The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 213

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Part 2, Chapter 60

Ch. 5

Raju raised his head.

“Haa, haa…”

As he gasped for breath, the scene in the room slowly came into view.

The faces of the servants mixed with shock and fear. Catherine, pale as a sheet.

And the pool of blood gradually spreading beneath his feet.

Only then did his mind snap back to reality. What had he done?

“I, I… No, I…”

He hadn’t meant to kill him.

He had simply wanted to teach him a lesson, to show that bastard who dared mock his woman what pain felt like.

For a moment, he had been captivated by that thought and lost his senses—

However, Raju had not yet realized that even this fact was unlike him.

Though he was currently suffering continuous defeats to Medeia, Roberto Raju was an ambitious man who had risen from being a commoner in a foreign country to grasping the title of Count in the Kazen Empire.

He had never been so driven by momentary impulse that his eyes rolled back and he completely lost his mind like this. Not even during the first forbidden moment he had committed with Catherine.

“Long-term use makes one impatient, quick to anger, and ultimately prone to easy explosions.

Raju could never have known that he would personally prove the powerful effects of the monga leaves.

He alternately stared at Hoakin, who lay sprawled on the floor with his breath cut off, and at his own fist stained with Hoakin’s blood.

“Kyaaaaaaak! He’s dead! Someone’s dead!”

At that moment, the red-haired young woman standing at the doorway screamed again.

Raju belatedly realized that she was the woman who attended to Samon.

And the fact that she had once been Medeia’s maid.

“My God. C-Count Raju killed father…!”

The woman, overwhelmed by fear, staggered backward. Behind her, the half-open bedroom door was visible.

“Wait, Mariyu—”

When the woman cried out Raju’s name in disbelief, Catherine, who had been in a daze, suddenly snapped to attention.

‘I need to cover this up.’

She had to prevent the fact that Raju had killed her husband from leaving this room.

“Aaaak! Murder! Count Raju beat father to death!”

“Stop that girl’s mouth—!”

But before Catherine could catch her, Mariyu had already turned and fled into the corridor like she was running for her life.

“Murder! Someone’s dead!”

Mariyu’s hysterical screams echoed throughout the interior of the manor as she ran out of the bedroom.

Her appearance, having accidentally stepped into this place only to witness a murder scene and fall into panic, was completely natural.

“Count Raju killed the Regent, the royalty of Valdina! Prince Claudio is dead!”

The shock of witnessing the gruesome murder scene seemed to have half-addled her mind, as she referred to Hoakin, who had long been expelled from royalty, by his old titles like Prince or Regent.

“Wait, miss. Please calm down. By Regent, you mean our master, right?”

“Are you crazy? How close are the two of them? That doesn’t make sense.”

The servants in the house were also startled by Mariyu’s shouting and hurriedly gathered.

“Aaaak! It’s really true. If you can’t believe it, see for yourselves with your own eyes!”

Tap tap tap.

When Mariyu pointed toward Hoakin’s bedroom, the servants rushed over frantically.

Raju and Catherine had no choice but to face them without any time to dispose of Hoakin’s corpse or escape the scene.

“Murder! The Valdina bloodline has been killed!”

Still, Mariyu didn’t stop her cries until she reached Samon’s bedroom, as if it wasn’t over yet.

At some point during this process, Mariyu’s gaze crossed with that of a small-framed maid standing in the corridor.

The maid nodded imperceptibly.

“Ah, how heartbroken he will be when he learns that Count Raju, whom he trusted and relied on, beat his father to death…!”

While Mariyu burst into tears with an even more exaggerated voice, the maid turned and headed outside the manor.

“Kami? Where are you going in this situation?”

A nearby servant spotted her and stopped her.

“I have to go to Miss Virna. The miss is at the Count’s house. If Count Raju really killed the master, the miss is in danger!”

“Ah, I see. Hurry back!”

The servant, thinking the young maid’s words made sense, let her go.

“Uncle, we need to leave quickly. It’s urgent.”

“Understood. Just let me harness the horses, get in the carriage first.”

While the coachman was distracted with the horses, the maid slipped a small note into a gap in the fence.

[The cuckoo pecked the starling to death]

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“Master! Oh, God!”

Because Mariyu, who had witnessed Raju’s murder, had run out screaming at the top of her lungs, everyone in the manor learned of the fact.

People burst into the bedroom.

Catherine had no time to manage the situation or coordinate stories with others.

Covered in Hoakin’s blood, Raju was caught at the scene and couldn’t escape, having to face multiple servants.

“That woman’s words were true!”

They were stunned by the horrific sight.

The lying corpse was so covered in blood and bruises that it was difficult to recognize as their master.

Both eyes were tightly shut, frozen in an expression mixing fear and pain, and traces of resistance remained intact on his wounded arms.

“Count Raju, you murderer! Do you think you can walk out of here safely after daring to kill our master!”

Among those who had rushed over were old servants who had served Hoakin closely for a long time.

“Be quiet, please!”

Catherine frantically tried to silence them, but it was already too late.

“Count Raju. You are under arrest on suspicion of murdering Hoakin Claudio.”

The law enforcement had already burst in. Someone had quickly left the manor and reported it.

“…Haa.”

‘Oh no, the dead person is the Regent and the culprit is a Count of Kazen…’

The law enforcement captain inwardly swallowed a sigh.

He could anticipate the enormous repercussions this incident would bring.

‘For now, we have no choice but to do our job.’

In any case, under current Valdina law, they couldn’t let a murderer go free.

How to handle this situation would be decided by higher authorities.

Raju cooperated with them more readily than expected.

With both arms bound by rope, he said.

“…I will request repatriation to Kazen.”

Repatriation meant that someone who committed a crime in a foreign country was requesting to be tried in their home country.

“Don’t forget that I am a noble of Kazen.”

“Ha. So if you’re from Kazen, you can kill someone and walk away unscathed?”

The law enforcement captain spat out a contemptuous laugh. So that’s why he was cooperating so readily—he was scheming to escape.

Before being taken away, Raju briefly stared toward Catherine. His lips moved as if to say something, but he ultimately said nothing and was dragged away by the law enforcement officers.

“Ah…”

“Madam—!”

After Raju was dragged away, Catherine staggered.

So many things had happened in an instant that nothing felt real.

Even the heat from her husband’s slap on her cheek hadn’t yet faded.

“Wait… everyone get out.”

Catherine pressed her temple and waved her hand.

“Madam, but—”

“I said get out!”

A sharp cry rang out, tearing through their ears.

Catherine clutched her head, frozen with confusion and chaos, and tried to retrace every moment of the incident one by one.

‘Medeia’s kidnapping failed and Jared died at the hands of the 1st Prince. I was flustered when Peleus mobilized his troops.’

So she had sought out her husband to find a solution, and he, caught in the vile scene of adultery, had struck her.

And then Raju had rushed in…

Catherine squeezed her eyes shut as she recalled that moment.

Her face was deathly pale with shock and tension. Her reddened cheek stood out even more against her bloodless complexion.

“Mother, what on earth is going on?!”

Someone shook her stunned form.

“Telling me to leave… Virna, oh, my daughter!”

Catherine, who had been about to frown, confirmed who it was and embraced Virna tightly.

She buried her face in her daughter’s shoulder, hoping the trembling would subside, but pitifully, it had no effect at all.

Catherine burst into tears.

Like Raju, she too failed to realize that her emotional highs and lows were uncontrollably erratic.

“What the maids said, is it really true? Is father really dead? Did Uncle Raju really…”

Virna asked, but realized she wouldn’t get an answer from her mother who only cried and shook her head.

Virna’s eyes, scanning the room, soon discovered a bulky white cloth lying on the red carpet.

She pushed her mother away and approached the cloth. Her trembling hands pulled back the cloth covering the human form.

“Kyaaahhh!”

Virna screamed convulsively and collapsed to her knees.

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