Chapter 151.

“I need to see Ikris right away.”

Hearing the news that the safe was stuffed, I stood up from my seat in a flash. After confirming his favor, I had to hear him say ‘I love you’. Or put honey on my tongue, or force someone else to

That was the moment I was in a hurry to leave the table.

“Miss, please wait.”

The butler scrambled to cover my face in embarrassment.

“Let me introduce you.”

“What? Who?”

Hearing the sudden voice, my eyebrows tightened. At that moment. The butler said seriously.

“Come in.”

At that moment, two burly men in armor walked into the room.

“Miss’s escorts are the new caretakers. Sir Philip, Sir Edward,”

“Greetings, Duchess. A first meeting.”

“Please take care of yourself, Lord Duchess.”

“Sir Philip and Sir Ed belong to the Duke’s immediate guard force, and are very good at swordsmanship ……”

I ignored the man’s mean greeting completely and asked the butler in an eerie voice.

“Now, what’s going on in my room? ”

“Mr. Duke ……”

The old butler hesitated for a moment with a hard look on his face, and managed to speak.

“For the time being, the Duke has ordered to forbid any outsiders from contacting the young lady, except for a member of the family.”

“Including Ikris.”

“….?”

Suddenly there was a flash of light before his eyes. The fire that had been so easily extinguished had blazed to the top of my voice. I gritted my teeth and asked again.

“I ……”

“Safe until his interrogation is complete.”

“Safe? ”

“Not imprisonment and surveillance?”

It wasn’t intentional, but one side of my mouth naturally went down. Seeing me grinning like a real mean girl, the butler didn’t even see my eyes.

“That… It’s definitely not like that. It’s not, miss.”

“Then why can’t I see my knight, even he has to be cleaned up as if we were meeting for the first time?”

“Mr. Duke …… has all the knights on their way to the village.”

I was staring at the words of the steward with a good deal of agreement. Privas is a village on the outskirts of the capital where Ikris’s teacher lives.

“Why?

“Come today …… No, the guest was seriously injured because of the demonic creature that appeared a few days ago.”

“That ……”

“It’s not due to the demonic creature” the words came straight to my mouth, but I finally swallowed it. Whether it’s an axis of evil consisting of the heroine’s family language or whether everything is a delusion on my part, it doesn’t matter.

So, trying to remain calm, I goaded the butler to continue.

“Supposedly, the slaves over there take care of injured guests. But they’re all Delmans.”

Isn’t that news that even the butler knows?

It was a fact not known at the time of the purchase of the ease that suited Ikris. For the farm on which the slaves labored was also off the beaten track in the village.

However, if Ikris had met someone he knew from his homeland by chance, and had returned to his house late in the evening to deal with the “demon” that had suddenly attacked the farm, that would be me. In addition to the hidden aftermath, I have prepared an herbal medicine that can be passed on to the slaves.

Please. That was the butler’s and my secret.

That’s what I saw then! It naturally arose that Ikris and the heroine fell in love at first sight.

…Damn it. I swallowed expletives and bit my lower lip as blood flowed.

Why didn’t you discreetly consider the claim that a demonic creature appeared? It was a bitter regret, but the matter had been left and right. I was mesmerized by the close to 98% favorability.

But isn’t Difficulty Mode something where the other male leads can bring in female leads as well?

I suddenly shook my head slightly at the ensuing doubt. I don’t know when it started, but I’m gradually becoming uncomfortable with how the game is unfolding.

With a lost face in deep thought.

“You guys get out.” The butler kicked out the intruders who entered my room without permission. Once they were out, I muttered with a serious face. With wide eyes, I got the information that the Delmans were gathering to prepare for an escape. Because of what Ikris had heard not long ago.

“And so, the young duke, in order to make an urgent arrest ……”

Raising his hand to stop the butler.

“Did that girl talk that much?”

“Not really. These are the stories that came out through Ikris’s mouth during the interrogation, miss.”

“What, what? ”

“The herbs that the young lady handed to Ikris …… are said to have been the principal of their escape.”

He stated, “Upon hearing of the harm done to the people of the homeland like the demons that appeared in the potatoes, he felt so sorry that he gave his help without stinting.”

“But having heard that the care of the lady was known to be misrepresented, he thought long and hard alone to dissuade them. In doing so met the guest, and resolved to clear himself of the favor he had received from the Duke.”

The deacon’s mouth was shut with a sneer.

“Madman.”

I was downright creeped out and shivered at the guy’s ingenuity. The guy who not long ago had said he’d follow them on their escape had now sold them out without a second thought. It was hard for me to understand why this was happening.

“I said I didn’t want to go.”

Ikris was a guy like that from the beginning. Hiding his heart and revealing his loyalty.

But with the surge in favorability, the thought that the damn disposition would change was all an illusion. His well-being was more important than his meager love for the hated imperialists than worrying about folks he hadn’t known before.

The guy who acted like a kind person who worried about his fellow townspeople in front of me didn’t know how much he was thinking about it in his mind. He helped his fellow townspeople escape from the empire.

And he chose the enemy. He chose a copy of his home town as a sacrifice and stayed right here.

Furthermore, he personally seized the opportunity to improve his status, which I could not provide. He prayed for me in order to avoid any suspicion of being an accomplice to the slaves of the defeated country.

Suppressing the fierce feelings that welled up in my heart, I asked.

“What did father say.”

“To send special men to confirm the truth.”

“It is still in progress.”

“Then there will be no sight of father, nor of Ikris, until all the inquests are over, right?”

The butler does not answer. It’s a wordless affirmation. I sigh and give my expulsion order.

“Got it, get out.”

“Then, if you need anything, please feel free to come to me.”

The butler looked at my face and courteously bent down before leaving the room. As soon as this version passes the Duke’s exam, it disappears without a trace, a restrictive look and etiquette.

“Son of a bitch.”

I was momentarily annoyed, wanting to throw my hands up and sweep the table away from me, but managed to hold it back

I can’t lose my sanity over this. There were too many things I wanted to survive. This wasn’t going to work. I staggered to my feet and walked over to the bed.

A second option was needed.

Listlessly, I lay on the bed, my head rolling on the floor. Suddenly feeling powerless I was miserable.

Breathing hard like death is near.

* * *

Having stayed up all day dry-eyed and wide-eyed I left the room early the next morning. Because if it continued like this, the fire that had started from my heart would be burned all over my body.

“Where are you going?”

But as soon as I opened the door, I was stopped by someone who got in the way.

“Go away.”

“You need to figure out where you’re going.”

“I can’t just walk around the house?”

Nervously answering, I admitted that I was becoming too sensitive and strained to name my destination.

“I’m going for a walk in the garden.”

“We’ll follow.”

“Don’t follow me.”

“If you take one step with me here, you will scream bitterly that you have insulted me and abused me.”

“Male, male female.”

Muttering without changing their expressions, the knights’ faces turned white. Because I knew there were a few things I had deliberately cultivated, the Duke was particularly sensitive to its reaction.

“I asked you to escort, but I didn’t order me to run around your house watching over me, did I?”

“Ha, well.”

“Take it easy. I’ll be right back.”

They could only watch as I slipped through the door of my room like a ghost.

As I walked through the corridors, the servants gave me an inexplicable look every time I encountered them. I was tired before I even reached the backyard.

Suddenly, maybe, maybe. If in the end there was no getting out of this damn game. It suddenly occurred to me that this tiresome thing might have to be experienced until death.

A blur before my eyes.

* *

Did come out in a much better mood than when I just stayed in my room. I took a determined step and reorganized my thoughts and plans from last night.

But…if it’s underground, then is it the underground of a residence?

Suddenly, I wondered where Ikris was.

I’ve heard that the basement of a mansion is usually used for binding and torturing prisoners in mid-job. But there’s another place like that near the show grounds. It’s a place for house arrest for wrongdoing, according to the Empire.

Ikris is also a veritable knight-in-training, so he should be there.

I decided to head for the boulevard of the smoke field. I didn’t go there with the idea of seeing him right away. But I’ll go crazy if I just leave it like that, so I’ll just go and check it out.

How long was the walk along the silent boulevard? I was so deep in thought that it was too late for me to notice what was walking across the street.

“Oh…”

Until that side spots me and lets out a faint moan.

“Ah, hello there, male daughter.”

Although she looked a bit embarrassed, she still greeted me harmlessly and kindly, calling me “male daughter”.

A male female?

His term of endearment is exactly the same as the one he used at the beginning of the Normal Mode, and it makes me feel vicious.

It was Iben.