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“Are you sure you’re the guest of Grand Duke? How do I check it? Oh, yeah! Look over there!”
The soldier called in a maid who was watching from afar. The maids here were subtly different in clothes for each area in charge, and the clothes of this maid were of maids of the Palace where the Grand Duke stayed.
And Dana saw a maid named Terra, who she had already learned to know.
“Terra, you’ve been in the Duchy for a long time, so you know well. Is this His Grace’s guest?”
When the soldier pointed at Dana with a gesture, Terra tilted her head and shook it with excitement.
“Really? If you don’t know…”
“Excuse me! You know me, right?”
“Well, I’ve been doing my duties all along… I’m not sure.”
She heard her let out her shameless answer and argued as if she was amazed, but Terra firmly answered and escaped.
Terra was a maid who had a scuffle with Dana not long ago.
After that with Dana, Terra thought she was at a disadvantage on her own, although there was no direct scolding from the Grand Duke. She was assigned to the laundromat where newcomers used to go, not suited for her long working experience.
Considering it as an opportunity to take revenge on the matter, she calmly lied and disappeared. The corner of Terra’s mouth as she turned around, was slightly raised.
This was because that woman would be kicked out as long as the Grand Duke’s mother told them to kick her out anyway, and if that happened, she could no longer have a problem.
“Get rid of it in front of my eyes! Please! Oh!”
In the midst of this, the old woman screamed with bubbles in her mouth. Her voice, suffocated by her fears, seemed terrified.
“Terra doesn’t know either! Come on!”
When the maid urged, the soldiers exchanged glances with each other. Although she was a crazy old man, she was the mother of a Grand Duke, and the Grand Duke took great care of such a mother. And at the time Grand Duke was not married, she was still the Madam of this castle.
When the soldiers felt unusual, Dana shook her head desperately.
“No, it’s not! That maid is lying. Ask someone else again… Ouch!”
The soldiers grabbed Dana’s arms from both sides as if they were tying her.
“There are so many people coming and going in and out of the castle, and it’s a headache when people come in this deep.”
“In addition, she doesn’t seem to know anything, but Grand Duke hates it when others stay in the Duchy. That’s why his friend Count Marvin Coast has never been there for more than a day. Even if you lie, it needs to be plausible. You’re not an aristocrat!”
“Really… I’m telling you the truth. Let go of me! What? I’ll prove it! Ouch!”
The soldier hit Dana hard on the back of her head as if he was bothered.
“Be quiet! Shut up! If madam goes wrong because of you, we are all dead to His Grace.”
They had not even heard rumors that Dana was in the Duchy.
It was also because the castle was so large and the Main Palace was operated separately, but the biggest reason was that Leon kept people around him in the team so thoroughly.
Leon himself ordered them to remain silent but thought it would spread quickly. However, despite the large number of servants who knew his personality, they kept his request more thoroughly than expected.
No matter how much Dana tried to explain, they did not believe what she said and eventually kicked her out of the gate.
They were too busy to listen to her and confirm her. In addition, a maid named Terra, who passed by earlier, worked in this castle for quite a while, so she was very familiar with most people so they had no choice but to believe what she said.
“Go away!”
Dana fell to the floor because she couldn’t overcome the force of being pushed outside.
“…I can’t believe it.”
Dana, who was quickly kicked out of the castle, looked at the gate, devastated. She was pushed out toward the back gate, not the main gate of the castle.
“This is…”
Dana looked around, raising her fallen body.
It was quite different from the main gate she saw at first glance in the castle. It was equally crowded, but the eyes of the people at the back gate were blank and somewhat gloomy.
When she accidentally made eye contact with one of them, she felt creepy and eerie energy.
‘No, it’s okay. calm down.’
Dana got up after shaking off the dust on her hands and clothes. After losing her memory, Dana was still afraid of strangers. So she thought this feeling was an extension of it.
Dana fell into trouble looking at the high wall. How to inform the person who also knows of this situation. Leon said he would be gone for 10 days.
Only a few people who were servants of Duchy and assistant Daniel were acquaintances. Based on the reaction earlier, would they take her side even if they saw her?
“Haah…”
People in dirty and scruffy clothes were sitting or lying casually under the walls. Although they were drooping helplessly, their eyes were moving along with Dana.
Dana tried to sit somewhere to organize her thoughts for a moment. However, due to the burdensome gaze and the stench that poked her nose, she couldn’t readily sit at their temple.
Should I go somewhere else?
But just in case, someone might notice her absence and come to find her. Then she thought it would be better to stay here.
Dana saw young women, boys, and girls sitting together under the wall quite far from the back gate. Naturally, she headed there, and sat alone, very little away from the girls.
She bent her knees and gathered them and buried her face there. Whenever she heard the sound of iron opening the door, she raised her head, but she was disappointed every time.
Mainly, carts to throw away dirt or garbage came and went there.
“Just one day…”
She decided to wait a day, and if no one came out, she would find another way.
“Since he’s going to come in ten days anyway.”