“You have something to tell me?”
Kavala, seeing the two knights of Ronheim standing behind me, instead of asking about them, sat down gracefully across from me.
Her face looked even more intense than usual due to the heavier makeup.
“Now I want to hear the truth from your own mouth.”
“Why today of all days?”
“The Emperor has confiscated everything I own, and tomorrow I will be leaving for Ronheim. This time, as a form of exile.”
So, I had to meet Kavala before that.
Kavala chuckled, as if she liked the word exile.
"It seems you've chosen death over exile. Seeing you behaving so rudely."
Her gaze lingered for a moment on the knights of Ronheim.
He seemed happy that I came in like this, even bringing a knight with me.
Even though the palace attendants tried to stop me, I pushed in blindly with armed knights, so even if I didn't threaten Kavala here anymore, Kavala could frame me for any crime.
As Kavala thinks, I came here today after making a life-or-death decision.
"But just the two of you? Even if we came here to die, this is too simple. How many more must you have hidden somewhere else?"
“These two are the only knights I have in the palace.”
“No matter what, you're still the Princess. Shouldn’t you have chosen more people to go with you?”
“They wouldn’t let me in at the entrance. I guess I’ve become quite the target of the imperial guard.”
"You knew you could only bring two, but you came all this way. Apparently, you don't expect much. All you want is my head, and after that, you don't care what happens next."
I shrugged.
“Could you please make a good plan for me?”
"No matter how good the plan, it's too late now. Still, I can offer you one last piece of advice. It's foolish to act without thinking, Chloe."
“It sounds so sweet to hear that from you today.”
Kavala, who did not understand what I was saying, tilted her head slightly.
Even so, I changed the subject since it was not something I needed to interpret.
"Well, I'll take care of my plans, so don't worry about it. But before that, there's one last thing I really want to ask you."
"Good. I'll give you the answer you want as a gift for the afterlife. You'd better ask quickly. Before the royal knights arrive. When they do, I'll order them to behead you."
“Is it true that you killed Empress Lydia, the former Empress and my mother?”
“You were curious about that? Is that why you harbored a desire for revenge?”
Kavala laughed heartily.
“I commend you for noticing that fact even now.”
That was when.
A loud noise of footsteps echoed from somewhere.
“Your Majesty! Bring the Empress!”
Kavala, seeing the two knights of Ronheim standing behind me, instead of asking about them, sat down gracefully across from me.
Her face looked even more intense than usual due to the heavier makeup.
“Now I want to hear the truth from your own mouth.”
“Why today of all days?”
“The Emperor has confiscated everything I own, and tomorrow I will be leaving for Ronheim. This time, as a form of exile.”
So, I had to meet Kavala before that.
Kavala chuckled, as if she liked the word exile.
"It seems you've chosen death over exile. Seeing you behaving so rudely."
Her gaze lingered for a moment on the knights of Ronheim.
He seemed happy that I came in like this, even bringing a knight with me.
Even though the palace attendants tried to stop me, I pushed in blindly with armed knights, so even if I didn't threaten Kavala here anymore, Kavala could frame me for any crime.
As Kavala thinks, I came here today after making a life-or-death decision.
"But just the two of you? Even if we came here to die, this is too simple. How many more must you have hidden somewhere else?"
“These two are the only knights I have in the palace.”
“No matter what, you're still the Princess. Shouldn’t you have chosen more people to go with you?”
“They wouldn’t let me in at the entrance. I guess I’ve become quite the target of the imperial guard.”
"You knew you could only bring two, but you came all this way. Apparently, you don't expect much. All you want is my head, and after that, you don't care what happens next."
I shrugged.
“Could you please make a good plan for me?”
"No matter how good the plan, it's too late now. Still, I can offer you one last piece of advice. It's foolish to act without thinking, Chloe."
“It sounds so sweet to hear that from you today.”
Kavala, who did not understand what I was saying, tilted her head slightly.
Even so, I changed the subject since it was not something I needed to interpret.
"Well, I'll take care of my plans, so don't worry about it. But before that, there's one last thing I really want to ask you."
"Good. I'll give you the answer you want as a gift for the afterlife. You'd better ask quickly. Before the royal knights arrive. When they do, I'll order them to behead you."
“Is it true that you killed Empress Lydia, the former Empress and my mother?”
“You were curious about that? Is that why you harbored a desire for revenge?”
Kavala laughed heartily.
“I commend you for noticing that fact even now.”
That was when.
A loud noise of footsteps echoed from somewhere.
“Your Majesty! Bring the Empress!”
It seemed like the imperial knights had arrived.
"Oh dear, the imperial knights are already here before you even have your swords at my throat. Why don't they just charge in as soon as you come in instead of waiting?"
“But there are so many things to check.”
It was only a matter of moments before the imperial knights advanced towards us.
The door, which had not been locked in the first place, burst open, and the imperial knights rushed in.
“Your Majesty! It’s okay...”
The knights who had come out, expecting me to hold a knife to Kavala's throat, stopped when they saw us sitting quietly facing each other.
“Are you... okay?”
When the imperial knight asked Kavala, Kavala nodded.
"For a moment."
Kavala, who had signaled the knight to wait, looked at me with a leisurely smile.
“It seems like it’s really over now, but is there anything else left to check?”
“Are you even going to admit here that Andrea is Dnieper’s son? They’re watching?”
“How dare you insult Her Majesty the Empress...!”
At my words, the imperial knight got angry and strode towards me.
Then, Alex and Karl, the knights of Ronheim who were behind me, aimed their swords and stopped him.
It was the moment when the knights' fight was about to begin.
“You have the same expression as Andrea?”
"For a moment!"
At my words, Kavala raised her hand and stopped the imperial knight.
It seemed like there was something she wanted to hear, even if it meant delaying her death.
“Did you say the same thing to Andrea?”
“Yes, I did. He was naked and causing a ruckus, trying to catch me.”
“...!”
Kavala seemed to remember something, then she looked at me with a smile as if she was amazed.
“It was your doing?”
"It was so much fun to see Andrea treated like a lunatic because no one believed him. Especially you, who treated him like a lunatic, even locked him up. When I went back, I saw he had truly gone mad. It was so heartbreaking."
Only then did Kavala realize that Andrea's strange behavior was all my own doing, and her fists trembled.
I consoled her like that.
"Not yet. I also know that you brutally murder countless young women and bathe in their blood. Your maid came to me and confided in me."
At that moment, Kavala's maid, Liene, quietly came out of the bedroom.
Only then did Kavala realize that she had betrayed her and grit her teeth.
“You bastard...”
"By now, we should know. Who's caught in the trap?"
The moment I finished speaking.
The nobles appeared behind Liene.
While Kavala and I were talking, Liene, who had stayed in the bedroom after informing them of my visit, opened the secret passage I had told her about and led the nobles who had been waiting outside in.
The nobles, who had heard our entire conversation and even witnessed the woman who had almost been sacrificed by Kavala, were glaring at Kavala with disgusted faces.
“Such a shameless...!”
“How wicked!”
At first, the nobles didn't believe me.
They gathered at the palace, half in doubt about my suggestion that they listen to Kavala's own confession.
It was not planned for the nobles to show up like this, but it seems they couldn't stand hearing Kavala speak, so they all came out and pointed fingers at her.
“What the heck is this...! Listen here! Kill all these traitors!”
Kavala commanded the imperial knights.
But the vice-captain of the knight order leading the imperial knights hesitated and lowered his sword.
“If everything Her Highness says is true, there is no reason for me to take up my sword here.”
“Vice-Captain...!”
“We will follow the Vice-Captain’s will!”
The knights, viewing the vice-captain's actions as a determination not to acknowledge Kavala as the royal family they were supposed to protect, all threw down their swords.
And that moment.
“Hehehe. You idiots.”
Lamia, who had been in the guise of the vice-captain of the Imperial Knights, returned to her original form.
At the same time, Alex and Karl, who were guarding me, thrust their weapons at the imperial knights, and then a thunderous roar filled the palace.
“Hit everyone!”
Kavala jumped up, confused as to what all the fuss was about.
“What, what is this?”
"There were only two knights brought into the palace, and quite a few soldiers were left outside. I guess they've all come inside now."
Kavala, who realized that she had been completely fooled by me, glared at me with bloodshot eyes and rushed at me as if she was going to kill me.
“Chloe...! I will definitely kill you...! Gasp!”
But her hand couldn't reach me.
“Are you okay, Chloe?”
Because Callius' sword pierced her shoulder.
“Why are you so late, Callius!”
I looked at Callius and playfully complained.
Then Callius nodded toward the door through which the imperial knights had been pushed out by Alex and Karl.
“I was late because I brought a gift.”
There, the Emperor and Dnieper were brought in, bound, by the knights of Ronheim.
“Who, sis...”
Dnieper looked up at Kavala with a pale face.
In fact, Dnieper was captured by us a long time ago.
We struck and captured Marquis Blanco just before he led his troops to the palace.
Because we had to disguise Lamia as him and bring her a woman to be sacrificed to Kavala.
Even the woman that Lamia brought to Kavala was actually Leviche.
The purpose was to show the nobles firsthand what Kavala usually does.
Leviche stood among the nobles, blowing on the two fingers that had been cut by Kavala's sword, and glared at Kavala.
'I'll have to treat it later.'
How anxious I was that Leviche would be seriously injured.
Luckily, I must have come at the right time, because she was walking around fine with a bandage wrapped around her finger.
“Chloe, how dare you...!”
The Emperor glared at me with wide eyes.
I looked down at him coldly.
“I’m surprised you know my name.”
Dnieper was talking to Kavala with tears in his eyes.
“Sister, it’s over. The rebels have surrounded the capital.”
Callius gave Kavala another confirmation as he screamed, applying force to the sword he had stabbed.
“Yes, this tiresome fight is over now, Kavala.”
Kabbalah ground his teeth.
“Who... who said it was over!”
The moment she screamed, the blood flowing from her shoulder turned into countless red birds.
When Callius sensed something was wrong and took a step back from her, he drew his sword. Her blood spurted out like a fountain, transforming into more red birds and enveloping Kavala.
And just like that, Kavala, or rather the mass of red birds, shattered the window in an instant and disappeared into the sky.
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