Damien had said.
"I kept the blue gem in Paula's Jewelry box until the day before I left. I clearly saw Paula taking it in her arms when she left."
However, if the jewel was in Sasha's hands and if it had a pawn shop's appraisal on it, the situation was obvious. Paula had returned the ring to Sasha.
'Maybe she wanted to quit.'
A blue diamond is a huge price that can completely change the life of a commoner, but it is not comparable to the value of Viscount Kodell.
Honor from a family with history and tradition. Wealth from a high-quality estate, and a position that the commoners will look up to for the rest of their lives.
Paula, who had a complex in her own blood, was ready to abandon her mother completely in exchange for the ring.
"Ma, ma'am!"
Odette could hear the doorman seem to have missed Sasha. The Count was in short use due to a long period of financial difficulties.
She rolled the gatekeeper without any spare people, and the disaster a week ago was caused. Doot to run away. So, of course, security was sloppy.
"Paula is not in the mansion. Even if she is missing!"
"Don't lie! Did you collude with Paula? Do you think I don't know?"
As a result, a skit was staged in which the gatekeeper of the Count's family could not stop a single woman.
Sasha grabbed her fluttering skirt and ran hard to get here. Odette knew what was about to happen.
She didn't want to get caught up in the insignificant typhoon, and she didn't want to miss out on the spectacle.
'Status window. Take me and the Transcendents to the top floor of the Malea Bay Mansion.'
Odette used the status window's abilities without hesitation. The Transcendents also saw Odette's strange abilities in the depths, but they didn't bother to ask questions.
"Now that they've regained the memories of my past life, I'm sure they've figured out that this is a power related to Karl."
They don't have to ask or wonder about her abilities, so she will use them comfortably.
In fact, it was because Odette trusted them in her heart, but Odette tried to ignore it.
Leaving only the Count and Paula in the garden, Odette moved to the top floor of the Count's residence and fixed her gaze on the garden. It was partly because of what was going to happen in the future, but also because she felt uncomfortable and wanted to deliberately ignore the transcendents.
"Well, what? Where did they go?"
The group suddenly appeared and disappeared. Mrs. Becker, who had been looking around a few times in amazement, took refuge in the mansion as Sasha's mournful voice drew closer.
***
When Sasha escaped the gatekeeper and arrived at the garden, the first thing she saw was Paula, who was lying unharmed in the mansion.
'Ha! Look at this. Missing?'
She heard that a disaster had suddenly occurred in the Count's residence. There is also a chilling eyewitness report that Odette was sucked into it.
The news that the Purifiers and Transcendents had been sucked into the plague one after another had been reported in the news for days and terrified the entire Empire. The eyewitness accounts were very detailed, but there was no mention of Paula being sucked into the disaster.
Moreover, on the last day she met Paula, Sasha saw her expression.
'The eyes that looked at me as if I were a cockroach.'
The last meeting where she threw the ring on the floor and left. Instinctively, she hurriedly picked up the blue diamond, but Sasha could never forget the look on Paula's face when she picked it up.
It was a cynical sneer that could only be made after witnessing a stinky beggar.
'If I die in the future, I'm dead, I won't be like you.'
Even the look in her eyes was full of contempt.
At that moment, Sasha realized that Paula wanted to completely separate herself from her
.
Paula didn't actually disappear, but Paula lied to the gatekeeper to draw a line with Sasha. And she has just been confirmed that her guess was true.
It's not that Sasha doesn't love Paula. A child who fell in love and got pregnant by mistake. When she left it to Shylock and hid her past and got married, that blood ball was extremely sad and sorry.
However, Sasha had treated Paula as a maid for much longer than as a daughter. As Paula lived apart throughout her growing up, there were few affections that she had cultivated.
Paula was Sasha's daughter, but at the same time, she was a strict subordinate. Someone who gives favor rather than love. She is a being who should not have anything more precious than herself, and she should look up to Sasha for the rest of her life. She was an absolute right-hand man who should never betray her.
Because of this dual nature, Sasha always perceived Paula as contradictory to the real situation.
When Paula was the real maid of Sasha's entourage, the only thing that stood out was her 'daughter attribute'. Someone who should be sympathetic, sorry, and compassionate. A pitiful pool of blood that was born without permission and could not be held responsible.
However, when Sasha was removed from her position as Countess and Paula was no longer her maid, and she became a real daughter, only Paula's "maid" attributes were noticeable. She is the only 'subordinate' left to Sasha, and she must be loyal to her to the end.
After all, Paula was a 'maid' to Sasha.
'Someone took you away!'
She knew it in her head. Sasha herself is no longer the Countess, so it's only natural for the gatekeeper to protect Paula rather than herself.
But even so, it was hard to convince Paula that she was treated more "preciously" in this mansion than Sasha. Sasha finally noticed.
After the divorce, the Countess pretended that she had run out of arrogance, pretended not to care, but Sasha's pride and identity were still in this mansion.
That bubbling emotion burst out the moment she saw Paula lying in the garden.
"Paulaa! How could you fool me?! There is also a degree of deceit! Do you dare give me a fake ring?"
The Count was also leaning against a tree not far from Paula, but Sasha didn't pay much attention to it.
To be precise, she didn't think he was the Count. Wrinkled skin. Age spots on his face, overly shrunken and bent over... Shasa thought of him as an old coachman who fell asleep quickly wherever he was.
The screams opened Paula's eyes.
"Huh... mother?"
She looked dazed, as if she had woken up from a deep nightmare, like the deep sea.
But Paula wasn't the only one who was awakened by the screams.
"What? Mother?"
The Count, whose teeth were pulled out, let out anger with his eyes clouded.
***
"It's a fake, it's a fake!"
Paula went crazy. It was because she had been listening to Sasha's live for tens of minutes now since she woke up.
"As I grow old and lose my strength, I suffer such humiliation. Are you a person? How can you, Paula, eat me?"
Sasha said that she found out from the pawnshop that the ring Paula threw away was fake. It is an imitation made of well-polished sapphires. Sapphires are also gemstones, but their rarity and value could not be compared to blue diamonds.
"Do you despise me for fakes? I picked this up... Like that... not enough for this embargo!"
However, all Paula did was keep the ring and return it to Sasha. Therefore, it was Paula who should feel betrayed and resentful right now.
It was clear that the blue diamond she had been given from the beginning was a fake, or that she had received a false appraisal from a pawnshop and claimed that it was a fake. Either way, Sasha had to play a prank.
'The latter is the most likely. The way she crawled to pick up the ring at that time couldn't be seen as acting. Maybe she smuggled the real thing away and talked to the pawn shop owner, right?'
Paula naturally guessed the reason. It was clear that Paula would be of a higher status than Sasha, and she didn't want to let go. In other words, she has a hostile attitude as if she is a victim.
"Mother. Is that not enough? Seeing you do this, I guess you were going to parasitize me in the future?"
Paula's voice became heated to a level similar to Sasha's.
But there was a person who seemed to be crazier than Paula, and that was the Count.
'Is that sissy really Sasha's daughter?'
The Count realizes that Sasha was not chaste when she married him, that Sasha openly took in a premarital illegitimate child as a maid in front of the Count's nose, and that he had been deceived for more than 15 years.
Support Novellate!
Comments
Post a Comment