Chapter 5: Volume 1 - CH 5

Is that my imagination?

Lord Spencer seems to have spoken out on purpose to benefit me.

“Has the Countess been absent from the Countdom for 15 days?”

“Yes.”

Cedric’s brow furrowed in the middle, as if it were unbelievable.

Crawford was a territory bordering the country where a terrible battle had erupted a few years before.

Camilla’s absence of two weeks indicates that she has neglected her responsibilities.

‘The thing Cedric despises the most.’

Camilla will return shortly. Upon Cedric’s return, her right hand would have informed her.

‘Then she’d claim she went hunting yesterday and returned the next day.’

Camilla has been concealing her deviations in this method thus far.

“Has this occurred before?”

“Yes. The Countess generally spends 15 days at the hunting grounds.”

“What? Wasn’t it just a couple of days?”

Cedric looked so angry why no one told him this earlier, then Lord Spencer held up his sword.

“I was simply assigned to defend the mansion, Commander.”

He was the mansion’s outer guard, which was under the jurisdiction of the butler. So Cedric had nothing to say because he was completely right.

“It’s true.”

With severe discomfort, he pressed down on his temples.

It was then, Shannon, who had rushed in, protested with her cheeks flushed.

“Uncle! I’ve been wronged! I’ve never ruined Selina’s dress!”

“Right! Lady Shannon would never do something like that!”

That lady-in-law staring at me appeared to be Emma.

‘So it’s you, pretty girl.’

Shannon was nothing in comparison to Camilla. She understands how to communicate, yet she is very dependent and secretive.

She’ll be quiet without Emma by her side.

“I just notified my sister yesterday that she had been invited to the imperial dinner and wished her a safe trip!”

“That’s correct, my Lord! And more than that if she goes to such a place and is humiliated, it is a disgrace to the family!”

Shannon and Emma, who claimed innocence, yelled, and Cedric’s face stiffened.

It was normal for him to have a headache because he didn’t know how to handle the situation and couldn’t side with one individual due to his “fairness” personality.

“Okay. Stop talking since Selina had chosen to buy another dress.”

“What? Why did only Lady Selina purchase a dress?”

Emma shouted with a grimace.

Shannon then took another step.

“Uncle, I really didn’t do this! So, why are you going to buy dresses just for Selina?”

“Shannon.”

“Aren’t you discriminating against Lady Selina and our Lady Shannon, my lord? Because Lady Shannon does not share your bloodlines!”

Shannon erupted as Emma fanned her from the side.

“That’s right! That’s how it’s always been! You’ve always been discriminating towards me!”

Here we go with the usual repertoire!

Cedric, who was preoccupied with fairness, often listened to Shannon when she insisted on anything like that.

“This time, my lord, it’s not what my Lady Shannon did!”

There was a brief quiet.

Emma kept her mouth shut after realizing she had made a slip of the tongue.

But it’s already late.

Cedric’s eyes remained as cold as they had always been.

Shannon caught Emma’s slip of the tongue, turned to Cedric, and yelled.

“I did not ruin that dress! No way, uncle!”

But neither I nor Cedric even looked at them. It was a good thing for Emma.

“Shannon, from now on, you are prohibited from entering Selina’s annex.”

Perhaps his voice was frightening since he was the head of the Knights Order.

“You’re really cruel! Uncle never acknowledged me as a part of Crawford’s family!”

“There’s no way.”

Cedric, who snorted, didn’t try to disguise his disdain this time.

“I wouldn’t have listened to this nonsense  if I hadn’t considered you as my brother’s child.”

The atmosphere grew increasingly grim.

“Reflect on yourself. Don’t leave your bedroom for a while.”

I wailed openly, like a decent child in a tough circumstance.

“My uncle, I’m the one who made this disturbance.”

A word that Cedric, who likes to be fair, would like.

“This is also my fault.”

“What did you do wrong, Selina?”

“Shannon didn’t get an invitation from the imperial family,  but as an elder sister, I went to get a dress without thinking about her feelings.”

It was an all-out show. attempting to be honest in one’s self-reflection

“Maybe that’s why Shannon did that.”

Shannon stared blankly at me, who was not stuttering at all.

Emma was even more shocked than Shannon was, and her eyes were widened.

“Tha-That’s… she talks… she didn’t stutter?!?”

Emma, taken aback, was perplexed, pointed at me, and treated me as was her routine.

“I will be punished as well, Uncle.”

“You too?”

“Yes, that way it will be fair.”

Cedric did not dispute the concept of fairness.

If his fairness had been born as a human, he would have been a suffocating person.

Ugh.

“I’d appreciate it if you could send me to the monastery for a month.”

“Monastery?”

“Yes, monasteries usually have a shortage of hands.”

I responded quietly after a pitiful look at Shannon.

“I suppose I need patience and contemplation after breaking my sister’s heart.”

Everyone looked at me with puzzled expressions.

hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo……

Everyone, I’m going to fight hard!

I’m going to toss away my fate and go on a journey of happiness.