Amelia and Eileen’s carriage followed Bryce’s group, heading together toward Bild City.
“Boss, this is…”
Within the caravan, someone moved closer to Bryce and whispered to ask about the situation.
Bryce also answered in a low voice.
“So you’re two beautiful young ladies who encountered bandits. How pitiful. From now on, you can travel with us to Bild City. I believe there won’t be any more danger along the way.”
After learning the situation, the people in the merchant caravan all showed friendly smiles.
Amelia responded to each of those friendly smiles in turn.
However, she noticed the caravan’s route had already begun to deviate, slowly leaving the original road and heading toward the mountains.
She and Eileen pretended not to notice.
A few days ago, when Amelia was seemingly talking to herself, asking how she could live a stable life in the Luban Duchy, many Bullet Comments appeared, offering plenty of constructive suggestions.
After comparing the information she received, Amelia finally orchestrated today’s event.
Based on what she understood, this merchant caravan was actually a bandit group. Their current objective was to go to Bild City and claim kinship with the Count’s family, the Hicks Family.
Bryce’s bandit crew was naturally not actually related to the Hicks Family. They simply discovered, after ambushing and killing some people, that the deceased were distant relatives of the Hicks Family, on their way to Bild City to seek refuge with them.
According to the information at hand, the bandits determined that the Hicks Family’s distant relatives and the Hicks Family members had never met. Identification was purely based on a token, which gave the bandits the idea of impersonating them.
After all, it was a Count’s family.
How long would a bandit have to rob to amass the wealth of a Count’s family?
So, after making some preparations, they began their journey to Bild City.
At first glance, their plan didn’t sound very reliable. But through the Bullet Comments, Amelia learned that this group of bandits succeeded. They would successfully move into the Hicks Family estate, spend several months determining the extent of the family’s property, and then poison every member of the Hicks Family to death, escaping with the wealth.
In the Original Plot, Eileen wasn’t involved in this incident. However, the news of an entire Count’s family dying was so shocking it made the newspapers of various countries.
The newspapers at the time provided a detailed report on the incident, even including photographs of the bandits, which is how the viewers knew about it.
After learning about this from the viewers, Amelia had already made her decision.
The identity of a distant relative of the Hicks Family—she wanted it!
Truth be told, after leaving the territory of the former Steele Kingdom, Amelia was also homeless.
But she understood what she needed: time for herself and Eileen to grow stronger. This required a stable environment and a suitable identity.
The identity of a relative of a Count’s family seemed quite fitting.
Since a group of bandits in the Original Plot could deceive the Hicks Family, she could probably succeed as well.
For this purpose, Amelia had arrived at this place in advance. She and Eileen pretended to be fixing their carriage wheel. They refused invitations from three passing merchant caravans to travel together, dealt with one group of clueless bandits, and finally waited for Bryce and his group to arrive.
