“Frederick, you muscle-headed idiot! How many times do I have to tell you that doing nothing is helping your father?”

“But it was Father who asked me to catch these guys, right?”

“I’ll catch them and put them in the stable. Who brought them to the lab in the first place?!”

Frederick, who had caught two dogs, had released them in the research lab, creating the chaos.

Two ink-soaked dogs were dirtying the entire lab floor and sofa. One was limping, and the other had one eye missing.

“Father. What are you going to do with these dogs you brought?”

At Regina’s sudden intrusion, the Duke looked flustered, and Frederick, who had been bound by a servant, grabbed the dog leash and pulled it taut.

“I brought them because there’s work for them to do!”

“Father. You’re not experimenting on these dogs, are you?”

Count Phelesse was surprised and turned to look at his daughter.

Regina, with narrowed eyes, was rummaging through the central table full of various medicines and the work desk for official business in the research lab.

“Both of you, get out!”
The Count hastily sent Frederick, who was screaming that it was unfair and he wanted to die, and Regina, who couldn’t hide the suspicious looks, out, closed the door, and wiped the cold sweat.

After Yu An left, Count Phelesse’s business was smoothly heading downhill.

Having been away from Phelesse for a long time and returning in his middle age, he couldn’t possibly oversee all the affairs of the family.

Without Yu An, who was the greatest strength of Phelesse, and the knowledge that Yu An possessed, he was like a lost wanderer.

In contrast to Yu An’s precise skills in mixing medicines endlessly, Count Phelesse had to carefully study each book, even for the simple recipes.

Moreover, Phelesse’s unique mixing method was all in Yu An’s head.

A method developed by continuously researching and advancing the existing methods, the mixing method in Yu An’s mind was the optimal combination found by working together with him.

In the past, he had deliberately harmed himself and let Yu An absorb the pain.

Then, Yu An cured it and developed the mixing method.

Directly experimenting on humans required the approval of the imperial family, so it had to be carried out secretly. However, without Yu An to eliminate the pain, the Count’s research became faltering. So, he resorted to experimenting with animals that had no owners.

“Why the hell is Yu An sticking with that monster, Crown Prince? Being here could help the family prosper. Even if he does well, he’s just behaving like a fool attached to useless abandoned trash!”

Frederick was too foolish, often hindering his work instead of helping, and Regina, greedy and bright in calculation but only had an eye for material things, was incapable of achieving any significant academic achievements that could shine Count Phelesse in the academy.

“If only that child were here, we wouldn’t be groaning like this!”

A little more, a clear opportunity to grab and seize the child was needed.

In the past, it was Louise. Now that she was dead, something else was needed.

Not knowing that it was a place to die, he had to do anything for his pitiful and foolish nephew attached to the black mansion.

“Ugh! You’re all idiots!”

Crash!

“Ah! You dog-like…!”

In his frustration, when Garrett Phelesse kicked one of the dogs, the dog next to it bit his leg.

“Ah! Yu An! Yu An, quickly, quickly…”

Habitually calling for Yu An to eliminate the pain, the Count, with a pallid face, crawled and shouted for a servant to call Yu An.

If only Yu An were here, all this suffering would have been nothing.

“Darn it! Yu An Phelesse!!”

All this agony was because Yu An left home.

As the servants hurriedly opened the door and supported the owner, Regina, who was downstairs, had to hear the shouts of her father calling out Yu An Phelesse’s name.
Seated in the reception room, Countess Priscilla, who was entrusting her nails to the maids, had Regina standing in front of her, starting to murmur.

“I really don’t know who is the father’s daughter.”

“Why are you saying that again, Regina?”

“Because he keeps calling Yu An’s name again. During the last party, didn’t Mom see that woman only paying attention to our side?”

“A disrespectful wench.”

Priscilla bluntly commented without mercy.

However, even if Yu An acted like he knew nothing, Priscilla found it uncomfortable, so she cut off her interest there.

The chilly atmosphere between the two mother and daughter suddenly brightened not long after.

“What’s this?”

The butler suddenly brought a large and fancy box to the reception room.

Count Phelesse, who had finally come down after dealing with the bite from the dog, joined the whole family.

Inside the opened box in the place where the whole family gathered, there was a dress as red and rich as blood.

Regina couldn’t take her eyes off the luxurious box containing perfectly fitted shoes and gloves.

“Where did this suddenly come from?”

At that moment, a man who was barely half the height of an ordinary person and had been hiding behind the butler bowed and greeted. The small man, without much explanation, raised a single index finger and quietly reported.

“It is a gift secretly sent by the Second Sun of Eufris.”

The Second Sun of Eufris! It means it was sent by the First Prince Bollonico.

“For whom?”