Sister, I'm the Queen This Life (330 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 453

Ariadne embraced Alfonso from behind, unable to hide his anger. She clung to him limberly, like a willow branch in spring.

“Shh, shh. We don’t know who might be listening.”

But Ariadne’s words did nothing to calm Alfonso.

“Am I not even allowed to say what I want? Is that what living is?”

After losing his mother, Alfonso had dedicated himself to achieving glory in this world. It wasn’t ambition for power that placed Prince Alfonso—by nature distant from such desires—into this endless race, but his yearning for freedom.

Only after his mother’s death, once freed from beneath her wings, did Alfonso realize that freedom was granted only to those who held power.

“I accomplished everything to become free.”

A hostage sent to the Kingdom of Galico. A crusader cast out with nothing. The Black Helm Knights—the continent’s mightiest force—completed and returned solely through local efforts, without aid from the Etruscan Kingdom. The victorious general of the Holy War. Alfonso de Carlo, the Golden Prince lauded across the continent.

Yet despite all this, his father still refused to respect him.

“What more do I have to do!”

Instead of trying harder to soothe the furious prince, Ariadne tugged a hidden cord, signaling Sancha. It was the signal to clear every servant near the count’s quarters in the De Mare mansion.

In the empty De Mare mansion, within the mistress’s private chambers, the prince could vent his anger freely.

“He wants to disband the Black Helm Knights—for the trivial reason of marrying me off to the Grand Duchy of Manchike’s princess?”

Seventy-two thousand ducats were merely gold circulating through the continent. But a well-forged blade could never be recreated.

This sword had grown by feeding on the blood and tears of war—something impossible to replicate through any peacetime training. Alfonso was furious.

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