The one who ordered the assassination is the First Prince Bolonico.

The horrifying truth pierced through Yuvan’s heart, gripped it, and firmly settled.

Yuvan tightly covered his mouth with both hands to hide the gasping breath.

At the same time, Bolonico’s eyes sparkled very sensitively.

“It seems like there’s some movement. Is it really empty?”

“Everyone is on their way after seeing the body search at the party hall.”

“A little mouse might have heard it.”

When Bolonico spoke nervously, Count Compani tapped the wardrobes and consoles around Yuvan with his foot as if to show off.

He opened some of them, even showing them widely, and laughed.

“There’s nothing.”

“What about that wardrobe?”

Yuvan quickly averted his gaze as Bolonico’s suspicion-filled blue eyes met his through the gap in the door.

Since the wardrobe brought in by his uncle was placed in a dark, unlit area, there was no guarantee that Bolonico saw her just because he met her black eyes.

Yuvan matched his heartbeat to the footsteps of Count Compani, who was walking towards him.

‘Please. Please……’

-Bang!

Although the sound of kicking the wardrobe wasn’t that loud, to Yuvan, it felt like that kick had struck his heart.

“It’s locked. No one can enter from the outside and lock it.”

“Be careful in everything, Count Compani. Your way of finishing things is never clean. Stop that bad habit of doing things carelessly.”

“I’ll stab it with a sword. If anyone is inside, it will turn into a sea of blood underneath.”

“Savage.”

While Bolonico spoke like that, he couldn’t hide the laughter in his voice.

Terrifying conversations about taking advantage of the chaos to insert someone without anyone noticing who died filled the air, as several people were expected to die.

Yuvan held his breath, and when Count Compani drew out the decorative sword hanging on the wall with a clanking sound, Yuvan heard it.

-Swish!

The blunt blade that split the wood passed through Yuvan’s forehead and stuck into the wall.

If a person had been standing there, it would undoubtedly have been the part where the sword stabbed into the heart. Yuvan froze without moving at the chilling sensation from the iron blade.

When the ruthless blunt sword was pulled out, light leaked into the wardrobe from the hole.

Count Compani, focusing on a location about three spans below that, finished preparing to thrust the sword.

“Huab!”

“My lord! My lord!”

At that moment, an urgent voice cutting through the preparation sound reached the guest lounge.

“The Emperor has beheaded two of our people.”

“Tsk.”

Along with Bolonico’s tongue-clicking sound, several footsteps left the guest lounge.

Count Compani, who had been hiding outside, stealthily entered and opened the lock on the wardrobe door that hung on the wall.

When the holey wardrobe door opened, Yuvan poured out.

Cold sweat covered his entire body, and Yuvan’s face turned pale. For a moment, his uncle was surprised, but as Yuvan’s blood oozed through the gap between the fingers that covered his mouth, he quickly went,

“Yuvan!”

Thud. Thunk-.
The blood, held in tandem with each breath, spilled onto Yuvan’s hand, and, hastily grabbing a handkerchief, poured onto the palm of his uncle, who had already become a wreck, leaning against the wardrobe.

“You’re progressing much faster than your sister.”

His uncle, recalling Louise, who would vomit blood with just a bit of stress, spoke, sharpening his words.

Yuvan eyed his uncle while tending to the blood.

The count, who caught that gaze, chuckled as if he couldn’t believe it.
“I’m worried about you right now. There’s no one else who wants to save you more than me. Can you see me with those eyes? Since you can’t trust me like that, I have no choice but to tell you things you don’t know!”

As if acknowledging the favor he had shown so far, his uncle looked at his nephew leaning against the wardrobe, already turned into a lump of despair.

“Do you know what’s happening outside now? The emperor is capturing innocent people and cutting their throats.”

Yuan bit his lip, feeling uneasy inside.

The marquis furrowed his brow, recalling the chaos he had just witnessed.

“This country is on the verge of ruin. The emperor is not only insane but also not in his right mind, even Balonico is not normal. You’ve heard it, right? Shall I guess? The one who ordered the poisoning is Balonico, right? Am I wrong?”

Yuan’s silence was as good as an answer.

“Balonico hasn’t been appointed as the crown prince even at this age. He’s just being tested. No matter how much he’s called the abandoned prince, do you think they’ll let a healthy young man with imperial blood flow live? The one who wants to kill the fallen prince, in such a dire situation, is none other than that crazy Balonico! What do you think, does my brother-in-law’s words make sense?”

As his excitement grew, the uncle slowly approached Yuan, who was sitting on the floor, suppressing his voice.

“Do you really think your sister died of dismissal?”

“!”