Resetting Lady - Chapter 206

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“Priest Dulan Lloyd?”

“Yes, yes… That’s right.”

She was a blonde woman with a sharp appearance. She didn’t know Dulan, but Dulan knew her.

It was Isella Evans, who had lived with Karen. She was the daughter of the wealthy Evans family, arrogant, extravagant, and the woman who had treated Karen like a maid. She was also an uncomfortable opponent for him, who would become Lord Hyer. After all, Dulan would end up owing her a great deal as well.

However, there was no reason for Isella to come looking for him now.

“Just how long have you been staying in the capital? It was quite difficult finding you.”

“A few, a few weeks ago…”

“If I had known you were here, I wouldn’t have needed to search for so long… You must have known that Karen and I were staying here too?”

“…”

Dulan found Isella’s interrogating manner uncomfortable. There was no reason to be questioned like this by someone he was meeting for the first time. Dulan was not yet Lord Hyer, and Isella Evans was not Verdick Evans.

“Do you have no idea why I came here?”

“…I can’t, can’t think of anything.”

“Why did you come here? What about Karen Hyer?”

Dulan frowned. Though he had been secretly watching, it didn’t seem like Isella had caught him. In that case, he was in a position where he could be angry.

“…I only came up to attend the academic conference. I haven’t had a single conversation with Ka, Karen Hyer since we were children.”

Though he had been watching her one-sidedly. At least he hadn’t properly conversed with Karen, so it wasn’t a lie. However, Isella continued to look at Dulan with a suspicious expression.

“If that’s really the case, it would have been better to point to Sion instead.”

“Wha, wha, what are you saying…”

“…Can’t you stop stuttering? It’s really hard to listen to. I’m already frustrated enough to death, and now there’s stuttering too.”

“If, if you don’t like the conversation, you can leave.”

Dulan was uncomfortable being with Isella, who had suddenly requested a meeting only to be irritable. When Dulan stood up and pointed toward the door with his hand, Isella took off the hat she was wearing and placed it on the table.

“I don’t think you were unaware that Karen Hyer was here. It’s also strange that the person she pointed to is here, and your attitude is strange too. What exactly is the problem?”

He didn’t know either, so he wished she would just leave.

But neither Isella nor Dulan really intended to end the conversation and leave. Since it was related to Karen, Dulan found it hard to just dismiss Isella’s words, and Isella also had more to say to Dulan.

Isella found talking with him annoying and frustrating. Someone like Dulan was the type of person Isella didn’t even want to look at or get involved with. He looked sinister and couldn’t even speak properly.

Would he really help Karen? Looking at him somehow made her skin feel slightly itchy. His appearance, speech, and his actions were strangely disgusting and unpleasant.

“…”

The conversation didn’t flow properly and silence fell.

“Isella, is the conversation over?”

“Count Sion, it seems Priest Dulan doesn’t particularly want to talk with me.”

As Isella’s conversation dragged on, a well-groomed man entered. Isella gave Sion a look. Please speak for me.

Sion entered with a somewhat troubled smile. Then, seeing Dulan frowning, he made an understanding expression and sat down next to Isella.

“Good day, Priest Dulan.”

“…Who are you?”

“I am Sion Electra, a friend of Miss Isella. I also have a friendship with Karen Hyer.”

“…”

To Sion, Karen was like a borrowed sack of barley or something that came with Isella. But since he couldn’t say that, Dulan awkwardly grasped Sion’s outstretched hand for a handshake.

“Soon the royal family will contact you, Priest. To proceed with your marriage to Miss Karen. Prince Guiz desires it.”

“…Marriage?”

Dulan Lloyd’s eyebrows twitched.

To prevent any strange thoughts, Sion immediately drove the point home.

“You understand what that implies, don’t you?”

“…A mistress?”

“That’s right.”

A royal mistress. A mistress’s husband.

Literally a puppet-like husband.

“I heard you are also a relative of Miss Karen Hyer. Of course you’ll help her.”

“…Right now you…”

“I have no doubt that you will naturally help her. Of course, it’s not that difficult. The important thing is that other friends will be joining, so I thought you should know about it.”

Sion Electra smiled and greeted Dulan.

The conversation ended there.

Not even a few hours after Sion left, Dulan was able to hear more proper details from a royal official.

Prince Guiz wanted to make Karen Hyer his mistress.

Not just a prostitute to play with for a day or two, but a mistress. He clearly showed his intention to keep her by his side continuously. He was trying to attempt again what he had failed to do with Karen’s mother, Catherine.

Even if it caused scandal and was considered immoral, the king’s lifespan was not long now. No one wanted to displease Prince Guiz, who would soon ascend to the throne.

Since the crown princess, who was Prince Louis’s birth mother, had died long ago, there was no justification for criticism. Conversely, even if he married rather than took a mistress, there were few who would stop him.

Prince Guiz was not going to let Karen go.

Catherine had left for the Hyer estate using marriage as an excuse and never returned until her death. Prince Guiz seemed determined not to make the same mistake.

The wedding would be held in the capital. The schedule briefly stated that they would receive blessings at the church, then enter the royal palace to receive congratulations and stay there.

“…There’s no mention of when they would leave the royal palace.”

Dulan traced the end of the letter. Prince Guiz would bring Karen into the royal palace and never let her out again. Just as he had done with other mistresses.

“…Why me of all people…”

Dulan had often heard about Prince Guiz from Catherine.

He had a hobby of mutilating people’s bodies. He had committed many other evil acts as well. But Catherine, even so. Even despite that.

Dulan shook his head.

Why had Karen pointed to him as her fake husband? Did it mean she wanted him to save her, as Isella and Sion who came to see him had said? To help her escape from this place?

But Dulan knew Karen better.

From the past that even Karen herself didn’t know to the present. Even when Karen was filled with madness, she moved rationally. Even when she was drugged and got up in the middle of the night to attempt hanging herself in the garden, there was a pattern.

If Karen had pointed to him, there must be a reason. The problem was that Dulan didn’t know that reason.

Why?

Karen had already declared she would break off their engagement. She had said through the lord that she wouldn’t even look at his face. So why did she say she would make him her husband, even if fake?

Was she asking for help?

From the man she had abandoned?

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“Count Sion, isn’t it strange?”

“What is, Isella?”

Isella grabbed Sion’s arm and looked up at the ceiling of the great cathedral. It was a Gothic-style cathedral that soared toward the sky. The space containing humanity’s desire to reach heaven was majestic and grand. But still, being a space in the city called the capital, its width was limited.

“If Count Sion lived here, how long would it take to look around this entire place? Including the lodgings and preparation spaces?”

“Well… It wouldn’t take more than an hour at most.”

“Right? Then would it be possible not to run into each other while living here for 2 or 3 weeks?”

“Unless one was deliberately trying to avoid the other, it would be impossible.”

“Exactly.”

Isella nodded.

As soon as Karen pointed to Dulan, she immediately sent a letter to Lord Hyer asking about Dulan’s whereabouts. But he wasn’t at the estate, nor was he at the monastery. He was at the great cathedral.

“Isella, men who have been rejected in marriage usually try to hide out of shame. Lord Raymond was the same way.”

Knowing that Isella was talking about Dulan, Sion said this, but Isella shook her head.

“If it had really been 2 or 3 weeks, I wouldn’t say anything. But Lord Hyer said that man had been gone for several months.”

“Hmm… So the priest was lying?”

“Yes.”

Isella rubbed her goosebump-covered arm once and quickened her pace.

“He’s been in the same space for several months, not just weeks, but we didn’t even know he was here. Doesn’t that feel unpleasant? Would that person really help Karen?”

Karen had pointed to Dulan Lloyd as her husband.

This was unexpected news not only for Isella and Sion, but also for Dulan.

“I will choose Dulan Lloyd as my husband.”

Left alone in the room, Dulan sat in his chair and pressed his forehead with his hand. He couldn’t guess what Karen was thinking.

Sion Electra and Isella Evans had told him to help her, mentioning that Dulan was Karen’s relative, but the relationship between Karen and himself was too strained to be called a typical blood relationship. They had broken off their engagement. Yet it didn’t feel right to consider it a conventional romantic relationship either.

‘What are you thinking?’

Karen knew about the repeating life and knew that Dulan had manipulated her memories and circumstances. That’s why she had broken off the engagement, telling him not to tamper with her memories anymore. So why was she now calling him her husband again? And as a puppet husband at that.

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