episode_0168

“If you need anything, please call me anytime.”

The butler who guided Priscilla to the guest room said that and left the small bell and left. Priscilla, who had been looking at this for a while, quietly turned her head out the window.

Priscilla, feeling the presence of people outside the room moving away, opened the window and let out a long sigh.

“Ha… … .”

Priscilla sighed as her head throbbed, stumbling over to the bed and falling down on it.

The bed was so soft that it would be rude to compare it to the bed in the dormitory and the floor in the lab. However, Priscilla, who had been lying down on the bed for a while, got up from the bed again in less than a minute.

This was because I was so frustrated in this situation that I couldn’t even lie still.

“It’s frustrating… … .”

Even though I took a deep breath, the frustration did not go away. The same goes for saying your frustrated feelings out loud. Even if I opened the window or took a deep breath, the frustration wouldn’t go away.

Priscilla also knew. This frustration is not simply caused by changes in the environment.

‘What happens next…? … . ‘What should I do?’

What on earth can I do to relieve this frustrating feeling? How on earth can I get out of this hopeless situation?

Priscilla tried solving the same question several times in her head, but no suitable answer came out.

No, it wasn’t that there wasn’t an answer. Because there was already an answer to Priscilla’s question, and she also knew everything about what to do and how to do it.

“I… … .”

Priscilla also knew very well how the situation was going.

How could he not know that it was all his own misunderstanding, and that his self-righteous actions based on that misunderstanding ruined everything?

You can’t not know. Because she also got older and became an adult. I have that level of insight.

No, I would have known even if I wasn’t an adult. Because the person who committed the original mistake knows better.

“Tell me everything honestly… … . There’s no way you could do something like that… … .”

Priscilla, who was muttering like that, wondered how many times she had already thought about this.

“It seems you aren’t the only one with the same thoughts going around the same place.”

Priscilla, who belatedly realized that she had already thought the same thing several times, smiled bitterly and touched her forehead.

Did I ask for time to think for no reason? It’s only been a few minutes since I entered the room, and it’s already like this, but if any more time passes… … .

Priscilla, who was quietly looking down at the floor while sitting on the bed, felt like she would collapse before even a day had passed if she continued like this, so she got up.

Dingling――

Priscilla shook the small bell that the butler had placed on the table, and soon there was a knock on the door.

“Please come in.”

After Priscilla gave permission, the door quietly opened and Sarah, a maid wearing a red choker around her neck, entered the room.

“You… … .”

It’s definitely the face I saw at the beginning of the semester. He was a student who suddenly disappeared one day and remained in my memory. I never thought I’d meet you in a place like this… … .

Priscilla blinked when she saw the face that remained in her memory, and Sarah smiled slightly and bowed politely.

“I never thought I’d see you here again. Miss Sarah.”

At Priscilla’s greeting, Sarah raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

Priscilla felt something strange about that appearance, but she quietly passed on without saying anything.

“I’m feeling stuffy from staying in the room, so I’d like to take a light walk. Could you please guide me?”

Priscilla looked at Sarah as she said that, and upon hearing those words, Sarah blinked a few times and gently bowed her back. Then he moved aside and pointed toward the door.

Priscilla, who saw Sarah like that, was able to vaguely guess what Sarah’s current state was as she had not said anything from the moment she first saw her until now.

But Priscilla didn’t say anything, just like before. This was because she was not in a state where she could afford to care about others right now.

“If you go first, I will follow you.”

But she was also an adult, and no matter how much she had to spare, she was able to show this level of consideration. She said that and looked at Sarah.

Sarah seemed to have accepted the consideration kindly, and started walking with a quiet smile.

“… … .”

Togak――Togak――

Sarah walked down the long hallway with an upright posture, and Priscilla followed behind her and quietly looked at Sarah as she walked ahead.

‘Sera Petra… … . It was definitely a student who was with Charlotte. That student suddenly disappeared from the academy one day and was working as a maid for the Rochelle family… … .’

Priscilla, who had been thinking for a very brief moment, paused for a moment when she realized that she was thinking this again when she went out for a walk to clear her head, but then she continued thinking again.

Because I knew very well that there was no better way to turn my eyes away from a reality I didn’t want to accept than to fill my head with random thoughts.

‘What on earth happened? Why was I not allowed to speak, and why did I leave the academy?’

Once the random thoughts started to burst out, they came out one after another. Those thoughts greatly helped me turn my eyes away from the reality I didn’t want to hear or see.

Priscilla was walking while thinking about various things when she saw Sarah, who was walking ahead of her, suddenly stop walking. At the same time that Sarah stopped walking, the thoughts running through Priscilla’s head also stopped.

“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

Sarah slightly turned her head to the side at Priscilla’s words, opened the door next to her, and went inside.

Priscilla, who was standing blankly unable to react to Sarah’s sudden action, saw Sarah sticking her head out of the room Sarah entered and gesturing for her to come in, and then hesitantly followed her into the room.

When Priscilla entered the room, Sarah confirmed that no one was in the hallway and closed the door to the room.

“So, can you explain why you suddenly came here?”

In response to Priscilla’s slightly sharp reaction, Sarah immediately bowed and apologized.

Seeing Sarah’s appearance, which was different from before, looking somewhat desperate, Priscilla swallowed back what she was trying to say and watched Sarah.

After waiting for a while, after confirming that Priscilla was not saying anything, Sarah slowly stood up and took out a pen and paper from her pocket.

He then cut his own palm with a nearby knife and began writing with his own blood instead of ink.

[Sorry for surprising you with this sudden situation]

“… … .”

As Sarah wrote, Priscilla couldn’t say anything because the situation was so sudden.

I went out for a walk, and it was so unexpected that I suddenly found myself in a room like this. Cutting one’s own palm with a knife and writing with blood was too sudden.

[Please understand that I cannot explain in detail because I am losing a lot of blood.]

“No… … . What is this… … .”

As Priscilla was blinking in confusion, Sarah tapped the wooden table and made a sound.

Priscilla, who only then saw Sarah’s writing, nodded unconsciously, overwhelmed by the situation of writing with her own blood.

When Priscilla nodded, Sarah smiled slightly in satisfaction and went back to writing.

[Right now, Lady Charlotte is in great danger. The Duchess, who is currently the head of the family, is accusing Lady Charlotte of being the culprit who assassinated the head of the family, and because of that, Lady Charlotte is now imprisoned in the dungeon.]

“… … What?”

Because of me, Charlotte was locked in the dungeon?

The moment she saw Sarah’s writing, Priscilla’s mind went blank.

‘When I was asked to make a confession agent, I thought they were just mixing it with Charlotte’s food to get a confession, but I thought they were just confirming it and passing it off calmly.’

‘But no. Charlotte was now falsely accused because of me and was imprisoned in a dungeon. I didn’t even know that, but I asked my sister to give me time… … .’

‘Because of me, that child who is not feeling well is now in the dungeon――’

Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me Because of me

“Ah… … .”

In the end, everything happened because of me.

Priscilla’s heart was bent. It creaked with a sound like it was being torn apart. There was a cracking sound and it shook unsteadily.

That was when Priscilla was about to lower her head, feeling like she was about to break.

[I know the real culprit]

Priscilla blinked as she saw sentences that no one in her right mind could understand filling up the paper.

“… … ?”

[I know the real culprit who killed the Duke]

After writing that, Sarah looked at Priscilla, and Priscilla made eye contact with Sarah with eyes filled with confusion.

Sarah’s eyes were looking at Priscilla, but her eyes did not say that Priscilla was the culprit.

[Lady Charlotte’s younger brother, Master Arcien La Rochelle, is the real culprit]

In front of Priscilla, who was waiting for something to break, a support called Hope came down and wrapped her heart.