I Picked Up a Witch With Amnesia

9. Revenge – 06

After that, I had several conversations with the Duke of Decaraznan, but unfortunately, I couldn’t hear what the Duke was saying to me. It was because all my nerves were already focused on Sarah, whom I had just seen. Why the hell is Sarah here? As far as I remember, Sara never had any connection with the Decaraznan dukedom in the future.

‘Has the future changed?’

No, to be honest, the future has already changed enough. So much has changed that the original past I knew was shattered without a trace. According to the original history, a woman named Arya would not have existed in the present time, and Bianca would not have come out stuck in the Castana marquis family. An unfortunate incident like that of the princess and Ariel rushing to Estelle’s house while only looking at me would never have happened.

However, there are not many enemies involved with Sarah after returning. Of course, the breakup was accelerated because Arya was unwillingly caught on the bed sleeping peacefully, but in other words, it was only about that much. I’m not a bold and generous person, so I’m not saying the breakup with Sarah is ‘that much’. because it was nothing.

‘…no way.’

Suddenly, the conversation with Sarah at the imperial palace passed through my mind. She smiled sadly at me, begged me to take her back to the Duke of Estelle.

– …You don’t know anything. What I had to give up to tell you this story.

‘…Damn it.’

As I finished my conversation with Duke Dekaraznan and left his office, I couldn’t help but sigh. Although he didn’t have any feelings left for Sara anymore, it was because he couldn’t help but keep his eyes on her. Moreover, it was even more so when I remembered the ‘promise’ I made with Sarah on the terrace at that time.

So when I stepped into the drawing room, there were already passengers there. I could see Sarah walking back and forth, looking unsettled. She tried to calm herself down, but nervousness and tension were already evident in her whole body. Watching Sarah, who was always confident in front of me, I called her name, holding back my irritation for some reason.

“Sarah.”

When I call her in a low voice, Sarah’s gaze turns to me. The moment our gazes crossed with mine, I realized that her nervous face had relaxed a little.

“…Car, no, Duke Estelle.”

Sarah calls me by my first name, perhaps remembering that our relationship isn’t the same as before. It’s really new, but now I’ve been reminded of the fact that she and I are not engaged or anything, but strangers. It wasn’t that he still had romantic feelings for her, but he was bitter about how he had come to this point, even though he had once called her by name.

“If it’s okay with you, can we talk for a minute?”

“…..”

When I reached out my hand to her, Sarah hesitated momentarily, but then, as if she had made up her mind, she reached out her hand towards me.

“…If it’s okay with me, I will. Little Duke.”

But that was the time. Until then, a middle-aged man with a sword tied around his waist, who had been standing next to her without a word, gripped her arm tightly.

“Sarah, where are you trying to go? You, a girl, are truly reckless even after time passes. We are not here to play. How dare you act rashly on a subject who knows that better than anyone else.”

“…Uncle, I…”

“Be quiet. I don’t want to raise my voice at you even in a place like this.”

Sarah frowned as if his hand holding her arm was painful, but the middle-aged man pulled her roughly toward him as if he didn’t care. It was as if Sarah was treated as an object rather than a person.

“…Sarah.”

It was a treatment that I couldn’t believe that the count’s family’s golden jade leaves were treated. Instantly feeling heat rising in my head, I stepped in front of the middle-aged man.

“What are you doing now? To do something like this to a woman who has no power.”

The middle-aged man who was holding Sara at my words frowned, but soon let go of Sarah’s arm.

“…Ugh.”

Sara, biting her lip, caressing her own arm, as if the pain remained on the arm the middle-aged man was holding. However, the middle-aged man, as if he did not feel any remorse for his actions, only spoke brazenly with a look that did not change.

“…It is an event within the family. Little Duke Estelle. As an uncle, wouldn’t it be possible to discipline a niece who is not spoiled?”

“Is making a woman’s delicate forearm like this really a lesson?”

I raised my voice as I showed him bright red bruises on Sarah’s white forearms.

“Duke Estelle. Since the Duke broke off his engagement with my niece, wasn’t it a relationship that was no longer in any relationship? But why do you care so much about Sarah?”

Ignoring the middle-aged man’s sarcasm, which implied that he was taking Sarah’s side because he had feelings for her, I snapped and grabbed Sarah’s hand. In my heart, I wanted to say something to that son of a bitch, but that guy wasn’t important right now. A bastard like that could have stepped on it later, but Sarah didn’t.

“Ka-cain…?”

“Let me borrow Sarah for a while. Don’t worry, I’ll just treat your arm and send you back right away.”

Leaving those words to the middle-aged man, I pulled Sarah towards me and left the drawing room. It must have been a very unpleasant thing to be breathing in the same space as a motherf*cker who treats her nephew like that.

“…Cain.”

And what annoyed me the most was this stupid girl who always pretended to be intelligent in front of me but couldn’t even say a word in front of my uncle.

“…under.”

I suddenly realized. It was never pleasant to just watch the woman he once loved being treated like shit by someone else.

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“…thank you. You will always be indebted to me. Cain.”

After dragging Sara to the room assigned to her by the Duke of Dekaraznan, the first thing that came out of Sara’s mouth when she was finally alone with her was that. And, the expression on her face when she said those things to me was not filled with shame, nor did she feel ashamed of being treated like that in front of me.

All I could feel from her was an awful familiarity. As if, after being treated like that over and over and over and over again by that damned ‘uncle’, her heart was completely worn out, and she was acting indifferently.

…And that, it pissed me off even more. Of course, I was vaguely anticipating it. On the night of the banquet, she must have said this to me. to accept yourself I hope that Estelle’s family and I will become their own resting place.

That’s why I was vaguely anticipating it. The back of a woman named Sarah Cernard would not be as bright and beautiful as her appearance on the outside. On the other side of it, there must be some grievances that I don’t know about.

However, this was too severe. No, there was a big difference between imagining it and seeing it with your own eyes. I never imagined that Sarah would be treated like that by her family. To the point where she acted that way even while I was openly watching, I really did not want to imagine what Sarah would have been treated out of sight of.

“…why didn’t you tell me earlier?”

“What?”

In response to her nonchalant words, I raise her arm. There, even after a considerable amount of time had passed, bright red bruises remained.

“Ask for help. ask for help I’m being treated like this in my family! Why didn’t you tell me sooner!”

Anger soars. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like an idiot. In the past, pretending to be sick to test her love in order to see her face, or making humiliating remarks towards Sarah in order to test her when talking to her on the terrace, now I regret it so much. started. At that time, I just wanted to kill myself, who only thought of me, not knowing what kind of heart Sarah had in front of me or what circumstances had occurred.

“…hurt.”

When Sarah looked up at me and said those words, I realized that I was very excited. Only in this way is she no different from the human uncle who left such bruises on her.

“…sorry.”

Saying that, I took out an ointment from my pocket and slowly applied it to her forearm. This ointment was made by Bianca herself using alchemy, and it was a drug that boasted great performance that healed quite a few wounds in an instant. It was something Bianca had forcibly placed in my arms to make sure I never got hurt, but I never imagined that this ointment would be used for something like this.

So, as I calmly apply the ointment to her arm, Sarah’s expression improves even more than before, as if the pain had eased a little. As expected, he must have been forcibly enduring the pain until now.

“…embarrassed.”

“What?”

“It was embarrassing. In front of you, I pretended to be the daughter of an aristocratic family, but I was so ashamed of myself for being treated like that in my family. so i didn’t say no, i couldn’t I am a woman too. In front of other men, I had no desire to receive even the slightest glance of pity.”

Saying that, Sara closed her eyes. It was a firm signal that he did not wish to speak with me on this subject any longer. As I had known her for a long time, I realized that it would be too much for me to open her mouth, so I decided to ask a different question this time.

“…Then, what is the reason you are staying with the Duke of Dekaraznan? No matter how much I think about it, I can’t find a connection between Count Sernad and Duke Dekaraznan.”

And in response to my question, Sarah just nodded as if that was the correct answer.

“That’s why, Cain.”

“…what does that mean?”

“Currently, there is no contact between Count Sernad and Decaraznan Duke. The reason I came here is to somehow build a bridgehead between the two families. Yes, from the outside it is.”

“…on the surface?”

“okay. Actually, Count Sernad’s family ordered me to use my body as bait to seduce the Duke of Decaraznan. Yes, like a dirty prostitute who seduces men for a few bucks on the street.”

When Sarah said that, a self-deprecating smile hung over her lips.

“Do you understand now, Cain? What kind of situation was this woman, me, in Count Cernard’s family?