The Strongest Daughter-In-Law Of The Black Lion Family [EN]: Chapter 91

#91.

Cersia feigned ignorance, pretending not to know.

“Mother?”

Zerachiel flicked her nose and said,

“Father hasn’t sent word yet.”

“Ah.”

Cersia, belatedly realizing Zerachiel’s intention, wore an ‘oops’ expression.

In truth, she had also been wondering why Zachari hadn’t contacted them yet.

Enough time had passed for news to have reached him, yet there was no word from Javis Castle.

Unless something urgent had happened, the response was too slow.

If she felt this way, Rachel must be even more curious about Zachari’s news.

So, if asked to visit Javis Castle under this pretext, Rachel would eagerly agree.

Cersia nodded obediently.

“Then it’s right for Mother to go.”

“Isn’t it?”

“What’s this? You’re thinking of your parents for once?”

She blinked at Zerachiel’s uncharacteristic consideration, and he said,

“I thought that’s what you wanted.”

“Huh?”

“You want me to get along with my parents, don’t you?”

“Caught me.”

She thought he didn’t know at all since he was so indifferent. As Cersia only blinked, Zerachiel said,

“That’s why I’m doing it. There’s no other reason.”

Then, he lightly ruffled Cersia’s hair.

It was when Cersia instinctively widened her eyes. Zerachiel asked Ella,

“By the way, I think we’re missing the most important thing.”

“Yes?”

“You haven’t said who was carrying this yet.”

“That’s……”

“These assassination attempts are common in Javis. If it succeeded, it means it was an inside job. Right?”

At the piercing remark, Ella nodded immediately.

“That’s right. It was done by a member of a family very close to Javis.”

“A member of a close family, huh.”

Zerachiel lowered his eyes, lost in thought.

He had been certain it was an inside job from the moment he received this envelope.

If it wasn’t an insider, it would have been difficult to approach his father without raising suspicion.

There were only a few families who had free access to his father. Among them, there was only one that dealt with medicine.

“Could it be Orban?”

At Zerachiel’s sharp question, Ella swallowed hard. She hadn’t expected him to guess the family name so quickly.

After a moment, Ella squeezed her eyes shut and answered.

“That’s right.”

“The one who did this is a member of Orban?”

Cersia, who had been listening quietly, was also surprised and joined the conversation.

Orban was the only family that knew about the Frenzy [a genetic disease causing uncontrollable rage] and was one of Javis’s friendly families who had sworn allegiance.

It was even more perplexing because they would know better than anyone that Javis dealt harshly with traitors.

Besides, Duke Orban had worked hard to cure Zachari’s genetic disease, hadn’t he?

Could it all have been an act?

As suspicion naturally arose, Cersia’s voice became hurried.

“Surely, it’s not Duke Orban, is it?”

“It’s not him. However, the entire family might be in cahoots, so that’s a matter for Javis to find out later.”

Well, Ella couldn’t possibly know the intimate details. It was fortunate that the Duke wasn’t the one carrying the drug. Otherwise, she would have been horrified.

Cersia urged with a more relaxed expression.

“Then who did you get it from?”

“Everyone called him Victor Orban.”

“Victor Orban?”

Zerachiel scoffed lowly as soon as he heard the familiar name. A chill seemed to emanate from his cold expression.

Victor Orban was the person scheduled to be his next primary physician.

For such a person to try to make his father go berserk.

That meant he might have been a target someday too.

Having an enemy within was a very serious matter and could not be overlooked.

Besides, Victor had been wandering outside for a long time in place of the Duke, using the antidote as an excuse. There was a good chance that someone had approached and seduced him during that time.

To dare to do something like this, the other party must have made a very attractive offer.

But that was a reckless move because he didn’t know Javis’s ruthlessness well enough.

Before he knew it, Zerachiel’s eyes had turned cold.

“Still, there’s nothing more precious than life. How foolish.”

Zerachiel’s lips twisted crookedly as he muttered coldly. Following that, he cracked his neck from side to side, which was very frightening.

A touch-and-go situation where he seemed about to cut Victor Orban to pieces right away.

Ella looked at Cersia, meaning to stop him, feeling the air prickling, and was shocked.

It was because she was making a face like a demon, no less than Zerachiel. Naturally, Ella stepped back.

“C, Cersia-nim?”

Why was she so angry?

Ella missed the timing to intervene as she looked as if she was angry about her own work.

In the meantime, Cersia’s expression rotted even more. After a while, she smiled fiercely and clenched her fists.

“So, that means that bastard is the cause of all this?”

An even more intense reaction than Zerachiel for some reason. Before she could be surprised by the fierce momentum, Cersia shouted spasmodically.

“I’m going to kill that rotten bastard right now…!”

Following that, Cersia snorted as if she was about to run straight to Javis Castle, and Ella instinctively grabbed her waist.

“Calm down, Cersia-nim!”

It was an act of fear that rumors would leak out into Hebel if she made a fuss like this.

But Cersia’s struggle was more intense than expected.

“Let go of me!”

‘What is this……!’

Where does such power come from in such a small body?

Ella squeezed her eyes shut and focused on holding Cersia with all her might. Naturally, sweat flowed all over her body.

Ella’s thought that she only had to calm Zerachiel was a big miscalculation.

The beast that was running wild in this place right now was surprisingly Cersia, not Zerachiel.

Ella focused on holding Cersia’s waist tightly with all her might.

* * *

I couldn’t calm down as soon as I heard the name of the culprit from Ella.

It was none other than Victor Orban who made Zachari go berserk!

It was even more shocking because he was an unexpected person.

In fact, in the original story, he was Zerachiel’s doctor.

To think that he was living happily, not even knowing that there was an enemy right next to him.

Fortunately, Zerachiel didn’t allow anyone around him in the original story.

After Zachari died, Zerachiel, who had completely gone astray, even refused Orban’s treatment.

Even in the midst of that, I thought it was amazing that Victor in the original story kept approaching Zerachiel.

I was dumbfounded when I belatedly found out that he was trying to make Zerachiel go berserk.

I couldn’t stand it when I even thought that Victor might have been the one who made Zerachiel’s madness worse and worse in the original story.

“Ah, let go! Seriously, I’m going through this dog-like experience because of that bastard!”

Strangely, when it came to Zerachiel’s affairs, emotions came before reason. Looking at this point, it wasn’t just Zerachiel who was to blame.

“F, first calm down…!”

Ella let out a shrill voice while holding my waist tightly. But I, who had already lost my mind, couldn’t calm down despite her pleas.

I snorted and pointed my finger at the air.

“If I just think about how hard I worked that day…!”

To be honest, I thought I might die while stopping Zachari. In fact, my life was in danger because of that.

But all of that was Victor’s trick.

I even got goosebumps when I thought that if I hadn’t come to Hebel, I might have kept Victor by my side all the time.

It was something that could have happened to me without anyone knowing.

It was then. Suddenly, Tebi’s bracelet sparkled and transmitted only to me.

― That’s strange.

Forgetting that I was excited by the ambiguous muttering, I blinked, and Tebi continued.

― That child, is she a child I’ve met before?