I Became the Youngest Sister-in-law of the Ruined Reverse Harem’s Male Leads - Chapter 56

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In fact, the reason the council members convened Parliament today was to pressure the Empress into proving that her youngest sister was not her daughter.

Thanks to this, the unscheduled hearing proceeded as if they had been waiting for it.

Leopold, who had decided to attend the hearing with Regina, had clenched his jaw so tightly that the muscles in his jaw were prominently visible.

Edgar, who was staying close beside him, clearly showed signs of anxiety, thinking that the hearing was being held because of him.

And Regina was.

“Edgar. Don’t worry. I’ll beat all those people.”

Edgar hung his head low.

“It’s all because of me.”

“No, it’s not. Edgar protected me, so why are you thinking like that?”

Regina tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand.

When she gently stroked his hair, Edgar’s shoulders flinched.

Regina whispered in Edgar’s ear.

“It’s a secret the Empire people don’t know, but I’m really strong.”

“What? You, Regina?”

“I’m a hero who lives hiding my strength.”

“I can’t believe it.”

“Hmm. In our house, I’m the second strongest after sister Edith… Even sister acknowledged it, but you don’t know.”

No matter how maturely she acted, a child was still a child.

Edgar raised his head with a dubious expression.

Regina lightly pinched both of the child’s cheeks.

“So don’t worry and just wait. Today is the day the hero enters the demon castle and brings back treasure.”

After finishing her words, Regina left Edgar with a court attendant and departed for the meeting hall.

“I’ll handle it. Regina, you just need to stay quiet—”

“I think crispy baked cookies would be good as treasure.”

“What?”

“Eating sweet cookies makes you feel better when you’re upset. That’s what Lilliana said.”

“…”

Under Leopold’s gaze, Regina smiled brightly.

“I had to step forward at least once. Since they’re trying to attack sister through me, I need to show them I’m not someone to be taken lightly.”

“…I understand. But I didn’t expect it to come this quickly.”

“Just stay by my side. I think that will give me strength.”

“Yes. I’ll be by your side…”

Leopold’s voice caught, so he cleared his throat softly.

“I’ll be there. So don’t worry.”

“Thank you.”

Leopold opened the meeting hall door for Regina.

It was time to hunt the hyenas that would tear apart her sister and youngest brother.

* * *

Hans sat in the meeting hall with great confidence.

Among the nobles attending the hearing were the adults from his friends’ families, including himself.

Moreover, even Count Ruman, who wielded some power through his friendship with Duke Berg, was in attendance.

“Don’t worry about anything. It’ll just be a formal procedure and then it’ll be over.”

Count Ruman patted Hans on the back.

Hans exchanged glances with his friends and smirked.

After the hearing ended, the loser rumors he’d gained because of Regina Berchio would also disappear.

Clank.

The door opened and Regina entered. Leopold accompanied her, but.

‘No matter how much of a Duke Valtrakhen he is, he can’t handle all these council members.’

Moreover, Regina Berchio was so terrified that her complexion was beyond pale and her hands were even trembling slightly.

Several council members expressed concern that things might escalate if His Majesty the Emperor intervened.

But in this situation, even the Emperor couldn’t intervene carelessly.

Because they had set the victim as a cousin brother.

“Miss Regina Berchio. Please sit down.”

Count Ruman commanded in a stern voice.

Regina sat down weakly and rolled her eyes around.

At the wedding banquet, she had acted strong while overwhelming Hans’s group, but she was just a foreigner who knew nothing.

As proof, she began sniffling as soon as she sat down, unable to endure it.

“Sob. *cough*. *sniff*.”

The council members cleared their throats and turned their heads, pretending not to see.

To them, Regina was not someone to comfort and soothe, but the Empress’s weakness that needed to be crushed.

“Miss Regina Berchio. Are you certain you used an ability?”

“No. Do you have evidence that I used an ability?”

It was the kind of thing someone would say when making excuses after committing a wrong, but she seemed unaware of this fact because she was too busy crying.

This will end quickly.

“Count Ruman. I heard that when someone uses a mental domination ability, their eye color changes.”

When Hans raised his hand to speak, Regina’s body flinched.

Just because only ability users came from Trowance didn’t mean the Empire had no data about abilities at all.

When spreading rumors about Regina Berchio, he had asked a smuggler from Trowance.

“I saw Regina Berchio’s eye color change.”

“Eye color change? When did I do that?”

“When you made eye contact with the young duke.”

“Are you certain?”

“Count Ruman. Hans is right. I saw it too.”

At Patrick’s testimony, Hans smiled triumphantly.

Leopold handed a water bottle to the trembling Regina.

Count Ruman asked with dignity.

“What color were her eyes then?”

Hans recalled the smuggler’s answer.

“Mental-type abilities change eye color when used.”

“Interesting. How do they change?”

“Usually they change to rare colors. Like purple.”

Hans answered in a highly excited voice.

“Purple!”

For just a moment, he felt like Regina had chuckled.

‘Huh?’

She laughed in this situation? Everyone must have seen wrong. She must have been flustered because of the fabricated testimony.

Regina, who had taken a deep breath, asked tearfully.

“Purple?”

“We all saw her eyes glowing purple.”

“The, the young duke was behind me! I couldn’t make eye contact, so how could I use mental domination!”

“You cast the ability when you were checking on the young duke.”

Hans, who didn’t need to be nervous since everyone was on his side, replied carelessly. Then Leopold stepped forward.

“I understand that Regina checked on Edgar because you threatened Edgar.”

“A threat! I was just trying to pat his head, but there was a misunderstanding.”

“Then we should ask Edgar directly.”

When Leopold stood firm and confronted him, Hans swallowed hard. Count Ruman stepped forward.

“If what Hans says is true, then the young duke is still under mental control and cannot be trusted.”

“That can be determined by examining Edgar closely.”

“Hmm. The young duke is just a child. A child who could lie at any time due to adult attention.”

Count Ruman defended Hans.

Thanks to the unusual lack of people coming and going through the garden today, there were no witnesses.

So they just needed to exchange a few words and reach a conclusion.

“Our children have suffered too much today because of one witch.”

The fathers of Hans’s group exchanged greetings as if everything was over.

But they all overlooked one thing.

“It’s not purple.”

Regina, who had stopped crying, wore a subtle smile.

As if her crying had been an act, not a trace of fear could be found in her.

“Hm?”

When Hans turned his head to stare at her, he confirmed it.

“Her, her eyes…”

Regina’s eyes were glowing red.

So bright red that not even a trace of purple could be found.

When their gazes met, Hans’s eyes became hazy.

“You, dance a butt dance right now.”

Hans’s body twitched at Regina’s command.

However, the disaster of a grown adult wiggling his buttocks didn’t occur.

He only trembled his shoulders as if trying to resist.

Count Ruman, who was beside Hans, jumped up and pointed accusingly at Regina.

“How, how dare you in the meeting hall…!”

“I didn’t use my ability.”

“If that wasn’t an ability just now, then what was it!”

“…If I had used my ability, Hans Obitz should have stood up and danced a butt dance.”

“The ability just didn’t work properly, but you’re playing with words!”

“But my eyes didn’t glow purple.”

“That, that’s…”

Count Ruman was speechless. Hans and his group turned pale.

If Regina used her ability in the meeting hall, then they lied in the garden.

If they insist she used her ability in the garden, then what just happened wasn’t an ability.

‘They definitely said purple…!’

The smuggler said they ‘usually’ turn purple, not that they all turn purple.

Just as people have different hair colors, there are always exceptions everywhere.

Hans had listened carelessly to the smuggler’s words and completely failed to realize it might not be purple.

“Describe what color my eyes look like right now.”

“That, that, that’s…”

When Regina looked around at the council members, they either hung their heads low or closed their eyes to avoid her gaze.

“I clearly commanded with these eyes. I told you to describe what my eyes look like now. No one could do it. Am I still the one who lied?”

With eerily red eyes and a desert-dry expression, Regina didn’t look like the young lady who smiled brightly around the Empire.

The nobles who had held the hearing to crush Regina held their breath.

Grin.

For just a moment, a lively smile appeared on her face and disappeared.

“For the ability to work, I have to speak clearly. Like this.”

Regina’s eyes became even more blood-red than before. Regina drew out her power until the whites of her eyes were bloodshot, then commanded.

“Tell the truth.”

When she used her ability with all her strength, Hans spoke in a dazed voice.

“When I threatened Edgar, Regina Berchio tried to stop me… Ugh!”

Hans, who came to his senses belatedly, covered his mouth.

Regina smiled bitterly and glared at the council members.

“I clearly said to tell the truth. Not lies.”

“Re, Regina!”

Blood dripped from Regina’s eyes, drop by drop.

At the sight of her seemingly crying tears of blood, the council members turned their gazes away or coughed awkwardly, feeling as if they had committed a great sin.

The fact that several of them had done terrible things to one fragile woman was too clearly revealed.

“My ability is limited to just this much. You say I deceived the young duke and all of you with this ability? With an ability that breaks in just 5 seconds?”

She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief and warned.

“I won’t accept apologies. All of you prepare to take responsibility.”

With those words, Regina’s body collapsed.

While Leopold carried her and rushed to a doctor, an unexpected person visited the meeting hall.

It was Edith, the Empress.

Swish. Long fingers traced a long line through the bloodstain that had fallen on the table.

“I held back because I wanted to resolve this through dialogue, but in the end.”

Edith’s eyes gleamed as she wiped her hand.

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