Don't Get Caught By Your Husband! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 116

“Could the Pope really have… done such a thing to them?”

The Emperor asked in a voice filled with disbelief.

He had known that Pronance Brielle had gradually revealed his greed over the past few years as the Papal See’s influence grew ever larger, painting him as a covetous man—but he never imagined he would act so outrageously.

It was unthinkable that the man who dared call himself God’s representative had committed such acts against the very imperial citizens who revered him without fail.

The Emperor raised a hand to his furrowed brow as if suffering a headache.

In the blink of an eye, the courtroom was thrown into utter chaos.

Amid the confusion, Escalion appeared at the very back among the people from Lableserona.

With light steps, he passed through the courtroom entrance, easily leaped over the door guarded by knights, and walked straight toward Belladonna.

Standing close beside her, he lifted the corner of his mouth and asked,

“Was I too late?”

“You arrived just in time. Had you been even a few seconds later, I might have been exiled from the Eleanor Empire.”

“I haven’t rested a single moment since my wife sent me to Lableserona—how strange. I suppose I was delayed because I wasn’t feeling well. Forgive me.”

Escalion teased lightly. Belladonna looked up at him with a helpless smile.

She had sent Escalion to the address she’d found while going through the Pope’s documents, driven by a persistent hunch that the place held deep ties to the Pope’s secrets.

Just as she’d anticipated, there she discovered victims of the Pope’s drug experiments—people he’d hidden away from public view, yet who had survived.

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