“Why are you doing this to me.....”

Benjamin came back to Count Gilmus, huffing. The servant who stuck to him dropped him off on the way and gave him money. That was enough for him to live on for two months, so he would be quiet for a while. The people of Amerigo were thoroughly regulated.

They had also given some money to the priest, so the priest would keep his mouth shut for a while.

In the meantime, he should get married.

It didn’t matter if it wasn’t Abella.

Before a filthy scandal covered Timur’s skies, before Benjamin was branded as Skellus. That was enough.

How difficult would it be to buy a bride in Gilmus’s name?

It was when Benjamin opened the door with an urgent face.

“You idiot!”

A newspaper flew into his face with a roar. Benjamin’s cheek was wounded and he picked up the fallen newspaper.

“My friend brought a newspaper to be published tomorrow morning! How the hell did you get the job done!”

It was only for a moment that the proud son became the protagonist of the scandal.

The newspaper revealed everything that had happened this morning. Someone’s testimonies piled up one after another, tying Benjamin with a net that he couldn’t get out of.

Benjamin left a deep trace of Skellus along with the stigma of being a homosexual. People would point to Benjamin as the curse of Skellus in the future.

Since he shared Abella’s blood, they would say that he carried the same curse.

“You idiot!! If you show that in front of a priest, the temple will reject us! You’ve dragged Gilmus through the mud, not just your life!! I’m going to have to sell this mansion and pay off the debt. The eldest son is useless.... !”

“Father made me do it!”

Benjamin shouted.

“Do you think that I am comfortable right now? Who is it that made me look like this....! Would this have happened had you not sent me to Amerigo? It’s not me who ruined my life, it’s Father!”

Benjamin rolled his feet. He shouted till his face was red. He thought he had everything sorted out, but it looked like he was even covering newspapers.

It was like Benjamin’s life being dragged into hell.

He had seen clearly what Abella had been through.

Abella was like a living corpse. She was not alive, and she was not dead.

Benjamin and Gilmus were also involved in making Abella like that, so he knew it well.

But overnight, the perpetrator, Benjamin, also became a victim.

“From now on, you will live on the remnants of Skellus! Who would want to interact with someone like you! When I asked Abella to be your bride, you only carried that bitch’s curse? This is too much!”

Gillius ran wild and turned his body around.

Benjamin staggered and sat down. The fact that the newspaper had already been published meant that it would be distributed all over the country. Newspapers that had been printed were ordered immediately.

The scandal would spread to the entire country, including Timur, tomorrow morning.

As long as Benjamin was living in Timur, the way out of the scandal seemed far away.

“Damn, damn it.....”

Where the hell did it get messed up?

*

Just because Yuri cried didn’t change the past. The truths of her past that Abella heard were no different from what she had guessed in advance.

Abella laughed. Some people say they drink and smoke to forget their suffering. Abella had no such refuge.

Abella had to pay special attention to her conduct because she was born with the mark of the Skellus.

She could not misbehave for a moment and she had to correct her manners.

Even if she did, if she had even the slightest misbehavior, she would get all the swearing.

So Abella had been protecting herself.

But, as of today.

She needed something to lean on in times like this. Her heart kept breaking.

The story Yuri told continued to play in her mind.

Guessing and being certain were two different things.

“.... Father.....”

Why the hell did he have to die? If this was the case, then Abella really killed him....

“Haa.”

First to return the carriage, and the road she walked alone was long. Abella now felt as if she was walking a long life alone. Will this road ever end?

Her broken heart couldn’t let her tears flow.

Abella wiped her face. The people passing her, and the carriages. Among them, no one recognized Abella or talked to her.

Abella was completely isolated by herself.

And it was rather convenient.

She thought so.....

“Abella?”

It looked like she was just waiting for someone to call her.