Resetting Lady - Chapter 62

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It was gloomy and noisy.

Several men and women blatantly stared at Raymond.

“Oh my, he’s handsome.”

“Xenon? Who is he?”

“Boss.”

“Then… the rumored one?”

“He’s good-looking.”

Raymond turned his eyes away from the shabbily dressed women throwing flirtatious glances and went upstairs.

“I told you this wasn’t a place worth coming to. Are you alright?”

“…I’ve been thinking for a while, but you treat me too much like a child. I’m fine. Rather, a spot by the window would be better.”

Raymond frowned. Before he could even sit down, a familiar figure appeared.

“That’s…”

Looking in the direction Raymond was staring, Xenon turned his head.

Xenon also recognized the face.

“It’s Donna, Miss Karen’s maid. Should I call her over for a drink?”

“Wait a moment.”

Donna was receiving a note from a man with a deeply frowning face. Raymond watched Donna’s lips. After receiving the note, Donna spoke as if protesting, then soon let her shoulders droop and pushed through the door to go outside.

“Oh, she left.”

“What would you like to do about the meal?”

A rough-looking chef appeared before Xenon and Raymond. But Raymond was looking at Donna, not the chef. Why is that maid here?

“Xenon, take your time eating and come back.”

“Raymond, sir?”

Raymond seated Xenon and hurried down the stairs.

“Donna?”

By now, the street was covered in dim darkness. Donna’s head was visible in the distance. Raymond quickly moved his steps toward the alley. In his mind, Karen’s words came to him.

“The culprit of the serial murder case is Baron Ain.”

The place Donna entered was Alley 17. And it was the place Karen had prophesied would be the site of the next murder. Raymond quickened his pace while organizing his thoughts. Maintain a distance within ten steps of Donna. Where is she going?

Do I believe it?

Karen’s words had matched so far. She had never once left the manor alone. She was tormented with work from morning to evening, and this was testified by Verdick, who despised her. Moreover, at night she attended social gatherings as Raymond and the Evans family heiress.

There wasn’t even a grain of connection to the serial murders. Her claim of knowing the future had its own basis.

But Raymond was too old to believe such things. Maybe if he were a boy in his early teens. That this world is a novel. And that he lives repeatedly over and over. He wasn’t idle enough to indulge such adolescent delusions. But what was certain was that Karen was somehow connected to this matter.

“…”

Donna stopped.

Raymond stopped too.

Why is she here? Donna is Karen’s maid. She was a maid who followed from the Hyer Estate and is still the person who spends the most time with Karen. If she too is involved in murder?

Raymond didn’t underestimate women’s intimacy. They share too many things with each other without reservation. Raymond wondered if he should draw his gun, but Donna’s usual appearance made him hesitate. Ordinary and ignorant.

“Ah, really, I don’t want to!”

“…”

Who is it?

Raymond held his breath. In front of Donna was a man with his face covered saying something. It was too dark and Donna was blocking the view. Donna was annoyed, and the man in front seemed somewhat angry.

“Surely it’s not bad…”

“Ah, enough! Don’t call me out like this! It’s really annoying!”

“Insolent wench!”

“Kyaah!”

When the man raised his hand, Donna screamed. Raymond immediately drew his gun. Click, the man stopped his hand. Tension circled in the dark alley.

“…Huh? Sir Knight?”

“Stand back.”

“…I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not like that.”

The man grimaced and lowered his hand that was aimed at Donna’s head.

“Hands up. If you run or resist, I’ll shoot immediately.”

“…”

Squelch squelch, dirty mud soiled the soles of his shoes. An unpleasant sensation crawled up to his toes. The man raised his hands. Raymond checked his face.

“…”

It was a man he didn’t remember, seeing for the first time. Raymond roughly pushed the man against the wall and pressed the gun barrel to his temple. The man’s eyes widened greatly.

“You’ll regret this.”

“Name and affiliation.”

“Sir Raymond Seyertes. I’m not suspicious…”

“Affiliation.”

“…My name is Gail Haiton. I work under Baron Ain.”

“The culprit is Baron Ain.”

Damn.

Raymond approached while keeping the gun aimed. The man was tensely holding up his hands. Don’t know yet. Don’t know. Calm down. If I shoot someone carelessly here, it’ll be irreversible. Raymond swallowed and asked the man.

“Why were you raising your hand to that maid?”

“She was just speaking insolently…”

“This… this…!”

Donna was getting annoyed beside them. She seemed completely relieved with Raymond there. But since giving her time to vent wasn’t what he wanted either, Raymond kicked the man’s knee.

“Ugh, urgh.”

The man groaned and bent his knee.

“Tell me why you threatened this maid and what connection the maid has with the Baron.”

“That’s not something for you to worry about, hiiik!”

“How about this? I just saw you almost kill the maid. And I shot to stop it. Would the Baron complain?”

“Ex, ex, excuse me!”

Donna interrupted from the side. Raymond frowned and looked at the maid. I should interrogate that maid too. She might be connected to Karen. And maybe, Raymond filed away various possibilities. First, this man.

“You stay back.”

“Ex, excuse me… I’m fine though.”

Raymond slammed the man’s head against the wall and spoke threateningly.

“…Murder cases keep happening around this area.”

“Yes?”

“Don’t you think you seem plausible as a perpetrator?”

“Hiiik! No! Sir Knight! It’s just that the Baron took a liking to that maid.”

“So you planned to drag her away, enjoy her, then strangle her?”

“What?”

“The common point of all the bodies found so far is they were all young women with damaged abdomens and lower bodies. Isn’t it obvious? Sexual deviant.”

“Uh…”

“If you confess honestly, you might live. Did the Baron order you? So you wanted to capture and enjoy that woman?”

The man almost rolled his eyes back and trembled violently.

“No! It’s not! I have nothing to do with such things! Neither does the Baron!”

“Inspector Albert would be very pleased.”

“No! Really! All the women so far have been paid. The Baron likes women, but that’s all. I… Hey! Tell him right now!”

Donna pouted and glared at the man.

“You tried to drag me away when I said no.”

“Damn it!”

“We’ll hear the details at the police station.”

“No! Please… Search my belongings, there’s a letter from the Baron to Karen Evans.”

Raymond’s one hand held the man’s arms, the other held the gun. Raymond gestured to Donna with his chin.

“You there, search him.”

“Yes? Yes!”

Donna searched the man’s belongings with an utterly disgusted face and pulled out a letter. Raymond recognized that the seal on the letter was Baron Ain’s seal even in the darkness.

“Bring it here.”

Donna came closer holding the paper.

Raymond narrowed his eyes and looked at the contents of the letter.

“….”

“….”

“…How is it?”

The contents of the letter were exactly as the servant had said.

Baron Ain was asking Karen to let Karen’s maid work at his manor for a few days in exchange for paying the money Karen had lost in the card game. It was prostitution, spoken in roundabout terms.

“Karen, this thing….”

“There’s no way my lady would agree to this!”

“Damn! Hey! You didn’t even send that to your master!”

“Our lady isn’t like that? There’s no way she would do such a thing.”

“…Anyway, Sir Knight, please let me go.”

“….”

Raymond lowered the gun barrel he had been aiming.

“Damn, anyway, please speak properly to Karen Evans.”

“My apologies.”

Raymond held back a sigh and released the force pressing down on the man. The man quickly pulled himself away and disappeared between the alleys.

“….”

So Baron Ain is the culprit.

But even though Raymond had threatened the man himself, he found it hard to believe that fact. Baron Ain wasn’t famous for carelessly playing around with his lower half. At least not among the nobles.

Even if he played around with several maids in his own house, rumors wouldn’t spread easily as long as he didn’t touch noble women. He was a man with that much self-control. Had he been hiding this all along? For decades?

A noble serial killer was something that would capture people’s interest, but Raymond couldn’t shake his doubts. Most murders come from people with unfulfilled desires.

Baron Ain was a noble with a stable estate. He had too much to lose to do such things. But he couldn’t be certain either. Even Karen, who had beauty and promised wealth, had expressed incomprehensible madness.

“Um, excuse me.”

Should he have watched a bit longer without helping the maid? If he believed Karen’s words, it might have been better to just wait and then tell Albert. Then he would become a witness and they would have no choice but to investigate immediately, even if the opponent was a noble.

“Sir Knight?”

“Ah, my apologies.”

“Not at all. Thank you.”

Raymond apologized while looking at Donna. He had made that judgment because otherwise, this maid would find death more comfortable. He kept almost losing focus while concentrating on exposing Karen.

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