Resetting Lady - Chapter 225

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Karen was looking through the window at where Louis was.

The garden where the prince was holding the tea party was between the Prince’s Palace and the Palace of the Crown Princess. Prince Guiz must have looked down at her from here in the past. What about this time? Karen traced her finger across the glass window. Though it was midsummer, the glass was cold.

“What are you looking at so intently?”

“Prince Louis is holding a tea party.”

“Yes, did you do what I ordered?”

“I did as Your Majesty commanded.”

Karen whispered.

Guiz had instructed Karen to mix poison into the tea leaves for the tea party.

“Something will happen soon.”

Soon the bomb would explode.

Her heart was pounding. Karen wanted to see that scene. And she had to be out on the terrace at the right time. After falling into the net Raymond had set up outside the terrace, she had to hide her body.

But Prince Guiz had no intention of leaving Karen’s room since morning.

“Yes. How about we move to a different location?”

“No… I want to… watch from here.”

I wish he would just leave. Go out and watch whether your child dies or not. It would be even better if Raymond or Sion killed him in the process. Karen grumbled inwardly while looking down at the tea party.

Louis seemed to be speaking, and she could see the surrounding nobles greatly agitated and saying something.

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“What?”

“Lady Lian, what does that mean?”

“So Prince Louis is… um… it seems like he’s declaring that he’ll take the throne immediately instead of Prince Guiz, Lady Sola.”

“…So that’s good, right? Since Prince Guiz is bad.”

“I don’t know.”

The children either had blank faces because they didn’t understand what was being said, or they were excited about Guiz being a bad person.

“Your Majesty, I will unconditionally take your side… mmph…”

“Stay quiet.”

It was the adults who turned pale.

“Prince Louis… what are you… what are you saying…”

“The weather is too hot today, so Your Majesty must be seeing things.”

The nobles’ faces turned white at Louis’s sudden announcement. All the nobles gathered here were people who sided with Prince Louis rather than Prince Guiz. Nevertheless, the prince’s sudden announcement terrified people.

“Your Majesty, I think we should inform His Majesty first.”

Countess Elba pleaded with Louis. Seeing her face turn pale, people were certain that no one had been contacted in advance.

“We’re truly grateful that you informed us of such facts. However, in our judgment, this matter is too serious.”

“I know. That’s why I told you.”

“Your Majesty… we are…”

Louis seemed somewhat relieved. It wasn’t just him – everyone was afraid. No one knew how things would unfold. Both the older nobles and the younger nobles were all afraid.

“Still, I thought it would be much better if we all worried together and shared our fears.”

Louis had always had to carry countless secrets alone.

The secret of his birth. His father’s madness. Besides that, countless corruptions and power struggles among nobles. Even among the many nobles before him, there were many things he couldn’t know, like who were truly on his side. But they were all worrying about the same problem.

“Do you have clear evidence?”

“Yes. And I’ll show you soon.”

Louis looked at Sion’s face. Sion checked his wristwatch to gauge the time – there wasn’t much time left.

That’s when it happened.

“Your Majesty! Prince Louis! From the main palace… a message has come from the main palace!”

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Prince Guiz gripped Karen’s wrist tightly. Karen grimaced. Pain surged through her.

“Did you think I wouldn’t know?”

“…Even if you know, there’s nothing you can do about it now.”

Karen grimaced while simultaneously smiling. She could die this time too. Guiz might shoot her head with a gun. Or he might kill her in some other way. But it was okay. This time was okay. It was a conclusion she and Raymond had reached after consulting with each other and much deliberation.

“Prince Louis will be the next king.”

Prince Guiz smiled terrifyingly.

* * *

CRASH!

BANG!

CRASH CRASH BANG!

Loud noises rang out simultaneously.

The secret room in the Palace of the Crown Princess – the walls of that room were bursting open. The servant’s shouting was drowned out by the noise. People screamed looking for their children, and the children cried and shouted or ran to their parents’ or grandparents’ arms.

“Everyone calm down! It’s just… just to show you!”

The room was revealed.

It was a room filled with Prince Guiz’s sick hobbies.

Corpses, corpses, corpses filled the space.

And inside there was…

“Your Majesty?”

The cold corpse of the old king lay there.

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“Did you think I wouldn’t know? I knew. I knew everything. That you were scheming, that father was trying to put Louis directly on the throne, that Count Fankair was making pathetic plans – I knew it all.”

From the beginning, Karen Hyer was nothing more than a toy.

It would be even better if information leaked through Karen. If Karen poisoned Louis, things couldn’t go better, but Prince Guiz wasn’t foolish enough to depend only on her.

Let them think he was trying to kill Louis.

It wasn’t really wrong either, so even if they investigated, that fact would come out. In reality, Guiz had been thinking of killing Louis someday. From the moment he was born, he couldn’t stand wanting to kill him. He would prepare to kill.

But it wasn’t just Louis who had to die.

His father, who was also Louis’s father, the current king, also had to die.

And Louis, and all the nobles who followed Louis and opposed him, all had to die.

Make it public? Spread it bigger so there’s no way out?

Go ahead.

Even greater chaos would help Guiz. After killing everyone, Guiz alone would clean up the mess.

“…Ah… Ugh…”

Guiz grabbed Karen’s wrist and dragged her. Karen struggled and hit her head hard.

“Let… me go!”

“Why should I?”

Guiz gripped Karen’s arm tightly and moved. Even when being dragged up the stairs, when Karen grabbed the railing and resisted, Prince Guiz approached her.

“If you keep resisting like this, I’ll slice open your belly right here.”

“…”

“Don’t you need to live for the baby’s sake?”

“…Your Majesty.”

“Ah, is it already dead? The doctor said so.”

He knew that too.

Karen bit her lips. Doctors working in the royal palace always dig several escape routes. What he told her, he would naturally have told Guiz as well.

When Karen relaxed her strength, Guiz grabbed her arm and dragged her up.

“Now let’s watch.”

The bigger things got, the better.

Louis and Guiz had similar aspects. Both preferred exploding incidents rather than burying them. Though their personalities were different.

Guiz felt sinister joy at his long-time hobby being publicly revealed. The people’s bewildered faces, their confusion, their screams of terror were extremely entertaining.

“Prince Guiz has rung the bell. He seems to have evacuated upstairs.”

“Signal quickly.”

Guiz’s waiting soldiers gripped their guns tightly. They began moving in step. The coronation was now beginning.

With the king gone and the chain of command disappeared, the royal army was confused and couldn’t move properly. And as screams that the king had passed away began to spread, people were confused and didn’t know what to do.

Whose orders should they follow?

“What are you doing! Of course you should follow Prince Guiz’s orders! Quickly arrest Prince Louis under Prince Guiz’s command!”

“Prince Louis destroyed Prince Guiz’s room…”

“Prince Louis bombed the palace!”

Sion moved quickly through the smoke after the explosion. If it were him, he would definitely target Louis first in a situation like this.

“Everyone get down!”

The sound of military boots could be heard. The sound of people rushing in could be heard. However, as soon as Sion saw the King’s coldly stiffened figure, he realized the situation would unfold differently.

“Lord Louis, crouch down and stay under the dining table. And take off your clothes… Damn it!”

Sion swung his arm and plunged a knife from the table into the neck of a man approaching Louis.

“Kraaaah!”

“Count Sion!”

“He had a knife in his hand… Under the table!”

Louis said nothing more and crouched down. But at that moment, there was a man trying to spray gunfire under the massive table. Below were people who had fled the commotion and were crouching down. Sion hurriedly drew his gun, but it was already too late.

Bang!

At that moment, the man’s hand flew off.

“Kuh… Agh!”

And that was the end. His head flew off next. Raymond was providing covering fire from a distance. Sion tried to think of where Raymond might be positioned, but that wasn’t what was important right now.

“Private soldiers are coming!”

“…Are they on our side?”

“They’re Prince Guiz’s private soldiers!”

Sion counted the number of bullets he had in his pocket. It would be good if he could use them all. Himself and three other knights, plus Raymond’s supporting fire against at least fifty men… The calculation was complete.

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Little brother, you’re putting in a lot of effort.

But it won’t matter anyway. Father is already dead.

And you’re only twelve years old after all.

Guiz smiled as he looked down below.

It seemed like his eyes briefly met with Louis’s.

* * *

‘If it’s 50 men, Lord Raymond alone would be sufficient.’

Raymond’s greatest advantage was ultra-long-range sniping. And what was even more amazing was his rapid fire. Raymond’s concentration and accuracy were beyond imagination. He swept through battlefields at several times the speed of ordinary snipers.

By the time someone figured out his position, he would have already killed everyone there all by himself. Raymond’s eyesight didn’t even require a scope, and he was someone who could foresee and select firing positions far beyond what ordinary people could think of.

With his cover, 50 wasn’t such a frightening number.

Sion covered Louis with his own clothes and made him retreat to the rear. He would buy time and throw a bomb if necessary. Some nobles on Louis’s side might die, but what was more important was Louis.

Raymond’s decision to place Sion by Louis’s side was the right judgment. Sion was skilled at protecting targets with priorities and leading rapidly changing situations. Sion slowly watched the people from behind a tree.

The people who had been firing wildly stopped shooting when they saw their allies being killed. They had rushed in thinking of a one-sided massacre, but realized they had become the ones being hunted instead.

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