The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 191

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Part 2, Chapter 38

Why is my son, who should be safely watching the situation from here, over there! Peleus, whom I want to kill, is perfectly fine over there!

“No, Catherine! What are you doing! Quickly escort the lady!”

She immediately tried to go back into the collapsed temple, but Raju urgently held her back.

Hoakin also stumbled backward in disbelief.

“That can’t be, th-that can’t be.”

There’s no way that’s Samon lying there, no way that’s my son…

“Samon! Where are you!”

Hoakin kept telling himself that his son must have safely escaped and survived. But contrary to his hopes, Samon was nowhere to be seen.

“Mike, you left with the master earlier. You said you were delivering the butler’s message-“

“What are you talking about? I was waiting outside the whole time.”

“No, I definitely saw you inside earlier…”

The moment he heard his subordinates’ conflicting conversation, Hoakin realized.

‘Oh no. Samon fell into a trap.’

Virna also covered her mouth in shock, her eyes bulging.

She had no idea what had happened or why the explosion suddenly occurred.

“No more, if Samon also collapses…”

She just instinctively felt that hell had once again befallen her family.

“…”

Medeia’s eyes captured the sight of her uncle’s family going through the process of shock and denial.

They didn’t know yet.

That the finale she had prepared wasn’t over yet.

Crash-! Crack!

Then, with a thunderous roar, the temple walls completely collapsed. Large debris fell down onto Samon, completely burying him.

“Aaaaah! No!”

Along with Catherine’s piercing scream, thick dust rose like fog.

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An explosion had occurred at the temple.

The inner area where the altar and goddess statue stood had almost blown away, so it was more accurate to say it had collapsed.

Though quite some time had passed since the incident occurred, the scene of broken debris remained largely unchanged.

Medeia watched as people circled around the collapsed statue, unable to do anything but pace anxiously.

“Aah! Samon! He’s here! Save him quickly! Someone please! My son is here!”

Catherine, who had become frantic beyond impatience, could be heard screaming. The heavy statue and stones that had buried Samon looked daunting at first glance.

“Aah! Samon! Where are you!”

Catherine looked like she might cough up blood with her eyes wide open.

“I’ll give a lump of gold to anyone who helps with the rescue! Quickly!”

Finally, Raju, worried that she might collapse, promised a generous reward.

Only then did people with gleaming eyes swarm to the rescue work like ants.

“Dea, let’s go back. There’s no need to stay here any longer.”

Peleus approached. His bright blue eyes carefully examined his sister, as if the news of his cousin’s uncertain fate was none of his concern.

“Your Majesty!”

Then, Catherine tried to approach Peleus but was stopped by the Agema blocking her way.

“Please help us, Your Majesty. Please, have mercy, save our Samon, won’t you? Isn’t he your blood relative?”

She pleaded. Her heartbreaking maternal love made even the listeners feel pity.

And this time it was sincere. Unlike last time at the banquet when they had deliberately evoked sympathy.

Unable to break through the solid wall of knights, Catherine finally sat down and banged her forehead on the ground.

“Please! I’ll beg like this. If you cannot forgive us, take this aunt’s life. Samon might be dying at this very moment. If only I can save my son, I’ll do anything-“

Then, the path created by the knights opened.

Hope seemed to briefly flash in Catherine’s eyes, but it wasn’t Peleus who appeared, but Medeia.

“Please stand up, Aunt.”

Medeia bent down, grasped Catherine’s hand, and helped her up.

“Of course. Since Brother Samon’s life is at stake, we’ll also help wholeheartedly, so please don’t worry, Aunt.”

“Me, Medeia…”

“But Aunt.”

Catherine was shedding tears at the unexpectedly warm words.

“Why couldn’t Brother Samon avoid the explosion? There was plenty of time to evacuate,”

A perfectly composed, neat voice flowed out.

“I really don’t understand why he was found inside the altar area.”

“Th-that’s…”

Medeia held onto Catherine, who was startled and tried to pull her hand away, and continued speaking.

“You need to speak clearly. I can only help you, Aunt, once it’s certain that Brother Samon wasn’t targeting His Majesty.”

Catherine froze.

The pressure steadily pressing on her wrist. She couldn’t move like a beast caught in a trap.

‘Could this child know?’

That we were targeting Peleus?

“…No, that can’t be, right?”

Medeia’s question instead highlighted Samon’s suspicious actions even more to the people.

Catherine realized.

‘You knew. It was your doing, you did this to Samon-‘

As if answering her inner words, Medeia smiled. That clear smile without any hesitation sent chills down her spine.

“Ah, aaaaah!”

Catherine shook off Medeia’s hand as if burned. And ran away just like that.

“Has she gone mad? Your Highness, are you alright?”

“Yes. I’m fine.”

Medeia watched Catherine’s retreating figure as she fled in panic.

“That crazy woman, how thick-skinned, how dare she show her face here and speak up.”

Neryl gritted her teeth.

If their scheme had succeeded, if Peleus had been hurt and Valdina’s royal family had been shaken, would Claudio have really helped the siblings?

Rather, he would have driven them to the edge of a cliff.

“People don’t change easily.”

Medeia shrugged indifferently.

Even though the treason failed and the Claudio ducal family fell into ruin, their desires couldn’t be made to disappear.

‘Aunt seems to have figured it out now, but what about you, Samon. Do you still know nothing?’

Samon Claudio.

He chose this strait expedition with the ambitious intention of pushing Peleus aside and taking over this country.

Jason, Emperor Perdickas II of Kazen, and his wife the 4th Princess all ultimately moved according to his intentions.

So he must have been confident. That everything would flow according to his thoughts this time too.

But he didn’t know.

“Umberto. From now on, you’ll leave Valdina. And go under Samon.”

That even that process was in the palm of Medeia’s hand.

“What? You mean return to Kazen? Your Highness. Even though I was from an enemy country, this is too much.”

At that time, Umberto made a flustered expression, thinking he was being punished in revenge for the impudent mistake he had made to Medeia when he was working as Minister Etienne’s attendant as a Red Foxes spy.

‘Does Princess still not trust me?’

“Your Highness. Please trust me just once. I swear on my deceased mother that my only master now is Princess.”

Medeia patted Umberto’s arm and cleared up his misunderstanding.

“I’m trying to have you do what you’re good at. Just like you did under the Palace Interior Minister, this time you need to become my hands and ears.”

“If it’s that kind of work, you’ve found the most suitable card. I won’t disappoint you.”

Being as confident as he was, Umberto soon succeeded in gaining Samon’s trust.

“Umberto. Spread word so that uncle’s family comes to the strait.”

And he conveyed Medeia’s thoughts through his mouth.

“Master. Master! House of Valdina is being elevated to an Empire and they’re holding an imperial proclamation ceremony in Elamouz! You must attend, of course!”

“Still, you share the same bloodline. They won’t be able to treat you coldly in front of everyone.”

The right elements to incite Samon were deployed at the right time and place.

Samon would think he came to see the Medeia siblings by his own choice, but in reality, he had been swayed by Medeia’s influence.

Like a marionette with strings attached to both arms and legs.

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