“I’m sorry. I didn’t know he was such a beast. If I had known, there would have been no chance for him to be your mate.”

Turning his back and lying down, April responded with a chilling reaction.

“No. If it meant obtaining the throne, anyone would have been fine for my mother. To achieve that, she was willing to throw me away like prey.”

To Yan’s apology, anger swelled up within him.

It was shameful. Everything, down to his disgraceful bottom, was exposed to his daughter.

But he didn’t want to admit it.

“If you were a man, you couldn’t use a spear! Forgot? Pretending to be the daughter of Viscount Weiss, you embarrassed me, and now you’ve even gotten pregnant with the child of such a beast. How far do you plan to make your father ashamed!”

At Yan’s shout, April, who lay down, also got up from the bed.

“That was to help Mother! Pregnancy was a lie…”
“Noisy! Going to the prison and behaving recklessly. Doing things like that, worthy of a prostitute…”

Crash!

April threw the glass on the side table.

“There you go, the daughter of the Empress is a prostitute. Feeling refreshed now?”

Yan quickly closed the door, looking at his sobbing daughter.

Bang!

“Damn it!”

He came out into the corridor, clutching his head with both hands.

This wasn’t supposed to happen…

In fact, he was very anxious right now.

The plan to deal with both Christine and Duke Rodwell had gone awry.

Moreover, Christine and Stone’s whereabouts were currently elusive.

And to make matters worse, he just received word of an investigation team being dispatched by the Holy See.

Yan was already suffocating with tension at the thought of a thief discovering him.

If the Holy See found out about their identities, it would be a big problem.

Both were deeply connected to Yan to the extent that they could be mentioned as accomplices.

Would pretending not to know work?

Damn it, nothing was going well!

“Your Majesty…”

At that moment, a cautious voice reached Yan’s ears.

In the dark corridor shadows, a man dressed in a black robe from head to toe stood.

It was the mage Kenny.

“What’s going on?”

“It seems like a top-level mage has appeared.”

…!

Yan’s expression brightened.

He had been searching for a top-level mage for a long time.

Because they needed to burn the ‘blank document’ sealed with magic.

The most unsettling thing about the news of the Holy See investigator was that.

In fact, if the Holy See found out that Christine and Stone were werewolves while they were hiding it, they would only receive punishment.

But on the day they were exposed for the ‘blank document’…

“All right, where is the mage now?”

“We’re searching. Recently, the mana of the Holy See moved abnormally, and that power seems to be getting closer to Greenhill little by little. If there is another abnormality in the mana flow, we’ll find out soon.”

Mana was a supernatural power used by mages.

“Use any means necessary to find them!”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

After Kenny gave his salute and withdrew, Yan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There was no law saying that people had to die.

Flames were blazing.

It grew bigger and began to engulf people.

And eventually, even her father…

Even as he was swallowed by the red flames, his blue eyes were fixed on Leana.

Father…

Crackle…! Crackle!

Then, the flames suddenly turned into a brown wolf.

The brown wolf rushed fiercely toward her and opened its jaws with dripping saliva.

Leana, too shocked to move, couldn’t do anything.

At that moment, a cool blue light flew in front of her, and nothing was visible.

“Eek!”

Crash!

Leana screamed and opened her eyes.

Both the blue light and the brown wolf were gone.
She lay on the ornate bed, drenched in sweat from head to toe.

“Sigh, it was a dream…”

Leana wiped her sweat-soaked hair.

As memories of what happened in the Holy See’s prayer room resurfaced, an inexplicable chill ran through her.

The screams of priests torn apart by beasts and the gruesome and horrific scenes.

And the brown wolf that lunged at her with its mouth wide open.

“Was it trying to devour me at that time?”

“Or was it asking me to go with it?”

But since it had completely disappeared, there was no way to know.

Ironically, Morris was the one who saved Leana that time.

Of course, it wasn’t intentionally to save her.

Trembling, Leana embraced her shivering body and mumbled.

“It’s my fault. I committed the taboo of reviving the dead…”

After that incident, she seemed to have exhausted all her strength, unable to use magic properly.

Nevertheless, fortunately, it seemed her strength had returned.

Seeing the balcony window shattered next to the bed, it seemed she had cast an attack spell during a nightmare.

Beyond the broken glass, the night sky and the serene moonlight were calm.

As if nothing had happened.

As if everything had really become okay.

“Are you awake?”

Turning her head, Isabelle, dressed in black, with her long hair flowing, approached.

Looking at the ruined balcony window, she seemed a bit surprised.

“It seems magic has awakened.”

“Where is this?”

“It’s Duke Rodwell’s mansion. You fainted as soon as you arrived.”

Since fleeing from the Holy See, her head had been dizzy, and her stomach had been upset.

It felt like aftereffects of pulling all her strength together to use magic.

She didn’t even know how she had come this far.

Among all this, one thing remained vividly in her memory.

The man who resembled her father too much…

“Who… is the man I saw at the inn?”

“You mean Viscount Vaise?”

“Viscount Vaise…”

“He looks a lot like him, doesn’t he? Your father inside the pendant.”

“…”

The moment Leana saw Christine, she almost believed her father had come back to life.

However, she couldn’t hastily say anything.

Even if he turned out to be a member of the wolf tribe, there was no guarantee he would stand on her side.

Most of the wolf tribe members arrested and executed by being betrayed by their kin when caught by the Holy See.

“He’s probably a member of the wolf tribe.”

Again.

“Are you also from the wolf tribe?”

“No.”

“Well, I don’t mind.”

Then Isabelle touched Leana’s forehead.

“Fortunately, the fever seems to have subsided.”

“Why are you so kind to me? Even knowing that I’m being chased, you hide me.”

Leana blinked her gray eyes and asked innocently.

At times like this, her expression was truly that of a naive young girl.

Unbelievably, breaking that large window, being hunted by priests from the Holy See as a murderer.

Moreover, all the more Isabelle became extremely important to her.

“Because I’m a good person.”

Isabelle laughed as she looked at Leana’s skeptical expression.
“Yeah, to tell you the truth, I might need your help. I’m about to face a big fight.”

“Is Viscount Vaise on the same side as well?”

“Perhaps, wouldn’t it be so?”

“Can we meet again?”

“Do you want to meet?”

“Just a little curious.”