Resetting Lady - Chapter 239

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Karen imagined Isella pondering after receiving her telegram.

The review Karen had decided to write did pique Isella’s interest, but it was somewhat weak to make her volunteer for such an absurd task. And no matter how much money she offered, Isella would surely remain unmoved and become even more suspicious.

But Karen knew Isella from the past.

She remembered the worries Isella had confided in her. She knew Isella from when they had become something like friends.

So Karen quickly added another sentence for the pondering Isella.

“Help me run away from home.”

It was the same request she had made to Karen in the past.

Isella had felt suffocated by Verdick Evans’s control.

Of course, she would have understood the affection behind his desire to give her good things. She couldn’t not know. She knew what she was doing was rebellious. She knew it, but still there came times when she couldn’t suppress the impulse.

That feeling of wanting to run out immediately. Not wanting to abandon that affection, but despite knowing it, wanting to see a different world. Unable to fold away the scenery that would unfold before her eyes.

Isella knew that feeling – knowing it was childish and privileged talk, she would suppress it tightly until it inevitably burst someday.

“My husband won’t let me take even one step outside, it’s so suffocating.”

“He says he won’t let me out for the next five years.”

And Karen’s prediction was correct.

Isella was definitely not a person with much sympathy.

But the plea for freedom, especially a message sent secretly using a telegraph behind her husband’s back by a peer from a household that anyone could see was comfortable, wealthy, and full of affection, shook Isella’s heart.

If I had married Raymond, it would be worse than that. If Raymond treated even a wife he wanted to marry that way.

Isella called for Sion while reading the message.

“Count Sion, let me ask you something. Do you like Lord Raymond, or do you like me?”

“That’s a question you don’t need to ask.”

Sion smiled gently and bowed to Isella.

Isella laughed as she tore up the note.

“Then shall we go give Lord Raymond a good smack on the back of his head?”

It would surely be quite an entertaining affair.

* * *

Sion glanced at the window.

The plan was for Karen to pretend to go on a hunger strike to shake Raymond, then Sion would visit at that moment to divert his attention. Meanwhile, Isella would extract Karen. But Sion was a bit anxious.

Raymond was someone who naturally grasped surrounding situations without conscious effort and never let his guard down. Without much effort, he could easily notice whose footsteps moved in what way, and who was lying.

‘Will we be able to succeed?’

But after visiting in person and seeing Raymond, confidence that they could succeed welled up.

‘I think we can succeed?’

“So Karen is doing this to me… isn’t this really too much? I can’t even sleep without her.”

“Ah, yes.”

Though he tried to hide it somehow, his eyes were reddish and his voice was excited with fatigue. And the conversation topic kept circling around his wife. Raymond’s appearance, which he had never seen before, looked quite manageable.

Sion tried to coax Raymond just in case, but contrary to looking manageable, Raymond remained stubborn about Karen.

“I’m thinking about five years from now. By then, a child will be born and the dangerous crisis will have passed.”

“Five years… If you suppress your wife like that, an accident might happen?”

For example, right now.

Sion slowly walked around the table where Raymond was sitting. He went toward the window and saw a distant carriage moving little by little. Of course, no sound could be heard at all. Good.

“Count Sion, refrain from excessive advice about others’ family matters. How dare an unmarried man give advice to a married man?”

Raymond didn’t notice at all and was passionately talking to Sion about the importance of marriage and the safety of pregnant women. Sion appropriately argued back with Raymond while not doubting that he had succeeded.

Though it was initially somewhat burdensome to deceive Raymond, to whom he owed much in various ways, seeing Raymond so stubbornly blocked made him feel considerably less guilty.

‘A husband should originally follow his wife.’

Raymond was currently caught up in repeated good fortune and missing an important truth.

Sion wanted to teach him the virtue of a husband – the joy of obeying one’s wife. When it came to women, Raymond was no match for Sion, wasn’t he? Sion believed this without doubt.

“Somehow the conversation seems to keep going in circles.”

“…Ah, haha.”

Sion quickly removed his hand from the window frame.

Raymond sighed once and downed his tea in one gulp.

“Count Sion, did you really come here just because you were bored?”

“I was curious about how Lord Raymond was doing, and well… Ah, I sent the things you mentioned last time to Hyer Estate, the Baroness’s parental home.”

Raymond had previously commissioned strange devices, hard-to-obtain minerals, medicinal herbs, and such through Sion.

Even though Sion wasn’t directly involved in the Evans family business, he could obtain them without difficulty by slightly utilizing his extensive network.

Raymond nodded at Sion’s words.

“Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it.”

“But didn’t I already thank you for sending the items before?”

Sion realized in that moment that he had made a mistake while making excuses.

“You did. But I felt like I hadn’t properly received thanks afterward, so I wondered if there was anything lacking…”

“I clearly sent you thirty high-purity diamonds. You kept saying that from the beginning, so why do you keep…”

“…”

“Count Sion.”

Raymond looked at Sion with suspicious eyes.

“Ah, well, I’ve been stuck with Miss Isella lately, so I missed my old comrade. I thought Lord Raymond might be bored after getting married, so I came by.”

“Haa… Look here, you.”

“Then I’ll be going now.”

Sion quickly fled backward.

It was a situation that anyone would have to find suspicious.

Sion clicked his tongue at his mistake as he ran. Just because he saw Raymond’s absent-minded appearance for the first time didn’t mean he should have had an absent-minded conversation too.

“…James.”

“Yes, master.”

“I’m going to Karen’s room right now.”

“Aren’t you going to see Count Sion off?”

But Raymond didn’t respond further and sprang up from his seat, moving with quick steps toward the door of the room where Karen was holding her sit-in. The old servant panted and almost ran to follow his quick pace.

Knock knock.

“Karen.”

“I recall that the madam’s anger hasn’t subsided yet.”

Raymond didn’t respond and knocked on the door.

Knock knock.

“…”

“…Master, it’s late at night now…”

Bang!

Raymond raised his hand as if to knock, then smashed the door panel. Seeing the hole in the solid door made of walnut wood, James screamed.

“Master! If you do this, the madam will be startled…!”

But there was no one in the room.

Moreover, it was in complete chaos as if everything had been ransacked.

And on the bed was a single note.

To my beloved Raymond. I’ll send the bill to the house. – Karen –

* * *

“…Start the carriage immediately!”

“Sion?”

“Right now!”

The carriage departed quickly.

“Kyaaah!”

As they moved hastily, Nancy screamed in the jolting carriage. Karen tried to cover Nancy’s mouth but couldn’t see in the darkness. The carriage jolted like crazy. Between Nancy’s screams and the noise of the carriage jolting as it departed hastily, conversation could be heard.

“Go as I told you. Got it?”

“No problem. Then we’re departing.”

Isella’s voice was heard faintly from a distance, then disappeared again.

Would they be able to escape from Raymond?

Karen bit her lip as she gripped the handle inside the carriage in the darkness.

As expected, escaping pregnancy is not an easy thing.

‘Damn it, I must be crazy! To that Lord Raymond!’

Sion cursed inwardly as he started the carriage.

‘I should have prepared more thoroughly…!’

The horses began to run.

He had to calculate a moderate speed, safe yet not suspicious enough to draw attention.

“Sion Electra!”

“Hiiiiek!”

It was a distance where ordinary people wouldn’t be able to see or hear, but the tense Sion heard Raymond’s voice shouting from the distant manor.

And the curse that followed after: ‘Hey, you bastard!’

“Hiya! Please save me, you guys!”

The horses, struck by the whip, galloped through the darkness with clattering sounds.

Though it was a dark road, fortunately the recently maintained path stretched straight ahead, so there was no problem with picking up speed.

Clatter clatter clatter!

He had to move quickly toward the town. Only then could he shake off Raymond. Four horses pulled the carriage like mad. They were well-bred horses from the Isela family and a light, sturdy carriage. And Sion was skilled at driving carriages even in the darkness.

Sion drove the carriage while appropriately cracking the whip. He couldn’t afford to be leisurely even for a moment. Urgently, desperately… Sion ran for a while before turning his head.

“Stop right now!”

“Aaaahhh!”

He shouldn’t have looked back.

Sion glanced behind him and screamed.

Raymond was chasing closely behind the carriage with a demonic appearance. His eyes gleamed green like a beast’s in the darkness. Raymond’s horse was galloping madly. Raymond wasn’t following the orderly path like Sion, but was charging recklessly.

Rather than calming his horse, he was exciting it further into a frenzied state, and he himself looked insane.

“Sion, you bastard…!”

“Aaaahhh!”

Sion screamed.

Half was intentional, but half was genuine chills. Surely it wasn’t a mistake worthy of death, but the moment their eyes met, it didn’t seem like he would let him live. Sion swung the whip hard.

Crack!

The whip lashed the horses’ rumps, but no matter what, a carriage couldn’t outrun a single horse charging alone. The distance between them was gradually shrinking. But he couldn’t give up. Sion shouted while calculating the distance. Perhaps he might succeed like this.

Bang!

“Cra, cra, crazy…! Lord Raymond! You’re trying to kill me!”

Raymond fired his gun. Sion screamed in horror.

But Raymond also shouted back.

“I missed! Stop the carriage right now!”

“How can I stop when Lord Raymond is chasing me like that!”

“It’s dangerous, you bastard! Slow down the carriage right now!”

It would be safe if you didn’t chase me!

Sion wanted to scream, but as Raymond got closer and closer, he trembled with fear. Raymond seemed to regain his composure as he drew nearer.

“If you don’t slow down the carriage, I won’t miss next time.”

He had returned to being calm.

“First I’ll shoot your earlobe. I’m warning you in advance, so don’t get startled and overturn the carriage.”

“Wha, what did you say?”

“If you move too much, even I might accidentally miss.”

“…If you slowly fall back, I’ll st, stop the carriage…”

“Good thinking.”

He had done his best with this much.

Sion swallowed.

He calmed the excited horses and slowly reduced speed. Before he knew it, they had almost reached the town. Sion sighed.

When the carriage came to a complete stop, Raymond approached the carriage door. Opening the carriage door, Raymond let out a deep sigh. Despite chasing all this way, he was actually afraid to face Karen.

“Karen, I understand your feelings, but… this is too mischievous. Please don’t do such things again.”

“…”

“Now that we’ve had enough of a walk, let’s go back.”

“…Close the door and go.”

Raymond’s legs nearly gave out and he almost collapsed. The voice sounded strange.

No, surely… surely not.

He took a deep breath and rubbed his eyes.

That couldn’t be. Why would she be here.

“…Isella.”

“Do you have more to say? Lord Raymond. I’m very displeased right now, so close the door.”

Inside the carriage was not Karen, but Isella with an extremely annoyed expression on her face.

Raymond’s face contorted beyond description.

“No, that can’t be… surely.”

“I told you to close the door. What kind of violent behavior is this right now?”

“I mean, Karen was…”

Raymond frowned.

When an unexpected person appeared, his mind seemed to go blank. But Raymond frowned as he surveyed the inside of the carriage.

And he noticed that the interior of the carriage where Isella was sitting was narrower than it appeared from the outside. Usually they do divide the luggage compartment for use, but they don’t block it up to the ceiling like that. Raymond narrowed his eyes.

“…May I search the carriage, Isela Evans. I think my wife might be riding in here.”

“I heard gunshots earlier. What kind of behavior is this?”

“What husband would just let his wife run away?”

“If you treated her well, she wouldn’t run away.”

“…Please step aside. Or I’ll use force.”

“Lord Raymond should apologize to Miss Isella instead.”

Sion replied in a cold voice.

Raymond clenched his fist then opened it again. He took a deep breath and spoke again.

“Miss Isela Evans, I would like to investigate whether my wife Karen Seyertes is inside this carriage. I ask for your cooperation.”

“You suddenly rode up to startle us, and even fired a gun. Is there any reason I should cooperate?”

Raymond was about to say that the bullet didn’t even come close to Sion and was aimed at the field, but he stopped because even he felt it was petty.

“Count Sion left in a hurry, and my wife has gone missing. I don’t think it’s so strange to suspect she might be in the departing carriage. I’d like to open that rear compartment to check. It would be difficult for her to be in such a place while pregnant.”

“There’s no one in the rear compartment of this carriage.”

“I want to confirm with my own eyes.”

Raymond was persistent, but Isella was no pushover either. This was Isella who had never let Raymond go even once during countless repeated lives. The only way would be to force it with strength. Raymond’s patience was running thin. But as things grew increasingly hostile, Sion intervened.

“Lord Raymond, there really is no one inside here.”

“Then why did you run away?”

“Because you were chasing us.”

“Just open it.”

“You know it’s rude to insist when we say there’s no one, don’t you? Of course, I understand Lord Raymond’s situation too. You truly love and worry about your wife.”

Sion quickly added the latter words to appease Raymond before he lost his reason.

“But if you insist on looking when we’ve said there’s no one inside, you’ll need to take responsibility for that.”

“I don’t think there’s no one.”

“Then go ahead and open it.”

“Sion.”

Sion stepped back slightly. Isella called to Sion, but Sion showed her his palm to stop her. They needed to push and pull appropriately with each other. Isella wanted to stall for more time, but if they blocked any further, the prank could turn into an accident.

“But Lord Raymond must take responsibility.”

Clunk.

Raymond didn’t even answer and opened the door.

* * *

Karen laughed out loud.

From inside the distant carriage.

There had been two carriages from the beginning.

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