Demon Tribe (2)
Rowena was the only one who saw that the emperor spoke with his eyes open, so Rowena moderately told the healer. The emperor’s eyelids moved.
The healer laughed and replied, “It happens sometimes.”
“Some of the servants heard your Majesty sigh.”
Would he have spoken as long as this time?
Rowena was sure that most people would not believe her even if she confessed what she had been through.
Because there were no witnesses. In a way, it may be a special experience, so some people may think that the princess is lying.
But I should tell Cecil, right?
“Your Majesty opened his eyes and spoke?”
When she said this in the bedroom, Cecile’s eyes widened. Rowena obediently confessed what she had experienced in the emperor’s bed-chamber. She was just passing on what she had been told.
Heaven? Yes, although Rowena is special.
By His Majesty’s standards, Rowena would be meaningless except that she married the Crown Prince. Because she was a woman in a family who didn’t have any power.
Rowena touched the emperor’s forehead. And she didn’t say anything about holding hands. It was because she thought it was unnecessary.
It’s not like he opened his eyes because I touched him…
It was awkward to reveal that she touched the emperor’s body. Cecil saw Rowena’s thoughtful expression and kissed her forehead.
“It’s probably because he’s worried about me being left alone.”
On the other hand, however, the expression ‘heaven’ was on her mind. His Majesty, whom she knew, was not a person who easily said such a thing.
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Even if he used the family’s family name, it would have been disloyal to go against the crown prince and inform the duke of this fact first. So, after much thought, Daniel decided to report it to Cecil first.
It was beyond calculation that his father, William Valencia, was present.
“Ack, Y-your Highness, why?”
“I heard that you borrowed the duke’s servants, so the duke was curious about the reason. I asked him to listen.”
William and Cecil were different in age, but they were quite a match. The duke of Valencia, who was called a loyal subject, liked the rough but peaceful prince, and Cecil recognized the duke for saying what was right even at the cost of his own life.
A report in front of Your Highness and my father…
He felt like his throat was burning up already. Daniel began to report what Bill had learned from Kernan, feeling the strain on his shoulders.
The information he found out over several days was predictable, but it was about the Hassler family. To be precise, it was the information that started from the secret affair of the Leviarden duchy.
It was said that a lady wearing a red veil would sometimes come as a guest to the Leviarden duchy and grant their wishes.
Of course, it wasn’t that the lady didn’t take anything. It was the precious people around her that she received in return.
“It sounds like a ghost story. A red lady appears and takes people under the pretext of a wish…”
Cecil nodded at the Duke of Valencia’s words. There was a similar story in children’s fairy tales.
“Have you heard since when the red lady appeared as a ‘guest’ of the Leviarden duchy?”
“I heard that right after the Leviarden family became dukes.”
It was the custom of every head of the Leviarden dukedom, to give the red lady the best room and listen to her.
The practice seemed to disappear when the Duke of Leviarden and his second wife were murdered, but the Marquis of Hassler said he took over.
However, the Marquis of Hassler said he was afraid of the red lady and treated her generously, but did not make a wish. It was the daughter, Emilia, who wished.
“Hmm. If Emilia had a wish…”
“She wished to become the Crown Princess and said she would offer up her father.”
However, the Marquis of Hassler was alive, and Emilia’s wish did not come true. The red lady, who appeared afterward, is said to have been furious with Emilia for her disheveled appearance.
It is all Rowena Adelia’s fault, and she said that things will only come true if she ruins her.
It’s good to kill, but the best thing is to ruin her.
“She said Rowena Adeliad, not the prince’s fiancee?”
“Yes. It was then that Lady Hassler also started to care about the Crown Princess. That’s what Kernan thought when she said she had to be ruined.”
In an instant, the words of the emperor came to mind in the prince’s mind. He said heaven, and that Cecil was to be protected.
But Rowena was an ordinary woman. She had a particularly lovely and cute side to her, but it was only visible to Cecil.
“Kernan said he knew when and where the red lady would show up. He said she would teach you if you could meet her requirements.”
“…”
William and Cecil were silent at the same time.
It was beyond an unwillingness to listen to something demanded by a man who committed a sex crime.
Especially in the case of the Duke of Valencia, who has six daughters.
However, according to Kernan, the red lady seemed to actually exist.
“What do you think, Your Highness? The red lady…”
“If Kernan isn’t crazy, there’s only one.”
Demon tribe.
It must also be a mighty demon tribe with enough influence to raise a family to a duchy. Cecile wrinkled his brow in annoyance at the fact that a family was colluding with the demons within the empire.
He did not forget that the emperor had fallen under a curse.
“What about Kernan?”
“Torture and squeeze him to the end. We need him to open up more to make sure his information is false or not.”
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