The Maid In The Reverse Harem Game Wants To Quit - Chapter 109
Translator: Nabi
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Chapter 109
Edith’s face turned white.
Her research was something she valued more than her life.
“How do you have that.”
“I brought it from Lichpen because the place is still empty.”
To be precise, it would be correct to say that no one was allowed to enter there. While Irene was asleep, a lot happened in the game.
Like the fact that Veronica was in custody, for example.
The day she met with the absinthe manufacturer to make a deal, the police cadre also received an anonymous tip and was searching the area. So thanks to this, the absinthe manufacturer, including Veronica, were caught on the spot. She couldn’t cut her tail because it was just after they finalized the contract for the deal.
“Even so, because she wasn’t selling or manufacturing anything directly, I’m sure she’ll be released soon. Now, there’s no one to protect my aunt.”
Ahibalt expressed his regret for that as he spoke indifferently.
Veronica’s life would be better in custody.
Even if she was released, the executives had no reason to stick to Veronica, who was already at the end of her rope. Not only was her vineyard destroyed, but she also lost the Seventh District—one of her main sources of income—and now, she had the humiliation of being arrested.
“The moment she was caught by the police cadre, she was dismissed from a high-ranking executive position.”
“Is she no longer a consigliére?”
“Since she was my father’s younger sister, she’ll still be treated like a princess though the remaining honor will be taken away. I wish she had been moderately greedy.”
In other words, it was a crushing defeat caused by excessive greed.
It was only a matter of time before the executives turned their backs on her. Although Ahibalt didn’t bother to go out of his way to recruit them, the executives shrewdly came to him, groveling and servilely bowing their bald heads.
In addition, Edith’s attempt to poison Otis with Henrietta also failed miserably.
Ahibalt took action on Otis immediately after the explosion in the lab. However, by the time his messenger arrived in Lowens, it was already too late.
“This is ridiculous. There’s no way I’d eat what mother gives me.”
Even after she explained the situation to him, his response was this.
“No wonder she’s persistently staring at my teacup… I’m afraid I’m not the kind of person who eats when I’m with mother. More than anything, Charlotte Eunice was a little noisy, so I didn’t have time for that.”
To be precise, it wasn’t exactly uproarious.
He explained that Charlotte drew a knife when Henrietta arrived.
“At first, she clung to the tenuous hope that Henrietta would save her, but when there was no sign of it, she seems to have finally accepted that she was abandoned.”
She didn’t know what it might have been like for Henrietta, but Charlotte followed her wholeheartedly. As she came out, begging Henrietta to spare her life, Charlotte quickly changed her demeanor when Henrietta reacted sharply, thinking she had ruined everything.
“It’s all your fault… you shouldn’t have treated me like that! I was really, really following you—!”
As she shouted and tried to stab Henrietta with the hidden dagger, Otis had to eventually step in to sort out the situation. In the process, Henrietta was injured and bleeding, but there was no one to care about that, at least in Lavrenti.
Only Otis was a little sorry.
Perhaps that was why. Otis, who returned to Lavrenti, looked a little tired as if he had let go of things.
“Charlotte Eunice has been sent back to Eunice since we’ve decided to keep her alive. After that, she’ll have to take care of herself.”
“What about Madam Henrietta?”
“She was sent to the largest hospital in the capital. Nominally for treatment, but…”
Otis trailed off, but Irene wasn’t the kind of person who couldn’t notice that his purpose was to detain Henrietta in the name of treatment.
In addition, Otis, who has love and hatred for his mother, was suffering quite a little.
Irene thought he looked lonely, perhaps because the last time she had seen him, he had been crying, or perhaps because he was troubled by Henrietta’s troubles. It may have been an optical illusion created by the shadows cast by the deep eyeholes, but at least, that was what it seemed like in her eyes.
Having been guileful and relaxed, like a mix of Rodion and Ahibalt, he looked as if he would snap at any moment like a newspaper in the rain.
The emptiness in his silver eyes, which resembled the moon, was clear to her eyes.
“But I’m fine, as long as you’re alive.”
All I needed was for you to be alive by my side. Even if you don’t think of me first, even if you don’t look at me…
All I have left is you.
He uttered those words to Irene with a look that seemed to have nothing in the world to wish for.
I’m glad you’re alive.
The same words as Ahibalt, with a completely different expression and a completely different emotion.
As if the only thing he could hold on to in this life was Irene.
“You… may not believe it, but you’re my whole life. If I lost you, I would’ve lost my life.”
So, you have no idea the relief I feel right now.
Finishing his words, Otis pulled Irene into a hug.
However, that was his arrogance. Irene felt the same relief he felt, so it was a mistake to say that she wouldn’t know. But even that misjudgment was understood so desperately. Why did he think that her heart wasn’t the same as his, and why did he take it for granted?
It was obvious.
For someone who has been constantly denied and abandoned, trust was like putting his neck in a snare. So, in the end, Irene said nothing since she knew that any words of hers would be discredited to him.
It was a complete contradiction to distrust that was connected with love. Some relationships were maintained by such distrust. Instead of saying anything, she quietly embraced the young man who had no one to lean on except herself.
…This lonely man whom he had cherished for a long time in this past life.
“Come back anytime, Young Master.”
I’ll protect you.
That was the greatest welcome she could give.
She didn’t know how her hospitality reached Otis, but he began to do whatever she asked of him after that. For example, when she asked to be taken to Lichpen, where access was controlled. He took her straight to Lichpen without asking her why. Irene was, of course, puzzled because of that.
“Irene, aren’t you going to ask brother? Though I’d like to do it.”
“Because it’s difficult to tell the First Master.”
To put it bluntly, it was because she thought Ahibalt would be reluctant. She wasn’t sure what he’d been talking about with Edith since all he told her was that they’d gotten Rodion’s medicine, and Edith was being detained so she wouldn’t disturb them anymore.
Hearing the story, she had a hunch.
‘There was a story I shouldn’t have known.’
And she needed to figure that out. Now that things have come this far, it was time to end this tiresome game.
Irene remembered what Edith had said right before the explosion.
“I know how to break this fate.”
“I’ll twist fate, find the manager of this fate, and kill him.”
In particular, the part where she promised to kill was sharply embedded in her mind.
Edith knew that the manager of fate couldn’t be killed, but how could she kill them? What else did she not say? And so, Irene made her way to Edith’s lab and read through all of the material she had accumulated over two decades.
That was the current.
Irene praised Edith for her hard work.
“It was incredible. I couldn’t believe you could get this far without knowing anything about this world.”
“That doesn’t sound very convincing, coming from someone who’s been snooping through my research records.”
“You almost killed me, too, so I’ll let that slide.”
“So, why did you come to see me?”
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Translator’s Note: Hello, it’s Nabi! I’m the translator of this novel ପ( ๑•ᴗ•๑ )ଓ♡ If you like the novel and would like to support me, please feel free to click the button below to go to my kofi~! Thank you so much for always supporting the novels I work on, even if you don’t buy me a coffee, I really do appreciate it a lot. ❤︎
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