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"Anyway, as soon as these recordings are submitted as evidence, your mother is done for. I don’t think she would be able to survive the hit to her reputation."

Charlie Suzuki said and there was only one maid in the whole room who sharpened her ears to take advantage fi this situation. That maid was Layle, the one who had saved Sakura’s life and decided to become her maid.

Her once hopeful eyes had turned bitter and jealous over time. She had been with Sakura for so long but she had yet to see the kind of affection she had wanted from her master. Continue your adventure at freewebnovel

’Eh, look at that cheeky smile. Does Sakura think she is cute? Now that Yoko is gone, this should be my chance to seduce Sakura. So why is the divine leader here all the time?’

Layla’s plans had all flopped done by one, but she had gotten lucky to score a big fish like Elios Tsurugi. And now she needed to protect that card at all costs.

’I need to go and tell Elios about what Sakura is planning. That lady should know what is about to happen to her.’

Layla quietly slipped out of the room and ran toward Elios Tsurugi’s side. She smacked the door open and watched as Elios woke up from her sleep.

"W-Who? What the hell is going on here?"

Elios Tsurugi asked as she was woken up by Layla’s actions. She looked angry but Layla was not intimidated by her.

"You! Hurry up and wake up. Do you know that Sakura has a ton of evidence against you? She will surely clear Yoko’s name and put you behind bars if you let this continue."

Layla confessed but Elios looked confused and disoriented by her yelling.

"Wait a second. What the hell are you talking about? Sakura has what against me now?"

Elios asked as she tried to warp her head around what Layla was saying. But the maid did not calm down and that made Elios’s work harder.

"Sakura, your daughter, has evidence that you were the one who caused that bloom incident to happen. If this leaks out, then you would be pinned for everything that happened with the bloom incident."

Layla confessed and Elios Tsurugi finally felt it click in her mind.

"Why are you telling this to me just now? You should have told me about this sooner. And where did this recording come from? I ordered everything regarding that night to be erased."

Elios had paid a lot of money to hire an expert to wipe the data clean. There should be no way to retrieve it.

And yet, Sakura had somehow managed to do that. She had managed to make the impossible possible. Her daughter had never shown such resolve before in her life.

’If only Sakura had shown so much resolve for my benefit, then I would have loved her and brought her up like she was my daughter. But instead, she had to go and help Yoko out.’

Elios was pissed. But more than that, she was jealous of the loyalty Yoko had managed to draw out from everyone.

"Is there no redemption for me? In that case, it would be better for me to die. But I refuse to die alone. If I am to die, then I will take this whole estate with me."

Elios Tsurugi’s rationality had flown out of the window. Her impulse asked her to act and take as many people out with her as possible.

Layla had noticed that Elios Tsurugi did not look stable for some time. She had been easily irritated and prone to bursts of anger unprovoked. That had worried her a little but she had not thought that this had been serious before until now.

"You are going to do what? Kill everyone in here? Are you even listening to yourself? Why would you do that?"

Layla asked as she shook Elios Tsurugi’s shoulder, but the other female looked a little weird and she behaved a little weird as well.

As soon as Layla let Elios go, she noticed how her eyes had glazed over and she looked listless as well. Her eyes were also blackish and her pupils were dilated.

These all were the signs of being infected by the bud bug but there was no external evidence of this happening.

’Is that a queen bee inside her? No wonder Elios Tsurugi has been acting so weirdly up until now. It was because she was being influenced by the bud bugs as well and she did not even realize it.’

Once a bud bug infected you, only special powers could kill them off. Unfortunately for Elios, she did not even realize she was infected.

’Ah, she is going to die anyway. I will have to throw such a powerful card away.’

"H-Hey, calm yourself down. You do not know what you are doing right now."

The maid tried to calm Elios down but there was no stopping her right now. She was beyond redemption and her blooming was starting. Layla knew that she needed to get out of there soon.

But now she had a decision to make. Should she go and save Sakura or should she leave alone? She had invested a lot into Sakura but she was not sure if Sakura was worth it or not.

’Ugh, I have no time to think. Even if Sakura is not worth it, she is the only card I have left in this family. I need to head out and warn her right now.’

Layla ran through the mansion. Behind her, she could feel Elios’s energy budding more and more. The lady was going to erupt soon.

Sakura looked startled when Layla slammed her door open. She seemed ready to go to sleep but it all vanished from her eyes when she noticed how panicked Layla looked right now.

"Layla, what’s wrong? It is unlike to barge into my room like this. Is there an emergency?"

Sakura asked and Layla instantly shook her head. An emergency would be an underestimation since this was a disaster waiting to happen.

"I-I went to check up on M-Miss Elios and she…something is wrong. We need to get out of here before we all die."

Layla confessed while giving Sakura her most pitiful look. Sakura looked worried as well and she shared a look with Charlie over her shoulder before looking at Layla once more.

"Oh, my mother has done something? Then we need to go and check it out."

Sakura confessed and Layla panicked. But even before she could stop Sakura from moving, Charlie Suzuki stopped her. She sniffed the air and an alarmed look suddenly took over her face.

"Sakura, turn on the emergency alarm and force everyone to run out of the Tsurugi mansion right now. This place is not safe and someone is about to bloom. No servant should breathe in the pollen right now."

It started to draw on Sakura what was happening. She gave Layla an alarmed look but then calmed down once she realized that it was not Layla’s fault this was happening.

"Oh fuck! This is truly a disaster. Why is it happening just when we need my mother to be calm and rational the most?"

Sakura sounded annoyed but worried at the same time. Both she and Charlie began to run toward the central mansion where her mother was housed. And Layla decided to pick up the recordings and save them in the meantime.

She was sure that these recordings would be useful in the future and would also help her gain Sakura’s trust in the long run.

Layla had only managed to get a little further in her escape plan when she noticed a shadow following behind her. She held the recording tighter in her hand and turned around.

"W- Who are you? What do you want from me?"

Sakura asked as she looked back. But the other person continued to stalk her without saying anything. Layla’s breath was caught in her throat but then she recognized the mask and the earring her stalker was wearing.

"O-Oh, it’s you! You scared me a lot. But what are you doing here? I thought you were sent back to the headquarters. Hurry, you run as well. This place is not safe and these recordings need tampering with…why?"

Layla asked as she watched a knife stab her in the stomach. Her wound began to bleed but the masked man was not done. He carefully drenched the camera into Layla’s blood so that it would no longer show anything and then he took out a pill.

"Your life has served its purpose. Now, you shall become an experiment for me as well."

The masked man pushed a small seed into Layla’s body and she felt it burst out in pain. It hurt! It burned! It felt as if something was trying to hammer her insides and make them anew.

"Y-You! Who are you?"

Layla asked as she began to lose consciousness. She did not want to give up her life, but this was all she could do. Her life was coming to an end now and she could feel it.

In the end, she did not get an answer to her questions but she still felt as if she knew who that cold-blooded man was.

Slowly, Layla’s body parts changed. Her legs turned woody and she almost looked like a mandrake, but humanoid. Recognition no longer flashed across her eyes and she was truly left to the mercy of her origins.

"Oh my god, what is that? That dress! Did you kill Layla?"