NOVEL NEXT Chapter 212.2
“Is this… my home? Then where is the barn?”
“Why are you acting like this? Did the king threaten you so much that you’ve lost your mind?”
Misa said.
“This is just a place where we sleep at night. The abandoned barn on the main road is where you deal in information, isn’t it?”
“Was it… me?”
It seems that when Leticia first opened her eyes here, she didn’t eat or sleep in the barn that was present.
‘So I have a house, I’m not entirely homeless, but a poor person?’
Either way, it was depressing.
Leticia slowly looked around the dimly lit house.
‘Is this… my home?’
If this was a home, then a woodcutter’s shack would have been a palace.
A shabby building that could hardly be called a wooden hut. Traces of rain leaked here and there on the ceiling, and the smell of rotting wood lingered. The room was almost in ruins.
‘Oh no, what should I do with my life!’
Give me back my family and home!
Leticia felt like crying.
“Hey, the Duke’s house is still on Main Street, right? Collen de Lewellton! Yes. My Dad. What happened to my Dad? This isn’t the time. I must go to the Duke’s house.”
“Lewellton? Who is that?”
Misa looked at Leticia as if she had seen a ghost and said:
“There’s no Duke in this country?”
“No way. You must be mistaken.”
“No, there really is no Duke family. You told me. The king has strong power because there is no Duke. You said that. You explained it to me three times because I didn’t understand, and called me a fool.”
“…”
Leticia felt like she had been slapped on the back of her head.
‘No! My family!’
“What about the Saintess?”
Leticia remembered Marianne.
“What’s a Saintess?”
Misa tilted her head.
“…What’s here then?”
Leticia learned a shocking fact at the end of her conversation with Misa.
‘In this world, I am Lee the beggar, an informer with a bad reputation.’
‘Collen, Marianne, Jade, and the other family members don’t exist at all.’
And Cedric is…
“So Cedric, that man? He seemed to recognize me.”
“You really! You keep mentioning that devil’s name? Are you talking about King Bastion?”
“Devil? Why? Is he a tyrant?”
“He’s scary. Many nobles were purged by him. Not long ago, he wiped out a whole village! He didn’t spare even a single child.”
“…Why? He’s not like that. He’s a kind person.”
“Kind?”
Misa’s face twisted.
“Yes. There was a time when he was. A very long time ago.”
“If it was a long time ago, then what happened?”
Misa’s following words were shocking.
Leticia, with wide eyes, asked:
And then Misa said:
This can’t be.
Leticia’s hands trembled.
Lastly, Misa said:
<…>
Out of all the people in the world…
“The unluckiest woman.”
Leticia sighed.