Chapter 22
Aghast, the Empress glared at the necklace.
How could that be in the hands of the Duke? She couldn’t believe her eyes. Everything was falling apart in her perfectly designed scheme. She believed that the prickly Duke of Reinhardt had finally been put to eternal sleep.
She thought the Duke of Reinhardt was a great threat to the Imperial family. The knights under him had been the royal family’s armed forces for decades. He even owned half of the candidates of the Swordmasters. If Ian had a bad heart, he wouldn’t have been able to predict the winner.
The Empress of Iassa was blinded by Ian’s influence.
Then, the Emperor fell into a terrible sickness while the Empress came to rule the country. She had been enjoying this power for a long time.
“…….”
This was the perfect plan.
Well, at least, it used to be.
Oscar seized her elbow as the Empress stumbled and fell when the reality became vivid in her mind.
She cried out.
“C-Crown Prince…!”
“Mother, calm down and compose yourself.”
Oscar’s low mellow voice reached her.
That’s right, she shouldn’t just back away like that.
She screamed.
“Don’t speak nonsense! A-Are you just going to stand around?! Get that criminal on the ground this instant!”
But there was no one who dared to face him off.
The lowly guards hesitated, while impatience grew in the hall.
“There are only two men in the world who possess the tears of a dragon. I’ve heard that one was carried by the Duke.”
“His crime of treason is not really true, is it?”
“What is going on……?”
The nobles began to be swayed by Ian’s calm attitude.
The Empress roared.
quiet, you
this rumpus was due to those tears of a dragon.
shone at
disappears! I will break
it should
panic-stricken Empress seemed to have
Oscar was one step ahead of
shove past him, he walked past her and stood in front
was Oscar’s turn
soft voice echoed through the central
the Crown Prince.”
“Are the tears of a
held out his
it yourself, Your Highness.”
“…..Very
the royal family of Iassa. The founder of this dynasty was born with the blood of a dragon running inside his
that half-dragons always went berserk, unable to
And that’s how the blood of a
it, Prince Oscar had special abilities. The ability to check if an object made from a dragon’s body
family, but the Emperor and
took the necklace and poured a few drops on
golden in color
“…..!”
at the
brown eyelashes shook as he looked up at Ian. He felt pathetic
Ian, but there was nothing he could do.
he was the one who advised Ian to
palm with a handkerchief he received from
definitely is authentic……”
he returned the
to ask you a few questions to check if
sentence as the Empress had
She whispered.
are actual tears of a dragon?!”
“…..Mother, please calm down
knew she’d panic
a voice that
keep it a secret.”
“Then, does everything I’ve done mean nothing to you?! Besides, I’ve already spent a lot of riches on his
a dragon, he would have still survived with his own
The Empress murmured.
the Duke carry his heirloom on a battlefield?”
face with a look of suspicion. Then she asked, tugging at Oscar’s overcoat.
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