The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

450: The Man Behind Them

“Are you sure the count loves you of his own accord? And not because of the influence of the gu?”

They weren’t in a hurry to finish her off since they knew she was doomed to die anyway.
They could spend some time and listen to this horrible woman explain her reasoning.

“Of course he loves me! I’ve become so beautiful how could he not?!” Alante’s roar was followed by a series of coughs.
Her body was actually really weak so strong emotional fluctuations were hard on her.

The words, “I don’t love you,” came from the secret stairway leading to the fifth floor.

Everyone turned in the direction of the voice to see the door to the secret stairway was open.
A man, about 6.2” (190cm) stood in the doorway.
He looked out of shape and obviously recovering from a serious illness.
His facial features would have made him good looking, but he was too gaunt.

Two beautiful girls, both of whom were familiar to Feng Wu, stood behind him.
The girls were of course Scarlet and Rain.[notes]

“Xiao Wu!” Scarlet waved happily at Feng Wu upon sighting her.
She ran past the man in front of her and went to Feng Wu’s side.
Not to be left behind, Rain also ran over.

The two girls left the man alone by the doorway.

“Nigusu!” Astonishment flashed in Alante’s eyes.

“I don’t love you.
I have never loved you.” Count Nigusu slowly walked over to Alante.
He looked at the old woman in front of him with a complicated expression.
She had turned into an ugly, old woman after losing her beauty.
He hated her for everything she’d done to him, but at the same time, seeing her like this, he couldn’t find any joy from revenge either.

It felt like he was looking at a stranger so he was unexpectedly calm.

“No! No! You must love me! I was so beautiful! I became so beautiful! How could you not love me?!” Alante shook her head violently.
She couldn’t believe her husband, who had been so incredibly loving towards her, would say such heartless words to her now.

“Loving someone isn’t whether or not they are beautiful.
Although appearances are important, it’s not the most important thing.
How do you not understand this?” Rain looked at the crazy Alante with disdain.
There had to be something wrong with the woman’s head.

“What you don’t understand is you can’t have a beautiful love without a stunning appearance.
Didn’t Nigusu fall in love with me because of my beauty?” She’d always believed Nigusu loved her.
He had to have loved her!

“I’m speechless at your reasoning.
I don’t know who could have given you such an idea.” Wind really didn’t know what to say.

“Nigusu, you love me right? You must love me.
Did the two cheap girls there say something to you to rouse discord between us? Don’t believe anything they said!”

Alanta clung to Nigusu’s pant leg like a drowning woman.
It didn’t look like she would ever let go.

Nigusu looked at the crazy Alanta and sighed.
His eyes were cold and ruthless when he spoke.
“I have nothing to say to you.”

Not killing her personally was already self-restraint enough.
He had no interest in talking nonsense with the woman.

Scarlet and Rain both rolled their eyes.
What did they just tell her?

“Never mind that.
Let me ask you, where did you get the gu worms? I’ve looked into your background, and you’re just an ordinary girl from a normal family.
It’s impossible for you to know the gu refinement method.
Who gave them to you, and where is the person now?”

Figuring out the matter was the main reason Scarlet was there.
She was on a mission as one of the four holy envoys.
The deputy mayor had asked for help from Star Marshall hall because he suspected the mayor was involved in some kind of evil art because of how drastically Count Nigusu’s personality changed.

In fact, the request for help was a direct result of the old lady and the deputy mayor discussing the matter.
While waiting for a reply from Star Marshall hall, the old lady had gone to the Adventurer’s guild and posted the task to distract Alante.

The old lady didn’t expect the adventurers she hired to actually do anything.
The main reason for having them work was so Alante would not suspect they had secretly contacted Star Marshall hall for help.

The old lady and the deputy mayor’s plan went off perfectly.
After Star Marshall hall received the request, it launched an investigation into Alante and sent Scarlet to help the old lady’s estate to resolve the matter.

From the investigation, Star Marshall hall found a big issue with Alante.
Alante was an ordinary child and the eldest daughter in the direct family line, but she was later kicked out of the family because she was so ugly and her position was usurped by her half-sister.

Even though Alante was driven out of the family, her half-sister was ruthless and still sent people to destroy her.
Soon after this, Alante’s physical appearance changed dramatically and she became incredibly beautiful.
Her sister, on the other hand, died inexplicable with all the qi and blood drained from her body.
It had to have been a miserable death.

Alante became a high-ranking countess by marrying the count not long after that.
With her new identity, if it weren’t for the hall’s ability, it would have been near impossible to find out what her experience growing up had been like.

There had to be a reason behind Alante’s transformation.
What the hall really wanted was to catch the person who helped her change.
Alante was just a small fry, the one they really wanted to catch was the mastermind behind it, and that was why Scarlet was there.

“I won’t talk.
You want to find out, figure it out yourself.
Hahaha…” Alante laughed pleased with herself.
Even if she was defeated, so what? These interlopers had destroyed her happy life with Nigusu.
They were fools if they thought anything useful would come out of her mouth.