The Maid’s Mansion was a generic term for the space where the employees of Valentine’s Castle stayed and lived.
Dana and Betty, who lost their home overnight and became homeless, shouted loudly at the same time in surprise.
“Then we should put out the fire!”
“Now that the shaman has arrived, the flames will be extinguished soon. Before that, you two will have to come to rectify the situation and calm the employees.”
“…..”
“…..”
The two looked at Aria at the same time.
Aria was startled to hear that there was suddenly a fire, and she opened her rabbit’s eyes at the same time as she was pushed back as if to tell her to go.
“I’ll be back soon, so go on the trail you always used to go.”
“She doesn’t even have an escort knight…”
It was when Betty was muttering as if worried.
A black jaguar, who had been watching Aria from a distance, walked up to her. And it circled around her as if to protect it.
It was just walking, but for a moment it was in such a threatening state that it took her breath away.
“By the way, there was a reason why she didn’t have a separate escort knight.”
She forgot for a while. Betty realized later and nodded her head.
And they hurriedly ran towards the maid’s mansion with a peace of mind.
Aria, who was left alone with the black jaguar, started walking along the trail she used to walk every day.
After a moment’s hesitation, she stretched out her hand. And gently stroked the hair.
‘Oh, he’s not shaking it off this time.’
She vividly remembers that she had been hit before and nearly cut her wrist, but luckily it seemed to have opened up its mind more than then.
It was when she was passing under a tree with many branches.
After Aria confirmed that there was no one around, she whispered to the jaguar.
“Your name, how about Black?”\nBut from the moment the man appeared, the jaguar, who had been growling wildly, ran towards him like bouncing.
“No..!”
Aria quickly reached out her hand.
But it was already too late.
The man lifted his head as the jaguar attacked him as if to devour him and she heard the jaguar’s cries as close to a scream.
“Kiiing!”
Aria stood up with a pale face. Because the jaguar was lying on the ground and not moving.
‘The whole body is paralyzed.’
She quickly approached the jaguar and checked its condition.
The beast was only breathing heavily. It had the same reaction she had when she was bitten by the taxidermist.
‘But there were no snakes near that man?’
The only snake that was there was bitten by the jaguar.
Aria held the jaguar in her arms as if protecting it and quickly bit her finger.
And again she whistled.
No, she was going to whistle.
“Ah!”
Aria couldn’t help but scream. It was because her arm was bent behind her back by a strong grip.
“Why is this little kid still moving fine, huh? If you can’t do one of those things, how are you making this team work?”
Behind her, she heard the voice of a man she had never heard before.
‘Clearly no one was there!’
He suddenly appeared out of the air.
He shoved the jaguar in Aria’s arms with his feet and forcibly pulled it apart.
Aria couldn’t resist, and she looked down at the jaguar spread out like a doll, lost for a moment.
“Isn’t it weirder than that? I’ve heard this one can’t talk.”
An audible voice. Aria, who had her head bowed for a moment, lifted her head with cold eyes.
Then a man tilted his head and blocked her movement. He wrinkled his eyebrows as if in doubt.
‘Unlike the prey, his tongue is not cut off.’
He spoke in good condition.
That means….
‘One of the limbs of the gutter rat.’
A skillful one too.
Because she felt the flow of magic from the flesh that touched her for a moment as she was suppressed. Aria stared at her opponent as if to kill him.
“Aww, I’m scared.”
The reaction was ‘funny’.
Hans smirked at Aria’s blazing eyes and ignored it. It was nothing to subdue a ten-year-old kid who had no power.
‘As the rumor goes, it looks like she knows how to deal with animals.’
However, he was puzzled by the fact that the candidate for the Grand Duchess was speaking in a different way from the rumors.
Did he get it wrong?
‘Anyway, the age, the clothes, and the impressions are exactly the same.’
Hans said, holding Aria very firmly to keep her from moving.
“I don’t have time. They’ll notice her and come rushing in, so let’s hurry.”
Then the prey touched the ground with both hands, and suddenly began to squirm and vomit black slime.
‘What is this….’
Aria couldn’t keep her mouth shut at the bizarre sight that was hard to capture in her eyes.
She just thought he was spitting up a black, slimy mass, but she looked closely and it was a snake.
So, a living snake.
The man, to his surprise, was raising the taxidermist in his body.
‘I was wondering how you get a snake and pass that tricky check!’
If he hides it in his body, of course they won’t be able to find it. And the jaguar had been beaten by the taxidermist that the man had in his body.
‘Dozens of taxidermists….’
Physically, she had no way of knowing how he had all that in his body.
However, one thing is certain: the moment one gets bitten, one will be used for the rest of their life by the gutter rat, and then they will die.
“Let me go!”
She hurriedly twisted her body, but it didn’t really move.
“Be quiet, kid. It’ll sting for a while and it’ll be over.”
There was only one way left.
Aria wasn’t gagged and both the men’s ears were open defenselessly.
Aria saw the snake running fiercely towards her, and she hurriedly opened her mouth.