Canary must protect Canary.

If she wanted to get Barbara back, she had to do it herself.

Of course, Canary knew the easiest way.

Go to Lenisha, kneel, and beg.

In a humiliating posture, surrender everything, as if having nothing.

Canary bit her lip.

Let’s assume she pleads for Barbara like that.

Did Barbara keep Canary’s secret?

Or did she reveal it for her own safety?

“What do I do… What am I going to do?!”

Canary pulled at her hair.

Lenisha became Canary’s pillar as soon as she returned.

Turiel, who had thought of herself as Lenisha’s ally, turned back to Lenisha.

In the end, Canary achieved nothing.

“This is the time separator.”

Barbara shook her head.

Was hunger so harsh?

It had only been two days, just two days.

Her parched lips trembled, and even the pooled water on the ground seemed edible.

It seemed like she might go crazy like this.

Barbara carefully examined her situation.

All the noblewomen present there sympathized.

It only took a moment to make Barbara look like a fool.

The cold eyes that looked at her and Lenisha, who stood at the pinnacle, came to mind.

Casual and indifferent, but Lenisha was the one who manipulated the situation.

Canary and Barbara were played beautifully.

Despite everything matching the evidence, Barbara couldn’t do anything.

Then what about Canary?

All she had was the meager affection Lexes gave her.

She was immersed in complacency, thinking everything would be fine when she lived lavishly in the royal palace.

There was only one way for Canary to save Barbara.

Flat on her stomach, begging Lenisha for mercy.

Rather than behaving as the Empress, she should protect her own dignity!

Barbara’s reason quickly faded.

Now was not the time to pursue dreams. She had to live first and see.

“Canary…”

Barbara’s voice broke.

Canary wasn’t about to abandon herself for Barbara.

Barbara reached out desperately.

The hanging decorations on the wall swayed gently.

“I’ll say anything! Anything!”

She shouted with a hoarse voice.

“Anything is fine… I’ll tell you everything I know… Please.”

Barbara collapsed.

Lenisha smiled satisfactorily.

Barbara decided to speak her mind before her life ended.

Barbara was, after all, someone who prioritized her own safety above all else.

Barbara was confined in Turiel’s dressing room.

“You came?”

Turiel smiled proudly.

She was filled with pride for perfectly accomplishing her assigned task.

“Can’t even endure for just three days.”

Lenisha chuckled. Well, it’s good not to have another mouth to feed.
“It was not a relationship formed on the basis of trust and affection from the beginning. We are different, Lenisha.”

Turiel smiled like a cat and stuck close to Lenisha.

When Lenisha gently grasped and then released Turiel’s arm, Turiel’s face lit up with a smile as if receiving a significant reward.

The door where Barbara was confined opened.

The foul-smelling basement’s atmosphere came into view.

At Turiel’s gesture, her subordinates, like her servants, stood behind her with fragrant food.

Barbara’s eyes rolled.

Thud.

The sound of Lenisha’s heels echoed loudly in the basement.

“I heard you have something to say.”

“W-Well, I do!”

Barbara’s gaze turned to the back.

Her eyes, shining with intense desire, revealed a strong desire.

In response to the long-awaited smell of food, her nose twitched, and her stomach seemed to churn.

Barbara twisted her body.

“I’ll tell you everything. I can say anything about Canary! There’s nothing I don’t know about…”

“Whose child is it?”

Lenisha asked slowly.

“What?”

Barbara raised her head.

“I asked whose child it is. Don’t tell me you can’t hear?”

Lenisha grinned.

Unknown madness swirled in her pink eyes.

Barbara swallowed dry saliva.

“W-Whose, whose, child?”

“The child inside Canary’s belly. That child can’t be Lexes’s.”

“This, this is ridiculous…! This is an insult to the royal family! The emperor will never forgive…”

“Lexes can’t come here, Barbara. Do you think you’ll have a chance to go in front of Lexes and confess my sins?”

“Will he… kill me?”

“You’re dying right now and don’t even know it.”

Lenisha closed her eyes and smiled exuberantly.

A low laughter echoed in the basement.

There are always fools like this. Lenisha rolled her tongue in her mouth.

“You are starving to death right now, Barbara. Haven’t you ever thought you might die of hunger?”

Barbara trembled.

It had been the repetitive thought Barbara had had over the past three days.

Even though she thought she wouldn’t die, she held on until she reached her limit.

“Whether you die or not, do you think I’ll bat an eye? What are you saying?”

“You, you…”

“Barbara, look at me.”

Lenisha bent her waist.

“Do I look sane to you? I saw the heads of parents chopped off and put in a salt box with these eyes. I saw my husband playing with the maids who wiped my feet with these eyes. I watched my husband destroy my family with these eyes.”

Lenisha pointed to her eyes with her finger.

They were eyes that must have been warm like a spring day.