Unfortunately, the quick-witted people around already understood exactly what Rescal meant.

“If you look the same… My name is likely Pheleion. Otherwise, it doesn’t explain the inexplicable.”

“What do you want to do with that name? There are many ways not to harm your name. You could succeed the title and strip the status from the Duke and the noble.”

“I don’t know yet. For now, the name Pheleion means nothing to me. But if that’s really my name, I want to know what happened at least.”

“Let’s postpone the official punishment until then.”

“Yes, if possible.”
Rescal pressed his lips against Rasillia’s eyebrow.

“There is nothing impossible for me when it comes to what you desire.”

Before Rescal’s voice could become more seductive, Rian timely interjected.

“But really, no matter how much I think about it, it doesn’t make sense. If the Empress was born as twins, why did the Duchess hide one of her own daughters? And why did the Pheleion family consider the Empress a threat to Lady Pheleion? That’s the most peculiar part. The real one was, in fact, the Empress.”

The unresolved issue returned.

“I also couldn’t understand for a while and thought about it. It’s a fact that Lady Pheleion had a mark until before marriage. In that case, Lady Pheleion must have been considered real, and the other one…”

Dekan, who couldn’t bring himself to say that Rasillia, as a daughter, was not a half-blood but a step away from annihilation, trailed off.

The atmosphere became intense in an instant.

Ora waved freely in Rian’s hands, and anger toward those who had tried to kill Rasillia flared up in Rescal’s golden eyes.

“That doesn’t make sense either.”

The calm voice of Rasillia changed the atmosphere the next moment.

Rasillia, who had lightly released Rescal’s hand as a sign that it was okay, brought out the truth.

“I mentioned it back then as well, but if one had a mark, the other side wouldn’t be a problem. If both had the mark, the issue would be to confirm the truth, not to eliminate one side. Moreover, considering that the Duchess hid me in the temple, it’s not like there was no attachment to the bloodline.”

“Logically, that’s true, but…”

At that moment, as before, the accident stopped in the same place.

Rian rubbed her head harshly.

“I feel like my head is going to explode. It doesn’t make sense no matter how I think about it, and it doesn’t make sense no matter how I think about it…”

Then, Bardim blurted out something irrelevant.

“It seems that something unreasonable has happened.”

“Hmm?”

Everyone, including Rian, turned to look at Bardim.

Considering his suspicious appearance and casual tone, it seemed like Bardim was playing a prank.

However, the name “Zarpissa of Trinidad” wasn’t that light. Few people could precisely grasp what he was seeing with those mischievous eyes in this world.

“I mean it’s not only sensible things happening in this world. Magic is even closer to things that don’t make sense.”

Rian’s eyes sparkled.

“What? Does that mean a magician might have intervened? Do you know something in Trinidad?”

Bardim quickly raised both hands.

“Oh, no, no. I didn’t mean that. I was just trying to say that leaving things that don’t make sense as they are might actually make sense. That’s the way magicians think.”

“Oh, really?”

Rian asked Dekan, looking at him. Dekan nodded.
“If you have any opinions, I will listen to Jarfisa.”

“Oh, then I shouldn’t make an extraordinary statement. In fact, this is the first time I’ve heard the past of the Pheleion Duke with my own ears… Let me organize it first. First of all, twins were born in the Duke’s family, and for some reason, the one without the mark was considered real, and the real one was hidden in a temple in another country. Is that correct?”

“Yes.”

“After that, the real person sought the mark.”

“As you know.”

“Oh, that’s right. I completed that spell. Anyway, if you go back and look at this absurd situation, first off.”

Bardim pointed his finger.

“In the Duke’s family, they didn’t know which one was real. Therefore, they left the fake one and tried to eliminate the real one. Do you think that’s undoubtedly correct?”

No one disagreed with that.

“That must have been the case.”

“Now, the second one.”

Waiting for Bardim’s next words, Rian raised two fingers.

“If that’s the case, the real one wouldn’t have had the mark.”

Dekan nodded.

“No. As I mentioned earlier, if the mark was only on one person, the distinction between real and fake would have been meaningless from the start. Naturally, there would have been no need to hide or do anything to the other side.”

“Then both had the mark. Would you agree with that?”

That was also what Rasillia had said.

“Having it on both doesn’t matter. If they both had the same appearance and the same mark, one of them must be real. From the Duke’s perspective, there was no need to distinguish between real and fake. That’s something Her Majesty would handle, and whether it was decided that the Duke’s family would expel the Empress, no matter who it was.”

“From the perspective of the Pheleion Duke, there must have been a reason why the fake had to be real. Now, the third.”

Bardim raised his third finger.

“Only one of the Pheleion Duke’s daughters was born as a fake.”

“……?”