“The poison the princess was exposed to, even the physicians couldn’t identify. They tried various antidotes, but none worked, leading to the current situation. That means it’s not a well-known poison…”
Maery gripped the fan tightly.
Rishi, wearing a sly smile, spoke to Maery.
“Everyone, have you heard of a frog named Bawrea?”
A frog?
People, puzzled as to why the topic of frogs suddenly came up in this tense moment, looked bewildered.
Then someone, recalling the commotion in Maery’s bedroom earlier, exclaimed, “Oh!”
“Could that be…”
People’s gazes turned to the frog tank Erwel was holding.
“That’s right. This is the Bawrea frog.”
Erwel raised the tank for everyone to see.
“A mutated Bawrea frog.”
Maery’s fan trembled, but no one noticed.
Everyone was too busy looking at the frog.
“The skin of the mutated Bawrea frog contains poison.”
Erwel repeated the explanation he had given to Kay and Rishi in front of everyone.
And finally added.
“In case you don’t believe me, my name is Erwel Luteck.”
Luteck.
That surname held significance.
If someone from the Luteck family said that the mutated Bawrea frog had poison, then it had poison.
“Now you all know who’s behind all this. The person responsible for all these events.”
At Rishi’s words, people held their breath.
They stared at Maery with wide-open eyes.
Maery still covered her mouth with the fan.
Although her eyes behind the fan shook a bit, she was confident that no harm would come to the princess herself.
“Vischen Count. What punishment will the person who ordered the Countess to harass the Countess be subjected to?”
Vischen Count swallowed dry saliva.
Now all eyes were on Vischen Count.
Vischen Count resented Rishi for turning the arrow back at him, but since what happened at the party was known, he couldn’t pretend not to know.
This was truly a significant incident.
If it became known that Vischen Count, for money, tried to take the innocent Countess away, Vischen Count would also face unavoidable punishment.
“Never again… cut off both hands so you can’t write letters, and cut off your tongue so you can’t… give orders anymore…”
Some sensitive ladies covered their mouths with both hands and let out small screams.
But Rishi spoke with a chilling look.
“Then let it be so. Jamie, Nathan.”
As soon as Rishi called, Jamie and Nathan approached Maery.
Jane blocked the way in front of Maery.
Nathan smiled slyly.
“You can’t beat me. You’re injured and pretending not to know, huh?”
Jane glared at Nathan without moving.
Whoosh[Dash]!
“Boom[Dash]!”
“Kwoong[Dash]!”
People on the spot had no idea what was happening.
Just as Jane seemed to move, the next moment, Nathan was pressing her chest on the ground, subduing her with his knee.
A dagger lay beside Jane’s hand.
Jamie gracefully went around Jane to pull Maery off the bed.
“Get your filthy hands off me!”
Maery shouted sharply, striking Jamie’s backhand with the folded fan.
Then, she descended from the bed on her own, lifting her chin slightly and addressing everyone.
“I am Princess Maery Ketven of the Minasaric Kingdom. Do you think you can punish me according to the laws of this country?”
“You seem to know one thing but not the other, Princess. If you commit a crime in someone else’s country, you can be dealt with according to that country’s laws. Well, we might be able to mitigate the punishment through negotiation…”
Eldi explained kindly.
But Maery’s expression didn’t change.
“Ridiculous. That may be true for the likes of you. I am royalty. Who dares to punish me in this place?”
“I do.”
A gloomy voice emerged from behind the crowd.
Lakozen, who had quietly observed the situation so far, spoke up.
Amidst the divided crowd, Lakozen slowly walked forward.
“I can do that, Princess.”
“Second Prince…”
Maery’s pupils trembled.
She had completely forgotten that Lakozen was present.
“Well, it seems you’ve forgotten that this is the territory of Count Green, Second Prince. The Green family is not under the jurisdiction of the Gabizaar Empire.”
“Yeah, that’s right. I came to tell you that. Since this place is not under the Gabizaar Empire, Gabizaar will withdraw from this matter. If the laws of Count Green’s territory require proper punishment even for fo
As Lakozen was the last to leave the room, he turned around briefly.
Meeting eyes with Rishi, who was the last, Lakozen slightly nodded.
For some reason, it felt like he had done something very good, and his heart warmed. However, when he met eyes with K, who was next to him, his heart cooled down chillingly.
“Hmph.”
Lakozen let out a snort, went outside, and forcefully closed the door.
Bang[Dash]!
After the door closed as if it would shatter, K opened his mouth.
“Princess and Brittany Whittle, lock Alford Hutchiss in the underground prison.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
