The Obsessive Male Lead Is Obsessed With Me! - Chapter 129

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Episode 129

The method to identify the Emperor’s illegitimate children in this Empire is simple. You just need to check whether an oracle appears when the child is born or not.

Of course, there is a possibility that an oracle might appear for a child who is not of royal blood.

However, Countess Racal was the former Emperor’s mistress, and the former Emperor continued to send her letters even after his marriage.

Therefore, the Former Empress suspected that despite Dalia already being married to Count Racal, the father of the child she would bear might possibly be the Emperor.

If anyone else aside, if an oracle descended upon a child born to Countess Racal, wouldn’t there be a high possibility that the child’s father was the former Emperor?

Therefore, the Maid Manager, following the Former Empress’s will, thoroughly monitored the Racal estate.

However, Countess Racal safely gave birth to her child without any temple personnel entering the Racal estate.

“Certainly… she did give birth to a girl. But at that time, that child did not receive an oracle!”

“Then what is that oracle? Where did it suddenly appear from?”

“The person who came forward claiming to be Nicole’s birth mother and that she personally made the oracle into a stone tablet was definitely Archbishop Seiji…”

Archbishop Seiji, Archbishop Seiji…

The Maid Manager’s complexion soon turned pale as she muttered that name several times.

“Ah, when giving birth, suddenly it became a difficult labor and her life was in danger, so they called for a priest from the temple… there was one noblewoman that Archbishop Seiji visited…”

“What? Who was that!”

“…Duchess.”

“What?”

“Duchess Roheim.”

The Former Empress’s face also turned deathly pale.

Soon imagining something terrible, she shook her head and asked the Maid Manager again.

“Du, Duchess Roheim has three children. Which, who, when which child was born…”

“The youngest daughter… It was when she gave birth to Cecilia Roheim.”

The Former Empress felt dizzy.

[You shall bear a wise ruler who will be remembered throughout history]

The owner of that oracle was Cecilia.

The woman who would bear a future wise ruler, who would undoubtedly become Empress, had become Lionel’s wife. The wife of Lionel who would someday ascend to the supreme position!

It felt like being struck in the back of the head with a large hammer. Anger blazed fiercely in her chest. The Former Empress lost strength in her legs and staggered to sit down on the spot.

“Former Empress!”

“How dare, how dare they deceive me, how dare, how dare…!”

At the same time, a belated realization came to her.

‘So that’s why Duke Roheim tried so hard to take Lionel as his son-in-law!’

Duke Roheim must have naturally known that the oracle known to be Nicole’s was actually his daughter’s.

That’s why he took Lionel and paired him with Cecilia.

To make the two of them the future Emperor and Empress. And thereby to hold the Empire in his grasp!

‘Let’s see… if I’ll let things go as planned?’

The Former Empress gritted her teeth. Then she commanded the Maid Manager.

“Immediately send people to conduct a thorough investigation of the Roheim family.”

“Yes?”

“Find fault with them. By any means necessary, bring the Duke and Duchess of Roheim, or at least the Duchess, to the capital!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

However, unfortunately, the Former Empress did not know.

The fact that anything problematic about the Roheims had already been cleanly handled by the dark district informants under Lionel’s orders four years ago.

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The Empress was dragged away by Imperial Guards and confined to the Empress’s Palace!

This shocking news swept through high society in an instant.

People’s curiosity was naturally focused on the reason – what great crime had she committed for an Empress with an oracle to be confined to the Empress’s Palace?

“Perhaps His Imperial Majesty is gravely ill?”

“What does His Imperial Majesty being gravely ill have to do with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress being confined?”

“Or perhaps… Her Imperial Majesty the Empress took a lover?”

“Good heavens. If that’s the case, it would make sense.”

The gossips of high society chattered away among themselves, laughing and talking, but didn’t take this matter too seriously. They considered it just a passing incident.

However, the atmosphere in the Imperial Palace became increasingly ominous, and strange rumors of unknown origin began spreading everywhere.

Namely, the rumor that Nicole was the daughter of a traitor.

“So she’s the daughter of Count and Countess Racal? Does that make sense?”

“Count and Countess Racal definitely had a daughter. But after the rebellion, she would have gone to exile in the borderlands…”

“She escaped from that place of exile? Deceiving the guards’ eyes? By what means?”

“But then what about that oracle? Archbishop Seiji said she could turn the oracle into a stone tablet because Bishop Nicole was her own daughter!”

In reality, what shocked people more than Nicole being a traitor’s daughter was that she wasn’t the true owner of the oracle.

Because Nicole received an oracle from God that she would bear a future wise ruler, legitimacy for the throne was granted to Cayen, who was betrothed to her.

Cayen was already unable to properly handle state affairs due to his poor health.

Before becoming Emperor and even after, he failed to achieve any notable accomplishments, and now even the Empress wasn’t the owner of the oracle?

If that were proven true, his support base would undoubtedly be shaken to its roots.

The Former Empress, perhaps finally coming to her senses, began ordering people to keep their mouths shut to prevent them from spreading strange rumors.

The Empress, who collapsed while nursing the Emperor, was simply resting due to poor health, and anyone spreading false rumors would be severely punished for insulting the Imperial family.

At least until the real owner of the oracle could be newly seated as Empress, Nicole had to remain in that position.

She absolutely could not make mistakes twice.

Therefore, the Former Empress secretly sent someone to the temple, ordering them to send Archbishop Seiji to the Imperial Palace. The pretext was that Nicole was bedridden and looking for her mother, so they needed Archbishop Seiji for Nicole’s treatment and care.

However, this request was rejected by the Pope.

“Seiji is no longer an Archbishop but a sinner who violated the temple’s great rules and is offering prayers of repentance. Until God forgives the sinner’s crimes, no one can remove her from the penitence chamber.”

Then the Former Empress tried to appeal to compassion, saying Nicole was very sick, dying, anything.

But the Pope was adamant. He even went so far as to refuse temple entry to anyone from the Imperial family, whether messenger or knight.

If this matter grew larger, useless words might spill from the mouths they had barely managed to seal. Therefore, the Former Empress had no choice but to retreat for now.

Taking advantage of this quiet moment outside, the Pope secretly visited the penitence chamber to meet Seiji.

“Seiji, do you know what people are saying now?”

“What… do you mean?”

Seiji, who had been confined only to the penitence chamber since Nicole became Empress, couldn’t possibly know the outside situation.

The Pope told her all the stories being spread outside.

“Whether Nicole is really sick or confined depends on the truth that will come from your mouth.”

“Go, good heavens…”

“If you’re hiding anything, confess it now.”

The Pope already knew that Seiji was not Nicole’s birth mother.

When Seiji brought Nicole from the place of exile, she had revealed Nicole’s identity and asked permission for this child to stay at the temple.

So the Pope thought Seiji’s lie about being Nicole’s birth mother was to hide Nicole’s true identity.

He thought that was the extent of Seiji’s lies. Since Seiji was friends with Nicole’s birth mother, Countess Racal, he thought she had secretly visited Countess Racal when Nicole was born and helped hide the oracle by making it into a stone tablet.

In summary, the Pope also believed until now that Nicole was the owner of the oracle to become Empress.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Your Holiness. The truth is, the truth is… I told a very big lie…”

Who could have imagined that Seiji, who was an Archbishop, and Nicole, who was a Bishop,

Had stolen the destiny that God had bestowed upon someone else!

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