It is my Destiny to be the Savior of the Protagonist

Chapter 39

“Who you said it came?”

The Marquis doubted his ears and asked back. the butler replied.

“The Duchess of Eldeer has arrived.”

“So, you mean the woman who married the Duke of Eldeer? Was her name Leda?”

“Yes. She seems to be in a hurry. She got a milk wagon and came here. She is shivering in thin clothes as if she didn’t even pack her clothes properly.”

“What is that… Are you sure she’s the Duchess? Isn’t she someone else?”

“The knight that the master sent to inform them of her absence from Eldeer’s wedding confirmed it. He is certain she is Leda Picaro, the Duchess of Eldeer.”

“She’s a Duchess who should be enjoying her honeymoon, and she came all the way to this distant place as if she ran away at night? Why?”

“It may sound presumptuous, but she may have escaped.”

“What?”

“She had a bloody bandage on her right arm. She cries and speaks gibberish, but she repeats that she has been deceived. She seems to have a fever.”

Bandage on right arm, sore condition. Remembering Ariadne’s first visit to Weaver, the Marquis’ expression became strange.

“We were told to refuse unconditionally those who came from Eldeer, but in this case… What should I do?” the butler asked cautiously.

The Marquis raised his forehead and groaned. Hesitating, he gave the order reluctantly.

“…You can’t turn down a patient at Winter’s Weaver. Take her to a room at once.”

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The Picaro family was a small barony near the Duchy of Eldeer. Picaro was also a land that became a polluted area with the appearance of a labyrinth called the Horse Tomb. The contaminated area where Gloria Weaver was contaminated. Noble families usually have a defensive magic circle that suppresses the appearance of labyrinths in their estates. That’s why labyrinths don’t pop out in cities or villages. However, the poor Baron Picaro family could not afford to install a Spirit Tower in their territory, which was expensive to build and maintain.

Still, the defense magic circle was installed, but it seemed that it was not properly maintained. With the appearance of the Horse Grave, Picaro has contaminated half of the territory.

Eldeer was helping the refugees of Picaro. Leda Picaro was the daughter of Baron Picaro, and the Duke who had lost his wife met her while taking care of her at Eldeer Castle. And five years later, they got married.

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Leda Picaro was a red-haired beauty. Although she was haggard, her beauty was not hidden.

“I loved Franz. Sincerely.” she said, shaking with her tears.

“You are a beautiful person. I thought an angel was walking when I first met you. You greeted me kindly, but I felt like my heart would burst.”

Why did that damn guy have such a handsome face for no reason? The Margrave clicked his tongue inwardly.

“It was love at first sight. But he had just lost her wife. So he didn’t want to show off… As the years go by, more and more, I can’t stand it, ah, sin, I’m sorry.”

Leda, who was pouring out her words as if possessed by them, suddenly apologized as if she realized where she was. The Margrave shook his head.

“It’s okay, ma’am. It’s been 5 years and… Because we don’t want to care about him.”

Leda hesitated. She had a weak-looking attitude.

The Countess offered her hot tea.

“Eat and talk slowly.”

“Oh, thank you.”

She sipped her tea, caught her breath, and continued her words. Still in tears.

“…I was well aware that Franz had abused her daughter and lost custody of her. But, but, he cried, saying it was unfair, missing his daughter, and I, I, am sorry. I foolishly believed it. I was blind. sorry. I realized it only after I was hurt…”

Leda burst into tears. She crouched down and grabbed her arm, trembling, as if frightened. The attending physician Jayleen, who had been there a while ago, reported that Leda’s forearm had the same scar she had on Ariadne before. Marquis couple met distraught eyes. Leda sobbed and repeated her sparsely. She said it was no big deal. That he said it would be helpful for her too and that she would quit right away if she didn’t like it. But after trying the experiment once, it hurt so much that she said she didn’t want to do it anymore, and it made him look scary…

“…If she wanted a divorce, she could do it. Instead, he told her to be prepared for the refugees of Picaro to be kicked out together… The same thing would happen to her if she talked about this carelessly.”

“Oh my god.”

“I couldn’t think of any other place to escape, sorry. The princess would have suffered the same thing as me, me… Because it was Weaver who saved that poor child, so.”

“I see, ma’am. You don’t have to apologize.”

The Countess embraced Leda, who was trembling, and she patted her. Leda cried for a while as if she was relieved.

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At first, the Marquis couple tried not to tell Ariadne about Leda. They feared that if she met someone who had gone through something similar, she would relive her trauma. However, no matter how vast their blizzard castle was, their guests were bound to find out if they stayed. They couldn’t lock up their guests, and she won’t leave after a day or two.

Eventually, the Countess arranged her tea time and introduced Leda.

“Aria, this is Leda Picaro. She is the new Duchess of Eldeer. Remember what I said yesterday?”

“Yes, I remember. Hello, Mrs. This is Ariadne Eldeer.”

“It is a pleasure to meet you, Princess. You really are as pretty as a doll…”

As soon as Leda greeted her, she burst into tears again.

“Oh, Princess, I’m sorry. I was fooled by him. I only thought that the mistreatment of the princess was a lie. What the hell did Franz do to such a small child…”

Ariadne was quite perplexed. Leda was a woman with a completely different impression from the person she imagined her father’s remarriage. She was weak, pitiful, and tearful. As she looked at her pale face with the color of her illness, she suddenly thought of her mother.

‘Has this person also been tricked by the duke? Like my mother.’

At the guess, her emotions suddenly jumped. She barely swallowed it. And one question came to mind.

‘Why did the duke experiment with an unnecessary elixir on his new wife? Didn’t he remarry to give birth to an heir?’

Was he experimenting and trying to perfect the potion separately, since she only donated the elixir recipe to the temple and wouldn’t give it to him?

‘The loss must be greater than the gain.’

Human experimentation was not easy, and it was not common to test subjects that endure well like Ariadne. Even the target was his wife? He did an experiment on his new wife in which most of the test subjects died? His ex-wife was dead, and if the remarried wife dies, everyone would be suspicious. Besides, even if he caught up with the elixir and made it, the duke would gain little. The Elixir market was already occupied by Weaver Manufacturing Workshop, that was, Ariadne. No matter how incompetent the Duke of Eldeer was, he wasn’t someone who couldn’t be calculated that much.

‘So after losing custody, I’ve been whining in letters for five years.’

Ariadne glanced at Leda, who was sobbing. Pi found information about Leda Picaro a while ago and gave it to her. He said he found Abyssal in the Kingdom Labyrinth damage yearbook. The content was exactly as Leda had said. She was the daughter of a male writer who would be taken care of in Eldeer until the manor was purged due to contamination. There was no word that she remarried a Duke However, it was natural that it would not have happened in the original way. The reports posted by the people she planted were similar. They said that she was a woman who had been living in El Deer Castle with the refugees since 5 years ago.

‘She’s all likely.’

But something was not clear about her. On the one hand, she seemed to be overly suspicious.

‘What kind of experiment did the Duke do? It’s a problem. Could it be that he started developing a potion other than the elixir?’

She hesitated, then she asked cautiously.

“Me, ma’am.”

“Huh, yes, princess.”

“It’s not Princess. You are legally my new mother.”

“Ha, but I was only a baron until recently…”

Leda turned bright red and mumbled. Her expression was as if she dared to treat her princess in such a disrespectful way.

‘Come to think of it, she was only 24 years old, she is 25.’

Damn Franz Eldeer, he seduced and married a woman much younger than him.

‘I heard that I can’t give my manners to others.’