Finally...
The carriage arrived right in front of the Mansion's main entrance.
SCREEECH...
The two horses came to a stop.
The carriage wheels that had been rattling along Lerta's uneven roads finally went still.
Pertaz immediately released the reins from his hands.
He was just about to climb down from the driver's seat and open the carriage door like usual.
But...
CREAK!
!!
The carriage door suddenly opened from the inside.
Zeldryn didn't wait for him at all.
TAP!
He immediately jumped down from the carriage.
"Eh, Lor..."
Pertaz didn't even get the chance to finish.
Zeldryn was already running toward the Mansion's main entrance.
TAP!
TAP!
TAP!
'Quick...'
'I need to hurry.'
The same image kept filling his mind.
A servant entering his room.
Cleaning the table.
Taking away the dirty plates.
Then looking under the bed...
'Bastard...'
Zeldryn sped up.
TAP!
TAP!
TAP!
It didn't take long before he finally reached the main entrance.
His hand immediately grabbed the handle.
CREAK!
The door opened.
Zeldryn went straight inside.
But...
!!
His steps slowed for a moment.
There were quite a lot of servants in the main hall.
Some were carrying things.
Others were cleaning the room.
There were even several guards standing not too far away.
And the moment Zeldryn entered...
Almost at the same time...
All of their attention immediately turned toward him.
"..."
Zeldryn froze for a split second.
!!
'Shit???'
His eyes moved from one person to another.
Several servants immediately lowered their heads.
Others quickly looked away the moment their eyes nearly met his.
Even one of the guards who had been looking at him immediately turned his face away.
'What the hell is this?'
'The way they're looking at me is completely different...'
Zeldryn was already used to people being afraid of him.
Ever since he first woke up in this body, almost every servant had always looked tense whenever he was nearby.
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But this...
Was different.
It felt exactly like the guard he had just seen at the gate.
As if they weren't simply afraid of Zeldryn.
"..."
Zeldryn clenched his jaw.
'Tch.'
'I don't have time to ask them.'
'Better check it myself.'
TAP!
He immediately ran toward the stairs.
!!
Several servants nearby hurriedly moved out of his way.
Zeldryn ignored them.
TAP! TAP! TAP!
He rushed up the stairs toward the second floor as quickly as he could.
The moment he reached the top...
Zeldryn immediately turned into the hallway leading to his room.
He passed several servants along the way.
"Lo-Lord..."
Zeldryn didn't even stop.
He simply ran past them.
TAP!
TAP!
TAP!
Until finally...
His room came into view.
'There it is.'
Zeldryn immediately sped up for the last few steps.
His hand reached for the door handle.
CREAK!!
The door opened.
Zeldryn rushed inside.
And...
!!??
He froze.
"..."
His room was clean.
Completely clean.
His bed had already been made.
The table that had been messy before now looked much neater.
Even several things he had left lying around that morning had been put back in place.
"..."
Zeldryn's eyes immediately moved toward the table.
!!
'Where's the food?'
He remembered clearly.
Before leaving for Lerta...
Hera had brought him food.
And it had been sitting on the table.
Now?
It was gone.
The plates were gone.
The tray was gone too.
"..."
Zeldryn's expression slowly changed.
'Bastard...'
'Don't tell me a servant came in here to take it away??'
If a servant had come inside...
Then his room really had been cleaned.
And if his room had been cleaned...
"..."
Zeldryn immediately looked toward the bed.
!!
Without thinking, he ran straight toward it.
TAP! TAP!
He immediately crouched down.
One hand touched the floor.
Then Zeldryn lowered his head and looked under the bed.
"..."
!!!??
Empty.
His eyes immediately widened.
'FUUUCK....'
'IT'S GONE??'
Zeldryn lowered himself even more.
He looked to the left.
To the right.
Even all the way to the very back underneath the bed.
Nothing.
'WHERE THE HELL DID IT GO??'
TAP!
Zeldryn immediately stood up.
His eyes swept across the entire room.
The corner.
Nothing.
He quickly walked toward the table.
Looked behind it.
Nothing.
CREAK!
Zeldryn opened the wardrobe.
Clothes.
A few other things.
But...
No Gerald's head.
"Bastard..."
He immediately shut the wardrobe again.
THUD!
Zeldryn checked another corner of the room.
Then under the table.
Near the window.
Nothing.
Still nothing.
"..."
Zeldryn slowly stood in the middle of the room.
His breathing grew slightly heavier.
'BASTARD!!!'
His hands went back to his head.
'No wonder the servants and guards were looking at me like that!'
If a servant really had found a human head underneath his bed...
What would they think?
The answer was way too obvious.
"..."
'Do they think I killed Gerald??'
!!
Zeldryn immediately pictured it.
A noble boy with the reputation of a bastard.
Cruel.
Someone who did whatever he wanted.
And then suddenly...
The head of the Mansion's administrator was found underneath his bed.
"..."
'Shit.'
'If I were them, I'd think the same thing!'
Zeldryn started pacing around the room.
'What the hell am I supposed to do now?'
'Explain that the head was a gift from Kera?'
"..."
'Who the hell would believe an explanation that stupid!?'
Zeldryn stopped.
He took a breath.
'Calm down...'
'Calm down first.'
His hand pressed against his forehead.
'There has to be a way.'
'Anything.'
'Please... just give me one way out of this.'
'Anything, as long as this doesn't get even worse...'
Zeldryn kept racking his brain.
But right at that moment...
A casual voice suddenly came from the doorway.
"Yo, brat."
"..."
!!??
Zeldryn immediately turned around.
"Kera!!?"
Outside the door...
Kera was standing there as casually as ever.
As if nothing was wrong.
"..."
Zeldryn's eyes immediately narrowed.
'Right.'
'This bastard!'
'He definitely knows something.'
'He's the one who caused all of this in the first place!'
Zeldryn immediately pointed at Kera.
"Oi, bastard!"
Kera only raised an eyebrow.
"This is all because of you, isn't it!?"
Zeldryn took a few steps toward him.
"What the hell were you thinking, giving me Gerald's head as a gift!?"
"..."
Kera only smiled.
Then, with absolutely no guilt on his face, he replied,
"What do you mean?"
Kera tilted his head slightly.
"I don't know anything."
"..."
A vein immediately appeared on Zeldryn's forehead.
"You damn bastard..."
"Stop acting all mysterious!"
Zeldryn roughly rubbed his face.
"Please, I'm already losing my damn mind here!"
He immediately stared at Kera again.
"Were you the one who took Gerald's head!?"
"..."
Kera didn't answer immediately.
Instead, his smile widened slightly.
Then he walked into the room.
TAP.
TAP.
Once his entire body was inside...
BAM!
Kera slammed the door shut.
!!
Zeldryn flinched slightly.
"What..."
Before he could finish...
A fluctuation of mana suddenly appeared around Kera.
Zeldryn immediately fell silent.
!!
Beside Kera...
The empty space suddenly looked as though it had been split apart.
Not a wall.
Not a door.
The empty air itself.
As if Kera had just torn open something that shouldn't even be possible to touch.
"..."
Zeldryn clicked his tongue softly.
'...That technique again.'
Without explaining anything...
Kera shoved his hand into the opening.
His arm disappeared inside almost up to the elbow.
Then he started feeling around for something inside.
"..."
A few seconds later...
Kera seemed to find what he was looking for.
His hand stopped.
Then...
He pulled it out.
"..."
!!??
Zeldryn's eyes immediately widened.
In Kera's hand...
Was a head.
Gerald's head.
Kera raised it slightly.
Then, with the same casual expression, he said,
"You mean this bastard's head?"
"..."
!!??
"BASTARD!"
Zeldryn immediately gritted his teeth.
"So it really was you, you bastard!"
His fist clenched tightly.
For a moment...
He genuinely wanted to punch the bespectacled man right in the face.
But...
"..."
Zeldryn suddenly stopped.
His eyebrows slowly lowered.
'Wait...'
He looked at Gerald's head in Kera's hand again.
Then he remembered the guards' expressions.
The servants in the main hall.
The guard at the gate.
"..."
Zeldryn immediately looked at Kera.
"Wait."
Kera only gave him a small smile.
Zeldryn pointed at Gerald's head.
"If you're the one who found it..."
He paused for a moment.
"...then why the hell did all the servants and guards look so terrified when they saw me?"
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