When The Count’s Illegitimate Daughter Gets Married - Chapter 105

Chapter 105

From a certain moment, Laritte had very little time to get out of bed in 24 hours.

The more so, Ian couldn’t leave the chair next to the bed. Alice, Laritte’s exclusive maid, came into the room with a cloth to take care of Laritte.

Wheeze, wheeze.

In the still room where only the breathing of the sick person was heard repeatedly, the sound of a door opening appeared.

Alice knew they were both sleeping, so she crept in, tiptoeing.

She was sad. Originally, the Duke would have been awake when he heard the door, this shows how tired he is.

The employees were full of questions. Why did the Duke try to sneak away again? Even if there is an urgent matter, he has to stay with the Madam. Besides, Olivia, as a parent, disappears after guarding the Madam!

‘The Duke said there has to be a reason for it, but I’m angry.’

Alice leaned her torso on the bed, listening to Laritte’s breathing.

She sat on the hardwood floor and dampened a clean cloth into a basin of water.

In the last few days, the employees have not touched Laritte. They had to leave Ian to take care of her because the cat, Butterfly, threatened them by biting them. Though this time, Butterfly was nowhere to be seen.

‘…Where did it go?’

Instead of waking the weary Ian, Alice tried to put a cloth on Laritte’s forehead. Then, Butterfly woke up and popped out of the blanket.

“Oh my goodness!”

Alice was taken aback by the sound of the deep grumbling in Butterfly’s throat.

It woke Ian. Alice hastily apologized.

“Forgive me for making a fuss, Duke. I thought Butterfly went out with Short Hair after a long time.”

Ian checked Laritte’s condition first.

She was as pale as a corpse, but her skin was hot from heat. Now her condition could not be explained by the name of a cold. He pulled up Laritte’s blanket and covered it well, and said to Alice.

“It’s okay. I can do it, so leave the cloth over there.”

Because of the conversation, Laritte’s eyelids also opened.

Laritte turned her head and smiled faintly at Ian. Recently, her condition has gotten worse. However, she didn’t struggle. When Ian returned to her side, she had a rather calm expression.

“Is Butterfly getting angry with someone else again? Why? How many times did Alice take care of you, you shouldn’t do that.”

Butterfly doesn’t know what Laritte is talking about, and just rubbed its face on her fingers at ease.

After Alice left, Laritte glanced out the window. Now that early spring is coming, the blue color of the earth has increased compared to before.

“It’s that day soon, isn’t it?”

Ian listened to her little voice.

“What day was it?”

Laritte seemed lost in thought as she thought about that day a year ago.

“It’s Foundation Day. The Emperor has not married yet, so he must be busy taking care of the Foundation Day party by himself.”

“You’re right.”

“I thought, until this time last year, that I would live in the villa all my life…”

Laritte had a good idea.

“Shall we go back to the villa after a long time?”

It is a place filled with crops, land, and the clean energy of mountains.

The Duke’s residence is also full of life, but there is a reason the former Duchess recuperated there.

“Wouldn’t Butterfly like it too, because it was the place where she was? Cats don’t like to go somewhere, but… it’s been a while since it went back to its memories.”

“How long are you planning to stay?”

“Shall we see the end of spring there?”

Ian struggled to put up with his contorted face.

He gripped the railing of the bed, which was made with high-quality wood. The villa where his mother Selena Reinhardt stayed was, in other words, the place where Ian lost his mother. If he loses not just his mother but also Laritte at the villa, it would be a very terrible place to be remembered.

Still, he couldn’t help but nod his head.

It is the place where he lost his mother, and at the same time, he had a happy time with Laritte.

“Great. I’ll tell them to pack up.”

Ian and Laritte shared plans for the villa.

About how many employees will be taken and how much to give to the merchants in nearby villages. The aunts, who remember Laritte as a good wife, will welcome her.

Laritte tossed and turned on the bed and turned her upper body to Ian’s chair.

“Do you remember when the official came to the villa on that winter day?”

He nodded his head, saying it was of course. The official came to say he was going to do a census, and he thought Laritte was alone, so he rushed in recklessly.

“I don’t know if the man still works for the government office.”

“He doesn’t.”

Laritte blinked unexpectedly when he declared that. Ian brushed his black bangs shyly.

“After I returned to the Duchy, I found out that he had a history of criminal activities with women. He was a bad man who had his uncle, who was a member of the central government, behind his back to cover for his misconduct. So I ordered him to be fired. He was in shock and died.”

“Oh dear.”

Ian was proud to say that even the man’s uncle, who abused his power, was able to get punished.

Laritte smiled softly as she heard the story.

She acted as if there were no shadows on anyone. In reality, the atmosphere wasn’t that dark.

They talked a lot after that.

Unlike a Blue dragon, Ikar looked at Butterfly and cried profusely. The magic mirror Ikar created only reflected the appearance of the Duke’s residence, but no sound was heard.

Seta and Olivia didn’t know why Ikar was crying.

Ikar said in a wet voice.

“I feel so sorry for the cat…”

He read Butterfly’s life.

Butterfly was a house cat named ‘Lili’. It was picked up by an old woman after missing its mother cat when it was a kitten and lived a comfy life.

The problem started a few years later when the old woman died of old age.

People laid her body in the cemetery. However, Butterfly thought that people had taken the old woman to a dangerous place, and began to hate humans. When it saw a human, it fled in the opposite direction, wandering starving, setting its feet on the mountain where the villa was.

“Is that a cat?”

Butterfly snooping around the villa, was found by Laritte, and could live by getting food. Over time, Butterfly followed Laritte as a mother, with hair similar to the color of its own fur.

But, its mother started to suffer like the old woman…

“I feel so sorry.”

Ikar said again, wiping the tears away.

Butterfly looked at Laritte, who couldn’t get out of bed, and remembered the old woman. It was only natural for Butterfly not to leave Laritte and to keep people from approaching her.

[ “Mom, when will you wake up? You can’t follow other people this time, okay?” ]

[ “Dad, I’m sorry I didn’t let her touch me. I was wrong, so what should I do to Mom?” ]

Ikar removed the magic mirror as he could no longer bear to see it.

“I will, too, help you convince the other dragons, female human. Sniff.”

Blowing his nose, he wiped away the tears. Of course, he’ll help because Lavizenis von Alexandria Anges would be happy if that human woman lives.

Seta and Olivia exchanged glances at each other.

The first of the twenty-three helpers they needed had appeared.

Ikar couldn’t give out a lot of magic. Because he had to sleep for a long time to recharge his powers, and Ikar had over a hundred cats in his Rare. Instead, he was smarter than the brazen Seta.

Ikar resolutely cursed Seta.

“You stupid red dragon. Do you think the other dragons will help us simply because we are dying here?”

This race, with strong individualistic tendencies, has a tendency to come forward only when they are hurt themselves. Besides, it is quite cumbersome to add magic, so there are no other helpers.

“Then what should I do?”

“You don’t have to bother other dragons.”

Ikar snapped his fingers.

“Next is this.”

Following the violin, the lyre and harp floated in the air.

Its figure was as splendid as the musical instrument of god described in mythology. Each of them made a monstrous sound and performed an ensemble that seemed to create a pit of hell at any moment.

There was an uproar in the temple above the high clouds of the sky, where humans could not come.

Seta laid down, and in the middle, Olivia maintained her steady bow, while Ikar sat stiffly with his knees clasped. After that, as the evil ensemble continued, the dragons could not stand it and came out one by one in the hall of the temple.

“Why did the number of protesters increase by one?”

One of the dragons who couldn’t stand the sound of the ensemble and jumped out asked.

Said Ikar.

“Help this man, Uncle. Doesn’t it make your heart excited to save her daughter?”

It was actually for the cat, but Ikar was brazen.

“If you share a little bit of your magic, you can easily recover while you sleep.”

“First, get rid of those instruments and tell me! I’m going to die of the noise!”

No…

Help me…

Ikar gave a blue, twinkling look with his eyes.

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