Then, I wish you good luck (3)
Kedrick was talented in seducing people. Should it be called talent? From a younger age, there were plenty of people who showed favor to him.
Not only women, but men, young children, and the elderly all cherished him enough to remove the liver and gallbladder if asked of them.
The animals didn’t like him very much and Kedrick regretted that because he liked animals more than humans.
The white dog in particular hated him so much, he joked that it is because his hair color is dark, but he looks at the dog with regretful eyes.
He laughed at his few friends and jokingly said that this was a curse rather than a talent.
That kind of interest wasn’t good for him in the first place.
Maybe that’s why it was so comfortable with Beth or Claire and Ryan’s side.
When he thought that, he smiled as he looked at Jenny, who easily fell in love with him. Beth obviously left it to him as she knew that he could do this kind of thing breathlessly.
Midnight, back garden. Alone with a handsome man.
It was like a dream and sweet to see this happening in a life where she was hit by the Countess and she was always busy, and so her face never had the chance to be dyed pink.
Whenever he was on the lookout, she looked at him directly and the bad feelings melted away.
“Sir Kedrick, have we met before?”
After she said that, Jenny covered her mouth and laughed at something like a work comment.
Kedrick was immersed in her words.
Sir.
Come to think of, Beth had never called him Sir. But, he’s still a knight.
Apart from that, he contemplated her brazen and ugly deeds, and he subconsciously smiled and looked at Jenny.
What did you say? Kedrick, who did not pay attention to her words, said with a smile and thought it over.
“Well, I wouldn’t have forgotten if I had seen a beauty like you.”
When you actually thought about it, were you crazy enough to believe it? It was such a plain remark to be said, but Jenny fell for it again.
Kedrick’s face made it possible.
“Be, be be be be be beauty?”
“Have you not heard that much?”
“No? I’ve heard a lot!”
“Is that right? I thought so too.”
As she looked at Kedrick, who naturally led the conversation and smiled at her, Jenny turned her face to the side for no reason as she fanned her face with her hands.
“I’ve heard it so many times! So cliche! Yes!”
Jenny insisted, as she pressed against the sound of her thumping heart. Kedrick laughed, as she said that he believed it. He felt that Jenny’s heart was dull.
Kedrick, who smiled with his eyes, reached out to Jenny’s hair. As he approached, the thumping heart grew louder. Jenny opened her eyes wide.
“The leaves were stuck.”
Jenny thought as she watched Kedrick laugh at him as he held a small leaf.
One heart would not be enough.
“Jenny, you know what…” Kedrick whispered to Jenny in a sweet voice.
Jenny held her breath for an instant and looked at him.
***
3 days have passed since then.
“Over, I will report ~.”
The morning after, Claire had breakfast and played with Ryan in the corner as they painted. When Ryan saw Claire drew a crooked rabbit, he asked if she drew the pancakes she ate today, and then there was a mournful sound of calming the storm was heard.
Beth looked at them and saw the papers Kedrick had neatly organized.
She looked at him with amazement to see that he had been more organized than she thought.
“You’re good at organizing.”
“I’m tired of filing documents.”
“You were a desk worker?”
“I did all sorts of things.”
When he said that, she remembered working part-time jobs when she lived in her previous life, but Beth nodded and didn’t ask any more.
The papers wrote down the usual movements of the Countess, the food she liked or disliked, and how hysterical she was and what ridiculous things she was doing, when he asked Jenny secretly that night.
In the meantime, there was even a love letter sent by Jenny, but Beth looked over it and put it on a separate tray.
In addition, there was also a list of maids who were in place before Jenny came in.
Beth looked at it and frowned her eyes as if puzzled, and she asked. “Is this also what Jessie said?”
“One letter is wrong, it’s Jenny. That’s not what Jenny told me.”
“Then where…?”
“Sneaking into the boss’s office?”
Beth opened her mouth slightly and closed it. She had to tell him that he was bad to steal like that, but it was futile. Beth had done such a thing once, so she decided to close her mouth.
The plan to proceed from now on was not particularly humane in the first place
“You’re good with your hands.”
“It was easy to open the door here.”
He even opened the locked door and went in. Beth was no longer surprised. There was more he could do than Beth thought.
“Where was the most difficult door?”
Kedrick thought for a moment as if he tried to recall his memory, then opened his mouth. “.… prison?”
“… I’ll pretend I didn’t hear you.”
Beth thought that the person who had hired him did not know was a criminal who broke the imperial law.
Beth shook his head and circled several of the lines about the movement.
“So what are you going to do?”
Kedrick saw Beth, wrote something on the paper.
“It’s probably something humans here can’t even imagine.”
In her previous life, she also remembered one of her part-time places. There was a small television there, but the boss had always watched a crazy drama.
Beth, who watched the drama even if she didn’t want to, knew much of it.
For humans who are at the dead end, we should go to the dead end.
When she recalled that the Countess had slapped a small, young Claire on the cheek, her hands tightened.
When he saw the tendons in Beth’s hand, Kedrick turned his gaze away.
“Then…”
Beth shook her neck from side to side and started to write something on the blank paper.
“What do you want to do first?”
“The more people who incite and fabricate, the better.”
“Right. “
“I will agitate and fabricate.”
“I suppose so.”
Kedrick sat across her, put his chin down to watch Beth’s write.
She wrote about welcoming people.
Was she modifying the sentence several times to smooth it out? No, it wasn’t that smooth style. It may be because she hasn’t mastered all of the language yet, but there was a sense of incongruity for that.
She read the whole scene to see if she was finished, and put the paper on the table and the love letter that Kedrick attached.
Again, Beth, who started to write the same thing, and Kedrick discovered the difference from what she wrote a little while ago.
“….Beth.”
“What.”
“I’m never going to have Beth as an enemy.”
“Then, do well from now on.”
As she looked at the invitation letter that ended in a little difficult handwriting, Beth made a proud expression.
“Let’s do the rest separately, we need the tools.”
Claire and Ryan would laugh at what they were doing, and what Beth was doing wasn’t good for children’s emotional development.
Beth had that thought, so she quickly sorted out the papers and documents that had been scattered on the table as if nothing had happened.
Then Claire approached.
“Beth, Beth!”
“Miss, what’s going on?”
Claire smiled embarrassedly and showed Beth the paper in her hand.
“Oh my….”
Something was drawn. When she saw the brown color, Beth laughed, thinking Claire wanted some cookies.
“My lady, coo…”
“Hey~ Did you draw Beth? You drew her very well!”
When Beth tried to ask if she wanted cookies, Kedrick jumped in and smiled.
Claire nodded her head, and her cheeks were dyed as Kedrick’s words were right.
“Ye! By the way… Ryan saw this and asked if I drew a cookie…”
“Ah, whoever sees it is Beth obviously! Isn’t it? Beth?”
Beth nodded with her slightly dull eyes. She almost scratched the heart of a young and precious lady.
“Well, of course. It looks just like me.”
“Hehe, I’ll give it to you Beth.”
“Thank you, Miss, I’ll stick it on the wall of my room.”
As she stared through the picture she had received, Kedrick asked if she would draw him, saying he would be the model and teased Claire in a playful way.
Claire said he should stay still as she dragged Kedrick to where she had been sitting a while ago.
It could have been a disaster.
Now, her heart pounded as if she had grasped her situation. She felt someone’s gaze as she calmed down while she held her chest.
“….”
“………”
It was Ryan.
Ryan looked at Beth with a cold eye.
His eyes are like.
Hey, you thought it was a cookie too.
Beth looked at him with cold eyes.
It’s meaning was ‘No I didn’t”.
“Liar.”
Ryan came up to Beth and sat where Kedrick had just been sitting.
“Life sometimes needs lies.”
“How long will you talk about life?”
“How long have you lived?”
When the ugly 8-year-old sat in front of her and discussed his life with Beth, she also scoffed and responded to him. “Why are you so enthusiastic about Claire?”
“It’s not Claire, it’s Miss.”
“It’s okay, I’m a friend.” He said that when the two got along, Claire told him not to call her a miss.
“Hey monster.”
“Why little boy?”
“How long will I be here?”
Ryan was comfortable with this place, but at the same time was uncomfortable. He felt he didn’t belong to this place.
Beth, who brought him as a younger brother, always had Claire in first place, and Kedrick, who treats Claire and him equally, just… It was scary to make contact with his eyes.
“Why did you bring me?”
He thought she was rich, but she was a maid. Ryan thought that Beth, who came to the shop and shouted 10,000 gold to herself, had some purpose.
Ryan was only eight years old, but in that short period of time he had avoided death, being beaten and starved…
I should not have said it anyway.
Beth was unaware. She didn’t realise that she discriminated between Ryan and Claire. To take care of Claire suddenly became too natural for her.
She did not realize that she even cared for Claire more than herself.
Beth opened her mouth as she was still unaware of that fact.
“That’s.….”
“Of course!” Ryan shouted, as he cut into Beth’s words.
“I won’t go until I defeat that monster!”
“……”
A monster, you mean the Countess?
Beth wondered if he could use the word monster for the Countess.
Aren’t you a little cute using the word monster?
She thought she needed something more, but she didn’t know what, so she decided to accept the word monster.
From a young child’s point of view, how lovely it was?
In rare cases, Beth looked up at Ryan, and whispered “Yes, you’re reliable too.”
That said, she didn’t want Ryan to do anything.
It was just as dangerous.
Beth didn’t say anything more to Ryan and just laughed. Ryan just looked at Beth’s face with a look of dissatisfaction.
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