move.

But that’s when it happened. Did the grass rustle, or were footsteps heard? The men’s rough shouting voices could be heard.

“Hey, there, over there! Fuck!”

“Catch them!”

“There are two women over there! Catch them right now!”

“Don’t let them get away!”

Damn, Karen clicked her tongue. Karen pushed Isella’s back.

“Run!”

Isella certainly ran frantically. The sound of her shoes clicking echoed. This was almost the first time in her life that Isella had run until she was breathless. But her clothes were too heavy and her shoes were too high. And there were too many men.

‘No, no… I’m going to be caught.’

“Fuck, so annoying.”

“But it’s fortunate. Thanks to this, we saved some work. Let’s use these women, right?”

“That sounds good.”

After just a few steps, Isella was grabbed strongly by the hair.

And that was the end.

* * *

She was taking a walk with Isella. Isella was worried about Karen and had her get examined at the hospital, and after that she kept being restless.

Karen thought while watching this that perhaps the hospital said she was crazy, or maybe they did other tests.

Since Dulan had been giving her medicine since childhood, maybe results about the medicine came out. Whatever results came out, Isella would react that way. Whether it was her mind or body, anything could be abnormal.

Karen was prepared to accept any bad results, so she was relaxed. Perhaps because of that, she found Isella’s restlessness somewhat cute.

“Ka, Karen… I have something to say while we walk.”

When Isella suggested going out together like that, Karen gladly accompanied her. While walking slowly along the riverside, she kept waiting for Isella to speak.

Could we say that perhaps we’ve become something like friends?

Karen thought this and applauded her own efforts. Isn’t this as satisfying as murder? She felt this satisfied when she succeeded in killing Nancy too. Indeed, challenging something she’d never done before, something that seemed impossible, was truly rewarding work.

The moment she prepared to listen to Isella’s words with a refreshed heart, they ruined it.

“Damn…”

When they came out, there was still sunlight, and there were quite a few people walking in the park area by the river. It was a place far from danger. But walking aimlessly, they had carelessly come too far down.

The moment Isella was about to say her prepared words, what Karen saw was men disposing of a corpse in the river. The moment she saw that scene, rather than thinking it was dangerous, Karen first thought about how she had finally become this close to Isella.

Karen, who was caught before Isella, thought about the end of this life as her mouth was covered by the men. Since they had seen corpse disposal, there was no way they’d be left alive.

If it were the Karen of the past who would die after exactly filling the one-year period no matter what happened, she would have been confident that she wouldn’t die no matter what happened to her at this time, but not now. She could die at any time.

It’s regrettable, but this life seems to end like this.

Raymond would also search for her and if he couldn’t find her, he’d commit suicide and follow. Karen thought of this carelessly and then thought this was quite a good method too. She thought she should recommend to Raymond that from now on, he shouldn’t wait but should commit suicide. Indeed, making him wait too long made the man tearful.

Karen slowly closed her eyes while thinking of Raymond.

“But when I opened my eyes, I was here…”

Karen groped along the wall of the room with her hand to figure out the location.

This seemed to be the place she had come to last time. Karen searched for where the lamp used to hang while groping along the wall. She found the extinguished lamp with a rattling sound.

Fortunately, matches were also placed right next to the lamp. Karen succeeded in lighting the match after several attempts in the darkness.

“Where is this place!”

“…Isella, I’ll say it again… promise you won’t scream.”

“Where on earth is this?”

Where indeed.

The owner of this place is obvious. The person who holds real power in this country.

“Haah.”

Karen sighed and lit the lamp. It was a very small flame, but when the light came on, her vision opened up. Isella hurriedly approached the light. Isella’s face was covered in blood. Oh my. Karen extended her hand to Isella, but she avoided Karen’s hand.

“Where is this? And why are we here? Why haven’t you been speaking properly since earlier?”

“…As I said before, it’s better not to know.”

Karen answered calmly.

The owner of this room was Prince Guiz. He probably wouldn’t try to kill her. Since she resembled her mother so closely, she would be more useful to him in various ways rather than simply being killed. Of course, Karen, who had a weak stomach for such things, had no intention of playing along with him.

‘Should I just commit suicide quickly instead?’

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