Isabel’s face suddenly showed confusion at finding herself dragged in front of Valentin. Valentin looked at that disgusting face and asked, “Why did you come so early today?”

“Well, Miss, she told me to come in early today to see something, so I came in first.”

Isabel, who had returned excitedly thinking she was being sent early, was taken aback and explained in embarrassment when such a question came. Valentin snorted.

“It’s not like you have something to teach like a little brat mouse, right?”

Isabel didn’t understand Valentin’s words for a moment. Of course, today, Isabel also planned to inform Delma about Neris’s activities. She had been doing that consistently.

Valentin also used to enjoy hearing that report, so why use such expressions today?

There was no one there to kindly answer Isabel’s question. Valentin twisted her small lips viciously.

“I find it amusing when brats like you act like you know something, pretending to be righteous. What do you know? Do you understand the noble mission of ruling that you’ve had since birth?”

“That’s right, Miss.”

Delma chimed in, as if to agree that Isabel was unbearable. Isabel was surprised that Valentin’s young eyes could show such malice. What in the world…

“No different from raising a dog outside roughly. When it dies, just get a new one. Just staying in that place, whether its name or fur color, what does it matter? So, not knowing your place and biting the owner… there’s no need to spare it.”

Valentin’s sky-blue eyes, held high, contemptuously narrowed.

Delma sent a warm and affectionate look to the little girl she had raised. Seeing that, Isabel suddenly felt a shiver down her spine.

Since she grew up in a rural village, Isabel had seen a lot of dogs raised outside.

The relationship between an owner and a dog could be cruel at times, but mostly, it was based on a certain degree of affection.

Even if you started raising it for no particular reason or for practical reasons, you usually ended up having some emotions for the living being that followed you.

Moreover, how could one have such indifferent eyes while telling a story of picking up and discarding people?

Delma, looking at Valentin with eyes that seemed to find such a sight endlessly lovely, was also abnormal. No, wasn’t Valentin the one who raised her like that?

Isabel suddenly realized how entangled she was with insane people.

She would be abandoned if she continued like this. Despite feeling choked by an indescribable pressure, Isabel urgently squeezed out her words.

“Miss, I don’t understand why you’re saying such things to me. I’ve always told you the truth! If something went wrong, it must be that Neris lied!” Isabel’s conclusion, drawn from everything Valentin had said so far, was that ‘something must have been reported wrong.’
The only logical deduction Delma and Valentin could make about her coming to the academy was that Neris had informed them of her recent situation. However, Valentin snorted.

“Well, I suppose so. Did you think my invitation was fake as soon as you saw Neris? So, she went to our brother and told everything, huh?”

“Yes?”

Although Valentin’s sarcastic remark, driven by malice, was quite close to the truth, no one in the room knew that fact.

Isabel didn’t know what to do with Valentin’s sudden words. Delma didn’t give her time to defend herself.

“Miss, you don’t need to keep dealing with such things. Hey!”

Delma sweetly cooed, clapping her hands with a resounding voice. The servant who had been trying to stay around and listen to something since Isabel was brought here hurriedly entered.

Delma pointed at Isabel with her chin. “Bring this one’s luggage! And beat her to death and throw her and the luggage outside the cart as a whole. We don’t need the wretch who betrayed her owner and behaved beyond her station!”

The servant immediately rushed up to the attic on the third floor, where the female servants’ rooms were.

Valentin made a satisfied smile as if saying she did well. Once it was like this, there was no turning back. Isabel immediately changed her attitude and snarled with a vengeful expression on her face.

“You’re just a lower one too!”

Delma sneered. “What will you do, Isabel? I promise not to chase you until your luggage arrives. There’s no need to get beaten up if you leave now. If you insist on sticking around, I won’t be so lenient.”

Insane, insane woman!

Isabel sent Valentin a pleading look for a final rescue. However, Valentin only scrutinized Isabel’s every nook and cranny with an interested look.

Isabel’s head, realizing the fact that this cruel master didn’t see people as people, grew cold.

She looked at Delma and Valentin with eyes filled with gruesome meat, but Isabel couldn’t do anything with her status.

Watching Isabel run away in a hurry, Valentin snorted.

“Shouldn’t we just leave her like that?”

“Of course, Miss.”

Isabel had to pay the price for her mistake.