The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 4

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Chapter 4

Lady Quizin was left speechless.

She should have naturally answered that it was the King. But she couldn’t.

Because I was not the King’s person, but the Regent’s.

Prince Claudio’s ears were also present here.

‘If I say here that my master is the King… the Prince will start to suspect me.’

Regent Claudio was suspiciously meticulous to a fault.

He still didn’t fully trust me, always cross-checking my reports with those of the spies he had planted in the palace.

If that paranoid patient heard about today’s events, it could raise unnecessary suspicion.

“Obviously it’s His Majesty the King, isn’t it?”

“Why is the Maid Supervisor hesitating so much over such an obvious question?”

The onlookers also began to question the prolonged silence.

At that moment, Medeia struck the table beside her.

Bang-!

Startled by the sudden loud noise, the Maid Supervisor quickly tried to compose her expression as if nothing had happened.

However, it was after everyone had clearly seen her troubled face.

“Was it a difficult question?”

Medeia smiled slyly.

“…Your Highness.”

“Your new position must not be familiar to you yet. I can see the answer doesn’t come readily.”

Lady Quizin bit her lips.

“I was only flustered because Your Highness asked such an obvious question! My master is His Majesty King Peleus, of course.”

“Really? Is that truly so?”

“Of course. Why does Your Highness the Princess trouble me by nitpicking such a fundamental truth?”

“Neryl is a maid that my brother, His Majesty the King, personally left for me before departing. Before that, she belonged to my brother’s Royal Guard. Are you trying to break your master’s hand?”

Oh no. The Maid Supervisor swallowed nervously.

That little girl was driving her into a dead end.

‘Damn! What’s gotten into her today?’

For now, she had to escape this situation. Lady Quizin replied as if nothing was wrong.

“No matter if she was His Majesty the King’s Royal Guard, Neryl’s current affiliation is with the Royal Maids. Therefore, as Maid Supervisor, I have full authority to summarily punish a subordinate.”

“The retired Royal Guard Captain is still remaining in the Capital City, isn’t he? I wonder if he would agree that a knight he carefully trained could be summarily punished by the Maid Supervisor.”

“…Your Highness!”

The Maid Supervisor gritted her teeth.

The former Royal Guard Captain who had served with the late King was still a respected figure among the people, too burdensome for the Maid Supervisor to touch.

The more she spoke, the more enemies she made. She felt like she was being continuously entangled by the little girl’s tongue.

‘I don’t know what wind suddenly got into her to act like this, but I need to press her down firmly so she can’t climb any higher.’

She took a breath and calmly reminded herself.

The order from the Regent was to definitely remove that leech of a maid attached to the Princess.

“With all due respect, I don’t even know if such a conversation is necessary.”

The Maid Supervisor responded coldly.

“Your Highness the Princess is merely His Majesty the King’s blood relative. In reality, you are not my master, nor are you the master of all the servants in this palace. Moreover…”

Malice flashed in Lady Quizin’s eyes as she added her words.

“If it weren’t for Your Highness the Princess, I would still be serving the late King as my master. He was a wise ruler who looked after both domestic and foreign affairs, so I wouldn’t have needed to give lessons like today’s.”

“…”

“But Their Majesties the late King and Queen died tragically. As you know, because of Your Highness.”

The surroundings froze coldly.

But despite the clear rudeness, Medeia was only quietly listening to her words.

“…”

“Without the generous forgiveness of His Majesty the King and the other royals, Your Highness wouldn’t even be able to remain in this palace.”

Lady Quizin, now triumphant, was unstoppable.

‘The Queen Mother dislikes that girl. The King is no different. Why else would he not return even once since his coronation?’

Peleus, too, was born with the stain of insufficient bloodline as Medeia’s full sibling.

However, despite such flaws, his outstanding talent and abilities had earned him the world’s expectations from an early age.

No one could dare mock the young King who had headed to the battlefield following the late King’s will, carrying the nation’s destiny on his shoulders.

But Medeia was different.

With repeated disappointments in her outward inadequacies and the additional infamy of killing her parents, she became subject to everyone’s criticism and earned the derogatory nickname “half-seat.”

The Princess had no allies in this palace.

And everyone knew this fact.

“The person who remains in this position through His Majesty’s grace is now trying to act like a master.”

Silence flowed.

Seeing Medeia’s pale face, the Maid Supervisor felt a surge of satisfaction. She barked at Jena.

“What are you all doing? Continue the punishment!”

Jena’s pupils darted busily between the Maid Supervisor and Medeia.

“Acting like a master.”

At that moment, a low voice flowed from Medeia. The calm tone was somehow meaningful.

The Maid Supervisor hesitated, but thought what could that little thing possibly do anyway.

“Don’t dawdle and move quickly!”

“Fine, then.”

Medeia also turned around. People thought the Princess was going to block the whip with her body. Just like Neryl had done.

However, contrary to expectations, the Princess picked up a long rod that lay beside the whip with her small, white hand.

“Maid Supervisor.”

“Yes.”

“Come here and lift your skirt.”

Everyone doubted their ears.

“What did you just say?”

“Your ears aren’t deaf too, are they?”

The most bewildered was the Maid Supervisor herself.

‘No matter how much of a thunderbolt she is, is she really going to fight me now?’

“Surely. You’re going to use that rod on me-“

“I’ll respect your words. My further interference in Neryl’s punishment would indeed be clear overreach, as you said.”

White fingers slowly traced the smooth surface of the rod. The gesture looked extremely elegant and practiced.

For a moment, to people’s eyes, what Medeia held didn’t look like a rod but a long sword.

From the Princess confronting the Maid Supervisor emanated a sharp and solemn aura, like a knight about to slay an evil beast.

From a Princess who had never left the Royal Palace, who had never once held even a small dagger.

“However, our Valdina Kingdom has this law. If one who performs duties in the Royal Palace is negligent in their responsibilities, the King may punish them.”

“Yes. Then I shall request punishment when His Majesty returns.”

The Maid Supervisor answered with a sneer. Would the Princess really remain here until the King returned?

“And in the King’s absence, that right belongs to the representative designated by the King.”

Medeia took out a seal from her bosom and waved it.

“This is the seal my brother left me. I used this to stamp your appointment letter too, so you should recognize it.”

Before departing for the battlefield, Peleus had left his sister a seal that could handle internal palace affairs.

As long as she held the seal as the King’s representative, while people might ignore Medeia’s existence, no one could erase it.

This was proof that he still recognized Medeia as a Princess and a weapon to protect her.

Though she had been too foolish then to understand its meaning.

“So that means I can punish you directly.”

The Maid Supervisor’s face turned red and blue.

“Such, what, I’ve never heard of such a case-“

“Are you going to say there isn’t one? Even when the Regent used this clause to severely punish the Palace Interior when the late King was on the battlefield?”

People remembered.

“That’s right. Most of the Palace Interior, including Minister Sachin who was the chief minister at the time, were swept away.”

The whispers of the maids flowed into the Maid Supervisor’s ears.

It was a major incident where several families in the Capital City were exterminated and dozens were executed. How could someone who was the Royal Palace’s Maid Supervisor not know about that?

However, they soon recalled that the Maid Supervisor had entered through remarriage to cleanse her status.

She must have been busy buying her title with body and soul, so she might not have known about the bloodbath that swept through the nobility at the time.

“My word, Maid Supervisor. You really don’t know much.”

Medeia tilted her head as if she couldn’t understand how she had climbed to that position.

She threw out another remark.

“You said you couldn’t serve my father as master because of me. If you resent and miss him that much, how about studying the late King’s reign a bit more? It would help you manage your regrets too.”

What would Uncle think if he knew that the Maid Supervisor deeply missed his dead brother, whom he had so desperately wanted to bring down?

‘That little bitch is endlessly cornering me!’

The Maid Supervisor bit her lips.

“…Your Highness speaks correctly. However, I too shall do my duty. You wouldn’t object to that, would you?”

At this point, it was a matter of pride.

At her mature age approaching forty, she couldn’t kneel and be pushed around by some young brat.

“As you wish.

The Princess nodded expressionlessly.

“You heard her? Jena, continue.”

“M-Maid Supervisor…”

“Hurry!”

“Y-Yes!”

At the Maid Supervisor’s voice, Jena’s hesitant hand finally moved first.

Crack!

It was the Maid Supervisor’s preemptive strike and provocation.

‘Watch closely what consequences your reckless childishness brought to that girl.’

The Maid Supervisor glanced sideways to gauge the Princess’s reaction. But she couldn’t read Medeia’s expression.

“Maid Supervisor, lift your skirt properly.”

Swoosh!

Even until the moment when the ash wood switch in the Princess’s hand bent elastically, the Maid Supervisor believed without doubt.

That timid half-wit surely wouldn’t have the nerve to actually swing it.

‘The Princess wouldn’t be that foolish. She can’t fail to anticipate what treatment she’d receive in the palace if she antagonizes me-‘

Crack!

Her thoughts were cut off. Her mind went blank.

Or was it the searing pain that blazed first?

Gasp. Even the maids nearby drew in their breath for a moment.

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