The Villain’s Daughter Plans To Run Away

Chapter 74

“I thought so too at first. They say that divine power is the ability to borrow the hand of God, so what can God not do?”

The harsh voice sank low.

The Emperor gazed at the sleeping late Emperor with thoughtful eyes.

“But the Empress said that the late Emperor’s chronic illness would be difficult to cure even with her divine power. So now she’s slowing down the disease with divine power, but I actually doubt that. To be honest, I find the Empress annoying these days.”

Cassis glanced at the sighing Emperor.

‘It must be quite stressful.’

There was a fog on the Emperor’s face, who still had a lot to say.

“Anyway, the only thing that can slow down the progression of the disease is divine power, and the Empress is the only one in the Rolls Empire who possesses divine power. Sending the Empress to the prison would be like giving up on my father.”

With bloodline at stake, it was natural that the Emperor would be stubborn.

“I, too, have become sensitive to the Empress’s growing influence, but there is a bloodline issue at stake, so I’m hasty…”

“Then Vallois can take charge of the Imperial guard unit.”

At that time, a calm bass sound cut the Emperor’s words off.

The Emperor paused and blinked in surprise.

The Imperial Guard unit was in a position to directly intervene and lead events within the Imperial Family.

“If it’s a guard unit, isn’t it already occupied by the Bluebell family?”

“Duke Bell will be stepping down from his position.”

“… Duke of Bell?”

Cassis let out a soft low tone in response to the innocent question.

“…Isn’t that so? I think the main characters in the recording are Duke Bell and his minions.”

“Ah.”

The Emperor kept his mouth shut, perhaps needing time to understand.

“Aah… Aah!”

After a while.

The Emperor, who belatedly understood what he said, smiled brightly and made a clicking sound with his finger.

“Yes, of course! Hahaha! Thank you, Sir Vallois. As expected, there’s none other than Vallois for me? Isn’t that right?”

“…That’s fortunate.”

Cassis grinned at the child-like appearance of the Emperor.

If it was difficult to abdicate the Empress, he could simply enter the Imperial Family himself.

***

Creakㅡ

A ray of light appeared on the shabby windowless ground.

The back in the corner of the room twitched like a cowering animal.

Duke Bell, who realized that the door had been opened for the first time in a week, quickly raised his upper body.

“A-Are you a close associate of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress?”

“That’s right. I’m reporting the results of the trial.”

“…Right. This can’t be happening.”

The corner of Duke Bell’s lips, which was covered in ringworm, faintly rose.

He knew.

No, he believed it.

Although Vallois revealed the truth about the collapse of the building, their opponent was Her Imperial Majesty the Empress.

The Duke, who had been crawling as if begging, stood up with difficulty.

His dark eyes were shining in the hallway light.

“E-Even if I was confined in solitary confinement, I always believed in Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Now, what is the reason you came to me? Did the court say I wasn’t guilty?”

Hope seeped into the weak voice.

Yet Kal, who was facing him, had no expression.

“The Bluebell Duke family has been ordered to be banished.”

“…?”

“The crime of collapsing the building was judged to be serious, and the Duke’s family was sentenced to be banished along with expulsion.”

“…What…”

Thud, rrrrrㅡ

The pen in his hand fell.

He was wondering if it would be good to have evidence of innocence during the trial, so he was writing a journal containing his mental appeal.

“…Just now, what…”

“It’s a decree of banishment and expulsion.”

“…Expulsion…”

His swollen lips puckered and closed like a goldfish.

It felt like he had been struck by lightning.

Now, Bell’s problem wasn’t the destruction of the duke family he had built.

Expulsion.

The punishment is that he will be kicked out of the Rolls Empire without money and position.

Even other countries and empires didn’t accept criminals who were subject to an order of exile as human beings.

If the crime is serious, the Rolls Empire will send a letter in advance.

So where should a criminal who has been ordered to be expelled go?

There were only borders between countries.

However, if he wanders through an uncivilized forest, he will definitely be eaten by animals or starve to death.

Duke Bell’s mind felt as if he had been stabbed in the back by those terrible words.

Kal stared at the Duke, who seemed as if he was suffocating, with a bored expression.

The Duke asked back in disbelief.

“It’s not exile, it’s an order of expulsion? Did I hear that right?”

“Yes. For sure.”

The banishment order itself was different from exile.

Since exile was a crime imposed on the assumption that he would return to the Rolls Empire, other countries and empires accepted him with open arms.

However, the banishment order was actually no different from throwing people alive because they were too lazy to kill them.

The Duke, who stood dumbfounded for a moment, asked back in a cracked voice.

“…W-What about a message from Her Imperial Majesty the Empress?”

“There is something that the Empress asked me to tell you.”

“That’s right, it can’t be possible. Right!”

Tears welled up between his earnest eyelashes.

Although the idea of being exiled made him think of many things, he was still a close associate of the Empress.

Even if he’s deported, he may be provided with a minimum survival environment.

‘I did something for the Empress, so of course she has this level of responsibility.’

Shouldn’t she give him at least a small mansion?

The Duke accepted the small item handed to him by Kal.

His face turned cold as he looked at the object in his hand with expectant eyes.

It was none other than a bottle.

A poison that can cause painless death.

“Then I will leave.”

Without a word of explanation, Kal nodded, closed the door, and disappeared.

Trapped in the dark again, he didn’t move for a while.

The thick poisonous liquid was sparkling like snake eyes.

‘…Even though I did those things for the Empress.’

“What I have done because of this witch-like woman!”

Clinkㅡ!

The bottle thrown by the Duke shattered with a terrible cracking sound.

“Huft. Haa, haa…”

Duke Belle, who was exhaling intermittently, sat down, ruffling his hair.

“I was loyal to her with my life, and then this witch-like woman throws me away like trash?”

The Duke collapsed and howled like an animal.

He screamed for two hours on the spot and was soon dragged away by the knights who came in.

“You don’t think I would die this easily! I will survive and take revenge, and I will uncover your witch-like woman’s sins!”

***

“…He said so.”

“That’s a bad word.”

The Empress was slightly offended by the Duke of Bell’s terrible curse.

Kal, who was scratching the back of his neck, muttered quietly as if he was embarrassed.

“I relayed exactly what Duke Bell said… I’m sorry.”

“No. You did nothing wrong. Anyway, good job.”

“Yes, Your Imperial Majesty. I’ll take you outside.”

It was her going out after a couple of weeks.

Coming out of her room after the acquittal, she was consistently peaceful.

She looked as if she had just fallen asleep in her bedroom.

Isilis was completely innocent.

The reason was that the voice couldn’t be identified due to the poor sound quality of the recording.

Of course, it was a ridiculous reason.

But how many nobles would dare to stand up for the Imperial Family?

Even on the Vallois side, there were no nobles who would dare to rebel in a quiet environment.

Even before she was an empress, she was a saintess.

What if she goes to prison while holding the heart of the late Emperor with her divine power?

‘…The Emperor can never abandon me.’

Isilis smiled triumphantly.

In fact, she was able to cure the late Emperor’s illness at once with divine power.

However, the reason he barely managed to breathe was, of course, as a precaution against such an accident.

Of course, if it had been in her previous life, she would have saved the late Emperor at once.

But she probably would die innocently after only doing good things for others.

“How is Peter’s work going?”

She decided not to live like her previous life.

“The slave, no, Prince Peter boarded the ship to the Free State as scheduled.”

“How is his condition?”

“He was surprisingly calm. He listens well.”

“Right. I wondered what he would do if he was shocked by the collapse incident at such a young age.”

Kal continued, following the Empress.

“As soon as Prince Peter arrives, he will enter the training center. I will forward additional reports as he comes in.”

“Yes. That’s great.”

Everything went according to plan.

Even though she had been locked up for two weeks, she wasn’t just sucking her fingers stupidly in her room.

Peter was sent to the Free State as scheduled.

In fact, as it was, he would have had to grow up watching Cassis’ ugly side while being a hostage prince to the Imperial Family.

However, since the original story has changed slightly, the Free State is now the best.

Even if there is a little noise in the middle, Peter will grow into a murder weapon.

Because the skills to execute Cassis in the role of the male lead were enough to be developed at a training center in the Free State

“Your Imperial Majesty. I heard the news of your innocence.”

“Thank you for coming to meet me like this. Let’s have tea time later.”

In the hallway, several nobles bowed their upper bodies.

The Empress, who had been responding to the nobles’ hospitality, smiled and then looked away.

Behind the nobles, knights whom she hadn’t seen were turning the corner of the hallway.

‘…If it were the Imperial Family, the lion shape would have been engraved on the shields.’

The plain, somewhat empty shield sparkled fiercely in the sunlight.

Drapㅡ

“…?”

Even the knights who approached her dared to stand in front of her, the Empress.

“By order of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, you have been placed on probation for one month. I will take you to your room.”

“I didn’t hear anything like that.”

“This is His Imperial Majesty’s order.”

The nobles who were observing the situation quietly disappeared.

Isilis’ pride was diminished as she was humiliated in front of the nobles.

She was the Empress of the Rolls Empire.

She wasn’t someone that mere knights could dare to stop.

“Kal.”

“Yes.”

“What are those knights from nowhere?”

She raised her chin slightly and asked venomously.

The high-handedness of a high-ranking noble could be felt in her arrogant expression.

At that time, Kal, who had been hesitant as if he was bewildered, sighed.

“…I forgot to tell you, but Duke Bluebell was in charge of the Imperial Guard.”

“Why does that guy’s name appear here?”

“It’s said that with the disappearance of the Bluebell family, the Vallois family took charge of the Imperial guard.”

“…What?”

The Empress’s face was horribly crumpled.

So, that meant the knights in front of her were Vallois.

Kal, who was watching, whispered.

“From what I learned secretly, Cassis asked for the position of head of the Imperial guard unit in exchange for acknowledging Your Imperial Majesty’s innocence.”

“… You mean the Emperor accepted it as it was!”

“…Yes…”

When the Empress shouted, Kal’s ant-like small voice responded.

‘How could the Emperor…’

She couldn’t believe it.

Cassis taking on the role of manager of the Imperial Guard unit meant that the knights of Valois would sit in the Imperial court.

“First, I need to have a conversation with His Imperial Majesty the Emperor. Get out of the way!”

The Empress screamed and turned around to avoid the knights.

“Your Imperial Majesty. We will take you there.”

“!”

Even other knights who suddenly appeared were blocking her path.

Even these knights were from the Imperial Family.

“How dare you stop the Empress! Who is your master!”

“I will take you there.”

“I asked who it is!”

Isilis, who eventually exploded, barely resisted, yet the knights dragged her to the Empress’s palace as best as possible without harming her.

“Aren’t you afraid of the end of my probation!”

Flutterㅡ

The evil screams made nearby birds startle and fly away.