If I can free the servants, I will be able to find Chernossor and his knight escort quickly.
However, since there was a possibility that one of the servants might hide them, I left the search to the knights and called all the servants into the hall.
Of course, the knights couldn't be completely trusted either.
Still, they could be trusted because they had sworn loyalty to Duke Leopold's family with the sword they held as if it were their life.
Of course, to prevent any accidents that may occur, we had them travel in groups of three.
Sir Aldor followed my words without question, although he was puzzled by my ineffective search method.
Even after the search operation began, Sur Aldor stayed by my side.
“Let’s find the two, Lord Aldor”
“I will protect the young lady....”
I shook my head.
“Right now, finding those two people is more important than protecting me. In particular, I need to find the Second Prince.”
If Chernosser had gone wrong in my mansion, I would have had to take full responsibility for it.
The Emperor could have used this as an excuse to give me strange orders.
So, Chernosser must be safe.
Although I wished more than anyone else for Chernosser to be in trouble, I reassured Sir Aldor that I hoped for his safety at this moment.
“We must find the Second Prince no matter what. It’s okay if he gets hurt a little, but he must not be in danger of dying.”
Sir Aldor nodded with a broad face as if he knew why I was saying this and disappeared.
Well then, I guess I'll do what I have to do.
Before that, I looked for Perdes because I had something to say to him, but he was nowhere to be found.
Where did you go?
Finally, when I asked Harness who was with him about his whereabouts, I received an unexpected answer.
“If it’s Lord Perdes, he said he needed to check something for a moment and went to the bedroom with Jack.”
You fell off alone without an escort?
Jack went with him, but he didn't know how to use a sword at all, so he was useless.
Perdes' swordsmanship skills were also at the level of a rookie.
But I was concerned that the two of them went to the bedroom alone without an escort.
It was even more unsettling because Chernosser's escort knights might be after Perdes' life.
“How long has it been since Mr. Perdes went to the bedroom?”
“It’s been about an hour.”
Quite a bit of time has passed.
There was plenty of time left for anything to happen.
“I’ll go see Lord Perdes for a moment, so keep a close eye on the servants so they don’t leave the hall.”
After giving instructions to Harness and Sarah, I headed to Perdes' bedroom.
Jack was pacing restlessly in front of the bedroom.
“Oh, Miss?”
Then he found me and opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“I heard that Mr. Perdes went to the bedroom, is he still inside?”
“Huh? Oh, that’s...”
The way he rolled his eyes and stuttered while speaking looked very suspicious, like someone who had been caught stealing bread.
There's definitely something there.
“No!”
As I tried to open the bedroom door, Jack urgently blocked my way.
I glared at Jack, laughing hysterically.
“Who are you blocking right now? Get out of the way.”
“No, you can’t go in now!”
“Why not?”
“That, that... !”
Jack blushed to the point of embarrassment, then shut his eyes tightly and continued speaking in a shout.
“Miss, he has a wet dream!”
"...What?"
“Because of that, Lord Perdes’ underwear is wet and still...”
“Stop. You can stop talking.”
I was cut off in a hurry for a completely unexpected and extremely embarrassing reason.
It made sense that Jack had been so upset that he had stopped me from going into the bedroom.
That's also the reason why Perdes didn't come back for over an hour.
“Can I... kiss you?”
Suddenly, I remembered what had happened earlier and felt embarrassed. I fanned myself and looked at the tightly shut bedroom door.
“When Lord Perdes comes out, bring him here right away.”
I was still worried about him being alone, but if that was really the reason, it would be extremely rude to go in without warning, so I decided to back off for the time being.
...But when did Perdes sleep so deeply that he had wet dreams?
“Phew.”
As Adele left, Jack let out a deep sigh of relief and cleared his chest.
At the same time, he felt guilty for deceiving Adele and cried.
It was a blatant lie that Perdes had a wet dream.
He asked Jack not to let anyone in or watch the net, as he had to check something urgently and then went into the bedroom.
And there was no news for over an hour.
Jack knocked but there was no answer.
'I hope nothing happened.'
Worried, Jack opened the bedroom door and went in without permission.
“Pe, Perdes?”
But Perdes wasn't in the bedroom.
He searched everywhere from the bathroom to the dressing room, but it wasn't there.
You've never been out before, so where did you go?
He thought maybe Perdes had gone out the window, but it was locked from the inside.
In the first place, since this was the 4th floor, it was impossible to get out there.
'Where on earth did you go without saying anything!'
Are you sure there's something wrong with Chernosser?
Jack came out of the bedroom and was fidgeting and pacing around when Adele came looking for him.
Jack hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should tell Adele the truth, but he didn't.
It was because of the last thing Perdes said before entering the bedroom.
“I’ll check and come back soon, so don’t worry and just wait a little.”
An hour is not a little bit, Mr. Perdes...
Jack sighed deeply inside.
Still, he thought he had to wait for a while, so he sent Adele away, telling her a ridiculous lie about having a wet dream.
Just wait ten more minutes, and if Perdes doesn't come back then, he'll tell Adele the truth.
Jack waited for exactly 10 minutes, thinking like that.
Perdes is back.
His hair was a mess as if he had been in a hurry somewhere.
His breathing also seemed a little rapid.
“You came back just now?”
Jack answered with a grumpy face.
“An hour is not that fast.”
“It took an hour? I ran there and back, but it took a long time.”
“Where did you run to?”
"Hmm."
Perdes smiled, smoothing out his slightly disheveled collar as if he was having a hard time saying it.
Jack was very curious, but he quickly gave up asking because he knew that no one would tell him anything.
“The lady came to see you about 10 minutes ago.”
“Yes?”
The space between Perdes' eyebrows narrowed.
“She didn’t come into the bedroom, did she?”
“Don’t worry about that, just go quickly.”
“I guess so.”
After fixing his messy hair, Perdes headed to the hall where Adele was waiting.
Jack followed him, briefly debating whether to tell Perdes about his wet dreams, but decided not to.
It was an action born of a very small grudge, hoping that Perdes would be as embarrassed as he was.
Soon after, Perdes returned, but I couldn't look him in the face.
It was because that word kept floating around in my head.
I've even given birth to a child, so why am I embarrassed by something like this?
I found myself laughing because I was so shocked.
Then Perdes tilted his head and asked.
“What’s so funny that you’re laughing?”
“Nothing. You look more refreshed than that.”
“Huh? Oh, well, that’s right. I checked it out and it was refreshing.”
What did you check...?
The words were on my mind, but I was embarrassed to ask them, let alone hear the answer, so I forced myself to swallow them.
“By the way, did you find the second Prince?”
“Not yet.”
It's been four hours since Chernosser disappeared.
It was already a time when things could have gone wrong.
If that was the case, it would be normal to find the body, but no matter how much I searched the Duke's residence, I couldn't find even a single strand of Chernossor's hair.
The same was true for the escort knights.
“If you haven’t found him by now, then it means he has already left the Duke’s mansion?”
“I have contacted the guards with that possibility in mind. First of all, there is no record of the Second Prince and his knights leaving the territory.”
“If he was in his right mind, he would have snuck out. Oh, that guy is not in his right mind, so maybe it’s different.”
Perdes sneered and tore Chernosser apart without hesitation.
“It would be difficult to search the entire expansive dukedom with just the guards, so I think it would be better to let the knights go as well. Leave the search of the mansion to the servants.”
“I want to do that too, but I can’t trust the servants...”
“It’s okay. None of the servants have joined hands with Chernosser.”
Instead of saying 'because it doesn't seem to exist', say 'because it doesn't exist'?
“How can you be sure of that?”
When I asked curiously, Perdes paused for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“Actually...”
"Miss!"
At that moment, Harness, who had gone to call Sir Aldor, came running urgently, calling me with a voice that sounded like it was going to tear.
“We’re in trouble, Miss!”
“What's going on?”
Surely Chernosser wasn't found dead or something?
I felt uneasy as an eerie feeling ran up my spine.
Perdes must have noticed that I was anxious and he held my hand tightly.
Thanks to that, my anxiety has subsided a little.
I took a deep breath and asked Harness.
“What's going on?”
“The key, the key to the basement is gone.”
"What?"
The basement was a special place where only the blood relatives of the Duke Leopold family and those with permission could enter.
But the key there disappeared.
“When did the keys go missing?”
“It was definitely there before we went out for dinner, but it seems to have disappeared afterward.”
Perdes joined the conversation.
“Who stole that?”
Harness replied with a sorrowful expression that it seemed that way.
“...”
Perdes looked at me silently.
I could tell just by looking into his eyes that he was thinking the same thing as I was.
It turned out that the people who stole the basement key were Chernosser and his escort knights.
However, since there was a possibility that one of the servants might hide them, I left the search to the knights and called all the servants into the hall.
Of course, the knights couldn't be completely trusted either.
Still, they could be trusted because they had sworn loyalty to Duke Leopold's family with the sword they held as if it were their life.
Of course, to prevent any accidents that may occur, we had them travel in groups of three.
Sir Aldor followed my words without question, although he was puzzled by my ineffective search method.
Even after the search operation began, Sur Aldor stayed by my side.
“Let’s find the two, Lord Aldor”
“I will protect the young lady....”
I shook my head.
“Right now, finding those two people is more important than protecting me. In particular, I need to find the Second Prince.”
If Chernosser had gone wrong in my mansion, I would have had to take full responsibility for it.
The Emperor could have used this as an excuse to give me strange orders.
So, Chernosser must be safe.
Although I wished more than anyone else for Chernosser to be in trouble, I reassured Sir Aldor that I hoped for his safety at this moment.
“We must find the Second Prince no matter what. It’s okay if he gets hurt a little, but he must not be in danger of dying.”
Sir Aldor nodded with a broad face as if he knew why I was saying this and disappeared.
Well then, I guess I'll do what I have to do.
Before that, I looked for Perdes because I had something to say to him, but he was nowhere to be found.
Where did you go?
Finally, when I asked Harness who was with him about his whereabouts, I received an unexpected answer.
“If it’s Lord Perdes, he said he needed to check something for a moment and went to the bedroom with Jack.”
You fell off alone without an escort?
Jack went with him, but he didn't know how to use a sword at all, so he was useless.
Perdes' swordsmanship skills were also at the level of a rookie.
But I was concerned that the two of them went to the bedroom alone without an escort.
It was even more unsettling because Chernosser's escort knights might be after Perdes' life.
“How long has it been since Mr. Perdes went to the bedroom?”
“It’s been about an hour.”
Quite a bit of time has passed.
There was plenty of time left for anything to happen.
“I’ll go see Lord Perdes for a moment, so keep a close eye on the servants so they don’t leave the hall.”
After giving instructions to Harness and Sarah, I headed to Perdes' bedroom.
Jack was pacing restlessly in front of the bedroom.
“Oh, Miss?”
Then he found me and opened his eyes wide in surprise.
“I heard that Mr. Perdes went to the bedroom, is he still inside?”
“Huh? Oh, that’s...”
The way he rolled his eyes and stuttered while speaking looked very suspicious, like someone who had been caught stealing bread.
There's definitely something there.
“No!”
As I tried to open the bedroom door, Jack urgently blocked my way.
I glared at Jack, laughing hysterically.
“Who are you blocking right now? Get out of the way.”
“No, you can’t go in now!”
“Why not?”
“That, that... !”
Jack blushed to the point of embarrassment, then shut his eyes tightly and continued speaking in a shout.
“Miss, he has a wet dream!”
"...What?"
“Because of that, Lord Perdes’ underwear is wet and still...”
“Stop. You can stop talking.”
I was cut off in a hurry for a completely unexpected and extremely embarrassing reason.
It made sense that Jack had been so upset that he had stopped me from going into the bedroom.
That's also the reason why Perdes didn't come back for over an hour.
“Can I... kiss you?”
Suddenly, I remembered what had happened earlier and felt embarrassed. I fanned myself and looked at the tightly shut bedroom door.
“When Lord Perdes comes out, bring him here right away.”
I was still worried about him being alone, but if that was really the reason, it would be extremely rude to go in without warning, so I decided to back off for the time being.
...But when did Perdes sleep so deeply that he had wet dreams?
***
“Phew.”
As Adele left, Jack let out a deep sigh of relief and cleared his chest.
At the same time, he felt guilty for deceiving Adele and cried.
It was a blatant lie that Perdes had a wet dream.
He asked Jack not to let anyone in or watch the net, as he had to check something urgently and then went into the bedroom.
And there was no news for over an hour.
Jack knocked but there was no answer.
'I hope nothing happened.'
Worried, Jack opened the bedroom door and went in without permission.
“Pe, Perdes?”
But Perdes wasn't in the bedroom.
He searched everywhere from the bathroom to the dressing room, but it wasn't there.
You've never been out before, so where did you go?
He thought maybe Perdes had gone out the window, but it was locked from the inside.
In the first place, since this was the 4th floor, it was impossible to get out there.
'Where on earth did you go without saying anything!'
Are you sure there's something wrong with Chernosser?
Jack came out of the bedroom and was fidgeting and pacing around when Adele came looking for him.
Jack hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should tell Adele the truth, but he didn't.
It was because of the last thing Perdes said before entering the bedroom.
“I’ll check and come back soon, so don’t worry and just wait a little.”
An hour is not a little bit, Mr. Perdes...
Jack sighed deeply inside.
Still, he thought he had to wait for a while, so he sent Adele away, telling her a ridiculous lie about having a wet dream.
Just wait ten more minutes, and if Perdes doesn't come back then, he'll tell Adele the truth.
Jack waited for exactly 10 minutes, thinking like that.
Perdes is back.
His hair was a mess as if he had been in a hurry somewhere.
His breathing also seemed a little rapid.
“You came back just now?”
Jack answered with a grumpy face.
“An hour is not that fast.”
“It took an hour? I ran there and back, but it took a long time.”
“Where did you run to?”
"Hmm."
Perdes smiled, smoothing out his slightly disheveled collar as if he was having a hard time saying it.
Jack was very curious, but he quickly gave up asking because he knew that no one would tell him anything.
“The lady came to see you about 10 minutes ago.”
“Yes?”
The space between Perdes' eyebrows narrowed.
“She didn’t come into the bedroom, did she?”
“Don’t worry about that, just go quickly.”
“I guess so.”
After fixing his messy hair, Perdes headed to the hall where Adele was waiting.
Jack followed him, briefly debating whether to tell Perdes about his wet dreams, but decided not to.
It was an action born of a very small grudge, hoping that Perdes would be as embarrassed as he was.
***
Soon after, Perdes returned, but I couldn't look him in the face.
It was because that word kept floating around in my head.
I've even given birth to a child, so why am I embarrassed by something like this?
I found myself laughing because I was so shocked.
Then Perdes tilted his head and asked.
“What’s so funny that you’re laughing?”
“Nothing. You look more refreshed than that.”
“Huh? Oh, well, that’s right. I checked it out and it was refreshing.”
What did you check...?
The words were on my mind, but I was embarrassed to ask them, let alone hear the answer, so I forced myself to swallow them.
“By the way, did you find the second Prince?”
“Not yet.”
It's been four hours since Chernosser disappeared.
It was already a time when things could have gone wrong.
If that was the case, it would be normal to find the body, but no matter how much I searched the Duke's residence, I couldn't find even a single strand of Chernossor's hair.
The same was true for the escort knights.
“If you haven’t found him by now, then it means he has already left the Duke’s mansion?”
“I have contacted the guards with that possibility in mind. First of all, there is no record of the Second Prince and his knights leaving the territory.”
“If he was in his right mind, he would have snuck out. Oh, that guy is not in his right mind, so maybe it’s different.”
Perdes sneered and tore Chernosser apart without hesitation.
“It would be difficult to search the entire expansive dukedom with just the guards, so I think it would be better to let the knights go as well. Leave the search of the mansion to the servants.”
“I want to do that too, but I can’t trust the servants...”
“It’s okay. None of the servants have joined hands with Chernosser.”
Instead of saying 'because it doesn't seem to exist', say 'because it doesn't exist'?
“How can you be sure of that?”
When I asked curiously, Perdes paused for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“Actually...”
"Miss!"
At that moment, Harness, who had gone to call Sir Aldor, came running urgently, calling me with a voice that sounded like it was going to tear.
“We’re in trouble, Miss!”
“What's going on?”
Surely Chernosser wasn't found dead or something?
I felt uneasy as an eerie feeling ran up my spine.
Perdes must have noticed that I was anxious and he held my hand tightly.
Thanks to that, my anxiety has subsided a little.
I took a deep breath and asked Harness.
“What's going on?”
“The key, the key to the basement is gone.”
"What?"
The basement was a special place where only the blood relatives of the Duke Leopold family and those with permission could enter.
But the key there disappeared.
“When did the keys go missing?”
“It was definitely there before we went out for dinner, but it seems to have disappeared afterward.”
Perdes joined the conversation.
“Who stole that?”
Harness replied with a sorrowful expression that it seemed that way.
“...”
Perdes looked at me silently.
I could tell just by looking into his eyes that he was thinking the same thing as I was.
It turned out that the people who stole the basement key were Chernosser and his escort knights.
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