Kisa, who was shocked, stood up abruptly and shouted at Daniel.

“You! What are you doing? Don’t tell me you’re the one who jumped in front of the carriage?”

Daniel answered by raising one corner of his mouth even higher.

“Are you crazy? What if you die doing that? Do you know how dangerous it is?”

“Wow, Kisa. Are you worrying about a man who’s not even your fiancé? Nice, it’s been a while since I received your concern.”

“No, is that what you should be saying right now?”

“Is there any reason I shouldn’t? I’m fine now anyway. So it’s all good.”

Daniel leaned back comfortably against the backrest after saying that.

It was truly an absurd act.

To act as if he had multiple lives while clearly knowing that not a few people get injured and die in carriage accidents every year.

Kisa looked at the man who had become even more brazen in the meantime and said firmly.

“Get out of my carriage right now.”

“I refuse.”

“Don’t you know this is clearly a crime? Should I call the police right now?”

“Call them if you want. But while the notoriously slow city police are on their way here, you’ll have to listen to what I have to say.”

“You jumped into the carriage just to have a conversation?”

“Yes, what other choice did I have? You won’t meet me and you don’t reply to my letters.”

“Then stop meddling in my affairs. I’m now another man’s fiancée. I have no obligation to deal with you.”

“……”

Daniel stared blankly at Kisa with eyes that seemed somewhat more subdued than before.

“Well said. It’s about your fiancé. Now, doesn’t that suddenly make you want to hear what I have to say?”

“If you’re planning to badmouth Seiyard again like last time, don’t bother. I’ve already decided to trust him.”

“What makes you trust him so much?”

“The time I’ve spent with him so far.”

“That’s ridiculous. You’ve only known him for barely four months.”

He sneered and narrowed his eyes.

“Just sit down first. It’s a different story from last time. I’ve found out about another suspicious circumstance regarding your fiancé.”

“…Forget it. I don’t believe you.”

“Hm? What’s with that subtle silence before you answered?”

“What are you talking about? There’s no such thing.”

Daniel’s eyes curved into crescents as if he wasn’t even listening to Kisa’s words.

“I see. It seems you’ve also felt something strange while being by that guy’s side all this time. See? I told you so.”

“Don’t jump to conclusions! You don’t know anything about him-”

Just as Kisa was about to snap back, a third party’s voice was heard from a short distance away.

“Um, miss.”

The coachman, who had now stood in front of the carriage door, looked anxiously back and forth between Kisa and Daniel.

“What… should we do? Should I call the police? Or will you be going with young master Daniel?”

The servant who had worked for the Van Spelt Count’s family for a long time seemed confused about whether to view Daniel, who had visited the mansion countless times, as a ruffian who had intruded into the carriage or as Kisa’s guest.

“And we can’t keep stopping on the road like this. I think you need to decide whether to depart or park the carriage somewhere else soon.”

Even though the question wasn’t directed at him, Daniel promptly answered the coachman’s query.

“Then let’s park anywhere nearby. I don’t mind talking inside here.”

“You, really……”

“Come on, Kisa. You can decide whether to report me or not after hearing what I have to say first. Be honest. Don’t you want to know more about your fiancé too?”

Kisa pondered for a moment.

Today, she had just left home to visit the Hilan Duke’s residence because she was bored.

In other words, since she had no appointment with Seiyard, he wouldn’t be waiting even if she arrived a little late.

‘I don’t believe Daniel’s words at all.’

The person Kisa trusted was Seiyard.

However, there was a need to know Daniel’s true intentions.

If the information he claimed to have found out was negative rumors about him like last time, Kisa could listen in advance and give Seiyard a heads up.

If that happened, it would be possible to prevent things that could harm his future.

Convincing herself that this was for Seiyard’s sake, Kisa sat down.

“I’ll hold off on calling the police for now. And park the carriage anywhere suitable.”

Seeing Kisa give instructions to the coachman, Daniel’s mouth twitched.

“Don’t misunderstand. I’m only listening because you’ll probably keep pestering me even if I refuse.”

“Yes, yes, of course.”

While Kisa frowned at her former fiancé’s overly casual attitude, the coachman who had returned to his seat started moving the carriage again.

Daniel stretched as if his body was stiff, then rubbed his shoulder.

“I heard the engagement ceremony at the Hilan Duke’s residence was very splendid, it must have been nice?”

It was a question that seemed casually thrown but with a clear sharp edge to it.

“You didn’t stop the carriage just to talk about my engagement ceremony, did you?”

“Why are you being so strict with only me? I heard you disappeared alone with that guy before the engagement reception was even over? Was it that good?”

Kisa was momentarily speechless from the sheer absurdity.

“So where did you two go alone? What exactly did you do?”

“Daniel Lowens, get a grip. Why have you been making such a fuss as if I’ve been cheating? You’re the one who was so close to other women that it caused misunderstandings when we were still engaged.”

She couldn’t understand at all why he was looking at her with such a hurt expression as if he was the one who had been betrayed.

“Yes, I did wrong by you. But cutting off ten years at once was too extreme, wasn’t it? Think of how long we’ve known each other.”

Kisa’s eyes filled with contempt as she looked at the man whining like a child.

“Forget it. I’m a fool for believing your words. It was all lies, wasn’t it? Your story and everything. Coachman! Stop the carriage right now and call the police-”

“Alright, alright! I’ll get right to the point!”

Daniel barely managed to stop Kisa as she was about to stick her face out the window and give new instructions to the coachman.

He glanced at Kisa with displeasure before finally getting to the main point.

“The witness has disappeared.”

“Witness?”

“The guy I kept telling you to meet in my letters that you persistently ignored.”

“Ah, the man from Bonzmos?”

Daniel had run to Kisa and babbled on about how after hearing that man’s story, Seiyard was a thug who used to frequent gambling dens in the past and that he had a woman.

“After confirming with him directly, it turns out that was a malicious exaggeration. It’s true that he visited gambling dens a few times, but he didn’t do anything else to be called a thug, and he certainly didn’t meet any women.”

“What? You believe those words? More importantly, did you tell him everything I told you?”

Daniel frowned and asked, and Kisa readily admitted.

“Yes, I told him.”

“Damn it… So that’s why that man disappeared.”

“Why did he disappear?”

“Why else? Because you blabbed everything, that guy took care of him.”

“Seiyard? Don’t accuse an innocent person without evidence.”

“If it wasn’t him, why would someone who went to work normally every day suddenly vanish overnight? Not even one of his acquaintances heard even a simple story about when he was leaving.”

Moreover, he continued.

“I even checked with the police station, and as far as they know, it doesn’t seem like he was involved in any incident.”

“Then it’s probably nothing. Maybe he just suddenly wanted to go on a trip and left?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. How many people travel like that? Besides, I had promised him a large sum of money before. On the condition that he would tell you the same story he told me.”

“…You really went to great lengths.”

“That’s how desperate I was to save you from that guy’s clutches. Anyway, would he just up and leave on a trip when he didn’t know when I would arrange for him to meet you? Throwing away a fortune that would take a lifetime for an ordinary working-class person to save up?”

After a moment of silence, Kisa spoke up not long after.

“Is that all you wanted to tell me?”

She was thinking of telling him to get off now if that was everything, but Daniel shook his head.

“This is just the introduction. The introduction to tell you why I went to Bonzmos myself.”

“You went to Bonzmos in person?”

“That’s right, I had to leave the capital for a while because of it.”

Come to think of it, Daniel hadn’t tried to approach Kisa for quite a long time before and after her engagement, and his letters had also stopped abruptly.

Kisa had simply been glad thinking that the leech-like guy had finally given up, but now it seemed she had been completely mistaken.

“I wanted to find new witnesses and investigate your fiancé’s past myself.”

“I don’t understand why you’re so obsessed with Seiyard. Why don’t you just live your own life? That’s what your family would want too.”

“Never mind that, just listen first. I encountered quite an interesting situation in Bonzmos.”

With a sardonic smile on his lips, Daniel spoke in a low voice.

“Bonzmos, that town. The whole town has completely taken Seiyard Hilan’s side.”

“What?”

“I went around all the gambling dens and everywhere else asking around, but everyone only had good things to say about that man, as if they were reading from a script. When I asked if Seiyard Hilan used to frequent gambling dens in the past, they would noticeably become flustered and claim it never happened.”

His voice lowered even further.

“Doesn’t it seem suspicious no matter how you look at it? According to you, he did visit gambling dens, right?”