Chapter 49

She was so busy coming here last night that she didn’t even think about looking around the house. Moreover, because she had relaxed and slept well, it was already midday when she opened her eyes. It was only in the afternoon that Liv and Coryda came to their senses and started looking around the house.

“Liv, are we really going to live here now?”

“Yes.”

Coryda was busy looking inside the house as if she was amazed to have such a large house when they had always stayed in a small single room. Liv, smiling at Coryda, turned around quietly.

This house had everything in it, so all she had to do was move in. That might be why it was hard for Liv to fathom that she would be living here from now on. She couldn’t believe the Marquis told her to live in this house. She couldn’t believe the rent remained the same even though the house was better.

It even came with a small yard. The distance to the city center was getting closer, and the way to the Barony of Vendons was much safer. It was a good distance away from the neighbors, so she felt like she’d be less scrutinized when coming and going. There was even a police station nearby.

Of course, it was too far from the chapel she used to go to, but she didn’t regret moving away from it, since it was unknown if she would visit that place again.

Rather, she was glad that it was far away. For she could not go there on the pretext of being far away.

“Am I really using this room alone?”

“Do you like it?”

“Of course!”

Coryda answered with a big smile. Coryda, who carefully placed the music box she had been carrying so preciously for fear of breaking it on the window sill, looked to be in a very good mood.

If I’d known she’d like it that much, I’d have moved to a house where I could give her her own room.

Liv, who thought so casually, immediately laughed wryly. In the first place, if it weren’t for the Marquis, she wouldn’t have had the luxury of choosing her own room, so her thought earlier was just a pipe dream.

“I was the one who fired the gun.”

The cold voice echoed in her head. Liv didn’t know how to push away the man who nonchalantly said that he saved her. She had been on high alert because she didn’t want to get the attention she couldn’t deal with, but everything collapsed last night.

Liv admitted. That the Marquis had easily crossed the line she had drawn.

He was a man who could provide her with everything she needed right away, and if Liv could capture his attention, he seemed willing to show her even more mercy.

Everyone in the world said that he was temperamental, sensitive, and unsociable, but Liv was closer to the Marquis than they were.

Indeed, he has a weird hobby, but he may be a better person than I thought.

It was just that he only kept a few people around him, and he might be a really nice person.  At least it was for Liv.

For Liv, he was a man greater than God.

“By the way, Liv, who was the uncle from yesterday?”

“The uncle?”

“Yes, the uncle who brought me here.”

It was Adolf who brought Coryda here. He returned to this house with Coryda just as the conversation between Liv and the Marquis was about to end. It was really absurd to Liv as she had obviously asked Coryda to be careful of strangers. Somehow, it sounded as if he told Coryda that Liv fell and hurt her leg.

But even if that was what happened, it was unbelievable that he could lure Coryda out so easily.

Before he left, Adolf smiled to Liv, who stood blankly as she was taken aback. Coryda remembered Adolf distinctly for what she had talked about with him.

“I got to know him while looking for this house.”

“So he’s the landlord?”

“He’s not, he’s just the broker.”

The Marquis left before he could run into Coryda. After his sudden retreat, Liv sat for a long time, absent-mindedly in this new house she had suddenly acquired.

If it weren’t for the pain in her legs, she would have dismissed everything she had been through for hours as an illusion.

“I think that uncle is much nicer than Uncle Pommel.”

“Really?”

“Yes!”

It was a good thing that at least Adolf didn’t seem to be treating Liv badly.

Well, Adolf treated Liv gentlemanly even at the first meeting. And the Marquis… Even though he spoke a little rough, he was always kind. When he lent her his handkerchief, when he saved her from the robber.

Come to think of it, what happened to the robber who was shot yesterday?

She didn’t think the Marquis wouldn’t clean it up, but what if the robber survived and retaliated?

Liv, who saw with her own eyes when the robber fell down vomiting blood, knew what a ridiculous idea it was. However, she couldn’t be at ease once she thought of the possibility.

“Coryda. I’ll go out for a while, so stay home.”

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