The Isolated Marchioness Just Wants to Make a Living - Chapter 61
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Chapter 61
I let out an involuntary groan.
‘Good heavens, how could I forget that?’
Should I wait a week and ask Leopold to bring it to me?
I briefly lost myself in imagination.
“Leopold, could you open that damn high wall gate for me? I left the handkerchief you gave me in the warehouse that day.”
“Oh, it doesn’t matter.”
“It matters to me. That handkerchief is the only thing you’ve ever given me, so I want to keep it for now. I don’t really understand my own feelings, but thinking about it more will only hurt me, so I’d appreciate it if you didn’t ask any more questions.”
“Ah…”
“Isn’t it obvious? You know it too. When you show soulless kindness to a hundred people with that talented face of yours, one hundred and five of them are bound to flutter. It’s a bit awkward to introduce myself at this point, but I’m about the 62nd girl among them.”
“I see…”
“Now, would it be okay to change the subject? If so, would you help me think about my coffin design? We don’t have much time, so let’s decide quickly. The cause of death will be shame from this very conversation. Please bury with me the flowers you sent during the broken engagement – I secretly made them into dried flowers myself and put them in the first drawer of my desk.”
“I will.”
Just imagining it was truly horrifying.
I could easily predict a look that said, ‘This is really troublesome, but did you really have to say such unpleasant things? From now on, try thinking first about whether the other person wants to hear what you’re about to say or not.’
So I absolutely couldn’t tell Leopold honestly. It would be better to just go get it myself quickly.
It would obviously still be in that warehouse. That night, Leopold had also followed me in a hurry.
‘If I carelessly ask a maid to do it, she might find out about my secret meeting with Leopold.’
That could put Leopold in a difficult position too.
There was only one answer.
‘I’ll have to sneak there again and just get it.’
Wouldn’t it be fine if I went at the same time following the route Leopold had told me?
Even if I got caught, I could just say I came for a walk. It was close to Tulip Hall after all.
But there was a problem.
‘The door… It’s probably locked, right?’
The path to the remote warehouse had high walls. There was just one iron gate standing there, firmly locked.
‘Last time Leopold must have opened it, but it’s probably closed now, right?’
It didn’t seem like it would open easily. And there was no way I could jump over that high wall…
Hmm.
I looked at Alpheus in front of me.
If it was this person, it would be possible.
* * *
9 PM, Grand Duke’s Residence.
I knocked on Alpheus’s door.
“Brisa?”
Alpheus tilted his head and opened the door.
“What’s wrong?”
“Come out.”
I grabbed his hand and pulled him along.
“There’s somewhere we need to go for a moment.”
“Huh? Where? Is it urgent?”
“It’s urgent. We need to avoid the eyes of the Grand Duke’s Residence Maids.”
“What? Why?”
Alpheus looked somewhat bewildered, but still obediently followed where I led him.
“Listen carefully, Alpheus. Don’t ask anything.”
I whispered while moving along the route Leopold had shown me before.
“If we go this way, we’ll soon reach a high wall. You just need to hold me and secretly climb over that wall.”
“…Secretly? Brisa, we can’t do that in someone else’s house. We’re guests.”
“We just need to bring back one thing. It won’t even take 5 minutes. After that, we’ll climb back over the wall and return here.”
“Is it your belonging?”
There was room for debate on that matter.
Generally, when a gentleman gives a handkerchief to a lady, there’s no obligation to return it. Usually they would keep it as a token of connection.
But in the current situation, I hadn’t brought it with me.
“Well, once I bring it back, it will be my belonging.”
After saying that, it sounded a bit strange, so I quickly added:
“But it won’t cause trouble for anyone. It’s just precious and meaningful to me, that sort of thing.”
Then Alpheus stopped walking.
“I see, Brisa. I understand perfectly.”
He smiled kindly and let go of my hand.
“Be careful on your way.”
“Huh?”
“It doesn’t seem like you’ll succeed, but I’ll wish you luck anyway.”
“…What are you talking about?”
I looked at Alpheus, overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal.
Alpheus shrugged his shoulders.
“I’m saying I won’t help you.”
“What?”
It literally felt like I’d been hit hard on the back of the head.
I asked with trembling lips, looking at him with disbelieving eyes.
“You… weren’t you suffering from protagonist syndrome? When did you get cured?”
“Pro, protagonist syndrome? What kind of illness is that?”
“The illness where you help people unconditionally without thinking when someone vaguely mentions something precious!”
I stomped my feet and shouted.
“The symptom where you don’t think deeply, don’t calculate, and just meddle broadly in everything!”
Why did it have to be cured suddenly right now!
As I sighed regretfully, Alpheus crossed his arms.
“I simply believe in good intentions and sincere goodwill between people.”
“That’s exactly it!”
“Stealing doesn’t require sincere goodwill or anything like that.”
Ah.
Come to think of it, from Alpheus’s perspective, he might consider it stealing.
“Strictly speaking, it’s not stealing. I’m just taking something that’s been abandoned without an owner and cherishing it.”
I desperately chose my words to appeal to Alpheus’s sense of justice.
A good intention worthy enough to overcome secretly climbing over someone’s wall…
“Environmental protection!”
It seemed like a place people rarely visited, so that handkerchief would probably just stay there abandoned forever.
Picking up something that would be thrown away and reusing it was definitely environmental protection.
“That’s kind of the intention.”
“Hmm, really?”
“Yes! So please don’t ignore my sincere goodwill toward the world?”
Would it work?
“…Well, if that’s the case, I understand.”
It worked.
“We must love nature, after all.”
The war hero who had once proven his love for nature to the entire world by wearing a floral handkerchief around his neck took my hand again.
“Let’s hurry. We’ll get caught.”
I held onto Alpheus’s hand and walked with quick steps.
Indeed, a high wall came into view near the Iris Garden. It was a height that ordinary people could never climb over.
“Here…? Brisa, isn’t this a treasure warehouse by any chance?”
“Absolutely not. Who would build a treasure warehouse sitting alone in a place like this? This is closer to a prison.”
“Is that so?”
Alpheus held me and jumped up.
In the blink of an eye, we had crossed over the wall.
“Now, it’s this way.”
I immediately turned my gaze toward the spot where Leopold and I had sat.
“There it is!”
Indeed, the handkerchief was quietly sitting in that spot.
Feeling proud, I jumped down from Alpheus. Just as I was about to run toward the bench.
“Wait, Brisa!”
Alpheus whispered.
“I’ll do it!”
…Do what?
“Just in case it might be dangerous!”
The handkerchief?
I tilted my head but dismissed it as nonsense and didn’t answer. Then I quickly moved my steps toward the handkerchief.
“I’ll do it, Brisa! Just wait a moment.”
Alpheus rushed in front of me like lightning. Then he suddenly flung open the door of the warehouse that was inside the wall.
‘Huh?’
The warehouse walls were very thick and there were no windows. It had even been empty last time. I couldn’t understand why Alpheus had opened that warehouse door.
It was when I approached the warehouse in surprise.
“Geez, this little guy, why is something so small this strong?”
I was startled out of my wits.
Alpheus was restraining a puppy inside the warehouse.
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