Kasel nonchalantly brushed back his hanging bangs.

His friends also turned away from his humiliation and deliberately burst into laughter.

“You must think of it as a wound of honor.”

“To be beaten by three ladies, others would want to do that but can’t.”

Kasel barely shook off his uncomfortable feeling, laughing with the crowd.

However, since the attention had already been drawn, he found it uncomfortable to stay there any longer and moved to the villa.

They started playing cards again, eating and drinking in the hall.

But it was when a good hand finally came into Kasel’s possession.

“My lord, may I interrupt for a moment?”

The person who came this time was Viscount Verde.

He was a figure connected to Kasel through business, and Kasel put down his cards for a moment and moved to a place where there were no friends.

“It’s something we should have scheduled another day for, but I can’t sleep without checking it now, so I was rude.”

“Ha ha, why are you so afraid to say what you have to say?”

Kasel felt that the atmosphere was not normal. Viscount Verde was usually a gentle old man.

“You said you wanted to catch and tame the wild horses in the western mountains, so I lent you the mountain in my territory. Did you forcibly mobilize the local residents for wild horse capture at that time?”

Damn it. Kasel swallowed a curse, and then asked with the most innocent face he could muster.

“Forced mobilization? It’s the first time I’ve heard of it, where did you hear such news?”

“I was already looking into the strange rumor, and if it’s the first time you’ve heard of it, that would be good. I’ll send someone to check, so the result will come out soon.”

Viscount Verde’s voice remained polite to the end. But the additional content was harsh.

“I’ll put everything you were doing in my territory on hold until the suspicions are cleared.”

“No, Viscount, why are you suddenly doing this? What did you hear to cut off even the connection between our families? You seem too excited, let’s schedule another day to talk.”

Kasel urgently grabbed Viscount Verde at the shocking news.

Then the departing Viscount Verde stopped walking and said, as if it was quite disappointing.

“I’ll give you one piece of advice, considering the loyalty with your ancestors. It’s not that the old men don’t know about your actions, they are holding back and waiting. The Duke of Montla is the Duke of Tiendasbis. Just as Bayon commands the army and protects the continent, Montla has a duty to manage the continent. But what’s with the wild horses, to tyrannize in someone else’s territory? If you’re only interested in making money, you might as well become a merchant.”

Kasel couldn’t say anything to the Viscount’s rebuke.

It wasn’t because the old man’s reprimand hurt, but because it felt uncanny.

What he had just experienced was all bound to burst at some point. But for it to attack one after the other, as if it had been waiting, was strange.

Kasel was frivolous but not stupid. So he was sure that this was not a coincidence but someone’s intention.

“Find out what’s going on.”

Kasel, returning to where they were playing cards, growled fiercely.

“Find out why people are making a fuss at me.”
At Cassel’s rebuke, his friend Serneut ran outside.

Meanwhile, Cassel was throwing cards and drinking wine incessantly, but he wasn’t drunk at all.

This was because three more guests had visited in the meantime, who were also angered by Cassel’s mistake.

Thus, a total of six people had come looking for Cassel. However, there were not many who could confront a nobleman directly, so there were likely far more who were quietly swallowing their dissatisfaction.

So as time went on, Cassel couldn’t help but become more and more anxious, instead of getting drunk.

After waiting for a long time, feeling as if he was standing at the gates of hell, one of Cassel’s friends brought a servant.

“What’s this?”

“I, I was asked to deliver this. So I just conveyed it to the name written there.”

Cassel nervously snatched the paper offered by the servant.

On the back of the neatly folded paper, only the recipient’s name was neatly written.

And inside it, Cassel’s misdeeds related to the recipient were detailed one by one. It even kindly directed who to ask for verification.

The content seemed as though someone had observed and recorded Cassel’s every move.

So Cassel instinctively glared at his friends. They quickly shook their heads as if it was obvious, and Cassel turned to the servant again.

“Who ordered this?”

“It’s something that Lady Evie Ariate ordered.”

“Evie?”

At the servant’s accusation, Cassel’s anger disappeared, because he couldn’t believe it at all.

‘What nonsensical talk is this…’

As if that ignorant girl could do such a thing.

Cassel suspiciously looked at the note in his hand again. And then he recognized the neat handwriting.

The elegant curves that seemed drawn were Evie Ariate’s handwriting.

Cassel stared at the paper, then threw the wine bottle with all his might, breaking it. He then overturned the table and threw a few chairs.

Crash, bang, clang.

He made a ruckus with dignity, not screaming, but behaving decently.

Only after that, he seemed to calm down, breathing heavily as he sat on the sofa.

At that time, his friends were watching Cassel’s rampage like frightened chicks from a corner. The servant had already run away.

Cassel undid his stuffy shirt and snapped his fingers. A quickwitted friend picked up the crumpled paper and handed it to Cassel.

Cassel looked blankly at the paper with Ariate’s writing on it again, then burst into hollow laughter.

“Ha, she’s really funny.”

“Is it really Ariate’s doing?”

“She must’ve been used, that fool.”

Perhaps she was resentful of being scorned, she fell for someone who approached her and struck me from behind without fear. This wretch.

Cassel judged so without even doubting. And then he grinned cruelly, baring his teeth.

He was furious enough to go mad, but his pride was too great to lose his cool over this insignificant girl.

So Cassel forcibly held down his anger, rose leisurely from the sofa with his usual composure.

“I need to go see Evie.”

Planning to meet her, and to scold this utterly disgraceful girl to his heart’s content.