The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 227

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Part 2, Chapter 74

Now that even Raju, who had been providing backing funds, was dead, all the accidents Virna had caused flashed through Samon’s mind.

“Brother… Don’t do this. Please, Samon. Don’t abandon me too…”

“Don’t call me that!”

“Please, please… Dad too, Mom too… You know you’re all I have left now.”

Pleading seeped into Virna’s voice.

She simply couldn’t handle the current situation.

“Dad? Ha, are you talking about that dead father of yours over there?”

Samon grabbed Virna by the collar and lifted her up as if he couldn’t stand it anymore.

“Gah, gasp…!”

“When I think of the past days I spent cleaning up after a lowly cuckoo’s bastard, calling her my sister, even cutting you up and burning you wouldn’t be enough. I wondered where that vulgar, seething temperament came from.”

“N-no, gasp, I’m a Claudio. I’m father’s daughter and, gah, br-brother’s—”

Her throat was being choked, producing unsightly pronunciation. But Samon seemed to understand it all.

“Try mentioning Claudio one more time.”

His eyes turned more vicious than a demon beast.

Thud—!

Samon shook off his hand as if filthy waste had touched it.

“Then I’ll tear your mouth apart and strangle you to death.”

Samon didn’t hide his vivid hatred.

“Wasn’t it enough that you had your real father executed and caused Mother’s death too?”

“Sa, Samon…”

“Well, where would that seed go? The shamelessness, the brazen clinging—it’s all exactly the same.”

From his position, he had sufficient reason to hate Virna.

Due to Virna’s report, he lost Raju, his solid backing.

Not only that, but his mother’s affair was exposed and she died along with Raju, making him suddenly an orphan.

Even when he thought she was his real sister, Samon had seen Virna as a troublemaker who held him back.

Now there was no affection left to show to a fake sister.

“Darling, don’t get too excited. You overdid it today. I’m worried your wounds might worsen again. Mariyu would be really upset. Come, lean on me, okay? Hurry.”

Mariyu soothed him as if worried that Samon might draw a sword right here.

Then she supported the panting Samon and left the scene.

People murmured as they watched Samon abandon Virna and leave.

“Still, they grew up as siblings for so many years, how heartless.”

“Oh my, I think I’d do the same thing? But is Samon Claudio really legitimate? Isn’t he fake too?”

“Well, all those who knew the truth are dead, so how would we know?”

Sometimes Samon and Virna’s names came up, and there were still those chattering about Medeia’s glory that Kazen’s emissary had mentioned earlier.

“So that woman reported her own father?”

“Right? Well, it seems she didn’t know either… But even if she didn’t know he was her real father, how could she stab someone who cherished her in the back like that?”

People’s murmuring pierced through the heavy rain and reached Virna’s ears.

Her surprisingly sharpened senses could catch every sharp glance directed at her, every mocking word.

Dozens of pairs of eyes painfully stabbed her entire body. She felt as if she were naked.

‘Why… did it come to this.’

Virna was dazed.

She looked down at her own hands.

Ugly hands covered with wounds and dried blood.

‘This, not Claudio? It was what Raju left me?’

Blood and flesh inherited from some lowly commoner rolling in the dirt?

She scratched her flesh.

Her whole body felt terribly itchy, as if bugs were crawling on it.

“Long live Princess Medeia!”

“Long live Valdina!”

Medeia’s name, which people were shouting, pierced her distant ears.

‘I thought that girl stole my place.’

In reality, from the beginning, she couldn’t even reach that girl’s toes.

The countless feelings of inferiority Virna had felt toward her throughout her life. Anger. All of it…

Was nothing but futile struggle.

She never even had a choice from the beginning.

“Long live Princess Medeia!”

‘Becoming Kazen royalty. Not only promoted from a foolish princess to an imperial princess of the new empire, but now…’

Virna bit her lips.

While she had fallen into this gutter, Medeia was climbing even higher.

So high now that Virna couldn’t even dare to look up.

So high that even the shadow of that girl’s brilliant light couldn’t reach her.

Ah.

Her nails dug painfully into her palms.

“No.”

Virna couldn’t accept it.

That can’t be right. Dirty blood can’t be flowing in my body.

Virna’s fingertips trembled.

“No. No, I’m… I’m not that person’s daughter…”

She muttered while stepping back one step at a time.

“Aaaaah! No! I’m not some dirty commoner!”

Her muttering grew louder. Virna’s voice rose as if screaming.

Regardless of the people around her startling and distancing themselves from Virna with surprised eyes,

“I’m a Claudio! With Valdina Imperial Family blood flowing through me! Noble and sacred bloodline!”

She screamed while frantically tearing at her hair. Her pink hair became completely disheveled.

She didn’t care that blood droplets stained her head and face from wounds left by her sharp nails.

Cold rainwater flowed down her cheeks, but even she couldn’t tell if it was tears or rain.

“Aaaaah—!”

Virna rushed forward.

Having climbed onto the dais in an instant, she stared blankly at the corpses of Catherine and Raju.

Then suddenly, she began kicking the corpses.

“Speak! Say it was a lie! That you were trying to frame me, you wicked bastards!”

Thud! Thud!

She didn’t care about the sticky liquid getting on her shoe tips.

“Speak up! I’m the Regent’s daughter! I avenged my father! Ahaha! How dare you mock a Claudio?! You deserved to die! Ahaha… Kyaaaah…!”

Then suddenly seeing the sticky blood on her shoe tips, her laughter turned to screams in surprise.

Virna collapsed and threw off her blood-stained shoes as if seeing something terrible.

Her white bare feet looked out of place on the dais that was entirely a dark red marsh.

“I, I didn’t know, if I had known… I wouldn’t have done it. I really didn’t know. M-Mom, please forgive me. Sob. Virna did wrong. Ra, Raju, godfather, pl-please f-forgive Virna…”

She wailed.

Then soon lifted her tear-soaked face.

Then glared at the corpses as if to kill them and stood up again to kick them.

“Good riddance! Ahaha! How dare you mock this Virna Claudio! See? This is me! Aaaaah! Mom! No, please forgive me! Please! Pleease!”

Virna repeated crying then laughing, laughing then crying.

Her instantly changing appearance was as if two people existed within her.

She staggered barefoot on the wet stone floor, sometimes slipping and falling, sometimes wailing while clutching her wet hair.

“Nooooo! I’m a Claudio!”

After causing such a commotion for a while, Virna screamed and ran out of the square.

“Completely… she’s lost her mind.”

People gaped in astonishment watching Virna.

“I am a descendant of the royal family! Noble blood flows through my veins…!”

Her screams gradually faded away like an echo.

However, there was no one who followed after her precarious figure.

Now Virna had no one left—no family, no friends, no one at all.

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The Princess’s Palace in the Imperial Palace.

“Therefore, I humbly beseech you to accept this.”

The Emissary of the Empire knelt before Medeia.

On the red cushion placed upon his hands lay a dazzling diadem studded with jewels.

“Your Highness the Princess is surely capable of quelling the discord between our two nations and bringing about peace. Our Majesty has also heard of Your Highness’s excellent reputation and magnanimity, and has expressed great admiration and unstinting praise.”

The Emissary of Kazen was desperate to curry favor with Medeia, spouting flattery.

“If the Emperor of Valdina were to know of this, he would surely be delighted.”

In other words, he was asking her to speak well of this to Peleus.

‘His Majesty commanded that I must return with a definitive answer from the Princess.’

The reason why Perdickas II’s emissary had come bearing all these gifts was ultimately to ease the tension currently hovering between the two nations.

“Isn’t it time for everyone to return to their proper places? The Emperor of Valdina to his wolf, and our diplomatic mission members to our homeland.”

“…”

However, the Princess merely gazed down indifferently at the crown and the imperial decree, as if she hadn’t noticed the answer the emissary was hoping for.

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