A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 258

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 258

 

Everything came crashing down suddenly one day.

 

Like waves before a storm transforming into a whirlpool in the blink of an eye.

 

“I wasn’t supposed to use that poison. I wasn’t supposed to use it…”

 

Lavania, who had put down the communication device, paced frantically around the room.

 

In the fireplace, the bracelet she had worn that afternoon was carelessly embedded among the ashes.

 

One week… no, was it two weeks?

 

Memories from a few days ago flashed through her mind.

 

“How ridiculous! Remaining behind to look after the Frost Association?! And His Majesty approved of this?! Ahhh-!”

 

Poor Pides.

 

Her only son had once again missed a good opportunity.

 

This time, she could have gotten rid of Ardiana for good.

 

This time, she could have made a more definitive impression on the Emperor.

 

“Association work, tending to those mere beasts who fight on the frontier, what’s so important about that to make him keep that girl behind…!”

 

“Your Majesty, it’s about managing the mercenaries.”

 

But then, several of her usually favored maids stepped forward.

 

“We dare to suggest that this may not be something to take lightly. There might be unexpected depth to it.”

 

She felt angry and bewildered at the same time.

 

To think there was something about managing the Frost Association that she didn’t know about.

 

“There’s something unsettling about it. Even at the last memorial service, the mercenaries’ position isn’t quite the same as before.”

 

Agavert attending the memorial service.

 

The fact that mercenaries within the Order had been increasing day by day recently.

 

Starting with them, more and more mercenaries were establishing residences inside the Boundary of the Old Gods, and naturally becoming acquainted with the nobles.

 

“Things that seem trivial are often more frightening. The Princess is cunning by nature, isn’t she? There’s no telling what she might be plotting.”

 

Only then could Lavania realize it.

 

Ardiana had been planning everything behind the scenes all this time.

 

Since it would be difficult to gain the Emperor’s trust through ordinary means, she probably started with the mercenary business that no one else cared about.

 

Then she quietly expanded her sphere of influence and…

 

Just as the maids said, she had once again tripped up Pides.

 

“This won’t do.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“I can’t just stand by and watch that happen. It can’t be like that. It absolutely can’t.”

 

Lavania had to make a choice.

 

Would she continue to let Ardiana monopolize the mercenary market?

 

Or would she interfere now to prevent her from sucking out all the sweet benefits?

 

Her deliberation was brief.

 

“How many mercenaries are staying within the Order?”

 

Lavania secretly invited mercenaries she could contact to the Empress’s Palace.

 

And she met with them one by one, making offers they could never refuse.

 

“Leave the Association.”

 

“…Pardon?”

 

“I will create a better position for you. Based on performance, I might even grant titles to some of you. You saw how Agavert’s Commander King received a title from His Majesty the Emperor, didn’t you?”

 

“Ah, I’m aware of that, but I believe the investiture ceremony hasn’t been held yet…”

 

“Whether it’s been held or not! The Commander King went in and out of the Imperial Palace like it was nothing until the expedition, all with just that one promise!”

 

“…”

 

“This Imperial Palace is a place that ordinary people can hardly even look up at once in their lifetime. Here, I’m offering you a chance to work for me, and you dare…!”

 

Though there were various minor disturbances, Lavania was definitely right in the end.

 

All the mercenaries she contacted immediately promised to leave the Association.

 

“The plan has changed. Once my established association is somewhat organized, I’ll have to hand it over to Pides then.”

 

“What remarkable foresight, Your Majesty.”

 

“I didn’t know I had such talent in this area. They were all drooling over that little bit of money, that little bit of title…”

 

However, not all mercenaries looked pathetic in her eyes.

 

Among the mercenaries she met over the past few days, there were some who caught Lavania’s attention.

 

Lavania remembered that morning clearly.

 

A day when she couldn’t sleep due to headaches the night before, and her physical condition wasn’t good because of it.

 

“It’s an honor to meet you, Your Majesty. My name is Nes.”

 

Nes.

 

Nes was a poison specialist from a small mercenary group that was passing near the Order.

 

As soon as she entered the Empress’s Palace, she began telling her story with her characteristic eloquence.

 

It was about how her great-grandmother was the most successful medium in her hometown.

 

“My grandmother was executed for serving heretics. I don’t remember well since I was young…”

 

“Goodness! There’s no need to go into such detail with stories like that! Her Majesty is a busy person.”

 

The maids were horrified at Nes telling stories no one had asked for.

 

But Lavania was different.

 

Instead of dismissing Nes from her seat, she raised one hand to silence the maids.

 

“Continue speaking.”

 

“I’m grateful that you’re listening to my humble story with such interest.”

 

Nes continued her story with her characteristic gentle and harmless smile.

 

“…That’s how I married a man from the neighboring village. I was even pregnant… but I lost both of them to a monster attack.”

 

At some point, Lavania was half-rising from her seat.

 

“Everyone. Go outside.”

 

She was hazy about what possessed her to dismiss the maids.

 

They were different in age and background.

 

It was amazing how she had experienced exactly the same pain as herself.

 

Having been married once before meeting the Emperor.

 

Losing the child in her womb was a secret she hadn’t even told her maids…

 

Thinking that Nes had similar experiences, the walls in her heart naturally crumbled.

 

“But this is strange.”

 

But at that moment, Nes began to shed tears while looking at Lavania.

 

“Your Majesty… I see a crown blooming over ashes around Your Majesty.”

 

Her heart sank once again.

 

A crown blooming over ashes.

 

Naturally, her burned hometown came to mind.

 

It felt like the scene of first meeting the Empress while covered in ashes was vividly coming back to life.

 

“Poor soul… Do you still wake up from sleep at the smell of burning?”

 

Nes approached and prostrated herself at her feet.

 

Then the scent of eucalyptus from her hometown wafted over.

 

“Don’t be surprised. This old woman, perhaps having inherited our ancestors’ blood, often sees things that others cannot see.”

 

Nes raised her head and stared intently at Lavania.

 

She felt strange.

 

“God is too harsh. How could He give such cruel trials to someone so good and capable…”

 

At this moment, Nes was seeing through all of her nightmares.

 

Lavania rose from her seat as if enchanted.

 

And she grabbed Nes’s shoulders.

 

“Trials…? Do you see something about me? If you do, tell me, right now.”

 

Nes closed her mouth as if she couldn’t bear to speak.

 

But soon she answered in a crawling voice.

 

“Your Majesty. Though it may be presumptuous, the wind that was blowing for Your Majesty has changed direction. Though it seemed it would stay forever, in the end…”

 

It was just two sentences.

 

But those two sentences were enough to bring Lavania crashing down.

 

“His Majesty… surely he hasn’t taken another woman?”

 

The anxiety she had harbored from the moment she entered the Imperial Palace, led by the Empress’s hand.

 

“Ah, aah! He’s been avoiding me lately. He doesn’t love me like before, and now finally…”

 

Just as he had abandoned the Empress, the worry that he might someday abandon her too.

 

“Your Majesty…”

 

Lavania trembled her eyelashes, forgetting that she was sitting collapsed on the floor.

 

A long silence followed.

 

The next day, and the day after that, Lavania called Nes to her chambers.

 

And she stayed attached to her all day long.

 

From knowledge about mercenaries to pharmacy and magic studies, Nes was thoroughly versed in everything.

 

‘How difficult it must have been for you.’

 

‘In the end, Your Majesty will surely be victorious.’

 

Nes’s words were all things that reassured Lavania from beginning to end.

 

And she helped her prepare against the dangers that would come.

 

“This is a very useful poison, Your Majesty.”

 

“A useful poison?”

 

“Yes. It was so difficult to obtain that I’ve been saving it all this time, neither selling nor using it.”

 

“…”

 

“I heard there are still some among the loyalists who oppose His Majesty Pides. I guarantee that such people only realize their mistakes at the gates of Hell.”

 

Nes advised her to eliminate political enemies with that poison.

 

But.

 

“No, I have someone in mind.”

 

Inferiority complex, fear, and impatience paralyzed Lavania’s brain.

 

“If I just eliminate that person, everything will be solved. Everything, everything…”

 

In truth, Lavania knew it too.

 

In this vast Palace, there was truly only one thing she possessed.

 

“My son…”

 

Pides.

 

Pides absolutely had to become Emperor.

 

That path was the only escape route that would free her from her long Hell.

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