Rozelin took out another letter enclosed in the letter. After reading the contents, she frowned, appearing disappointed.

“Sister is currently at the Grand Duchy. Judging by the lack of specific details, it seems she’s not seriously injured.”

“We also received contact from our informant sent to Maris. It says the Grand Duchess briefly stayed at Maris General Hospital and has already been discharged.”

“Hmph! After being discharged, she’s receiving care at the Grand Duchy, it seems.”

“So, it’s confirmed that the Grand Duke rescued the Grand Duchess… but there’s one strange thing.”

“A strange thing?”

“Douglas reportedly hid the Grand Duchess in a secret compartment on the ship heading to Chalay Marquisate. It’s a double-layered space created under the floor of the machinery room at the bottom of the ship, impossible to discover externally.”

Katrina, to understand the details of the Grand Duchess’s rescue and erase any traces that might remain, sent her informant to Maris.

The informant in Maris secretly captured a security officer who had participated in the search for the Grand Duchess. Through the security officer, they learned the detailed circumstances of the rescue.

“The Duke personally searched the ship, and when he arrived at the machinery room, he was convinced that the Grand Duchess was inside.”

“He was convinced?”

“Yes, he said he could smell the Grand Duchess from inside.”

“Smell…!”

At the mention of the word “smell” by Katrina, Rozelin’s eyes widened in shock and she recoiled. As if to deny such a possibility, Rozelin turned her head.

“It’s impossible! Sister, there’s no way she has a scent!”

“No scent?”

“Well… Sister is the only one in our family who was born without the fragrance that Pluair should have. Pluair, if directly related, should have the genetic proof, but only Sister was born without the scent.”

“Quite an interesting story. That there was such a secret in the Pluair family… What about your scent?”

“Well, yes. My scent…”

Katrina, who usually thought of Rozelin’s intense rose fragrance as a preference for rose perfume, found it intriguing. When she asked if it was a perfume, Rozelin, momentarily taken aback, answered with a trembling voice.

‘I shared the secret, but I don’t need to reveal anything more than that.’

With a composed mind, Rozelin casually rearranged her expression.

“Hmm, I see. But why would the Grand Duchess not have a scent… Is there a problem?”

“You probably know that Sister and I have different mothers. The former Duchess, my biological mother, gave birth to Sister without a fragrance and was suspected of illegitimacy. She left this world under suspicion and Sister, fortunately, grew up in our family but faced constant doubts about her birth.”

“So, the reason the Grand Duchess avoided entering society until now finally makes sense.”

Nodding, Katrina, who had been nodding her head, suddenly sharpened her eyes and questioned.

“However, why is it that no one else has been able to smell the Grand Duchess’s fragrance, which no one could identify until now, but only the Grand Duke can?”

“Are you sure that the Grand Duke really smelled Sister’s fragrance?”

“Yes. Everyone near the secret compartment couldn’t smell the Grand Duchess’s fragrance, but only the Grand Duke claimed to have smelled it. It was as if he discovered the location by chasing the scent, and right beneath where he stopped, the Grand Duchess was hidden.”

“That’s… it’s impossible. There must have been some misinformation.”

Rozelin denied the facts Katrina conveyed while trembling.

‘Absolutely, there’s no way.’

If Sister had a scent… If Sister wasn’t Pluair’s Harmony…
Rozelin trembled all over as if her existence had been denied. The ground beneath her, where she had stood, trampling on Idel all this time, seemed to crumble away in an instant.

“I, too, think it’s better for the Grand Duchess to have the suspicion of birth without fragrance. It can be a useful weakness. However, our informant has never made a mistake so far.”

Katrina spoke with narrowed eyes, still surrounded by suspicion.

“The cold-headed Grand Duke would never talk nonsense… and it’s incomprehensible that only the Grand Duke found the secret compartment that no one else could find. We need to investigate the Grand Duchess’s fragrance.”

In Katrina’s gaze urging investigation for some reason, Rozelin replied with a reluctant face.

“I’ll find out if there was a specific scent that reacted only to certain individuals within the family.”

“Don’t forget. Every small piece of information from the Grand Duke’s side is important to us right now.”

“Yes, I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Especially after handling the Grand Duchess this time, the Grand Duke’s wariness is likely even stronger.”

The plan to weaken the Grand Duke’s power by handling the Grand Duchess this time had fallen apart. Moreover, the Grand Duke thoroughly punished Douglas and Marquis Chalay, who were involved in the incident, as if to show an example.