TVRTH [Book 1]

Chapter 138

She was already afraid and had run away by betraying Emma. There was no one to help Berry. If she kept running away, she would be caught soon.

"So you'll have to take advantage of this opportunity I'm giving you."

Aria omitted to say that. Otherwise, she would not be safe, but Berry swallowed her saliva as if she had noticed it.

"Then I'll leave the choice to you. You can make any excuse. It wouldn't be a bad idea to live with the sympathy that your family was held, hostage. And most of all, I'm not dead. Make your own story. Maybe it's your last choice."

Aria was about to put a piece of gold on the floor and turn around, saying, "I want you to eat something."

"Well, miss...!"

Aria heard Berry's voice behind her back. There was already power in her voice as to whether the choice was over. It was fast, too. Yeah, she didn't have a choice anyway. As Aria smiled brightly and turned around, Berry rolled her eyes around and opened her mouth carefully.

"Well, how do I get to the mansion...?"

Aria, who had never thought of it before, opened her eyes and covered her mouth.

"My God. I almost made you walk. I'll send a wagon here in the morning, so you can take it."

Berry nodded and said she would do so.

The look of doubt until now was gone, and now she had no doubt because she believed Aria would save her. Aria, who confirmed the desirable face, left the warehouse expecting a pleasant schedule tomorrow.

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After meeting Berry, Aria was really willing to keep her promise, so she arranged a wagon and food for her to leave for a foreign country. Unknowingly, Annie helped her and asked, cocking her head,

"Are you going to travel somewhere far, miss? No... for that, the carriage is so normal..."

"Someone's going on a long journey."

She would go so far away that she wouldn't be able to come back. Without answering Annie's question, "Who the hell is she?" Aria read the book and the letter and waited for Berry.

But as morning came and even a single trace of Berry couldn't be seen, she felt a little nervous.

'Don't tell me you've changed your mind.'

"Miss, you should eat some lunch."

"... I should."

"Is there a problem?"

As Aria was motionless because it was already the promised time, Annie urged her to go down to the dining room. 'I was sure I sent a carriage for her this morning, but why hasn't she arrived yet?' Aria, who was frightened, was about to leave the room, worrying if she had fled again, but suddenly, someone called Aria's name.

"Miss Aria."

"...?"

As she turned her head, there was something black beside the door. Surprised by it, Aria managed to hold back her scream and identified the face that was only slightly exposed, wrapped by a cape. It was Berry, who didn't show up until the end of the morning.

"... You had an amazing talent to surprise me."

She seemed to have come up to the third floor without being found out because she had worked at the mansion for a long time. Berry, who found Annie after Aria, hurriedly covered her face with a cape.

"Who are you?"

"She is my guest so stay back in your room. I'm going to skip today's meal."

"Again? Would you like me to bring you some porridge?"

"No, I'm okay."

Everyone wouldn't be able to eat lunch today anyway. After sending the worried Annie, she and Berry went into the room. Berry stood in the middle of Aria's room. Her appearance looked so nervous.

"Why did you come straight to my room without doing your job?"

"... I'm sorry to say this, but I had to make sure there's a way to live."

As expected, Aria opened the window, saying, "Don't worry." Outside, there was a carriage waiting for her.

"Is that really my carriage?"

"Well, I've got food ready, so don't worry about it. And I've also got plenty of money for the trip."

Aria brought out the pocket she had in her drawer. It contained enough gold coins to live on without having to work for the rest of her life. Berry, who had confirmed it, sighed deeply, as if determined, and soon disappeared from Aria's room.

And at that moment, from the first floor of the mansion, which had always remained calm, a mysterious scream rang out.

"Yaaaaaaah!"

The loud footsteps behind it and the shouting came as far as Aria's room, located on the third floor. Aria's mouth crept up.

'Is there any music in this world that could be more beautiful than that?'

Aria, who slowly went down to the first floor, appreciating it as if it were Prima Donna's song, could find Berry arrested by strong servants and weighed down on the floor. Her face on the floor was so sorry that she opened his eyes round with her mouth covered with her hand.

"Miss, Miss Aria!"

"Miss! It's dangerous here!"

The most dangerous thing here was Aria, but the servants and maids worried about her and added strength to the hands that had laid Berry.