The Lord of Another World: All Wasted at the Beginning, and He Made His Fortune by Taking in the Fem

"…That's what happened. Do you two understand?"

After returning to the mansion before the old gardener, Aarons immediately called Karin and Mary to the study.

After briefly explaining the news he and Els had heard, Aarons leaned back in his chair with a distressed look on his face.

"The old man was threatened by the servants who escaped earlier? Those people are really shameless."

"The kid performed well. I thought he would rush in and confront those guys."

Aarons turned his head and looked at Els who was standing aside. The teenager who was in the rebellious period was silently lowering his head, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"So next, we have to think of a solution."

"Master, I want to ask you a question first."

I thought Els would remain silent, but just as Aarons was about to express his thoughts, he was suddenly interrupted by him.

"You kept pressing me down...were you scared?"

"Alas, Master Ben...of course I am scared."

Aarons realized that the young man seemed to resonate with his feelings, so he no longer wanted to put on airs like a noble young master.

"I am a well-known loser, a weakling who can never even defeat an imperial soldier. What would have happened if I had rushed in and faced those people at that time?"

"If there is a Level 3 expert among those people, you will be injured and become a hostage...Is that right?"

"Sometimes I wonder, if I were as strong as my dad, could I solve the problem in a simpler way?"

But Aarons did not have such power. No matter what he wanted to do, he could only use the limited resources at hand.

"Although I have a noble status, it does not mean that I can scare off every desperado. Those bastards who stole the property of the Marquis and ran away, and now plan to run back and plunder again, will they care about my noble status?"

"But it's really spineless of you to come back like this!"

"...Els, you have the talent to be a warrior. When you break through the third level one day and become a man who can stand on his own, you can tell me what backbone is."

Aarons didn't want to argue the issue.

If he wants to live peacefully in this world without any fighting ability, he sometimes has to give up certain things.

In other words, most of the time, the value of these things is not as important as life.

"Master, do you have any solution?"

Although Els still didn't quite understand Aarons's idea at this time, Mary took the initiative to pull him aside and let Karin push the discussion forward again.

"If there really is a secret passage in the Marquis's mansion, I can't guarantee that the gang won't attack here tomorrow. So tomorrow, Karin, you stay at home and protect the children and the Mo family couple."

"Then what are you going to do? Are you going to deal with those people alone?"

"I don't plan to die in a place like this. No one should care what the old man does at home tomorrow. He should let Xia Ye go quietly when no one is paying attention, and then find a reason to take her to that group of people."

Aarons didn't want to take risks, but he didn't want to hand Xia Ye over to those scumbags. However, in order to lure the snake out of its hole, he could only let Xia Ye be the bait, and then find a way to rescue her.

"I'll go out and find some helpers. Just do your own work and don't get involved... Els, don't think about being a hero until you have the strength."

Although the boy might not be able to accept such words, Aarons, who was already 40 years old mentally, still reminded him in the tone of an elder.

……

Old gardener Raoul has always been just an ordinary person.

He was born in a village in this border area. He did not go to school for many years as a child because of his poor family background. When he just became an adult, he witnessed the empire's war against its neighboring countries.

Because he was not strong enough to become a soldier, he was constantly driven away by war and forced to wander around. But after Marquis Moti, who was not yet a noble at the time, came here, he got a stable job.

At first, he became a member of the transport team as a civilian, and followed the Marquis of Moti, who was only an officer at the time, to fight everywhere. After the war, he was lucky enough to find a job in the Marquis's house.

Finally, in his late 50s, Raul found a stable life—but it didn’t last long.

Since the neighboring countries were still harassing them at that time, villages were often attacked and looted. Raul's family in a village outside the city were all killed in one of the subsequent attacks.

Raul, who lost his family, finally chose to spend the rest of his life in the Marquis's house. Even though he was too old to continue working, he still had no intention of leaving.

The Marquis at that time was well aware of his situation, so he did not make things difficult for him at work.

"But I, your servant, have not yet been able to repay the Marquis' kindness..."

When the news came that the Marquis' family had died in a plane crash, the eldest son Aaron, who stayed at home, suddenly became angry and fell into a coma. The servants who originally worked in the Marquis's house suddenly developed a strong greed.

——Since everyone in the Marquis’ family is dead, no one will hold us accountable if we take these things away.

The greedy servants stole almost everything from the Marquis's mansion, and only after Raoul desperately pleaded with his former colleagues did he reserve a resting room for the unconscious young master.

Although he had no idea whether the eldest young master could inherit the position of the Marquis, the old man still planned to do his best to support the only bloodline of the Marquisate.

"... We can't let the young master get hurt."

Unfortunately, a few days after the young master woke up, several servants who were supposed to escape returned here for some reason. They stopped Raul who was out shopping on the street and told him about the plan to attack the Marquis's mansion.

These people demanded that Raul provide them with as much money as possible, otherwise they would immediately return to the Marquis's Mansion through a secret passage, kill the eldest son and steal everything inside.

Because he was unable to resist the power of these people, the old man could only secretly take away the money that the eldest master left for the children and give it to the other party.

——But this time, those people didn’t want money.

"Master, I am really incompetent... I have no way to resist these evil people. In order to protect your safety, I can only..."

So on this day, when it was almost late at night and everyone was asleep, the old man quietly came to the basement where someone was imprisoned.

"...Miss, Miss Xia Ye, wake up quickly."

"Mr. Raul? What do you want from my daughter at this time?"

"I, I know that the girl definitely didn't steal the money from home. But the young master seems to have admitted his mistake... So I will let you out quietly now, and you should leave this house as soon as possible."

The old gardener Raoul was only thinking about the future of the Marquis's family from beginning to end.

"This... After my daughter leaves, where should she go?"

"...I have found a few reliable young people to help. They are waiting for you outside...Just follow them to a safe place."

Therefore, this outsider was just a tool for him to protect the Marquis's family.