Chapter 45
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Chapter 45
With Raymond staring at him, the chamberlain gave his report while fidgeting a little out of embarrassment.
“Your Highness........that, the letter you sent to Rachel...........”
“Mhm?”
“The maid you asked to send it, it seems she misplaced it in the kitchen, and we just found it now.........Your Highness!?”
Hearing the news, Raymond tumbled off his chair, landing flat on his face on the ground.
The chamberlain rushed to help him.
“Your Highness, please stay strong!”
“Fu, Fufu..........I’ve been waiting for a reply every single day.........I was starting to think it wouldn’t come.........”
“This is absolutely inexcusable! This colossal failure, the maid who would forget your imperial order........”
“Ufu.........reward her greatly!”
“I will have her take immediate responsibility..........huh? Just now, what............?”
“Kukuku, far from not getting a response to my once in a lifetime message, to think it got misplaced..........this is the first time I’ve ever gotten to experience this level of neglect play!”
The chamberlain, seriously started worrying about the future of this country.
“Stop Martina, I truly don’t know anything! How many times do I have to tell you those books are bullshit!?”
“Hahaha, I don’t know Your Highness. You know where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
“Come now My Lady. If this goes on Sand Bag is going to get all used up.”
“Aan, such.......wait, unfair. Sloppy!”
“GYAaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?”
“Unbearable! This feeling is..........Mmm, it’s truly unbearable!”
“It’s relaxed, and yet somehow tenacious........ah, this really is the best ass in the world!”
‘That, is it really okay to reward someone for not serving you.........”
“You i***t, it’s good because she treated us like a cold older sister. You fail as a man.”
Having left the prison, the Duke walked out into the backyard and stared up at the heavens.
“Originally it was just the destruction of a stupid engagement.......why has it caused all this fuss...........”
When the Duke looked down after feeling a light tapping on his knees, he found the monkey Rachel keeps as a pet holding up a cup and a bottle of whiskey.
“Sometimes you can’t help feeling a little uneasy. Let’s share a cup.”
“............to be comforted by a monkey...........hold on monkey, that, isn’t it from my collection that Rachel brought with her.......”
“Is there something wrong with that?”
The Duke turned his eyes away from the monkey that was currently tilting it’s head wondering what the problem was, and looked back up towards the heavens.
A beautiful, clear sky with no clouds in sight was looking down on the ground and at all the humans crawling on it.
It was the type of weather that makes you laugh at all the insignificant problems humans have, but for some reason the Duke was sighing.
“Ah.........today too the sky is blue.............”
- Noblewoman Encounters a Scene of Carnage
- Noblewoman Encounters a Scene of Carnage
Noblewoman Encounters a Scene of Carnage
“KYAaaaaa.............So CUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE...............!”
Rachel frantically turned down the volume after her surprise, but it was impossible for her to hold back the shout of joy that inevitably leaked out. Nor could she stop a smile from unconsciously leaking out.
Standing right before her was a light gray striped cat.
That’s right, a cat.
It had somehow made its way into the royal palace’s dungeon and was now sitting in front of Rachel.
“Nya~”
The long-haired cat that had easily entered the dungeon let out a small cry before starting to groom itself with its paw. It had become magnificently lost, yet it was able to relax inside a dungeon as if it lived here.
Rachel loves cuddly animals most of all. Dogs are nice, but she certainly didn’t dislike cats. And it can’t be helped that she finds bunnies and wolves adorable as well. For some reason carnivorous beasts that people always tell you are dangerous to avoid always end up acting meekly in front of Rachel, and they let her cuddle up to them as much as she wants.
Nevertheless this is the first time she’s seen a cat since her slow life in prison began.
“Hey.........is it okay for me to pet you a little...........”
The cat noticed Rachel reaching out to it and met her halfway..........
Even while licking his back the cat didn’t dislike having its head softly pet.
Even when Rachel slowly scooped it up and held it close to her chest, the most it did was let out a yawn. When she hugged it close and began combing its hair, the cat’s eyes narrowed, and a small purr echoed.
“So friendly.........Mm~, such a good girl~”
“Nya~n”
Rachel was in daze trying to fill up her cat meter. Who knows when she’d get an opportunity like this again if she were to miss out now.
However at this time, she had no idea this would prove to be a tremendous blunder.
“That’s right Mister Cat, would you like some corned beef?”
“Nya!”
While carrying a happily singing away cat in one hand and preparing a can of food in the other, Rachel suddenly heard the dry sound of something dropping to the floor.
“Hm?”
When Rachel turned around, she saw Haley who had just come back from his walk drop a pinecone he had picked up from somewhere on the floor. Haley was standing next to the dropped item too stunned to pick it up.
“Haley?”
While walking around an area he didn’t normally pass by, Haley found some strangely shaped fruit. It didn’t look like he’d be able to eat them, but there was some novelty to these weird new fruit.
“Let’s take some with, and then give them to Master.”
Haley climbed up the tree and picked some fruit. He didn’t bring his basket with him today, so he wasn’t able to grab much. Still, he knocked down as many as he could hold, and picking them up off the ground when he was done, he quickly made his way back to Rachel’s room.
Rachel was carrying a ‘hairball’ in her arms. That guy was called a ‘cat’ when they were back in Rachel’s mansion.
Now Rachel was cuddling up to such a cat.
It was right there in Haley’s spother chest.
And now Rachel was trying to feed that cat.
And it was eating canned food that even Haley wasn’t allowed to have.
“Haley?”
Puzzled by Haley’s frozen state, Rachel called out. Her voice got Haley started again, and he began moving around with jerky movements as if his body was fully listening to him.
“Oo............Ooki..............”
Haley picked up his basket and with trembling hands, started filling it with his personal items.
His favorite toy that he and Rachel always played together with.
A scarf with a lovely pattern on it Rachel had given him.
A sweet and solid apple from his lunch box.
A piece of something that’d broken off of something that he liked because of how sparkly and glittery it was.
A couple of sharp pebbles that the blonde i***t had stepped and hurt himself on.
Haley put the basket filled with his favorite treasures onto his shoulders and then turned to Rachel.
“...............Ooki...........Ookiki”
And then he gave her a small bow before starting to climb up one of the wooden boxes to go outside.
“...........Ah!? Just, Just wait a moment Haley!? Wrong, you’re wrong!”
“Ookiki!”
Haley angrily wiped away the tears that had started to accumulate in his eyes as Rachel set down a confused cat to rush over to him. But when she forcibly picked him up into her arms, Haley finally started to violently sob.
“Ooki, Ookii!!”
“Sorry, you were shocked!? You’re wrong, I’d never throw Haley away!”
“Ookii!!”
“Please, believe me! I’m not cheating on you! It just happened, just happened!”
Rachel was desperately trying to soothe Haley who thought he had been abandoned.
“Nyah!”
And then the cat who had not yet received its food raised a cry from behind her still sitting next to the can of food.
But Rachel wasn’t in a position to open the can right now.
“Ah.......Mister Cat, could you wait just a bit!? It’s a little difficult right now!”
“Ookkiiii!”
“That’s why Haley........”
But the cat was thinking.
The human, even though I’m calling for her, she’s playing with that funny white guy instead of preparing me my snack.............
“Roww!”
“Wa, even Mister Cat!?”
Rachel already had her hands full trying to take care of Haley, and now the cat was getting angry at being made to wait and throwing a fit.
While stamping the round can of corned beef with its paw, the cat had lifted up its back and started hissing to try and get immediately fed.
With that being said, if Rachel were to put Haley down to open the can of food, this time he would truly believe he had been abandoned and end up leaving.
“Just.........oh, which one to soothe first.........”
Rachel was being overwhelmed by the gazes of the two animals and didn’t know what to do. She is a city kid who is surprisingly weak to pressure from anything not a person.
But while she was flustered, the situation got worse.
“Ooki!”
Haley had been acting angry at the cold-hearted Rachel, but suddenly he started yelling at the cat who was acting all self-important to his master.
“Roww!”
Already frustrated because no snacks were coming out, the cat raised its head and growled back at this white bastard taking up the human’s arms.
“KII!”
“ROWW!”
“Both of you wait!?”
The face of that person who only ever shows up when he’s not needed crossed Rachel’s mind as she tried to keep these two apart before things got out of hand.
“Seriously, why isn’t that i***t coming now!? Even though he’s able to hold a conversation with Haley, what’s he doing when he could actually be of help for once!?”
In Rachel’s whole life, has there ever been a time where she’s wished Elliott was here before?
Meanwhile she was sandwiched between a cat that has already popped its claws and Haley who pulled out a miniature bottle of wine from somewhere and holding it like a club..........in front of these two’s seething anger, the noblewoman let out an extremely rare scream.
When Elliott arrived in the dungeon looking for his little brother’s missing pet, he found the prisoner lying down on the rug on the floor looking completely exhausted.
A monkey was snoozing away with its back lying on her chest and its arms desperately wrapped around her neck while the cat Elliott was looking for was curled up on her thigh.
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