Kanna slowly withdrew her hand. She tingled, the back of her hand tingling.
"Kalen, let me see how Lucy is."
The, Kalen slowly rose from his seat. When he turned around, his face was stained with anger.
It was all Kanna's fault. No, no..
'It's my fault.'
It was something she shouldn't have trusted Kanna in the first place.
When Kanna suddenly came out to know medicine, he should have just snorted and passed by. Why did he believe her?
Or, should he stopped it when she was sticking that needle or something into Lucy's body.
A bizarre thing that he had never heard of before, he had to stop it when she want out to claim it was a cure.
'It's all my fault.
Kalen's stomach churned with intense guilt.
Lucy Addis. Kalen is the only one with his little sister, who is just 7 years old.
Father and his older brother were completely indifferent to Lucy, and his sister and mother Chloe hated her.
A young girl isolated like a loner just because she is the daughter of a maid.
Looking at the child, Kalen felt a strange sense of deja vu.
'When was it? I think I've seen a scene like this before.'
Apparently something similar has happened before. And finally he remembered.
Kanna Addis.
Abuse that happened in this house a long time ago. The thing that even he participated in as the perpetrator. The scratches of childhood when he didn't know anything and acted foolishly.
But now Kalen has grown up. He wasn't the little boy back then.
So he knew what he was doing was a bigoted idiot. Also that it's not right.
Feelings of shame and guilt for doing something wrong. That made he be kind to Lucy. He wanted to do now what he should have done then, but he couldn't.
Whatever he did to Kanna could not be undone, so he wanted to be nice to others. As if he was forced to rewrite a wrong answer, like that.
But Lucy is sick. A younger sister that he should be responsible for.
So he wanted to grab at least a straw. And that choice drove Lucy even more to a dead end.
'I shouldn't have trusted Kanna.'
"This is all your fault. Lucy never been so sick before, but you..."
Kanna, who had been listening intently, couldn't hold until the end and let out a sigh. Ans she opened her eyes wide.
"Is it time for you to whine?"
Kelan kept his mouth shut.
"Of you're going to cry and make a fuss, do it. If you want to curse and resent me, do it. But not now. You seem to have been swept away by your emotion and forgot!"
Kanna stopped talking strongly. She stroked, raised her hand and pointed at Lucy.
"Your sister is sick! Can't you get out of here right now?"
As if scolded, a bad commands falls.
Kalen was completely dumbfounded and couldn't say anything more.
His head was tingling as if he had been stabbed in the back of the head. His mind, clouded with guilt and sorrow, flashed back.
Like it or not, Kanna pushed him away and went to Lucy. As they said, her condition was not good.
'Why did this suddenly happen?'
It wasn't critical, but it was in enough condition to look like that. Severe fever, convulsion. In addition, respiratory failure appeared.
'This has nothing to do with facial paralysis.'
Also, there is no such thing as suddenly getting a new disease.
Diseases progress sequentially, just like getting your clothes wet with raindrops. In other words, it is revealed by showing abnormal symptoms one by one.
However, until a few hours ago, Lucy's breathing, pulse, and body temperature were all normal.
When a person who was fine suddenly becomes ill.
'There's only one condition.'
Kanna looked at Lucy's maid who was crying beside her.
"What did Lucy eat today?"
"Yes?"
"Tell me everything Lucy ate all day today."
Then, Isabelle quickly intervened and grabbed Kanna's arm.
"Sister! Stop now! Making Lucy like this is enough!"
Tears welled up in Isabelle's eyes.
"I know you want to come back to this house. But using Lucy is wrong. You doesn't even know much about medicine, so you started out clumsily and the Lucy ended up like this!"
"Okay, Kanna. I'll talk to the Duke and ask for your permission to stay without any preconditions. So stop now. Don't you feel sorry for Lucy?"
When Chloe stepped out, the maid fell silent.
Nut Kanna wasn't even listening to them from the starts.
"Why don't you tell me? Tell me everything Lucy ate."
"Well, that's..."
The maid glanced at Chloe and Isabelle. But at the end, she couldn't open her mouth and she looked at Kanna's eyes.
If she said it here, she would be violating Isabelle and Chloe's will, so she had no choice.
"Lucy was normal until this morning. There's only one reason why it could get so bad in matter of hours. She ate something wrong."
At those words, the maid widened her eyes. It was look that seemed to care about something.
Kanna didn't miss that hesitation.
"I should have prepared a diet for Lucy, but did she eat anything else besides that?"
"Stop!"
A tearing scream echoes.
It was such a loud cry that even Kanna turned to Isabelle in surprise.
"I told you to stop, sister Kanna!"
Kanna clearly witnessed Isabelle's fingertips twitch. Her lips are also pale blue and quivering. She 's like terrified.
Indeed she was.
Isabelle was now consumed by fear. Because she poisoned Lucy. But...
'I didn't know it would be turn out like this!'
Isabelle thought it would definitely end with a stomach ache. She thought it wouldn't hurt her too much. Stomach aches for a few days, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and fever, she thought it would be over. Believing that, she put 'it' in Lucy's favorite tea pot!
'I, I never intended to make Lucy this far!'
Not long after drinking the tea, Lucy vomited. After regurgitating everything she ate, she was bleeding.
A seven year old girl, bleeding.
After that, as if she was about to pass out at any moment, she had trouble breathing, and then rolled her eyes and passed out. And so far in a coma. All of this happened in just a few hours. After drinking poisoned tea herself!
'It's not my fault. I didn't mean to make it like that.'
She was afraid that Lucy would die like this.
'This is all because sister Kanna. If my sister hadn't come to this house in the first place, there would be no reason for me to do this, and Lucy wouldn't be sick!'
A feeling of extreme fear drove her to the brink.
It's all Kanna's fault, but no matter what, Isabelle can't get caught.
"I can't leave my sister like this any longer, even for Lucy's sake!"
Isabelle walked over with ferocious momentum and opened the door with a bang. She shouted at the escort knights.
"Go ahead, take sister Kanna and lock her in her room!"
As the knight hesitated, Chloe, who had been watching, quickly added a word.
"Do as Isabelle says. Kanna seems to be agitated right now, so you might as well take a break n her room."
"Yes, Madam."
Since the order of the duke's mistress has been given, there is no need to hesitated any longer.
Kanna watched the mess in complete bewilderment. Didn't the knights come in and really start pulling her by the arms?
"Leave me alone! Now us not the time for this!"
As she struggled, the knights hesitated. No matter what, nobles are nobles. Because it was something that should never be taken lightly.
Isabelle, who was worse off, beat her chest as if frustrated.
"Lift her up! I mean take her by force!"
Even Chloe nodded straight away, as if telling them to do so.
"...!"
Kanna was so shocked that she couldn't even scream. The tallest knight grabbed her by the waist and lifted her up!
Her body rose onto the knight shoulder. It's like he's carrying her like a burden, so her face heats up.
She's almost like a cattle!
Stop! When she was about to shout a protest,
"What are you doing!"
Kalen's voice came out first.
Struggling, after just a few steps, Kalen approached and firmly gripped the knight's shoulder.
"Stop, now."
It was such a menacing spirit that even Kanna opened her mouth in an instant.
It was the first tome she had ever seen Kalen's expression distorted like that.
He had hardly changed his expression, but now his entire face was blazing with anger.
"Let go of your hand."
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