A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 259

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 259

 

Two days after the Emperor collapsed.

 

“Just how long will you keep postponing this decision!”

 

Someone slammed their fist on the council room table.

 

“We must decide on a regent now! If there’s a vacuum in state affairs, will you lords take responsibility?!”

 

“Lower your voice, Duke Ed! There are only two candidates anyway!”

 

The shouting grew louder in the heated atmosphere.

 

“Good grief, if only the loyalists’ opinions could be gathered, we could decide immediately…!”

 

“The problem is that opinions aren’t converging.”

 

One of the Prince faction nobles clicked his tongue.

 

“Since the topic has come up, let me say this. His Majesty the Emperor has never once bent his will in the past 20 years. Regarding the matter of establishing His Highness Pides as the next emperor.”

 

The nobles fell silent.

 

However, soon the few opposition nobles stepped forward.

 

“That’s true. But in the end, he couldn’t hold the crown prince investiture ceremony, could he?”

 

They were those who opposed Pides becoming crown prince, and furthermore, emperor.

 

They were also those who argued that Ardiana would be a hundred times better for the Empire.

 

“Right, he couldn’t do it in the end! Because of some people’s opposition!”

 

“Now see here, Duke Ed!”

 

“Why do you all hate His Highness Pides so much? Prince Pides has been helping His Majesty manage state affairs for the past few years!”

 

“So. Has the Prince lived up to His Majesty’s expectations?!”

 

“What?”

 

“Failed to suppress the frontier rebellion years ago! Failed to entertain the North Continent envoys! Just how excessive must one’s drinking be to ruin such an important tribute matter? Everyone seems to have forgotten we almost went to war then!”

 

The Prince faction nobles fell silent.

 

“That was…!”

 

That’s when it happened.

 

“Enough, all of you.”

 

Someone raised a hand.

 

Balthasar Grail.

 

The Imperial Palace’s treasurer and the loyalist wielding the most powerful authority here.

 

When he stepped forward, the Prince faction nobles’ faces brightened.

 

Because Balthasar had been supporting Pides from long ago.

 

However, his following words shook everyone’s expectations.

 

“However much His Highness the Prince participated in state affairs. Whatever His Majesty the Emperor’s intentions were while alive.”

 

He calmly met eyes with the gathered loyalists.

 

“In such situations, we must follow principles. Exactly as stated in Imperial law.”

 

Balthasar slowly rose from his seat.

 

“When an emperor falls into mental incapacity without leaving a will or sealed posthumous document, succession goes to the legitimate heir.”

 

The Prince faction nobles’ eyes widened.

 

Even the opposition nobles stared at Balthasar in surprise.

 

However, he left the room after one final statement.

 

“By the way, don’t forget that going against national law is considered treason.”

 

That night, in Ardiana’s bedchamber.

 

The sound of insects chirping occasionally filled the space.

 

Ardiana sat on the sofa, gazing at the flickering candlelight.

 

At that moment, the window curtains swayed and someone walked out from behind them.

 

“It’s getting serious… Already three just today…”

 

The man shaking his head was Plum.

 

A mercenary who had come to Jedo upon receiving Ardiana’s invitation,

 

“Mmph! Mmph!”

 

And carried on Plum’s back like luggage was an assassin who had been lurking near the Princess’s Palace.

 

“They said the Imperial Palace was the ultimate battlefield without swords… Pure lies… There are swords.”

 

Plum pulled out a dagger hanging from the assassin’s waist with a sad expression and threw it on the floor.

 

Then someone else walked out from a corner of the bedchamber.

 

“Plum. Can’t you do something about that dispiriting tone? You’re making me breathless too.”

 

The woman snapping with furrowed brows was Corel from the 18th Mercenary Group.

 

She shook her head.

 

“Never mind. Forget I said anything.”

 

Then suddenly looked up at the ceiling.

 

“Fin? Renmar?”

 

Two people lightly landed from the ceiling.

 

“Aw man, I was just about to fall asleep. Another fearless rat?”

 

“Yeah. And there’ll keep being more, so stay alert. You gonna work or not?”

 

Fin and Renmar shrugged their shoulders.

 

They soon shouldered the assassin Plum had put down, each taking an arm and leg.

 

“Just carry him to where we put the other guys, right?”

 

“Right. Tie him up well, and be careful no sound leaks out.”

 

Fin and Renmar nodded and left the Princess’s Palace.

 

Again without using the door, through the balcony outside the window.

 

Only after the two left did Ardiana rise from her seat.

 

“You all are working hard.”

 

Corel’s eyes widened.

 

“This isn’t even hard work. It’s much better than monsters charging to tear your head off.”

 

When Ardiana chuckled, Plum asked with a reddened face.

 

“Princess. Should we… increase the guard personnel nearby a bit more?”

 

Ardiana hesitated.

 

She walked to the window, lost in thought for a moment.

 

The desolate Princess’s Palace came into view.

 

The improperly maintained garden.

 

Her sanctuary that had been like a ghost house, with fewer than ten people total caring for the palace.

 

But recently, many things were changing within the Princess’s Palace.

 

Flash-

 

Something briefly glinted and disappeared from the eastern wall in her line of sight.

 

“Th-that Eshurin! Playing around again…!”

 

Corel approached in surprise.

 

“I’m sorry, Princess. I clearly told them not to fool around while on guard duty…”

 

“No, it’s fine.”

 

Ardiana shook her head and smiled.

 

“Seventeen, you said?”

 

“Pardon? Oh, yes.”

 

Eshurin, positioned under the eastern wall, was among the youngest of the mercenaries.

 

Lost parents at ten and was taken in by Corel, apparently.

 

“I’ll definitely repay you when this is over.”

 

Corel fell silent.

 

Currently, as many as thirty mercenaries were lying in ambush within Ardiana’s palace.

 

Surrounding the walls, inside the palace, and even on the ceiling like Fin and Renmar earlier.

 

‘At first I thought it might be too much.’

 

But her thoughts changed as soon as she entered the Princess’s Palace.

 

There were no guards protecting the Princess, yet countless assassins trying to kill her.

 

In just the past two weeks alone, they had already caught over twenty.

 

Corel was genuinely curious.

 

How had Ardiana managed to survive here all this time.

 

“There isn’t much left now.”

 

Ardiana muttered calmly.

 

“The Council of Nobles convened during the day today. It seems Duke Balthasar Grail did his job well. My brother won’t accept the results.”

 

Corel’s eyes widened.

 

Finally.

 

The blueprint they had been drawing was nearly complete.

 

“Don’t get hurt. None of you should be injured because of me. That’s the only reason we took this roundabout path.”

 

Corel unconsciously clenched her fists.

 

She recalled a few days ago.

 

‘Can’t we just eliminate the Prince and Empress?’

 

When they had decided to join the cause together.

 

Many mercenaries had asked Ardiana that question.

 

‘Wouldn’t that be easier and faster? There aren’t that many Imperial Army troops stationed nearby anyway. I hear the Imperial Guard doesn’t number more than a hundred either. If the nobles send their private soldiers, we can bring our own private forces too.’

 

As they said, Ardiana had already won over several nobles including Balthasar Grail.

 

She also had the newly acquired mercenary forces at her disposal.

 

It meant she could easily seize the Imperial Palace and crush the Imperial Guard if she set her mind to it.

 

However.

 

‘No. I won’t let my revenge become someone’s grave. Protecting my allies is more important to me than killing my enemies.’

 

Ardiana was resolute.

 

‘So we avoid unnecessary battles. And.’

 

‘….’

 

‘They’ll bring about their own end anyway. I’m certain of it.’

 

Corel’s heart stirred deeply as she watched Ardiana’s back.

 

Ardiana seemed unaware.

 

That it was precisely these qualities of hers that inspired loyalty in everyone.

 

Ardiana rubbed the last remaining candle against the candlestick to extinguish it.

 

Unaware that there was now one more person willing to gladly lay down their life for her.

 

And at the same time.

 

“I can see it! I can see the Central Continent!”

 

The salty wind swept through Tie’s hair as it passed.

 

“Can you feel it?”

 

Lucalion approached and asked.

 

Standing on a chair with both hands gripping the railing, Tie quietly nodded.

 

“Yes. I can feel it.”

 

In the distance.

 

Even though the Central Continent looked only as big as a biscuit, she could tell.

 

Was it the World Tree raging within her heart?

 

The power inside her body was stirring.

 

Tie whispered.

 

“Luciano is there…”

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