I Will Live for Your Death (20 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 199

Celina hastily hid her whip, but the noblewomen’s sidelong glances gave her away.

While flustered and scrambling, a ghost in human form slid down toward Celina like a shadow. With its face upside down, it opened its mouth wide, ready to swallow her whole.

Bang! Ilyd’s shot was truly superb. Had this not been the Empress Consort’s palace, everyone would have applauded without hesitation.

But those gathered here were not the sort of dignitaries who could calmly endure a bullet whizzing past their ears. Celina shrieked and curled into a ball.

‘Even knowing I carry the Imperial Grandson, she still dares do this?’

There was no need to feel intimidated. She was the Empress Consort, bearing the Empire’s heir—unlike the barren Empress. As she kept repeating this to herself, an inexplicable confidence began to swell within her.

Slowly, Celina rose to her feet and shouted toward the Empress.

“Your Imperial Majesty the Empress—were you planning to go hunting humans?”

“On the contrary, Empress Consort, weren’t *you* the one who brought your ‘Shadow’ here and started hunting humans yourself?”

Celina’s face turned deathly pale. The Empress was a formidable foe—a woman who, instead of grieving or crumbling when her beloved suffered, would pick up a gun and seek vengeance. Had Ilyd ever truly been defeated?

“Ah, it seems His Imperial Majesty the Emperor hasn’t informed the Empress Consort of this. Captain Rivel has been assigned, by imperial decree, to the newly established special district in the North. How dare you show such insolence toward someone appointed as the Emperor’s own retainer?”

Whether Rivel had become the Emperor’s retainer mattered little to Celina. Her focus fixated solely on the sentence Ilyd had spoken just before.

‘He didn’t tell me…’

Did that mean she was no longer worth telling?

Something the Empress knew—but she didn’t.

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