Sepia turned her head at the sound of the seagulls.
A uniquely shaped bird was frolicking in the sky beyond the arched corridor window.
She was looking around the castle of Leopold.
The old castle with its many histories had a unique scent.
At first, it was part of a walk.
However, exploring the castle without knowing the way helped her organize her thoughts.
About how to proceed.
The eastern residence had fewer servants than other places.
Sepia looked around and found a door with a gap.
There was no sound inside.
She pushed it carefully and the door opened smoothly.
The wallpaper was a mixture of green and gold leaf.
The bed with a navy canopy was decorated with a ship shape.
'It looks like a child's room.'
Various patterns had appropriate meanings.
The ship carving on the bed was a form that was often used to decorate the rooms of boys in their childhood or older.
But the bedroom was bare, with no proper furniture other than the bed.
'The wallpaper was recently replaced.'
Sepia ran her hand over the wallpaper that smelled faintly of grass.
"This is the bedroom I used when I was young."
Sepia turned around at the voice.
Roxanne, who had been standing beyond the threshold, came into the room.
He looked like he had been out and about, wearing a light frock.
The pattern of the buttons that held the fabric together was unique. As if to say that this was not the capital.
The free-spirited attire also suited Roxanne well.
"I'm sorry for coming in without permission."
"No. I was the one who said you could look around comfortably. And didn't I promise? I'd show you where I grew up."
So there was no place here that was taboo for Sepia.
At those words, Sepia looked around.
Now she could understand why this space was strangely bare.
'Because Demios must have used it until the end.'
Everything had to be new because he had removed and erased all the traces of blood he had committed in the bedroom.
When he realized that, the bedroom looked different.
This space showed his lost childhood.
After his uncle and Dyling were banished from Leopold, the people of the territory who had served the fake Saintess until the end came to the castle to apologize for their sins.
Roxanne did not raise his voice or scold them. He just watched quietly.
It was the moment when the old stigma attached to him fell off.
The false epidemic that had been spreading in Leopold was all cured, and the territory based on the coast experienced its greatest revival this summer.
All the noisy problems were resolved.
Now it was time to move forward again.
Roxanne stroked her cheek.
To solve the case, she had to confess to him about what had happened when she was young.
The rash of the loop or leaf started from the cheek and caused a burning pain.
However, it was only a pain from the past, and now there was not even a trace of it.
It was actually him who was in more pain than Sepia.
The deep scars left on the body of the divine beast with high healing powers told how harsh the experiment that day had been.
Sepia grabbed the hand that was touching her cheek and held it tightly.
They were sharing the same pain and being healed.
“But, did you come here for business?”
“No. I came to find your scent.”
Roxanne grabbed her golden hair and kissed it.
The scent left by the sea breeze was connecting the two who had just become lovers.
Just looking at him made her heart flutter.
He whispered to Sepia.
“What you wanted has arrived.”
What I wanted?
He smiled as Sepia opened her eyes wide.
“There were those who you asked me to find them before, weren’t there?”
Former Count Edro Louvre and former Countess Delsey.
Now, those who had been stripped of their titles and banished to the north as criminals had arrived in Leopold.
“You already found them?”
“Actually, I was looking into it in advance.”
He was also preparing to smuggle the Count’s family out.
The criminals who were being sent to the northernmost part of the empire were all considered dead on the spot due to a sudden attack by a beast.
“Come this way.”
The hand that was naturally held led her to the main building.
In front of the door that seemed to be the reception room, Roxanne’s aide was standing guard.
“Sir Growr.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen you since arriving at the estate, Your Highness.”
Growr winked and finished reporting to Roxanne.
“They're waiting inside.”
“Open.”
The door opened.
Inside the old-fashioned reception room, a man and a woman with beggarly looks were sitting on the sofa.
Their hair was a mess.
They were covered in dirt and wounds, and they jumped up from their seats and knelt before Sepia.
“Oh my, Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty, please help us!”
They begged with bloodshot eyes.
Instead of the human ears that should have been on either side of their faces, they had pointy deer ears on top of their heads.
They seemed half-conscious, half-human, and shed tears as their bones clung together.
“I’m no longer the Empress.”
In the end, weren’t they the ones who watched from the highest seats as she was dethroned and locked up in the ghost palace?
Delsey’s hand, which was holding the hem of Sepia’s dress, trembled as if it was stinging.
“T-then what...”
“The Grand Duchess would be good.”
At least that was what was known in the palace.
Delsey nodded hastily.
She poured out her desperate feelings with an expression that said,
“Your Highness, please investigate the unjust death of my son!”
It was the desperate appeal of a mother who had lost her child.
The son she had been so proud of was hanged on the gallows on the day the trial was announced.
The couple had to watch the entire process with their eyes open before being sent back to the north.
It was a sad story.
If you look at it from a flat perspective.
Sepia spoke in a flat tone.
“I didn’t call you here to clear your name.”
“Then why...”
Absolute hope turned into despair.
Sepia looked at the gap and asked,
“Who is behind this?”
“Yes?”
“I’m asking who first introduced you to Titie.”
Ho-op, the sound of holding his breath was heard repeatedly.
Edro stuttered with a pale face.
“T-how did you know that...?”
“How you answer will determine your future fate. At least you don’t want to reach the northernmost part.”
The biting cold.
The northernmost part was the empire’s territory, but no one lived there except for special tribes such as polar bear beastmen and penguin beastmen.
It was a place of exile, and ordinary deer would freeze to death upon arrival there.
The couple fell down at Sepia’s feet and bowed their heads as if they remembered reaching the northernmost part.
“Please...! I’ll tell you anything.”
They began to talk, trembling.
The first person to bring Titie to them was a merchant in black robes.
“It was a black snake. It was definitely a reptile that gave me goosebumps whenever our eyes met.”
One day, the black snake suddenly appeared and suggested that Titie be adopted as their daughter.
He showed them the Emperor’s name engraved on her chest.
At first, they suspected that he was a fraud, but the magic he showed was enough to captivate the hearts of the deer.
“He was a wizard?”
“Yes. But there was something a little strange. He could use magic without a magic stone.”
Sepia’s eyes narrowed.
Just as swordsmanship requires a sword and spears require a spear, wizards need a fuel called a magic stone.
But someone who could use magic on their own.
“We don’t know exactly who he is.”
They were blinded by the wealth that would be theirs right now and couldn’t see the future.
As the black snake said, the deer gained a lot.
Wealth, fame, and even the splendid connections of the capital.
However, everything they gained by parasitizing others turned to ashes in an instant.
“That’s all we know. The rest... That wizard and Titie met separately.”
“That’s right. Even the name is fake, but how do I know that the one pregnant right now isn’t the Emperor’s seed! Because of that wicked thing, my son...! Sob...”
Delsey curled up and sobbed.
Instead of comforting her, Edro asked Sepia in an excited voice,
“I told you everything, so we don’t have to go to extremes again, right?”
Each person’s wishes and desires are different like this.
When Sepia looked at Roxanne, he opened his mouth.
“After the investigation is completed, I plan to send you to another country.”
However, wherever they go, they will always have to hide and live with their lives barely hanging on.
The knights came inside and raised the couple.
They would be able to leave this place after finishing the rest of the interrogation.
This was the shabby story of those who once aimed for the position of the Empress’s parents.
Sepia watched the couple leave with mixed feelings.
‘We have to return to the capital.’
The reason Sepia walked around the castle was to hear rumors. They never told her about the news they received from the capital.
Perhaps it was because they wanted their master to keep quiet.
Innocent people started dying in the capital.
Demios was pulling Sepia to the palace through his outrageous actions.
A uniquely shaped bird was frolicking in the sky beyond the arched corridor window.
She was looking around the castle of Leopold.
The old castle with its many histories had a unique scent.
At first, it was part of a walk.
However, exploring the castle without knowing the way helped her organize her thoughts.
About how to proceed.
The eastern residence had fewer servants than other places.
Sepia looked around and found a door with a gap.
There was no sound inside.
She pushed it carefully and the door opened smoothly.
The wallpaper was a mixture of green and gold leaf.
The bed with a navy canopy was decorated with a ship shape.
'It looks like a child's room.'
Various patterns had appropriate meanings.
The ship carving on the bed was a form that was often used to decorate the rooms of boys in their childhood or older.
But the bedroom was bare, with no proper furniture other than the bed.
'The wallpaper was recently replaced.'
Sepia ran her hand over the wallpaper that smelled faintly of grass.
"This is the bedroom I used when I was young."
Sepia turned around at the voice.
Roxanne, who had been standing beyond the threshold, came into the room.
He looked like he had been out and about, wearing a light frock.
The pattern of the buttons that held the fabric together was unique. As if to say that this was not the capital.
The free-spirited attire also suited Roxanne well.
"I'm sorry for coming in without permission."
"No. I was the one who said you could look around comfortably. And didn't I promise? I'd show you where I grew up."
So there was no place here that was taboo for Sepia.
At those words, Sepia looked around.
Now she could understand why this space was strangely bare.
'Because Demios must have used it until the end.'
Everything had to be new because he had removed and erased all the traces of blood he had committed in the bedroom.
When he realized that, the bedroom looked different.
This space showed his lost childhood.
After his uncle and Dyling were banished from Leopold, the people of the territory who had served the fake Saintess until the end came to the castle to apologize for their sins.
Roxanne did not raise his voice or scold them. He just watched quietly.
It was the moment when the old stigma attached to him fell off.
The false epidemic that had been spreading in Leopold was all cured, and the territory based on the coast experienced its greatest revival this summer.
All the noisy problems were resolved.
Now it was time to move forward again.
Roxanne stroked her cheek.
To solve the case, she had to confess to him about what had happened when she was young.
The rash of the loop or leaf started from the cheek and caused a burning pain.
However, it was only a pain from the past, and now there was not even a trace of it.
It was actually him who was in more pain than Sepia.
The deep scars left on the body of the divine beast with high healing powers told how harsh the experiment that day had been.
Sepia grabbed the hand that was touching her cheek and held it tightly.
They were sharing the same pain and being healed.
“But, did you come here for business?”
“No. I came to find your scent.”
Roxanne grabbed her golden hair and kissed it.
The scent left by the sea breeze was connecting the two who had just become lovers.
Just looking at him made her heart flutter.
He whispered to Sepia.
“What you wanted has arrived.”
What I wanted?
He smiled as Sepia opened her eyes wide.
“There were those who you asked me to find them before, weren’t there?”
Former Count Edro Louvre and former Countess Delsey.
Now, those who had been stripped of their titles and banished to the north as criminals had arrived in Leopold.
“You already found them?”
“Actually, I was looking into it in advance.”
He was also preparing to smuggle the Count’s family out.
The criminals who were being sent to the northernmost part of the empire were all considered dead on the spot due to a sudden attack by a beast.
“Come this way.”
The hand that was naturally held led her to the main building.
In front of the door that seemed to be the reception room, Roxanne’s aide was standing guard.
“Sir Growr.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen you since arriving at the estate, Your Highness.”
Growr winked and finished reporting to Roxanne.
“They're waiting inside.”
“Open.”
The door opened.
Inside the old-fashioned reception room, a man and a woman with beggarly looks were sitting on the sofa.
Their hair was a mess.
They were covered in dirt and wounds, and they jumped up from their seats and knelt before Sepia.
“Oh my, Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty, please help us!”
They begged with bloodshot eyes.
Instead of the human ears that should have been on either side of their faces, they had pointy deer ears on top of their heads.
They seemed half-conscious, half-human, and shed tears as their bones clung together.
“I’m no longer the Empress.”
In the end, weren’t they the ones who watched from the highest seats as she was dethroned and locked up in the ghost palace?
Delsey’s hand, which was holding the hem of Sepia’s dress, trembled as if it was stinging.
“T-then what...”
“The Grand Duchess would be good.”
At least that was what was known in the palace.
Delsey nodded hastily.
She poured out her desperate feelings with an expression that said,
“Your Highness, please investigate the unjust death of my son!”
It was the desperate appeal of a mother who had lost her child.
The son she had been so proud of was hanged on the gallows on the day the trial was announced.
The couple had to watch the entire process with their eyes open before being sent back to the north.
It was a sad story.
If you look at it from a flat perspective.
Sepia spoke in a flat tone.
“I didn’t call you here to clear your name.”
“Then why...”
Absolute hope turned into despair.
Sepia looked at the gap and asked,
“Who is behind this?”
“Yes?”
“I’m asking who first introduced you to Titie.”
Ho-op, the sound of holding his breath was heard repeatedly.
Edro stuttered with a pale face.
“T-how did you know that...?”
“How you answer will determine your future fate. At least you don’t want to reach the northernmost part.”
The biting cold.
The northernmost part was the empire’s territory, but no one lived there except for special tribes such as polar bear beastmen and penguin beastmen.
It was a place of exile, and ordinary deer would freeze to death upon arrival there.
The couple fell down at Sepia’s feet and bowed their heads as if they remembered reaching the northernmost part.
“Please...! I’ll tell you anything.”
They began to talk, trembling.
The first person to bring Titie to them was a merchant in black robes.
“It was a black snake. It was definitely a reptile that gave me goosebumps whenever our eyes met.”
One day, the black snake suddenly appeared and suggested that Titie be adopted as their daughter.
He showed them the Emperor’s name engraved on her chest.
At first, they suspected that he was a fraud, but the magic he showed was enough to captivate the hearts of the deer.
“He was a wizard?”
“Yes. But there was something a little strange. He could use magic without a magic stone.”
Sepia’s eyes narrowed.
Just as swordsmanship requires a sword and spears require a spear, wizards need a fuel called a magic stone.
But someone who could use magic on their own.
“We don’t know exactly who he is.”
They were blinded by the wealth that would be theirs right now and couldn’t see the future.
As the black snake said, the deer gained a lot.
Wealth, fame, and even the splendid connections of the capital.
However, everything they gained by parasitizing others turned to ashes in an instant.
“That’s all we know. The rest... That wizard and Titie met separately.”
“That’s right. Even the name is fake, but how do I know that the one pregnant right now isn’t the Emperor’s seed! Because of that wicked thing, my son...! Sob...”
Delsey curled up and sobbed.
Instead of comforting her, Edro asked Sepia in an excited voice,
“I told you everything, so we don’t have to go to extremes again, right?”
Each person’s wishes and desires are different like this.
When Sepia looked at Roxanne, he opened his mouth.
“After the investigation is completed, I plan to send you to another country.”
However, wherever they go, they will always have to hide and live with their lives barely hanging on.
The knights came inside and raised the couple.
They would be able to leave this place after finishing the rest of the interrogation.
This was the shabby story of those who once aimed for the position of the Empress’s parents.
Sepia watched the couple leave with mixed feelings.
‘We have to return to the capital.’
The reason Sepia walked around the castle was to hear rumors. They never told her about the news they received from the capital.
Perhaps it was because they wanted their master to keep quiet.
Innocent people started dying in the capital.
Demios was pulling Sepia to the palace through his outrageous actions.
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