Birna's gaze passed over Catherine and fixed on Raju on the podium.
Raju was on his knees, gasping for breath.
Blood dripped like sweat from his torn forehead, which had been hit wrong by the whip.
"Maybe Mom forgot that when you were hanging out with that lowlife, but I don't. I'm Dad's only daughter. Joaquin Claudio."
Birna, who had been glaring at him with disgust, let out a ragged breath.
Then she turned her head and glared straight at her mother, her voice filled with anger and venom.
"He is a noble member of this country. So, as a daughter, it is only natural that I should take revenge! I will show my father the moment the bastard dies..."
"Ahhhhh! This idiot!"
Catherine clutched her head.
"Joaquin is not your biological father! Raju, that man over there is your real biological father!"
A sharp voice split the sky.
"You! You are Roberto Raju's daughter! Claudio is your adoptive father! Your real father is that man over there, dying!"
Catherine looked like she was going crazy.
The surging anger made her sit up helplessly.
She grabbed her daughter's shoulder and cursed, forgetting the countless people who were there.
"Wh, what, what the heck."
Birna stepped back and looked at her mother with confused eyes.
"You're the reason everything ended! Everything we kept hidden for you, everything I did for you, you trampled it all down!"
She couldn't believe It.
Catherine has been holding onto things like that all this time, wondering if they'll fly away when the wind blows.
She raised this beast who sacrificed love and youth to stab her own father who had cared for her all this time!
"How we lived for you! How much that Robbie loved you!"
Now Catherine was glaring at Birna as if she was going to kill her.
Her tearful eyes were filled with hatred and disappointment toward her daughter.
"That man is being executed because of you. Everything was done to make you, his daughter, proud so that you wouldn't be intimidated by anyone. And you're reporting it? Even the devil wouldn't be worse than you!"
When Catherine heard from the messenger that Raju had embezzled the Emperor's accounts, she finally realized.
Where did the Count, who helped them both materially and spiritually even after Claudio's failed rebellion, get all that money?
Yes, his lover was not a god.
Catherine couldn't just blindly rely on him either.
'I should have asked him. Was he being too pushy? Was he making dangerous choices because of us?'
It's not like she's just a parasite on him and sucking his blood.
Not like his daughter who shamelessly tries to eat me!
"No, that's a lie."
Birna was caught in a rage.
The voice, trembling without a destination, was almost a whisper.
"No, that can't be true. It's a lie. You're trying to fool me! You deceivers!"
Then, she bit his lips tightly and shouted at the crowd.
"I am Claudio! Birna Claudio! Don't insult my father!"
A handful of fear was embedded in the voice that burst out like a scream.
That was when.
"Birna, ugh! You were able to get your hands on the ledger!"
Raju screamed.
Even though he was covered in blood from being whipped, he glared at Birna with bloodshot eyes.
"Because it was enchanted so that only my blood could open it! That Iedger itself! It's proof that you are my daughter!"
He curled up in pain, but his eyes were fixed on Birna.
"Even if you deny me, you are still my daughter! That one thing, damn it! It is a truth that even God cannot deny!"
Between his trembling, blood-stained lips, the scream that burst out was filled with uncontrollable anger and affection at the same time.
"Birna! I came all this way for you. I tried so hard to stay by your side and protect you... but you made me do this..."
A sharp whip flew over him.
Raju, whose face was distorted by unbearable pain, gritted his teeth and swallowed a scream...
I will not get out of here alive.
So there was no need to hesitate any longer.
"You repay this father's love with death! You fool! You will never rest in peace even after I die!"
Raju, who had let out his last curse towards his daughter, could no longer bear it and collapsed.
"Are you crazy? Shut up! Don't frame me with such nonsense. There are so many people here. How dare you, me, dare you!"
Birna's whole body froze with anger and shock.
She couldn't handle the rock-like chaos that Raju threw.
"Oh... Mom..."
Birna's eyes instinctively looked for Catherine.
It was an expression of the desire to rely on one's mother like a child searching for her in danger.
There was a look of shock and denial in both eyes.
Her trembling hands groped through the air and grabbed Catherine's arm.
She grabbed Catherine's arm so tightly that her five fingers almost dug into her flesh.
"Mom Answer me. Are you lying? He's not really my father... right?"
Catherine looked down at Birna's hand with a hardened face.
She shook off her daughter's hand.
The force with which it was torn off was so strong that Birna lost her balance and staggered.
"No matter how much you deny it, the fact that you are the result of the adultery between us and that you are the devil who accused and killed your own father with your own hands will never be erased!"
Catherine's voice was full of venom as she spoke, breathing heavily.
To her, Birna was no longer a daughter.
She was just a murderer who killed her lover and an enemy who destroyed Catherine's dreams, love, and life.
"Oh... Mom..."
Birna was speechless at the vivid hatred in her mother's eyes as if she wanted to stab her heart and kill her.
The crowd present was equally astonished.
Their eyes moved busily between Catherine, Birna, and Raju on the stage, as if they could not believe it.
"So, Princess Claudio, Joaquin's daughter was actually that bastard's daughter?"
The square, which had been momentarily plunged into deep silence, suddenly became agitated.
Excited shouts erupted from all over.
"Ah! That girl's middle name is Robbie! Roberto Raju! So she was really a father and daughter!"
The confessions of the two lovers. Catherine and Raju, awakened the minds of the people as if lights were lighting up one by one in their heads.
"I wondered why Raju was so devoted to his goddaughter... That's right! It wouldn't make sense if they weren't blood relatives!"
"Looking at it again, it seems like she resembles her father a bit?! Now I finally understand everything!"
The atmosphere became even more chaotic as laughter and curses poured out from everyone.
The crowd's anger was directed at all three.
"How can Catherine be so shameless! She raised her daughter from an affair as a cuckoo and yet she acts all virtuous and calls herself a Duchess?"
"What about Raju! And then he beat to death the person who raised his daughter. Is he a human being? Even though he deserved to die, Joaquin is so resentful that he's going to kick his grave!"
But the one who was stung the most by the criticism was Birna.
"You say you're royalty, but you treat people like shit, and yet you're actually a commoner? That kind of mongrel tramples on us, calling themself nobles! Does that make sense?"
"Don't you all remember that girl who used her power as the Regent to persecute and harass our Princess? How can she raise her head with such shame?"
The Valdinas did not forget the sorrow suffered by the powerless Princess Medea three years ago because of them.
Even the actions of the lovely and cunning Princess Claudio, who even stole the Princess's dress to wear at the banquet.
"If the regent's rebellion had succeeded, we would have lived with that filthy blood as our Princess!"
"Even if you call us pigs and dogs, you are still a bailiff! Executioner! Do not stop whipping them! You cannot leave that criminal who has mocked our people and defiled the royal family alone!"
The angry voices of the Valdinians grew louder and louder.
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