The razor-sharp blade pressed against Diana’s throat.

Trembling, Diana lifted her chin, and her neck felt soft.

If she accidentally moved the hand holding the sword even a little, her blood would flow down her skin like a crimson river.

It didn’t matter anymore.

The cursed woman in front of her was the one who had relentlessly tormented Lady Ramein after Heter and Sion.

At that moment, when anger welled up to the point where he barely contained the desire to soak the carriage with the woman’s blood.

“Viscount, Viscount, please… s-save me.”

Tears streamed down the repulsive woman’s eyes.

“I… I was just going to meet the lady at the Marquis’s command… eek!”

In an instant, Cedric’s action of biting the hand holding the sword caused Diana’s throat to be cut by the blade.

In the narrow space where everything was tightly closed.

Diana, leaning against the carriage wall with her back, raised her chin higher.

Her widened pupils, filled with an extreme sense of terror, were shaking mercilessly.

Looking at them, the anger surged.

They must have enjoyed watching Ramein, who trembled with fear, just like themselves.

Nausea overwhelmed him, and anger became uncontrollable.

At that moment, when he instinctively exerted force on the hand holding the sword to the point where the veins swelled.

“Viscount, you need to return to the mansion.”

Sylvia’s voice helped him regain his lost sanity.

Phew. The accumulated heat flowed out through Cedric’s exhale.

He sheathed the sword.

At that moment, Diana’s body collapsed onto the carriage seat like a deflated balloon.

“It seems the sun will rise soon. Hurry up.”

Speaking softly to Cedric, whose expression even Sylvia found chilling.

However, he was just staring frighteningly at the woman who had collapsed, shivering.

“Viscount.”

When Sylvia spoke in a low voice once again, Cedric finally turned his head slightly.

“Sylvia, confine her and only give her enough water and food to keep her alive.”

Where is he planning to take her?

When Cedric spoke, Diana, whose head was pinned to the chair, suddenly lifted her head at the sound.

At that moment, her gaze met Cedric’s directly.

Now, just facing the fully filled pupils, extreme horror flooded in.

Therefore, she couldn’t make any sound with her wide-open pupils.

Cedric, who was looking at her with wide-open pupils, lightly spat out a sneer.

“Well, things that must be used alive don’t necessarily need to be kept alive.”

Diana’s pupils shook violently.

The thought that she might really die.

“P-Please save me, Viscount.”

Her face turned deathly pale, and she cried out desperately.

Cedric was also greatly irritated by her desperation.

However, as Sylvia suggested, it was time to return to the mansion.

Cedric, slowly pushing up his chin, turned his body.

At that moment, the woman, who looked frustrated again, scratched his feelings once more, but he deliberately suppressed his emotions.

“Deal with her as I said.”
He who spoke briefly left the seat he had been guarding for a long time.

As the presence that had been pressuring her disappeared, Diana abruptly got up.

She thought she had to escape from here by any means. However,

“It would be better to stay quiet.”

Silvia, a maid who took the man’s place, blocking Diana’s way.

Diana, checking Silvia’s face as she threw off the cloak that had been turned up to her eyes, was greatly surprised.

“You… you…”

Smiling, Silvia looked at the stammering Diana.

“Why? Haven’t you seen this face somewhere before?”

Then she climbed into the carriage.

Diana’s face twisted in an instant.

“Why would you dare to take me somewhere?!”

“Oh, my. Your attitude suddenly changed a lot. Lord Viscount hasn’t gone far yet, I guess.”

Call me?

With a smiling face, Silvia, who lightly threatened in a low voice, suddenly solidified her expression.

Diana, who shivered for a moment, trembled with her lips tightly closed.

“Are you curious why you’re being dragged away?”

Silvia, with emotionless eyes, whispered softly.

“Paying the price.”

“Ugh…!”

Thump.

And she sharply struck Diana’s neck with the hilt she was holding.

Now, at the time when dawn was just beginning to break, the sound of carriage wheels rolling echoed again in the deep mountains.

Tap.

Jane knocked and opened Ramein’s door.

“……. ”

Ramein’s bed is empty.

‘Where did she go?’

When Jane was slowly raising her eyebrows.

“I’m here.”

Ramein’s voice came from the study.

Jane quickly closed the door and headed to the study.

Ramein, sitting in front of the desk, neatly folded the book and stood up.

“Madam, you woke up early.”

Jane said, examining Ramein’s face approaching her.

Due to frequent outings recently, it was to check her condition, which was tired every morning.

“Yeah. I woke up earlier than usual today.”

“It must be tiring. Please go back to sleep.”

“It’s okay. I’m not tired.”

Ramein smiled lightly.

“I’ll prepare your dress.”

As Jane smiled with relief, she turned quickly.

“Jane. Where did you go early in the morning?”

Jane stopped moving at Ramein’s question.