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“What the hell is this right now?.”
Lelia looked at Oscar with incomprehensible eyes.
But Oscar responded as if he didn’t understand Lelia’s eyes. He murmured as if he were making excuses.
“He tried to kill you.”
“…….”
Lelia had nothing to say. It was the same for Lelia when she looked into Almos’ eyes just before he rushed in.
[But I can’t believe you killed him at once…]
Lelia couldn’t say anything and stared blankly at Oscar.
Romeo tapped on Griffith’s shoulder as if asking him to do something, but Griffith frowned.
“You want me to save him? I can’t save a man who died instantly.”
Griffith said as if he had done better.
Romeo, who was worse than him, still approached Lelia, who was absent minded.
“You’d better wash the blood first.”
***
When she barely washed up and changed her clothes, the drawing room was clean as if nothing had happened.
Only Griffith was sitting on the sofa and looked fine.
“The two of them…?”
“Outside for a second.”
On the table was a steaming warm tea. Griffith asked the servant to bring it.
Lelia sat opposite Griffith, sipping a sip of tea.
“You must have been very surprised.”
Griffith said, looking blankly at Lelia.
When he left the castle, he met Oscar and went through a similar situation. It wasn’t to the point where blood spattered in front of his face.
“…I’m sure you’re surprised. You’re so different from your childhood.”
Griffith murmured comfortably to Lelia. Like he didn’t understand either.
“That’s the way he is. The dangerous and cruel side was hidden.”
“…….”
“Don’t worry too much. Forget about today.”
Griffith reached out and held Lelia’s hand tightly in the back of her hand. And she breathed in a warm sacred force like last time.
As the warm energy flowed, she felt her heart gradually stabilized.
Of course she was surprised, but she didn’t sympathize with her uncle.
Considering what he tried to do…
Yeah, it was rather a good thing. He just didn’t have to be so cruel.
Lelia sighed and wondered how to reveal her uncle’s crime.
Fortunately, Alchemy’s report detailed Almos’ secret location where he kept his son.
“…….”
Pretending to drink tea, Lelia displayed the screen again and looked at the report.
She didn’t notice because of the moment’s concentration.
Somewhere in the air that Lelia is facing, Griffith’s gaze was also on the side.
***
Meanwhile, in the Imperial city.
The nerves of Princess Julianna were all directed at the temple recently.
It was precisely about Raymond’s whereabouts that the temple was chasing.
‘I’m frustrated…!’
‘Prince Romeo said Lord Raymond has returned to his homeland….’
It seemed that he had yet to be found by the temple.
As time fizzled out, the temple began to question Ruth and Julianna, asking if it was true that there were real relics in the first place.
The reason was that the existence of such an alchemist, who could produce such sophisticated falsifications, was questionable in the first place.
If there is an alchemist of such ability, somewhere out there now, there is no way that the temple would not know.
Julianna was dumbfounded.
When it came out of the temple, even the emperor, who believed in the words of Julianna and Ruth at first, expressed reluctance.
The Empress, Julianna’s biological mother, even accused Ruth of being a liar behind her back.
Julianna was on the verge of bursting.
‘Where the hell did he disappear?’
That’s why she couldn’t even say anything about getting engaged to Ruth.
She couldn’t sleep because she was angry at the fact that she was hit on the back of her head indirectly, not to mention that she was only attracted to such a man.
Meanwhile, a few days ago, she noticed that her father and mother had a bad relationship.
The cause is the young prince, Eddie, who is the younger brother of Julianna.
‘I thought you two had gotten closer since my brother was born…’
She couldn’t figure out why the two of them suddenly became cold to each other.
Julianna sighed deeply in frustration.
She got up thinking she should take a walk.
It was time to go to the main garden with the maids.
She saw two knights walking in the distance towards the main corridor. There was an old woman between the two.
“Who is she?”
“I don’t know. I’ve never seen her before. She doesn’t feel like an aristocrat…”
“I think she is headed for the main hall.”
The maids whispered and looked at Julianna.
As rumors of disturbance between the emperor and the empress spread, aristocrats entering and leaving the court were whispering about anything.
Julianna looked at the maids with displeasure.
The ladies bowed their heads in surprise as they were worried that Julianna, who had
recently become sensitive towards small matters, would be offended.
“Wait there, stop.”
Julianna stopped the knights walking earlier with the woman.
Coming closer, the woman with her head down looked about the same age as her mother.
Suddenly, the displeasure rose sharply.
“Who’s in the Imperial Castle? Where are you going?”
When asked by Julianna, the knights were at a loss.
“Why aren’t you answering?”
It was a middle-aged woman with an elegant attitude who opened her mouth to a nervous voice.
“I’m here to tell something to the Emperor.”
“Dear Father? What the hell are you talking about? To see the Emperor himself?”
The Emperor was not a leisurely object who could meet anyone.
Most of the work was done by his aides, and very few people were able to talk to him.
Even when asked by Julianna, the middle-aged woman insisted on keeping her mouth shut.
“Your Majesty is waiting for her.”
As the knight hesitated to speak, Julianna made a gesture as if she could not help it.
The middle-aged woman bowed her head in an indisputable manner and followed the knights.
“Who dares to show such a cheeky attitude to the Princess?”
She didn’t feel arrogant, but Julianna was so embarrassed when she heard the maids.
She was speechless.
‘Where the hell are you going to? What are you doing with your nose up there?’
Julianna turned nervously and looked at the maids.
For some reason, she could see what the maids were thinking just by looking at their eyes.
After the emperor fought with the empress, it was clear that they thought he might have brought in a woman that had never been in before.
She felt unfair and resentful inside.
It was unpleasant.
“I’ll stop taking walks. I’m going to see my brothers, so you guys should go.”
At Julianna’s words, the maids bowed their heads and backed down.
It was Julianna’s habit to visit the princes whenever she was in a bad mood.
The maids began to whisper about the person they had just witnessed when Princess Julianna disappeared.
***
The Emperor’s Reality.
Since some time ago, Emperor Perseus has often looked out of the window with a stunned look on his face.
It was only a few days ago when he received a mysterious letter from his aide.
The person who wrote the letter revealed that she was the person who took care of the dead Princess, Iris.
And she asked for a private meeting with Perseus’ wife, “Elizabeth,” who died a long time ago.
‘What the hell are you trying to say?’
At first, he tried to ignore it, saying it was nonsense, but he changed my mind.
So he sent an article from the Emperor’s immediate forces and ordered them to bring the person back from the border.
Knock, knock
By the time he was lost in thought, he heard a knock on the door.
The emperor ordered the waiting servant to open the door.
It was a middle-aged woman in a dark robe that opened and came in.
Perseus beckoned the knights and servants and ordered them all to leave.
“You have something to tell me.”
“I’m sorry to see you so late, Your Majesty.”
The middle-aged woman spoke emotionally and suddenly knelt down.
“…….”
Emperor Perseus looked at her with an unpleasant look. His heart pounded hard because of some unknown anxiety.
And his anxiety soon became a reality.
The middle-aged woman cried out and confessed the truth, as if she had to reveal a secret she couldn’t handle.
“Your Majesty! Raised as the daughter of Princess Iris, Lelia is actually Empress Elizabeth’s blood!”
***
Rain began to pour with heavy thunder.
Standing by the wind and rain rattling windows, Lelia frowned.
Perhaps because she witnessed Oscar’s incident in the morning, her heart was beating irregularly due to unnecessary anxiety.
Meanwhile, when the sky burst into thunder, she even got worried about Oscar.
She knows Oscar is no longer the boy who was vulnerable as a child.
Still, she couldn’t help worrying about him.
Before arriving at the estate, it occurred to her that they had stayed in the cabin on a rainy day.
Oscar shuddered and hugged Lelia’s waist and relied on her. As if Lelia were everything in the world, so scared…
“I can’t help it.”
Lelia left the room to visit Oscar.
She knocked on Oscar’s door, going straight to the guests’ quarters.
She couldn’t wait to hear back, so she opened the door to go in…
“Huh?”
She happened to see friends gathered in one place.
“You crazy ba-….”
Kalix, who was pointing at Oscar, looked blankly at Lelia.
With Oscar sitting on the sofa at the head, the other three stood around him.
“…….”
Lelia’s forehead was wrinkled.
[I think I can tell the mood from before.]
Everyone must have been blaming Oscar for what happened this morning.
[I don’t think they are pushing Oscar at this moment of thunder and rain.]
It was when she took a step inside to scold her friends with an angry expression.
Ring!
One side of the view blinked at the sound of the notification.
Lelia’s eyes naturally turned down to the right. The gauge, which had been slowly filled, had already become 100 percent and was blinking.
“Huh?”
The system window immediately came to mind.
Now, with the intervention of Alchemy, you can fulfill the wish of a holy person without the price of “life”! ((̀•o•๑)) You have successfully solved the golden word magic!]
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[T/N: I am in tears! T_T]