The streets of the capital were crowded with people everywhere.
Gabriel and Hariel gave up any thoughts of returning to their home.
They were very upset that they had been humiliated by Reina at Eclair, and they thought it was a shame that only Seliya was living comfortably in the imperial palace.
Perhaps because of the extravagant spending, the money in hand quickly ran out.
“Mother, how about we just go to the imperial palace?”
“I would like to, but what right do we have to enter the imperial palace as we are not the three Dukes?”
“We are Seliya’s ‘family.’”
Gabriel continued to persuade Hariel.
Hariel had no choice but to take Gabriel to the imperial palace.
The palace gatekeeper at the entrance looked the two people up and down.
“What brings you here?”
“We are Seliya’s family. I came to the imperial palace because I think Seliya will miss us, her family.”
Gabriel said with a grin.
The gatekeeper took out a list from his pocket.
“By the way, what is your name?”
“This is my mother, Hariel Brillion, and this is Gabriel Brillion.”
“...”
The gatekeeper, who had been looking through the list for a while, opened his mouth.
“It’s on the list. Please pass.”
Gabriel and Hariel were surprised, as they had not expected to enter the imperial palace so easily.
As they passed through the door, the two exchanged glances with each other.
“If I had known it would pass this smoothly, I would have come to the imperial palace a long time ago. Seliya is useful in times like this.”
“That’s right.”
The two entered the imperial palace happily.
However, as soon as they entered the palace, the two felt that the atmosphere in the palace was very chaotic.
“I guess it’s a little different from the banquet?”
The two looked around the imperial palace in broad daylight.
The castles covered in gold were all grand, splendid, and beautiful, but the road was so wide that it was difficult to tell where was where.
They secretly expected someone to show them the way, but it seemed like the maid, the knight, and even the gardener had no interest in the two of them.
In the end, Gabriel approached the gardener first.
“Hey, I’d like to ask you for directions.”
The gardener who was shearing the mulberry tree suddenly turned his head.
“This is my first time seeing you. Whose guest are you here?”
“...Seliya Brillion.”
The gardener stopped cutting and answered.
“She is not here now. She disappeared overnight and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is looking for her.”
“...”
Gabriel frowned at the unexpected situation.
“Can you tell me a place to go? It’s because I’m worried.”
“Any place to go?”
The gardener thought for a moment, then pointed with his hand to the fountain with the lion statue and said:
“If you go straight that way, you will find Her Excellency Duke Calypso’s mansion. His Royal Highness seemed certain that she would be there for some reason.”
“...”
Gabriel stiffened his expression. Of all those places, why is it Duke Calypso's mansion?
She felt like her stomach was boiling.
Gabriel and Hariel left without even saying thank you.
As the two people walked away, someone appeared in the garden near the gardener, as if waiting for them.
The person who appeared was Illeon. The gardener bowed his head and said.
“It is truly as you said, master.”
“Keep your voice down and watch more.”
Illeon spoke in a soft tone and flapped his white sleeves.
The golden mask inside the large sleeves reflected the sunlight and shined.
“I have to go to appease His Highness the Crown Prince.”
Knights in armor surrounded Dietrich's mansion in a circle.
Seliya was sick of Jeremy not giving up on her and not leaving her alone.
'Can't I just use my special ability to pluck off the stem?'
However, if she does that, all her long-awaited plans will go to waste.
They were very upset that they had been humiliated by Reina at Eclair, and they thought it was a shame that only Seliya was living comfortably in the imperial palace.
Perhaps because of the extravagant spending, the money in hand quickly ran out.
“Mother, how about we just go to the imperial palace?”
“I would like to, but what right do we have to enter the imperial palace as we are not the three Dukes?”
“We are Seliya’s ‘family.’”
Gabriel continued to persuade Hariel.
Hariel had no choice but to take Gabriel to the imperial palace.
The palace gatekeeper at the entrance looked the two people up and down.
“What brings you here?”
“We are Seliya’s family. I came to the imperial palace because I think Seliya will miss us, her family.”
Gabriel said with a grin.
The gatekeeper took out a list from his pocket.
“By the way, what is your name?”
“This is my mother, Hariel Brillion, and this is Gabriel Brillion.”
“...”
The gatekeeper, who had been looking through the list for a while, opened his mouth.
“It’s on the list. Please pass.”
Gabriel and Hariel were surprised, as they had not expected to enter the imperial palace so easily.
As they passed through the door, the two exchanged glances with each other.
“If I had known it would pass this smoothly, I would have come to the imperial palace a long time ago. Seliya is useful in times like this.”
“That’s right.”
The two entered the imperial palace happily.
However, as soon as they entered the palace, the two felt that the atmosphere in the palace was very chaotic.
“I guess it’s a little different from the banquet?”
The two looked around the imperial palace in broad daylight.
The castles covered in gold were all grand, splendid, and beautiful, but the road was so wide that it was difficult to tell where was where.
They secretly expected someone to show them the way, but it seemed like the maid, the knight, and even the gardener had no interest in the two of them.
In the end, Gabriel approached the gardener first.
“Hey, I’d like to ask you for directions.”
The gardener who was shearing the mulberry tree suddenly turned his head.
“This is my first time seeing you. Whose guest are you here?”
“...Seliya Brillion.”
The gardener stopped cutting and answered.
“She is not here now. She disappeared overnight and even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is looking for her.”
“...”
Gabriel frowned at the unexpected situation.
“Can you tell me a place to go? It’s because I’m worried.”
“Any place to go?”
The gardener thought for a moment, then pointed with his hand to the fountain with the lion statue and said:
“If you go straight that way, you will find Her Excellency Duke Calypso’s mansion. His Royal Highness seemed certain that she would be there for some reason.”
“...”
Gabriel stiffened his expression. Of all those places, why is it Duke Calypso's mansion?
She felt like her stomach was boiling.
Gabriel and Hariel left without even saying thank you.
As the two people walked away, someone appeared in the garden near the gardener, as if waiting for them.
The person who appeared was Illeon. The gardener bowed his head and said.
“It is truly as you said, master.”
“Keep your voice down and watch more.”
Illeon spoke in a soft tone and flapped his white sleeves.
The golden mask inside the large sleeves reflected the sunlight and shined.
“I have to go to appease His Highness the Crown Prince.”
***
Knights in armor surrounded Dietrich's mansion in a circle.
Seliya was sick of Jeremy not giving up on her and not leaving her alone.
'Can't I just use my special ability to pluck off the stem?'
However, if she does that, all her long-awaited plans will go to waste.
The person who really needs to use this ability is the Three Dukes.
When all three Dukes gathered together. That was the perfect opportunity to use her superpowers and kill everyone at once.
So Seliya decided to participate in Dietrich's 'strange' plan.
“Can I go out and do as you say?”
Dietrich nodded his head in response to Seliya's question.
When she opened the door, strong sunlight poured down on her head.
Although they had no choice but to come at Jeremy's command, the knights, who had no idea that Seliya was really at Dietrich's mansion, had a look of confusion on their faces.
One of the knights who was standing there in a daze cautiously called out to Dietrich.
“Your Excellency Duke Calypso.”
Dietrich naturally wrapped one hand around Seliya's waist.
“What’s going on?”
“...”
The hand wrapping around her waist felt so natural that the knights momentarily forgot what they were saying.
“What business do you have?”
When Dietrich asked again, the knights came back to their dazed state.
'What on earth is going on? Is it a passionate fight?'
The knights rolled their eyes and looked at Seliya.
Seliya, half-carried by Dietrich, was so beautiful.
Her silver hair, as if freshly spun from silver thread, sparkled in the sunlight, and her green eyes reminiscent of emeralds exuded a mystery that was not of this world.
Inside her small, white face were features so vivid that one could only describe them as perfect.
Her eyes under her voluminous eyelashes, her nose that seemed to have been perfectly sculpted by God, and her plump red lips.
The beauty that seemed to make one's heart ache just by looking at it took the knights' souls out.
Brillion's angel, everyone's first love.
Those great nicknames seemed like nothing in front of this overwhelmingly beautiful person.
The necks of the knights writhed as they looked at her.
“What are you doing?”
“His Royal Highness has ordered me to bring his mistress.”
The knight, who had barely managed to speak, felt like he was being strangled and let out a sharp breath.
This is because even after spitting it out, he felt a sense of self-destruction.
A woman so beautiful as to purify his eyes just by looking at her, the mistress of that hideous Prince.
"Mistress?"
Unexpectedly, the answer came from Seliya.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince is the one who forced me to become his mistress even though I said I didn’t like it.”
“...”
“The person I really care about is...”
Seliya trailed off her words and looked up at Dietrich.
Her eyes sparkled brightly and her red lips drew a line, as if she was very lovely.
“Your Excellency Duke Calypso, no. This is Dietrich here.”
After finishing her sentence, Seliya lifted her heel and without hesitation, she kissed Dietrich's cheek.
There was the sound of the knights taking a breath.
No matter how beautiful she was, her partner was Dietrich.
What kind of person is Dietrich?
He was a man who did not blink even when numerous women seduced him.
Even when women at the banquet asked him to dance first, he never once accepted.
Even though he knew it was rude, Dietrich did not allow the woman's hand to touch him.
A woman of high status, a woman with a good body, a woman with a lot of money, a smart woman... Even the Princess from another country coveted him, but she didn't even get his attention.
The knights thought Dietrich would push Seliya away.
They thought so too when they saw Dietrich's hand wrapped around her slim waist.
However, Dietrich completely exceeded the knights' expectations.
He was looking down at Seliya with a friendly smile as he kissed her cheek.
They had no doubts.
Was Duke Calypso, who always had an expressionless expression, a person who could look at someone with such kind eyes?
The knights were in confusion.
The two seemed like perfect lovers.
However, Seliya is the Crown Prince's mistress.
Having the Crown Prince's mistress as his lover was a challenge to the Crown Prince's authority.
This was tantamount to treason.
Dietrich could clearly see what the knights were thinking.
Dietrich, who read their thoughts, opened his mouth first.
“Your Highness is the one who arbitrarily made Seliya, who was embroiled in suspicion of assassinating the Emperor, as his mistress.”
“But, if His Highness the Crown Prince finds out about this, he will definitely...”
Dietrich interrupted the knight.
“Is it your master who harms innocent people?”
Dietrich continued his speech, looking at the faces of the knights one by one.
“Extorting a person’s life, causing a knight to lose his leg, which is his life... He looks like that even though he is the Crown Prince. What will happen to Abelon if he sits on the throne?”
“...!”
Dietrich spoke out without hesitation the words that the knights had only kept in mind.
This resonated with the knights a lot.
The knights thought that since Dietrich had a record of assisting the dead Emperor, he would never abandon his son Jeremy.
But, no.
“I, Dietrich Calypso, give this command in the name of the Commander of the Imperial Knights.”
Dietrich's words had power. The power to make people follow him.
That is what brought Dietrich, who had no background m to this position.
The knights decided at this moment which side to switch to.
- Be sure to bring my mistress before me today. Otherwise, you guys will end up like that too.
This is what Jeremy said today after cutting off the knight's leg.
If the price of loyalty to the Crown Prince was these miserable words, it would have been better for them to choose another option.
“If something is wrong, it is my role to correct it. The crime of harming innocent people just because their faces were damaged is so heinous that I can’t bear to mention it.”
Dietrich continued speaking in a solemn atmosphere.
“I, Dietrich Calypso, will no longer recognize Crown Prince Jeremy Basilisk as a member of the royal family from this time on.”
After Dietrich's declaration, the knights knelt on the floor as if they had made a promise.
Among them, there were knights who were originally in his camp and came under Jeremy's command, and there were also knights who had been under Jeremy for a long time.
“I will follow you as my lord.”
At one time, Dietrich, who was called the Emperor's mad dog, rebelled against the Crown Prince.
Under the pretext of correcting the imperial family.
The exact purpose was to protect Seliya, but the knights did not know that much.
Dietrich wrapped his arms around Seliya's waist and headed to the Crown Prince's palace.
At that time, there were two pairs of eyes that happened to see this scene.
“Mom, what on earth am I looking at?”
“...”
"Mother? What is that? Why is she, the Crown Prince’s mistress, with Duke Calypso!”
Gabriel felt like she couldn't breathe.
“Gabriel, calm down.”
Hariel shook her head.
“That light butt must have been a joke. Don’t be too upset.”
"Mother! I'm so angry! That damn bitch, I really hope she dies.”
Gabriel was so angry that she swore.
Hariel said as if to soothe her daughter.
“Don’t worry. Before I sent her to the Emperor, something was added to Seliya's food. Because it would be difficult to go to the imperial palace and spread the things that happened at Viscount. I fed her very good food.”
“Really, Mom? What did you ride?”
"That...”
Hariel smiled sinisterly.
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