"Do you know who you are talking about like that?”
Jeremy's lips twitched.
The knights, who could not bear to open their eyes and see his face, closed their eyes tightly.
“I will hug you every day starting tonight. Until you conceive my seed.”
“...”
“Do you know anything? You arrogant person, I might make you sit in the Queen’s seat, if not the Empress’ seat.”
At Jeremy's mean words, Seliya laughed at him inwardly.
How can all those in power be so dirty?
Rather than taking care of the people, they are thinking of oppressing them with their power, so Abelon deserves to be destroyed.
Seliya decided not to tell the truth that Illeon had drugged the Crown Prince.
Instead, she decided to watch from the middle as they hit and fight among themselves.
She felt that she would quietly but actively contribute to the destruction of Abelon by creating strife between the royal family and the three Dukes.
‘Father, mother. Please watch from heaven. The end of these guys who are worse than these beasts.'
If you really don't know who your enemy is, all you have to do is kill everyone who might be your enemy.
At that time, the knight who took the royal doctor had just arrived.
“Your Highness, I have brought the imperial doctor...”
The knight could not bear to continue speaking. The imperial palace attendant who came in after him and was wiping the sweat from his forehead also saw Jeremy's face turn pale.
“Well, Your Highness’s face...”
The royal palace doctor reacted as if he had seen a monster.
Jeremy then noticed something strange and traced his face with his hand.
Where slippery skin should be, he felt something bumpy.
"Uh?"
Jeremy touched his cheek in disbelief. The smooth left cheek had its own lips, not cheeks.
Jeremy's hands were shaking. He was astonished and shouted loudly.
“Get the mirror right now!”
The imperial doctor took out a round hand mirror slightly larger than his palm from the medicine cabinet.
Jeremy snatched the hand mirror and looked at his face in the mirror.
The smooth skin melted away, revealing all the white bones. Not only that, but even the eyes, nose, and mouth were grotesquely distorted.
Monster.
His image reflected in the mirror was more monstrous than a monster.
Jeremy was so shocked that he dropped the hand mirror he was holding.
Clang!
Fragments of the shattered mirror sparkled on the white marble floor.
“This can’t be my face! What are you doing, kill that royal doctor right away!”
The knights hesitated. Jeremy, who tries hard to deny reality, is not in a good state of mind right now.
“Why is everyone just watching stupidly!”
Jeremy got angry and looked for Seliya. However, Seliya took advantage of the confusion and had already disappeared from sight.
“If you guys can’t do it, I will!”
Jeremy, unable to control his anger, pulled out the sword of the knight next to him.
The sharp sword was aimed at the imperial doctor's chest.
The palace doctor, who came running at his call and was about to die, closed his eyes tightly and knelt on thr floor.
“Your Highness, please save me! I didn’t do anything.”
The imperial doctor, who did not want to die, diagnosed him in that short period of time.
“If my prediction is correct, it looks like someone poisoned Your Highness. Can you tell me what food you ate recently?”
“....”
Jeremy's movements to kill the imperial doctor stopped.
Jeremy, who had a headache last night due to a hangover, ate only one food today.
His mother had been thinking all day about his failure to attend his birthday banquet. As soon as she heard that he had drunk a lot of wine, she told Ben to give him honey water and a letter.
Honey water was given to him by her mother.
Jeremy, who felt sick, did not eat any food other than that.
“That can’t be possible.”
Jeremy muttered to himself. His mother, his mother couldn't have done that.
Why did his mother, who cared for him more than anyone else, give him the poison?
She will soon become the Empress Dowager when he ascends to the throne, but what on earth is she for?
“...”
Jeremy was shocked beyond the fact that his face was damaged.
Her handwriting was unmistakable, honey-like, and undoubtedly identical to his mother's.
Moreover, Ben, who delivered them, was a knight who had been by his mother's side for over 20 years.
“There’s no way my mother would do that to me....”
Really, can he say for sure that it can't happen?
His mother had a strong thirst for power, and he knew best because he was her son.
Even though he denied it and said it wasn't his mother's work, there was a suspicion in a corner of his heart that she might have been.
Erphia and Jeremy haven't been getting along very well lately.
When Jeremy, who was not interested in women at all, showed great interest in Seliya, Erphia expressed her great disappointment in him.
Erphia, who always attended Jeremy's birthday banquet held every year, did not even come to his birthday banquet this time.
'Even if we had a falling out, there's no way my mother would ruin my face...'
Jeremy covered his ugly face with his trembling hands.
'What if my mother is planning to make me a scarecrow Emperor and take over her imperial palace?'
Once the suspicion bloomed, it spread uncontrollably.
“I need to see my mother right now.”
***
Seliya took advantage of the confusion and escaped from the Crown Prince's palace.
She found a fountain located behind the imperial palace. Seliya lowered herself onto the white bench next to the fountain.
Her silver hair sparkled in the sunlight.
Seliya sitting on the bench with her hands on her knees, she looked as beautiful as if she had just stepped out of a famous painting.
The knights' necks twitched as they looked at Seliya.
They kept glancing at Seliya with blushing cheeks, but no one dared approach her, branded as the mistress of the Crown Prince.
Seliya sat on the bench, listening to the sounds of people talking here and there.
Already, words were leaking out everywhere.
“I just heard that His Highness the Crown Prince’s face has turned into a monster.”
"What? Hey, don’t lie.”
“It’s not a lie. Really. A friend of mine who works at His Highness’s palace said he saw it in person.”
The atmosphere in the imperial palace was extremely chaotic.
- To be exact, it is a poison that ruins the opponent's face. Even if you ingest a small amount, your face will melt horribly.
Seliya was overhearing people's conversations and wondering why Illeon, who people said was more like an Emperor than an Emperor, did something like this.
As expected, her eyes were correct. Illeon, who had an infinitely gentle face, was a cruel snake.
'Did you do this because you wanted the throne?'
That being said, there was more than one strange thing.
If he wanted, he could have sat on the throne at any time, but he pulled out a trick like this.
Moreover, he broke up with Seliya and told her about the poison.
'Did you really think I wouldn't reveal this to anyone?'
Seliya narrowed her eyes.
Well, even if Seliya had told them that Illeon was the one who ruined the Prince's face, there was no way that anyone would have believed her.
Even though she knows that Illeon did it, she doesn't know what he lacked to do this, so the people who uphold the Three Dukes like the heavens must be outraged.
- You don't know anything.
What Dietrich said is correct. Seliya, she didn't know anything.
She lived with only one thought for revenge, so she didn't even know that she was heading in a completely wrong direction.
- Your real enemy is the Three Dukes.
Dietrich's voice passed by her ear vividly.
She does not completely trust Dietrich's words.
‘And yet...'
Seliya traced her lips with her hand. When she remembered the kiss she had made earlier, she felt strange.
She thought he was cold, but her kiss with him was unexpectedly very hot, affectionate, and violent.
It was her first kiss in her life, and she didn't hate him.
'I started first, though.'
She actually pretended that nothing was wrong in front of Dietrich, but there was no way she was doing anything.
Her lips caught in his throat and he barely managed to separate them from hers before he was swallowed up by hers once more.
It was Seliya who started it, but Dietrich did not leave her alone when she tried to quit on her own terms.
Their lips overlapped so many times and their breaths became intertwined.
Even though they weren't lovers, he acted like one.
After kissing him, the vitality in her body was probably due to his extraordinary ability.
If Dietrich had the ability to heal as she expected, then acting with him was Seliya's best option.
'He's not from the Shan Kingdom, but does that mean he's from the Principality of Inata?'
Seliya, the Princess of the Shan Kingdom, knew all of the royal family.
Among the royal family, there was no one with such great healing abilities.
'I heard from my father and other principalities that the upper class also have special abilities like us. But if there was someone in Inata with such great healing abilities, there's no way I wouldn't have known about it.'
She thought his identity had nothing to do with her revenge.
Seliya became curious about Dietrich's identity.
A large shadow fell over Seliya's head as she was lost in thought.
Clearing her thoughts, Seliya slowly closed and opened her eyes.
A man with brown hair and bronze skin was standing in front of her.
He was so large that he looked almost like a bear.
He wore a black uniform and had a huge long sword at his waist.
Underneath his rough eyebrows, the man's dark gray eyes shined as sharply as blades.
“You are the famous Angel of Brillion.”
The man in front of her burst into laughter.
The man looked around as people glanced at him at the sound of loud laughter that shook their eardrums.
Seliya looked puzzled at the people who quickly withdrew their gaze before making eye contact with the man.
"Who are you?"
“...You don’t know me?”
The man made a shocked face.
“You really don’t know me? Aren’t you crazy?”
“....”
“You know Illeon, but you don’t know me?”
Being able to call the Three Dukes by their names means you have a high status.
'Could he be one of the three Dukes?'
Seliya narrowed her eyes and looked up at the man in front of her.
“You don’t know the great Balt of the Portman family!”
Seliya had been almost a prisoner in the Brillion household, so although she had heard of the three Duke's fame, she had never seen their portraits.
Seliya had been thinking about something else the entire time in the banquet hall, so she didn't even pay attention to Balt, who was standing behind Ileon.
“...Hello."
Seliya said hello a beat late and Bald's mouth dropped open.
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