A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 290
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 290
“Shut up!”
When Pides shouted, the maid cowered.
He glared with bloodshot eyes and snatched the sword from the attendant standing beside him.
“I am one who carries the Emperor’s blood! This is my palace, and this country is my country! Yet you lowly things, how dare you lowly things—!”
The sword flashed as it cut through the air.
However, with the sound of armor clashing, it was Pides who fell.
Having dropped his sword, Pides stared ahead in disbelief.
An Imperial soldier who had parried his sword was pointing a spear tip at him.
“Imprison Prince Pides.”
Ardiana’s voice calmly echoed through the treasury.
“No one is to meet with him until there is an official interrogation.”
At that command, soldiers approached him.
Pides shook his head.
“No, this can’t be. This can’t happen…”
One of the soldiers bound his wrists.
“Let go, release this! You crazy fools!”
Pides screamed.
“Don’t you know who I am?! I am Pides Lacrysia! The moment this matter is resolved, I’ll slit all your throats! Let go! I said let go! Aaaaah!”
His body was dragged out of the treasury.
Pides looked at Ardiana’s face through his blood-tinted vision.
Where exactly had things gone wrong?
The stone pillars of the treasury.
The gazes of the court officials.
Even Ardiana’s eyes.
Everything seemed to be mocking him.
Pides bit the flesh inside his mouth and struggled even more violently.
“I! I did nothing wrong!”
He twisted his head and glared at the soldiers with bloodshot eyes.
“They betrayed me! Filthy traitors! I will surely punish them! When I reclaim the throne, I will surely make them…”
But at that moment, someone blocked his struggling form.
“Gag the criminal.”
With his arms twisted behind him, Pides stared at his opponent’s face.
The Captain of the Imperial Guard.
The one who had always been assigned to guard Pides was now looking down at him with cold eyes.
Pides barely managed to part his lips.
“You, how could you…”
But before he could finish speaking, two soldiers immediately gagged Pides.
Then a black cloth was placed over his head.
“Mmph! Mmph!”
Pides groaned, denying reality.
In his muffled ears, he heard someone stepping forward.
“Sir. No matter what, to inflict such humiliation upon His Highness the Prince’s body…”
“It is an imperial command.”
The Captain of the Guard’s resolute voice rang out.
“This has already been approved by the regent’s order. The commands of one who will inherit the throne are no different from the Emperor’s commands.”
His lips, tasting of blood, trembled.
Pides continued to let out silent screams.
But his wails within the cloth only disappeared into the air like echoes.
“Take him away.”
His body began to be dragged somewhere again.
Even as his knees were torn on the stone floor and his wrists twisted, the soldiers’ steps remained steady.
Something hot flowed down his cheek.
‘Ardiana…’
Her words had been right.
The era had already changed.
Once, the shadow of the Imperial Palace had been Ardiana.
No one spoke her name, and no one looked at her.
But now.
‘Ardiana, Ardiana…!’
The light of the world was directed entirely toward her.
Pides finally realized.
In the place where new light had fallen, only one thing remained.
Behind the radiance, stretched long and unnoticed by anyone—a shadow.
It was none other than himself.
In the treasury after Pides was dragged away.
“…Your Highness. Are you alright?”
At Baltazar’s voice, Ardiana took a long breath.
Her lowered eyelashes trembled slightly.
Relief that everything was over.
And an inexplicable sense of emptiness mixed together, weighing heavily on her chest.
The court officials Baltazar had brought murmured in low voices.
“The situation has become quite difficult.”
“Indeed. How could things change so drastically overnight…”
Ardiana quietly looked around.
The treasury was in chaos.
“Baltazar.”
At her call, Baltazar bowed his head.
“Yes, Your Highness.”
“Please clean up the situation here. I will go meet Lavania.”
Baltazar’s eyes widened.
“You mean the deposed Empress?”
“Confessions and testimony alone are insufficient. We must resolve complicated matters in advance.”
Baltazar nodded and answered quite seriously.
“Yes, please leave it to me.”
Instead of answering, Ardiana responded with her eyes and left the treasury.
As she walked down the corridor, only her footsteps echoed clearly in the silent air.
How far had she walked like this?
As she moved some distance from the treasury, the presences that had been hiding nearby began to reveal themselves one by one.
“It seems to have been resolved well, Your Highness.”
Ripper, who had infiltrated the area and been watching the situation the entire time.
“Of course. This is perfect.”
Corel, who had persuaded Lavania’s maid to give testimony.
“…It really turned out just as Your Highness the Princess said. We eliminated the enemy without directly dirtying our own hands.”
Even Elanes, who had played a major role in this affair by disguising herself as an old mercenary.
“Your contributions were great.”
Ardiana stopped walking and looked back at them.
These people had always been hidden in the shadows.
However, the Prince Palace was now completely empty, and most importantly, Ardiana no longer needed to watch anyone’s reactions.
“If it weren’t for you all, it would have been difficult for me to even protect myself.”
The mercenaries silently exchanged glances.
Ardiana gazed at them with calm eyes.
It wasn’t just these three.
The mercenaries who had flocked from all corners of the continent had been moving as eyes and ears throughout the Imperial Palace.
Those who were swift had dealt with assassins targeting Ardiana in advance.
Those skilled in speech had infiltrated among the court officials, whispering in their ears.
The information they brought became both wings and weapons for Ardiana.
It was fair to say that today’s victory was entirely thanks to them.
“After the coronation ceremony, I’ll reward your contributions first. I promise.”
Corel scratched her head awkwardly.
“What are you saying? I don’t know about others, but I didn’t help Your Highness expecting something in return.”
She looked back at Ripper and Elanes.
“As long as the status of mercenaries can be elevated, as long as a world comes where the path we’ve chosen is recognized, I’m fine with that.”
A faint smile spread across Ardiana’s lips.
“Yes.”
At that moment, Elanes playfully stepped forward.
“Your Highness. This old one is different.”
As she channeled her magic, Elanes’s appearance instantly changed to that of the old mercenary ‘Nes’ who had lured Lavania.
“This old one is greedy and wants gold, silver, treasures, and a mansion as big as a mountain. I also have to feed my husband who’s waiting for me at home…”
A small laugh finally escaped from Ardiana’s lips.
“Alright, alright.”
Elanes shrugged and returned to her original form.
“You really are…”
The tense atmosphere relaxed.
Just as Ardiana, who had been smiling for a moment, was about to take another step.
“Your Highness.”
A small presence was felt from the other end of the corridor.
Then someone came running toward Ardiana, breathing heavily.
“Eshurin?”
Ardiana stopped in place upon confirming that face.
Eshurin was a young girl who had been standing guard around the Princess’s Palace.
Eshurin’s eyebrows drooped.
“There’s an urgent matter, I think I need to report it.”
“…Report?”
“Yes! Strange signs were detected from the greenhouse area you mentioned before, and it’s very similar to Idongchin…”
Ardiana furrowed her brow.
After a brief silence, she passed by Eshurin as if entranced.
Her steps down the corridor grew faster and faster.
“P-Princess?”
The mercenaries followed behind her with confused faces.
But Ardiana quickened her pace even more.
‘Idongchin.’
Originally, Idongchin couldn’t be used inside the Imperial Palace.
This was because the entire palace was firmly sealed with barriers to protect the royal family.
But on the day they sent off the expedition.
Ardiana had Elanes and other mages deliberately create a hole in the barrier.
‘The greenhouse.’
And there was only one person who knew that location.
A pitiful moan escaped her lips.
“Tie…”
Her one and only child.
The one who wouldn’t hurt even if placed in her eyes, the single being she must protect even if the world collapsed.
‘Astie.’
If her guess was correct, the child was definitely here.
Right now, waiting for her under the same moonlight.
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