The Exhausting Reality of Novel Transmigration

igate the matter, and I found out that they’re vicious criminals, and that they’re planning to defect from the empire today.

That’s why Maxwell and I are in a hurry to stay on their tail right now.
Please send the guards.
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I didn’t care very much for the cover story, but there shouldn’t be anything suspicious about it.

“You got rid of all the evidence incriminating Diana as someone who once worked in that guild, right?”

“Yes, I’ve taken care of everything.
All the traces left of her there was about Diana being a ‘victim of fraud’, nothing more and nothing less.”

Logan replied.

He reported in a very business-like tone, and that just made him more trustworthy in that regard.

And also, this incident would be used to tell the guards how Maxwell overpowered the culprits.

That way, Damian and Duke Valentine would acknowledge Cassion a little more.

Besides that, this would also instill a sense of urgency in David.

All of that was happening at the same time here.

“I believe we should get going now.
The situation over there seems to have been sorted out for the most part, too.”

Blanca whispered to me.

Indeed, it was as she said.
Right now, there was no one else standing around Cassion and Diana.

All five of those men, well, they’re just rolling around on the ground.

“S…Save… me…”

While bleeding through both nostrils still, Owen groaned.

His face got mangled quite considerably.

Blue, and also red.

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It’s as if he’s covered in fireworks.

“…Ugh… Please… We used to be… co-workers… right? Dia…na…”

Diana glanced down on him as she tried to catch her breath.
Then, with a calm tone, she spoke.

“The guards will be here soon.
Your crimes will be exposed, and you’ll be thrown in jail.”

For a moment, the air around them was frozen silent.

Owen looked up at Diana with bloodshot eyes, but his lips distorted into a smile as he clung onto her ankle.

“If… so, then, isn’t that… isn’t that dangerous for you, too? You also worked in our guild… Did you forget?”

The man’s threats made Diana breathe out heavily.

Her breaths were so deep that her shoulders and chest moved in unison.

Then soon, she lightly kicked off the man’s hand.

“Yeah, you all worked me like a dog.
I wasn’t treated like a human being, I couldn’t beat you all up, I couldn’t scream out even once, and while I’m not being paid properly so I could pay off my debt, the interest also kept rising.
Apart from that, the medicine that I used to consider like a ray of light… was fake.”

As soon as she stopped speaking, heated tears flowed down from Diana’s eyes.

Her emotions were surging up.

Blanca, Logan and I watched Diana from the sidelines with bated breath.

For a moment, Diana’s tearful gaze turned this way.

While bravely wiping away her tears with the hem of one sleeve, she smiled.

And it felt like that smile was intended for me.

“What a shame, but I’m not going to get caught here.”

Her voice was quiet, but so full of confidence.

Then, her gaze slowly turned away from me and went back towards that man.

“From now on, I also have someone on my side who’s protecting me.”

Her voice shook with emotion, with tears, that I was at a loss for words for a moment as I heard the confidence and joy in her tone.

It must be because there was a subtle sense of guilt mixed in.
After all, I took her in while planning to take advantage of her.

I’d have been in trouble if she was on Leo’s side, so I instead took her on my side to use her.

If I were to be honest, this idea continued to remain on the back of my mind to this day.

That I’d be sure to make the most out of her.

However, not without proper compensation.

‘If I’m someone on your side who’s protecting you, then of course that’s what I have to do.’

Saying this to myself in my mind, I slowly rose from my seat.

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Logan and Blanca’s gazes followed my movement.

This made Blanca smile pleasantly at me.

“Well, we’ll be on our way now.
We still need to hide some money.”

“Sure.
Thank you for your help today.”

“No need for thanks.
I’m getting paid for all this after all.”

There was a mischievous smile on her lips as she waved goodbye.

After nodding, Logan followed after her.

It was his way of saying bye.

I raised my eyebrows to answer him, then I stepped away.

Cassion and Diana.

Towards where they were now.

“Pri… Milady.”

As I approached, Diana and Cassion blinked as they glanced over to me.

I made eye contact with them both, one after another, then kicked the sprawled man right in the crotch.

“Uu…uugh…huuhp…”

The man let out a shriek, a groan, then eventually a sound that was somewhere in between those two.

As he curled into himself so tightly like that, the sight of him like that expressed just how much pain he was in.

“Does it hurt?”

“Kk…kkuhhk…”

The man couldn’t even answer and just kept croaking like that.

The quivering man barely flipped over so that he could look at me.

The whites of his eyes had turned red.

“Y…Y…You’re…”

“Me?”

It looked like he wanted to say more than just the word ‘you’re’, but I had a vague guess on what it was.

Just seeing the color of my eyes would certainly make someone ask, ‘You’re House Valentine’s young lady?’

After cutting off the man’s words, I slowly crouched down to look into Owen’s eyes.

And with a beaming smile, I introduced myself to him.

“I’m Diana’s guardian.
So just try to mess with Diana one more time.
If you do, then I won’t just send you to jail.
You’ll be going straight to hell.”

In its own way, it was quite the courteous self-introduction.