Chapter 91

Chapter 91

“And you can still shamelessly claim you loved my aunt.”

“Shameless? The shameless one isn't me. It's you.”

“…What?”

“You said you were entering a convent. I knew you had to be up to something.”

“I'm not! So take me to the convent right now!”

“Oh, don't you think I'd like to? But you know how it is.”

Count Nagrange closed his eyes and opened them again, grinning as if to provoke her.

His eyes, cunning as a snake's, curved into crescents brimming with amusement.

“There's no need for such a complicated method. Killing you would make everything simple, you see.”

“I don't much like needlessly increasing risks.”

Ines's body stiffened.

She had heard that tone before.

“Did you think I would let even one of the Greenwoods' remnants live? I don't like needlessly increasing risks, you see.”

“Y-you.”

Ines's frightened voice trembled miserably.

“What are you to…