Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 425

Ariadne’s vision went blank upon hearing the cry that the next pope would be “Urban VIII.”

‘Not Simon I?’

No, it couldn’t be. Many people didn’t use their baptismal name as pope. It was Pope Ludovico, her predecessor, who had been the odd one; typically, popes chose a new name upon ascending the throne.

Perhaps “Simon I” had sounded too ordinary, and at the last moment, he’d changed it out of embarrassment. Of course—that must be it.

Ariadne bit her lip, trying to convince herself.

Yet suspicion began creeping into her mind that the newly elected pope might not be her father after all. Her father had never once mentioned to her that he would choose a new papal name.

From the high balcony, a small-statured cardinal stepped forward and raised his hand. Thunderous cheers filled the square.

—“Hooray!!!”

Thud. Ariadne’s heart sank once more.

Cardinal de Mare had also been a small man, but the figure standing on the balcony now was clearly an elderly man whose back had bent with age, making him appear significantly shorter—at least fifteen years older than her father.

—“His Holiness our revered new pope is Cardinal Rodrigo Borgogna, formerly of the Archdiocese of Castelluheyal in the Kingdom of Gredo…”

The words reached her ears but failed to register in her mind. She felt dizzy. Behind the newly elected pope on the balcony appeared a familiar silhouette.

It was Cardinal de Mare himself, still clad not in the golden papal vestments but in his usual white cardinal’s robes.

—“Cardinal Borgogna, unanimously elected, has chosen ‘Urban’ as his new name…”

Ariadne closed her eyes as she heard this. Her father had failed to become pope. Everything had seemed perfectly arranged. Just where—and how—had things gone wrong?

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