Isolene shouted, clutching Gremory's hair tightly.
"Shut up, you witch! How dare you try to toy with my father?"
"Shut up, you wicked witch! How dare you frame an innocent person? Count, hurry up and drag this witch to the Lord's Palace! Don't be fooled by the outer shell!"
Count Sien just stood there in a daze. The knights also stared blankly at the two women.
One of the knights whispered to Count Sien.
"Count. I'm really confused. I heard that the witch had short hair and was wearing a dark blue robe, but they are both the same, right? Everything they claim is plausible."
"Young Lady Mori is definitely a human being. I heard that she held a Saint identification ceremony the other day. If she were a witch, she would have been caught during the Identification ceremony."
"Because it is a process of using a needle and holy water. So, is our Miss Isolene really a witch?
"No way. I saw her come out of Madam's boat, which is a human being, but how could she not be a human?"
The Count and the knight groaned.
"Why don't you just take both of you to the temple to check it out? If it's a substitute exhibition, you'll know the answer."
"That's the only way."
The two women now began to roll around, holding each other's hair. It seemed that if they stayed like that, they wouldn't let go until one of them went bald, so the knights tore it up.
To the two who were caught by the knights and were angry. Count Sien declared.
"Both of your claims are unfair, so we will send them to the temple together. Lady Mori, are you okay?"
"It's good for me. Hehe."
"Isolene, do you agree?"
"I like it too. Hmm."
Both of them came out like that, and Count Sien was even more confused. If there was a witch among the two, he thought she would resist because she didn't want to go to the temple. This made him more cautious about the situation. It was just as Isolene and Gremory thought.
The two women were exhausted and fainted from fighting. The two of them, carried down the mountain by the knights, were immediately loaded into a carriage and sent to the temple.
And to prevent any unforeseen events, Count Shien put a relic restraint around the necks of the two women.
***
About six hours earlier, Chession had set off for the Duchy of Ortega.
He was dressed in the relic armor, relic cloak, and relic jewelry that he had brought in advance. The pouch contained a sachet given to him by Kurchen and potions made by Gremory in the past.
Green 'Beauty Potion'. A special potion of dark red light was stuck in the gap. It was a potion that Gremory had specially made for Chession.
'Green is only for wounds and minor illnesses. The dark red one is for plague only. The dark red one was difficult to make because there were no ingredients. I'll give it to you specially.'
Not knowing what Etna and Marvas were going to do, Chession packed the potion he had saved.
He rode in a swift, enchanted carriage and escaped from the county of Sien. Even with haste magic, it would take at least six hours to reach the Duke of Ortega.
About five hours after leaving, he looked out the window as he passed quickly. The sunset was setting in the distance.
'Count Sien is fine, right? I hope nothing happens.'
It was a time when he was staring out the window in a daze for a while. In the distance, he saw a girl with a familiar appearance coming on horseback. The girl was running frantically towards the carriage.
"Your Highness, Grand Duke!"
"What, Anna? Did you know he could ride a horse?"
Chession stopped the carriage and opened the door. Before he knew it, Anna had come to the front of the carriage and jumped off the horse.
"Anna, how did you get here?"
"I was taking a nap and was crushed by scissors, and Princess Iris asked me to do it for me. Please bring the 'Ham' to His Highness the Grand Duke right now."
Anna took out a Ham from the bag she was carrying at her side. The Ham was shining blue and white.
"Ham' opened a teleportation portal so that I could quickly get to His Highness the Grand Duke! He even cast a spell on me so that I could ride horses."
"Did that Ham have such a talent?"
"That's right. Anyway, touch this quickly."
The Ham was moving up and down on Anna's hand. As if asking him to touch it.
Chession placed his hand on top of Ham. His vision turned black, and the past from 200 years ago unfolded.
***
200 years ago, the Duke of Fernas' family was very powerful.
Duke Fernas presented a necklace to Princess Serietti in the name of his loyalty to the imperial family. It was a necklace made of gold and the finest rubies, and it was mesmerizingly beautiful.
Serietti wore the necklace every day. Whether it's going to a party, simply going out, or just being in the palace.
Then one day, a skin disease began to develop mainly in the neck. Serietti thought the necklace was the cause and threw it away mercilessly.
"Damn Fernas! You must have cursed me!"
The maids calmed her down.
"It must be a temporary rash. If you wear jewelry that doesn't fit your skin for a long time, you may sometimes get a rash."
"That's right. All gifts delivered to Your Highness are checked by the wizards. If there was a curse, the wizard would have noticed."
"The wizards must be incompetent! Or Fernas bribed them!"
The skin disease gradually spread throughout the body. So terrible that she can't even use her hands anymore.
The wizards hurriedly inspected the necklace again, but there was nothing wrong with it. Nevertheless, Serietti firmly believed that everything was the work of Duke Fernas.
Serietti threw the necklace to the maid and ordered.
"Take this right away. Or sell it at an auction house at a bargain price. You can take the money."
"Yes, Your Highness."
When Duke Fernas saw the necklace at the auction house, he grinned. In fact, it was a curse on the necklace. And it was also correct to bribe the imperial wizards.
The Duke of Fernas hated Hamburton, the Emperor of the time. The two were close academy classmates, but Hamburton betrayed them at a crucial moment.
When Duke Fernas' daughter was unjustly accused of being a witch, Hamburton avoided Duke Fernas, who begged for help. Hamburton appeared quietly after Princess Fernas was burned at the stake, and tried to cover up the situation by saying that he had tried but had a hard time.
On the subject of ascending the throne thanks to the help of Fernas, Hamburton turned a blind eye to Fernas' difficulties. Therefore, Duke Fernas decided to take revenge on him using Princess Serietti, whom Hamburton cherished the most.
Hamburton would definitely do anything for the Princess, who was terminally ill. Maybe he even dabbled in black magic. Even if he did not dabble in black magic, the Emperor would lose his credibility just because he had wrapped up his terminally ill daughter.
Incurable diseases, especially skin diseases, are considered punishments and curses from heaven. It was clear that Hamburton, who hid and wrapped it, would also be treated as unclean.
After all, Hamburton dabbled in black magic. Even the magic is so vicious that warlocks stick out their tongues.
Thinking that it was right, Duke Fernas gathered evidence that would bring down Hamburton and announced it to the world. He then led the angry nobles and commoners to set fire to the castle of Forquint.
Then, he was sucked into the cracks of the demon world and killed by a dog, and Duke Fernas disappeared into the back of history.
After Serietti became a demon god in the demon world.
The cursed necklace circulated through auction houses and the black market. The necklace, which had been wandering around for more than 190 years, finally found its place in the exhibition hall of the Marquis Doriton. The truth behind that terrible necklace was forgotten over time.
People flocked to the exhibition hall to see necklaces of unknown origin. Isolene and her friends who were twelve years old at the time, as well.
"Wow, it's beautiful...! I've never seen such a beautiful piece of jewelry! Can a ruby be so shiny? I feel like I'm enchanted when I look at it."
Isolene's childhood friend, Young Lady Sannya of Viscount Fries, approached as if possessed by the glass case. Isolene coldly snatched Sanya's shoulder.
"Can't you see standing on the floor? If you don't want to be misunderstood and scammed, don't cross the line."
"Stand. I know you shouldn't cross the line. But without me knowing...!"
Isolene's well-dressed friends chattered at Sanya.
"Oh my God, did he just run at the jewels?"
"It's a very poor family, so it's worth turning your eyes away. It's the first time I've seen something like that."
"Well, do you have a chance to see something like that? If Isolene hadn't brought me here, I wouldn't have been able to come to an exhibition like this."
"Hey, you guys should be quiet, too.
Isolene let out a brief sigh as if giving her a face and walked forward with her friends.
Sanya quietly followed them with her head down. Unable to blend in with the conversation between young children, she kept her mouth shut.
Some young siblings were watching them from afar. They were Catherine and Kenneth.
"Whoa, brother, look over there, some shabby beggar is going around in such a noble place."
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