Newlywed Life Begins with a Mistake - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94

One year later.

“Wow! How long has it been?”

A woman wearing a feathered mask exclaimed in wonder as soon as she entered the castle.

Her companion, stepping on the red carpet, also made a fuss while showing excitement.

“Exactly! This must be the first banquet since that time, right?”

The day after the Heteus Banquet ended.

【Banquets are prohibited for the time being.】

Emperor Glenn issued an official document abolishing all banquets.

From hosts who were preparing banquets to nobles waiting for their children’s debutante balls, everyone united in strong opposition to the sudden announcement.

“This cannot be! Even if unfortunate incidents occurred, there should be a grace period!”

“Canceling all scheduled banquets will cause enormous losses! Please show mercy, Your Majesty!”

Despite fierce opposition erupting everywhere, Glenn did not bend his will.

Instead, he deployed knights to restrict their movements.

“From now on, anyone who disobeys His Majesty’s orders will be arrested!”

Regardless of status, whenever knights spotted people attending banquets, they would rush over with blazing eyes and imprison them. Those who fought back were killed as examples.

After cold corpses appeared for an entire month, nobles who belatedly sensed the seriousness finally chose to stay in seclusion.

While watching the Emperor’s mood and desperately suppressing their desires, the nobles’ bodies burned with increasing restlessness as time passed.

Then one day.

【On the night when the crescent moon rises high.</p】

As the tightly closed castle gates open, a secret spectacle will unfold.

If you wish to encounter darkness that even the sun cannot penetrate, please circle the back and place the letter at the designated location.>

An anonymous letter arrived to them.

The nobles who received the letter were half-doubtful, but they circled the back and had servants place the letters at the designated location.

Surprisingly, most nobles hoped to attend.

Some reported to the Royal Knights, saying there seemed to be ulterior motives, but the knights could not find the sender.

They couldn’t even discover who among the nobles had expressed intention to attend.

“The Royal Court won’t notice, will they?”

“Seeing how they couldn’t find the organizer, probably not? We almost got imprisoned again.”

The Noble Lady who had held a banquet disguised as afternoon tea in broad daylight had been imprisoned for a full week, begging for her life.

Finishing her recollection, the Noble Lady shuddered and shook her head.

“Actually, I couldn’t shake my suspicions until coming here. But this seems to be real.”

Sometimes some played mean pranks to fool the nobles, but fortunately the long-awaited banquet was unfolding before their eyes.

“Kyaa! We shouldn’t do this here.”

“Hahaha! It’s fine if we go to the terrace?”

A secret venue where crude jokes and sticky gazes were exchanged.

People intoxicated with alcohol and pleasure were enjoying vulgar entertainment while wearing masks.

With just a piece of leather covering their faces, they acted without restraint as if they had obtained indulgences, letting go of everything.

The Princesses watching this shameful yet bizarre spectacle hesitated momentarily, but before long they too picked up glasses and threw themselves into the scene of frenzy.

But at this time, they didn’t know.

What was happening in the back where pleasure didn’t reach.

* * *

“The antidote?”

“Here it is.”

At the same time. A suspicious group was discovered in the courtyard.

Wearing dresses and banquet attire, they disguised themselves as guests while confirming each other’s identities.

When the series of procedures ended, the woman finally relaxed and opened the box placed before her.

Click. With a crisp sound, a pile of medicinal herbs was revealed.

The woman who confirmed the contents muttered quietly with a pale face.

“This doesn’t seem like even half… Is this all?”

At the ridiculous amount, the woman sent a demanding gaze for explanation, but the man shook his head and closed the box.

“This is the best we can do. Please take it quickly.”

“But His Majesty will cause a scene if he finds out!”

That was right. Glenn, whose body required regular consumption of antidotes, was secretly having people procure antidotes to ensure they never ran out.

Since he was outwardly a healthy emperor, he had to live as a flawless emperor somehow.

“I know. But what choice do we have! From some point, someone has been tampering with the antidotes, and the antidotes that were once abundant everywhere have disappeared without a trace. We’re secretly harvesting from Shivaben Kingdom, but even this has limits.”

After the king died at Glenn’s hands.

【We will no longer cooperate.】

Shivaben Kingdom, which had been responsible for poison production, chose to sever ties with the Empire.

They volunteered to become a vassal state of another country, turning against Glenn.

Therefore, the smugglers had no choice but to secretly travel to and from Shivaben Kingdom to collect medicinal herbs.

“We’ll send word when we obtain additional antidotes, so please be satisfied with this for today.”

At the firm voice, the woman nodded with a reluctant expression.

“Understood.”

The woman who called her subordinates to move the box adjusted her mask and spoke in a whisper.

“I’ll decide the next location. This place has too many people, we’ll easily be caught.”

“What? Didn’t you specify this place saying that having many people would make the transaction easier?”

“What are you talking about! We never said such a thing!”

At the man’s words, the woman’s face turned pale.

Though she had come as a negotiator in place of her mother, she had clearly been told that the other party had designated the meeting place.

Had someone intervened in between?

Uncontrollable confusion engulfed the two people.

That’s when it happened.

Whoosh! A sharp arrow cut between them and struck the ground, then someone emerged from the darkness.

“Who goes there!”

* * *

2 hours before the incident occurred.

“They took the bait.”

A knight wearing a crow mask reported.

The man who had been reviewing documents in the veiled room showed signs of fatigue as he replied indifferently.

“Appearance?”

“Brown hair, wearing a half-mask like those used in theater.”

“Location?”

“They’re just about to enter the hall.”

“They’ll make contact at the ball then. I understand. You may go.”

Though the man dismissed him, the knight remained unmoved.

“Your Excellency, please get some rest, even if just a little. Haven’t you slept properly for months now?”

That was true.

As the knight said, it had been long since the man had gotten normal sleep.

“The Dowager pretends otherwise but continues to worry. Sebastian and Sophia feel the same way. Though the Valhalla Knights are guarding you, if you were to collapse…”

“Enough. You’re no longer a captain, but a commander now.”

As the Valhalla Knight voiced his concerns, Casian raised his hand and cut off his words.

“Continue monitoring.”

“…Understood.”

Under the silent pressure, the Valhalla Captain who had become commander after Pabel bowed his head and withdrew from the room.

‘Should I get a prescription for medicine once this incident is over?’

As the room became quiet, Casian pressed his temples firmly, trying to hold onto his confused mind.

As his subordinate had said, it had been long since he’d gotten proper sleep.

Taking sleeping pills as a temporary measure would be the best option.

Though his eyes would naturally open after a few hours, seeing how intense headaches had come, it seemed he needed to sleep even if it meant using such methods.

“Should I have some wine?”

Casian, who had been scanning the alcohol on the table, eventually closed his eyes.

Though he had once depended on alcohol to escape reality, the more he did so, the more he felt like he was being buried in an abyss.

[I’ll quit drinking too. So you stop acting like an idiot and get moving.]

Christina, unable to watch any longer, threw away all her cherished wines and kicked Casian out, bringing the situation to a close.

From a certain point, Casian, who had habitually lived with alcohol, chose to put down the bottle and sacrifice his body to stop the massive conspiracy.

“I hope this ends as quickly as possible.”

While Glenn conducted his reign of terror and blocked communication among the nobles, Casian secured an abandoned castle and devised his scheme.

He created situations to increase the nobles’ opposition to Glenn while waiting for the right moment.

Of course, it wasn’t an easy task.

[Speak up! You’re secretly communicating with the North behind my back, aren’t you? You called that woman to the Heteus Banquet to assassinate me, didn’t you?]

Glenn, filled with madness, would summon Casian at all hours to threaten him.

But no matter how much he interrogated him, when Casian wouldn’t speak, Glenn eventually became obsessed with protecting his own body.

Glenn, who couldn’t trust anyone, constantly drank antidotes and surrounded himself with assassins.

Just like Casian, Glenn too couldn’t live with a sound mind.

“Should I be grateful that his vision has become so clouded that he believes in superstitions?”

The Emperor’s nerves had grown increasingly frail, to the point where he would bring fortune tellers to the Imperial Court to decide whether to go out or not.

Casian, who had been waiting for the right opportunity, coordinated with the fortune teller he had planted as a spy and set the date.

He had the Valhalla Knights gather the nobles, and for those attempting secret deals, he cleverly switched letters to cause confusion by making the transactions happen here.

Even if the Emperor’s close associates noticed this, immediate response would be impossible.

“Your Excellency, the target has entered the ballroom.”

When Casian, who had been lost in thought, raised his head, a knight entered the room and reported.

Casian immediately rose from the sofa and took out a fox mask.

“I’ll move now.”

However, just as he was about to leisurely enter the hall with his mask, Casian’s vision suddenly turned white.

“Your Excellency!”

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