SPMB - Chapter 41

Amelia is the daughter who must die. Because of her, who suffered from nasty skin disease for years. Because of her, who wears a gloomy veil wherever she goes. And when the veil blows away in the wind, her monster-like skin is revealed and everyone whispers because of her.

Even His Majesty the Emperor said this.

"Empress, how could a girl born with my precious blood act like that?

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty."

"Why isn't the Princess' disease cured? What would you do if someone with an incurable disease was left behind in the royal family's genealogy? Even if I die. I will have no face to see late the Emperor!"

"Right."

"My kinsmen are clean. No one has ever suffered from a plague."

"..."

"It must have been that there was an impurity in the Empres's lineage. That is what descended to my daughter."

"..."

"What would you do if Crescent's children showed symptoms like that in the future?"

Then, tsk tsk tsk.

He clicked his tongue fiercely. As if everything was the Empress's fault. As if her blood is dirty. Since he left those words, His Majesty has never spent his time with her.

Maybe he was worried that something like the Princess would come out again.

Does Amelia know how much her reputation and the reputation of her precious son have fallen?

Amelia, this little bitch is blocking her and her son's path!

'No! It shouldn't be like that."

The Empress's son is the future Emperor of this empire. He is the noblest man on this continent! Amelia cannot leave a stain on her son's future path. She didn't even believe Kanna could heal Amelia.

In the meantime, many doctors have rushed, but no one has been able to cure it.

There's no way a Duchess who's just doing a little trick can't fix it. Unsurprisingly, Kanna spat out strange words as expected. She told Amelia to change my clothes to cotton, not to take a bath, etc. She said nonsensical nonsense as a prescription.

"So I bought a poisonous plant that doesn't exist on this continent and gave it as a gift, but in the end Amelia dead."

How did she survive?

***

A few days ago from now. The day after receiving the medicine from the Empress, Kanna drank tea with Amelia.

"Do you want to go get a cup of tea?"

As she stared at Kanna, Amelia blushed and muttered gibberish.

"Your Majesty gave me a present. It looks like Her Majesty bought other things while getting the medicine from the East Continent that the Duchess requested. It's a very rare tea... ... ."

"Great."

Nothing bad. Kanna smiled.

Amelia seemed to be in a good mood and talked brightly.

"Good idea. This is a trade that is not cultivated at all in the Western continent. It must be a tea that is incredibly hard to find even on the Eastern Continent. It was very, very expensive and good for the body, so she gave it to me to drink alone."

The moment she saw the tea, Kanna widened her eyes. This......

"Who gave you this?"

"Huh? Her Majesty the Empress..."

Kanna couldn't believe what she heard.

'This is the first time."

Choo.

A poisonous weed with a high lethality rate that was used as an ingredient in poison in the past.

It was poisonous enough to be so dangerous that it couldn't even be compared to the red bean flower that Isabelle played a prank on Lucy not too long ago.

"Didn't Her Majesty say something while giving this to you?"

"Because the retention period is not long, she said I should brew it all within three days at least."

If you eat this amount within three days, if you do, you will surely die.

'How can she give something like this to her daughter?'

No, maybe she doesn't know that it was a poisonous plant. It's from the East, so you may have bought it after hearing about its efficacy.

"When did Her Majesty the Empress give you this?"

"This morning. Why?" 

"..."

"Is there something wrong, Duchess?"

Is it a coincidence? A strange premonition penetrates as thin as a thread. The bend continues for a long time. All in all, it was early in the morning, right before I started medicinal treatment.

You gave me a poisonous weed?

'If Amelia died from eating chow, it could look like I killed her.' 

The bizarre doubts that had tickled my neck until now began to become clearer. Weird. Something is strange.

'Come to think of it, the Empress got the medicine quite late. I got it from Kalen the day after I asked for it.' 

Who was so impatient with Amelia's treatment? If it wasn't intentionally slowed down, would it have been difficult to find medicinal materials?

'But Kalen delivered everything the day after I asked for it.'

The medicinal herbs Kanna requested were all recorded in the East Continent's Herbal Medicine Encyclopedia. Things that are not difficult to obtain if you have power and money. Are all brought into the West Continent. Was it really difficult for the Empress to find them?

'Maybe it's too late to search this plant.'

This plant. This was a plant not documented anywhere. It was not listed in the herbal encyclopedia as well as in the Eastern Continent plant encyclopedia.

'It's not that it's not recorded because it's poisonous.'

Poisonous plants were also specified in the plant encyclopedia. But there was no this plant.

Why? Is it too risky? 

A plant whose effectiveness has not yet been clearly proven in the Eastern continent?

If this plant is not well known as a poisonous weed in the East Continent, So, if it is not recorded in the plant encyclopedia.

... You dare to sell a plant that.

'Is not guaranteed to the Empress? It's not even recorded in the encyclopedia?"

As I reached this point, my mind flashed as if ice had been poured over my head. The person who sold it was strange, but the Empress who bought it was even more strange.

She bought an obscure thing that wasn't even listed in the encyclopedia for her daughter who is sick and is being treated.

Suddenly, my heart dropped. Strange imagination continued biting its tail.

'Come to think of it, that was also strange."

Argon came out to meet me. Not her own son, but the son of a concubine. He must have had a close relationship with the Empress, but why did she let him go? Besides, she must have known for sure that he was a madman who would wield a sword first if he was wrong.

'Think calmly. Think about it, Kanna.'

Let's assume that the Empress knew everything and acted.

 'If the Princess were poisoned and died.'

I feel sorry for the princess, but it will benefit the Empress. Kanna has also been ostracized for a long time because of her dark hair, dark eyes, and appearance problems. The Princess must have suffered from all sorts of scandals due to a long-suffering skin disease. In other words, it was an existence that poisoned the reputation of the Empress.

'Then, what if Argon harms me?'

Regardless of the reality, the Empress was pretending to favor me externally. Wasn't she strangely kind to me at the party? What if Argon harms me in that situation?

'It is to give the First Prince an excuse to reprimand him. I was a small benefit to the Empress. Then finally, what if I caused a medical accident and killed the princess?'

That, too, benefits the Empress.

In any case, I am the eldest daughter of the Addis family and the mistress of Valentino. As long as I wear that name, I can hold some responsibility for what I have done for the two families.

I got goosebumps for a moment. Everything fit. It was a situation that benefited the Empress. To frame the daughter she wants to kill with the hands of someone who can benefit her. To a loner who no one will try to uncover the false accusation.

So everything was a trap from the beginning.

The Empress wouldn't have believed that Kanna could cure Amelia from the start.

"..."

Kanna closed her eyes and opened them.

The truth she just found out is by no means a grandiose delusion. It was rather a delusion to believe that all of this was a coincidence.

 "From now on, listen carefully to me, Your Highness."

***

After a while, the Princess's expression calmed down after hearing the whole story.

"Right."

"Are you believe in my words?"

 "Yes, I believe it."

"..."

"I knew the truth, that one day Her Majesty might kill me."

"..."

"A few years ago..."

The eyes that sometimes looked at Kanna. But Amelia was speechless, her lips trembled.

"She truly shames me. And she doesn't regard it as a hindrance to Crescent's path. Crescent's obstruction that Her Majesty loves more than anyone else."

Then she laughed sadly.

"You made up your mind to clear the blockage, this is the moment, I just realized."

"So, do you intend to die peacefully?"

"..."

"Your Highness, I want to live. I absolutely hate being framed and dying."

"Of course, I want to live too, but..."

"For now, just die."

Amelia's complexion hardened. Kanna calmly added.

"Anyway, Her Majesty will definitely kill Her Highness. She must be trying to kill Her Highness right before the moment when she is no longer ashamed of you."

 "...... I guess so."

"Yes. And using this poison tea, you will try to poison yourself at least once. So just let it go. No, pretend you're getting hurt and show it doesn't work. Don't ever think about using this tea again."

"..."

"Then please die first. I mean pretend to be dead. I have a way." 

There is a drug that she made a long time ago when she was 14 years old. A drug made to kill herself.

Slowly the heart slows down and eventually stops, no, it beats so slowly, like once every minute or two. That it appears to stop. However, after a day, the heartbeat slowly returns to normal, a potion that allows her to pretend to be dead for a while but never actually dies.

"When I was 14, I was unconscious for a day or so, but I came back to my senses. Something was strange. So I found out the exact efficacy after catching mice and experimenting."

After Amelia drinks it, she just has to pretend to be dead and come back to life. If that happens, the Empress will have to devise a new plan to kill her by a method other than the poison tea which will buy her time until then.

It's time for Amelia to be a daughter she will not be ashamed of anymore.

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