“Now, miss Ria is also the owner of Sinaize, so you don’t have to ask my permission, you can do as you please.”
I facepalmed at his attitude, saying that we are on an equal footing and he even gave me the key to the safe.
“What if I rob the safe and run away?”
“I know you won’t.”
“Of course!”
“And I can’t help it if you run away. It’s my decision to hand over the key. Maybe every night, I will shed tears of pessimism because of being betrayed.”
Dillian pressed the corners of his eyes, pretending to wipe the tears away.
Wow, you’re going to cry a lot. And will come after me and try to cut my throat.
It isn’t just me, Nathan and Dillian’s lieutenants, Neison, looked at his face with a chewed expression.
“I feel very tired when I’m with him. Ria, let’s rob the safe and get out of here.”
“So that means the ruler of power has changed. Madam. From today onwards, I will dedicate my loyalty to you.”
I shook my head at the sight of the two spitting out different words.
“I don’t need it.”
I hurriedly threw the key that was cutely wrapped in a red ribbon, at him.
Neison’s loyalty also declined.
“Seems everyone has gathered.”
I looked down at Neison’s words and swallowed my saliva.
‘… Isn’t that too many?’
I expected that there would not be one or two employees, but I was suddenly worried about the unexpected scale.
‘Will I be able to sleep today?’
A rough road was expected, but I couldn’t give up.
I rolled up my sleeves and took the employees’ hands one by one.
Time passed like that, and the night was thickly dark.
“Are you really saying that all these people were attacked by that monster, madam?”
I nodded at Neison’s words, who was bewildered by the sight he was seeing.
A total of five people fell asleep in the hall as if they passed out.
They varied in gender, age, and occupation.
Servant, maid, driver, knight, and chef.
Neison, who had always liked the chef’s cooking, grabbed his neck without realizing it.
“Your Grace, aren’t you poisoned?”
“Don’t worry. It’s simply the sharing of sight and hearing. Only information was stolen, no poison….”
I waved my hands saying not to worry, but shut my mouth at the hypothesis that came to mind.
They might have found out what Dillian’s favorite food is and then secretly swapped it out, aren’t they?
“Madam, why have you stopped talking?”
“… I thought it might be.”
“Huh! Then, didn’t I eat it too?”
Neison trembled, wondering what to do if poison had accumulated in his body.
But surprisingly, no one paid any attention to him.
I finally reached out to Neison.
“Come here, lieutenant.”
“Me, me too?”
“Of course.”
Except for Dillian and me, everyone could not escape from the list of suspects.
I grabbed Neison’s crooked hand as if snatching it. Then Neison closed his eyes.
I wonder where I have seen this familiar scene, it looked exactly like the figure of a child who went to the dentist to treat cavities.
‘You’re already grown-ups, why’re you so scared?’
When I forcefully grabbed his shaky, trembling hand, his shoulder popped out.
“Don’t worry, count to three and it’s over.”
I comfort Neison with deceitful words the dentists used to on a daily basis, but he secretly retreated back as if he had been hurt many times.
‘But still, I got his hand.’
I released my divine power and examined his body.
As expected, his body was clean.
“It’s normal.”
As soon as I let go of my hand, Dillian grabbed my shoulder and pulled me away from Neison.
“Why….”
There was no end to the question.
What’s with that face? It’s so burdensome.
“I can see why people were surprised when they held madam’s hand….”
Didn’t you want to run away? I laughed when I saw the hand that was touching me pulled up to his chest and hugged it tightly.
“It’s so warm. It’s like being in a mother’s arms at birth, argh!”
“Shut up.”
Dillian slapped Neison in the back of the head, asking where he was spitting out such a blasphemous, creepy sound.
And started wiping my hand that hold Neison’s hand with a handkerchief.
Still not satisfied, he grabbed my hand.
“Why?”
“Disinfection.”
“Your Grace, treating people like germs is a bad thing.”
“I am worried that you may have a bad disease.”
Ignoring Neison completely, Dillian woven his fingers into mine.
Dillian, with his hands entwined like a noose, approached with a languid smile.
“Am I really don’t have to do it?”
“… Are you serious?”
Dillian, who was born with a curse, can’t be beaten by the shards of Darkness.
Even when I saw him turning the Darkness that was rushing at me into a skewer at once, he was brazen.
“Phew, how could I not find a cute side to him?”
“Talking Owl-nim. Please cancel what you just said.”
As expected from the loyal lieutenant…!
“If His Grace gets a cute side, it will be the day of the end of the empire.”
Loyal, huh? He’s just a scaredy-cat.
As the two of them clapped and agreed, Dillian’s eyes didn’t seem to fall from me.
Of course, I could see the gap that he showed a will to fight the two of them later, but now the priority was me.
“Miss Ria. I may have swallowed the shards too.”
“… Okay.”
But even though Dillian said so, both Dillian and I were sure he didn’t swallow it.
So I instilled the divine power in a different way than I did to others.
Dillian, who immediately recognized that something was different, widened his eyes.