【Emergency Situation Occurred!

A midnight intruder has entered your room.

If you don’t deal with them immediately, it could cause serious problems later.】

She rubbed her eyes, which were still heavy with sleep, and read the sentences carefully.

‘Someone is coming to harm me right now……?’

Her mind snapped awake and she sat up. She was about to go out to call Carl or Mandy immediately.

Click.

She heard the sound of someone turning the door handle from outside.

D*mn, this quick bastard.

She had no choice but to look around for something that could serve as a weapon.

Since there wasn’t anything suitable, she grabbed a jewelry box with sharp edges and returned to bed, lying down.

Pretending to sleep while keeping her eyes slightly open, she could vaguely see a black figure entering the room.

‘The moment he touches me, I’ll blow his head off. And then I’ll scream that there’s a fire. If I just cry for help, there might be people who turn away.’

While she was making plans to herself, the black figure that had been examining the room had somehow gotten close to the bed.

She buried half her face in the blanket and held her breath while watching his actions.

Finally, the moment the intruder who had approached her reached his hand toward her face—

“Hey, you bastard!”

She moved quickly and swung the jewelry box. But he urgently grabbed her wrist, so she failed to hit any part of his body.

Crash!

While trying to shake off the intruder’s touch, she fell over him and rolled on the floor.

Still stubbornly not letting go of the jewelry box, she climbed on top of the suspicious person and raised both hands high.

Just as she was about to strike down with the corner of the jewelry box—

“Wait! It’s me, Shailyn!”

A familiar voice urgently called her name. She hesitated at this and examined the intruder carefully.

The bright blond hair and amethyst-colored eyes that hadn’t been visible in the darkness finally came into view.

“…… Raviel?”

“Yes, it’s me. C-calm down.”

“No…… Why are you here? Why did you enter my room?”

Even as she backed away since she couldn’t harm the male lead, she couldn’t hide her bewilderment.

Since he had snuck in like some thief, she had even thought he might be an assassin.

“I was worried because someone was sneaking into your room, so I came.”

“Really?”

“Yes, didn’t you see any other intruders besides me? I followed right behind, so they couldn’t have escaped.”

She shook her head at his whispered question. The head priest, who had grabbed her shoulders and made her sit on the bed, slowly examined the room.

Clatter.

Then, strange sounds came from inside the wardrobe. The head priest, who met her gaze, signaled for her to be quiet.

He slowly approached the wardrobe and threw the door wide open.

Then the figure of some unfamiliar man crouched inside appeared.

“……!”

“Who are you.”

The head priest interrogated in a low voice. The man, whose eyes shook roughly as if flustered, soon pushed him away and attempted to flee.

“D*mn!”

“Where do you think you’re going……!”

She quickly stretched out her leg and tripped the man.

“Argh!”

She struck the head of the man who had fallen ungracefully with the jewelry box.

Thwack!

The man who had been trembling collapsed as if he had fainted.

The head priest turned the prone man’s body forward and held up a candlestick to carefully observe his face.

“It’s the third son of House Parfin. I saw him at the dinner party earlier.”

“Huh…… Why did Young Lord Parfin enter my room?”

When she asked, unable to hide her bewilderment, the head priest shrugged.

“Well, we won’t know until we ask the young lord directly.”

“Then when will the young lord wake up?”

“Judging by the small bump on his head, it shouldn’t take long.”

I see. Remembering where the servants’ quarters were on the ship, she put on a shawl and said to the head priest.

“Please watch the young lord for a moment. I’ll be right back.”

“Where are you going?”

She answered while grabbing the door handle.

“To call my bondservant.”

She was going to bring some backup.

***

Raviel, who had found Johanna’s behavior suspicious, couldn’t fall asleep easily and paced the corridor.

It was because of an ominous premonition that she would do something to Shailyn tonight.

Thanks to that, he discovered the intruder entering Shailyn’s room.

There had been a crisis where he was briefly misunderstood and nearly had his head split open, but it was extremely fortunate.

How long had it been since he had been watching Young Lord Parfin tied up tightly with blankets?

Shailyn returned to the room with Carl quite early. Seeing him with a terrifying expression, Raviel narrowed his eyes.

‘He really does resemble him.’

Carl, who had grabbed Young Lord Parfin by the collar and lifted him up, asked ominously.

“I heard this suspicious person’s identity hasn’t been revealed yet, is that correct?”

“Huh? No, the head priest said he’s Young Lord Parfin……”

“Yes, that’s right. I have no idea who he is.”

Blocking Shailyn who was about to answer straightforwardly, Raviel smiled slyly. He had grasped Carl’s intention behind the question.

As soon as he heard his answer, Carl raised his fist and struck the young lord’s face.

While it would be a crime to commit *ssault knowing he was a noble, violence that occurred in the process of dealing with an unidentified suspicious person who threatened his master could be justified as self-defense.

Shailyn, who finally grasped the situation, stepped back and enthusiastically cheered him on.

“Since he’s a gloomy bastard who snuck into a good and weak lady’s room in the middle of the night, beat him up thoroughly, Carl.”

“Understood.”

The young lord, who had been beaten until his cheeks swelled up, woke up unable to bear the pain.

He, whose gaze immediately met the murderous black eyes, screamed.

“Ahhh! Save me, please save me!”

“A perverted bastard who crawled into a woman’s room can even speak like a human.”

Crack. Carl, who had grabbed his collar with all his strength, asked in an eerie voice.

“Tell me honestly why you entered my master’s room. If you lie, you get hit.”

“I-I was drunk and got confused……!”

“I don’t smell any alcohol at all.”

Thwack!

He, who had now kicked his abdomen instead of his face, grabbed the neck of Young Lord Parfin who had been knocked away.

“I told you not to lie.”

“It’s true! I really thought it was my room!”

Young Lord Parfin desperately protested. Carl briefly turned his head to look at Shailyn.

At his gaze asking what to do, Shailyn quietly raised her hand and made a gesture of slitting her throat.

It meant to beat him until he talked.

“Argh! Do you know who I am! Ugh!”

“What? What are you saying? I can’t hear anything.”

“No, I’m George Parf, ugh!”

Finally, only after being beaten all over his body did Young Lord Parfin cry and confess.

“I came after receiving orders to secretly enter Lady Sharofe’s room! Sob, please stop hitting me now.”

Hearing his confession, Shailyn pushed Carl back and faced Young Lord Parfin.

“Who gave the order?”

“Th-that I can’t tell—”

“You haven’t come to your senses yet.”

“Ahhh! Celsior! Lady Celsior gave me money and ordered me to do it!”

When Carl moved as if to step forward once more, the frightened Young Lord Parfin spilled everything.

A few days ago, Johanna had secretly approached him as he was usually struggling with gambling debts.

‘If you grant my request, I’ll pay off your gambling debts.’

‘Gasp! Is that really true? Just tell me anything!’

‘I’m going to hold a ship party soon. On that night, secretly enter Lady Sharofe’s room and sleep in the same bed without anyone knowing. So that people will misunderstand your relationship.’

In other words, she wanted him to create an inappropriate scandal with Shailyn.

From Young Lord Parfin’s perspective, there was nothing to lose, so he naturally accepted this.

He succeeded in entering Shailyn’s room after receiving the key from Johanna’s maid, but due to Raviel’s unexpected appearance, he had to hurriedly hide in the wardrobe.

‘Johanna Celsior, she’s really gone crazy, huh?’

If she had been discovered sleeping with a strange man in such a place, Shailyn would have been finished.

Beyond simply having her reputation ruined, she might never be able to set foot in high society again.

Even though she knew well as a fellow noble lady how fatal such a scandal would be, she tried to frame her without batting an eye. Shailyn shuddered at Johanna’s cruel actions.

‘Now that it’s come to this, I can’t just stay still either.’

Since the other side had launched a preemptive attack first, Shailyn had no reason to show mercy.