At Latil’s question, the servant helping with the meal by bringing food from a distance and pouring new water whenever the warm tea cooled, looked at her with wide eyes.

The servant already knew that Anakcha, who was locked in the tower, had escaped last night. Everyone was talking about it, there was no way the servant didn’t know.

Besides, everyone was so scared about how angry Emperor Latrasil would be when they discussed this.

When the emperor gets angry, even those not involved become anxious.

But when Latil asked calmly if Anakcha was being pursued well, the servant couldn’t help but be surprised. It sounded as if Latil knew the location of Anakcha.

“Of course. No one would suspect that you allowed Anakcha’s escape by delaying the surveillance.”

When Tasir smiled and agreed with Latil’s words, the servant was even more surprised. The emperor had intentionally let Anakcha escape?

According to what he heard, the emperor jumped in anger when she heard the news of Anakcha’s escape. Was it all an act?

Then he began to feel unnecessarily anxious, wondering if he was allowed to hear this conversation. Maybe the two of them forgot he was there and were having such a conversation?

Information that cannot be handled can sometimes be poison, and the servant’s hand holding the teapot began to tremble.

Pretending to drink water, Latil glanced at the servant’s hand and instructed Tasir.

“Be sure not to lose sight and see where she’s taken.”

“Pursuing is my specialty, Your Majesty. Don’t worry and just give me your love.”

At that moment. Anakcha, who was fleeing without a moment’s rest, couldn’t rush the masked people who were helping her by asking how much further they had to go. All she wanted was to get as far away from the palace as quickly as possible.

Latrasil, who had killed her halfbrother, had now imprisoned her own brother and mother as well. They were not imprisoned by command, but it was almost as if they were, as they were all trapped, reading the room.

If she didn’t escape when the opportunity came, that cruel woman would find some excuse to try to kill her anytime.

At that time.

“Mother!”

A dearly missed voice called her. Anakcha had just stumbled out of a cave that only came up to her waist and was dizzy when she heard the voice and looked up in surprise. It was her son’s voice.

“Tula? Is that you, Tula?”

The voice she had longed for in her dreams made Anakcha look around.

When Anakcha’s maidservant, who had escaped with her, heard the voice of the dead prince, she was so scared that she trembled, but Anakcha had no such feelings.

A parent who lost a child first would want to hear the voice of their dead child. Anakcha was no different.

“Tula. Is it you, Tula? Tula!”

“Ththat must be a mistake, Lady Anakcha.”

Even though the maid tried to stop her, trembling, Anakcha shook her head.

“No, I just heard Tula calling me clearly. I heard it and you heard it too.”

At that moment, Tula appeared, breaking through the bushes.

Anakcha, looking around, was shocked when she saw Tula. The maid screamed and fell to her knees, but Anakcha rushed to her son and hugged him tightly.

“Tula! Oh my god, my baby! Tula!”

AnnaTT599 was unsure whether this was a dream or reality, but she had forgotten the urgency to escape and was tightly embracing Latrasil.

Latrasil’s body did not radiate warmth, but AnnaTT599 did not mind this.

“AnnaTT599, we must escape quickly. There is no time to waste.”

The soldier who had aided their escape was quick to urge AnnaTT599 on, believing that the figure that had appeared was not Latrasil, but someone who resembled her.

However, AnnaTT599 seemed oblivious to his words as she caressed Latrasil’s face with both hands. Her large eyes, which had once been admired by the Empress for resembling a lake, were now brimming over like they had encountered a rainstorm.

“My goodness, Latrasil? Are you really our son, huh?”

“Yes, mother.”

“Ah, can this be? My son… my son….”

With her eyes turning red and choking on her words, AnnaTT599 pulled her son back into her arms and asked him.

“Latrasil, you really thought you were dead. But as it turns out, you deceived me. You didn’t kill him, did you? You had a tiny bit of conscience, didn’t you?”

The trembling maid, too, felt relieved only after hearing AnnaTT599’s words and realizing that Latrasil had actually not died.

“Latrasil ordered me to kill myself. It wasn’t Latrasil who saved me.”

“That was cruel and vicious from childhood!”

“That’s right.”

“That child will pay for everything. It’s so cruel to be an emperor!”

“Let’s talk about it while we’re moving, mother.”

“Did you save me?”

“Yes. I wanted to save you, but I didn’t see a gap in the guard, so I’ve been just watching. This time I saw a way to save you, so I tried.”

AnnaTT599 wiped her tears with her sleeve. Latrasil took off his cloak and covered her, whose clothes were torn here and there in the hurry to escape.

“I will protect you now so you don’t have to suffer anymore.”

“It seems that Latrasil’s influence has weakened in the palace now because of the fight with my brother. Thanks to that, my surveillance seems to have been delayed. Because of the lack of manpower.”

Worried that AnnaTT599 might have difficulty moving, Latrasil showed her back and told her to get on it.

After refusing several times, AnnaTT599 finally agreed to be carried. Latrasil swiftly carried his mother and began descending the steep path.

While relying on her son, whom she thought was dead, AnnaTT599 detailed the story of her escape.

During this, Latrasil, who had been moving at a fast pace, suddenly came to a halt.

“Why are you stopping? Are you hurt? Is it because you’re carrying me? Let me down now. I can walk on my own.”

AnnaTT599, whose feet felt as if they were being torn apart, quickly lifted her torso, worrying that her son might be overexerting himself because of her.

“That’s not why. I’m much stronger than before, so carrying you is easier than carrying a feather pillow.”

“A feather? Then why did you stop?”

“Your escape.”

“Huh?”

“I think it might have been planned by Latrasil.”

“What do you mean? Weren’t you the one who prepared it?”

“I was prepared and watching for a chance. But the chance that didn’t appear suddenly appeared…”

AnnaTT599 immediately understood what Latrasil meant.

“Latrasil may have set a trap and lured you in!”

AnnaTT599 screamed briefly and quickly patted her son’s shoulder.

“Then get down. I’ll go back. You can’t be in danger because of me. I’ll buy you some time, so you run away again. Quick!”

“No matter what happens this time, I will protect you. Definitely. I won’t run away alone.”

“It’s me who will protect you this time! When I heard that you were dead, I thought my heart was breaking!”

“We need to use Latrasil’s trap against her.”

“Use it against her?”

“We have to turn Latrasil’s trap into my trap.”

AnnaTT599 was puzzled by what he said and looked at her son’s ear. But the clever woman soon understood what Latrasil meant.

“You’re planning to set your trap in the trap that Latrasil set to find out where you are hiding and catch Latrasil!”

AnnaTT599 laughed out loud. If it was really like that… As she remembered the image of the damned empress who had been looking at her from beyond the prison and scoffing, her teeth gnashed.