Regret With All Your Might (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 174

Inside the Empress’s opulent bedroom.

“Is there no one out there?!”

The Empress roared, slamming her fist against the door. *Bang bang—*, her knuckles scraped raw from pounding the heavy door, yet she felt no pain at all.

“Someone, anyone—come open this door! Just tell me something, anything, about the Crown Prince!”

Leopold… what had become of her son?

At once, the memory of the furious crimson flames surged back—flames that had raged as if to devour everything. The thick black smoke that choked like a sealed prayer, the servants frantically dousing water—

“Your Highness! Your Highness! Where are you, Your Highness!”

The servants’ cries, shrill as screams, still rang in her ears. She was certain that when Count Hajis emerged from the inferno, her son had been clinging to his back.

Still crouched in the same posture she’d used to knock on the door, the Empress sank to the floor, retracing her memories.

…Had the Crown Prince truly escaped unharmed? The fire had been so fierce.

Suddenly, her vision blurred. Unable to confirm her son’s fate, her resolve shattered. She couldn’t breathe.

At last, the Empress buried her face in the hem of her dress. The gown, steeped in acrid smoke, was ruined—streaked with soot and ash.

As she gasped for breath, she tasted blood in the back of her throat—she’d been shouting so long she’d lost track of time.

Slowly, she lifted her head and stared blankly beyond the tall windows.

It was pitch-black night already.

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