The Story Is Not Over Yet - Chapter 170
Translator and Editor: Effe and Nabi
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Chapter 170
Eventually, he nodded with a serious expression as the servant said that. His reputation has fallen to the bottom right now, and he couldn’t have it fall any lower than this.
Daniel hurriedly rose to his feet.
“I need to go see Sylvia.”
The servant’s prediction was correct. His master hurriedly got up only when he thought that he might be harmed.
Daniel, who left the words to the servant, ‘Think of a way to kill Crown Prince Chises,’ went away. As he approached the bedroom used by the mistress, his servant approached and knocked on the closed door.
Knock, knock.
Even after the long knock, there was no answer, so Daniel pushed the servant aside with a white face and knocked on the door himself.
‘Bang, bang.’
There was no answer from inside despite the somewhat violent sound. Although he turned the doorknob, the locked door would not open. Was she really dead? What if she was dead? Should he report the death? If he reported the death…
Daniel rested his hand on his increasingly complicated forehead.
And then…
“…Come in.”
There was Sylvia’s voice from inside. As he had even thought if he should hide her corpse, Daniel raised his trembling head with a bright face.
There was a click as the locked door was opened before he stepped inside with a brightened face. Passing the maid with her head down, he stepped inside as the strong smell of perfume pierced his nose strongly.
“Ugh.”
The smell was so strong that Daniel covered his nose and mouth with his sleeve without realizing it. When she went inside, he saw Sylvia, who had sat in front of the dressing table.
“Sylvia.”
When was the last time he had called out her name?
At his call, Sylvia turned her head.
The moment he saw her face, Daniel’s shoulder trembled in surprise. The woman’s cheeks were sunken and her eyes bloodshot, her skin pale with red scars everywhere.
“Syl, Sylvia.”
Sylvia was no longer beautiful… no, maybe it has been like that in the first place. Maybe Daniel was blinded by love for a moment.
“…Daniel, you came to see me for a long time.”
“….”
He couldn’t find words to answer her. Should he say he was glad she didn’t die? Or should he say that he came here in the first place to see if she was dead?
Seeing Daniel pursed his lips, Sylvia spoke first.
“After being here alone for a few days, I finally understood.”
She scoured the large room.
“It was great that Azela did not go crazy. It’s so spacious and quiet here, but beyond that door without me, it’s so harmonious… although that closed door is easy to open, it doesn’t open.”
Her red lips were twitching. The fancy dress that was supposed to hide her exhausted face made her look even more miserable.
“The sunlight comes through the window in the morning, and darkness comes in at night. I can see the passing of the day so clearly, yet only my time has stopped.”
“Sylvia, you…”
“Besides, strangely, I think I can hear someone laughing in this room at some point.”
Sylvia looked around and grabbed her hair with a terrified face.
She was crazy.
Sylvia was crazy.
“Laughter? No, maybe it’s a cry. Who is it, who is crying like this? Still, I think the voice resembles Azela’s handmaid. Was the name Irene or Erene?”
As she finished her words, she stopped pulling her hair, clapped her hands and laughed. Her hair fluttered through her fingers.
Seeing the grotesque appearance, Daniel unknowingly stepped back.
“Daniel.”
After laughing for a while, Sylvia stopped and looked at him with a flat face.
“Tell me… do you think I’m crazy?”
“Sylvia.”
“Do I look like a crazy woman?”
Not knowing what she would do if he nodded, Daniel couldn’t answer Sylvia’s question, and he just gulped.
At that moment, Sylvia gave a loud scream.
Kayak!
“Look at this! Even now! They’re still laughing! Can’t you hear this laugh? You can’t? Can’t anyone hear it? Am I the only one who can hear it?”
“Madam!”
“Here! I think someone is trying to kick me out of here! Azela! Azela did it! It’s clearly her! I don’t want to!”
Daniel, who was watching Sylvia trying to rip her ear out, eventually hurried out of the bedroom with a pale face.
“What, what is that? She’s completely insane!”
He groaned as he looked back at the bedroom he had rushed out of.
While the servant who followed him had many things he wanted to say, he held back and bowed his head.
His master’s actions ruined the lives of the two women. Still, Daniel himself did not feel the slightest sense of guilt. His only regret for Azela was that he lost her… though he had no guilt in her for what he did to her.
“Master, why don’t you go visit Madam from time to time?”
When the servant who looked at Daniel mustered up the courage to speak, he shook his head.
“Me? Are you crazy? Why would I get in there and get myself into some nasty trouble? It’s disgusting that she’s living and breathing in my mansion. Madam? Ha! Tell everyone not to use that title.”
“But on paper, she is Countess Todd…”
“Shut up! The child is gone, and there’s no way I could live with such a crazy woman! Why did she end up like that?”
It’s you.
The servant who had been watching everything since Azela was ignored turned his head back, barely swallowing the words he was going to say. Looking past the bedroom, he saw frightened maids standing in the hallway.
‘It’s over.’
He could guess, after living a long servant life, that this mansion was now on the path to ruin.
Zagnac was back.
When she helped him back to the Duke’s residence, Baharf fell to his knees and wept profusely. Not only that, but all the employees who had been enduring without leaving the mansion, thanks to Zagnac’s grace, also shed tears.
Next to him, Azela also shed tears. Even though it had been less than a few days, those days without him felt like years for everyone.
“…Did you move your things here?”
Seeing his changed bedroom, Zagnac widened his eyes. While no other furniture had changed, the bedroom was filled with Azela’s scent, not his.
Azela nodded her head and took his faded hand, leading him into the bedroom.
“I thought you would come here.”
It wasn’t a big deal, but the emotions were bottomless.
Although the weather was quite chilly and the cold wind was blowing, the windows that were wide open represented her heart. Zagnac glanced around the bedroom with a bitter look on before looking at the medicine cabinet and almost empty bottle on the bedside table. They were items that Azela spoke of last night.
“…Azela.”
He gazed at her with a lonely gaze.
With her watery blue eyes, Azela lifted her toes and kissed Zagnac’s dry lips. Despite the fact that she kissed him on the lips, she felt like she touched nothing.
“No, don’t say anything. Just hug me.”
Zagnac pulled her away lightly as she put her lips on him, and looking at Azela, he uttered in a restrained voice.
“Azela, from now on, you have to prepare for the time when I disappear.”
Words she didn’t want to hear.
Even though he knew all about her feelings, he uttered these words. The conversation between the two started at some point under the premise of parting. Then, passing by Azela, who frowned, Zagnac walked out of the bedroom with the medicine chest and the almost empty bottle on the bedside table.
“Baharf.”
Baharf, who was standing in the hallway, ran when his master called him. Baharf’s voice trembled as he answered.
“Yes, yes.”
He was moved by his master, who had called him. Even though he didn’t show it considering the sad Azela, he also missed Zagnac the same way.
“I’ve been waiting for you to call me, Master.”
“…Yes, I get it. Wipe your tears and runny nose. Put this away.”
“Yes, Master.”
“Alcohol and drugs. Make sure I don’t see it in my mansion next time. Put them all away.”
“Ah…”
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