Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 178

Two days before Lloyd goes to see Aria.

Viscount Norton had to work quite a bit to get rid of Eden. It was because the escort knights that had accompanied them had no guts.

In the end, he was left with no choice but to hire a skilled assassin himself.

“Where are you going?”

“Out, out for a second…”

However, it ended before he even tried. This is because the knights guarding the mansion blocked the Viscount.

Feeling pressured, the Viscount stuttered involuntarily.

“I must have said that I would ban private outings.”

The caretaker, who had just rushed in, looked down at him coldly and said so. It was completely different from his first appearance when welcoming the Viscount warmly.

Viscount Norton didn’t want to lose the trust he had built up just because of this, so in the end he had no choice but to explain the whole story of what he was doing.

“You’re saying you hired an outsider as your escort.”

“He’s not really an outsider… I’d say he’s a migrant who has lived in our estate for 5 years…”

“I have made it clear that it is only a few trusted close aides who can be brought to Garcia, Viscount Norton.”

“Well, I’m really sorry about that.”

He desperately explained. Eden was a really inevitable choice for an escort because Norton lacked talent.

“I am fully aware of my mistake. Please understand that I will try to rectify it even by getting rid of him.”

“Hmm…….”

A migrant with superior skills that even the Viscount takes all the risks and asks for an escort from. He was also the one who subjugated the bandits alone.

“I’ll ask you to take responsibility for this later.”

The caretaker decided that it would be better to uncover the migrant’s identity first.

Meanwhile,

‘I remembered.’

Lloyd, who had been listening to all these conversations outside the window, finally remembered.

‘Aide to Duke Battenberg.’

The caretaker’s identity.

Lloyd never paid close attention to things like people’s faces and names. But he didn’t care while having a good memory was two different things.

The faces he met often were bound to be remembered.

Whenever he met the aide in the Imperial Palace, he was always attached to the Duke like a shadow.

‘If it’s Battenberg…… It is the largest foreign force in Fineta that raised his daughter to the position of Empress.’

They were different from the Nortons, who had nowhere to lean on in the Empire. There is absolutely no reason to even send his closest aides to a place like this.

‘Then since when? Am I missing something?’

But that was all. With this fact in mind, Lloyd tore off Carlin’s scroll and left the mansion.

The caretaker hired assassins a day later.

“He seems to have crossed the border a long time ago, so it’s not our jurisdiction.”

The guild leader of the assassination guild said.

“What? It can’t be. He seems to have disappeared since yesterday, but how the hell did he cross the border already…”

“Well, it wouldn’t be the usual way.”

Neither the Viscount nor the caretaker were dumbfounded. Eden had suddenly evaporated without a trace. And in just one day.

“He’s like a rat. He noticed the hint and ran away.”

Young Lord Norton, who missed the opportunity, gritted his teeth. But Eden had already run away, so there was nothing to do.

With that, there’s no way to escape Garcia’s suspicion.

“…did you lose him on purpose?”

“How, how could that be!”

“It wasn’t just good swordsmanship skills. If he used movement magic, it’s clear that there is a force behind him.”

Let’s talk about the details slowly.

The caretaker had to lock them up in the mansion for being so arrogant. The Nortons had to be interrogated there for a long time.

“Go back to Fineta for now and wait. Your disposition will be announced separately. I’m telling you, but of course you know that there is no point in running away.”

They returned to Attis, wrecked and with no income.

As Lloyd often did, she tapped her finger on the handle, immersed in thoughts.

Suddenly, she felt a gaze.

As Aria lifted her head, Lloyd took her hand on the handle, as if he had waited for her to look up. And he kissed her hand, and said.

“Wife, just give me orders. I’ll take all the responsibility.”

It was the first time she heard it. Is there an answer he wanted?

It was the first time he showed such a desperate look, so Aria couldn’t take his eyes off him for a moment.

“Make him feel the same pain as the sins he committed, even the share of those who suffered innocently.”

Aria opened her lips and gave the answer he wanted.

Lloyd followed her orders and drew his sword.

“As you command.”