It was clear that the queen noticed in the middle and struck first.
Stupid Yuria was the victim.
However… Even if the queen noticed it, what about the crown prince?
Deborah asked, pressing her face against the iron bars.
“The Crown Prince? Didn’t the Crown Prince take Yuria’s side?”
Mary Jane shook her head calmly with an emaciated face.
“He took the queen and left right away.”
“…Yuria, that stupid bitch! Oh, no!”
If he drank the Heart of Eros, there was no way he would.
Even if the queen had vomited blood on the spot, he would have tried to protect Yuria.
In the end, it was clear that the clever crown prince and queen knew the situation in advance and made plans accordingly.
Deborah endured the sensation of having her whole body tremble with chagrin and anger and flesh crumbling into powder.
Now it was a dead end street. There was nowhere else to go. Intuitively, she felt it.
Deborah shifted her eyes and cried like a madman.
“Pamela, let me meet Pamela!”
But, unfortunately, she still had a period of detention.
“Please, tell her that I’ll look for her as soon as my detention is over! This Deborah…!”
Deborah’s desperate voice shook the prison cell, but the iron bars containing her didn’t move.
* * *
No matter how much he wiped the blood off the dress, it didn’t go away.
And yet, obsessively, Rixus wiped the blood on his wife’s cheek, dress and chest.
Before he knew it, his large hands and face were covered with blood as well.
Lying like a pale corpse covered in dark red blood, she……
Except for the bloodstains, she still had the image of a happy bride, so there was no sense of reality.
“Berylia…”
He wanted to take out his own life and feed her.
He wanted to donate his blood as well.
However, there was nothing he could do.
Although he was a hero for the empire in countless crises, he failed to keep the woman he loved the most.
Even at the wedding.
A deep sense of helplessness and despair pierced his heart.
Rixus desperately held her small hand, and endured the pain that was as if his bones were dismantled and reassembled every second.
The priest approached the crown prince, who had lost all his energy within a few minutes, and opened his mouth cautiously.
“The drug that Her Majesty the Queen has ingested is the Breath of Johannes. It’s a powerful antidote… but if someone who is resistant to poison ingests it, it will recognize the whole body as poison and attack entirely.”
With red bloodshot eyes, Rixus asked,
“Her life is ….”
“She doesn’t have a life-threatening condition. Actually, when she ingested the Breath of Johannes…”
The priest seemed a little hesitant, but he continued carefully.
“She was addicted to poison. That’s why the Breath of Johannes’ seems to have worked as a detoxifier.”
Rixus’ eyes widened.
‘She knew in advance.’
Berylia, she knew what was going to happen to her.
He warned,
“You must not tell anyone.”
“…Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
It took a while for the priest to step out. After that, Ires hurried in.
Ires was given a special order to investigate the scene in the shortest possible time.
After he had done so, he ran here at once. Because he knew how his master felt.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, something strange has been discovered at the scene.”
“Say it.”
“Your Highness, the wine bottle meant for Lady Yuria contains poison.”
“….…”
Rixus’ eyes darkened.
Berylia, obviously, knew what wine Yuria was going to drink.
But she prepared poison to feed her?
Aside from why she was trying to kill the lady, it didn’t fit in with logic.
But what if Yuria tried to make her own play with poison and the Breath of Johannes.
If Berylia had noticed this in advance, and if she risked her life to defend it.
……It was then that the yoke of logic entered.
She ‘drank it on purpose.’
For a moment, Rixus felt dizzy, like his feet were going out.
His heart went cold.
Two drugs to kill, and she drank one ‘intentionally’.
Meanwhile, he knew nothing of it.
How much longer had she been fighting such a cruel war?
How hard was it to come to this unfamiliar Aktoum because of him and struggle alone, all without him knowing.
Without knowing that, he believed that it would be a happy marriage… Wasn’t he an absolute idiot?
He suddenly remembered the sight of her tears at the wedding.
“Why are you crying like this?”
“I like it.”
“….…”
“…I love you so much, Rixus.”
Rixus let out a painful breath, as if his heart had been crushed.
He thought he knew a lot about her, but he knew nothing of her.
Those anxious eyes that he saw from time to time.
Despite reading those glances, he did not actively seek out and dig into it.
‘I was afraid she’d move away from me.’
In the end, her vigilance made her uneasy on her own, leading her to fight in solitude.
She couldn’t speak to herself, leaving her to do this on her own.
Regrets flooded him, placing him on the cusp of madness.
Had he known it would make her so lonely, he wouldn’t have brought her!
Even if he would have suffered without her, stayed alone all his life, and withered to death…
…He should have left it like that.
Now, he could never leave it like that.
“Never……”
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Never again.
“I won’t let you fight alone.”
So, please.
“Wake up quickly, Berylia…”
With tears in his reddened eyes, he kissed the back of his wife’s hand earnestly.