Chapter 35: CH 32

Translated by Wook

In the original story, no one knew Kid’s identity.

‘The sender told me not to thwart his plans and that I don’t fit in with him.’

From the beginning, this letter denied my relationship with Seniel, calling me by my maiden name. It felt blatant that they didn’t like me. My fists trembled.

Even so, I wanted to keep my mind off Kid’s plan as much as possible, and I knew very well that Seniel and I didn’t get along! This situation would’ve been even more terrifying if we had matched!

Aside from the injustice, I couldn’t understand this letter at all. This letter itself was shaking my composure strongly.

‘This kind of content did not appear in the original story. If they’re threatening me for ruining Kid’s plan, they should have sent this letter to the female lead too.’

But Ezette had never received a letter like this. There was even a time when she openly spread Kid’s evidence to people.

I was terrified at the situation that flowed so differently from the original. It seemed that such an unexpected error occurred because I had pushed the female lead out of her position, and she was still alive.

The more I tried to stop the broken jar, the more it seemed to break. The more I overcame the danger of death, the more I sank into the mud. As if I were a virus in this world, they were trying to kill me from all sides.

I shook my head violently when I was about to fall into a panic.

‘Wake up!’

My hand holding the letter was tense. The situation had reached such a catastrophe that it created a sense of mettle.

Originally, my rebellious mind grew like crazy when someone told me not to do something. And since the situation kept putting me in a corner, on the contrary, I had a strong thought that I must survive and get out.

***

Taking off my coat, I put the items I bought outside on the desk. I’d asked the butler to gather all the employees and wait in the drawing room.

He said they would gather in ten minutes, so all I had to do was sit on the sofa and wait.

I took out the letter and examined the colorful handwriting again, thinking I knew roughly who the sender of this letter was.

‘Joel.’

The only person who could call Seniel ‘him’ was Joel, the real culprit. Of course, this conclusion was inferred by assuming that this person was a character in the original story. I couldn’t go any further today if it were a person not in the original.

‘And if it’s Joel, maybe we can figure out Kid’s identity. Joel is the experiment designer, so he might be aware of the side effects.’

No one knew Kid’s identity in the original, but on the contrary, Joel never explicitly stated that he did not know Kid. Come to think of it. The author had never properly told the readers what Joel was thinking, where he was doing what he was doing. Usually, Kid’s target would be given a little bit of solid information.

‘It’s a bit vague to say it’s Joel.’

Joel worshiped Seniel like a god, but that was when he was ‘Seniel’. The experiment failed, and his body split with Kid, and yet he still continued to worship Seniel even now?

‘This person is suspicious because he’s treating even Kid like a god.’

Given the warning not to interfere with Kid’s plans and the threat not to meet Ronan, this man was clearly aware of Kid’s existence and worshiped him like a god.

‘Do they believe in both Kid and Seniel since they’re one?’

I decided to skip this part for now. Aside from what I could understand, Joel was the only person who could know Kid’s identity and called him ‘He’.

The more I read the letter, the weirder it got.

They said they’d tell Kid about the stowaway, but how the hell were they going to tell him? Besides, I hadn’t even done anything with Ronan yet, so how had they singled him out?

‘Because I’ve only met Ronan since marriage?’

Or because they’d seen Ronan by my side during the stowaway?

The only objective information this person knew was the fact that I had tried to stow away. If the purpose of the blackmailer was to ensure that Kid’s plan went smoothly, he could have simply sent me this letter out of suspicion.

‘It could be that he simply suspects me because I tried to run away alone as soon as I married the high priest.’

If the blackmailer had really done this with clear evidence that I knew Kid’s identity, what on earth would they have done? Even if they tried to attach people to me, it would have been difficult because of the sensitive Kid at night.

‘Did someone see me enter the first floor with the video equipment? And this someone just told that person as it was?’

Obviously, there was no one in that hallway that day. I had looked out the window to see if anyone was looking at me through the window, but no one had been there.

‘I don’t want to think that there are spies among the twenty or so people.’

However, I still came to the same conclusion I had in the morning. That’s why I’d gone to Bay’s Teahouse and bought the truth serum.

‘We’ll see when we get there.’

I heard a knock outside and the butler’s words that all the servants had gathered.

I took the truth serum from the desk and followed the butler.

‘The blackmailer threw a conciliatory note at the end of the letter, saying <If you cooperate with us, we will ensure you leave McCourt Mansion safely.’

I couldn’t expect that someone who extremely worshipped Kid as god would really let me, who knew Kid’s identity, go. I didn’t know why this blackmailer didn’t kill me right now, but I couldn’t hold out hope that he wouldn’t kill me in the future either. That’s why I had to find out the sender of the letter. I had to either figure them out and take advantage of their weakness or throw it to Kid.

‘If it doesn’t work, we’ll just die together. Do you think you’re the only one who can tell Kid? I can do so, too.’

Let’s just die together. I can’t be the only one who died unjustly.

The door of the drawing room opened.

***

They didn’t know why they gathered here and looked like they came in a hurry after being called. The leaves on the gardener’s pants caught my eye.

‘I heard that the truth serum is effective for about 10 minutes after taking it.’

While waiting for the servants to gather, I took a dip myself to check the effectiveness of the medicine, and the effect was clear.

“There’s a thief in the house. Since no outsiders were allowed in, so I apologize in advance, but you’re the first to suspect.”

I decided to feed the butler first.

The butler didn’t express his feelings and immediately threw the truth serum I gave into his mouth. After confirming that he had swallowed, I asked him a question. “Has anyone quit recently? And are there newcomers?”

“No one. They are long-term employees with more than five years of service.”

No one had left to hide, and no one had come in for surveillance.

“Are you not serving other masters than Seniel and communicating with them?”

“Such nonsensical words! I am not. How could I betray him when this is such a great workplace! No other place has shorter working hours and better pay than here!” Hubburn vigorously appealed for his intention. He never seemed to want to get fired from this God-hidden job. I began to see tears welling up under his wrinkled eyebrows.

“Yes, I see.”

“If there is a spy, I will take them down first! Of course, I will be guilty of not managing the employees properly before that, but please don’t fire me!”

It was a little heartbreaking to see Hubburn, who was a bit agitated emotionally, doing this. Yes, if I were a servant, I would have wanted to work here…

“Did you see me on the first floor not too long ago?”

Hubburn, with a runny nose, replied that he hadn’t seen the madam because he didn’t go to the first floor often. In response to his heartfelt reply, I gave him a tissue and soothed him.