The Circumstances of Being Chosen as the Villainess’s Favorite - Chapter 170

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Chapter 170

“Don’t worry too much.”

Dietrich deliberately answered with a more cheerful voice.

“Not only the law enforcement, but I’m also deploying my own people to search.”

“Well, I’m not worried.”

Evangeline answered as if it were completely natural.

“That bastard Isaac, my brother will punish him. Right?”

Her voice was full of trust.

Dietrich chuckled and nodded.

“Of course.”

“Good. That aside…”

Evangeline’s eyes sparkled as she asked her question.

“So, when are you going to propose to Larit?”

Cough! Dietrich, who happened to be drinking water, nearly spat out everything in his mouth.

Barely suppressing his coughing, Dietrich glared at his sister.

“What kind of random nonsense is that?!”

“Huh, why are you reacting like that? You’re not planning to marry Larit?”

Instead, Evangeline widened her eyes and asked back.

“No, marriage is…!”

Dietrich’s face flushed red.

Well, honestly, it wasn’t like he had never imagined marriage at all.

Both he and she were of marriageable age.

Even during this incident with Evangeline’s false accusations, honestly, it would have been difficult to endure without Larite.

Just having someone he could rely on made it much easier to bear.

Moreover.

‘Living without Larit… I can’t imagine it at all now.’

It was truly amazing.

Actually, the time he had known Larite wasn’t even that long.

For someone to come so deeply into his life, and for life without that person to be unimaginable…

However, what bothered him was.

‘I even confessed my feelings so carelessly.’

Dietrich gripped his utensils tightly.

‘I want to do the proposal properly, without any shortcomings.’

Of course, before proposing, he would need to find out if Larite truly thought seriously about their relationship.

“Well, my brother will handle it well on his own.”

Evangeline pointed the knife in her hand threateningly.

“I can’t accept anyone other than Larit as my sister-in-law. Got it?”

“Well, you seem to be mistaken about something.”

At that cute threat, Dietrich replied without batting an eye.

“I can’t do without Larit either. I can’t accept any other woman as my wife.”

“Ahaha!”

An unexpectedly smooth answer came back. Evangeline burst into laughter.

“Yes, that’s how it should be.”

After finishing their meal like that.

Evangeline returned to her room with an extremely satisfied expression.

‘She’s lively.’

Watching his spirited sister, Dietrich smiled faintly.

Recently, Evangeline had gone through various difficult ordeals.

It must have been very hard for her.

So he had been secretly worried…

‘Thank goodness.’

He was deeply grateful for his sister who hadn’t lost her spirit at all.

As Dietrich walked toward his study, he suddenly looked up beyond the window.

A particularly dark night with not even the moon rising.

‘Larit.’

Was it because Evangeline had been singing throughout dinner that ‘Larite is my only sister-in-law’?

Looking at that pitch-black night sky, Larite’s long, flowing black hair suddenly came to mind.

When he would run his hand through that smooth hair.

Those pink flower-colored eyes would look up at him quietly, as if asking why…

‘…I miss her.’

Once he thought of Larite, her image kept flickering in his mind.

‘Should I just go see her?’

Such an impulse suddenly arose.

If he visited so suddenly like this, Larite would surely look at him with surprised rabbit eyes.

Imagining that sight, Dietrich unconsciously smiled softly.

Normally he would arrange to meet in advance.

But when he missed her this much, wouldn’t it be okay to visit just once without notice?

After all…

They were lovers.

In the end, Dietrich stopped a servant passing through the corridor.

“Prepare the carriage.”

* * *

At that moment.

An old cargo wagon quietly crossed the street, avoiding people’s eyes.

After traveling for quite a while, the carriage stopped behind the Ansi Family Townhouse.

A street with absolutely no sign of people.

A man jumped down from the coachman’s seat.

He wore his hat pulled low to hide his face.

The man raised his head high and carefully observed the townhouse.

As if gauging someone’s location.

‘Larit Ansi… that woman’s room was supposed to be over there.’

After observing the townhouse for a while, the man walked briskly toward the cargo wagon.

With impatient hands, he lifted the cloth covering the cargo wagon, revealing several large backpacks inside.

The man shouldered one backpack and lightly jumped over the low wall.

After repeating this process several times, the man had moved all the backpacks inside the wall.

And.

Click!

The sound of a lock opening rang out dryly.

Inside the opened backpack were canteens filled with some unknown liquid.

“Good.”

The man twisted up the corners of his lips and picked up a canteen.

Then he opened the canteen lid and poured it all over the side of the townhouse building.

The smell of oil sharply stung his nose.

After thoroughly sprinkling the oil he had brought on the townhouse building.

The man rummaged through his pocket and pulled out a square object.

It was a matchbox.

Strike!

A spark flared up above the match.

Under that firelight, crazed sky-blue eyes revealed themselves.

“When I’m this miserable, Dietrich.”

Isaac muttered to himself like a madman.

“It’s too unfair for you to live happily and well all by yourself… isn’t it?”

With those words.

Isaac threw the match toward the oil-soaked wall.

Bright red flames shot up fiercely.

* * *

The first thing that woke me from my sleep was the acrid smell that brushed past my nose.

‘Hm?’

Why is there such a smell in the room?

As if there’s a fire or something…

‘A fire?!’

I suddenly snapped awake.

I hurriedly lifted my eyelids.

The surroundings were completely stained with pitch-black smoke.

Cough!

Coughing poured out of me.

I hadn’t noticed until it got this bad. This was serious.

I covered my nose and mouth with my sleeve and staggered to my feet unsteadily.

‘I need to get outside.’

Where are the other people?

Did everyone evacuate safely?

In the midst of my confused mind.

“Miss! Miss…!”

An urgent cry was heard.

But that voice… was too far away.

“Amy!”

Cough!

As I called for Amy, I coughed once more.

My throat stung.

The smoke filling all directions made my eyes sting too.

…It felt like being swallowed into the pitch-black mouth of a monster.

‘What should I do, I can’t get my bearings.’

My heart constricted with fear.

But I couldn’t just stay still like this.

I clenched my hands that were damp with cold sweat.

‘No, I’ll be able to get out.’

I tried hard to stay calm and rummaged through the drawer to pull out a handkerchief.

I poured water from the vase to make a wet cloth.

First, I covered my nose and mouth.

Then I lowered my posture and moved toward where I guessed the door would be.

* * *

Dietrich noticed something was wrong while passing Main Street, where the Ansi Family Townhouse could be seen in the distance.

“…Whoa!”

“Contact the police…!”

“What about the fire department?!”

The outside was strangely chaotic.

‘What’s going on?’

Dietrich frowned and looked out the window.

At the same time, his eyes widened greatly.

‘That’s…!’

In the distance, the night sky was stained a deep crimson color.

And that direction was…

‘Larit!’

It was toward where the Ansi Family Townhouse was located!

Dietrich raised his voice like a scream.

“Speed up. Right now!”

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