“On the day when the Truumto royal family is transferred, if Count Javel is alright with it, we will move him together. I have also prepared healing artifacts.”

As Erina spoke while looking up and down at Headton, he suddenly screamed with all his might.

“What does her death have to do with me! Kek! Kuhuk!”

Having forced out his voice through a parched throat without even drinking water, Headton coughed for a while.

At his outburst, Pereman’s eyes flashed blue, and Erina silently took something out of her bag.

“Count Javel, may I be excused for a moment?”

Unlike Erina’s seemingly calm words, her eyes, like Pereman’s, were flickering with anger as she asked, and Pereman quietly nodded.

Sandes silently guarded her back.

“What does it have to do with you, you ask?”

Erina grabbed a palm-length rod she had taken out of her bag and stretched it out.

“Of course it does, since you killed her.”

Then the palm-length rod elongated to the length of an arm.

“Ah, nya! I didn’t kill…!”

The moment Headton opened his mouth, Erina melted a small magic stone into the rod, absorbed it, and swung it at Headton.

The moment the thin rod touched Headton’s face, it emitted a blue light.

Along with the blue light, a bright current flowed through Headton’s body.

“Uwaaaaaaaah! Aaaaah! Kuaaaa!”

At the same time, agonized screams echoed through the room.

The effect of the torture artifact was doubled due to being drenched in water just before.

Headton’s chains rattled as if about to break from his violent thrashing.

“I felt that the artifacts made during the Mado era were quite diverse. There were even ones that could be used on criminals like this.”

Erina smiled brightly at Headton’s suffering appearance and explained kindly.

“I learned a lot from this poison incident.”

Erina waved the rod in front of Headton’s eyes and spoke softly.

“There was no need to sacrifice my body for revenge.”

Headton felt like his heart would stop at the sight of the rod moving back and forth in front of his eyes.

It was hard to breathe, feeling as if it would give him tremendous pain again at any moment, just like before.

“I could torment you like this without much effort, so it was truly foolish.”

“St-stop…”

“You want me to stop?”

Headton hurriedly nodded at Erina’s innocent question.

Though he still felt tingling from the residual current in his body, he forced himself to move his head, feeling he had to answer immediately.

“But you didn’t stop when Cony cried out.”

With those words, Erina swung the rod again and struck his arm.

“Kuhaaaaak! Ku, kuhuk!”

Headton shook violently from the electric current, then his whole body stiffened from the excessive pain.

As Headton trembled with his eyes rolled back, Erina took something else out of her bag.

Erina sprinkled water from a small bottle onto Headton.

Then Headton’s condition began to stabilize.

Along with that, Headton’s wounds began to heal very slowly.

“Just as much as Cony hurt, just until I can let Cony go in my heart, suffer.”

Pereman burst into a hollow laugh seeing the arrogant eyes of Headton, which he had so wanted to stab, fill with terror.

“Count Medelia, when Truumto Kingdom sends the prisoners, will you contact me?”

Erina carefully handed the rod she was holding to Pereman.

As Pereman received the rod and looked down at it silently, Erina spoke.

“Please take care of Count Javel’s health as well. Cony… would worry.”

Erina turned around and left the room with Sandes.

Even as the two left, Pereman just stared blankly at his reflection in the silver rod without saying a word.

His broken and distorted appearance, neglecting even his family due to grief.

“Ha, haha…”

Amidst Pereman’s weak laughter, his wet tears fell drop by drop.

Erina, who had turned her back on Pereman and come out, stood facing the direction of Cony’s grave outside the Javel mansion.

Erina covered her breath dispersing in the cold night air with both hands.

“Haa.”

Sandes silently guarded Erina’s back.

“Sandes.”

“Yes, Erina.”

“I don’t want to lose anything anymore.”

She didn’t want to send anyone off so emptily like this again.

She regretted the days she had acted stupidly, thinking it would be advantageous to her anyway.

The regret had to end now.

The end of revenge was right before her eyes.

Sandes embraced Erina’s shoulders and said.

“I’ll help you. So that you don’t lose anything.”

Erina felt that the large moon visible in the distance made her heart swell but also feel lonely today.

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The day after Erina visited the Javel Count’s house, Jarham’s execution took place.

There was no one to mourn Jarham’s death.

He had no family, and he had been driven out of the village where he lived for making and selling poison in the first place.

His death was quietly buried.

Then Enzo announced the punishment for Peiron and Rose.

It was decided that both of them would be confined in the Tower of Sin located in the forest at the northernmost part of the empire.

When it was announced, the nobles strongly opposed the punishment of confinement.

But upon hearing about the Tower of Sin, they hid all their complaints while unable to add more words.

The Tower of Sin was a place that could only be seen after hacking through ten days from the entrance of the forest.

It was a tower built to confine the most wicked people since the time when the Asilaum Empire existed.

It was a place where people neither visited nor could visit.

He made it clear that the two would be confined here, but there would be no support for survival.

The two would have to survive on their own in the tower located in the forest.

Looking at the historical records, most of the prisoners confined in this Tower of Sin either starved to death or took their own lives.

It was essentially a punishment no different from making them die slowly.

The continuation of the families to which the two belonged was also announced.

Both the Iolls family and the Asila family would have their titles stripped away, and not only the immediate family members but also all the collateral branches of the families would have their noble names taken away.

As a result, Mirea of the Iolls family and Barinen of the Asila family suddenly received resentment from people who had lost everything.

The imperial palace reclaimed everything that the Iolls family and the Asila family had held and attributed it to the empire.

Some were distributed to the villagers who had been harmed by the two kingdoms, and some were distributed to those who had been directly harmed by Peiron and Rose.

Barinen packed his valuables and fled to avoid people’s eyes as soon as the announcement was made, and Mirea also frantically packed her valuables and fled from the mansion.

Someone followed Mirea as she fled, but no one knew.

As soon as the announcement was over, Peiron and Rose publicly departed for the Tower of Sin.

The imperial knights personally escorted the carriage carrying the two, and they departed in front of everyone.

The carriage transporting the criminals was in a form where only bars existed and the inside was all visible.

Peiron and Rose were escorted in the carriage, embracing each other, receiving the gaze of countless people.

The nobles who had quietly watched the carriage departing from the imperial palace shouted one by one from behind as the carriage left.

“Die in the tower, witch!”

“Don’t ever think of setting foot in the empire again!”

“You useless bastard who threw away even a knight’s honor!”

Those who had been harmed by the two couldn’t hold back and hurled insults.

Peiron and Rose tried hard to ignore their voices.

But as soon as they left the imperial palace, what awaited the carriage with the two was commoners who couldn’t enter the palace.

Some people looked at the wide-open carriage as if looking at a strange animal, while others glared as if they would kill them.

Then suddenly, under the tense silence, something flew towards the moving carriage.

‘Ting-!’

What hit the bars surrounding the carriage and fell was a fist-sized stone.

The surprised knights briefly stopped their journey.

Then once again, something flew towards the carriage.

‘Puk-!’

“Ugh!”

Something trickled down Peiron’s head as he instinctively shielded Rose and took the hit instead.

What had flown was a rotten egg.

As a foul smell spread, someone among the people shouted in a voice full of resentment.

“You devil-like bastards! Because of you, our parents died! Our parents who were living well in our hometown died in vain!”

It was a person who had to send off their parents who were living well in a village on the border due to the attack of the two kingdoms.

Along with that, things began to fly towards the carriage again.

Tomatoes, eggs, stones, even rags hit the carriage.

Then one knight at the very front asked the representative escorting the carriage.

“Commander, should we clear the area?”

Mordo, the commander of the 3rd Imperial Knight Division and the eldest son of the Emkil ducal family, quietly said after silently observing the situation.

“Wait for a moment.”

Mordo had received reports on all the crimes the two had committed.

They were people who had harmed the person who had helped his sister by persuading His Majesty, and almost took away the honor of Barun who was guarding that person.

Mordo, who had been watching the people who were venting their anger that he couldn’t as a knight, ignored their actions for a moment.

“…It seems we need to check the condition of the horses pulling the carriage, so let’s maintain for a while.”

“Yes!”

The knights knew there was no problem with the horses fussing in front of the carriage, but they acted busily as if there was a problem.

Because they knew too.

Thus, Peiron and Rose had to cower and tremble in the people’s resentment for a while.

But no one pitied the two.