Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 429

Ippolito almost shouted at the gatekeeper, “I’m not some bishop’s flunky—I’m the son of Cardinal de Mare!” but he clamped his mouth shut.

It wasn’t something he could say with Marco’s men scouring the area for him with fire in their eyes—and besides, it wasn’t even true anymore.

Seeing how utterly paralyzed Ippolito looked, the gatekeeper offered what he considered friendly advice.

“All of Bishop Bevichi’s close aides have already been dragged off—lingering around here won’t do you any good.”

But the lad was so frozen stiff he could only roll his eyes, unable to move a muscle. Annoyed, the gatekeeper snapped,

“Get lost.”

Ippolito mumbled a quiet “thank you” under his breath and hurried away.

Suddenly, every place he could turn to for shelter had vanished. The boy who had marched proudly down the main road was now seized by sudden terror and hastily steered his mule toward a corner of the street.

He feared being spotted by Marco if he stayed out in the open. Unable to use the main road, he guided his small mule into the edge of the woods.

‘Wh-what should I do…?!’

Now that he could no longer rely on the de Mare name, Ippolito’s thoughts naturally turned to his real father. Self-made success wasn’t in his vocabulary.

‘My real father…’

He had shoved the diary his Auntie Luiza brought him into a corner, only beginning to read it much later—not out of boredom, but in hopes she might have written down where she’d hidden money.

He hadn’t found any secret emergency funds, but instead stumbled upon something monumental.

「His name is Lorenzo… His family crest is a fire-breathing serpent…」

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