That's all I could answer with my poor brain.

"...From him."

"Who—the person in the basement?"

"Yes, the monster."

Is she crazy?

Does he want to give the potatoes all of a sudden?

I turned the potatoes around. But there was a knife mark on the potato.

What's this?

Two circles were stamped at intervals, and there was a trace of a curved line protruding from the bottom below it.

🙂

Smiling face—?

"Why did he tell you to give this to me?"

"I don't know about that—. Anyway, enjoy your meal, Rosie."

Ella shook her head and left me.

I looked at the potatoes for a long time even after she moved away.

Then I remembered how he and I parted.

When he asked me to help him escape—.

<I'll pretend I didn't hear it. I won't tell the Marquis, so don't bring this up in the future. To anyone.>

I said coldly as if I would never see him again and left his side.

I looked at the potato with a smiling face on it again.

Isn't he really a crazy guy?

*****

Today, the new maid delivered him potatoes.

It seemed that they thought that Richard added fun to 'potato abuse', or that the potatoes were a tribute.

Richard thought about whether to crush the potatoes but instead drew a picture on the potato.

It was a drawing of Richard himself with a smiling face.

He drew it and handed it over to the new maid.

"Why—"

"Please give it to Maid Rosie."

Delivering the potatoes, Richard had an absurd idea.

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