A series of events including that the King almost died by poisoning and Angela disappeared were all related to Vika and the North Country.
Making poison aimed for collecting money and made people in the Central Country be addicted to drugs. Because in a country, the more people who took drugs, the weaker the country would be.Â
I got the drug suppliers from Vika, incredibly, they were in the Central Country.
Some of the nobilities in the south who had their own lands were producing raw materials for drugs.
The unripe fruit of mustard seed was opium’s raw material.
When it was broken, the white emulsion would flow out and solidifie, then it became opium, and its main ingredient was morphine.
Sometimes, it was used as an anesthetic to relieve pain, but it was so prone to dependency that its use was limited in Japan.
That’s all I knew, and we had to stop its circulation as soon as possible.
(How could this be!)
I had to continue interrogating Vika, finding the murderer who poisoned the king, searching for Angela and dealing with the opium problem and so on. My head was about to explode.
(Ahh…I need sweet food! Thick steak! Ahhhhh!)
I asked some servants to watch Vika and went to find Ricardo.
Actually, Vika should have been sent to live with Mirarudo peacefully in the Capital’s cell.
But we thought she should be kept in Hakusu’s house before we got the truth, because there were already some North Country’s lackeys in the Central Country. That’s so dangerous.
(In fact, not only the King was poisoned and Angela disappeared…But also both Merrill and I have been attacked.)
In addition, the Hakusu were reliable and trustworthy, and there were so many people in the Capital, so they wouldn’t go there. Besides, the soldiers of Hakusu were especially strong.
They couldn’t do anything if we also controlled Girou who acted as Vika’s hands and feet.
(Maybe, I could also explain the situation to Prince Marlow. Then I needed to contact Ryuze…)
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I sent messages to the Capital, Hakusu’s territory and another place.
I went into the guest room after finishing those things.
Unconsciously, there was a bar of bread in my right hand…
Maybe I picked it up by accident when I passed in front of the kitchen, ate it later, I thought.
“Lord Emirya, I’m so sorry to have kept you waiting. Let’s go to the Capital. And Ricardo, please take care of Lord Lucas…Mr. Girou and Lady Vika will stay in the basement together.”
I decided to take actions with Lucas.
I couldn’t lock him up without permission, but it was necessary to keep an eye on him.
Actually, I did worry about him, he might have been targeted by the North Country at the moment, because he had been acting like a bat so far, he might die for it.
Although it was not entirely clear which side he belonged to, the friendship between him and Ricardo was true.
I took some belongings from my laboratory, then got into the carriage to go to the castle with Emirya and others. After that, I realized I was kept holding the bread in my hand…
Emirya took us into his room when we arrived.
But I went to meet Marlow first because of the message, and went to Emirya’s room.Â
That bread was eaten up in the carriage.
A group of young nobles passed by while I was waiting for the Crown Prince.
Five men at the same age. They might be working in the Capital recently.
They talked in front of me with a loud voice which I could hear clearly.
“Is that her? The daughter of Earl Hakusu who has been lost weight quickly and got out of the fat girl ranks.”
“Yeah, I have seen her before, her body looked soft and her skin looked elastic at that time.”
“Oh? That sounds lovely, maybe I can try to kiss her if like that.”
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“Really?? I can’t do that as soon as I think of she’s fat. Besides, she seemed to already be engaged to the declining Astor Family. Really bad taste, how could the Earl of the North agree?”
“But it will be terrible if she becomes fat again.”
They talked sentence by sentence, the content was too annoying. At the same time, they didn’t feel guilty for letting me hear those words.
They had five people, but I only had myself. Moreover, they wouldn’t be afraid of an Earl’s daughter from the countryside.Â
But their condescending remarks were very irritating。
(How noisy they are!! I made great efforts to lose weight just for myself! Who cares about if you like me or not?!)
Furthermore, Ricardo was more outstanding than any of them.
I didn’t want to listen to them talking about Ricardo.
While I was fretting they discussed loudly again.
“And, she was Princess Angela’s follower. You know, there are some rumor indicating that Angela was the murder who poisoned the King in the Capital.”
“That princess was really awful in her childhood. By the way, I absolutely stand with Princess Merrill!”
“In other words, the South Country is in danger which have chosen Angela to marry the prince.”
“No no no…Maybe it is the South Country’s plot.”
I bore not to refute all the time.
I knew it was not good to blow things up.
However, I couldn’t bear anymore…
“Princess Angela didn’t do that!”
I shouted at them.
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