The Survival Strategy of the Contract Duchess - Chapter 110

“Maybe.”.. I think he found out I was almost attacked by a monster.”

Not only did he leave her abandoned in the attic without telling anyone about her existence. Why would he go to such lengths for her, who had now declared that she would live independently of the family?

“Even if the Empress ordered it, I still can’t understand it.”

His parents died trying to protect him, so even though Kyler lived with his emotions buried, he couldn’t understand it and was just angry.

His displeasure was evident in the furrow between his brows. Sasha looked at his face and gently rubbed his thick eyebrows with her fingers.

Smoothing out the wrinkles, Sasha smiled softly.

She wasn’t particularly betrayed by them. They weren’t her father or her brother. Sasha felt a little sorry for herself, but she wasn’t particularly betrayed.

Maybe that’s why she was able to follow Elina. If it had been the real Sasha, she would have been angry at her clumsiness or cried and kicked Elina out of the house.

“I just wanted to get information. Marquis Ivern said he would tell me what I wanted to know.”

“If he was just going to tell you and be done with it, he would have come himself.”

“Well, so I thought we’d talk and then he’d have me meet a monster. I wasn’t too worried about the monster.”

Kyler relaxed the tension in his brow as she touched it, and instead stroked her cheek. Sasha smiled shyly, as if the large hand was offering a small comfort.

“Oh, so the important thing is, it’s not about those people, it’s that I met a real monster in that forest. I’m glad Elina was too scared to come in.”

Sasha felt Kyler flinch for a moment, but she gave him a calm smile as if to show off. Kyler, who was about to get angry, seemed to realize her intention and took a deep breath, closing his mouth and looking at Sasha.

“Even when you were alone with the monster, they didn’t attack?”

Then he asked as calmly as possible. When monsters encounter people, they usually attack first. So when they heard the sound of them flying, they had to prepare to attack first.

But Sasha shook her head.

“Do you remember when we first met? The monster stared at me. It was the same this time. It was a small monster, but it understood me. It even pointed to the mountains and put me on its back and flew me up.”

From Kyler’s point of view, it was a shocking thing. They were vicious creatures that killed his parents and could only be killed because they couldn’t be controlled, but listening to her, it felt like they were beings with language and the ability to think.

“Can I keep talking?”

Kyler’s facial muscles didn’t change, but Sasha kept her eyes on his face, so she could see the subtle changes in his eyes.

“It’s okay. I believe you because you have no reason to lie to me. It’s just a shock because it’s hard to believe.”

Kyler murmured in a low voice. Sasha could feel that his voice, which had been stiff and cold at first, now had warmth.

In fact, it would be really hard for people living in this world to accept. It’s like learning something completely new about monsters that they’ve known for a long time.

“I flew over the mountains and landed on a ridge, where I met a monster that seemed to be the leader. It looked like a fully grown adult.”

“Then, could you communicate with the monsters there?”

Kyler seemed to have decided to accept the story with a blank slate. Sasha shook her head.

“I still couldn’t communicate with them then. But they led me somewhere again. So I followed them and there was a huge, beautiful waterfall.”

“A waterfall? It must be Agran Falls.”

“Oh, you know it here too. The view from above was so beautiful.”

“It’s the biggest waterfall in the mountains. It’s hard to get to, so even if you know it’s beautiful, you can’t see it easily.”

“Ah, I wanted to come see it with Kyler, but I guess it’s going to be difficult.”

Sasha smiled, arching her eyebrows. Only then did Kyler slightly curve his lips into a smile.

“Oh, but the really amazing thing is, I could communicate when I got there.”

Sasha went on to explain what happened there.

Kyler, who had been listening to the story, was deep in thought. It felt strangely odd that they were sitting face to face on the bed, not at a desk or table, and having such a serious conversation, but Sasha stared at him, who was seriously contemplating.

“So, they asked you to find a way for them to return?”

When Kyler said that, Sasha suddenly felt something was wrong.

She had understood it that way too when she came down. She remembered the young monster who was excited to go home.

But, the atmosphere on the adult side wasn’t so bright. Considering how affectionately the leader monster treated his son, he should have been happy for his son’s joy, but she felt a sense of melancholy.

“You know, Kyler. I think they asked me to block the entrance. They just asked me to block it.”

When she translated their words as they were, she felt a strange feeling of stuffiness. This wasn’t just about sending them back. Blocking the entrance meant cutting off a vicious cycle that was hard for them to endure here.

Kyler closed his eyes and nodded. He seemed to have realized what she had realized.

And Kyler seemed to have made up his mind about the conflict he had been having.

Even if he hadn’t lost his parents, if he had been tormented by monsters for a long time, he wouldn’t have wanted to hear this explanation, but he listened to her and even understood their position, and she thought he was really cool.

“We wanted to exterminate the monsters, but no one has figured out how they are created, so it has been considered impossible. It’s a request that coincides with what we want.”

Kyler calmly organized the situation from a human perspective. It wasn’t something he could do alone. It could end up involving moving the Knights and even getting the Emperor’s permission.

It would be great if everyone could understand it like him, but it was much more likely that they wouldn’t.

If anything went wrong, things would only get complicated. Information sharing is enough as long as it’s necessary.

“But, it doesn’t seem meaningful to just close it.”

“Kyler!”

Sasha looked at him with an impressed face, as she could feel what he was worried about.

She thought that only she, who had seen it, could understand it. But she trusted him for understanding and thinking about the words she was conveying.

“I think the entrance is under the waterfall where the water is pouring down. So there were monsters jumping into it, but I don’t know if any of them succeeded, but most of them were swallowed by the water and failed.”

She could roughly picture the shape in her head. Kyler closed his eyes and recalled Agran Falls and her description.

The entrance must have been there when he went to see it, but because it was in such an invisible place, humans hadn’t discovered it for hundreds of years, and the monsters hadn’t been able to enter properly and had been trapped and died in the human world.

“Is there a way?”

She could tell that he was already thinking about it. They were sitting on the bed as if they were having a serious meeting, looking at each other with serious faces.

“I have a rough idea but I don’t know if it will work. Anyway, unless we use magic, we’ll need a lot of people.”

“Oh, do we borrow the power of a wizard? Are there wizards?”

Sasha was excited and spoke, but then she realized. It was too obvious that she was from another world. She glanced at him, but Kyler was just pinching her cheeks and thinking.

“We can’t trust wizards. And they’re hard to control. We don’t know what they’ll do to the monsters. They might not do anything at all.”

She could guess from him that wizards were very cunning.

“Do you hate monsters?”

“Rather than that they’re often too lazy to bother, so I don’t know if they’ll even be mobilized, and if they’re forced to go by the Emperor’s order, I don’t know what they’ll do to fill their own interests.”

He didn’t say much, but it seemed like he was going through all sorts of possibilities in his head.

When she asked a question, the answer came out as if it had been investigated in advance.

“I can help, I’m sure.”

And he asked her to do so at the end. In case he thought it was dangerous and left her behind. Rather than thinking that she had to do something, she wanted to finish this with him.

Hoping that they could really go back properly, and that other monsters would never have to go through this again.

“Don’t worry. I’ll protect you, so you can do whatever you want.”

Kyler pulled her into his arms and said that. She was much more grateful that he said that than if he had stopped her because it was dangerous.

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