The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 220
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Side Story Episode 10
Soon after, another person burst into tears.
“Marta, what should we do…”
“What’s going on? Why was Marta dragged away by the knights?”
“Well…”
Their voices were filled with sobbing.
“They said Marta insulted the Evantes Family…”
“What?”
“Marta wouldn’t do that! Sure, she got annoyed about the soldiers acting arrogant, but would she openly insult such a great family?”
“…But it’s true that Marta made a mistake.”
Everyone seemed frantic as words poured out incoherently.
However, I could understand what was happening.
‘So…’
Just like she did with me before, she had badmouthed the knights as usual, and unfortunately a knight happened to overhear it, which became the problem.
‘Of all people, a knight.’
Soldiers and knights are different.
Most knights were nobles, and great families like Evantes had even more of them.
“You all need to calm down! You’re being too loud.”
Ceril rolled her eyes and looked at me.
“Lorel, Marta ran her mouth wrong. I told her so many times to watch what she says…”
“Ceril! Do you have to say it like that? Lorel didn’t know there were knights around either!”
“She got captured because she ignored my warning!”
Ceril burst out angrily.
“If we want to save Marta, they told us to pay 5,000 linen! But that’s… too much money. How could we possibly get that kind of money!”
5,000 linen. I frowned. That was two years’ worth of living expenses for a commoner family.
“…Lorel, don’t get involved in unnecessary trouble and just go back.”
Ceril warned me in a low voice.
Even though she spoke harshly, she seemed to be worried about Marta.
I looked at Ceril and opened my mouth.
“I’m not going back.”
“What?”
At my words, Ceril looked at me as if flustered.
I grinned at them.
“Because I know a way to save Marta.”
* * *
Those who dragged Marta away were elite knights of the Evantes Family.
Although they had just become low-ranking knights, the Evantes insignia on their knight uniforms felt like absolute power.
“Her name was Marta? What should we do with that woman?”
They had imprisoned her for the crime of daring to insult Evantes.
They received excellent treatment from Lord Piat because they were knights of Evantes. Dealing with one estate resident was nothing at all.
“Who knows? We’ll decide later.”
“You’re really a bad bastard. That’s why I’m proud of you.”
The one estate resident they had imprisoned was merely entertainment to pass time in this boring estate.
“Where would they get 5,000 linen? These poor commoner women from such a poor estate.”
“Exactly, why do mere commoners act up without knowing their place.”
They just giggled with delight at how those women were struggling.
That’s when it happened.
“You insolent fools! How dare you come here knowing where this is! This is not a place you can enter carelessly!”
The gatekeeper guarding the castle gate shouted loudly.
The knights stared at the castle gate.
It was those women they had just been talking about.
“Ah, we’ll have some fun after a while.”
One knight giggled and headed toward the front of the castle.
There stood a frightened group, all tense.
The knight thought about how to toy with them and lifted the corners of his mouth.
“Ahem. Did you bring the money?”
One knight began.
They naturally didn’t think the women could bring 5,000 linen.
“H-how could we possibly give you 5,000 linen!”
Then another woman in the group shouted. Tears were welling up in her eyes.
“And Marta… didn’t insult the Evantes Family!”
The woman gathered her courage and shouted.
“She said the knights eat messily… a-and you always leave without paying after eating!”
“Hey! Look at this impudent wench!”
“Marta told the truth! She never insulted Evantes!”
“Ha! Is it because this is a rural estate? There are so many wenches who don’t know their place.”
All these poor commoners who couldn’t raise the money could do was make such pathetic pleas.
The knights’ mockery deepened.
One knight roughly grabbed and pulled the woman’s shoulder as if to intimidate her.
“If you don’t have 5,000 linen, you’ll have to pay with your body. Right?”
As he added a sinister smile, the captured woman’s face turned pale.
“We are the honorable knights of Evantes! Insulting us is insulting Evantes! And you’re being very rude to us right now…”
Just as he was about to intimidate them further, pink hair fluttered before his eyes.
“Hello?”
A woman of considerable beauty emerged from the group.
She was definitely someone they hadn’t seen before. But that didn’t matter to the knights.
The woman before them was beautiful…
Her pink hair and pink eyes were a rare appearance. She was a woman who aroused that much interest.
“You knights are right.”
The pink-haired woman opened her mouth.
“You knights are the proud face of Evantes.”
They caught on to the woman’s scheme.
Since getting angry didn’t work, she must be planning to sweet-talk them.
She might flatter them, act coquettish, or perhaps… provide more intimate pleasures.
“Now we’re finally getting somewhere!”
They were genuinely pleased with this situation. The sounds of unjust pleading were only enjoyable at first, but became annoying when repeated.
“Right. Insulting us is an act of insulting Evantes. We could overlook it if…”
They looked the woman up and down.
Then the woman’s smile deepened.
“No. You don’t need to overlook it.”
“What?”
The words that flowed from her mouth were completely unexpected.
“Imperial Law Article 7: Plundering civilian homes during non-wartime is punishable by immediate execution.”
…Plundering civilian homes?
The knights were simultaneously dumbfounded. What is that woman saying right now?
However, they weren’t the type to be intimidated just because some commoner wench recited a few legal articles.
“Plundering civilian homes! When did we ever!”
“You ate food and didn’t pay, right?”
“That’s…!”
“That’s called plundering.”
The woman continued speaking with a calm expression.
“The law states that plundering outside of wartime is punishable by death… To lose your head over a few coins for a meal. Are you Evantes knights really that hungry?”
“What, what?!”
The knights were dumbfounded.
“Moreover, since you kidnapped innocent estate residents and demanded money, this would add the charge of special robbery.”
What kind of nonsense is this?
“This insolent…!”
The knights shouted in anger.
“Ha! So you can read a bit. I don’t know where you memorized all these laws from… but do you think anything will change because of that?”
Here, the Count of Piete was on their side.
Even if a commoner woman spouted legal codes, nothing would change. Wasn’t power originally something that existed above the law?
“Do you want to end up like that woman Marta? If we put our minds to it, throwing someone like you in prison is nothing.”
The knights intimidated the woman just as they had done to Marta.
It was a very easy thing to do. Frightening mere commoners and doing whatever they pleased.
“Insulting us is insulting Evantes.”
The knights wore vile smiles.
“So beg. Say you were wrong.”
“…”
“We’re generous, so we’ll give you a chance.”
The woman had clearly lost her mind with fear over the fact that her friend had been dragged away.
It must be the desperate struggle of a poor commoner.
That’s what they thought.
However, the woman who should have been trembling with fear and begging didn’t even blink an eye. Instead, she looked at them with a smile.
As if looking at foolish beasts.
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