I'M A Villains In My Second Life
Chapter 221

After Adrian left and lived Duke Leonard alone in his office, he, The Duke took some papers and pens and began writing a counter-letter to immediately send to the shadow soldiers he had hired to find Leathina and also to Prince Edward whom he had sent to participate in leathina's search with the shadow soldiers.

Not long ago came Nicholas who faced his father with the aim of giving a daily report.

Nicholas began actively participating directly in the field with the soldiers as well as taking part in regular exercises along with the soldiers led directly by Winter as Duke Leonard's deputy in control and responsible for all the exercises and the needs of the soldiers.

“Daddy, is there a problem?” his question to his father who could immediately tell by seeing his shabby face mixed with fatigue.

“Nicholas?” The new Duke Leonard realized if someone entered the room when he heard Nicholas' voice, he then stopped his activities and saw the arrival of Nicholas. “Daily report?" her question to Nicholas was then answered with a nod.

“Winter did not have time to come to report to dad because suddenly uncle Adrian asked him to come home with him after the practice, Winter then asked me to report a daily report to father to represent him and that's why I came.”

“Alright, say!” Duke Leonard then resumed his activities while waiting for Nicholas to finish his report.

“Routine workouts run as usual, no problems and everything goes well.”  Nicholas gave a short report but his view focused on his father's busyness that only focused on writing on a piece of paper, not usually his father ignored his interlocutors and did not pay attention at all to him who came to report.

“Okay, I heard you came back Nicholas. You must be tired.” Said Duke Leonard who briefly raised his head to see Nicholas then returned down to continue his activities.

“Daddy is there a problem?” Nicholas asked again because the first question seemed to be deliberately ignored by his father.

Because there was no answer or good response from his father Nicholas then chose to no longer ask for fear he disturbed his father who seemed to be busy.

“Alright dad, I'll be back now.” Say it before you go.

Duke Leonard nodded then saw Nicholas leave after which re-focus on writing a reply letter to Prince Edward and the shadow soldiers.

Nicholas came out of his father's workroom and felt his father end-end continues to act strange and not as usual.

“What's a busy dad like that?” his mutter then immediately brushed off the bad thoughts that suddenly popped into his head after it continued its journey back.

Nicholas did not return to his room he walked into Leathina's room, ever since Leathina disappeared, Nicholas regularly visited Leathina's room hoping that one day if he entered he could see the figure of Leathina who was sitting lazily in her room while looking at her lazily because she came to his room.

“Akh!”

“Tuk!”

When Nicholas was about to open the door to Leathina's room suddenly the door to Leathina's room was already open and someone hurriedly ran out and accidentally hit her.

“Nora?!” Call Nicholas in a panic when his sister falls after hitting him.

“Ah! brother Nico.” He then quickly picked up a book that had simultaneously fallen on him when he collided with Nicholas.

“What's up, why are you in such a hurry?” asked Nicholas curious, he then peered inside but did not find anything strange in the room and out of curiosity Nicholas again saw Nora intending to ask for an explanation, unfortunately Nora had already left before she asked.

“Nora ..?!”

“I'm sorry brother Nicholas, I'm in a hurry now.” The thrill then disappeared after turning out of the corridor.

“What's with him?” murmured Nicholas then continued his original purpose of visiting Leathina's room.

“Hum.. is still the same, nothing has changed.” He muttered while sitting in the chair that Leathina used most.

Nicholas circulated his gaze throughout the room, finding out if anything was missing or changing after Nora entered, after Leathina disappeared and had not found the person who most often visited Leathina's room other than her personal servant Anne was Nora even almost every day he came there even several times Nora was caught moving some leathina's object, found in her room when asked, says that maybe one day Leathina will come looking for her things in her room if she returns later.

“What's with the kid? Is there something that makes him have to rush like this? I'll ask the boy later.” Nicholas muttered then moved from his seat after he felt he was quite in Leathina's room.

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Nora skipped her study hours from the morning only to quietly come to Leathina's room to spend time there as she often did with Leathina, he calmly looked down while reading his books without caring about anything else.

Nora heard the footsteps of someone approaching the room she was in because she was worried that the person who was looking for her was the waiter who came looking for her because she missed her learning hours quickly Nora hid under the bed to hide out.

Nora waited for a while but no one had entered the footsteps she had heard suddenly stopped making her think that maybe only a servant was passing by. “It looks like only people pass by.” He muttered and came back out.

“Trak!”

Suddenly the door of the room opened Nora who panicked immediately went back to hide under the bed fortunately only part of her body came out so she could go back to hiding easily.

“Dad?” mumbled when he saw that Duke Leonard who came was not a servant, Nora did not intend to show himself because it would be more dangerous if his father found him and found out that he missed his learning hours.

Duke Leonard was seen surrounding Leathina's room opening the Wardrobe and examining the others but Anne suddenly came and stopped Duke Leonard's activities.

Nora heard the whole conversation between her father and Anne, at first he did not feel the strange existence of the second conversation but when Duke Leonard asked if there was anything that made Leathina did not want to return or made him want to leave Nora suddenly remembered the time Leathina continued sneaking out even several times heard Leathina mutter that said someone would eliminate her.

“No, no, I promised Leathina's sister to keep the incident a secret.” His inner grab hold of hiding had no intention of showing his whereabouts until the two left Leathina's room.

“Have gone?” he then peeked out and no longer saw anyone in the room. “It could be bad if dad knew I was skipping my lesson again.”

After making sure there was no one else in the room in which Nora immediately came out of her hiding place and then walked towards Leathina's closet which had been opened by her father but had been closed again by Anne.

“Is there anything Leathina's sister has hidden in her closet?” he said as he reopened Leathina's closet and checked the contents out of curiosity.

“Nothing is strange.” He muttered after looking at Leathina's entire closet, “Kakak may need money to give to the orphanage he used to visit with me and does not want father or people to know that he is supporting a home, humm... my brother is good, even all his good deeds he hides.” She muttered by deducing for herself why Leathina sold her dresses and jewelry.

“I often see my sister Leathina write something but never want to show or tell me what she wrote to me.” Nora checked Leathina's desk again and opened the drawers one by one but found nothing there.

“Nothing is strange.” His murmur then lowered his head under the table again looking for something down there.

“Bruk!” Nora's head hit the table as it was about to come out from under the table due to not being careful.

“Aww!” his pekik held back the pain while rubbing his bumped head.

Nora was silent as she felt her place bump into it making a strange sound, like it had an empty cavity inside.

“Tok, tock, tock, ,” Nora who still has not come out and is still at the table looks up to see the bottom of the table where her head hit and sees nothing strange after that Nora again hit him a few times and right it was just that the sound that was issued was like having an empty cavity in it.

“Any.” His murmur then immediately came out and noticed from the outside but the table still looked normal.

“Huh!” It can shift!” he was surprised because he was amazed. “I didn't know that Leathina's sister was this great, even having a hidden storage item like this.” Mumbled amazed.

Nora puts her hand on a small blemish she accidentally found on Leathina's desk and learns that she can slide it out to open and reveal its contents, looks like a drawer but not too big just enough to store a few items.

Nora peeked inside and only found a small book inside, “Ah! this is a book that Leathina's sister used to write and she doesn't want to show people, she'll close it or keep it when I come I shouldn't open it.” He said as he rushed to save Leathina's book that he found and closed the secret drawer that he had previously managed to open accidentally.

Panicked and guilty of unpacking other people's belongings until Nora's secret storage rushes out after closing it. But while at the door Nora stopped and glanced back at Leathina's desk where she was to the bottom of the table where the secret storage was.

“Little bit, I just want to know what Leathina's sister always wrote down to save it so carefully like that.” Then he nodded back to the table.

“Maybe I can find a way to bring brother back.” His inner yet still shrouded in fear of having to peek at someone else's belongings, “I only saw for a moment and after brother returned I will tell him the truth.”

The curiosity that Nora had was higher than her guilt she reopened the secret depository that she had just rediscovered when she saw a small book inside, but hesitated to open it again but in the end he still took it out of the drawer and put it on the table.

“I just wanted to take a look at it for a while, and tell the truth that I accidentally saw his secret storage and saw a little bit of the contents of his book after Lea's brother returned.” his inner strength to keep open Leathina's specially saved book.

Nora looked at the door worried that if someone else suddenly came in she brought Leathina's book and went into the table column and started opening it down there.

“DO NOT OPEN!”

Written on the initial page with a large enough and clear and looks like a threat makes Nora shocked and immediately close the book back. “Felt being watched quickly Nora checked around but she found no one there.

“What is this? Does Leathina's sister know that I'm going to open her book?” Frightened.

But because his curiosity has not been resolved and even he is increasingly curious to know what the contents of Nora re-open the book belonging to Leathina that he took secretly.

“I'm sorry Brother Lea.” He closed his eyes as he opened Leathina's book on the cover and the first sheet he had seen and stopped on the second sheet hoping that there would be no more threatening sentences in it to reduce his nervousness.

“The second sheet must be safe.” Inner Nora and slowly opened her eyes.

“Aakh!” he was terrified and then spontaneously threw the book in his war.

“I know that Leathina's sister is scary, but I don't know if she's also good at making people scared just by her writing.” He muttered while looking at the book he had thrown earlier.

Nora calmed herself down and after she managed to calm down she crawled up and picked up the book she had thrown earlier then went back under the table.

Slowly he reopened but this time Nora did not close her eyes, she had prepared herself and endured her fear.

“STILL BOLD?!”

“WILL I GOUGE YOUR EYES!!!”

The threatening writing on the second sheet that had made Nora scared, not only writing but accompanied by some terrible images that were also there, one of which was a picture of a human head with two broad eyes, making Nora shudder as she saw it clearly.

“So I thought Lea's sister was only good at scaring people with her gaze but she was also good at drawing horrible things like this, where did you learn to draw? Will I ask if sister Lea comes back later?” He muttered slowly then quickly opened the next page because he was still afraid to see Leathina's images on the second page of his book.

Fortunately on the next page there are no more threatening writings or terrible images that make Nora a little relieved to make.

“What is this?” her question was confused because she could not believe what she read in Leathina's book.

Nora, who still does not believe what Leathina wrote in her book, then re-read it over and over again to convince herself and hope that she is the one who misrespected Leathina's writing, but even though he had read it over and over again his writing remained the same and did not change as he expected.

“Are we all really this evil on sister Leathina?” he nodded and began to accept the reality.

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(After trying my hardest to live a miserable life with the fact that my own father threw me away I died looking for the worst, I lost my life in loneliness, no help came to my aid or at least the warmth of my last breath. If I remember that day trying to survive I die with the cold gaze of those who look at me as if I deserve it and I am an interesting spectacle, I even felt slowly some parts of my body I did not feel anymore until everything became dark. At that moment I really felt an incredible pain I could not bear)

“Kakak Leathina?” nora said with a trembling voice trying to hold back her cries, then continued reading on the next page.

(I managed to come back to life after living my miserable life with the most miserable death, Lucky I turned out to be safe, maybe because of god, god, god, or whatever it was that was pitying me at that time even though I had to live in a world that was much different from my life before. But even though it managed to survive death and be able to live again it turns out that my luck is still bad, the father I met this time is no different from the old one, they both threw away his daughter deliberately)

(Based on stupid parents! Why give birth to a child if you can't take responsibility for caring for and raising her well, damn it!)

Nora thoughtfully read Leathina's handwriting in the book opening up sheet by sheet.

(I'm going to die here! Why do I have to live as a shop criminal in this life?! Why must Leathina be made a criminal!! I'm gonna die! They will definitely kill me, you fucking main store!!)

(His daughter had just regained consciousness but no one asked her if this child was okay. Fucking family shit!)

(They came back to visit me especially that damn male protagonist! I'm really stressed living here, I need to escape immediately)

(Today there is a child that I can't remember in the story and claiming to be Leathina's brother, and after I remember again it turns out the character does exist but unfortunately he will die young at the age of ten years in a terrible way at an event, he is destined to die drowning there)

“This is me? But I'm still alive and now I'm older than you wrote, it's all thanks to my brother who saved me at the lake that night.” Mumbled.

(And I'll also die after him later! I should try to recall who tried to kill Leathina.)

“This?!” Nora was shocked to see the facts she had never imagined before.

Nora rushed out from under the table and while hugging Leathina's book she rushed to her father's room. “Maybe this will help father to save sister Leathina.” His mind is full of hope.

“Bruk!”

“Aww!” The pecker is enduring the pain.

Nora accidentally bumped into Nicholas who was at the door. Nora did not care about the whereabouts of her brother Nicholas, frantically he looked for the book he brought and then immediately picked it up and left Nicholas.

“Ah! brother Nico.” He then quickly picked up a book that had simultaneously fallen on him when he collided with Nicholas.

“Nora?!” Call Nicholas in a panic but Nora doesn't respond he hastily runs along the corridor to where his father is.

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