The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 197

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Part 2, Chapter 44

Ch. 4 

Meanwhile, the relationship between the Claudio mother and daughter was deteriorating day by day. 

“Virna! Your brother is in that state and you can still comfortably swallow food!”

“Mother! What exactly did I do wrong?”

“Madam, Miss. Please both of you calm down….” 

Though they had finally created some time alone together, the mother and daughter’s conversation quickly spiraled toward disaster.

The maids were restless between the two menacing people.

“Why is everyone picking on only me!?”

Virna burst out in irritation. It was the worst. 

“Samon, Samon, Samon, I’m really sick of it! Please just stop now. What more can I do?”

The sharp clashing sound of dishes struck their ears. 

A pair of resentful eyes turned toward Catherine.

Her crippled brother had become a tyrant of the household. 

His mood swings had reached extremes, and if anyone went against his mood, vicious curses and violence would inevitably follow.

Recently, the scope had expanded even further – when Mariyu, who was nursing him, tattled about the maids’ behavior, he slapped her right on the spot.

Samon alone was overwhelming enough, but now they had to cater to his mistress’s whims too, so the maids’ complaints never ceased.

“Young master. Even so, asking us to treat a commoner girl like the madam – perhaps you should reconsider those words?”

The old maid supervisor, unable to watch any longer, stepped forward to speak sense to him, which became the source of trouble.

“Oh ho, maid supervisor. Even you, who treated my words like gold your whole life, now see me as easy prey since I’ve become like this?”

“Y-young master. You misunderstand. I was just….”

“You live when I say live and die when I say die. How dare a lowly thing like you not know your place and act up, act up!”

Samon’s rage and inferiority complex made no exception even for the maid supervisor who had been with him for over a decade.

The maid supervisor knew Samon Claudio, who was born of royal blood and had arrogantly ruled over people his entire life.

She was also someone who had watched Peleus for the same amount of time. 

Thinking that the maid supervisor’s wrinkled eyes were comparing the still noble Peleus with his own pathetically fallen current state, something boiled up inside Samon. 

So Samon swung whatever he could grab indiscriminately. With both Catherine and Hoakin away, there was no one who could stop him.

When his sanity returned, the maid supervisor’s breath had already ceased. 

Clang.

Seeing the blood-stained iron rod rolling on the floor, Samon belatedly realized it had been his cane. 

“M-master….”

“Get out! All of you get out! I’ll kill all of you too!”

“Darling, it’s okay. Calm down.”

Mariyu embraced Samon and tried to calm his excitement. 

However, his twisted anger, having lost its reins once, eventually reached even his beloved sister, Virna.

A few days ago, when Virna said that beating the longtime maid supervisor to death was going too far, he suddenly rushed at her like a madman and strangled her.

“What do you know…! A thing that’s only lived off others your whole life, how dare you…!”

“Gah… S-Samon, why are you like this… Come to your senses!”

Virna felt the terror of death for the first time then.

Though not particularly affectionate, he had been a reasonably caring brother, but after that day, Samon had completely changed into a different person.

“Samon tried to kill me! You saw it too, Mother!”

“You need to understand, dear. Samon is in a lot of pain right now.”

Despite clearly hearing about that day’s events, Catherine only half-heartedly consoled Virna.

“Let’s think about only what’s most important. You want your brother to recover quickly too, don’t you. Help this poor mother just a little, Virna.”

When her daughter still didn’t seem to soften, Catherine too began to get angry. 

She already had enough headaches with the dead maid supervisor’s son constantly threatening to report this incident.

She had to silence the servants who were quitting one by one to replace the maid supervisor and organize the chaotic household.

She also had to find ways to somehow restore her son’s legs, both within and outside the continent.

She still had to find justification that her son was unrelated to that day’s explosion so the investigation team, still searching for the culprit with burning eyes, wouldn’t catch their tail.

Catherine rubbed her temples. 

It felt like heavy rocks were crushing her head mercilessly.

“That’s why you should have been more careful with your words too, Virna. You knew your brother was sensitive right now, so why did you stir up past events and create this mess, this mess.”

“…Mother! What are you saying?!”

When her true feelings slipped out and Virna shrieked, Catherine also exploded in anger.

“Just stop it! What do you have to be so wronged about? Your legs weren’t cut off, you’re standing fine on both feet, so what exactly is so unsatisfactory to you! Huh?”

The anger eventually led to guilt and lament about her son.

“Your brother became like that trying to raise the family, but what have you done to be so defiant-, Virna! Where are you going again!”

Finally, unable to bear it any longer, Virna was the first to storm out of her seat. 

Thump thump thump, her angry rough footsteps echoed through the corridor.

‘Really sick of it! I hate everything, I hate it all!’

She was about to run, clutching her chest in maddening frustration.

“Virna? Where are you going?”

Virna encountered Raju, who was just entering the manor. 

“….” 

Reddened eyes, rough gasping breath, and lips torn from biting them to hold back anger. 

Sensing the unusual situation, Raju stopped her.

“Hm? What’s wrong, tell this godfather-“

“Fine! Just leave then! That immature thing, calling her my daughter when I cherished her so-!”

Just then, Catherine’s shouting could be heard from far away.

Raju frowned as if he understood. 

The arguments between the Claudio mother and daughter had now become a frequent part of daily life.

He caught Virna, who was trying to pass by with downcast eyes.

“Where are you going at this hour. Your mother will worry.”

“Ha! Didn’t you just hear, Godfather? Mother doesn’t care! She only worries about brother, someone like me could die in the street and she wouldn’t even blink!”

Virna burst into sharp tears. 

Seeing that, Raju’s insides also boiled with anger.

‘What wrong has this child done.’

Always picking on her own daughter like that. 

Since Samon’s accident, Virna had been neglected in the chaotic household situation. 

The real villain was someone else, but it seemed like his goddaughter was bearing all the damage, making Raju both heartbroken and angry. 

“Let’s do this. How about staying at this godfather’s house?”

“…Godfather’s house?”

“Yes. I have to stay out all night for work anyway. So no one will bother you. Stay there as long as you want before coming back.”

He had been feeling sorry for Virna, trapped in this narrow manor because of people’s attention.

“….” 

Normally, Virna would have scoffed. 

But now, having been scolded even after being strangled by her own brother, she wanted to escape from this house immediately.

“…Then I’ll trouble you briefly.”

“Of course, anytime. Kay, you escort the young lady. During her stay at the manor, she must have no inconveniences whatsoever. Understood?” 

“Yes, master.”

Reading Virna’s non-refusing attitude, Raju brightened. 

He was so pleased that he even sent his close aide secretary, whom he rarely separated from his side, to accompany Virna.

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