The Male Lead’s Father Refuses to Break Off Our Engagement

Chapter 85

 

Cassis could no longer listen to him. Even if Evelia had really been poisoned, she would not have done as Count Venion wanted.

Cassis stood up.

“I have only one wife, Evelia. I have no intention of sending her back to Venion, nor do I have any intention of taking someone new as my wife.”

“But Duke, you need to think about the future of the Dukedom.”

“Who thinks of the future of the duchy would do such a thing?”

Count Venion’s face cracked for the first time.

“… Yes?”

Cassis did not answer but opened the drawing room door.

Evelia was standing in front of the door. She was dressed up more brightly than ever.

Count Venion’s complexion turned pale when he saw Evelia coming inside. His face looked as if he had seen a ghost.

“You, you, you…!”

Evelia grinned.

“It’s been a while, father.”

“How on earth…!”

Evelia slowly approached and sat down opposite Count Venion. Cassis stood behind her as if to protect her.

Count Venion looked at Evelia and Cassis alternately.

“They said you were definitely in critical condition…”

“I almost ended up in critical condition.”

Evelia continued speaking in a soft voice.

“If I hadn’t received the gift my father sent me well. I would have almost been fooled.”

“What do you mean?”

Evelia took out a potion from her pocket. It was half of the poison that Samuel had given her.

“Isn’t this a familiar potion?”

“What is that?”

There were many colorless and odorless medicines. So Count Venion did not seem to think that what Evelia was holding was the same poison he had obtained.

Evelia closed her eyes and smiled.

“It’s the poison that my father put into our nanny’s tea leaves through the maid.”

Count Venion stood up as if he had been thrown out of his seat.

“What! A poison!”

His face turned bright red.

“Besides, didn’t you say that the nanny was in critical condition due to allergies?”

Evelia gently shook the vial.

“So, I mean. I thought it was an allergy, but it turned out to be poison or something. It’s the medicine my father asked for.”

“That, the medicine I got is a nutritional supplement! If it’s anything like that, what you’re holding is simply a nutritional supplement!”

Evelia’s smile became darker.

“Really? Then maybe you can eat it?”

“Of course!”

The Count urgently tried to take the medicine from Evelia’s hand. Evelia raised her hand high and avoided his touch.

This time she took out another medicine from her pocket.

“If this is a simple nutritional supplement, can you take it along with this medicine?”

“Wh-what?”

“Headache medicine.”

“……!”

Count Venion hesitated and stepped back.

“No, that’s because medicine usually causes problems when taken together.”

“Is there any other reason?”

Evelia opened the bottle cap and mixed the two medicines.

“Now, why don’t you try it?”

Evelia held out the medicine. Count Venion slapped her hand. The bottle fell to the floor and all the medicine spilled out.

“You’re trying to give your father medicine whose source you don’t even know! And you can still call yourself my daughter!”

Evelia, who was smiling brightly, erased the expression from her face. In an instant, her mood cooled.

Count Venion was so startled that he flinched for a moment.

“You tried to give me that medicine.”

“What! You’ve been talking nonsense!”

Evelia beckoned and Cassis opened the door again. This time, a maid who was said to have been ordered by Count Venion was dragged in by the knights.

The knights made the maid kneel in front of them. Count Venion’s pupils shook greatly when he saw her face.

“You recognize her, don’t you?”

“I….”

“Now, tell me everything you know.”

The maid burst into tears and told everything she knew.

“I just did what Count Venion told me to do! They said it was just a medicine that caused allergies. If I had known it was such a dangerous drug, I wouldn’t have taken it!”

“I’m being framed!”

“You said you wouldn’t leave my family alone if I didn’t do as you told me!”

As Cassis winked, the knights brought another servant with them.

The servant’s testimony was the same: He had been paid by Count Venion to keep an eye on the maid.

Count Venion was struggling.

“As the maid said, the medicine is just a mild allergic reaction! I don’t believe it’s poison.”

“I knew that would happen, so I prepared this.”

This time Erin came inside. Evelia asked her.

“Erin, have you analyzed the medicine I gave you?”

Erin looked at Count Venion with cold eyes and then answered.

“Yes. The potion you sent contained Acaran ingredients. Acaran is known to have a stimulating effect when used alone, but on the contrary, it causes toxicity when used together with irtamine, which has a sedative effect. The fact is only known by a few people.”

“What drug is irtamine commonly used?”

“Irtamine is mainly used in headache medicine.”

“It is said that using the two together can cause toxicity. Can you explain what kind of reaction it causes?”

“It has a reaction similar to an allergy.”

“Aha, you mean it’s similar to the reaction the nanny had?”

“Yes.”

Evelia looked at the Count again.

“That’s right, father. I can also prove that my father purchased this medicine.”

“This, this, this… No way, you bitch!”

Count Venion rushed towards Evelia. He tried to strangle her with his two large hands.

However, before that, he was kicked in the stomach by Cassis, who blocked his path.

“Ugh!”

Cassis looked at the knight.

“Take him away.”

“Let go of this!”

“Oh. My father will pay for his sins through a fair trial. You should know that.”

“Eveliaaa!”

Count Venion was dragged away helplessly. The knights dragged the spies away, and Erin also greeted them and left.

Evelia and Cassis were the only ones left in the room.

A weakened Evelia leaned her face on Cassis’ shoulder.

“Are you sure you’re okay?”

When Cassis asked worriedly, Evelia nodded.

“Yes.”

Evelia laughed weakly.

“Now it’s all over.”

“Yes. You can rest assured now.”

She whispered, holding Cassis’ hand.

“I miss Ruth.”

“We will go see him soon.”

The two looked at each other and smiled. Without knowing what the future holds.

 

*****

 

Count Venion was taken to the imperial castle and put on trial. Naturally, his sentence was death.

In the dungeon, Count Venion was forced to grind his teeth.

“I knew I would go on like this….”

He scribbled a letter on stationery he had bribed. The addressee was Lionel Cesia, Ruth’s biological father.

The letter said that your child with Julia, whom you thought were dead, were actually alive.

The Count recalled an incident from several years ago. He visited the royal castle of Cesia to conduct business with the royal family of Cesia. At that time, a man with golden hair came to him.

His name is Lionel Cesia. Lionel approached Count Venion without anyone knowing.

 

-Can you do me a favor?

Count Venion had heard rumors about Lionel. As the illegitimate son of the current King of Cesia, he is the prodigal son of the royal family and a troublesome prince.

He was rumored to be a royal prodigal and a troublemaker, with a characteristically sneering personality.

However, Lionel, whom Count Venion met, seemed like a completely different person.

I heard he had a cool appearance, but he looked completely sleek. Their personalities were also completely different. Lionel’s expressionless expression showed a coolness. A force that can never be approached carelessly.

Count Venion swallowed his saliva and nodded.

In any case, Lionel was a member of the Kingdom of Cesia. I thought that if I accepted his request, I would be able to connect to the royal family.

However, Lionel Cesia’s request was a bit unusual.

 

―Find out what happened to Julia of the Adelhard family.

The Count was able to answer right away.

 

―I heard that Princess Adelhard passed away a year ago after suffering from a fever.

It was that moment. Lionel’s expressionless expression, which seemed as if not even a drop of blood would come out when he was stabbed, collapsed, and he began to shed silent tears.

After that, Lionel disappeared in a hurry. Count Venion thought nothing of it, thinking that Julia Adelhard and Lionel must have been close friends.

So a few days later. Only a few days later, Lionel with gray hair came to visit him again. He looked much more gaunt than the last time I saw him, probably because he hadn’t slept well.

 

―Please investigate whether there is a child around the age of two in the Adelhard family.