Chapter 15
He knew how much Laritte loved this old villa.
The first floor was always free of dust (The second floor had been abandoned.) The walls were clean too.
Before he came to this house, she had also bought a seedling and raised it well.
Little flowers used to bloom every day on the table where she usually took her meals.
Laritte told him.
But each and every one of them was a lie!
“No, it can’t be like this. I should be the one to do it.”
Ian turned around, clutching the invitation.
Laritte tried to snatch it from behind.
“If you go alone and fail……”
“…..?”
“I can confess to the government that I was the one who invited you.”
She was really stubborn.
He frowned and glanced back at her.
Her face was still calm.
“Or you’ll be executed.”
“I wouldn’t be.”
“Really?”
‘How can you be so sure?’
When she asked again, he hesitated.
She was the last person to know about his whereabouts.
‘What if he actually fails?’
Looking at her calm expression, he felt shivers running down his spine.
Laritte knew Ian as much as he knew her.
In the end, he had no choice but to surrender to her.
Ian strode towards the door leaving her behind. He deliberately raised his voice so that he could be heard clearly.
“All right, if we’re going to attend the banquet, we have to wear formal clothes. How much does a ginseng dress cost? But before that, I’m going to have to sell some wood.”
“…..”
“Of course, you don’t have to help me. It must be hard to cut those items.”
‘I can see you’re already struggling.’
When he didn’t get any response from Laritte, he sighed before he went to search for the ax.
Ian was still standing in front of the porch.
for a long time….
he heard a rumbling sound from
all right!
a wooden board,
stomped his foot loudly before
hand
together, okay?”
“Ah.”
Ian’s help after
don’t have to buy a
“Pardon?”
probably still
up to the second floor.
covered
Ian went ahead
you looking
smell good there, so
her
go to the attic
house. The farther they went, the more the roof
there was no attic on the ceiling of the second floor.
kept following
that Laritte was
up a suitable block before putting it in a gap in the
want to destroy the
ceiling, which obviously didn’t
made Ian recall about his old
kid, a servant always used to open it for him. It was the first time he got the chance to do it himself.
the fallen rope ladder as
wasn’t
a dusty box from the
is it for?”
my mother’s clothes.”
but the favorite
from a Dragon’s
had a beautiful neckline.
with special fibers that were highly elastic. It seemed as if it
of the beautiful dresses made out of a Dragon’s skin
a proposal for the marriage. It was
as though this dress reminded her of many
live here with the former Duchess, didn’t you?”
Ian nodded.
the box, Laritte found
hem of the dress flowed downwards as she took it out. It was composed of simple
‘Beautiful.’
dress, Ian added
my late mother, and it was made many decades ago, so it might not be
I’ll have to
his
I like it.”
that trend come
itself didn’t feel so different from what Rose used to wear
Laritte had never seen anything so beautiful in
did Ian stop making
“…Is that so?”
thought the dress suited
with fancy silver shoes as
him to say that it was as though it was
very delighted to see that the dress she treasured so much was given to Ian’s wife.
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