Didn't Plan to Become a Companion (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 124

Looking at the names written on the paper, I could clearly feel it. The tide of the war had definitely turned in Rochester’s favor.

Yet the Emperor’s mad words—about killing them off quietly, without even a mouse or bird noticing—refused to fade from my mind. Death was the end. It left nothing behind.

Though the Duchess’s words suggested that Ricardo’s or Duke Rochester’s death could be a glorious one, I thought the phrase “glorious death” was nothing more than a horrifying deception.

‘I have to save them. By any means necessary.’

Despite this firm resolve, the fear of possibly losing the Duchess kept my body trembling until the carriage finally reached the mansion.

It was also overwhelming to think that I alone had to protect a mansion where not a single person bearing the Rochester name remained. Though I never retreated before fear, I shuddered at the sheer hopelessness of it all.

‘I need to pull myself together.’

Repeating these words in my mind like a spell, I thought about what I should do first. It was an unbearably long, dark night to face alone.

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Sabrina and Julian came looking for me at the Rochester mansion the very next day.

She practically dragged Julian along with her. He, who always appeared perfectly composed as if carved from marble, was unbelievably drunk.

“Sabrina, what on earth is going on?”

When I raised my voice, Julian looked at me and grinned sheepishly. Sabrina, wrapping Julian’s arm around her shoulder to stop him from collapsing, gestured toward a room with her eyes.

“Let’s go inside first. Somewhere without people.”

Knowing Sabrina wouldn’t do something like this without good reason, I hurriedly followed her. She entered a guest room on the first floor and practically threw him onto the sofa.

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