A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 287

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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 287

 

Talochium.

 

“I apologize, Your Highness. The Loyalists have already made their decision.”

 

A low voice spread quietly through the Audience Hall.

 

The chair Pides had been sitting in creaked as it was pushed back.

 

He turned his head and stared at Balthasar Grail.

 

“…What are you talking about? A decision?”

 

Balthasar quietly let out a sigh.

 

“We have decided to entrust the position of regent to Her Highness Ardiana.”

 

Pides’s mouth fell open.

 

He shot up from his seat and approached Balthasar.

 

“Duke Grail. Have you gone mad?”

 

Blood vessels were already bulging around Pides’s eyes.

 

“Now that Father has collapsed, you think you can do whatever you want…? Otherwise, you would never dare bring me such news.”

 

Pides’s hands trembled violently.

 

As if showing how much he had worried over the past few days.

 

Balthasar quietly met Pides’s gaze.

 

“I understand Your Highness’s feelings, but this is a decision made after careful consideration by everyone.”

 

Pides’s eyes widened.

 

“Please follow the greater good for the sake of the Hani Empire’s future…”

 

“Bullshit-!”

 

The cup in Pides’s hand flew toward the wall.

 

The floor was instantly covered with glass shards.

 

Pides grabbed Balthasar’s collar and his eyes flashed.

 

“I am the master of the Imperial Palace! The throne is in my grasp, and no one can sit on it without my permission!”

 

“…Your Highness.”

 

“Father trusted me! Not that cowardly wench Ardiana, but me! You know that he had designated me, Pides Lachrisia, as the next Emperor-!”

 

“Your Highness!”

 

Pides flinched at Balthasar’s shout.

 

He stared at Balthasar in disbelief.

 

“How dare you, how dare you…”

 

Balthasar shook off Pides’s hand.

 

He frowned and looked at Pides with a pitying expression.

 

“If only you had done better!”

 

Pides’s face went blank.

 

“Your rudeness during the reception of the North Continent envoys, your failure to suppress the frontier rebellion! And recently, even suspicions of embezzling public funds!”

 

Pides’s hand, which had been hovering in the air, slowly dropped.

 

“Don’t you realize that what’s holding Your Highness back today is not me, but yourself?”

 

Pides gritted his teeth.

 

“I already explained all those matters! They’re just baseless rumors! False rumors spread by that wench Ardiana to frame me…!”

 

“I hope that’s truly the case.”

 

Balthasar cut off Pides’s words.

 

He lowered his gaze and looked at Pides with a troubled expression.

 

“Can you promise me? That there’s nothing more that I don’t know about?”

 

Pides closed his mouth.

 

Embezzling public funds.

 

Being rude while entertaining envoys.

 

Even treating palace servants a bit roughly.

 

There had been many mistakes he had committed thoughtlessly in the past.

 

‘But haven’t most things been revealed by now?’

 

Pides’s expression became anxious.

 

Meanwhile, Balthasar spoke in a low voice.

 

“The Loyalists… I will try to persuade them one last time. I’ll suggest we hold one more meeting.”

 

Finally, a glimmer appeared in Pides’s eyes.

 

“Is that really true?”

 

“Yes. But before that.”

 

Balthasar lowered his voice.

 

“Please refrain from causing unnecessary disturbances from now on.”

 

He looked directly at Pides, who stood frozen in place.

 

“For Your Highness’s future, that’s the only option left.”

 

Then heavy footsteps left the Audience Hall.

 

Thud-

 

The door closed and Balthasar’s shadow disappeared.

 

“…Damn it, damn it all!”

 

Only then did Pides sink into his chair.

 

His breathing shook deeply and heavily.

 

‘Can you promise me? That there’s nothing more that I don’t know about?’

 

A groan escaped from his lips again.

 

“Damn Mother…!”

 

Lavania.

 

That name kept circling in his head.

 

‘There shouldn’t be anything more?’

 

How wonderful it would be if that were possible!

 

But he already knew.

 

The fact that his birth mother had tried to poison the Emperor.

 

If that matter leaked to the outside world, it would only be a matter of time before Ardiana gained the upper hand.

 

And the blade would eventually point toward him.

 

Pides gritted his teeth.

 

‘Don’t worry about anything, Pides. You really don’t need to concern yourself!’

 

The image of Lavania reassuring him with a trembling voice flashed through his mind.

 

‘I can get the antidote soon. Then it’ll be as if nothing happened. Anyway, no one besides you knows about this matter…’

 

Ardiana had said that no one knew about ‘that incident,’ but.

 

‘Is that really true?’

 

A pained expression appeared on Pides’s face.

 

‘Mother, of all people, planned this incident so meticulously?’

 

He knew Lavania.

 

His mother, who was unbelievably full of gaps and unbelievably foolish.

 

‘Please…’

 

Pides gritted his teeth.

 

In his mind, he repeated to himself over and over.

 

‘It can’t be.’

 

Surely Mother wouldn’t have confided in or shared this matter with someone.

 

If she had, then the options left to him now were…

 

“Your Majesty!”

 

At that moment, the audience hall doors burst open again.

 

What entered was one of Pides’ close associates.

 

“This is terrible!”

 

Pides’ face hardened.

 

“La, Lady Lavania has…!”

 

At his associate’s following words, Pides shot up from his seat.

 

“Pides?”

 

Inside the Empress’s Palace, dark and gloomy with drawn curtains.

 

Seeing his mother sobbing in one corner of the bed, Pides was at a loss for words.

 

He had run to the Empress’s Palace so quickly that he was already breathless up to his chin.

 

“…Mother.”

 

He whispered.

 

Lavania looked up at him with frightened eyes.

 

“Pides. You see, I didn’t mean to do such a thing…”

 

“Please, Mother-!”

 

At the sound of Pides shouting, Lavania squeezed her eyes shut.

 

Her ears were ringing.

 

With her heart pounding, her breathing was becoming increasingly difficult.

 

“What on earth are you doing? You say it’s for me, so why do you keep holding me back!”

 

Meanwhile, Pides strode toward her and threw something crumpled in front of Lavania.

 

Lavania couldn’t say a word as she looked once at Pides, then once at the object thrown before her.

 

A trembling voice leaked from her mouth.

 

“Pides…”

 

What Pides had thrown was a crumpled letter.

 

Lavania’s gaze slowly followed it.

 

[To His Noble Majesty Pides Lacrisia-]

 

The first sentence.

 

The ink at the end of Pides’ name had spread ominously black.

 

[What Your Majesty so desperately wishes to hide appears crystal clear to me.

 

I am the one who gave poison to Lady Lavania.

 

I also know exactly where that poison was used.]

 

Lavania’s face contorted.

 

Nes.

 

The old mercenary who had given her the poison.

 

‘She said she would find an antidote, find an antidote!’

 

She had sensed it when she disappeared a few days ago.

 

That something was going wrong.

 

But she never thought it would be something like this.

 

[If you wish my mouth to remain permanently shut, there is something you must prepare.

 

I will not give you much time.

 

My patience is limited, and Your Majesty’s secret will end before that.

 

Well then, I await your reply.

 

-From Lady Lavania’s old benefactor.]

 

“Do you know how much this person is demanding from me?”

 

Pides’ voice trembled with rage.

 

“A full 500,000 gold! 500,000 gold!”

 

Lavania swallowed dry saliva as everything went white before her eyes.

 

Pides slammed the table.

 

“The Imperial Court’s annual budget is 1.5 million gold. What this woman is demanding amounts to a full 30% of that!”

 

Pides’ breathing became rough.

 

“Why are you doing this?”

 

Lavania shrank back.

 

“You say it’s for me, so why do you keep pushing me into deeper quicksand!”

 

“Sob! Pides!”

 

Lavania finally burst into tears and got down from the bed.

 

Pides watched his mother clinging to his feet with a dry expression.

 

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry! But you shouldn’t treat me like this. How did I raise you! How did I…!”

 

“Let go of this.”

 

However, Pides shook off Lavania as if brushing away an insect.

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