Chapter 406 – My Name Is Leica (2)
The old man, who was as tall as a beautiful tree, frowned like an old tree while stroking his neatly trimmed beard. He started the servants walking around him because the shadows were thick in the deep creases between his eyebrows. He had a small letter in his hand. The letter, large enough for others to hear, felt like paper cranes in the hands of Marquis Rosaline Barba.
But what was written on that little piece of paper was by no means to be skimmed over.
[… Judging from the current situation in the capital, it was concluded that it was clear that this prisoner lady, wife of Peta Lucius, entering Lionel Mansion would attract attention in many ways. However, she cannot ignore her woman’s request her to meet her husband her.
I would like to ask the Marquis Rosalind Barbara for this matter. I understand that the Marquis is in a betatrothal relationship with the lord of Bondi Peta Lucius, and lives in a mansion in the capital, although his family is in the north.
I hope that the Marquis will have pity on me and this little beastman, protect her for a while, and allow her to meet the beastman named Mila in time for her wedding her. Sorry for the rude and sudden request.]
“Hmm…”
Rosalyn Barba, the Marquis, groaned in a deep voice. It was a request she couldn’t accept. If she was the wife of Peta Lucius, she had a relationship that could not be called a man at all, and in light of the situation in the current capital, she would know what kind of gossip would come out if a woman who was a prisoner entered Lionel Mansion again. There was no
“Okay. So what’s your name?”
Laika was trembling as to whether or not she knew the intentions of Marquis Rosalind Barbara. Because it was a really embarrassing place for her, for her. This wasn’t the James mansion she thought it was. In the hallway of this building, which intimidates people from the massive and huge iron gate, the old ancestors of the Rosalyn family were asleep in portraits, emitting bright eyes.
Laika felt a strong sense of uneasiness from the moment she passed through that hallway. And now, seeing Rosalyn the Marquis de Barba’s imposing appearance of her, she had come to the point where she felt herself cheated by Countess Lyonill. It was because the Marquis Barba she faced looked like a ruthless villain wherever she looked.
In particular, her enormous stature of her, which twitched, and her huge hands that could slash her bear with one blow with her sword reminded her of the evil slave traders in her storybooks her.
“Ahhh…!”
Rosalyn Barbara tilted her head as she lowered her head, a quivering brow. Could it be that Count Lionel didn’t give a separate explanation when he sent him here? He was annoyed at the count’s indifference to his handling of affairs of his, and opened his mouth in a friendly voice usually only heard by his granddaughters of his.
“Did you say Miss Laika?”
“Yes! Yes! This is Leica!”
Laika shouted her own name like her soldier. Marquis Barba didn’t react much to Leica’s frivolous response to her. He began to explain her situation to Laika in a low voice.
“Miss Laika seems to be misunderstanding now, but I am not a suspicious person. The current situation in the capital is noisy, so instead of Lionel’s mansion, he came to my mansion. I’ve known Lord Peta Lucius for a very long time. My daughter also married into that family. Got it. The people of this mansion, including me, will not harm you. Miss Leica. To keep you at ease.”
“Ah yes! I believe.”
Laika nodded her head. In Marquis Barba’s eyes, he could still see the disbelief in Laika’s eyes of her, but there was no way he could explain further. It was because it was ambiguous to show Count Lionel’s letter his, which said, ‘It will be a problem if prisoners enter Lionel’s mansion again’.
“Show me to your room.”
Marquis Barba sent Laika into the room with a big wave of his hand her. Every time he moved his hand to her, he heard the sound of the wind. Laika felt a chill and followed her attendant. The entire mansion was filled with a gloomy atmosphere. Most of the portraits were of pale and skinny people, and their gazes were so intense that they all looked like Ivan the Terrible’s portraits.
For Laika, the building itself was fear itself. Unfortunately, the sky was also hazy. The weather, which had been clear until crossing the eastern plains, was gloomy, as if expressing the atmosphere of the mansion upon entering the capital.
“Me, because the weather is cloudy, it will rain. There was laundry outside, but I have to hang it up.”
However, the attendant was moving forward with a blunt face without any answer. Laika cowered even more at his blunt response her. Laika didn’t know that the servants of noble mansions spoke as little as possible in order to refrain from making mistakes with their guests. Laika had no way of knowing that well-educated attendants were even less talkative, especially since they were not sure which remarks were rude to prisoners.
“This is the room.”
“Ah, I’m glad. I know how to speak.”
Laika let out a sigh of relief when he heard his attendant’s voice of hers. Her attendant twitched her mouth and held her breath to contain her laughter at her remarks her. She said, pointing to the door.
“This way.”
“Maybe I was talking to a deaf person. I was thinking like that. Outside, it will rain. I have to do laundry.”
“I will refer to it.”
When the attendant greeted her, she followed suit and lightly bowed her head. Beyond the door carved with fiery curves was a luxurious room. Laika looked around the room with a bewildered face at the sudden luxury.
It was a special room specially prepared for Peta Lucius’ wife by Marquis Rosaline Barba, but to her, it was only a factor that fueled her anxiety.
“Why, why are you so nice to me?”
Embarrassed, Laika asked the attendant. The attendant shook her head and said.
“It is the Marquis’ order. If you wait a little bit, I will bring you some food.”
“Poem, meal… !”
Laika was hungry, so she sat down on the bed again at the word meal. She then looked out her window, clutching her backpack. It was on the third floor of the mansion, and the windows were locked. It was a window that opened from the inside, but the structure was complicated, so she decided to wait a little while before asking the attendant.
After a while, the attendant reappeared with a large cart. Steam came out full of colorful food. Laika was surprised by the quality and quantity of the food and she had to back off. She and she carefully poked her food with her hand and sniffed her. It didn’t look like she was poisoned. Said the attendant.
“Wait a moment, and I will set the fork and plate on the table.”
“Open the window, please. It’s too hot.”
“Sorry. For security reasons, we do not allow the windows to be opened at night. If it’s too hot, we’ll show you another room…”
“Oh, no. It’s okay. Here you are.”
The attendant left the table full of food and disappeared. Laika carefully took a bite of the food, and ate it up frantically as it suited her taste her. It was she who was very hungry because she had been moving in her carriage for a long time. After eating about half of her food, she exhaled her breath and lay comfortably on her bed.
My stomach was full, and I was moderately fatigued, so I thought I could fall asleep like this.
“Now, don’t fall asleep!”
But just before falling asleep, she woke up in a fright. Come to think of it, it was because it was so suspicious. She gave delicious food, and the room was so luxurious. There was also a comfortable bed for a good night’s sleep. Could it be that he is trying to fatten himself up and eat him? Or are they wicked slave traders trying to make me healthy before selling me out?
She doubted herself, then struggled to shake her head. It was because Count Lionel couldn’t sell himself. Marquis Rosalyn Barba looked very suspicious, but it was still a bad thing to blindly drive people into slave trades. Laika shook her head and sighed.
The stars were shining outside, but she knew it was not time to sleep. She rose from her seat and walked cautiously in search of Rosalyn Barba. She felt that she should listen to him in more detail and clear up the misunderstanding.
Following the scent of Marquis Barba, who had been in charge a while ago, she wandered around the building. When I sniffed his nose and looked around, there was a direction where I could feel his scent strongly. Laika walked cautiously without making a sound of her footsteps her. In the dark hallway, where the lights were off, only the light was shining brightly in the office. A voice came from the office.
Laika tried to knock, but pressed her ear against her door to hear her talk.
“…So wouldn’t it be better to get rid of it quickly?”
“Then, when would be a good time?”
“I will contact you right away, even tomorrow. Because the sooner the better. Go to a place where there are no people…”
The knight who was talking to Marquis Barba shut her mouth. It was because it was popular outside. When the Marquis waved his hand, the knight hurriedly opened the door. In front of the door, Laika was sitting trembling in her arms. She said as the knight held out her hand her.
“Miss Laika. What’s going on here…”
“Go, don’t come any closer!”
Laika groaned and screamed. Jumping back, she looked at her article and screamed at her once more.
“Slave prize! Criminal! Bad guy!”
Then she grabbed her backpack and ran down the hallway. Marquis Barba quickly grasped the situation and shouted.
“Bring it! Don’t let them run away! Misunderstood! There!”
“It was a slave trader after all!”
As Laika cried, she ran frantically down her aisle. Just in time for her, her patrolling attendant recognized her Leica and reflexively reached out to grab her her. Laika opened her eyes and lowered her body her, sliding across her floor. The hand of her attendant, who was trying to catch her, cut her through the air.
Laika jumped up once more from his lowered position and started running. When her attendant turned around, Laika was already wagging her tail around the corner of the hallway.
The knight shouted from behind the attendant.
“Chase! If you let them run away like that, you’ll be in big trouble!”
The voice of Marquis Barba was also heard.
“The capital is a dangerous place! If I were kidnapped by a slave trader, I would have no face seeing Lord Lucius! Calm him down and bring him back somehow!”
