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 lot!!”
all this rumpus was due to those
shone at the necklace.
down once it disappears! I will
it might arouse the suspicion of the nobility…….so it should be done
the panic-stricken Empress seemed to have
Oscar was one step ahead of her.
shove past him, he walked past her and
it was Oscar’s turn to help Ian.
soft voice echoed through
Your Royal Highness, the Crown Prince.”
“Are the tears of
out his necklace.
yourself, Your Highness.”
this dynasty
half-dragons always went berserk, unable to control their
how the
it, Prince Oscar had special abilities. The ability to check if an object made from a dragon’s body was “real”.
family was under the Reinhardt family, but the Emperor and the Crown Prince were the only ones with the characteristics of a
poured a few drops on his palm.
that was golden in color and swirled up in the air until it disappeared with a poof.
“…..!”
at the beautiful
Ian. He felt pathetic and sorry
there was nothing he could do.
Ian to carry this necklace before going
his palm with a handkerchief he
it definitely
declared as he returned
to ask you a few questions to
sentence as the Empress had forcefully turned him
She whispered.
you say that they are actual tears of a dragon?!”
“…..Mother, please calm down and think.”
she’d panic
spoke with a voice that only
the Duke to 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 property!”
“That can’t be helped. Who knew that he had a dragon’s
the tears of a dragon, he would have still
The Empress murmured.
Duke carry his heirloom on a battlefield?”
glanced at the Duke, her face with a look of suspicion. Then she asked, tugging at Oscar’s overcoat.
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