Before entering the Lilac Palace, where Ariana was, Lina calmed her trembling heart.

“Who on earth is that man?”

“Who is that man?”

At the sudden voice, Lina gasped. She had thought there would be no one. Startled, Lina turned around.

“Princess Ariana?”

“Why are you standing here without coming in?”

Perhaps she came out to find herself. Behind the princess, who seemed to have just left the palace, there were several maids.

“Did you come to find me?”

“Yes, you didn’t come for a long time, so I thought you might have lost your way.”

Looking up at the princess’s words, Lina realized that she had spent a long time in the library.

The sky was dyed in a reddish glow.

“Oh, I’m too late. I’m sorry.”

“No, I just came out wondering if Lena was wandering around the palace. But what happened? You seem short of breath.”

“Oh, no, I ran here in a hurry because I wanted to finish the embroidery quickly… Haha.”

Lina replied, glancing at the maids behind the princess. As there were many ears and eyes in the palace, even small actions could spread rumors.

“Let’s go inside quickly. Let’s go and finish the handkerchief we made today and quickly go back… Huh?”

Lina, who had been behind the princess, started searching here and there to find the handkerchief she had been holding. She seemed to have dropped it due to the rush of the wind. No matter how much she searched, the handkerchief she had made was not visible.

“Just wait a moment, I’ll look back and come back!”

“You’re going back… Lina?”

But before the princess could ask again, Lina retraced her steps and searched desperately for the handkerchief she had dropped somewhere.

“It’s not here…”

However, in the meantime, whether someone picked it up or not, the handkerchief she was desperately looking for was nowhere to be found.

Although the shape was unimpressive, since it was the first handkerchief she had ever embroidered, she wanted to cherish it even if she couldn’t give it to Velige.

Lina’s shoulders slumped as if she had lost her strength.

Moreover, wasn’t that fabric said to be an uncommon one? Lina sighed deeply with a sad heart.
“It can’t be helped…… Anyway, it wasn’t something worthy of presenting to the Duke.”

With regretful steps, Lina returned to the palace. She hadn’t imagined what repercussions losing the handkerchief would bring.

“You couldn’t find anything?”

The Empress, who was having tea time with the ladies in the garden, temporarily left to hear Laphel’s report. But the result of the awaited news was this.

Empress Eugene shot Laphel a displeased look.

“After giving you a chance, all you say is that you couldn’t find anything. Are you incompetent, coming to report to me like this?”

With suppressed anger in a voice that might be heard by others, she spat out her words. Laphel approached her calmly.

“That’s not it. We truly couldn’t find anything. It’s like she suddenly popped out of nowhere in this world.”

Only then did she, who had thought something strange, change her expression and ask.

“Really, you couldn’t find anything at all?”

“Yes, we couldn’t find any records.”

“Even the birth records?”

“That, too, simply did not exist.”

“That’s truly strange.”

For someone to fall from the sky and not have birth records.

Even if she was born in a poor neighborhood and couldn’t report her birth, she would have had to report it later to work in a decent place.

But she worked as a maid. Moreover, as a maid of the Fermannes Duke’s family.

Even if the Duke was away at war, he wouldn’t let the household fall into disarray.

Eugene flicked her finger, contemplating something.

“How did she work in the Duke’s residence? A person with an uncertain identity cannot casually work in such a place, right?”

“As per our investigation, she came with a recommendation letter from Lady Anthony.”

“Lady Anthony? Where is that family located?”

“It’s a very small estate at the southern end. That’s why I sent people to the south, but Lina, who had worked there, was already somewhere else.”

At that revelation, Eugene’s forehead wrinkled.

“What does that mean?”

“It seems like identity manipulation.”

“Identity manipulation.”

When she seemed to be lost in thought for a moment, Laphel, after glancing around, cautiously continued.

“And I found out about the white light at that time.”

“What is it?”

“It seems to be magic.”

“…What? Magic?”

Laphel began explaining what she had found.

A magic called ‘Illumonita,’ which makes specific people lose consciousness with a strong light.

“Where did that information come from?”

“No matter how much I think about it, it doesn’t seem like an ordinary light, so I consulted with the wizards.”

“Well, magic……”

“That’s why, in my opinion, this Lina, the maid, might be related to magic in some way.”
The Empress also nodded as if agreeing with Laphel’s words. Since there were no birth records, it meant she wasn’t a citizen of the Empire until she entered the imperial palace as Lady Natis.

In that case, even if she had magical powers, the imperial family wouldn’t have known.

“Tsk.”

‘A saint and even a magician are with Alex.’

Eugene, unable to hide her discomfort, stared into space.

“For now, it’s most important to determine whether this Lina is a woman with magical powers or not.”

“If that’s the case……”

“We have no choice but to confirm.”

As if some amusing thought had crossed her mind, an ominous smile appeared on the Empress’s lips.