I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 174

“Yarnell?” call the Duchess on duke Leonard who walks away leaving the Duchess Nice.”

“I'll check Leathina's state, Nice.” Answer Duke.

“Alright, don't disturb let alone wake him up.”

Duke Leonard nodded slowly, then immediately went towards Leathina's room.

“Greetings mr duke?” greet the guards when you see Duke Leonard coming.

Duke leonard nodded slowly then the guards opened the door for him.

“Trakk.” The sound of the door opening creaked softly.

“She really slept really fast, even skipped her dinner.Maybe Leathina was exhausted, I heard earlier this afternoon she spent her time walking around the mansion. But what is he for in the washing area.” Duke muttered while fixing Leathina's slightly slumped blanket.

After checking the state of Leathina the duke went back out leaving Leathina's room.

“Dad?” duke Leonard accidentally crosses paths with Nicholas who seems to be going to Leathina's room.

“Your sleeping brother seems very tired, you don't have to bother him. Go back to your room, visit her again tomorrow.”

“Good dad.” Nicholas replied obediently then immediately returned to his room.

After hearing the duke walk out and the door of his room closed again Leathina opened her eyes.

“Wah almost only.” Leathina muttered then heaved a heavy sigh of relief.

"Is he still watching me? why can Duke know I'm from the wash area." Leathina Mumbles.

"Ah, maybe Winter told her I was going to cross paths with her I even punched her in the face until her nose bled."

“For I have not left just now, if I am not here and someone comes while I disappear there may be a big problem that will happen again.” Leathina muttered then jumped down from the top of her bed.

Leathina arranged several pillows to make a duplicate of herself as if she was asleep and then covered her with a blanket so that people thought she was still asleep in her bed.

“Taking care is up!” said a guard whose faint voice sounded from inside the room.

“Wah time is right.” Leathina Mumbles.

“Clak!”

Leathina immediately locked the door of her room from the inside after which took her cloak which she had already hidden under her bed.

Leathina immediately put on it and ran to the window of her room. Leathina peeked out to make sure the guards were changing positions, nimbly Leathina jumped out of the window then clung to the wall and slowly climbed down.

“There is a pause before the next guard comes on guard, in that short time I have to rush out of here.” Leathina muttered after successfully descending without being caught and immediately hid behind the bushes waiting for a safe situation after it moved back.

“Hap!”

Leathina again climbed on the mansion's perimeter wall then jumped down and finally she managed to get out without being caught by the guards.

“Woah! My ability is not too bad, thanks for the athletic body Leathina!” leathina praised herself.

“Ah, I shouldn't linger here. I have to go to the city immediately, the time becomes shorter than I thought.” Leathina hurried to run towards the public road and when she saw the train passing Leathina running towards the carriage.

“Shop!”

“Master take me to the city now!”

Leathina threw a bag at the owner of the car, and the owner of the car swiftly caught the bag thrown at him and opened it to check the contents.

“Of course Miss, please go up!” said the car owner with a big smile when he saw some pieces of money in the bag that Leathina threw earlier.

“Oh, you are the best sir! Thanks.” Leathina then jumped up onto the train.

“Newly this time I saw a young lady out on her own in the middle of the night like this without an escort, you are quite wild young miss.” The owner of the carriage started a conversation after a long silence.

“You don't seem to be from an ordinary family seeing how luxurious the money bag you just gave me Young lady, where do you want to go? Lately many young ladies from noble families are coming out secretly just calm down I will not tell others.”

“Oh, your eyes are quite observant as well pack a coachman!” leathina replied with a friendly smile and the coachman smiled.

“But it's better if you're not curious about the affairs of strangers like me, don't you also hear that lately many people are disappearing suddenly."

Leathina spoke by banging the tip of her dagger on the shoulder of the coachman who was now focusing on driving his horse.

“Hek! Ma-I'm sorry miss, forgive my life, I have a wife's family and how many children are waiting for me to come home. I won't mess around anymore.” The owner of the train was so frightened that it could be seen clearly that his hand holding the strap shook.

“Wah, your family seems to be quite harmonious sir coachman!”

“Se-like that is young Miss!”

“Alright I won't kill you, if you can answer my question correctly.”

“Ba-good Miss.” Answer the frightened coach.

“Today what did you see?” leathina asked and still held her dagger around the neck of the horse carriage owner.

“Ti-no, I don't see anything.”

“Did anyone hitchhike on your train tonight?” ask Leathina again.

“Nothing! I drive my own car and no one other than me is on the train.”

“Do you accept anything?”

“Nothing, I don't see or receive anything from someone.”

“Good work sir, good luck at your home!” praise Leathina then immediately jumped down from the top of the carriage and let the carriage she was riding off just like that.

“So here I am now.” Leathina muttered after reaching the city without being discovered.

“I haven't walked freely in a long time like this, I'd better enjoy my own time.”

Leathina walked around on her own, though, sometimes he just sat on the outskirts to observe the passersby and if something caught his attention Leathina just noticed and found out from a distance for fear that someone would recognize him.

“This is not too bad! I haven't been this free in a long time. Now that I have to go looking for information, I will go to the gambling house first and continue to the night house usually the nobles are happy to spend their time and spend their money in such places."

“Ah, this is bad! I need to find information as soon as possible.” Murmured Leathina who had just come out of the gambling house and ended up being expelled for not having enough money to enter the special room of the nobles.

“This is weird! why do they all not I found in some night houses and gambling houses when almost entirely I have visited the places-forges.”

“Growwwll..”

Leathina heard the sound of her own stomach ringing from hunger, Leathina bowed to look at her own stomach.

“Ah, I'm starving. I forgot that I missed dinner last time I better have to find something for me to eat now.” Leathina muttered softly then immediately walked down the street to find something she could buy to prop up her stomach that kept ringing.

“Why are only mask sellers along this road, where do all roadside snack merchants go? I can't eat the mask.” Leathina continued walking but found only the seller of goods and masks and did not find a single seller who peddled food for her.

“Master why all traders only sell masks along this road?” leathina asked a merchant who was also selling various masks in his shop.

“Nona, you don't know the mask so late very hard sell here.”

“Why? Is there a party this whole month that should wear a mask?”

“Aduh Miss, all this time you've been anywhere. At the end of the road there is a restaurant that requires its visitors to use a mask if entering there and visitors there are not a few and there will certainly be people who buy masks.”

“Is that famous?” muttered Leathina while looking in the direction that the merchant pointed at earlier.

“Miss buy a mask and try to visit there, who knows miss got lucky tonight.” The merchant offered Leathina some masks that she lined up in front of her store.

“Do I have to visit there huh?” inner Leathina who weighed her decision.

“What there they provide food?” ask Leathina.

“I've never been there, but the people who bought my mask said that there was always good food provided so I thought there was definitely selling food too.”

“Alright, I bought one mask.”

“I'll just eat and observe the circumstances around there.” Inner Leathina then took a fox mask at random and immediately paid for it then she immediately went to the end of the street where the famous restaurant was located.

“Thank you Miss, please come again on your next visit. Remember just buy a mask in my store.” Said the merchant leaving Leathina.

Leathina walked leisurely towards the restaurant the merchant had intended and found many women and men who were also walking in the same direction.

“Humm... so here.” Murmured Leathina who was watching the restaurant look from the front.

Leathina folded her hands in front of her chest then began to scrutinize the surrounding state closely.

“As safe as I see it, this is not a restaurant, this is a night house.” Leathina muttered after finishing observing the surroundings.

Viewed large carved lamp ‘Secret Cafe’ with a large mask that depends on its accessories. Many women and men who come in and out using masks can not see each other's faces and recognize each other's identity.

“It is better that I have to go in to see what it is.”

Leathina put on her mask, then covered her head with the hood of her robe and walked casually into the restaurant.

“Woah! Look, they pack the night house well to attract this many customers.” Leathina muttered while she was in the doorway but had to wait in line to get inside.

“Shelf!”

A short man with a dog motif mask suddenly bumps into Leathina.

“Ah, it looks like this person is a noble judging by his clothes and the way he behaves, he said, I am lazy to deal with an arrogant person like this I should immediately apologize in advance so as not to provoke his emotions and prolong this problem.” Inner Leathina after seeing who hit her.

“Ma-I'm sorry sir, I didn't accidentally. Again forgive me sir.” Leathina bowed politely to apologize, even though she knew that it was actually the person who hit her first.

“Haiss! This is so dirty.” He muttered angrily then took off his gloves and threw them rudely at Leathina who was still bowing apologetically in front of him.

“Annoxify once!” muttered Leathina slowly then tried to restrain her emotions from exploding and provoked the attention of the people inside the restaurant.

“Agrease! You must have deliberately crashed your filthy body to seduce me instead!" He said sarcasm to Leathina.

Leathina who was getting upset by the words of the man who hit her earlier then held tightly to the handle of her dagger, she still tried to refrain from pulling it and used it to tear the mouth of the person who had hit her.

“You should pay attention to your path poor!” Said the impactor then about to throw a slap at Leathina.

“Tap!”

“Master you shouldn't be rude to a woman.” A man with a wolf mask motif suddenly blocked and brushed off his hand that was about to slap Leathina.

“Who else this lowly creature, want to play heroes and villains!” he said he sniffed and then pulled his hand rough.

“You want to finish it here right now? But not with this woman, with me let's slap!” said the other man then stood firmly challenging the rude man.

The rude man looked up because the man who blocked him earlier turned out to be much higher than him, to make his guts shrink.

“This is why I don't like having meetings in the slums of commoners like this, it makes my body allergic. Step aside don't be in my way of trash!” he left after being satisfied to insult Leathina who had been hit by him and deliberately hit the man who was blocking him earlier.

“What an attitude of arrogance it.” Leathina muttered softly then immediately fixed her hood to cover her head well after which she rushed away.

“Hei miss!” the man who was helping out earlier suddenly pulled out his hand and stopped Leathina who was just about to leave.

“Don't you owe me something?” asked the man close his face trying to examine Leathina's face up close.

“Ah, I forgot this guy. I should be grateful that he helped me but, what is this guy why is he staring at other people's faces I don't like?” Leathina's mind as the wolf-masked man stared at her from close range.

“I've never seen him before his posture is nice and his eye color is unique. She must be from a noble family and raised well.I should thank you and leave immediately, I should not show my respect for her so that she hates me and does not stick to me.”

“I didn't ask you to help me sir, let me tell you I'm not a rich woman so find another woman you can spare her fortune.” Leathina said without realizing it and forcibly removed her hand from the man's.

“Nona don't you want to thank me after getting help?” said the man who did not accept Leathina's treatment which sounded quite rude to her.

“Haiss, it's annoying I'm really hungry now.” Mumbled Leathina quietly.

“He must have been very offended by my words! I can't control my speech and my thoughts because I'm hungry.” Inner Leathina after realizing that her words were indeed quite harsh on the person who had helped her.

“Alright, thank you for helping me kind sir, then excuse me now may we not meet again!” Said Leathina then bowed politely to thank after that immediately ran away from the masked man who helped her earlier.

“Eh! Wait a minute. ah already. Strange woman.” The man then muttered softly as Leathina had run away from him.

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