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The night road was dark and covered with spiderwebs. I walked briskly and diligently outside the Blackwood Estate with my bag on my back.

No matter how hard I run at my walking pace, I won’t be able to leave the territory until tomorrow morning, so I need to secure a means of transportation first.

I’d love to steal one of the horses from the Blackwood Manor stables, but that would really give Harold an excuse to come after me.

I’ve finally been tolerated for quitting my job, but if I make excuses here, the chances of getting caught again will increase, and if I do something wrong, I might actually get punished.

Even if we were to borrow horses from the village, everyone would be asleep at this time, so the easiest way to obtain transportation was through pillaging.

‘If you wander around here, you’ll probably come across some bandits… .’

I deliberately walked along a secluded mountain path a little away from the village. A woman walking around alone with a large suitcase was a perfect target for these guys.

At my current level, I can defeat any number of bandits, and even if wild monsters that aren’t bandits appear, I’m no match for them.

The first time you encountered the Hook Fangs at level 2? Even if they appear in a group in the mountains, they can slaughter them all.

As I was walking along the mountain path outside the Blackwood Estate with such thoughts in my mind… something appeared from inside the bushes with a rustling sound.

-Rustle.

‘Hmph, keuhhung…’

… They say even a tiger will come if you call it.

I faced the Wildtusk, a similar boar-type monster, though not a hook-toothed one. I held a dagger in both hands and stabbed the creature between the two of its eyebrows with my sword.

-Phew!

‘Khuheuk… .’

A guy who falls down with a sound like a pig’s neck being cut off as soon as a short dagger is stuck between his eyebrows.

If it had been something like a wild queer or wild goat instead of a wild tusk, I would have tried to tame it. I felt regretful that no mountable monsters appeared, so I just left the corpse alone.

There wasn’t really a food shortage right now, and we didn’t have the luxury of collecting and carrying heavy materials.

‘But still, the security situation within the Blackwood Estate isn’t that bad… .’

If it had been the original Blackwood Estate, it would have been divided among the branch nobles by now because neither Ethan nor Harold were there and it was not properly managed, but now both of them are alive and well.

As I was coming down the mountain path, feeling somewhat disappointed with the security of the normally well-managed territory, the guys I had been thinking about began to show up one by one.

“Hey, Miss. Are you alone?”

“Where are you going in such a hurry at this late hour~?”

“Tsurup, follow me. If you listen well, you won’t get hurt… .”

-Phew!

“… … Huh?”

“Hey, wait! That bitch has a dagger in her hand… .”

-Crunch!

-Pfft!

As we get closer to the border, these guys are starting to show up. Should we be thankful that the Blackwood family’s security hand doesn’t reach here?

Considering that there are five people but only one horse, it seems that they are not specifically used for riding, but rather are simply pulled around to carry luggage.

Or maybe they looted it from a passing peddler. No, if these guys had horses, there’s no way they could have gotten them other than by looting in the first place.

It didn’t really matter what it was. From now on, those words were mine anyway.

“Kekekekeke!”

“Hoo.”

Relieved that they had secured a means of transportation before daybreak, they roughly emptied the bandits’ pockets and climbed onto the back of a nameless horse that had been parked.

From today onwards, your name is Jeraon No. 2.

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The morning after Lilith left Blackwood Manor, without anyone knowing… and only letting one person know where she was.

Prince Blackwood, who woke up a little late, perhaps due to fatigue from the previous night, looked for his personal maid lying next to him as soon as he opened his eyes. However, what remained where his eyes landed was an empty bedding that showed traces of someone having left before him.

“… … who woke up first?”

Normally, I would have waited until I woke up or woke myself up.

In the first place, when he and Lilith slept like this, Ethan would wake up first and wait for her. Usually, when they were having sex, it was Lilith who would lose energy first, not him.

“Well, I did a bit too much yesterday… .”

I must have ejaculated about ten times in one night.

Ethan remembered that more than half of them had been ejaculated on her mouth and breasts, so he could conclude that he may have used up more stamina than Lilith the night before.

In that case, it’s possible that Release, who woke up before her, returned to her room early in the morning. As a dedicated maid, she was basically a diligent person.

Ethan, who was the first to see that the clothes that should have been left in the room as evidence of what had happened were gone, and even the clothes that he had roughly taken off the night before were neatly organized. They were also in a clean state, having been washed with clean magic.

‘I guess I’ll have to wear it again anyway. Today is the day I promised to go on a date with Lilith.’

Even if you could only visit the downtown area of Blackwood Estate in a day, that would be enough. Originally, dating wasn’t about where and what you did, but who you spent it with.

While Ethan was putting on his neatly organized clothes with such thoughts in mind, he discovered a piece of paper he had never seen before on his desk.

“Huh?”

I finished all the work that I had to do yesterday and didn’t even bring the remaining work to my desk.

Ethan was putting on his clothes and looking at the letter on the desk, wondering if it was something Lilith had brought into his room the night before.

From the first line, Ethan was able to quickly determine who the writer of the letter was, given the familiar handwriting and tone of voice.

“To Lord Ethan.”

‘I see, that’s what Lilith wrote.’

What on earth are you trying to say by writing a letter like this?

Since we usually talk face to face, it was quite refreshing to talk like this. I heard that lovers who live far away use letters to communicate with each other, but is this really how it feels?

Ethan began reading the letter, wondering if it contained something embarrassing to say while looking into each other’s eyes, but his anticipation gradually turned into a feeling that something was wrong as he read each line.

“First of all, I would like to say that I am very sorry to have to tell you this story in such an embarrassing way.

“February 25th, 1351 Imperial Calendar. I, Lilith Rosewood, have decided to cease being the exclusive maid of Lord Ethan and to step down from my position as Baroness Rosewood and leave the mansion.”

“… … What?”

A disconcerting sentence appeared shortly after I started reading the letter.

Ethan quickly read the latter part of the letter, even though he was a little tired, thinking that it might just be written as a joke.

“I am not leaving because I do not like the working conditions at the Blackwood family or because I do not like Master Ethan. I am leaving simply because of my petty greed, and because I do not want to see another woman standing beside you in the future.

I know that Lord Ethan has shown me his love in every way, but unfortunately, I am a selfish woman, so that alone is not enough. And I also know for sure that I cannot be Lord Ethan’s only wife with the fake title of Baronet Rosewood.

If I ever see my real fiancé standing next to Master Ethan, and if I ever find out that Master Ethan is having a relationship with her and having a child with her, I know that I won’t be able to suppress these ugly feelings in my heart.

That is why, while I could still part ways with you with a smile, I decided to break up with you on my own. I apologize again for making this decision without consulting you, knowing that if I told you about my feelings, you would definitely be against it.

The past 10 years or so that I have spent with Master Ethan. I can’t say that it was always happy times, but I will never forget the fact that I was happier because Master Ethan was there.

I’m sorry that we won’t be able to graduate together. If Miss Agnes or Miss Lizzie or anyone else at the Academy asks about me, please tell them that I’m doing well.

I sincerely hope that Master Ethan will always be healthy and live a long and happy life.

“The exclusive maid who loves you forever, Lilith Rosewood Olympus.”

“… … .”

Ethan rereads the letter several times, wondering if he had read it wrong.

His eyes and hands, holding the last letter of the release, began to tremble at some point.