Resetting Lady - Chapter 46

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“Huff, huff, huff.”

She felt like she had been running for a while, but the corridor still seemed endless. It was like wandering endlessly through darkness. Where is this? It’s the manor. How do I get out? I don’t know. The stairs, I need to get back to the stairs. I don’t know the inside of the manor. Let’s get out of here right now.

But after running down the stairs at the end of the corridor, Isella had no choice but to curse.

“Damn it!”

The first floor of the stairs Isella had run down was locked.

Isella…

She could hear footsteps echoing from far away. It was probably Karen. Strangely, while Isella was running and screaming, she hadn’t encountered anyone. There should have been maids or servants around.

“I took the wrong path…”

She had been running through an unused corridor the entire time. The old manor was unfamiliar, so no matter how much she ran, she couldn’t tell where she was. Had this place always been so vast?

Isella covered her face and gritted her teeth. The footsteps were getting closer.

In the end, she had to run to another corridor.

“As expected… as expected, it was that bitch.”

The moment she saw her face, Isella knew.

Karen had killed the lord. Even though she hadn’t witnessed the actual murder scene, Isella realized it in that moment. She was the cause of everything. She doesn’t see people as people. With her bright face and gentle attitude, she deceived everyone while stabbing knives into their throats.

Surely Karen had killed the maid too.

“Huff, huff… huff.”

Isella ran.

Strangely, once she recognized that Karen was a murderer, the unpleasant sensation that had been slowly binding Isella disappeared. It was more frightening because she didn’t know. It was more terrifying because the line between fantasy and reality was ambiguous.

“I can live… I can live.”

She gritted her teeth.

Once stripped of her madness, though still terrifyingly frightening, Karen was ultimately just a 17-year-old young maiden. And she didn’t have a gun. All she had was a single silver candlestick.

Whatever Karen’s true nature, her strength couldn’t be monstrous, and she wasn’t even a man. She seemed to have less physical strength than Isella. Such a frail body.

“I’ll make sure you rot in prison.”

Isella vowed. No, Karen would be executed. She giggled with hope. She might become a hero. Karen was a despicable patricide who killed her father and might be a murderer who killed several others. Once she caught her, surely Raymond would admire Isella, bow his head, and repent for his actions.

“Phew.”

She had to survive first. After checking her surroundings, Isella pushed the door she saw in front of her.

“Damn.”

It was locked. Since it was an unused corridor, maybe they had locked it. She was about to click her tongue when she held her breath and moved her steps. Fortunately, Karen seemed slower than her, as no footsteps could be heard.

“Ta-da.”

“…Huh?”

Someone pressed down on her shoulder. She could hear a small laughing voice whispering in her ear while holding her breath.

“How could I possibly lose you in my own house?”

Karen smiled like a nightmare.

“Ah… ah, ahhhhh!”

Isella shook off Karen’s grip and stepped hard on Karen’s foot. When she heard a terrible crunching sound, Isella cheered inwardly.

“Your action skills are no joke.”

She laughed while blood dripped from her foot. As if she felt no pain. And she approached Isella again.

“Kyah, kyahhhhh!”

Isella screamed in disgust. That woman is a monster.

Karen limped toward her with a smile. Just like in the garden, or like in the music room. She looked like a cultured lady, but blood flowed from her foot and she approached with a candlestick in her hand.

Karen spoke with a smiling face.

“Isella… shall we be friends in our next life?”

“…What?”

Unexpected words came out in a truly strange situation.

“As expected, your screaming is wonderful.”

There was only one thing Isella could say.

“…Crazy bitch.”

After spitting that out, she turned around. If it had been a safe situation, she would have wanted to gesture as well.

“That’s unfortunate… But maybe we can be friends next time. You are…”

“Get lost!”

From afar, Karen shrugged her shoulders regretfully and was chasing after her. Dragging her leg. That gave Isella chills, so she gritted her teeth.

And so another dark corridor continued.

“Hah, hah, hah.”

Her breath reached her chin. Her heart beat like crazy. The limits of her stamina were approaching. Isella cursed the endless corridor.

Could this all be a dream? If she collapsed like this, wouldn’t everything be resolved and she would open her eyes in bed?

“…”

That couldn’t be. Isella mocked herself while running.

“Hah… Huk…”

But that too had limits. Just before Isella’s body collapsed, she spotted people.

“Ah.”

There were people in the depths of the darkness.

“Perhaps…”

No. It’s not a woman. Isella squinted her eyes to confirm that first, then let out a small sigh of relief.

Moreover, it was definitely a man. Absolutely not Karen. Finally! Isella let out a cheer.

“Help me! Save me!”

Isella ran toward the figures with all her might.

“Huff, huk, huk… Mur, murder, there’s been murder…!”

Isella ran to them with all her strength and collapsed. Warmth. People.

“What’s the matter?”

One of the men caught Isella and asked. People. Reality. She had finally met people.

“Murder… murder case… Karen Hyer is… a murderer. She killed people… her own father…”

“What do you mean…”

Another man groaned in disbelief. It would be unbelievable. But somehow it was over now. She was safe.

“The lord?”

“Everything… everything was that bitch…”

She felt her legs give out from the relief of meeting people. Thank goodness. I met people. That crazy bitch. You’re finished now.

Isella cleared her choking throat and lifted her head. Or tried to.

“…Guk.”

Pure white fingers gripped Isella’s throat. Isella struggled and felt those hands slowly lifting her body.

Why?

“…So.”

Darkness fell before Isella’s eyes

“I told you many times.”

A low voice settled gloomily in her ear.

“Don’t interfere in useless matters.”

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Karen gripped the silver candlestick with both hands and leaned against the wall. She wanted to cry. So she cried.

Hot tears flowed down her cheeks. No one is here. Why? Where did the supporting character who was running away from her hands disappear to? She couldn’t possibly escape this corridor.

“Isella… where did you go?”

Isella had disappeared. She had vanished from where she should definitely have been. Just like Nancy. Like her that day.

“Isella. Isella. Miss Isella Evans…”

She called earnestly several times like a beloved lover. Please appear. Don’t disappear. Die by my hands. Hurry up and appear and scream. This is too much now. I hate the world of madness again. Karen herself had to be the one to kill Isella. No matter how many times she went around the corridor, she couldn’t see her.

“Isella Evans!”

Even when she screamed loudly, the disappeared girl did not appear.

Karen collapsed in the corridor. The tears wouldn’t stop. Please appear. Die by my hands. Or kill me. I don’t care either way. I hate this irrational world so much. There’s nothing clear and the truth is so vague that this place is too overwhelming.

“Please appear…”

Karen moved slowly as if crawling. It’s okay. Calm down. It’s still okay. Let’s think. Let’s doubt. Doubt will save her. Let’s think about where Isella could have gone. But it wasn’t okay.

“…It hurts.”

Pain surged up from her foot. Karen crouched and lay down in the corridor.

“It hurts so much…”

She felt like she was dying. Karen hated that kind of pain. But what she hated more than the pain was the fact that Isella had disappeared. Once again, Isella had vanished. If she had succeeded in escaping, it wouldn’t be this quiet. The situation was too heavy and unpleasant.

“…Don’t do this.”

She really hated this kind of thing. Was it such a great thing to hope that when people died, they would be buried in the ground, rot, and let time pass like that? Karen wiped away her tears and dragged her legs as she returned to the study. Each step was agonizing. At the very least, the money must have been taken. But what gave Karen some comfort was this pain.

“…”

The only thing that could save Karen, who had fallen into panic after Isella’s disappearance, was the pain she had left behind.

“…Let’s go back.”

She had already circled around several times. Going around more would be a waste of time. Karen decided to check something more important.

“No way. That can’t be.”

Karen muttered “just in case, just maybe” as she headed back toward the study.

“It’s too much to do this now.”

Just when she thought something might finally work out, for the story to fall apart like this again was too much! Karen suppressed her screams and forced her body to move. Moving with swollen feet took far too long and was painful. It took Karen at least five times longer before she could barely make it back to the study. Karen closed her eyes and prayed.

“Please…”

Please don’t disappear, Father. I hate it. I hate fantasies and I hate mysteries.

She took a deep breath before opening the door. Karen steadied her crumbling heart and grasped the handle, turning it.

Click.

She opened the study door.

“…Ha.”

It was a relief. The lord was hanging by his neck, swaying slowly in the air. It was the same situation as before. Karen let out a sigh of relief upon seeing the corpse. Thank goodness. Father was indeed dead.

“Father.”

The corpse remained hanging there. Even though Isella had disappeared, Father’s corpse remained like this. Then had Isella succeeded in escaping?

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