“You can’t be serious… you did that too, Young Lady?”
“Yes. I can’t say where or what I’m doing, but I imagine I’ve broken free from nobility and am living as I please right about now.”
“What is that supposed to mean? I still can’t understand what Duke Hagedorff is thinking.”
It was understandable to be surprised. Who would have thought that Cassandra’s brothers, believed to be captured, were actually being protected and were living new lives with new identities?
For a Duke, creating new identities would be a trivial matter. The surroundings would not suspect that the Duke had acted on behalf of his supposed enemies.
“Actually, the next in line was me. However, it was supposed to take more time, but that child suddenly became flustered.”
“Flustered? What do you mean?”
“I don’t know the details. They wouldn’t tell me even when I asked. But knowing that child, it’s likely related to the Progenitor.”
As suspected, Cassandra was acting behind their backs.
Not even her own brother, who was cooperating with her, knew everything, so they remained in a state of insufficient information.
“Jared, let’s compile the information we have.”
Jared nodded at Dennis’s words and tried to organize his thoughts.
“Alright, so first. Duke Cassandra Hagedorff wants to revive the Progenitor. The reason for now is for Rasmus.”
“That’s what I heard too.”
Ricardo nodded in agreement.
“However, Rasmus wants to stop Duke Hagedorff. Because if the Progenitor is to be revived, it’s best for the person themselves to be the vessel. But Rasmus doesn’t want to kill the Duke, no, he can’t kill him.”
This was also the reason why Rasmus had sought help from Jared.
“…Hmm.”
“Is something wrong, Jared?”
“No, it just feels… wrong.”
Something felt off to Jared. He had been experiencing this unease for a while. Cassandra’s objective was to revive the Progenitor. And she was trying to fulfill Rasmus’s wish to kill the Progenitor a second time, ensuring they could never resurrect again.
However, Rasmus could not kill Cassandra along with the Progenitor.
He understood that. He could understand it. But that was only from Rasmus’s perspective.
—Does Cassandra truly want to kill the Progenitor?
Having heard about Duke Hagedorff’s past, he had assumed she was seeking the Progenitor for revenge. But Ricardo said otherwise, and Jared agreed.
He couldn’t believe that a woman who would go so far as to protect the son of the man who had disgraced her mother would act rashly out of a desire for revenge.
—No, I can’t figure out Duke Cassandra Hagedorff’s true motive. But one thing is certain: her goal isn’t merely to revive and kill the Progenitor.
She must have known Rasmus wouldn’t cooperate. Even if she was hiding her abilities as a Magician, it was unlikely that Cassandra, a modern Magician, could defeat the Progenitor.
It was questionable whether she would even be conscious if the Progenitor was housed within her body.
—What would I do?
He thought hard. If it were him, he wouldn’t try to revive the Progenitor by making himself the vessel. If he were the sole vessel, it would be a different story, but there were women who possessed the potential to become the kind of Vessel that even a Dragon would seal away.
It was an unpleasant thought, but using someone else would allow for countermeasures if something went wrong.
This led him to believe that, as Rasmus had feared, Cassandra wouldn’t sacrifice her own body. She would want to avoid leaving things to chance.
“Useless. I can’t figure it out at all.”
Ultimately, it was impossible to guess everything about Cassandra, who hadn’t revealed her true feelings to anyone.
Aunque Ricardo discovered that the Duke was not an evil person, for Jared, she remained a woman plotting something, even to the point of unjustly detaining him.
He couldn’t help but feel frustrated by the lack of change in the current situation.
