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Behind her was the poor little maid Jenny, carefully grooming her long blonde hair, and for Elijah it was possible for her to kill herself, but she would never do it herself, for when she was very young, her mother had told her that she had to have her maid comb her hair, and that it had nothing to do with whether she could do it herself, and that she could only earn respect if she had learned to command others. Maybe Illya still doesn't fully understand what her mother said, but that's okay, it doesn't stop her from remembering everything her mother had said to her, and one day, she will always understand what her mother taught her.

From downstairs came a violent roar, a scream that pierced the eardrums.

Illya knew that it was her father who had punished another servant who had 'accidentally' provoked him, and this was the umpteenth time in the past few days, since suffering the humiliation of Alfred at the gate of the wasteland, it was difficult for her father to have a calm mood, whether it was Francis's servant or Douglas's people, if anyone provoked her father at this juncture, there would be only one end, and whose life would the tyrannical Earl Douglas care about?

However, this has nothing to do with her after all, there are so many people in Douglas, just die a few of them.

Little Jenny combed her hair and quickly stood aside with her head down.

Fortunately, Illya stood up and ignored her, grabbing the horsewhip she had at hand and leaving the room.

She walked out of the castle, and when the people on the road saw her, they all lowered their heads, Francis's servants were in awe of her identity, and Douglas's servants were terrified of her nickname in the Douglas family.

'The devil with the face of an angel. ’

A pretty good nickname, isn't it?

Her personal butler, Murphy, prepared the carriage for her, and Illya walked towards the carriage, just in time to meet her brother Condi and some other inexplicable people, those people, Illya had never seen before, but without any deliberate inquiry, she could know that they should all be the children of servants in Francis's domain, in the wasteland, although she had only been here for a few days, Condi had apparently quickly conquered them all, and became the leader of this group, which was really remarkable.

"I warn you, my father has been in a bad mood lately, and you'd better not run too far!"

Facing Illya's footsteps, Condi frowned, undisguised his hatred, and said viciously.

Illya paused slightly, her eyes filled with confusion and hesitation, and then suddenly brightened, she bit her index finger and said softly: "That's it...... But I'm going to Alfred Castle, it's a long way off. Otherwise, if my father asks, you can help him tell him that I'm going to look for Augustus, okay?" After a pause, she suddenly turned around and smiled again, "Remember to tell him, or I will pull out your teeth at night while you are asleep!"

Murphy helped his young lady into the carriage.

The group of followers behind Condi looked at the Douglas siblings in confusion and couldn't understand them at all.

And Condi, whose face was ugly, watched Illya's carriage leave, gritted his teeth and said, "Neurotic!

......

When Elijah and her personal butler Murphy arrived at Alfred's castle, Augustus was not there, saying that they were out, but it didn't matter, Elizabeth was there, because they had contact, Elijah and Elizabeth would not be strangers, the two girls were waiting in Augustus's study, while gossiping casually, it seems, Illya is a very chatty girl, she never mentioned the colorful things she experienced in the empire, all kinds of beautiful dresses, delicious things, it seems that in order to avoid her superiority in front of Elizabeth, she always follows Elizabeth's topic, especially when she learns that Elizabeth is working and free, most of them will choose to hunt in the small forest not far away, and Illya is even more excited and interested, repeatedly emphasizing to Elizabeth that if there is a chance, she must be invited to hunt together, and it seems that a good personal friendship has been initially established.

In front of Elizabeth, the image belonging to Elijah seems to be only innocent and harmless.

Elizabeth, of course, would not refuse, regardless of the inner impression of her as a peer, but on the surface she did have a good conversation with her.

Augustus happened to return.

When he saw Illya, the first thing he asked was very strange, "You came here like this?"

Because it was the information provided by Ilia that allowed Augustus to arrange a series of arrangements to attack Douglas in the Grand Canyon of the Alps, it can be said that Illya was the traitor who betrayed the Douglas family, and in this capacity, she, the third heir to Douglas, did not seem to worry about her father, which was obviously something that Augustus could not understand.

Ilya naturally understood Augustus' doubts.

Compared with the weak image of her deliberately pretending to be aggrieved, innocent, and willing to be bullied when they first met, she was like a simple girl at this time, and she blinked her eyes and asked: "If one of your kittens at home goes to your enemy's house to hang out, will you be very worried?"

Augustus walked to his place behind his desk and nodded casually.

It's not all about understanding what Illya means, anyway, he just casually asked, the fate is hers, the danger is also hers, she doesn't care, why should he care.

He didn't speak, but Illya looked at Augustus and seemed to be getting to work quickly, and asked, "You don't seem to be as wary of me as you were the first time?Why? Just because I gave you the news of Douglas's arrival in the moor?

Augustus looked up at the girl's beautiful face, but did not speak, but stood up, walked to the bookshelf behind him, and pulled out a document from the thick pile of materials on the third floor, and threw it to Illya without looking at it.

Illya's little face was incomprehensible.

......

When Augustus went to the imperial capital, the original plan was to go to Douglas's family fiefdom to see if he could win Douglas's friendship before Douglas arrived in the wasteland. Of course, this was not Augustus or Elizabeth's problem, and later Augustus also knew from Queen Diana that it was Queen Diana who did not give him the opportunity to contact Douglas, forcing him to rush to the imperial capital quickly.

In any case, since he had the idea of contacting Douglas at that time, he would definitely send someone to Douglas's territory to investigate first.

This document is some of the information he just got about Douglas.

Illya flipped through the papers.

"Vanessa, the only daughter of Viscount Cromosia, is pure and kind, loved by her people, and is known as the angel of Cromosia. After the Cromoa family was annexed by the Douglas family, she had to be humiliated to become the fourth wife of the Earl of Douglas, however, instead of showing her hatred for the Douglas family, she spared no effort to help the people of Douglas, on the one hand, she tried her best to persuade the Earl of Douglas to give up his family business, on the other hand, she also tried her best to save the life that was about to be exchanged for gold by Douglas, and at the same time, she also prevented the Douglas people from doing evil in the territory in the name of Douglas's wife, in the process, her behavior finally led to the dissatisfaction of the Douglas family, and everything she was incompatible with the Douglas familyNo one could give up such a large source of wealth, and in the eyes of the Douglas family, this woman was crazy to think that the lives of those untouchables would be more important than gold - so, in the midst of this contradiction, one day Douglas personally choked his wife's throat and gave her body to his people to vent his anger. ”

Vanessa, Illya's mother.

Augustus felt that this reason was enough to be a strong motivation for Elijah to destroy the Douglas family.

He looked at Illya quietly.

Illya looked carefully at every word on the paper, as if her mother were right in front of her.

In fact, the documents are still not accurate enough, just as Augustus did not know that on the night her father strangled her mother, Illya, who was still young at the time, was standing in the doorway, and she watched her father quarrel with her mother, and watched her angry father put his hands on her mother's throat, and she remembered that at that time, her mother could not even breathe, but she still smiled at her standing in the doorway, and tried to cover her own eyes with both hands, signaling Illya to learn her movements, and also covering her small eyes- But the question is, is it true that if you cover your eyes, you can't see the sin in front of you, and you can't see her mother leaving her forever?

Impossible.

Illya even remembered all the details, including her mother's pained expression, her blue face, and her stiff legs.

It was as if that image had been deeply etched in her mind for the rest of her life.

She held the document that Augustus had handed her, remembered what her mother had taught her to learn to forgive when she was still alive, and remembered that a few days before that night, her mother had sewn two rag dolls for her overnight, telling her that they would accompany her in the future...... Oh yes, those two rag dolls are really cute, so cute, but unfortunately, they were cut into pieces by her own hands a long, long time ago.

She thought, thought, and smiled.

Like a child.

Like an angel.

She smiled with tears streaming down her eyes and said, "Augustus, do you feel the same as I do that this filthy family is not worthy of living in this world?"

......

...... (To be continued.) )