I didn't want to bother Rudnine.
Somehow, things keep getting twisted and bother him.
"Absolutely, not intentionally..."
After taking a bath and getting dressed, I returned to my bedroom, feeling depressed and looking out the window helplessly.
'Yvonne.'
However, I keep thinking of those clear, deep black eyes that stared at me.
His pleasant bass sound lingers in my ears.
'Now he hates me.'
I suddenly became depressed, so I went to the lab and took out a Thiels bracelet.
Then I lay on the bed and fiddled with the bracelet to soothe my heart.
"My precious bracelet."
I was surprised to be muttering to myself without realizing it, so I made an excuse.
"Of course it's precious, how much does this cost?"
Yes, collect Thiels and get the magic back. That's why I said that the Thiels bracelet is precious.
"I don't have the slightest other mind..."
I said so, but my conscience was pierced because I was not selfless at all.
Because I'm a human too.
If such a nice and kind man treats you well, but you don't feel the same way at all, you're not a person.
With my lips pursed, I let out a deep sigh and lay down with my back curled.
Is it precious because Rudnine gave it to me, or is it precious because it has Thiels embedded in it?
Anyway, as I was wearing the bracelet that had become too important to me, I fell asleep before I knew it.
It was a long day.
***
That time.
Inside a dark building.
Among the buildings of the Imperial Palace, dark red blood dripped down the floor of the stone building, which was very old and cracked in places.
In an old building filled with the smell of dust, a woman twisted in pain.
"Yvonne... Yvonne Argenthoz!!"
Cordelia tried to block it with a handkerchief, but it didn't stop, and she gritted her teeth as she watched her nosebleeds pour down to the floor.
The familiar that made her soul as collateral died again.
Really, Yvonne was a woman she wanted to erase from this world. No, she wanted to kill her painfully somehow.
Even the second familiar died helplessly.
She began to doubt that Yvonne had noticed something about her or the familiar
At first, she thought Yvonne was a hot-tempered Princess who harassed her because she had a crush on Prince Adrian.
Yvonne even threw a dangerous magic bomb at her, so she planted the first familiar in the shadows to warn her.
Even the familiar attached to Barden Argenthoz was killed by the woman at once.
As the amount of bleeding increased, her physical condition became more and more critical.
Cordelia was dizzy, and her eyes were spinning.
She put her hands on the floor and tried to come to her senses.
'Princess Yvonne... What the hell! I just thought she was a slightly better wizard!'
It was too hard for Cordelia to dismiss it as a coincidence.
As the dizziness was followed by unbearable nausea, Cordelia's face turned white.
"I'm going to die like this. Are you going to run right now and somehow kill the Princess? Risking everything?!"
"Cordelia?"
Cordelia opened her eyes wide as she put her handkerchief, which was wet with her nosebleed, on the floor at the sound of a gentle voice calling out to her.
A woman who appeared without a trace of popularity.
Familiar voice.
However, no matter how much she encounters her, she feels more and more scared.
Cordella looked at the woman standing in front of her with horrified eyes, trembling and trembling.
Oops.
The woman saw Cordelia's bones covered in blood from a nosebleed and lightly clicked her congue.
The woman approached her, kneeling on the floor and slumping helplessly, and leaned down to gently grab Cordelia's chin.
The cold sensation of the woman's fingers touching her chin made Cordelia feel utterly terrified.
Cordelia's eyes flickered even more.
"Oh no, that's going to be painful."
"Oh, Your Majesty...!"
"Shh."
The Empress comforted her and stared at Cordella, and curled the corners of her eyes.
Then, suddenly, the red blood flowing from Cordelia's nose stopped, and her complexion was bleeding.
In an instant, Cordelia's condition improved, and the Empress grinned and stood up.
The Empress was handed a handkerchief by her concubine, who was waiting behind her, and she wiped her hand from Cordelia's face with a graceful gesture.
"What the hell are you doing? What is this?"
"Fo, forgive me!"
"If you die early, you will be in trouble. Cordelia is my precious..."
The Empress threw the handkerchief she had wiped her hands on the floor.
The handkerchief disappeared in an instant with a blazing flame before it even fell to the floor.
Cordelia trembled as she witnessed the Empress's power, which was significantly different from hers.
Frightened, she couldn't listen to the Empress properly.
"...Because."
The Empress looked down at the floating Cordelia as if she were looking at a pitiful beauty, then turned around.
"Don't waste your energy on the wrong place."
"Your Majesty!"
Cordelia called for the Empress, but she disappeared in an instant along with her henchmen.
Left alone in the darkness, Cordelia stared blankly at the place where the Empress appeared and disappeared.
Empress.
Prince Adrian's adoptive mother.
This Bervent of the Empire... No, the one who will be the true master of this continent.
And the scary guy holding her leash.
Cordelia clenched her fists.
The Empress is right.
If she keeps attacking Princess Argenthoz with force or magic, she will be defeated.
Because it's always been like that.
But that didn't mean Yvonne could be left alone.
Adrian began to take an interest in Yvonne, who began to behave strangely.
And his affection for her was gradually cooling down.
Somehow, Yvonne had to be kept out of this social circle and the aristocratic world.
"Then we must aim for what Princess Argenthoz lacks."
Cordelia, determined to put pressure on Yvonne in a tighter way, bit my nails with a sparkle of life.
Cordelia's face suddenly brightened as she was trying to figure out a way.
'Oh, yes. I should present Yvonne Argenthhoz with the Fountain of the Sun.'
Princess Argenthoz is indeed a bit vicious, but her appearance is fine.
So it is clear that she is also interested in skin beauty.
The Fountain of the Sun is a popular bath bomb among upper-class women these days, and it is rumored that just one use can make the skin smooth and radiant.
'But that's only for a moment.'
Cordelia grinned.
At first, it seems that the skin improves, but the more you use it repeatedly, the more eczema appears, oozes, and itching gradually becomes more and more severe.
"Wait, Princess. I will make you pay the price for taking my familiar and my life."
Cordelia hummed, imagining Yvonne hanging subserviently for a cure she would soon spray.
***
After Yvonne returned to her room, the father and son Argenthoz, who remained in the conference room, sat facing each other without saying a word.
Suddenly, the enraged Duke of Argenthhod, with blood on his forehead, scolded Barden in an angry voice.
"You. Why are you venting your anger on a stern child? You know how weak that child is, unlike what she seems!"
"...I'm sorry."
Barden's lips pouted sullenly, and he stared at the familiar carcass, which had been crumpled by Yvonne's hands.
'Why is your heart so weak and chaotic?'
He grumbled, but he kept thinking of the tears in Yvonne's eyes.
Barden was very eager to slap his snout.
"But I'm really worried. You had to see for yourself how the Duke of Iels folded his eyes and was so gentle with Yvonne!"
"Ahem. Was that enough?"
The Duke rested his chin on his hands with a serious expression.
"Yes. It was the same for me."
"To you?"
"Yes. He complimented me with a smile on his face, but I almost fell for it!"
Barden shuddered, remembering the smile Rudnine had given him earlier.
He is a man who is good at fascinating people.
He gritted his teeth and continued.
"Duke Iels is a kind person by nature. But I'm worried that Yvonne will mistakenly think that she is special to him and fall in love."
"Hmm. Is that so?"
Listening to his son's passionate speech, Duke Argenthoz thought of the young Rudnine Iels, whom he had seen in the Iels estate when he was young.
Even when he was younger, he thought Rudnine was very neat and handsome, but he wondered if he was that much.
'Well, I told you that it was much better than a portrait.'
He was deeply troubled.
It was strange.
He even sent a handwritten letter saying that the open contract with his daughter that he had arranged had already ended.
Why does Duke Iels keep hovering by Yvonne's side?
"No way... Is Duke Eels interested in my child?"
Looking at the Duke with a crumpled expression, he snapped his fingers as if he thought of Barden.
"Oh, Father!"
"Why is that?"
"Did you know that His Highness the Crown Prince sent Yvonne an invitation to a tea party?"
"...What?! What did you say now? When did he do that?"
The Duke, who had no idea that the Crown Prince had sent Yvonne an invitation, gritted his teeth and jumped up from his seat.
"It was a tea party this afternoon. It was a tea party hosted by His Highness the Crown Prince's lover, the illegitimate Princess of the Mare!"
"What?!"
The Duke of Argenthoz's purple eyes flashed like red lava.
"Invite a poor child who loved you but is now trying to bury her heart to a party hosted by your lover?! Such a damn bastard looks very ridiculous on our Argenthoz family!"
"That's right!"
When Duke Argenthoz did not hide his emotions and became angry by criticizing Adrian, Barden jumped up from his seat in anger.
Since Yvonne had handled the reply to the letter from the Crown Prince alone, Barden and the Duke could not know.
In fact, they didn't care what kind of letter someone sent to Yvonne or what he did.
They just hoped that Yvonne wouldn't have an accident.
But now it was different.
The Duke of Argentkhoz and the Barden wanted to protect Yvonne and wish her a good life.
As usual, she could have gone unnoticed what had happened to Yvonne, but luckily, Barden heard about it.
The magic tower where the Duke of Argentkhoz worked was located in the western part of the capital, far from the imperial palace, but the academy where Barden worked was close to the imperial palace.
So this morning, he heard about the tea party hosted by Princess Cordelia Mare at the Imperial Palace.
The Crown Prince invited Yvonne, but Yvonne refused.
Excited and screaming, Barden finally calmed down.
"Still, Yvonne refused to attend on her own. Isn't that great?"
The Duke of Argenthoz clicked his tongue in regret.
"Yes. True... She's crying. She wanted to go, but how hard it must have been."
Just now, she saw her daughter leave the room with tears in his eyes.
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