Chapter 10
“Wh-What do you mean by that? Ah, we’re not related at all!”
The speed of his response was indeed too slow.
Who would believe an excuse that comes after his expression has revealed everything?
“That ring.”
“Huh!”
“…….”
Now I’m the one who feels embarrassed saying this.
Seeing the director’s startled reaction at the mere mention of the ring, Ceres felt incredulous.
You’re quite an easy man, aren’t you?
The ring on his left hand.
It looked somewhat familiar, so she paid close attention, and it didn’t take long for her to recall where she had seen it before.
‘Agne, my aunt.’
It was the same design as the ring she always wore on her left hand.
Of course, it would be ridiculous to suspect a relationship based solely on similar ring designs.
But didn’t Agne introduce her to this place as well?
The director of the nursing home, introduced by her, was wearing the same ring as her?
‘I had a feeling…’
And it turned out to be true?
Once again, she simply threw out the bait, and he eagerly bit into it, almost embarrassingly so.
“What? It seems there’s a misunderstanding…”
“My uncle is already suspicious of my aunt’s infidelity.”
“Pardon?”
Of course, that was a lie. She didn’t even know what her uncle looked like.
“There’s a rumor that he’s been in close contact with hitmen, saying he’ll cut off the head of whoever he finds…”
“Hitmen?”
But once again, Arnold was eagerly taking the bait.
Seeing his face pale to the point of looking pitiful, Ceres couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.
How could someone with such a timid personality commit such acts?
Thud!
“Ugh!”
When she slammed her hand on the table, Director Arnold flinched and sank to the floor as if to hide.
“Well then…”
Ceres smiled again at him.
“Shall we have a proper conversation?”
Facing Ceres, whose mouth was smiling but whose eyes weren’t, Director Arnold had to swallow hard again.
***
“Let’s go.”
“…….”
The green eyes of the awakened child felt unusually clear.
Staring at Ceres for a while with wide, innocent eyes, the child slowly raised herself from the bed.
“Are we going home?”
“Yeah.”
‘You said you’ve been living here since you were four.’
It had been almost three years since she last saw her, yet the child didn’t even ask who she was.
“Why?”
“Because we can’t stay here any longer.”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s a bad place.”
“Why is it bad?”
“Because they don’t provide proper treatment.”
“Why?”
“……”
Somehow, I want to smack the kid.
Seeing the child, wide-eyed and asking “why” repeatedly, Ceres let out a short sigh.
“Let’s go.”
As Ceres reached out her hand, the already large eyes of the child widened even more.
After briefly glancing at the small hand Ceres was gently holding, she took out the teleportation magic item.
‘I-I didn’t mean to feed her!’
‘Then what?’
‘Agne, she! If she makes the child sick and keeps her here, she can make a lot of money…!’
‘So you fed a poison to a seven-year-old child? You really are careless in what you say.’
‘I-I only heard it was a medicine that weakens the body! I really didn’t know it was that deadly! I swear!’
‘Make sure to tell the guards the same thing. That I didn’t know anything.’
‘The guards? No way! What will happen to this place then? I’ll be completely ruined!’
‘Whether you get ruined or not, I don’t care… Ah, I guess I do care. I’ll make sure it gets ruined as badly as possible.’
‘Aaaah! I’ll return all the treatment fees I received!’
‘That’s only natural. But how can you still be trying to deal with me when you’re this out of it?’
‘Agne, that woman is behind all of this, right?’
A dark smile spread across Ceres’s face as she recalled the conversation she had just had with the director.
As she had suspected, the director and Agne were having an affair.
Agne had orchestrated this entire plan, and it was Director Arnold who executed it.
Under the pretext of feeling sorry for the nephews who lost their parents at such a young age, Agne had secretly fed the youngest, Yulia, the drug.
‘How did she get that poison?’
The poison that Yulia had consumed.
Ceres knew this poison very well.
It was the kind that had been used long ago by the imperial family to discreetly eliminate hostile entities.
Unlike other poisons that show immediate reactions, this one slowly deteriorates the body and kills, making it difficult to identify the cause without showing it to a healer.
However, when Grace was alive, the emperor had ordered the cultivation and distribution of that poisonous herb to be completely banned, causing it to gradually disappear.
“Yulia, do you remember that awful medicine you had to take?”
“Yes.”
“When did you start taking it?”
“Since the first day I got here.”
Is it being distributed again?
Anyway, once the child ate the poison according to Agne’s plan and collapsed, they had locked Yulia in the nursing home and used every means to extort treatment fees.
That money was shared between Director Arnold and Agne.
‘In other words, the money borrowed from loan sharks all went into my aunt’s pocket.’
She didn’t care if her nephews suffered under the interest.
No wonder. So that’s why all the places she borrowed money from had such high-interest rates?
‘As long as they can borrow money, they don’t care about the conditions at all.’
It didn’t matter that she wouldn’t be paying it back; all that mattered was getting the money.
Ceres’s smile deepened as she learned all these facts.
“Sister, are you angry?”
“…No.”
Wham!
As she met the child’s enlarged eyes, the two of them vanished from that spot.
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