Chapter 22
Aghast, the Empress glared at the necklace.
How could that be in the hands of the Duke? She couldn’t believe her eyes. Everything was falling apart in her perfectly designed scheme. She believed that the prickly Duke of Reinhardt had finally been put to eternal sleep.
She thought the Duke of Reinhardt was a great threat to the Imperial family. The knights under him had been the royal family’s armed forces for decades. He even owned half of the candidates of the Swordmasters. If Ian had a bad heart, he wouldn’t have been able to predict the winner.
The Empress of Iassa was blinded by Ian’s influence.
Then, the Emperor fell into a terrible sickness while the Empress came to rule the country. She had been enjoying this power for a long time.
“…….”
This was the perfect plan.
Well, at least, it used to be.
Oscar seized her elbow as the Empress stumbled and fell when the reality became vivid in her mind.
She cried out.
“C-Crown Prince…!”
“Mother, calm down and compose yourself.”
Oscar’s low mellow voice reached her.
That’s right, she shouldn’t just back away like that.
She screamed.
“Don’t speak nonsense! A-Are you just going to stand around?! Get that criminal on the ground this instant!”
But there was no one who dared to face him off.
The lowly guards hesitated, while impatience grew in the hall.
“There are only two men in the world who possess the tears of a dragon. I’ve heard that one was carried by the Duke.”
“His crime of treason is not really true, is it?”
“What is going on……?”
The nobles began to be swayed by Ian’s calm attitude.
The Empress roared.
you lot!!”
rumpus was due to those tears of
shone at
down once it disappears!
of the nobility…….so it should be done after
idea. But the panic-stricken Empress seemed to have found no better path.
Oscar was one step ahead
about to shove past him, he walked past her
it was Oscar’s turn to help Ian.
soft voice echoed through
Crown Prince.”
“Are the tears of a
out his necklace.
prove it yourself, Your Highness.”
Iassa. The founder of this dynasty was born with the blood of
true that half-dragons always went
that’s how the blood of a dragon had been
The ability to check if an
family was under the Reinhardt family, but the Emperor and the Crown Prince
necklace and poured a few drops on his palm.
off a golden gleam. It turned into gas that was golden in color and swirled up in
“…..!”
at
looked up at Ian. He felt
mother conspired against Ian, but there was nothing he could do.
advised Ian to carry this
a handkerchief he received from
it definitely
returned the necklace
I’ll have to ask you a few questions to check if
his sentence as the Empress
She whispered.
doing, Prince? Why did you say that they are
she’d panic
spoke with a voice that only she
entrust him without the interrogation? I’m saying, we should make a deal. The royal family will order the Duke to keep it a secret.”
“Then, does everything I’ve done mean nothing
of a dragon, he would have still survived with his own
The Empress murmured.
Duke carry
Duke, her face with a look of
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