The Male Lead’s Fake Sister - Chapter 33

“T-That’s not true! I’m just doing what the young master told me….”

“Really? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Why don’t I accompany you then? I have to discuss something with him, too.”

“T-That…”

“Lying to your Master will get you fired, you know?”

What’s the use of lying when you’re already caught red-handed?

Ravia slowly took the tray away from the maid’s trembling hands and spoke gently.

“I know everything already. I don’t want to waste my energy, so I’ll keep it a secret this time.”

“…..”

The maid’s tearful complexion cheered up instantly. Perhaps she didn’t expect that the notorious cold lady would show mercy to her, but the trembling maid bowed without stopping.

“Th-Thank you…thank you.”

“Saying thank you will not suffice. Go down and don’t let anyone come to the third floor until lunchtime. I need to talk to that child, so I don’t want anyone to disturb us.”

The maid bowed her head at Ravia’s order and quickly went down the stairs.

She was very happy that she wasn’t punished despite being caught harboring a shallow motive.

Anyway, it went smoothly because the maid didn’t doubt Ravia at all. Now that she drugged Tidwell and blocked people from getting close to him, Ravia intended to search his room.

‘I need information.’

Any information will do. Of course, it’d be great to find information that Crow may need, but any information would be very helpful to her. Because she wasn’t in a position to be particular right now.

She found nothing in Tidwell’s outer garment or pants pocket. So the next step would be searching his room.

‘I don’t think there’ll be anything important in his room since Tidwell is very cautious to begin with. But I won’t know until I try.’

In this tricky situation, Ravia eventually chose to use the Occam Razor’s principle in her method; Do not make more assumptions than you absolutely need.

In Occam Razor’s principle, the truth always lies in simplicity.

So Ravia headed to Tidwell’s room.

The room at the end of the hallway. The room at the exact opposite of Ravia’s room was originally used as a guest room.

But was it because she had been extremely vigilant recently? Or because her razor wasn’t that sharp?

Ravia missed a very important fact.

Just behind the door, someone had listened to Ravia and the maid’s conversation all along. It was Tidwell.

‘My room is surely popular.’ Tidwell thought indifferently as he leaned against the wall.

Of course, he didn’t feel very pleased. He tapped his toes on the floor restlessly.

He had been warned, yet he was still disappointed with how the situation played out.

Mostly because he couldn’t exactly determine what had so disappointed him.

In short, Tidwell did not take the sleeping pill. No, to be exact, he already knew that fact.

Someone tipped him a few days ago.

“Tidwell, shall we make a bet?”

“What is it this time, Herod?”

Despite Tidwell’s skeptical question, Herod proudly handed a document to him.

The document contained the sales volume and the expenses of Dark Flower distributed to Herod’s organization.

As Tidwell reviewed the account, Herod leaned his body against the table and smirked.

“Nothing much. My staff asked me to tell you.”

“If it’s your staff…”

“You know, right? A summer user.”

At Herod’s smug remarks, Tidwell’s eyes sharpened.

“If there’s more than one talented person in an organization, the other organization will think it’s unfair.”

Just one seasonal user was enough to wield enormous power, so having two talented people in one organization surely built a great power imbalance.

That was the very reason Tidwell couldn’t take possession of Cosmo despite his strong financial power and influence, and chose to join hands with Cosmo instead.

Herod laughed at Tidwell’s grumbling.

“What’s the point of worrying about people whose brain and organs will ultimately burst?”

“That’s true.”

“And it’s rare to have two seasonal users in one generation. I never knew that I’d manifested the power.”

“It doesn’t really faze me to hear that from someone born in a family that secured the summer users for generations.”

“Haha.”

When Herod burst into laughter, Tidwell tossed the sheet on the desk, indicating that he had enough of Herod’s nonsense.

“Tell me, what is the message that this great staff of yours wanted to tell me? And what is this bet all about?”

“It’s nothing much. I gave an order to dig into someone, and we randomly talked about you.”

“It’s obvious. There are a lot of people who want information about me.”

Whether he had no intention of denying it, Herod continued to talk without changing his expression.

“But if I just pass you the message, it’s obvious that you won’t believe it, so let’s make a bet.”

“Tell me the message first.”

“If the message is right, that means you lose.”

“Okay. Let’s do that. How many times should I repeat the same thing?”

Herod looked satisfied at Tidwell’s stern response.

“I heard you will take medication soon.”

“Medication? What kind of medication?”

“That’s all I have to say. Be careful.”

Tidwell had already been poisoned twice that week alone, so he took Herod’s words with a grain of salt. He was resistant to most drugs anyway.

However, Tidwell was reminded of the fact that the person who gave him a message was in fact, a summer user.

‘It is said that the summer user’s prophecy is never wrong.’

Summer was a season of immaturity as it symbolized freedom and growth for people who seeking identities. To face up to that immaturity, the summer season presented those who inherited its name with different abilities to overcome any crisis.

It was precognition.

The summer user had the foresight ability to prepare for anything coming their way. Therefore, the foresight ‘must produce positive results for the target’. This was important to note because a summer user’s message may not always appear positive on the surface.

For example, there was a story of a summer user who predicted that someone would be seriously injured by a falling chandelier.

The summer user said this to the person who was destined to be injured:

“If someone calls you for an urgent matter, never take a step forward.”

The reason was simple.

Because the moment he took a step forward at the call, the chandelier fell and injured him badly.

The person listened to that prophecy.

Thanks to that, that person avoided the situation where the chandelier fatally wounded him, but one of his eyes was pierced by a shard of glass.

And it raised more questions.

If such a large chandelier was meant to fall, wasn’t it only natural that people who happen to be in the vicinity would be put in a dangerous situation as well?

Why did the summer user tell that person to stay seated when they could have just told that person to avoid the accident altogether?

The truth was revealed soon.

The person who heard the prophecy actually had a lot of old enemies, and if his eyes weren’t injured, he would become overconfident and travel alone. He was actually destined to be ambushed on his way home and die.

After his eyes were injured, he increased the number of his escorts, and as a result, he was able to survive various dangers.

That’s where the prophecy actually produced positive results for the parties involved.

That was the foresight of the summer user.

‘Maybe my reluctance to believe this prophecy is also part of the prophecy all along.’

So he couldn’t completely ignore the threat of poisoning even though he knew it was a frequent occurrence.

-Tidwell.

-Please say it.

-Do you want to go to my room?

When he heard a question that sounded dangerous, he became uneasy.

Tidwell had no choice but to realize.

Who was the person that Herod was trying to dig up?

Why did anything related to that person become a prophecy for himself?

After so many poisoning attempts, why only now was a message delivered to him?

The answer came with the glass that was contrived for his drinking.