Chapter 210 - Discovery (2/2)

The middle-aged woman dashed in and hastily closed the door again, then grabbed Mijil and said sobbingly, “I knew you were here, my baby. It’s so good that you’re okay.”

Feeling the warm, familiar embrace, Mijil began to cry as well. Mother and daughter cried for nearly half an hour before they slowly restrained their overflowing emotions.

Taking her daughter’s hand, the middle-aged woman was about to go upstairs when she suddenly saw a strange blue man standing in the shadows of the corner of the room, and was so startled that she covered her heart and almost screamed.

“It’s okay, Mom. It’s a magical creature left behind by big brother to protect me, it won’t hurt us.”

The middle-aged woman was relieved.

Since the Spell Puppet would inherit the summoner’s knowledge, it had recognized that this was Mijil’s mother, so naturally it wouldn’t do anything. They went upstairs and the Spell Puppet followed them.

“Mom, are you taking me back?” Mijil asked expectantly.

The middle-aged woman shook her head. “No, your father still owes a lot of money, and even if the a.s.sa.s.sins don’t take you away, the other creditors will do so.”

“What am I supposed to do?”

“You will live here, with that benevolent Master Mage,” the middle-aged woman said faintly. “Remember to keep your keys. The deed of this house is written in your name. Your father does not know and you must never let him know. Understand? Otherwise, you won’t even have a place to settle in the future.”

“What about you guys? And Big Brother and Second Brother, will they be taken away too?” Mijil asked in a quiet voice.

“It doesn’t matter. In fact, your father has quite a bit of money stashed away and when he’s forced to, he’ll take it out so no harm will come to me or your two brothers,” the middle-aged woman said softly.

Mijil’s eyelids dropped and her head lowered. “Father never liked me.”

The middle-aged woman smiled bitterly.

There was a reason for that. In fact, her husband was a pretty nice guy. But the problem was that Mijil wasn’t his daughter.

More than six years ago, a minor n.o.bleman had framed her husband for tax evasion, and it was she who had volunteered herself to serve him with her life, which finally made the minor n.o.bleman give up on suppressing her husband.

This sort of thing was common in the n.o.ble cla.s.s, far too common.

Her husband felt ashamed to face her, so he had actually been very good to her. It was just that Mijil was born nine months later, much to the husband’s resentment.

Because she was the daughter of that minor n.o.bleman, not his.

At that time, the husband had been frightened out of his wits by the minor n.o.bleman and didn’t dare to abort Mijil, so he had to let her have the baby.

Later on, as Mijil grew up, the minor n.o.bleman’s power grew more and more.

Recently, however, the minor n.o.bleman moved his family away, and Mijil was left without a source of protection.

The husband, on the other hand, had the idea to take advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Mijil.He didn’t dare to really hurt Mijil himself, so he had to resort to letting her take the fall for his transgressions.

The middle-aged woman held Mijil in her arms, talking softly and soothing her gently, and it wasn’t long before the little girl was asleep in her arms.

The middle-aged woman carefully placed her on the bed and stood there red-eyed for a long time before she left the little house.

Using his magic spider’s perspective, Roland was already aware of the middle-aged woman’s arrival, and he slowed down purposefully to allow the mother and daughter to spend more time together.

As he hesitated, searching for a tavern to drink something and browse the forums to kill some time…

The magic spider hiding in the brothel compound sent a rather interesting image.

A rather sumptuous silk dress hung on the back of a chair in a small, dark house.

And the small house had a bed, on which someone appeared to be sleeping.