The Tyrant's Terminally-Ill Childhood Friend (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 111

Simoren was left dumbfounded by the conversation that flew back and forth as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

‘Noah, just what on earth is this guy thinking…?’

Earlier, Noah had dashed off like a madman, claiming he could bring back Lowell Hessen—but now, watching Noah suddenly urge the Emperor to go to Martinek, Simoren simply couldn’t make sense of his actions.

He had already suspected, to some extent, that Anette Martinek and Lowell Hessen were the same person.

Noah apparently thought Simoren wouldn’t notice unless he spelled it out himself, but unfortunately for him, Simoren wasn’t nearly as dull-witted as Noah hoped.

‘After all… I was the one who watched Anette Martinek most closely.’

She had clearly been hiding something. Simoren had kept silent about it only because he hadn’t yet figured out her true intentions. Anette had never once shown him a single opening—if things had continued that way, perhaps Simoren would never have learned why she concealed her identity.

At least, not if she hadn’t died like that.

Too many clues had been thrown at him all at once: Noah’s desperate cry that Anette must never become his consort, and Peter’s despair over Anette’s death. The moment Simoren saw Anette’s cold, lifeless body, a past conversation pierced his mind like a sharp awl.

[Do you like Michel de Broi?]

[I do.]

That face, speaking about “The Age of Pride.”

[I’m pleased by Michel de Broi’s death.]

That voice, saying she was pleased by the suicide of a madman.

Back then, he hadn’t understood a word of what Anette said. What did it matter if everyone accepted a death? To someone who’d witnessed countless deaths, a death no one questioned was nothing more than a pitiful, meaningless end—indeed, a wretched and lonely conclusion.

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