The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 178

Aidalia Kendal’s life had been perfect until she was about twelve years old.

Her father, Marquis Kendal, was a greatly respected high noble who doted on his children. She grew up mingling with the children of other high nobles and was always praised for her kindness.

Yet that perfection shattered not long after she enrolled in the academy.

The cause was complicated—or rather, not complicated at all.

She had been sacrificed, ensnared in the rivalry of children far more vicious than she.

Megara Rikeandros, who had once seemed willing to take responsibility for anything as long as Aidalia merely lent her a servant, shifted all blame onto Aidalia when her own scheme risked exposure. In hindsight, it was Neris Trude who had goaded Megara into acting that way.

Neris Trude—a small, impoverished girl from a humble family, a child who had barely scraped together enough borrowed money from relatives to enter the academy.

Aidalia was now in her final year, yet even today she lacked the cunning to scheme like Neris had back then. Perhaps such guile was only possible for children born base and treacherous from the start, those who heard the devil’s whispers from the moment they drew breath.

Betrayed by Megara and ostracized by her peers, Aidalia had no choice but to transfer to the Faculty of Theology. Thus, she was forced to abandon her childhood plan of distinguishing herself in the general music department and later becoming renowned in society as a young noblewoman exceptionally gifted in music.

Now, she was famous in society as a young noblewoman of remarkable piety.

Marquis Kendal privately felt disappointed that his daughter had failed to adapt at school. Occasionally, he even hinted that relations with Marquis Rikeandros had soured because of her. To Aidalia, who had done nothing wrong but trust her friend out of kindness, this was deeply unjust.

It was precisely this semester that Aidalia had come to study abroad in the Papal State of Ulevis.

Theology students were normally offered a program allowing them to spend a semester or two studying abroad at special sacred sites—such as holy shrines or seminaries near the Papal State. However, Aidalia, who had never intended to become a priestess even after graduating from Theology, embarked on this journey solely at her father’s insistence.

He had told her to go observe the Papal State’s unusual movements firsthand and act as the family’s eyes and mouth.

Worried that his gentle-hearted daughter might falter alone abroad, Marquis Kendal assigned her a capable handmaiden.

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