Unrequited Love is Over, Fend for Yourselves (5 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 93

Etienne stepped down right below the imperial throne where Reinhart sat and swallowed a tense gulp under the flood of stares directed at her. She wasn’t even sure anymore if volunteering herself had been the right choice.

What if she’d just asked Empress right from the start to handle this situation? Wouldn’t it have been better to have a knight escort Empress Lena out and tell her to stop?

‘No.’

That would have been no different from tainting Reinhart’s legitimacy as Emperor right before everyone’s eyes.

Suppressing others’ voices and pretending nothing had happened could never be a solution. Even if placed in the same situation again, she knew she’d still make the same choice.

Because simply having the Empress drag Empress Lena away would never shift the atmosphere here.

“I am Etienne Claire.”

Everyone watching her—and Reinhart seated behind her—must surely be wondering what was going through her mind. Etienne hardened her expression as she surveyed the murmuring crowd before her.

‘I never expected I’d have to reveal this here.’

But there was no better excuse than this one.

Etienne took a slow breath, waited until her inner turmoil settled, and then spoke.

“You gain only by letting go.”

No one immediately grasped the weight of Etienne’s solemn words. Even Reinhart seated behind her gave no reaction. Yet Etienne, indifferent to their confusion, continued.

“If you wish to gain the world, you must let go of yourself. And that’s precisely why I’m fond of my ability—it’s wonderful to awaken someone else’s gift rather than my own.”

As Etienne spoke on, Reinhart’s expression shifted first, followed by the imperial family, and then the elder nobles.

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