After saying that, Marcel cleared his throat before adding, “Speaking of which, you should know that those seven women are actually my close cousins. As for these servants, they’re my mother and aunt! As you may already have guessed, we’ve been pretending that I abandoned my wife and child to dissuade others from causing trouble for Phoebe and me! As for the butler’s corpse that you’ve probably found… He’s the real butler who’s been in my family ever since I was young… Sadly, the Chibas ended up killing him!”

“I see… so you took the chance to disguise yourself as him since you knew that there were still many others looking for you?” replied Gerald with a nod.

“That’s about the gist of it. Truth be told I could already tell that you weren’t ordinary people when you first arrived. What more, since the professor was with you, I had a feeling that you weren’t here to cause us any trouble. Even so, I ended up refraining from exposing who we truly were to you for fear that I was wrong. T