“Princess, you should go back. It’s not good if you go alone like this,” Hanry said.
“Don’t tell me about what’s good and bad.” Anwen walked away from them as she spoke. “I can take care of myself. I can shoot even better than both of you.”
Anwen's words made Hanry look at her sharply. He thought the girl was very arrogant.
Anwen canceled her intention to look for Trish even though she had been desperately making an excuse to escape from Nadin and the other maids’ attention.
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Before returning to the test location, Adaline picked up Anwen so the people looking for the girl wouldn’t think strange things because Anwen suddenly disappeared.
Anwen was a bit confused by her aunt’s attitude, but it seemed her aunt was helping her.
The next test would be held inside the palace colosseum. Hanry and Kaven would have a one-on-one duel. Inside the changing room, Hanry was
Kaven and Hanry rolled on the floor and alternately sat on each other’s bodies while throwing punches. Bruises began to appear on their faces, along with the pain that made them hiss occasionally.This went on for a few seconds until they both got up and competed to reach their swords that had been thrown earlier. Then, they attacked with all their might and showed their skills in sword fighting.Whitney focused on Hanry. The man’s face was covered in blue bruises. All of that looked contrasting because of Hanry’s fair skin."Had you accepted my offer, then this fight would have been over already," she said inside her mind.She turned to look at Duke and Duchess Carolus and Leana’s underling disguised as a servant. In her mind, Whitney was thinking of Leana. She didn’t expect that the youngest daughter of the Adhelard Family was so bold as to order people to do such a high-risk thing.Meanwhile, down there, Hanry gritt
“Why? Why is it taking so long for him to regain consciousness? He’s been hurt a lot, but never like this.” Duchess Carolus spoke between her tears.“Doctor, do you know why Kaven fainted?” Trish try spoke up.“Probably due to heavy blood loss.”Of course, the doctor’s statement couldn’t be accepted right away. Kaven had repeatedly received much heavier injuries than this while participating in the battle, but something like this had never happened.If someone who didn’t like the Carolus Family heard the doctor's statement, then it could be used as an object of ridicule. They would find Kaven very weak.“Are you kidding me? He had been hurt more severely than this before, and he had never passed out. I told you my son isn’t that weak,” Duchess Carolus said firmly.“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to say it is bad." The doctor tried to explain. "The human
In the room where Kaven was being treated, Anwen was with the doctor checking on him who was still unconscious. Anwen looked intently at Kaven’s face. His eyes were closed tightly, and his lips always put on a sweet smile. She stepped closer to get a better look. It wasn’t long before Anwen found a rash among the bruises on the right side of Kaven’s face. Due to Kaven’s battered face, the rash looked even fainter. Anwen touched the rash. It was stiff and quite wide. “Was this rash present when he was brought here?” she asked the doctor standing beside her. The doctor frowned. He stared in the direction Anwen was staring at. “No, Princess,” he said confidently after trying to remember the state when Kaven was brought into the treatment room. Yes, the doctor was sure there was no rash. Even when he took care of Kaven’s wounds. When the doctor examined further, it turned out that the rashes could also be found on Kaven’s n
For a moment, Anwen and Trish were silent and busy with their thoughts. “How did you know that he was poisoned?” Trish finally asked, and Anwen told him that Kaven’s condition had improved after she injected the antidote. Even though there was a possibility of drug allergy, she was more confident in cases of poisoning. “Have you checked the sword that Hanry used?” Trish drew the sword hanging on his thigh. “I am about to check it out now,” he said while showing the sword in his hand. It was Hanry’s sword which he had taken secretly. “Before Nadin gave me your letter, I had a plan to meet you. I wanted you to check this,” he explained. Anwen was somewhat surprised that Trish was moving faster than she had expected. “How did you think that the poison was in the sword?” “Because in war, this is often done. How about you?” “The same.” Anwen took Hanry's sword and then looked at it closely. “It’s been
The next day, Trish’s job increased with one more task. He had been quite busy with the matters of Aathreya and Rion, and now he had to deal with Kaven’s poisoning incident.Having yet to obtain sufficient evidence, he and his subordinates undertook a secret investigation.If Trish said there was poison in Hanry’s sword, people would only accuse him, and Hanry and Whitney could avoid it because there was no evidence pointing at them apart from Hanry’s statement.Then, the Adhelard Family would also accuse him of framing Hanry.Besides that…Trish’s steps stopped in front of Kaven’s room. He could see Anwen was checking on the man’s condition.He heard the girl ask about Kaven’s condition gently and affectionately.“She said she loves me, but she’s never been that gentle wi
When the carriage was running, Bee still hugged Odette tightly.“Don’t go. Don’t leave me. I beg you,” Bee repeated the sentence over and over again. He was trembling with great fear of being abandoned.Hearing this, Odette’s eyes were filled with tears. She felt her heart being squeezed hard because she knew the story about Queen Ahana’s death and how the fate of little Rion had after his mother died right before his eyes.“I’m here,” she said, rubbing Bee’s back and trying to calm him down.The snow continued to fall, and the carriage was now on the other side of the mountain. From behind the curtain that was still open, Odette saw a cliff ahead and she believed Queen Ahana was killed there.She remembered Rion’s story well. At that time, the man said that when he and his mother were about to return to the palace after visiting Hugo Temple,. They took a different route from Yato Mo
While on the carriage, Bee sat anxiously.“Dear, are you hungry?” Odette took a sweet snack in a bag she always placed beside her. She treated Bee as a child.“Come get it,” she said, and Bee took it right away.Odette smiled, watching Bee eat heartily. The man really looked like a child. She was thinking about what it would be like when she and Rion had a child. Was it like Bee? But then… her face darkened as she remembered the current situation between her and Rion.Her dream of having a happy family with complete family members was on the brink of collapsing.“This isn’t tasty,” said Bee, making Odette blink her eyes confusedly. “This isn’t the one you make. Right, Mother?”Bee stared at Odette. Odette instantly remembered the things Rion had told her before. Queen Ahana was good at cooking, and the woman was also a great doctor. The food was made not only considering the
“What?!” Whitney, who met secretly with Leana’s underling, was shocked when the door to their meeting room was suddenly closed with a loud bang.They were even more surprised to see Trish and Kaven in the room.“Both of you are caught red-handed,” Trish said, walking from the dark to the lighter part.“You?” Whitney clenched her dress tightly and stepped back. She racked her brain, thinking of reasons to get out of the problem.Meanwhile, Leana’s underling drew the sword from his waist and quickly dashed to attack Trish.Trish moved faster. He shifted and held the man’s wrist. The next second, he threw the man’s body until it hit the wall.“Stop, you are no match for me,” he said when the man got up and wanted to attack him again.“If you don’t want to be in huge trouble, you better calm down,” Kaven said, then smiled sweetly. He walked over and