“Really?”

Atia smiled and gently touched her cheek.

“Is it similar? Harri, did you feel something in the underground palace?”

“Yes.”

“And now?”

“Now… something seems to have changed a bit.”

“What is it?”

“Energy… if I may call it that? I don’t know what happened. I’m not sure.”

Atia looked at Harri with a meaningful expression.

“Could it be… something happened? Something like healing a life-threatening illness?”

“Maybe.”

“Maybe? It’s not certain!”

“It’s certain. Because my body has changed from before. I can feel it.”

Amidst a momentary silence, Leo, who had been carefully observing Atia, was the first to speak up.

“What? Really?”

Leo approached Atia and placed both hands firmly on her shoulders.

“Th… that! A life-threatening… no, a disease was healed?”

“Probably.”

“Probably? It’s not for sure!”

“It’s for sure. Because my body is different from before. I can tell.”
Kesha swiftly crawled on her knees and looked at Atia with a similar expression to Leo’s.

“Oh. So, I came to inform you first. It also means, let’s exercise together.”

“Uh, exercise…”

Seeing Atia, who was talking about exercise right after recovering from her illness, Kesha felt a sense of eeriness.

Leo, who had grabbed Atia’s shoulders, let go and looked at her.

“What was the cause? They said it was an incurable disease even for doctors.”

“Oh, it was just, you know, nothing significant. It was a disease that healed faster than expected.”

“What? Really healed? I can’t believe it at all.”

Leo raised an eyebrow, smirking.

“Suddenly collapsing and feeling pain again? Are you lying to deceive us?”

“No… When did I ever lie?”

“Exactly! You acted like nothing was wrong. If I hadn’t caught you, no one would have known until now.”

Leo boldly recalled the scene where Atia collapsed and bled alone under the moonlight. Thinking about it made his chest tighten.

Atia playfully pinched Leo’s immature nose, slightly laughing.

“That’s right. Don’t worry.”

“Madam, I also find it hard to believe. That disease wasn’t an ordinary one.”

Kesha, too, put her hand on Atia’s arm, looking skeptical.

“Without you, Madam, I couldn’t live. You know…”

“Oh my, why are these kids like this?”

Atia laughed lightly, alternating her gaze between Leo, Kesha, and Harri.

“It was a magical illness that couldn’t be cured by doctors but could be healed by magic or something like that. But it turned out to be simpler than I thought.”

“I really don’t understand what you’re saying, Madam.”

Kesha and Leo seemed clueless.

“Magic? What’s that?”

However, Harri, with a different expression, looked at Atia.

“Oh, so that’s what it was.”

Harri nodded with a face that seemed to understand.

“Is it related to the change in the energy in the underground palace?”

Indeed, the original saint is a saint. She noticed the subtle difference.

“Yeah. I was under a dark magic spell. Someone put dark magic into my body.”

“Who… deliberately put it in…?”

Leo opened his mouth wide, looking at Atia.

Atia explained to them with a calm face.

“I don’t know who put dark magic into my body. I’m currently looking for that person. Who knows what mischief they might do to others?”

“Is there really such a crazy person?”

Leo erupted in anger, vomiting curses at Atia’s words.

Kesha, too, was so excited that her voice trembled.

“He’s a properly crazy person. Shall I show him the taste of my fist?”

Kesha revealed her well-toned biceps, rubbing them vigorously.

Seeing that, Leo was surprised and his eyes shook. It was a bicep size that wouldn’t come out unless you were well-trained.
Leo, seeing that, was taken aback, and his eyes trembled. The bicep size that wouldn’t appear without considerable training was visible.

“If they were that kind of person, they probably wouldn’t have used dark magic. We must find and make them pay. Otherwise, who knows what else they might do.”

Atia was suspecting the Harad family but couldn’t find any concrete evidence. The original work does not mention the insertion of dark magic into Atia’s body. As it involved a relatively unimportant character, detailed information was unavailable. Therefore, the possibility of the twin sisters Ann and Jay, daughters of Viscount Harad, had to be considered. If not, then…

“Viscount Shufen Harad… Viscountess Harad… Ann and Jay…”

No matter who from the Harad family she pointed to, there was a reasonable possibility. Atia was originally portrayed as a weak, sickly orphan, and the secret of that setup might have originated from someone else.

“I’ll also try to find the culprit. I’ll keep an eye out for any suspicious people in the capital.”

Leo said sharply, his eyes shining.

“If anything seems suspicious, I’ll chase it to the end, so let’s all gather our strength.”

“Oh, it’s so comforting that everyone thinks of me like this.”

Atia, looking excited as if it were her own business, smiled happily at Leo and Kesha, who were willing to help find the culprit.

“By the way, is the eldest brother taking good care of you? The eldest brother doesn’t know much about women.”

Laughter burst from Atia’s lips.

“You’re not a woman?”

“Me?”

Leo blinked, pointing to himself.

“Honestly… well, I don’t really know. But if she’s my woman, I should take responsibility. Making sure she’s not in pain, eating well, and not being harassed by anyone.”

Atia looked at her nephew with a motherly smile, her eyes twinkling.

“Yeah. It’s good to have a sense of responsibility. Little nephew, you’ve grown a lot, huh?”

Leo felt pleased to see that he seemed a bit more mature than when they first met.

“He was an innocent kid back then. He still is now, but…”

“In any case, since the gym in the palace annex will be completed soon, shall we all exercise there?”

“When are we going to the northern region?”

“Well, that’s hard to say. It will take a while. In the meantime, let’s actively use the gym, my soldiers!”

Atia winked with one eye, grinning.

Kesha already sensed instinctive danger at the thought of Atia leading there.

Her body remembered the fear.