Resetting Lady - Chapter 194

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“Do I really have to be tied up?”

“I hate troublesome things.”

Prince Guiz liked to watch people cry, wail, faint, or scream in the room. Sometimes there were people who went mad and laughed. Those who entered this room never came out alive. Anyone could guess this fact by looking at the corpses hanging in the dark room.

But the red-haired woman before his eyes sat still without any reaction, looking up at him in a comfortable posture. Prince Guiz tilted his head and asked Cain.

“Did you buy this woman with money?”

That was the only conclusion he could reach. Where had they paid a hefty sum, given explanations, and brought her from? But Cain shook his head.

“No. She witnessed it, so we had no choice.”

“It’s just my personality, Prince Guiz.”

“…Ha.”

Prince Guiz looked down at Cain beside him. A woman who knew his name. She was a noble. Cain’s face gradually turned white. Even for a kidnapping, they had chosen completely wrong. Cain envied Rut, who had died first.

Prince Guiz didn’t like targets that could cause trouble later. He knew how to separate his hobbies from official matters. But of all times. Cain gritted his teeth.

He should have just let the women go. Then even if a report came in saying corpses were discovered, that would have been the end of it.

“Please let that person next to you leave. I have something I want to say to Your Highness.”

Prince Guiz’s eyebrows twitched.

“You know me and yet you have such nerve.”

“I won’t be able to leave anyway. Don’t tell me you’re afraid of me?”

It was a provocation that felt almost trivial, but Prince Guiz gestured with his chin to send his subordinate outside. The man bowed and left, but that didn’t mean there was any opening.

“Let me tell you one thing – there are dozens of my subordinates outside the door.”

“And this is a basement.”

“Were you conscious when you were dragged here?”

“No. I’ve been here in a previous life, Your Highness.”

“…That’s a rather unfunny joke.”

Prince Guiz turned away from Karen and walked toward the wall. He inserted a key into the furniture next to the fireplace. From inside, he took out relatively small hooks and several knives. Karen realized the gap between the previous him and the current prince was larger than expected.

‘He’s definitely different from before.’

The Prince Guiz from that time wanted to satisfy his lust rather than kill Karen, and wanted to kill Prince Louis.

But the current Guiz seemed to have no idea who she was. It was because she and Isella had come here due to bad luck. Unlike before, he was looking at Karen as one of his materials. He prepared to do his work calmly without excitement.

“I’ll slowly find out who you are.”

Prince Guiz tapped Karen’s head lightly and smiled slightly.

“I haven’t been able to pursue my hobbies lately, so I’m very frustrated. And your face… is quite to my taste.”

Prince Guiz’s eyes gleamed.

Karen opened her mouth.

“I suppose so. I look exactly like my mother.”

“I see. Give thanks to your mother. I’ll carve out your face.”

Prince Guiz seemed impatient.

Karen blinked once.

“Mother talked about Your Highness a lot.”

“…Who is your mother?”

“Catherine Nora Enid.”

Prince Guiz stood up.

His face twisted strangely. It was a name he had never expected at all.

“…What a coincidence.”

“What a coincidence.”

Prince Guiz covered his mouth.

And he walked around the room. It was to calm his thoughts, his excitement. Though he was covering his mouth, you could see him grinning wildly between his fingers. He looked extremely pleased right now. A faint giggling sound could be heard.

“There’s so much… to talk about. Catherine, Catherine indeed. Yes, it’s already been 17 years… How delightful this is. Ha, haha. How interesting.”

“Yes. Mother…”

Catherine desperately tried to recall things about Catherine. She had to think of anything to divert Prince Guiz’s attention right now. What had Catherine said about Prince Guiz?

But no particular information came to Karen’s mind. While Karen was pondering, Prince Guiz stood in front of Karen and waited.

“What did Catherine say about me?”

“If you want to hear more, there’s a condition.”

“Sorry, but I have no intention of letting you go.”

“I thought so.”

Karen nodded.

It was the difference between dying right now or clinging to life. Prince Guiz would never let her go.

“Please spare this woman instead of me.”

“That won’t work either.”

Karen bowed her head.

“Then I won’t say a single word about Mother.”

“There are quite a few ways to get answers from people.”

Prince Guiz brought a dagger close to Karen and whispered. The cloth near her chest tore like paper against the sharp blade. Karen’s cleavage was exposed and some blood flowed. It stung. Karen frowned and said.

“I don’t expect to live, but I’m not afraid of dying either. Because I know I won’t survive here.”

Karen took a deep breath.

Let me think carefully. The Prince Guiz from the past had said, ‘I wonder if you’ll also say you’re old.’ You too. Karen pondered over what he had said again. Perhaps Catherine had told Prince Guiz that she would be reborn.

“Didn’t Mother also talk about living again?”

“…”

“You probably didn’t believe her.”

Prince Guiz closed his mouth.

His excitement subsided and his expression twisted. Karen looked up at his face.

“Don’t you think Mother rejected Your Highness because she wasn’t afraid of death? Mother and I don’t fear such things.”

She had dared to reject a royal’s proposal.

Even if a man just has good strength or lots of money, it’s dangerous for a woman to reject that man’s affection. Because the affection that men with a desire to show off speak of often comes with violence.

Someone like Prince Guiz was in a position and had the personality where it wouldn’t be strange if he had killed the woman who dared reject him along with her parents and children. But he had let Catherine marry and have children. In the end, he hadn’t killed her.

“In this life, I’m prepared to end my life in this room. But please listen to this. Just dump this woman back where she came from.”

“I think having a companion would be better for you too.”

“I don’t want to share Mother’s story with someone else.”

And Karen looked up at him with slightly tearful eyes.

“To be honest, I’m quite shy.”

“…Ha.”

“Because I know you won’t treat me like a daughter.”

“You’re struggling desperately.”

Prince Guiz pressed between the chest where he had made the wound. Karen let out a weak moan. Pain shot up. She could feel Isella trembling behind her.

“I know the woman behind you is awake.”

“…”

“Heu, heuk.”

Only then did Karen realize that Isella wasn’t properly pretending to sleep. She had told her to pretend to be unconscious.

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Sion scratched his head and pondered.

‘It seems like pregnancy, doesn’t it?’

Although Isella hadn’t said it directly, Sion Electra had lived receiving the affection of countless women through intuition alone. The fact that Isella couldn’t speak about regarding Karen was something that could be easily guessed with a little thought.

They had gone to the hospital together, heard the examination results, and she was troubled because she couldn’t tell him. The words Isella had started to say but then said no to. Watching Isella who said she should tell him after all, Sion guessed that Karen was pregnant.

If it was a fact difficult to tell even the person involved, that was the only possibility.

The problem was what came next. He was also troubled about whether he should tell Raymond or not. In reality, whether Karen Hyer was pregnant or not had nothing to do with Sion. Speaking about it would only become low-quality gossip.

But Sion scratched his head and pondered because the person presumed to be the father was Raymond, who had deep ties with him. Would it be better to tell Raymond in advance? Isella’s worry had transferred to him, but he couldn’t find an answer either.

Perhaps Raymond already knew.

Thinking that way, his recent behavior made sense.

Raymond’s unavoidably rejecting Isella and caring for the penniless Karen, being at a loss in front of her, hastily retiring from the military, and his emotions fluctuating more than ever before – all of that was because of exactly that.

But he found it hard to accept that Raymond had laid hands on an unmarried woman. And even gotten her pregnant? Moreover, Karen was a noble lady, even if she had no money.

Sion was concerned about getting involved in troublesome matters by pretending to know first. First, Karen’s reaction after Isella spoke would be important. He had come to ask about that, but Isella was nowhere to be seen.

“Where on earth did she go?”

Sion had been lurking around the Great Cathedral where Isella and Karen were staying since early, but neither of them had come out yet. Priests were coming and going, but he didn’t want to face them as they didn’t look favorably upon him openly making advances on Isella.

‘Did the conversation not go well?’

He had thought that Isella would surely tell him the results.

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