Evil grabbed his injured hand and tried to get up and head toward the door, but Isaac preceded him and placed his stick between the door handles.
Isaac, now much taller than Eiffel, turned to look at him.
Evil shouted, trembling: “You bastard!”
Evil raised his fist and tried to hit him, but Isaac did not dodge and received the punch directly.
Issac's pale cheek, which had grown without exposure to the sun, turned red in an instant.
He held his sore cheek and remembered the sound of Evil hitting Scarlett when she was little.
He wasn't sure if Scarlett gagged or if Evil did, but no screaming or crying was heard.
Isaac sighed softly, took off Scarlett's carefully placed cufflinks and put them in his inside pocket.
When Isaac regained his sight, he realized many things: the fancy cufflinks that Scarlett had unnecessarily put on his clothes, and that his clothes were better than the ones she was wearing.
Issac Crimson was a ghoul who lived to consume Scarlett's childhood to preserve his own.
Isaac rolled up his shirt sleeves neatly and walked towards Eiffel.
Eiffel, who was pressing on the finger of his severed hand to stop the bleeding, tried to wave his hand again.
It was a mistake to think that Issac, who had not seen him for a long time, would be slow in his reactions.
Isaac easily dodged the punch, perceiving the sound of the wind generated by it very sensitively, and let out a low groan.
Then he hit Evil in the face.
Another scream echoed through the palace.
Isaac started hitting Evil, who was holding his face.
His original plan was to only ban him from making watches, because if Eiffel could no longer make it, the family would not be able to fire Scarlett, who had the skill of making watches.
It should have stopped after the finger was cut off.
But when his anger exploded, he couldn't stop.
Since he was thirteen, he had been hearing the sound of his sister hitting and pretending not to hear it, covering his ears in the attic.
When Scarlett walked back to him smiling as if nothing had happened, his heart ached but he also felt relieved.
Evil, feeling like he was going to die, began to plead with his hands: "Stop, Issac!
I'm really going to die!
Come on, burst through the door!"
Isaac stopped punching, although his anger had not subsided much.
Then he took a ring off Evil's finger.
The ring was the symbol of the Crimson family, decorated with a garnet stone, intended for the head of the family.
Isaac put it on his finger, but it was too wide for his slender hand.
Regardless, he raised his hand toward the window to look at the ring.
No one but Isaac knew how obvious it was, and this made Evil feel even more terrified.
“You bastard… Do you think that stealing the family ring will make you take over the family or the store?
That girl’s skills can’t be real!”
“In less than ten years of your control of this house, cases of Crimson Watch defects have accumulated.
If Scarlett is wrong, we will soon know.”
At that moment, servants burst through the door.
shouted Anne Crimson, Evil's wife, and their daughter Marilyn, who were having tea in the garden.
Anne fainted at the sight of her bloodied husband and Isaac's terrifying eye scars.
Evil shouted in a hoarse voice: “Arrest this bastard immediately!”
“I am the head of this family”
The servants hesitated as Isaac spoke.
They thought for a moment who to obey, but decided, as they were wont to do, to follow Eiffel.
They approached Isaac and grabbed his arms.
Issac looked at their faces cloy, causing them to groan and turn their faces away.
The scene was terrifying.
Despite Isaac's strength, he could not resist a number of servants.
They tied him up, and after a while the police arrived.
Evil was taken to the hospital immediately to have his severed finger stitched up.
Several teeth and ribs were broken.
During this, Isak underwent investigation at the police station.
Strangely, the investigation began with the regular police and was then transferred to the Royal Constabulary.
Issac expected to go to the police station, but he did not think the Royal Constabulary would intervene, as they usually dealt with military issues and not personal disputes.
The transfer of the case to the Royal Constabulary headquarters made him feel that something was not right.
Unlike the regular police, where lunch was a sandwich with grilled apples, meals in the Royal Police were luxurious: soup, cold and hot dishes, a full meal.
The meals showed that those being investigated here were not ordinary people.
Isaac examined the food cloy before eating it.
It tasted bad when he saw what it looked like.
Losing sight had at least one advantage, he thought.
While he is eating, Scarlett arrives at the police station.
When she saw him, she ran towards him in shock.
Isaac stood up with wide eyes: “Scarlett?”
Scarlett frowned and hit him on the back hard.
The policemen were surprised and looked at her.
She asked in an irritated tone: “Are you crazy?”
“Ah, that hurts...”
“I can't live like this, really!”
“Sorry, Scarlett...”
Isaac continued to apologize with an almost tearful face.
Scarlett sighed and checked his face to make sure there were no injuries, then asked: “They said uncle tried to stab you first?”
Isak nodded.
Scarlett's hand trembled as she held the small wound on his neck.
“Something dangerous almost happened...didn't I say it was dangerous?”
“I made a mistake”
Isaac responded sadly, Scarlett couldn't continue being angry.
She hit his back hard again and said like an adult: “The police will ask me some questions and then they will release you.
I will be back soon, so stay here.”
“I don't care if I'm judged...”
“Don't talk nonsense.”
Scarlett's look made him close his mouth.
She left with the Royal Police for another location.
They took her to the Royal Police headquarters, and she began to feel the memories of that day coming back as she entered the place.
Everything was familiar.
After a few steps, she clearly remembered that she had walked behind the royal police here.
Upon entering the interrogation room, her memories returned.
Scarlett stopped when she saw Heughan Hunter standing in the room.
Heughan pointed, and the officers pushed her inside.
After a short silence, Scarlett said: “My memory is correct, isn’t it?”
As the memories started coming back, they became clearer.
She remembered Heughan Hunter serving her tea on the day of the interrogation, the words he said, and her regret for drinking the tea.
“Because of the medicine in the tea.”
Heughan smiled as he offered another cup of tea: “As you remember, Miss Scarlett.
I served you tea.”
“You said tea contains medicine.”
“Well, it looks like you really regained some memories.”
Heughan smiled and continued, “As you know, torture is forbidden with us.
If Miss Scarlett is hurt, that will be a problem.
We don’t want to hurt you while forcing you to eat something.”
Then he held up a report and said, “This is a report on how much Count Crimson hit Evil Crimson.”
“But uncle tried to stab Isaac first!”
Heughan smiled: “True.
The Count said that Evil tried to kill him with a paper knife, so it was f-defense.
But you know, right?
Those are just lies that rich people use to cover up their mistakes.”
“It's not a lie!
And Victor too...”
“You should compare the right things.
Master Victor is the captain of the Rubid Ship, the largest ship in Salantir.
Even if he kills Evil Crimson, he will not be prosecuted.
Moreover, there is evidence that Evil locked you up that day.
But Count Crimson is different, isn’t he?
There are no witnesses and no one to help him.”
“If I wanted, I could make Count Crimson spend a long time in prison.”
Scarlett unconsciously closed her eyes tightly.
Heughan's cup of tea approached with a soft click.
He said in a soft tone: “Drink this tea, and I will make this report as if it never happened.”