I'M A Villains In My Second Life
The Chapter 169

“Shut up a minute.”

Leathina asks Edward not to move and begins to try to heal Edward's wounds with her ability.

“Still I can use.” Leathina exclaimed with excitement at the sight of her still being able to give off the aura of rain that now covered the wound on Edward's neck and then slowly healed.

“Well done, what's the pain?” leathina asked after successfully healing Edward with her healing magic ability.

“I'm fine, but Leathina why don't I heal your wounds first?” Edward asked who was confused by Leathina.

“That's because you got hurt because of me, I feel guilty. And this wound of mine, only an incurable wound can also heal itself. I also have some other reasons that I let it go and did not heal my wounds so don't question me continue Edward.”

“Alright, I'm sorry Leathina.”Edward replied that so obey Leathina's words.

“Eh?”

Leathina squinted her eyes and looked at Edward seriously, several times Edward even saw Leathina looking at him from top to bottom repeatedly.

“Why are you looking at me like that, Lea?” Edward asked who was confused by Leathina's behavior.

“Why are you so obedient now Edward? I became curious what had happened to you during my unconsciousness to make you become like this.” Leathina answered and still took Edward seriously.

“What do you mean? nothing happened to me Leathina.” Edward answered and then closed Leathina's eyes with his palm until Leathina was now unable to see properly.

“Hey, hey, why did you close my eyes.” Leathina mutters and lets go of Edward's hand, which closes her eyes.

“I just don't want to make you feel lifeless if you're around me.” Edward Iirih.

“What? Try repeating again? I can't hear clearly what you're saying.” Tanya Leathina who had now managed to release the hand of Edward who had closed her eyes.

“No, nothing.” Edward answered briefly.

“Alright, I'm glad to see you're okay Leathina. Then I'll go now.”

"Hey! Oi! Why are you showing such a weird face? As if I had hurt you or something?” leathina asked puzzledly to see Edward who suddenly looked so sad.

“Do not move too much and rest.” Edward then moved on and walked away from Leathina.

Leathina who saw Edward actually left without answering her question first then also went out of her place and followed Edward but she could only see him out of her room by jumping out of the window without getting an answer to his question.

“Look how strange that person is, I can't guess what that person is thinking. a moment ago she asked as if worried about me but the next moment she suddenly turned cold.” Murmured Leathina then immediately closed the door of her window back from the inside, this time she locked it so that no one else would enter without her permission.

“Tok... Geck.. Tok.”

“Oh, Jeez!”

Leathina was aghast at the shock of her room door being suddenly knocked on by the guards, quickly Leathina immediately jumped up onto her bed.

“No answer.” Said the guard that Leathina could hear even though her voice sounded faint.

“Maybe you misheard.” Said his other partner.

“But I heard the man's voice earlier.”

“Then open and check only.” Reply to his friend for advice.

“Isn't it rude to open a woman's room at bedtime like this?”

“But what if something really happened to Miss Leathina?”

“Then go in and check, we just make sure.”

“You alone, I dare not.”

“Ah, I don't dare either.”

“What is this?” asked duke Leonard who was suddenly standing behind all of them.

“Greetings lord duke!” Excite all the guards in unison as they saw duke Leonard coming.

“Actually we heard the voices of others in the room Miss Leathina, but we are not too sure.” Reply to one of the guards who reported the true circumstances.

“All right I understand. You guys go back and let me check it out.”

“Good lord duke.”

The guards went to resume their work while Duke Leonard very carefully opened the door to Leathina's room so that she would not make a sound and disturb Leathina who was resting.

“She fell asleep.” The muttered duke Leonard when he saw Leathina was only asleep in her bed.

Duke Leonard fixed Leathina's blanket and closed it carefully so as not to get cold. After that the Duke immediately checked the entire room Leathina and found nothing in there.

“What is this?” the duke muttered softly as he saw the faint footprint marks stuck to the floor near the window.

“It seems like it's true that someone just came into this room, but the strange thing is that the window is locked from the inside so when did the intruder leave?” inner duke while paying attention to the footprints he found.

Duke opened the window and checked carefully but the result was the same, he found nothing there. And found nothing suspicious other than the footprints that had been found.

After checking on the Duke, he checked on Leathina who was asleep.

“Garpunya missing.” Said the duke when he saw the dining set that was on the table was missing.

“It looks like there really was an intruder who entered, it's dangerous I should stay longer to keep watch here.” The inner duke then sat on the chair while observing Leathina who seemed to be soundly asleep.

“Why is he staying longer in my room?” inner Leathina was worried when she had not felt any signs of her father coming out of her row.

“Not that he was tired, he should have gone back to his room and rested why instead of sitting still like that there, it gave me goosebumps.” Inner Leathina as she sensed the duke continued to look at her.

“What should I do to get him out of here, did I pretend to sleep until she came out or did I wake up and pretend to be surprised when I saw her suddenly being in my room at bedtime like this.” Inner Leathna confusion.

“Trak!”

Suddenly the door to Leathina's room again creaked blindly Leathina who intended to wake up again extended her time to pretend to fall asleep in order to hear who entered the room this time.

“Nicholas?” duke Leonard said after seeing who had entered Leathina's room

“Ah, dad. Why is dad here so late?” nicholas asked who was also surprised to see his father.

“I just want to be here longer, Nicholas what are you here for?” Said the duke and asked again out of curiosity.

“I heard the guards say that they heard a foreign voice from Leathina's room so I came to check, what foreign voice did they hear it from dad?”

“Did they hear wrong?”

“I hope like that.” Mumbled duke.

“I mean dad, it's true that someone came here secretly?”

“I'm not sure either, but look at this.” The duke then revealed some feet by the window.

“This is a man's footprints, did you not find anything?”

“I have checked it but the strange and incomprehensible thing is that the window is well locked from the inside and the guards of course see him coming in if indeed he goes through the door.”

“Can someone open the window door from the inside?” nicholas asked suspiciously.

“What's maxdumu? Leathina was soundly asleep when I entered so there was no way she would open the door for an intruder. After all for what Leathina did such a thing, this was probably because someone was eyeing her again.”

“Pad's words make sense, for what Leathina did such a thing. But the real father for what Yasmine took revenge on Leathina to the point of committing a crime and even plotting it to that extent?”

“I also don't know, for a while we have to find and win it first. She's a girl smart enough to plan such a crime.”

“It wasn't dad's smart, he was sneaky. Do you remember the first time the woman came to our mansion with Leathina? He was even able to attract the attention of everyone and turn it into sympathy.”

“True you said, the two of them used to be pretty close friends. But didn't you also like it a lot back then?”

“A-father?!” Nicholas rebukes when he hears his father's words.

“Why are you surprised like that? I've always looked after you, and you always seem to follow that woman compared to Leathina.”

“I-it's true dad, but I don't know if it turns out Yasmine is like that.”

“But dad himself why was it so cold to Leathina?” nicholas asked, trying to divert the conversation.

“Dad has a reason and you don't need to know what the reason is.”

“But dad, do you know what Leathina likes?”

“Do you yourself know what he likes?”

“What is this? Are they both accusing and blaming each other now? I didn't know that they all had such childish attitudes.” Inner Leathina who was amused heard the talk of Nicholas and duke Leonard.

A few minutes have passed Nicholas and Duke Leonard are still arguing and opposing each other's opinions.

“Until when should I be stuck listening to those two talk? Why should they be here anyway!” inner Leathina while completely tired of hearing the quarrel between Nicholas and duke Leonard.

“Umm..”

Leathina deliberately muttered, pretending to be delirious in her dreams.

Nicholas and duke Leonard suddenly fell silent and the two immediately focused their eyes on Leathina.

“You're too noisy.” Said the duke and told Nicholas in a soft voice.

“Dad too.” Denied Nicholas in a soft voice.

“Come out, let him rest.” The Duke drove Nicholas out by force, Nicholas who could not resist inevitably finally complied and immediately came out.

After Nicholas exited the duke again approached Leathina fixing her open blanket and gently rubbing Leathina's hair.

“Beautiful dreams.” Duke Leonard said before he left.

“Trak”

The door to Leathina's room creaked again when it was opened and closed again by the duke.

“Greetings mr duke.” Said the guards welcoming the duke out of Leathina's room.

“Current guard, and add guard position outside.” Duke Leonard gave the order.

“Good sir.”

After that the duke returned to his room after having the guards stand guard at his post respectively.

“Gosh I think they'll both be in my room all night!” leathina was relieved after no longer hearing the voice of duke Leonard.

Leathina heaved a sigh of relief then sat back down as her drowsiness had dissipated after hearing the ridiculous quarrel between duke leonard and Nicholas.

“Because they were talking about Yasmine I remembered something about Yasmien, why did Yasmine know that this was the plot of a novel, but somehow it became a reality like this and I have changed it my way.”

“I wonder if there is someone telling her, or is she also a person from another world?” Leathina thought hard to find the answer but as hard as Leahina thought she still could not find something that could lead her in the right direction, the more he thought about finding the answer he was even more confused and finally stuck in a dead end.

“I'd better go to look for clues.” Leathina muttered then got out of her bed and walked towards the window of her room.

“But how can I infiltrate out with this tight guard.” Leathina peeked out the window and found that there were now many guards standing guard around her room both outside and inside the mansion.

“Which is more important, I should forbid Edward to come visit me again?” muttered Leathina while looking at the footprints that Edward left behind around the window. "I can't believe why an expert like him could carelessly leave a trail like this to inflict theft." Inner Leathina who then deliberately disguised the footprints.

“But, duke Leonard is now having trouble with the alliance of the nobles. Why does everyone look so calm on such charges of rebellion? If someone gets the accusation of rebellion and rebellion then successfully proven does not that mean the duke will be at the gallows along with all members of his family I mean for rebellion against the kingdom?” Leathina recalled what Adam had told her some time ago regarding the accusations given to the present duke leonard.

“This can not be left, if they managed to prove it then it means my life will certainly be threatened.” Leathina massaged her forehead because she felt dizzy from thinking too much.

“If in the end I too will die at the gallows because of the continuing rebellion for what I survive and fight to live all this time? I know that duke leonard is not the type of person who originally revolted as he is now accused of, he said, and he would definitely never do such a foolish thing that I fear are the alliance nobles who might be able to manipulate everything and justify with false evidence.”gumam Leathina who began to worry about the state of her family.

“I don't want to die yet so for now I have some reason to help duke leonard in dispelling the charges of rebellion dropped for him, But where should I start? I was guarded quite strictly on the orders of duke leonard for fear of yasmine coming back to attack me so suddenly there was no way that I could easily sip out, Anne would definitely not want to let me out on my own for health reasons.”

“I have to devise a mature plan before moving if don't want to get caught.”

Leathina again walked to her bed and then sat down trying to think of the safest plan for her to use.

“Although I can infiltrate without being discovered if I do not have information about who the people who want to bring down the Yarnell family is tantamount to lying, right, I definitely still could not find anything and went home empty-handed from investigating recklessly. I'd better target a few people first then define a plan and infiltrate out.”

“I also can't possibly get out in this state. Alright I have decided I will be silent for a while and during that time I will seek information secretly from within first while restoring my body condition before acting, he said, but for now I should try to sleep because Anne will definitely know if I stay up late because of the dark circles that will appear later.”

Leathina sets her goals and is determined to solve the problems that bind her family in order to help duke leonard and also prevent her from ending up at the gallows.

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