Vol. 1 - Ch. 58 - What a Sickeningly Lovey-Dovey Couple!

At such a critical moment, one of the servants had suddenly disappeared?

“Maybe he just went to the bathroom.”

Lynn rubbed his chin, his eyes gleaming with wisdom.

“I don’t think anyone would spend that long in the bathroom.”

Griffin’s mouth twitched.

“Then why are you still standing here?! Hurry up and find him! At a time like this, stop coming back here just to waste my time!”

Lynn rolled his eyes.

“That’s exactly the problem. He didn’t leave behind a single trace. I have no way to track him.”

Griffin’s expression turned solemn.

“Someone this skilled is definitely an assassin from the Blood Serpent Society. He must have received the same level of training that I did.”

As expected.

Lynn wasn’t surprised in the slightest.

It wasn’t just because Riko’s testimony had confirmed that, aside from Lilith, there was another person responsible for the poisoning hiding somewhere inside the Viscount’s manor.

In fact, from the very beginning, Lynn had already been certain that a conspiracy of this scale could never have been carried out by a single person.

So what should they do now?

The messenger sent by the Viscount to summon Baron Rose should have departed earlier than the Blood Serpent Society assassin.

Under normal circumstances, the person who left first should naturally arrive first.

But this was not a normal world.

Supernatural powers existed here.

In that case, the enemy might have already prepared some method of rapidly transmitting information somewhere within White Pine City.

Therefore, they had to find that missing servant as quickly as possible.

“Griffin, go next door and find Riko. Have her use the Serpentfolk’s special sensory abilities to help you search.”

“Wait... you can’t be serious, can you? That’s impossible, isn’t it?”

It wasn’t that Griffin doubted Riko’s abilities.

After all, he knew very well that the Serpentfolk possessed extraordinary senses.

However, he simply couldn’t imagine that lazy snake willingly helping with something so troublesome.

“Oh, it’s easy. Just carry a hand warmer in your arms and let her coil herself around you.”

“Then tell her that whenever she detects a suspicious trail matching the criteria, all she needs to do is gently wag her tail.”

“And make sure to promise her that after this matter is settled, you’ll replace her bed with a velvet one.”

Having completely figured out that lazy snake’s habits, Lynn immediately came up with the perfect solution.

As a mature and responsible entrepreneur, he was exceptionally skilled at making sure everyone around him realized their maximum value.

While Griffin left with his personal living infrared tracking device—Riko—Lynn didn’t remain idle either.

He intended to personally visit Lilith and obtain the hidden truth, along with more detailed information from her.

After all, according to the logic of a partnership, she should know where the hidden assassin had gone.

Although Lynn still held deep reservations toward that walking nuclear bomb of a woman, the potential benefits were more than enough to outweigh his fear.

With that thought, he arrived outside Lilith’s room.

The captain of the guards and several other guards were standing watch outside the door.

Judging from their expressions, it was obvious that they had no idea why the Viscount had ordered them to remain there.

“Sir Lynn, you’ve arrived. In that case, we’ll withdraw to the end of the corridor.”

Following the Viscount’s instructions, the captain of the guards led his men away after Lynn entered the room. They moved farther down the hallway, ensuring that the conversation about to take place would only be heard by the two people inside.

Lynn looked at the tightly shut door in front of him and swallowed nervously.

Even though the benefits are huge... this woman is still a terrifying existence.

He reached out and slowly pushed open the door.

But after gripping the necklace tightly in his left hand and patting the contract hidden in his pocket with his right, determination immediately filled Lynn’s heart.

Creak!

With the soft groan of the hinges, Lynn closed the door behind him.

The room was filled with an elegant and refined fragrance.

Unlike the fresh scent lingering in Alicia’s room, this fragrance carried the richer and deeper aroma of agarwood.

Aside from that, the entire room was shrouded in complete darkness, without even the slightest trace of light.

Yet Lynn felt completely at ease.

After all, his own castle was just as dark every night.

It was the brightly lit banquet hall that actually made him feel uncomfortable.

“Madam, do you know why I’ve come here?”

Thanks to his excellent night vision, Lynn quickly spotted Lilith sitting silently in front of the dressing table mirror.

He pulled over a chair and sat down behind her.

Silence was her only response.

“I know, and you know as well. You are a witch—a witch who practices dark magic.”

“The Viscount’s son is suffering from a curse called the Veil of Interference.”

“You’re the one who cast it, aren’t you?”

The instant those words left his mouth, Lilith’s breathing stopped.

She had never expected Lynn to know this much.

In her eyes, he should have merely been someone who had accidentally identified the Frost Ice Poison.

No.

If he already knew this secret, then she had no other choice.

【Affection: -50 (I have to kill him!)】

In an instant, terrifying malicious magic surged violently from her body.

【E-Rank mana fluctuation detected. Dark Blade is about to take form.】

Lynn had anticipated this possibility from the very beginning.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately activated the necklace in his hand.

As sealing light descended upon Lilith, she was horrified to discover that all of her power had vanished in an instant.

【Mana Level: E-Rank (Sealed)】

The seal could suppress Aina, whose mana level was D-Rank, for ten minutes.

Against Lilith, however, it would last for at least thirty minutes.

Lynn finally let out a sigh of relief.

Now things were much safer.

As for the relic ring, at least for the moment, it showed no signs of warning him about any imminent danger.

“Good. Now we can finally have a proper conversation without worrying about anything.”

Hearing his relaxed and teasing voice, Lilith gritted her teeth and suddenly turned around.

Although the room was almost completely dark, she could still vaguely make out Lynn’s irritating grin.

“Why?!”

“Why are all of you treating me like this?!”

She let out a sharp scream and jumped to her feet.

“It was Milangel who sent you here, wasn’t it?!”

“That’s right... He must already know what kind of vicious woman I am...”

“And now you’re going to hand me over to the Church, so I can burn beneath the flames of the Holy Inquisition...”

“Haha... What a fitting ending for someone like me!”

“For a woman like me, there could never be a more suitable death than being judged as a witch!”

She burst into shrill laughter.

Yet beneath that laughter was so much pain and despair that it sounded as though she truly believed she deserved such a fate.

“A monster like me was a mistake from the moment I was born.”

“I should have died long ago.”

“Then... then I wouldn’t have fallen into the hands of that bastard... that damned old monster...”

“Ahahaha!”

“That’s right... I should have accepted my fate from the very beginning!”

“Witches like us...”

“We don’t deserve to seek happiness.”

“We never did!”

Looking at the hysterical Lilith, a giant question mark appeared above Lynn’s head.

What on earth is this woman talking about?

He hadn’t even said anything yet.

No.

Women’s thought processes were simply beyond his comprehension.

Lynn cleared his throat.

“Ahem... Madam, please calm down.”

“It’s true that I suggested handing you over to the Church. After all, that would have been the simplest solution.”

Seeing that Lilith looked ready to pounce on him like a witch from Left 4 Dead, Lynn immediately shouted:

“But! Viscount Milangel flatly refused!”

Hearing those words, Lilith froze.

“He said...”

Lynn hesitated.

No, that’s way too embarrassing to say directly.

“Ah, forget it. Anyway, he loves you deeply, and he firmly believes that you never truly intended to harm that child.”

“He believes that the woman he came to know is the real you—not some so-called monster who only brings disaster and destruction.”

Just as Lynn was becoming so embarrassed that he wished the ground would split open and swallow him, he saw Lilith’s limp body slowly sink back into the chair behind her.

She covered her face with both hands, and quiet sobs escaped from between her fingers.

“He really... really said that?”

Seriously...

What a ridiculously lovey-dovey couple.

Feeling secondhand embarrassment from their affection, Lynn took a deep breath before nodding.

“Yes. That’s right.”

【Affection: 5 (Milangel...)】

The moment he sensed that the hostility radiating from Lilith had completely disappeared, Lynn immediately shifted back to the most urgent matter.

“One of the servants in the Viscount’s manor has disappeared. I’m certain he’s the Blood Serpent Society assassin who carried out the poisoning.”

“Do you know where he might have gone?”

“We need to find him as quickly as possible.”

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