CHAPTER 114

"You don't love me. You just coveted by my appearance. What do you know about me that makes you say you love me?"

"I'm sure Cliff that bastrad also fallen by your appearance anyway. so why are you so desperate to deny that fact."

"Cliff is different from you! Cliff know who i am. He's the only person who loves me sincerely, even though he knew my weakest and ugliest side."

Shane shrugged his shoulders and laughed at Lizzy.

"It doesn't matter anyway. You will be mine today, and with that Cliff has no choice but give up on you."

Then he got up from his seat and approached Lizzy.

"Do-don't come here!"

"It's a little urgent to make you mine, so I apologize if this place doesn't suit you. Please, just bear it with me today."

At that moment, Lizzy face turned pale when she saw the hand reaching out towards her.

(Knock knock.) Someone knocked on the door. Shane, who was trying to grab Lizzy's forearm, frowned and turned his head toward the door.

"Who's that!"

"We have some problems. I think you should come out for a while."

The person outside spoke urgently. Shane clicked his tongue, turned away from Lizzy, and walked toward the door.

"What's going on?"

And the moment when he opened the door, the person who standing outside hit Shane's face so hard.

"Ugh!"

At the same time, when Shane was lying down, the man who was outside quickly entered the room, locked the door, and knocked him down by hitting Shane head while he was crawling on the floor.

"C-Cliff. . . . ?"

Lizzy, who was curled up in the corner of the room and shivering, looked up.

"I'm sorry for being late, Lizzy!"

Cliff lowered the cloak that covered his face, run toward Lizzy, and hugged Lizzy slender body.

"Cliff! Cliff!"

Only then, Lizzy burst into tears and clung to Cliff. Her body was trembling. Cliff patted Lizzy's back, blaming Count Riegelhoff, Shane, and himself.

"Are you hurt?"

"Oh, there isn't! But the Duchess. . . . !"

"My mother will be fine, too."

"What about Edith?"

"Well, I still doubt whether her safety is threatened or not."

"What?"

At that time, 'Bang!' There's suddenly noisy could be heard from outside.

"Right now, the most important thing is get out of here. Can you walk?"

"Yes!"

Lizzy was barely able to stand, she clung to Cliff's arm. She was so nervous that her legs felt like they were melting, but Lizzy began to relax as she walked out of the place. Cliff tore off Shane's robe, used it as a rope, and tied his hands.

"I know, you must be felt so terrible to be with this guy around, but just hold on for a minute."

Then, he stood by the door, heard the noise outside, and he opens the door and ran out. Outside the closed door that was closed again, there was a sound of metal clashing, a desperate scream could be heard here and there, there's sound of thump like something hitting the floor, and all the noise mixed. After a while when the sound subsided, the door opened again.

"I'm sorry, you muct be scared."

Cliff was still sweet as usual. But there was a smell of blood around him. After that, some man like a knight of Ludwig family entered the room behind him, then Cliff give him a gestures at Shane who lying on the floor. The knight immediately picked him up and grabbed Shane out from ot the room.

"Let's go Lizzy."

"Yes!"

Lizzy closed her eyes tightly and hugged him as Cliff told her to. Cliff held Lizzy tightly in his arms and headed outside through the hallway filled with corpses. After finishing their work, the knight dragged the corpses outside the building while carrying the corpses around their shoulders. On the other side, the knight who recuse the duchess approaching under the protection by the other knight.

"What about the rest?"

"Perhaps because they were trained mercenaries, the situation did not permit, they fled quickly. We also caught a woman, but I don't know what she's doing."

Cliff frowned when he glanced at the woman who they managed to capture. It was because he remembered that woman was Edith's maid who had been sent to their house before.

"Don't let your guard down. She seems like a maid that Count Riegelhoff really cares about."

Once they were outside, Cliff dropped Lizzy off at safety place and suddenly approached Sophia. And he asked her with a fierce stare.

"Where did they take Edith Riegelhoff?"

Then Sophia laughed wryly.

"Well."

"Did you bring her here?"

"Huh! Do you think our young lady suitable for a place like this?"

"I'll find her wherever they taken her, and I'll kill her with her brother."

"You-You damn bastards! let go of my master! master! master!"

"That's a great loyalty. Or maybe it's love?"

Cliff stopped paying attention to Sophia, who was muttering a words evil again.

"You must have arrested those people you want to interrogate separately, right?"

"Yes! It was strange that they dispersed so quickly, so I asked one of those guy, but he said something weird."

"What do you mean?"

"There's to man run away before we attacked. They said that there was a discussion among them whether they should withdraw and leave the place immediately, after knowing they will not be paid."

"Only the sensible person could saved their lives."

Cliff chuckled, and when he saw the Duchess had come to her senses, he quickly approached her side.

"Mother! Mother! Have you coming to your senses now?"

"C. . . .liff. . . .?"

"Yes, you are safe now."

"Uh, Cliff!"

Then the Duchess hugged Cliff in tears.

"We are going back to the mansion now. Is there any place make you feel uncomfortable?"

"I'm fine. What about Lizzy and Edith?"

"Lizzy was rescued safely."

"Edith. . . . ?"

The Duchess looked at Cliff again with a worried expression on her face. Cliff sighed lowly and said.

"That woman is. . . . I think she was a spy."

"That can't be!"

"In the first place, she not even imprisoned like mother or Lizzy. it seems like they took her somewhere else while they were on their way here."

"No-no way, t-that can't be possible!"

The Duchess vividly remembers Edith screaming for her and fighting back when she was attacked. But Lizzy, who was next to her at that time, saying something with gloomy voice.