Lady Devil - Chapter 159

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“The circumstances of oral transmission are quite specific. The free people must have little to do. Like me, they should refrain from wasting their mind and body by spinning thread all day until their fingertips are all calloused. Don’t you think?”

“…I suppose so.”

Johannes had quite a hard time lifting the corners of his mouth. Inette slowly clenched and unclenched her fist, hidden deep where he couldn’t see. She carefully confirmed that the tingling sensation from her fingertips was simply due to nervousness. Not a sign of ‘it’ returning. Her gaze, distracted, inevitably drifted downward a bit.

“Hah…. Whatever the reason, she’s such a selfish and weak-hearted woman. Just like our mother…. No, perhaps better than mother?”

“Mother?”

“Ah…! How foolish of me! I’ve committed a great discourtesy in daring to compare a woman who at least killed once to a deranged woman….”

Inette continued her own speech, disregarding Johannes’s halfhearted question. Her slightly raised, dramatically sarcastic tone happened to be exactly like the aloof Winfrid. Could bloodlines reveal themselves through such trivial habits…?

Inette continued to imitate the princess consort for quite some time after that. She mocked some of her deranged mother’s antics with gestures like a jester performing before a king.

Oh, God! Protect our pitiful mother and daughter…! She flails about with hand and shoulder gestures while kneeling on a tiny desk chair. She’s quite energetic. Regrettably, because of this, he would not be able to hear the answer he wanted today.

Even though one would think her spirit should be broken by now, Johannes was finally able to show a resigned smile after watching Inette, who remained utterly unchanged.

He was a bit tired. It was clear that persisting any further would only be to his own detriment….

Johannes had always restrained himself. Of course, the devil seemed to have oxidized in Johannes’s blood that night several years ago, leaving not even fragments of pain, but it would be beneficial to refrain from forcefully implementing a reckless move that might give the beast a chance to boil over.

So on days like today, he shouldn’t worry about Inette’s change of heart and incite her already unstable soul. Don’t seek answers. Just believe. Like when he first entrusted himself to her. He rubbed the back of his neck, admonishing himself.

“Let’s go to sleep now.”

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