Chapter 71
He went in first and held the door for Dalia.
Thankfully it was just an ordinary house. What’s unusual was that the door was definitely open from the inside, but no matter how much she looked at it, there were no traces of people?
“Please wait for a bit.”
Wayne searched every corner of the house as if he were familiar with it, and pulled the lever to reveal the stairs leading to the basent.
‘The basent is a little scary.’
But now wasn’t the ti to argue about that.
Dalia went down the stairs with him.
It wasn’t just one floor, it was very deep. After going down nearly 100 steps, a large hidden room appeared.
One side of the room was full of large bookshelves, with old scrolls and stacks of paper piled up on each shelf.
A man was sitting at a desk in front of the library.
She felt awkward about her face as she had disguised herself like ldon.
Seeing that everyone with good eyes knows, it seed that even if the viewer knew it was a disguise, hiding their face was a priority.
The man who was sitting raised his head and looked up at Dalia. A strange hoarse voice ca out of his mouth.
“What brought you to this shabby place, Miss?”
“The young lady has nothing to say to the insignificant you.”
Wayne stepped up.
Dalia raised her chin like an arrogant noble girl. Soon, a predetermined lie flowed out of Wayne’s lips.
“The young lady wants to find soone who pretended to be dead and created a new identity.”
“Goodness, you’re talking about sothing big. Trust is the most important thing in this world. If I blew it here, who’s going to give jobs next ti?”
“We will pay you. Money that you will never earn in your lifeti.”
“There are a lot of people who co here and say that. They all went back empty-handed.”
‘Of course they would.’
Wayne glanced at Dalia.
She nodded. He walked in front of the man and continued his words calmly.
“The young lady recently learned the secret of her birth. She is not the child of the person whom she had believed to be her father, but that she was born from her mother’s relationship with another man. If she can et her real father, the young lady is willing to pay as much as you want.”
“It’s a sad story. But like I said, it’s aningless to say it here……”
“His previous na was Bellium Cadillac. I ask for your leniency.”
Obviously, the man flinched for a mont when he heard the na.
Wayne, an experienced spy, could not miss it. He spoke again with emotion.
“Please, I beg you. She cries every night because she wants to find her father.”
Then the man looked at Dalia with piercing eyes. He then spoke in a voice that seed to hide his bewildernt.
“That…… with all due respect, what is the family na……?”
“That’s top secret. But the young lady said she was willing to disclose her na if she could find her father.”
“…….”
The man bowed his head with a clearly troubled face.
Wayne looked at Dalia and glanced at the man.
There was nothing more to listen to now. Still, Dalia decided to wait a little longer out of courtesy.
“……Alright. I can’t pretend not to know when you’re so desperate. Then I’ll look into it…… arghh!”
However, Wayne’s personality was a little more impatient than Dalia’s.
He imdiately grabbed the man’s neck, pushed it to the desk, and sealed his arms.
The man quickly tried to activate the secret device, but Wayne’s knife was faster than that.
With only a one-handed knife and very precise hand movents, he destroyed all the main parts of the chanical device the man was trying to grab.
As soon as the man saw it, he lost all his will to fight and slumped.
All of this happened in less than 10 minutes.
Dalia sighed. At the sa ti, she was happy. Because she doesn’t have to worry about needlessly looking elsewhere.
‘Whew, I’m glad I found him right away.’
Dalia gave Wayne a signal.
Without hesitation, he imdiately removed the man’s disguise skin, revealing his original face.
Even though a lot of ti has passed since then, a face that still retains the appearance of a man in his 20s appeared in front of Dalia. Uncharacteristic auburn hair and eyes.
Dalia seed to know who he was.
It was the fortune teller she was looking for.
* * *
This thod was used by ldon to find the identity of the fortune teller in the original work. She felt a little guilty, but in life, the winner was the one who hit first.
This was the man who sold the drug that will not age to the Empress and made Beolde drink it. (*t/n: I changed Veord to Beolde, since that na exist hehe)
In fact, it was true he was both a fortune teller and a pharmacist. Sadly, however, he was an incompetent swindler.
When he was young, he sold fake dicines by pretending it was a love potion.
Occasionally, he spent the night with an innocent lady who ca to buy dicine because she was broken-hearted. Needless to say, he was a very handso man that even people who did not like him have to admit it.
If the tail is long, it will be stepped on, and eventually, a lady who was about to get into political marriage was pregnant with his child.
He was in a hurry to take care of her sohow, so he scamd the Emperor’s fiancée.
But how would you know? He was incompetent and a quack, and didn’t know that was the first drug he succeeded in.
As a result, he was chased by the worst madman in the history of the rshain ducal family.
To make matters worse, the lady hid the fact that she was pregnant and just proceeded with marriage.
Unable to believe this, he disappeared into the underworld.
Still, he was smart. No counterfeiter will overco the pressures of the Imperial family and the rshain ducal family and keep his trust with them.
So he beca a counterfeiter himself, forged his death certificate, and created a new identity.
It was unexpectedly suited to his aptitude, so he took it as a new job. After all, it was customary in the industry for counterfeiters to hide their faces.
Perhaps he was still scared of Beolde, so he also drank the drug he had given to the Empress himself.
More than 20 years have passed since that incident, and there are not many people who will doubt a young man in his 20s.
However, he also had an unfulfilled desire for a family. Thanks to this, won’t he fall for the ridiculous story of ‘noble lady looking for her real father’?
Bellium Cadillac was not his real na. It was the fake na he told the lady who was carrying his child.
Dalia felt a little absurd for him to be shaken by his daughter who was looking for him now when he didn’t even tell his real na.
In fact, if the daughter finds out about his existence, she will search for an assassin to erase the only stain in her life.
Anyway, Dalia was now at an age where she wouldn’t look completely young. Since he had never seen his daughter before, she thought that she was at a similar age.
“The rshain ducal family offered 100,000 Dillons to capture this man. And yet you imdiately found the man no one else couldn’t.”
Wayne said in pure admiration.
Dalia beca embarrassed and touched her cheek. It felt like she was being praised for things that soone else did.
“I have sothing to say to this person. If it’s okay with you, can you give us so space?”
“Yes. Scream if anything happens.”
Wayne quietly left the room without asking anything.
Dalia crossed her arms and looked down at the fortune teller. As soon as the restraints were released, he clasped his hands together and bowed to Dalia.
“I have sinned greatly! I’m sorry!”
“So you know it.”
“Please! If you’re not from the rshain ducal family! Please! Please keep this a secret! I’ll give you that much money.…..”
“……Do you think I ca all the way here because I was upset about the money?”
“No! I’m sorry!”
It was a completely servile attitude. Being dragged by Beolde seed terrifying to death.
‘Is she that scary?’
Five years ago, she was famous enough to shake the social world for her notoriety, but when Dalia debuted, she had already disappeared, so she couldn’t figure it out.
Dalia squatted down to reach the fortune teller’s eye level.
“Well, I’m here because I have sothing to ask you. If you tell that, I’ll continue to pretend not to know.”
“Is, is that true?”
“Then, would I lie?”
“Thank you! Thank you!”
The fortune teller grabbed Dalia’s hand and looked up at her with a hopeful expression.
There must have been a pathetic 40-year-old man inside, but his face was so good-looking that it was such a waste.
“I don’t know what you’re asking, but I’ll answer sincerely! Ask anything!”
“Then teach how to break the curse of Beolde rshain.”
The man’s hopeful face stiffened.
If she didn’t know the original work, she would have mistakenly thought that there was no way to break the curse.
“If, if it’s an antidote, I can make it. But as you know, Lady Beolde is the type of person who is immune to any drugs, curses, or blessings. But how can I……”
“…… I know. I know everything.”
Because ldon interrogated him here and figured out the way.
“The drugs used by fortune tellers, not by doctors, is a kind of curse after all. Every curse has its own redy. Only fortune tellers know that. Should I tell you everything I know here?”
No new curses or antidotes work for Beolde, who has awakened the ‘nullification’ trait. Instead, it is possible to make the initial curse completely gone.
However, it was only the fortune teller who knew the thod. That’s why Beolde had been looking for him so much.
Dalia purposely put on a scary expression on her face.
It was an expression that had never worked in her life, but fortunately it seed to have worked for this terrified man.
He hesitated, then barely opened his mouth.
“Yes, there is a way.”
“…….”
“But it is a thod that Lady Beolde can never use.”
“Just tell for now.”
The fortune teller beckoned for her to co closer. He looked genuinely worried. As if he couldn’t predict what his future will be like if this becos known.
‘Just what is it?’
Dalia listened carefully.
The fortune teller whispered in her ear. The way to do it was……
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