Chapter 178.

Emily’s shout caused people to rush into the room, “Penelope-!”

The Duke and Steward, and after that, Derrick and Leonard ran in panting. They looked at me, who lay there with open eyes, and one after the other brooded.

“Get a doctor, get a doctor!”

“Yes, yes!”

At the Duke’s call, the butler scrambled to get the attending doctor. There was a crowd around the bed.

The Duke put his hand out to me.” Penelope, my dear. Are you all right? Do you know father?”

Whether or not coming back from the dead after taking poison was quite a shock, the ends of his fingers trembled a bit. The Duke finally touched not me, took his hand and rubbed my face roughly.

“Hey, are you …… you okay?” Behind the Duke, Leonard spoke up.

“Damn, then why the hell did you drink ……!”

Red eyes speaking loudly he, the Duke pointedly stopped him. Suddenly the left cheek warmed. Rolling his gurgling eyes, Derrick blushed and looked down at me expressionlessly. Afterward, beyond the open access, I saw Winter, his mask off, hovering.

Back from the dead is me, and everyone’s eyes are wide open like rabbits and their faces are grim. I roll my eyes and look to see if there’s an Iben, and soon I can’t see her anymore and close my eyes in relief.

“Pe, Penelope!”

I heard someone call me urgently, but didn’t get up again. Tired.

Even if I didn’t want to, at the time of automatically opening my eyes, the doctor was looking at the patient.

“The poison …… is all gone.” The old attending doctor holding the pulse said with wide eyes.

“Until yesterday the pulse was weak, but today it is completely back to normal. It’s …… truly a miraculous thing.” “So now it’s at the healing stage?”

“Just need to restore the damaged body.”

“God.” The Duke who asked about the passage sat paralyzed in his chair like someone whose legs had relaxed. The disbelieving god’s face looked a dozen years older.

I looked at him with withered eyes and stole a sigh. Since he had been lying down for a long time, it was surprising that there was nothing but difficulty in moving his body. It’s a miraculous thing to think of spilling that much blood.

The reason for such a quick recovery was associated with the damn system dream he had before waking up, and couldn’t help but let out a sense of crisis.” Boring.”

It was a moment of trying to close my eyes again in order to get rid of the complicated thoughts.

“…… For not liking something?” The hard voice suddenly grabbed me.

The eyes I just wanted to close. Blue eyes looked straight at me.

“The way I thought I’d like it when I arrived, why?” I felt it just now too, but a strange anxiety lingered in Derrick’s pupils. As soon as his eyes touched, the guy spoke.

“Wake up and talk. Need something, do something like this …….”

“Derrick, shut up.”

“But″.

“Brother, for fuck’s sake, is this the time to say that other kind of thing to a kid with open eyes?” At that moment, Leonard, who was standing silently, suddenly shouted.

“Woke up a week later! But I was afraid to ask if it was okay…!”

“Leonard! You don’t say anything either.”

“Don’t be like that, Dad! You know you’ve been getting weird lately? She can’t eat when she’s down, like she’s full!”

“Now that it’s happened, shouldn’t the situation be resolved as soon as possible to quell the rumors that have been spread?”

With Derrick’s recap, Leonard looked like he’d rush right over. The room was noisy.

“Cubs really!”

Crunch- The Duke pulled his chair and jumped up. He turned toward the two men roughly for an instant.

“Everyone.” I reluctantly opened my mouth.

“I don’t think you’ve heard that I’m a patient in need of recovery.”

Three people’s mouths opened and closed at the same time. Whether or not they fight amongst themselves, I don’t really care, but I can’t stand the noise.” I’d like to rest, please ……” As usual, unintentionally speaking in a pleading tone, I suddenly saw the color on their heads and closed my mouth.

There’s no “Confirmation of favor”. The favor is gone now. So there’s no need to look at their eyes to curry favor. I changed my halting words and spat them out.

“Can …… leave my room? I’m tired.” My words changed the faces of all three men. Duke stood in awe, Winter’s expression suddenly twisted, and Derrick’s jaw puffed out.

I looked straight at them in a bird-watching mood and gave the wordless benediction order.

“…… Sorry. Thoughts are short.” The Duke finally bit his body slowly.

“We won’t copy there anymore, don’t think about anything, and get some rest, Penelope.”

Whispered affectionately, he immediately left the room with his two sons. Without expressing the greeting of thanks which I habitually uttered, I turned my back upon them.

Snapping—There was the sound of the door of the room closing behind me.

***

“Miss, ah.”

Emily pushed the spoon with the thin rice in my mouth. Serving a few spoonfuls I spit it out with a frown.

“It’s not good.”

“But eat it anyway. The doctor said it’s been a while and it’s hard to eat right away.”

But nothing savory isn’t too much. I finally stopped eating and Emily had to clean up the bowl.

When I woke up, the attitude of the marvelous users changed. Not only Emily, but the Duke and his two sons, the butler, and the various NPCs who usually despised me. dutifully hugged me like a glass doll that could easily be broken. That’s kind of funny, often twisting up the ends of its lips.

I suddenly asked Emily, who was cleaning up the dishes.

“Emily, how long do you think I’ll be down?”

“A week.”

“A week.”

In that time, the heroine had enough time to engage the whole family.

“How’s that child been doing all this time?”

“That child? Ah …….”

Realizing who I was asking, Emily leaned in close and whispered.

“The young lady is under house arrest in her room after she fainted.”

“House arrest?”

“Yes. The Duke instructed me not to take a step outside until the incident is fully resolved. Right?”

With those words, Emily smiled sinisterly.

I was a little confused by the unexpected news. There was no one in the way, so I expected to walk around the entire house with my head held high. Since he thought that the same was true of the time when the blurring was carried out, even if it was because of the relics, she could hardly be taken as a prisoner.

“Tell me what happened in the meantime.”

At my order, Emily sadly confessed about this time. Fortunately, the effects of the brainwashing didn’t seem to affect her.

I calmly took control of the situation after I collapsed. However, a maid named Becky was shaking with fear when she committed suicide in the morning.

“…… In the meantime people don’t realize how worried they are, Miss. Do you know how worried I was?” Emily was in hot tears at the end of the report.

I responded with aplomb.” So? You worked hard.”

“Tough work! As a matter of fact, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has worked harder than me, right? …….”

I stopped and looked back at Emily as if I had heard unfamiliar words.

“His Royal …… Highness the Crown Prince?”

“Yes! The lady didn’t walk away from her side for a moment after she collapsed. How with the horrible face, people can’t even breathe properly.”

“But I know. Every night His Highness took the girl’s hand, and how earnestly he shone upon her.”

“…… What?”

“I didn’t hear the details …… will grant you everything you want, so it seems to have said please don’t die.”

At that moment, I don’t know if it was a dream, a hallucination, the voice of someone I overheard lingered in my ears.

‘I’ll get rid of you if you want to get out of here. Love whatever the fuck you want, do whatever you want …….’

I couldn’t stop my face from slowly becoming a blur.

I came here for the first time to articulate the purpose. It’s the one that I wanted to hear so badly, the one that I didn’t want to hear on the one hand.

But now that it’s here, what’s the point of it all. Hardcore mode is over, and leaving this place has failed.

“…In addition, it’s said that His Highness will soon propose to the young lady, so every time we get together, the rumors are true during the hunting competition …… Ouch!”

Without having time to look at my twisted expression, the disorganized Emily gagged at once.

“I… I slipped up, miss. I’m sorry.” She looked me in the eye and begged for mercy.

I asked quietly.” Where is …… now?”

“That, there seems to be some kind of rebellion in the north. Therefore, after receiving the order, it left in a hurry.”

“…… So that’s how it is.”

I briefly topped off and closed my mouth. There was nothing more for me to ask, and the room was soon quiet.

“…… Miss.”

Emily had a lot to say and called me with a fidgety, sad face, as if she had quickly made up her mind.

“Really …… the one that Ms. ate, it was on its own, wasn’t it? Right?”

“That’s what it means.”

“Now in the mansion, there are rumors that Miss is not causing a farce.”

“A …… farce?”

“Yes. Didn’t Miss act out her own drama to divert attention from that woman.”

“Is that how the situation came back?”

I nodded silently and spat it out.” That’s great.” “Fortunately!”

Emily plummeted. But I meant it. It’s farce, it’s cute, isn’t it.

After doing that, how aggravating it would be if I was pushed into trying to poison Iben because of brainwashing.

Emily, who didn’t know about my thoughts like that, cried out the bitterness of this time.

“I thought Miss …… that to feed that woman.”

“Hush, Emily. That kind of talk like a villain, casually spitting it out is bad.”

“Ah, the villain is that woman!”

Paying attention to my look, Emily cried in aggravation.” I know all about it. The poison that the lady ate is not the same as the poison I ate…!”

“You.”

I frowned viciously and tightened my grip on her arm. Probably sick, Emily groaned weakly.

“Ah, Miss.”

“Did you tell anyone else about that incident?”

“Yes?”

“I told you to come up here, and who did you tell, Teeth.”

“Ah, no, no.” Emily shook her head a little fearfully.

“You swore up and down that if the young lady was discovered by anyone she would… So I closed my eyes and said no.” “Are you sure?”

“Yes!” I heard the affirmative answer several times before I let go of the tight grip I had on her wrist.

“And that’s all you’ll do from now on, Emily. Don’t tell anyone.”

“Ha, but then girl ……”

“Don’t think about me, just think about your safety.” I firmly draw the line.

“I don’t want to be vilified as a criminal who tried to poison my own daughter. Is that right?” That statement made Emily cry in my defense.

“But this isn’t farce. It’s why our girl …….”

“That’s not important.”

I didn’t condescend to being pushed so hard. I expected as much, and it was true that I drank the poison.

“If you don’t want to die, you’ll continue to pretend you don’t know. Got it?”

At my rubbing, Emily nodded tearfully.

“Yes. Keep pretending you don’t know, Miss. I’ll do as you say.”

But after so many times of determination, it’s honestly unbelievable. Maybe the maid killed herself because of Ibn’s brainwashing. So Emily couldn’t guarantee what would happen after being brainwashed.

“…… But even if I keep my mouth shut, isn’t the lady acting?”

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it myself.”

Saying something like that to the uneasy maid, I suddenly had this thought. Does it have to be resolved?