The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 112

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Chapter 112

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Princess Valdina’s Palace.

“Your Highness, 4th Princess, what rudeness is this?”

The peaceful palace suddenly became chaotic.

The 4th Princess had forcibly pushed past the knights and walked inside.

Medeia raised one arm to stop Neryl and Zeta from drawing their swords.

“Good morning, 4th Princess.”

Then she greeted her calmly with unsurprised eyes.

“The Kazens are indeed as brave and fearless as their reputation suggests.”

At the gentle mockery, the 4th Princess bit her lips to suppress her impatience.

‘What on earth is she thinking.’

After the missing Princess of Valdina returned safely from the hunting grounds, all suspicion and blame turned toward House Claudio, and the 4th Princess felt relieved.

‘Good. Since they’re only going after Claudio, they don’t seem to know about my involvement. Thank goodness.’

But her relief was short-lived.

“What shall we do, Your Highness 4th Princess? The Princess of Valdina has discovered everything. She took the evidence that Your Highness orchestrated that incident.”

“What?”

They said the workers who brought the wolf pack and even the letter containing her orders had been taken by the Princess.

Angelique was shocked.

“You said all the evidence was destroyed! You fool! What were you doing!”

But this wasn’t entirely her subordinate’s fault.

Though the 4th Princess didn’t know it, Jason’s scheme was involved here.

Jason had secretly diverted and left evidence to use this incident as ammunition to attack the 4th Princess later.

And that evidence was recaptured by Medeia.

In the complex tangle of threads where each tried to strangle the other, Medeia was the victor who held the end of the final thread.

“Ahhh! Why did that end up in the Princess’s hands! How! Why!”

The 4th Princess was furious. With irrefutable evidence, she couldn’t even deny it.

Since the victim herself had discovered it, it was all over now.

But one day, two days, several days passed and nothing happened.

The Princess neither came to find her, nor accused Angelique of her crimes, nor held the Empire accountable.

‘Medeia, what are you thinking? How are you planning to trap me this time?’

The 4th Princess couldn’t bear the anxiety. The Princess of Valdina already had a track record, didn’t she?

The 4th Princess, who had fallen for her provocation and been robbed of double the relief supplies, couldn’t feel at ease.

‘Yes, rather than being anxious about when that girl might attack me.’

Thinking it would be better to strike first, she couldn’t hold back and came charging in.

“…Princess, I would like to have a private audience with you.”

As if she hadn’t just come running while snorting, the Princess tried to act calm and lowered her voice.

Yet her restless eyes swept over Medeia.

Medeia responded with a gentle smile.

“By all means.”

In the Princess’s reception room, a small tea time for just the two of them began.

The 4th Princess watched the maid serve tea with a somewhat dignified expression.

But her feet under her dress were trembling, and her hands kept gripping and releasing the hem of her dress.

Tiny ripples formed in the tea in the cup on the table.

“What exactly are you thinking?”

As soon as the maid serving tea left, the 4th Princess muttered low as if gritting her teeth.

Though only she and Medeia were in this room, she looked fearful that someone might overhear.

“Princess, what do you mean?”

“You took the remaining evidence too, so why aren’t you saying anything even though you know? Is driving people crazy your hobby?”

Without the leisure to gauge Medeia’s reaction as she pretended not to know, the 4th Princess exploded with suppressed anger.

“Hey! What exactly are you thinking!”

Her sharp voice sounded almost like a suppressed scream.

“…”

Medeia looked over her bloodshot eyes, her lips torn from biting, her roughened skin.

Unlike the 4th Princess who usually appeared glamorously, she seemed to have worried considerably, unable to care for her appearance.

“Things will be resolved faster than expected.”

Medeia answered as if to provoke her.

“Right now, I was about to discuss that matter with Count Sisear. How convenient that the person involved has come.”

The 4th Princess hesitated. No, this isn’t how things should go?

She thought there was still room for negotiation with Medeia.

If that girl had nothing else she wanted, she wouldn’t have kept quiet until now.

“Are you really going to do that? The relationship between Kazen and Valdina will head toward catastrophe because of you. Do you have the confidence to handle that?”

“Well. The one who’ll handle that would be Your Highness, not me. I’m just an innocent victim who knew nothing.”

Struck by Medeia’s quiet point, the Princess bit her lips, then crossed her arms.

“Princess, you said you fell off a cliff and couldn’t remember anything, yet you searched for evidence quite well. The memory loss was a lie too, wasn’t it?”

It was a subtle threat about what would happen if the returned Princess’s memory loss was revealed to be false. Medeia smiled slyly.

“4th Princess, you didn’t come all this way just to argue about trivial matters.”

Medeia calmly placed the evidence on the table.

It was testimony that the 4th Princess had brought the wolf pack and the identities of the witnesses.

She bit her lips.

“Tch… Ha, even if this is revealed, would the Late Emperor who cherishes me cast me out! Then you’d be making the entire Empire your enemy!”

Soon her face showed defiance as she lifted her chin as if unafraid.

‘She’s mistaken about who holds the leash.’

Watching the Princess sneer with a strangely raised corner of her mouth, Medeia smiled brightly.

“Oh, Queen Mother, the mother of the 3rd Prince, would know better than I how to use this.”

Instantly, the 4th Princess’s complexion turned pale as if doused with ice water.

After the 1st Prince, who had been the absolute powerhouse, became terminally ill, the 3rd Prince was emerging prominently in the fierce succession competition.

He was also a competitor who aimed for the 4th Princess’s back.

Though she currently received the most favor from the Emperor of Kazen, her position wasn’t completely secure.

If she didn’t watch out for her siblings who were constantly targeting her, being pushed out would happen in an instant.

“Would this really be the only weakness of the 4th Princess in Queen Mother’s hands? We’ll have to see if this evidence, added to others, becomes a move that can bring down even Duke Dong, your maternal grandfather.”

“…You-!”

“Coincidentally, didn’t Your Highness drag even your grandfather into this relief matter? There would be sufficient justification.”

At the kindly delivered threat, the 4th Princess trembled. The Princess’s mockery cut to the bone.

“Princess, don’t take this trip to Valdina lightly. Even without the 1st Prince, you must show that the Empire’s influence remains strong. You must win His Majesty’s true heart. Do you understand your mother’s words?”

She recalled the advice Dowager Empress had given before coming to Valdina.

The 4th Princess Angelique’s real power came from Duke Dong behind her.

If Duke Dong fell, no matter how much the Emperor’s favor she received, it would be impossible for the 4th Princess to obtain the throne.

Angelique had no time to be amazed at how this small country’s Princess could see through the current Kazen royal family’s power struggles like the palm of her hand.

She was too busy calculating with her panicked mind.

“What do you want?”

Her nerves snapped. The 4th Princess screamed frantically.

“Tell me. I’ll give you whatever you ask for!”

“Princess.”

Medeia’s gentle voice settled down as if soothing the 4th Princess.

“What if I told you a solution to overcome this crisis?”

“…A solution?”

The 4th Princess turned her head with sharp eyes.

“You are a grateful connection who helped feed our people of Valdina, so if our interests align well, I wouldn’t need to contact Queen Mother, with whom I have no relationship.”

“…”

“The evidence has already been revealed and cannot be hidden. Someone must bear the guilt of releasing wolves into Valdina’s hunting grounds and targeting me.”

In Medeia’s green eyes, the 4th Princess looked like a beast lured by bait, walking straight into a trap set by hunters.

“But it doesn’t necessarily have to be you, 4th Princess. You’re not the only one in Kazen’s diplomatic mission.”

The 4th Princess’s eyes flashed.

Her eyes, filled with corrupt selfishness that would accept anything as long as she could cover up her wrongdoing, gleamed with darkness.

Medeia pretended not to notice and continued speaking, offering her an escape route.

“There’s one fact my knight discovered while investigating this evidence – Duke Castulo knew you had wolves transported to the hunting grounds, yet he turned a blind eye to it.”

“What?”

‘So he knew this would happen and just left it alone?’

After enough time had passed for the 4th Princess to absorb the shock, Medeia cast her bait once more.

“Count Raju from the diplomatic mission is close enough with the Regent to lodge and dine at his house. And as you know, Count Raju is-“

“Jason’s man. Yet despite that, he fawns over me to curry favor.”

The angry 4th Princess cut off Medeia’s words and answered.

She recalled the night when Samon had seduced her.

Since that day, the 4th Princess had grown so close to him that she allowed him to freely enter and leave her bedroom.

‘He was the one who urged me to hold the hunting competition too. Samon, that rat bastard. He conspired with Jason to deceive me.’

Had Samon heard this, he would have jumped up asking what kind of ridiculous speculation this was, but unfortunately, he was currently lying in the Prince’s mansion, groaning from his beating.

The materials Medeia presented to the 4th Princess were very plausible. When put together, they conveyed exactly one message.

“Jason, that damned bastard dares to try to step on me and use me?”

The 4th Princess’s eyes widened greatly before narrowing again.

She had grasped Jason’s intentions from the clues the Princess had provided.

Rage filled the 4th Princess’s beautiful face completely.

She had always mocked her weak and cautious cousin brother.

She never dreamed that he, who had been keeping his head down all this time, was actually cunningly eyeing the throne from behind her back.

“Princess, what do you gain by telling me this?”

The 4th Princess, who had been biting her lips and swallowing her anger, soon looked at Medeia with suspicious eyes.

“Sardinia.”

“…”

“That would be sufficient as repayment for the favor I’ve given you.”

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