People's eyes were on the 1st Princess.
The face that had been clear and dense until a moment ago was no longer lovely.
"Your Highness, the Princess. Make an excuse."
The Templar Commander said triumphantly.
Medea spoke slowly.
"...It is true that I told the escort to take the sword out and deal with it."
Fact!
The Princess admitted it!
Breathless sounds erupted throughout the banquet hall.
"But my suit is innocent. I also swear in front of the goddess that I have never done anything to be ashamed of Katzen."
Despite the stares and vigilances of many days, the 1st Princess replied calmly to the Emperor.
"However, there was a reason that I couldn't easily reveal as a member of the Katzen imperial family. If Your Majesty permits, I will tell you the whole story quietly."
"Are you confessing with your mouth? Valdina's spy?!"
Perdiccas II cut off his daughter-in-law. His eyes were as sharp as a well-forged knife.
"Father."
At that moment, the First Prince stepped forward.
"How could you only listen to one side?"
"Are you now blind to your wife and unable to distinguish between heaven and earth?"
The Emperor's anger grew beyond recognition.
"Are you the 1st Prince of Katzen and the 1st Prince of Valdina? Are you going to sacrifice this empire before Valdina and wag your tail at your wife?"
Western Empress, who was beside him, also added her words.
"Princess. I'm sorry, but if you're going to get out of this situation with your smooth wordplay, you'd better stop. You have been accepted by our Katzen imperial family, but you have betrayed that trust and are in communion with your country.... That's treason."
There was a cold compassion in her sensitive eyes.
"Your Majesty's immunity will save your life. But I can't keep you in this empire any longer."
The Emperor's face hardened even more at the words of the Empress.
"This chewy Valdina brother and sister tried to hit me in the back of the head with the privilege I had given them."
Seeing that her husband's face was getting angrier and bigger, Western Empress swallowed a breathless laugh.
Then, as if feeling sad, she turned to the First Prince and added.
"Cesare, you were careless. I can't believe that people are mistaken and treated like this..."
And she did not forget to throw a dagger at her son's political enemy, the 1st Prince.
"If you put the wrong person in your house, you will be annihilated. Is it different because it is the imperial family?"
While being kind and not losing the dignity of an Imperial adult, it was a mixture of reprimanding for her short-thinking adopted son and wicked daughter-in-law.
Medea raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
"Since you are abusing my country when nothing has been revealed yet, what if it is not true, Your Majesty, the Western Empress ?"
"1st Princess, I would have said that this situation could not be resolved with your smooth speech."
The voice of the Western Empress was kind, as if she were trying to soothe an immature child, but there was a chilling accusation in it.
"..."
Medea looked at the Western Empress intently.
"...1st Princess? Why is that?"
'Did you realize that this was my doing? Nope... Even if I knew, it's too late.'
Western Empress's heart sank. But she then asked with a smile of composure.
Meanwhile, Medea let out a short sigh.
"You know. I'm quite used to seeing my good intentions turn into malice."
She continued in a very slow volce.
"If you really want to do that.. I can't help it."
She spat out a meaningful word, as if it was aimed at the Western Empress, and turned to the dagger that the Templar Commander threw at her as evidence.
"It is true that my knight recently got her hands on this sword. But..."
Confess the sword, but not a secret book?
The First Prince and the young Minister of Valdina, who understood the meaning of the words, moved at the same time. Each picked up the parchment that was closest to them, one that had fallen off the handle.
"Oh no."
The gesture of picking it up was the same, but the expression that came to mind was different.
Unlike the First Prince's smooth eyebrows hardened unexpectedly, the young Minister of Valdina puckered the corners of her mouth.
"A secret letter from Menil, the knight of Agemas, to her homeland of Valdina."
Sensing the faint sneer in her voice, they wondered how cocky Valdina, now a new empire, would be repentant even if she was caught on the spot.
"See it for yourself, Your Majesty, the Emperor of Katzen."
Sissair tried to hand the parchment to Perdiccas II. The Emperor snorted and waved his hand.
"There is no need for that. What can I do to know more about you? Valdina is a new empire, but its mindset is still just a small country."
"You don't mind if I read this here."
The chief of the chamberlain stopped at the quote. Something was strange.
"If that escort is the spy of Valdina, neither the First Prince and his wife nor this minister will be able to remain so carefree."
Before the Emperor's reprimand fell, the attendant quickly stepped forward and picked up the parchment.
"...!"
His hand opened the small note and stopped for a moment. It was a bonus that his wrinkled face turned white.
"...Your majesty. This... I would like you to see it for yourself."
The contemplative chief of the servant held it out to the Emperor.
The Emperor's face became redder and redder as he read it. His philtrum and eyebrows began to tremble violently.
The violent reaction as if even mania had recurred, and only the onlookers did not know it.
What is the content of the secret letter?
'Why are you doing that again?'
The Western Empress also frowned.
The parchment paper must contain Katzen's confidential documents and confidential areas.
'Of course. I chose it as an issue that would make the Emperor angry, but that reaction was still too violent.'
Meanwhile, the Emperor glared at the 1st Princess. He stared at her for a long time, and then he opened his mouth.
"...You have a deep thought."
Whenever he couldn't hold back his anger like a boiling kettle. It was always a sudden compliment. People became confused.
'The Emperor has become capricious again. Ha, you don't know where to bounce.'
Western Empress bit the inside of her lip.
"Your Majesty. This is treason! I hope you will show your dignity as the supreme being of Katzen, who does not pass on these mortal sins without hesitation."
The Third Prince, Juan, also thought it was a good opportunity to break the ankle of the 1st Prince faction, which was on a winning streak, and supported his mother's words.
"The 1st Princess is my sister-in-law, but isn't it a matter of Katzen's reputation? Father, please consider it again-"
"It's noisy!"
The teacup thrown by the Emperor broke at the feet of the Western Empress. A small fragment hit the ball sharply and fell.
"Empress Dowager. If you are in charge of the inner palace, you must know how to embrace your family, so why do you take the lead and cause trouble!"
A fierce voice rang out.
"Go back to the palace and refrain from doing so. Don't come out until I allow it."
It is the Emperor's birthday party. In the presence of distinguished guests, ministers, and foreign envoys, the head of the Inner Palace is imprisoned in the palace.
It was like a slap in the face of Western Empress.
'Why...?'
The expression was nothing short of an insult, and the face of the Western Empress and her son hardened. She couldn't figure out why the Emperor's sparks suddenly splashed at her.
She didn't understand how things were going.
'Where did his heart hurt again-'
At that moment, Western Empress's eyes brushed against the parchment paper thrown at her feet along with the teacup.
In an instant, she swallowed her breath, as if cold ice water was pouring over her head.
"Uh, mother...."
The Third Prince cautiously called his mother, but she didn't seem to hear her son's voice.
Western Empress slowly picked up the parchment paper
[ Dear Alfie ]
'Uh. Why...'
The blood on the face of the Western Emperor as she read the unfolded secret letter slowly disappeared.
Her fingertips trembled slightly.
The familiar handwriting was clearly located on the parchment paper.
[ Katzen here is like a silent prison. Are you doing well after abandoning me? You don't even care about our heart, which is bound by the shadow of an old and sick mountain and rotting day by day, right? ]
Why is there a letter written in her handwriting on this parchment?
She closed her eyes tightly, but the letters remained the same.
'Bridget-!'
Western Empress raised her head.
Not long ago, she found her henchman, who had instructed her to put the secret book in the dagger.
Her eyes ran sharply across the banquet hall.
But there was none.
Nowhere in such a bright and bustling banquet hall was there a trace of Bridget, who moved like a shadow, like the hands and feet of the Western Empress.
When a cool sensation swept through the back of the Western Empress, she finally realized.
'I, I have fallen into a trap.'
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