Volume 2 Chapter 7 (1/2)

“Her Excellency the Earl, you know”

After she had ceased her tears, Zia Batsand started off like that

“Her Excellency, is”

She stopped talking

“My teacher is, uhm······ Her Excellency and my teacher are······”

I let out a sigh and stopped Zia

“When you don’t knohat to say, just don’t open your mouth”

“······” The fe or her teacher, nodded her head “All right”

“Sii Are you okay?”

I asked Sii a question Sii, as groaning in pain, turned towards me and,

“That’s Miss Sii, to you!”

Ehehe, while arduously laughing, she said those words

“Miss Sii Are you all right?”

“Yup~~! I’m just a bit, tired······”

There was a lot of sweat gathered on the te onto her consciousness As an olderwhipped a countless nu crop, even I al Even less than that, for a girl as younger than me and for Sii whose skin eak because she was an albino

“What about, Yujin? ······Are, you fine, Yujin······?”

“I’icit here”

“Okay”

Zia ran out Sii and I, for a azed at each other like that

That wasn’t an accurate expression I was looking at Sii, while Sii was doing her best to look at me as she panted with dim eyes

It hurt

My chest that was lashed by the whip, and my chest that wasn’t lashed as well

It hurt enough to make me feel as if I’d die, to make me want to die

I organized the current situation

I didn’t want to organize it But, but, even if I didn’t, I had to organize it I had to become cool-headed I had to become calm

It won’t end with me alone

A second ago, she harmed Sii as well

She made Zia cry

I had to find my composure

Calm down

Since, ood

First

I had returned to this world after going back to Earth for 2 days and 1 night

Second

Within that time-frame, Sii’s arm was cut off

Third

Saying that her crime was theft, other maids had stepped forward as witnesses

Fourth

The one to have executed the punishment was Zia’s teacher, Yudia Batsand

I finished sorting out the situation

“Miss, Sii”

Silence

“Miss Sii?”

“Hm······!? Yu······jin······”

She must have lost consciousness for a second as Sii had abruptly regained her senses However, it wasn’t long before her eyes grew diain

There was no time for me to pick out my words

“You didn’t do it, right?”

For awhat I had meant by that question And then,

“I di······dn’t······!”

“Miss Sii, Miss Sii I apologize I wasn’t doubting you It was just for the sake of sorting out the situation”

I hugged the Sii who had beco Sii soon settled down Trying toher small body⎯⎯⎯her body that had become physically smaller because of the loss of one of her ar to do

Furthermore, it was required

“Most likely,” I told her the theory that I had thought of “The Earl knows that as well”

If she knows, then why did she sever Sii’s arm?

The Silver Lion Earl had mentioned Occam’s razor

“She was ai for it”

“Aimed······ for it······?”

Sii lifted her head while in my arms

“I’ off Miss Sii’s aroal”

Sii seemed to have been unable to understand those words for a moment A second later, Sii blinked her eyes

“But······ Huh? But⎯⎯⎯ the irls······ said I stole······ put me in a trap······ that’s why⎯⎯⎯”

“That’s nothing more than an excuse”

“An excuse······?”

Think

“I thought about it as well Though I say that I thought about it, I actually did it only a o I had provoked that er towards me Therefore, with the other maids, she aimed for the time when I wasn’t here They then put Miss Sii into a trap It’s not ridiculous to think along those lines However, there’s one thing It was too,”

Too

“It was too, fast”

Much too fast

“The Earl is aware that I go around sticking next to Miss Sii Even on the day of the exa Miss Sii’s maid uniform However, Miss Sii’s arh she could have waited until after I had returned Even though she could have carried out an investigation as ardless, she went out of her way, as if she were in a hurry, to cut off Miss Sii’s arm”

A person’s arm, much too easily

“No”

The Earl had cut it, and I explained

“She had to, cut it”

“Had to······ cut it······ what are you······”

“This is sole fact Regardless of who had fabricated the incident Regardless of who had ardless of who had testified In the first place, don’t you think that the risk is too big? In all ages and countries, deceiving one’s lord is so that’s punishable by death Moreover, it’s a criraceful manner”

“Deceiving······one’s lord······? Yujin······ what those words mean······ I······ don’t······”

“If the Silver Lion Earl finds out that it was fabricated, that the accusation was false, and that the testimonies were a work of fiction, then what sort of hell would be awaiting them afterwards⎯⎯⎯there’s no way that the otherhere in this castle, would be unable to iine it And yet, they carried it out”

Why?

“Because they were that upset? No, if that were the case, then they would have acted immediately after Then was it because they despised Miss Sii that ht, if that was the case, then they could havefor the moment when I had returned to Korea would have been possible However, this is absurd as well”

Why?

“How is it absurd? For starters, hoould they know about my return to Korea? Whether I had returned to Korea or whether I had just gone off to someplace where they couldn’t seethe opportunity that lasted for only a single night, the fact that thewhether that opportunity would actually appear or not, had acted whileeven in mystery novels and is impossible in reality If that’s the case, then as it?”

Because⎯⎯⎯there was one answer

“The Silver Lion Earl, wanted to cut off Miss Sii’s arm”

To be exact

“The Silver Lion Earl wanted to punish Miss Sii She was searching for a fault to pick atThat’s hile riding on the opportunity that was presented to her duringto pick at and used that to sever Miss Sii’s arm”

“Yujin······ I······ don’t······ understand······ what you’re saying······ I······”

Sii closed her eyes After confir, I stroked Sii’s head and went into deep thought

Overlooked

Until now, I’ve been overlooking a single fact

The reason why Sii was being bullied by the other maids

Because she was an albino? Because she was the adopted daughter of a comirl Although she was suppressed, contorted, and twisted, Sii was a kind girl She had two personalities, she was timid, and she was a dark and shady sadist, but despite that, Sii Garno Mikatni was a kind girl

The fact that someone was kind meant that they were dutiful The fact that soainst authority

Was she not like that in real life as well?

Strong to the weak to an extent

Weak to the strong to an extent

Someone who could never make me mad

A servile, human

If there’s so about, then it was the fact that she had the courage to suppress that servility This factor was a merit and not a demerit

There was no reason for her to be bullied Even if there was, there was no reason for it to have been prolonged for this long Even if it were prolonged, there was no reason for her to be treated like this by everyone

There was one reason that I could think of

A scenario where she had becoroup

Like when Joo Chanmi had marked me

The Silver Lion Earl who pleasantly exchanged greetings with the maids, the Silver Lion Earl who had co alcohol when it was exposed that a maid she doted on had resorted to thievery, the Silver Lion Earl who felt affection towards her subordinates and citizens in her oay I should have realized this when I noticed that the Silver Lion Earl wouldn’t glihter of Mikatni’

The Silver Lion Earl

Harbored evident malice towards Sii Garno Mikatni herself

“Her Excellency the Silver Lion Earl had a half-sibling”

Zia spoke as she entered the office with some medicine in her hands

“A child that was conceived when the lustful Earl of the previous generation had spent a single night together with a city harlot Not only was there a problem in the social status of the city harlot, but at that tihter had already been born in the Earl’s House Because it was a vague situation, recognition was impossible However, the previous Earl adored that city harlot and the child that harlot had given birth to Even the wife of the previous Earl as a lesbian adored that city harlot Due to that, the city harlot was able to obtain the surname ‘Garno’”

Sii Garno Mikatni

The girl who possessed 2 surna a maid

“Her Excellency the Silver Lion Earl, Her Excellency at that tiht individual The fact that she had a half-sibling, she are that she most likely had even more of them I’m not sure if the reason why she didn’t voice her interest towards her half-sibling was because she thought that it was undignified or because she thought that it was disrespectable, but you can’t bla when the only friends she could rely on was the child of her nanny as destined to be her knight and a being that she had summoned from another world”

Zia passed the medicine to ic existed in this world After Sii displayed this le day had passed since she had lost her arm, it was essential

It was an applied medicine I rubbed it on the back of the unconscious Sii

“This was so that happened at the end of a certain month”

Zia uttered while gazing at me