Resetting Lady - Chapter 202

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That’s fortunate.

He would need to send a note to Lord Raymond. Prince Guiz, once he attended, tended to stay for quite a long time. He enjoyed watching people get drunk or become completely senseless.

Then there would be enough time for Lord Raymond to extract Karen Hyer. They would confirm Prince Guiz’s presence here and spend as much time as possible with Prince Guiz.

“We greet Prince Guize.”

“May God protect Your Highness. It is an honor to see Your Highness like this.”

Several people bowed to Prince Guiz, but he walked past them indifferently toward his usual seat.

Sion thought his face looked somewhat different from before. The cruel-looking face that always mocked others seemed unusually bright today. Prince Guiz walked slowly and made eye contact with Isella.

“Hmm, isn’t that Isela Evans.”

“…”

Isella froze.

Beside the pale-faced Isella, Sion gently grasped her fingers. Pull yourself together, Isella. Only then did Isella bow.

“I greet Your Majesty.”

“Yes, I didn’t expect you to attend today.”

I thought you’d be sunk at the bottom of the riverbed.

Isella caught the sarcastic nuance even though he didn’t say it aloud. Isella opened her mouth. She had to speak. So that no harm would come to Father, to Mother.

“I, I am grateful for Your Highness’s… boundless grace.”

“What have I done that deserves your gratitude?”

Prince Guiz asked with a faint smile, looking down at Isella. Isella was at a loss for words. She couldn’t say she was grateful for being spared here.

* * *

Raymond stood in an empty room.

There was nothing.

No corpses, no Karen, nothing at all.

* * *

Then Isella heard a familiar voice.

But it was a voice that shouldn’t be heard here.

“Don’t be so harsh, Your Highness. You’re making Miss Evans uncomfortable.”

“…It’s amusing, you see.”

The servant announced belatedly.

“Miss Karen Hyer is entering!”

Isella was bewildered. Sion’s face showed the same confusion. Both were speechless at the unexpected person’s appearance. According to the original plan, while Prince Guiz was here and the royal servants’ attention was focused here, Raymond should have extracted Karen. But why?

“Miss Isella, did you get home safely that day?”

“…”

“Karen is asking you.”

“Yes, yes… Yes, Your Highness.”

“I wasn’t the one asking the question.”

“I’m, I’m sorry, Your Highness. Thanks to you… I got home safely, Karen.”

Why was Karen standing so naturally beside Prince Guiz like that?

Isella was nearly in a panic state, confused by the plan going awry. The first to grasp the situation was Sion Electra. It seemed Karen Hyer had completely won over Prince Guiz.

She’s too good at finding her own way to survive. Sion clicked his tongue. At least it was fortunate that she didn’t seem dead or injured.

According to what Isella had said, Prince Guiz was someone with excessive destructive urges toward human bodies. If that were true, Karen would more likely be buried under the Royal Palace Gardens.

However, Karen was smiling beside Prince Guiz in a dazzling, almost brilliant appearance. Isella, who had come to rescue her, looked more pitiful in comparison.

The dress was too ornate for a young lady not yet twenty to wear. Karen’s dress was lavishly embroidered with gold throughout, and her hair and neck were adorned with various jewels including diamonds, amethysts, and rubies.

Sion could finally understand why today’s banquet hall looked different from before. Prince Guiz hadn’t held the banquet to watch people’s ugly behavior as usual, but to show off his young mistress.

Karen’s face was radiantly beautiful. Her rose-pink lips curved in an arc as a soft, sweet voice flowed out.

“Yes. I was very worried because it was getting late, Isella.”

“Karen… are you alright?”

“Why wouldn’t I be alright? Prince Guize takes such good care of me.”

Though he had thought Karen might be alive, he hadn’t expected her to be standing so naturally beside Prince Guiz. Sion couldn’t figure out how to modify their plan.

If Karen had come out like this, her immediate life was guaranteed, but the probability of escaping from the palace decreased accordingly. If she became an official mistress, the worry of death would also decrease. But then would Karen continue to live in the Royal Palace?

‘What about Lord Raymond?’

Sion bowed and quickly withdrew. Since the main subject of conversation was Isella, not himself, his withdrawal actually seemed more courteous. This was the right moment when Prince Guiz’s attention was also focused on Isella.

Sion slipped a note into the Seventh Terrace.

G-I, k accompanying

He hoped Raymond hadn’t entered first and fallen into a trap.

Sion bit his lips as he came out. He was anxious about Karen being beside Prince Guiz.

The situation was flowing in a direction they had never predicted.

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Raymond stood in an empty room.

No one was there. Karen should definitely be in this room. Not only that, countless corpses should be hanging here, but there was nothing. Why? Though it was confusing, since he knew there was nothing here, there was no need for him to remain. Raymond quickly scanned the room and came out.

Raymond emerged from Prince Guiz’s Secret Room. He had thought it fortunate that it wasn’t locked, but that wasn’t the case. There had been no need to lock it from the beginning. Then where was Karen now?

First, he had to get out of the room. Raymond carefully restored the room to its original state and stood up. He needed to think.

Raymond left the room. No, he tried to leave.

“Lord Raymond?”

Damn.

Why did that Boy appear here?

“…I greet Prince Lewis.”

Of all people, why Prince Louis.

Raymond clicked his tongue inwardly. Prince Louis was looking up at Raymond and questioning him. Coincidentally, he had been caught coming out of the room. Raymond didn’t want to encounter this boy.

Prince Louis does not become king.

Raymond had experienced all sorts of futures from the past. Life after Karen’s death too. Countless lives had flowed after that. Sometimes they were slightly different, but the 100 lives after Karen’s death were always similar. The 5 lives when he had memories of the past were the same.

Prince Louis absolutely never becomes king.

So he could never be an important person to Raymond. Not long after Karen’s death, Prince Guiz kills his own son and ascends to the throne.

And when a little more time passes, Count Fankair kills Prince Guiz and ascends to the throne. Count Fankair’s son would become the next king, and the border defenses that Count Fankair had managed would weaken, leading to endless conflicts there.

In Raymond’s decades, centuries, millennia of life, the part where Prince Louis had influence was minimal. Raymond originally liked to show compassion, but such emotions had long been swept away by time. Since this boy was always eternally a boy, it was difficult to feel guilt beyond that.

He chose Prince Guiz rather than side with Prince Louis. Even though his character was disgusting and dirty, it was more comfortable to deal with him purely for business purposes. Knowing that his life wouldn’t be long either, he could endure it. Just as he had given up on his brother at some point, he had also given up on Prince Louis.

“What brings you here, my lord. This is Father’s Room. Didn’t you have no lessons today?”

Prince Louis asked Raymond. But his expression contained more interrogation than curiosity.

Raymond thought of the knife in his coat. If necessary, killing Prince Louis and running away would be.

“…Your Highness.”

Raymond looked around Outside the door. There was no one. Prince Louis had entered This Room without even a single servant. There would be no problem killing him. Prince Louis would die with one gesture from Raymond. Quickly kill him and Karen.

Raymond looked at Prince Louis’s white, slender neck. It was a neck that reminded him of a young deer. His eyes were gentle, eyes that didn’t suspect in the least that Raymond would harm him. In one blow. Since he dies before anyway.

“Actually, I have something to tell you. Come here.”

“What is it?”

Raymond looks at Prince Louis’s neck. He seems a bit frightened. It might just appear that way because Raymond feels that way.

“I want to let you do what you like.”

At that moment, what filled Raymond’s head completely was Karen’s voice.

Karen doesn’t know well how broken Raymond has become. What Raymond had revealed to Karen was only a very small part. Even with that, Karen was saddened. She had pushed herself so hard thinking that Raymond was doing things he didn’t want to do because of her.

She said she would become friends with Isella, that they should forgive Verdick too, and paid attention to her own family as well. Raymond thought her efforts were futile but went along with them.

Though he had thought it was his limit, when he actually saw the young prince who reminded him of his own pure, distant past, he wanted to follow her words.

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