Chapter 174.

There was a man waiting for him. It’s the maid.” What?”

“Is it okay if I …… look for Ms. Iben?” She blurted out with a sad face.

“After returning to her room, she has been crying in continued unease.”

Derrick stopped there. It would have been fine she had to be brought to the Bar Mitzvah Hall is me. But what a frightening, aggravating feeling to be locked in a room as a criminal in half a day.

Judging it that way, he tried to move a step towards Iben’s room.

But contrary to the thought, the body didn’t move. It was strange. Suddenly, the thought that it wasn’t that haunted his mind. The anxiety that he felt when talking to the Duke just now, emanated from his body in a low level.

“…Later.”

Derrick struggled to get the words out in a gagged, tight voice.

“Go on, and eat your meals, only to come to the Continuing Little Duke ……”

“Later, go later.”

He avoided the earnestly hanging maid and moved his feet as if fleeing. He didn’t know where to go and moved his feet aimlessly. Why did he feel this way, from the moment he heard the news that Penelope might die, he could not shake off the feeling of crime. All I did was take away the angry and crying Iben.

Ah …… Ah, not the Duke ……. Perhaps …… there is time?

Early in the morning, Iben approached me and asked to have tea together. Although pretending to smile as if nothing had happened, the somber look was leisurely. No one cared about her due to Penelope’s Bat Mitzvah preparations. What’s more, I who had to hide in the room for the entire Bat Mitzvah and would be hard to find if I was killed by mistake. Scared of life, not knowing what to comfort or anything.

“I-I’m fine. The Bar Mitzvah has already taken place.”

Just one sentence of it’s okay, she smiled like a fog that’s about to disappear.

It’s a shame that we can’t spend this celebration together compared to the Bar Mitzvah ……. In honor of the victory, the fireworks at this celebration are more gorgeous than other times, yes, beautiful …… you know. If I recovered my memory earlier, I could only watch it …… with my brothers this time.

Look at my eye color attached, full of regret trembling voice. This is enough to vividly restore the memory of the day that Derek had previously forgotten. The day he lost Ben, more than ten years ago.

Saying that there was danger, they went to celebrate the night streets, and in the Duke’s house, the three siblings climbed out of the dog hole. Because the younger sister wanted to see the fireworks up close.

The first time I went the night of the festival was very interesting. Buying cheap decorations, eating street food, and dancing to the music that was coming. The parade attacked them.

“Brother! ″Iben! ″

My sister was taken away by a group of people in the blink of an eye. Eyes filled with tears, drifting away from me. The small hand reaching out to me that he finally couldn’t grasp. In the instantly revived memories, Derrick closed his eyes tightly.

Opening his eyes again, he looked at himself with eyes filled with worry, revealing a speechless face.

It was at that moment that Derrick was sure. The slave’s family brought me, sure of my lost sister.

“Yes, I’m sorry, Duke. I seem to have said something I shouldn’t have. Just suddenly, remembered that time …….”

“But …… I really miss you. It’s always when you lose your memory.”

Seeing my twisted face, Iben stood up in a panic. After that incident, my sister not only did not blame him for missing him, but worried and comforted him.

I came home, but I was so angry that I didn’t even say “please” clearly. Unlike the child who occupied the second level.

So. Before the Bar Mitzvah, in order to find Ibn, held his breath and brought her out crying. Unlike Penelope before the coming-of-age ceremony that was more magnificent than anyone else, Iben, who had mingled among the commoners and had not even been able to hold the coming-of-age ceremony properly, felt regret. The content of the ominous dream he had the day before had a part in it.

“No matter what, I won’t move around in front of everyone.”

“You’ll come along too.”

“Yeah? Haha, but male female …….”

“You’re a male daughter too, aren’t you. Wouldn’t it be more ridiculous for a real daughter not to attend an occasion where her immediate family is attending.”

In response, he happily brought the wolfing down Iben on his way to the banquet, suddenly curious. How will that child react when he sees the Iben I brought with me. Will he get angry and make a scene. Or close his mouth and be expressionless as usual.

Or maybe I’m doing it all wrong, don’t abandon yourself. Like receiving a scarf from me, will that cute smiling face plead …… with me.

Derrick thought suddenly, stopping dead in his tracks with a frightening jerk.” Here it is ……”

Without realizing it, he was up here. Looking around, he stood on the last floor of the central staircase.

An anxious butler and maid were seen in the far corridor. He hesitated for a moment and immediately moved his feet that way.

“Young Duke.” The butler, who raised his head, showed a surprised expression.

“Is there …… anything inside?”

Drake asked. The butler, who gauged the temporary blurring of the subject of the question immediately, answered with a slight nod.

“The attending physician is seeing a patient.”

“I’d like to confirm the status.”

“Ah, it’s ……”

Hearing the words to enter the room, the housekeeper was visibly alarmed. The embarrassed expression surprised me, and an unfamiliar voice came from inside Mende.

“How is it, what’s the status.”

It was the voice of a heavy-set man. Derrick, who was frightened on the first day, gently opened the open door of the room and grasped the open door handle of the previous year.

“Young Duke, it’s the Crown Prince.” The butler hurried to stop him and whispered.

The words caused Derrick to grab the doorknob and freeze. The newly filled smoke from the doorway reflected the two men. Placing the bed in the center, the attending physician and the Crown Prince stood.

“The life threatening situation has passed, but the bleeding hasn’t stopped completely. When …….” The doctor shook his head vaguely. Possibly wiping it off, he held a cloth of red water in his hand.

Like a relaxed man, the Crown Prince stumbled into a chair beside the bed. He grasped the hand sticking out beyond the quilt, brought it to his mouth, and bowed his head. There was a deathly, somber silence in the room.

“…… Is it because of me, is it bad to make fun of me every time? So this time you do such a thing like this?”

After a while, the Crown Prince was heard mumbling. Derrick held his breath and listened to the inaudible that voice.

“Actually, I know it very well. You are as far removed from the bloodless, tearless wicked girl as the rumors say.”

“But you’re too pretty to wink at me every time you say that.”

“So I don’t know, it’s always the same. I don’t really mean it.” The clueless Crown Prince buried his face in Penelope’s hands.

“You don’t want to hear rumors of a wicked woman without blood or tears. Not only are they not bloodless and tearless and cruel, but they are very qualified people …….”

“But the blood is still flowing. You hate stuff like that ……. Don’t you?” The hand as pale as a corpse didn’t look the least bit warm. The Crown Prince rubbed his lips and cheeks haphazardly in that hand, conveying body heat.

“Please destroy …… from hell please open your eyes.”

“Don’t die, Penelope.”

“There is only me in hell ……” The moment I heard that whisper.

Pen—. There was a loud boom in Derrick’s ears as something shattered.

“Something like this …… “It’s not that I want something like this. It’s just that I’m curious. How would Fruitful react to carrying Iben. But I wasn’t wanting something like this.

Without realizing it, Derrick’s face turned black.

“It came from that maid’s room.”

Small glass vials of clear liquid lay on the table.

“I rummaged around in the street above it and it turned out to be the antidote to the poison Penelope took.”

To produce the evidence, Leonard, who had risen, returned and sat down. Five heavy-faced men now sat in the parlor. Duke, Derrick, Leonard, Winter, and Callisto. It was an occasion to gather in search of clues to this event.

Derrick had gotten into trouble in investigating the case on the Duke’s behalf, but in order to clean up the young Duke’s situation.

“…… what the maid said.”

It was the Duke who first broke the sinking silence. Winter replied.

“Penelope told Ibn to eat it.”

“So, like a fool to eat the poison that the Duchess wanted to feed to others?” The Crown Prince tit for tat. The nervous voice made Winter frown.

“…… If it’s true, it could be a mistake because of the similarity of the cups.” The Marquis spoke up.

The Duke looked at him with wide eyes at his words.

“Marquis, be careful what you say.”

“If it is the maid’s claim.”

Winter raised his head and looked at Leonard, who was sitting across from him. At that moment, Leonard nodded with an inconvenient expression.

“To purposely prepare something similar for the new cups and coat them with poison is also Penelope.”

“But Penelope is not a criminal…”

The statement that had just been made was eclipsed, and the words were immediately changed.

Derrick, who had been silent up to that point, raised his head in response.

“How can you be sure of that?”

“Ms. Penelope is ……”

The Marquis de Belldandy hesitated, grimaced, stopped talking, and immediately sighed.

“…… because before drinking the sherry, it was known that it already contained poison.”