I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration - Chapter 111

“We have finished cleaning up the surrounding area.”

Ah, that’s not good news for me at all.

“Good. Lock the Duchess in the first room. She’s a valuable hostage, so make sure she doesn’t get hurt.”

A man who appeared to be a mercenary asked, pointing to Lizé. “Are you going to lock her in a separate room?”

“Oh, she’s not a hostage. She’s my booty.”

Ugh. I wonder how Cliff would kill Shane, would he just slit his throat, or split him in half lengthwise……?

I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure he would split him in half lengthwise if he keeps going like that.

No, this is not the time for me to be thinking about this.

I’m about to get beaten up by that crazy woman, Sophia.

“What about her?” The mercenary pointed at me.

“Take that bitch to the basement. I don’t want to hear her screaming around here.”

I felt goosebumps break out all over my body, even though I was cold.

From now on, “I Refuse Your Obsession” was going to be a horrifying thriller, not a romantic fantasy.

“Move.”

At Shane’s command, the men around me picked me up and carried me out of the room.

Once we were out of the stone room, I could see my surroundings clearly.

‘Not a castle, probably an old villa outside the capital……’

There seems to have been a time when it was popular for aristocrats who had never gotten their hands in the dirt but longed for country life to build farmhouse-style villas.

It looks like it was built at that time, but there were traces of people everywhere, even though it was abandoned.

‘They must have bought an abandoned villa and used it to house and feed their mercenaries.’

If we the hostages haven’t been found yet, it’s most likely that this is a fairly remote and unexpected place.

Will Cliff get here before my bones break?

I sighed.

‘No. The way Shane looked at Lizé earlier, he looked like he was about to do something. But isn’t the rule in this world that the male lead appears right before the female protagonist experiences something terrible?’

So that means Cliff is going to be here sooner or later.

‘Just hang in there, just hang in there……!’

I soothed my growing anxiety as we descended the stairs to the basement, my body draped over the mercenary’s shoulder.

The basement was semi-subterranean, with a window at the top, but since it was still dawn, it was dark.

The mercenary leading the way trudged along with a lantern and opened the door to what appeared to be a storage room.

While he set one of the lanterns nearby, the mercenary with me strapped me into a chair.

It was a hard wooden chair with a terrible seat.

“Ah, ouch! Tie me up a little…… gently. I’m in pain and can’t move anyway.”

I begged the mercenary with tears in my eyes.

I assumed it was a failure because there was no change in expression on his impassive face, but he tied me up much more gently than before.

Of course, I wasn’t lying when I said I can’t move.

My hands were tied behind my back, I realized how roughly I’d been handled, and my shoulders ached. My joints felt like they were all out of alignment.

But this isn’t the time to whine about the pain.

“She’s not as good as the woman the captain took earlier, but she’s pretty good.”

The mercenary who had gently tied me up grinned from ear to ear as he grabbed my chin and turned it from side to side.

My gratitude for him quickly faded.

‘Ugh, what should I do in times like this?’

The thought of being raped had never occurred to me before. Wouldn’t only the female lead be spared from such a misfortune? What should I do?

“Ha, haha…… No way, my husband doesn’t even look at me.”

“Why? Does your husband have a lot of lovers? Or is that stunning woman his lover?”

“S- she is not his lover……”

She was his unrequited love.

“People in high positions may have the luxury to complain about the side dishes, but people like us are good at picking them up unless they are very spoiled.”

His hands groped my neck and ears with increasing intensity, sending chills down my spine.

Suddenly, the man watching asked, “By the way, do you have any idea who that woman is who was taking orders from the captain earlier?”

“What? Sophia?”

“Her name is Sophia? The one with the black hair and the scary look.”

“Yes, she’s Sophia.”

“What kind of woman is she? She speaks in a very stern commanding tone, but judging by her looks, she doesn’t appear to be a noblewoman.”

I braced myself, hoping that the topic of Sophia would be my chance to avoid this crisis.

“Is Sophia in command of you?”

“The captain is in command. Oh, by the way, what’s your relationship with the captain?”

“He’s…… my brother.”

“What?”

The men gasped, and the mercenary who was groping me quickly withdrew his hand.

“Your real brother?”

“Yes.”

“Ha…… I mean, what did you do to your brother that made you end up like this?”

I pressed my lips together and squeezed the tears from my eyes.

“Do any of you…… have siblings?”

The two men looked at each other and then nodded.

“Are you close?”

“Well, not bad.”

“I feed him.”

I felt both envious and angry at the same time.

These mercenaries who treat people’s lives as if they’re nothing more than throwaways are good brothers to their siblings. Why am I the only one like this?

“You must both be good brothers, I’m envious of your siblings, I’m…… sob……”

More tears came to my eyes as I remembered my brother in my previous life, who kept asking for my salary.

“That Sophia, she’s my maid, but as you can see, my brother is nicer to her than he is to me.”

The mercenaries nodded in agreement.

“Yeah, that’s kind of weird, but it doesn’t seem like they’re in a relationship.”

“Sophia has a crush on my brother, and she’s a maid, and she’s also a…… mercenary.”

Both men let out a mocking chuckle at the same time.

“What, so a woman who isn’t even that different from us is playing it so cocky?”

“Oh, this is pissing me off. You know, back when we captured the hostages, she was ordering people around on with her chin up, telling them to move this way, move that way, like she was some kind of troop leader.”

The mercenaries didn’t seem to have any good feelings about Sophia.

I sobbed pathetically, hoping to win their sympathy.

“She’s been bullying me ever since I was a little girl, and when she saw that my brother hated me, she took it upon herself to assault me. You don’t know how much I envied those reliable brothers from other Houses.”

I didn’t feel tongue-tied or hear tinnitus as I told them about my past.

I don’t know if it’s because they’re insignificant extras or because I’m making up half the story, but either way, it’s a green light. The mercenaries’ gazes took on a slightly pitying glint.

“What’s so displeasing about such a pretty little sister……”

“My brother is a bit of a spoiled brat, you know that from experience, don’t you? He only cares about himself and always speaks harshly.”

“Oh, I got used to that a long time ago.”

“I mean, we’re paid to do it, but it’s kind of offensive.”

Yay, we’re finally on the same page!

“My brother doesn’t even treat me like a sister. I got married for the sake of my family, but my in-laws and my family suddenly fell out. Then he made some unreasonable demands, like asking me to get information about them or install something in the mansion.”

I exhaled once and scanned the mercenaries’ moods. Luckily, they were engrossed in my story.

“But the Duke family wouldn’t have such lax defenses, and when my brother failed, he called me a traitor, a worthless bitch…… sob…… and now he’s trying to kill me. How could a brother do this to his sister?”

“I know. I think the captain is doing something wrong……”

For people whose job it is to kill people, they seemed to have a normal amount of compassion.

“Sophia is coming to kill me, and I’m going to be tied up like this and brutally beaten to death, and it’s so…… so unfair.”

They looked at each other and seemed to be contemplating something as I sobbed helplessly.

Then the man with the lantern began to look outside, and the other man loosened the rope around me. I could get my hands free.

“You know we can’t do much for you, don’t you? If we let you go now, that woman, Sophia or whatever she is, will tie you up even tighter.”

“If you’re lucky enough to survive, untie yourself and run. This is Wellesley, south of the capital, so when you get out, run north.”

The mercenaries were at least much more compassionate than Shane or Sophia, even if they did briefly consider rapping me.

“Thank you, that’s very kind of you, so I’ll tell you one thing.”

“What?”

“The Knights of House Ludwig are going to be here any minute, so as soon as you get out of here, run.”

The two men laughed at my advice.

“Come on, young lady. I know you’re desperate, but the knights don’t even know you’re here.”

“The knights chased us earlier, but they lost us in the middle.”

I shook my head at them.