I Put all my Stats into Charm - Chapter 84

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I Put All My Stats Into Charm Episode 084

“Hup!”

I covered my mouth with my hand at the sound that escaped without my knowing.

The sound I just heard was unmistakably the sound of someone being slapped.

‘Don’t tell me someone slapped the Crown Prince?’

Just as I was bewildered, the study door opened and I hurriedly hid behind a flower pot.

Through the open door came the Empress, her face flushed red and contorted with anger.

She left the study with rough breathing and furious steps.

‘She looks incredibly angry.’

As I peeked out to watch the Empress’s retreating figure.

Calliton whispered in my ear.

“What are you doing there?”

“Ah!”

I let out a short scream and jumped up from my spot.

“You startled me! Suddenly appearing from behind like that…!”

The moment I saw Calliton’s face, my eyes widened.

“Are you alright?”

“What do you mean?”

“What happened here?”

I pointed to Calliton’s cheek.

One side of his cheek was red.

Calliton touched his cheek and spoke as if it was nothing.

“Ah.”

It seems my guess was right.

I put my hands on my hips.

“No matter if she’s your mother, how can she carelessly slap Your Highness’s cheek like this?”

Good grief, how absurd.

That woman, I could tell from when her face was full of malice.

To leave a mark on such a precious face. She’s going to cause big trouble.

I rolled up my sleeves.

“I should call for a physician.”

Just as I turned to call for a physician.

[Calliton Grailhart’s favorability has increased by 5.]

[Calliton Grailhart’s favorability: 60]

Calliton’s favorability went up.

At the same time, he grabbed my arm and pulled me toward him.

With one hand around my waist, he placed my palm on his cheek with the other.

“This feels much better.”

I could feel the burning heat beneath my palm.

Shadows fell under his long golden eyelashes.

His eyebrows slowly lifted as his red eyes gazed at me.

“Will you treat me?”

“…”

Those eyes are so full of ulterior motives they’re overflowing.

If it were another character, I would have gladly accepted such a clear sign of affection.

But in a situation where I had no information about Calliton, I couldn’t let his favorability rise.

Right now, finding out information about Calliton’s circumstances was the priority.

I gently withdrew my hand from his cheek.

“…It seems you don’t get along well with Her Majesty the Empress.”

“Did that woman’s voice carry all the way out there?”

“I heard it unintentionally.”

When I nodded awkwardly, Calliton stepped back.

He turned toward the study.

“Come in.”

I followed Calliton back into the study and sat on the sofa, thinking deeply.

Having a bad relationship with the Empress was already problematic.

From what I overheard of the conversation, it seemed Calliton had an older brother who had died.

And the Emperor seemed to be bedridden with illness.

‘In short, it’s a family full of troubles.’

As I was reflecting on the earlier conversation, Calliton spoke to me.

“What are you thinking so deeply about?”

“Ah.”

Was I too lost in my own thoughts?

“I thought Your Highness was an only child. You never mentioned having siblings.”

“You didn’t know about the previous Crown Prince?”

“Well, not really…?”

Calliton’s eyes widened slightly.

His look seemed to say ‘you don’t even know this?’

“Calliell. Have you never heard of him?”

Unfortunately, I had never seen any explanation about the Crown Prince before Calliton in the game.

But from the atmosphere, it seemed I needed to pretend to know or I’d be treated like an idiot.

I rolled my eyes and answered.

“I think I might have heard of him…!”

Calliton looked at me with his mouth slightly open.

Then he closed his lips and stroked his chin.

“Sometimes when I look at you.”

Why. What is he trying to say.

Is he going to look down on me again, calling me a country bumpkin?

If he goes on about how education is illegal in the countryside again, I won’t let it slide this time.

As I was inwardly preparing myself, Calliton continued.

“You seem like someone who lived in a different world.”

That hit close to home.

Sometimes Calliton was frighteningly perceptive.

I suppose you need that level of insight to rule an empire.

Instead of nitpicking, Calliton explained about the previous Crown Prince.

“Calliell was the previous Crown Prince and my blood brother.”

The Emperor was also said to be bedridden with illness.

I thought that Calliton’s brother’s early death might be a family trait, or he could have suddenly fallen ill or been constitutionally weak.

Even in the Joseon Dynasty, there were kings and crown princes who died young from illness.

I nodded and spoke carefully.

“He must have been in poor health.”

“Officially, yes.”

“Officially?”

Calliton took a sip of his cold tea.

I waited for what would come next, but he didn’t say anything more.

It seemed he didn’t want to talk about Calliell anymore.

‘That’s quite meaningful.’

If that’s officially the case, does that mean it’s different unofficially?

On one hand, I found it puzzling.

This world has priests.

Most diseases should be curable with sacred power.

Let’s say the Emperor collapsed from old age. He seemed quite elderly after all.

But the Crown Prince was young, so if he died from a chronic illness, it probably wasn’t an ordinary disease.

Ah, come to think of it.

“You know what you said while watching the aurora last time.”

Calliton stared at me.

“The person you said you wanted to meet again – was that perhaps His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Calliell?”

He paused as he was bringing his teacup to his lips.

Calliton gave no answer at all.

It was a silence that was as good as confirmation.

‘So what he said while watching the aurora wasn’t out of longing for his first love.’

I had thought the person Calliton missed would be a woman, but it was his own brother.

Should I be relieved that unlike Jerome, the other person isn’t a woman?

Usually in palace intrigue stories, you see brothers fighting to the death over the throne.

If he misses his dead brother to this extent, they must have had a good relationship.

Among the conversations I’d had with Calliton, there was something that bothered me.

‘Just as Your Highness thinks of that person, that person must be thinking of Your Highness from there too?’

That can’t be true. Even if he does think of me, it probably wouldn’t be anything good.’

Thinking over Calliton’s response, it didn’t seem like they had such a good relationship after all.

‘Did they really film some palace intrigue drama?’

Calliton had perfectionist tendencies and a cold-blooded personality.

He seemed like someone who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.

‘He pushed aside his sickly brother and stole the right of succession. His brother collapsed and died from the shock, and the guilt came rushing in later, didn’t it?’

Just as a whole drama was forming in my head, Calliton spoke up.

“I didn’t call you here to talk about such things. There’s another reason I summoned you.”

Calliton crossed his legs elegantly and continued.

“Do you remember the dress I mentioned before?”

The dress – does he mean the one he gave me to wear at the Duke’s Palace ball?

“Yes. The dress I agreed to wear when Your Highness desired it, right?”

“The Founding Festival will be held soon.”

The Founding Festival.

The Founding Festival was a national event commemorating the Empire’s establishment.

Even before the Founding Festival, the entire Empire transformed into a festival ground, and many merchants and artists gathered at the Empire’s center.

Anyone could enjoy the festival regardless of social status, but the heart of the Founding Festival was in the Imperial Palace.

During the day at the Imperial Palace, there were ceremonies commemorating the founding, followed by grand banquets and balls at night.

“Wear the dress I gave you then. You’ll spend that day with me.”

It wasn’t a difficult request, and there was no particular reason to refuse.

I nodded.

“Understood.”

Since I needed to see Calliton’s ending anyway, I had to stay in his good graces, so I was planning to do that regardless.

“Then I’ll wear it that day.”

It seemed like the business was finished.

As I was getting up from my seat, Calliton spoke.

“So, aren’t you going to heal me?”

Calliton stood up from his seat.

Then he took a step closer to me and pointed at his cheek with his finger.

“I’m injured, you know?”

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