Finding Lisa

S1 CH. 16

The Shelby Estate was in an uproar. The Marchioness of Shelby could not stop her crying as she looked at Tzuyu's pale face and bandaged neck. Sehun approached her from the back.

"His Majesty assures that he will send his own guards to catch the culprits."

"Please punish the beast who did this!"

Sehun stood next to Tzuyu after passing the sobbing Marchioness. An unidentified man had ambushed Tzuyu as she had been about to go into her carriage after watching an opera performance with the other ladies. The man had already overpowered her guard before slashing at Tzuyu's throat.

The serial killer was now narrowed down to one of the revolutionaries who was dissatisfied with the class system. Fortunately, the man had been shot before he could seriously harm Tzuyu. However, the man disappeared to Louvre before the police could catch him.

"Only young upper-class ladies have been the target of this crime," murmured the Crown Prince in a low voice.

"Vulnerable ladies are always the first to be attacked."

Jungkook consoled the Marchioness before going out of the estate. Everyone was appalled at the notorious serial killer who had come so close to them. He had attacked an aristocratic lady, at that.

"How dare he go after Tzuyu?!" thundered the Crown Prince.

"Perhaps she will feel safer if she has you to protect her," said Jungkook indifferently.

"Isn't that your duty?" asked the Prince, "Don't drag me in. I do not want a scandal."

Jungkook answered him with a smirk and got into the waiting car. The automobile was faster and noisier but much safer than the carriage. The Royal family encouraged new technologies, but many aristocrats were wary of them. It was only a matter of time.

"Your Highness, I will see you at the academy," bade Jungkook.

"Right."

The cars drove in opposite directions to one another. Jungkook entered the Etear streets. He looked out the window of his car at a candy shop. People lingered around the shop holding the pink cotton-like candy on a stick.

Candy from heaven was what it was called. It reminded Jungkook of someone who would have been happiest to receive such a candy. He smiled despite himself. His usually seamless and focused thoughts were disturbed today. He frowned with his brows furrowed and tried to convince himself that this was nothing.

Lisa placed the letter deep inside her desk drawer. She treated the letter as a precious possession. She had never received a letter before, and it made her feel warm inside. It also aggravated her to think that for four years, she hadn't received a single letter from Kieran while he had written every month to her.

Lia lifted her pen and thought about what she could write down as a reply. Too many things raced through her mind. She wanted to write about how tall she was now, the weather here, the opera. She wanted to write about how she was going to enter the academy.

How did people start a letter? Dear Eunwoo? She had just pushed away the paper and set her pen down in frustration when Minzy came in with snacks. But Minzy wasn't her usual warm self, she was angry. And Lisa noticed it.

"Minzy?" she asked, "What's wrong?"

"I heard that you gave Rosé five dresses."

"Oh?"

"Everyone knows that and the fact you had ice cream with a foreigner with strange hair colour. If you were going to town without me, you should have been careful! Don't you know what happened to Lady Tzuyu Shelby?!"