On the identical time, Sagan paced nervously round his workplace. Listening to Gale’s report, all his plans went easily when the Empress Dowager visited Evelyn’s Palace.

If his plans had been a hit, he would quickly hear the information. Gale lastly got here as Sagan struggled along with his nervousness.

“How……how did it go?” requested Sagan in haste.

“Sir Philip was summoned to the Empress’s Palace.”

As Sagan predicted, Adrian’s well being deteriorated after midnight.

“And His Majesty instantly rushed out of his workplace with out with the ability to cover his anxiousness.”

“Are you positive…did he try this?”

“Sure.”

At that second, Sagan heaved a sigh of reduction. He had been nervous in regards to the failure of his scheme, but it surely appeared that God was on his facet.

“Now then, the Vatican is in my palms.”

Sagan roared with laughter by himself. He held the Paladin’s hand and practiced what was referred to as justice. Clearly, God can be with him. Individuals like Sagan used to clean their evil deeds with such vanity.

“However this virtually received me a coronary heart assault.”

“You don’t have to fret, Duke.”

Sagan snorted, “It’s not my plan that made me nervous.”

“Then what?”

“Because the Paladin Knight mentioned, the Empress Dowager was the mediator. It’s laborious to think about that the Empress would make contact with that youngster.”

Sagan knew his youthful sister very nicely as an individual with a chilly character. She was a girl who had by no means proven an attachment to her personal son, not to mention her grandchild.

At first, Sagan doubted the plans he had compiled. However in the long run, his sister managed to make contact with Adrian.

“I don’t know what drama had occurred, however that is additionally God’s will.”

“What are you going to do after this…” Gale requested the query rigorously.

“What do you imply after this?”

“Sure? To Sarah, the Empress Dowager’s maid….”

Earlier than Gale spoke any additional, Sagan gestured to close up. When Monica got here to steer him, the opposite maid, who was ordered by Sagan, firmly adopted his orders.

It wasn’t that onerous. Monica, who briefly moved from the Southern Palace, relocated most of her belongings to the Sagan residence reasonably than maintaining them within the Imperial Palace.

He didn’t have particular tips. Sagan simply blended the holy water into Monica’s fragrance and all of the cosmetics utilized by her. He simply advised Sarah, the maid, to make use of them nicely.

“Did she do one thing?”

“No, nothing completely different than traditional.”

“Effective…However I gained’t neglect that Sarah performed an necessary position on this crime.”

Sagan grinned as he had carried out his final weapon.

He requested a maid near Sara so as to add the toxic powder to Sarah’s puff. The dose of poison was tiny, so it wasn’t life-threatening. However he ready this “weapon” for Fabian as a present.

“The Emperor will certainly suspect his son was poisoned, and he might be bent on discovering the trigger. And his suspicions will result in everybody, even his personal mom.”

If it was Fabian who Sagan knew, he would undoubtedly make the Empress Dowager a suspect and investigated her involvement completely.

If the Southern Palace’s maid introduced the poison, Monica must take duty as a result of she was the Palace’s proprietor and their grasp. Sagan would lose his youthful sister. That’s why he initially hesitated to make use of Monica to hurt Adrian.

“However the Empress is His Majesty’s mom…….”

“No. There isn’t any exception. That’s why I hesitated. However she’s silly….”

In the long run, Monica’s chilly rejection modified his thoughts. Monica made a alternative she shouldn’t have made and left her household first. Thus Sagan had no regret in any way about his choice.

“The Paladin Knight has disappeared.”

“It should be the Emperor’s doing. However it doesn’t matter. I don’t know if the Paladin knight is a brilliant particular person or not, however his tips had been banal.”

Sagan’s eyes glanced into the air. David solely mentioned that the holy water would unravel the demon’s poison within the youngster’s physique. But Sagan was considering greater than that. Even when David advised the Emperor the reality, he may nonetheless purchase time.

The poison in Sarah’s puff really had nothing to do with Adrian. It was only a labyrinth designed by Sagan to trick Fabian. It was a tactic as a result of he knew his nephew’s suspicious nature very nicely.

“The Emperor will comply with the path of poison that doesn’t exist in his son’s physique, by means of the Paladin’s holy water.”

“The Paladin knight can pay for this crime.” Gale spoke as if he had learn Sagan’s thoughts.

“This has nothing to do with the Metis household. Even when his beloved youngster was killed, the trigger wasn’t only one … wasn’t the misfortune that occurred to his youngster on account of overlapping coincidences?*.”

Sagan was nonetheless a human being. Individuals noticed him as a cosmopolitan and conceited man, however personally, he was an conceited man who cared for his youngsters and liked them.

That’s why he really didn’t have the guts to harm Adrian. Moreover, that youngster was nonetheless his blood relative, who had Metis blood, which Sagan significantly exalted.

“Duke is true. It’s only a coincidence.”

Sagan needed to justify his actions by means of Gale’s mouth. His work was performed now, and that little Prince wouldn’t be capable to survive throughout the technique of poison investigation, and the whole lot was coincidence and destiny.

Sagan additionally acknowledged that Monica, his sister, would even be below suspicion, and her life was in danger. However based on Metis’ teachings, this was a punishment for an individual who had deserted her household.

“The Emperor has been suspecting too many individuals.”

Identical to his predecessors, all of the Emperors from the earlier era. All of the Imperial Council members had been doubted and suspected by Fabian, who regularly trampled upon the nobles, compelled them to obey him, and handled them like barking canines.

“He ought to not have performed that. Not less than …… he shouldn’t try this to the Metis household who gave beginning to him.”

Sagan needed to present him a lesson. Till he realized that the one ones left had been the Metis household. Even when he misplaced his sister-Empress, Sagan would quickly get the following Empress and the Imperial’s successor.

“His suspicion that has all the time strangled us would kill his personal youngster now.”

Having as soon as crossed the forbidden line, human beings might be become scary figures, which Sagan skilled now. Since its descent, all through the historical past of the Empire, the Metis household had been a monster destined to confront the Emperor.

***

A number of hours after midnight, the residence of the Empress Dowager was hit by a racket.

The Black Hawk Knights, led by Serus, started to rummage and maintain all of the residents in custody with out exception.

“What are you doing? That is the place the Empress stays!”

Sarah, the maid of honor, got here ahead and firmly prevented the rummage, however no person listened to her.

“I can’t allow you to move! That is Her Highness’s residence, how dare you !”

Whereas the maids and servants had been being dragged out helplessly, Serus caught up with the remainder of the knights and confirmed up. Sarah acknowledged his face, and she or he knew that one thing was fallacious, however she couldn’t keep nonetheless.

“Sir Serus, that is the residence of Her Highness Empress Dowager.”

However Serus pushed Sarah unexpectedly, “I do know.”

“That is my Palace.”

Monica, who was aggravated, glared on the knights who searched her bed room. Monica had an authority equal to Fabian, however the Black Hawk Knights, together with Serus, couldn’t postpone their work for even a second.

“What’s occurring?” Monica surprisingly requested in a peaceful and dignified voice

“Her Highness Empress, it’s essential to include us proper now.”

“I requested what was occurring.”

“That’s what His Majesty will ask you.”

Monica’s brows furrowed on the intimidation phrases she didn’t like.

However she wasn’t a silly lady. She was the former-Empress. If the Emperor’s knights ransacked his personal mom’s residence, it will have meant {that a} horrible circumstance had arisen. This invasion couldn’t have occurred with no sturdy excuse.

“Effective.”

Monica answered briefly. She may see behind Serus the messy Southern’s corridor and her servants being dragged out.

Most of them had been courtiers who labored in her Palace, and the remaining who weren’t her individuals.

“I did nothing.” Monica mentioned clearly, realizing she was accused of one thing.

“This isn’t an issue that I can choose. I’m solely following His Majesty’s orders. Please forgive my rudeness.”

“You’re a knight so I gained’t run away. However I can’t simply throw my dignity away.”

“His orders are to take you it doesn’t matter what.”

“Select, if I might be guided immediately by you, or if I’ll lower my throat right here.”

Serus regarded puzzled and had problem answering. Monica was, nonetheless, severe when she mentioned that as a result of her voice had no shred of doubt.

“We don’t have time. I’ll provide you with 5 minutes to arrange.”

“It’s Sufficient. Sarah, come right here and assist me to decorate up.”

Monica wasn’t in any respect shaken by her sudden state of affairs. 5 minutes later, she strolled out gracefully, completely dressed.

“I’m performed.” Her voice was actually serene as if nothing occurred.

“Then, I’ll information you, Your Highness.”

Serus additionally paid tribute to the dignity. Except for her standing, her delight as an Empress deserved respect from a knight like him.

“You don’t have to deliver the maids and servants, they aren’t my individuals. In trade, I’m taking Sarah with me. She’s my particular person, so that you’ll have to analyze her regardless of the costs are.”

“That’s too, His Majesty is the one who will choose it.”

Serus gave a hard and fast reply, and Sarah stood upright subsequent to Monica, proving her loyalty.

“Let’s go, we actually don’t have time to delay anymore.”

Monica nodded her head and took a step. She encountered one thing like this for the primary time since coming into the Imperial Palace.

A state of affairs that had by no means appeared in historical past and which she had by no means studied the way to take care of it earlier than.

However she realized anybody who took a step like this had by no means returned.

“Let’s go.”

Figuring out that, nonetheless, her steps didn’t falter a bit.

***

Even Evelyn couldn’t calm Fabian’s anger.

Rebecca couldn’t discover something suspicious within the Empress’ palace. Whereas Nora and Hans summarized what occurred as we speak in addition to Adrian’s routine recently and reported it to Fabian.

As soon as his mom’s title was listed, Evelyn clearly noticed how Fabian’s face froze like ice, and the concern of dangerous omen swept over her.

“Your Majesty…… for Empress-mother, she was in my sight. Nothing… nothing suspicious…..”

“So, is there anything? Hans, you confess!”

“The one factor that was completely different from traditional was the Empress’s go to.”

Hans was a guileless scholar, so he solely advised the statistical info.

“Then, how!?”

Fabian may now not management his feelings. He kicked his chair and stood up.

Fabian struggled to gulp down his breath and held again his uncontrollable rage. He would have drawn the sword in his waist if Evelyn hadn’t been there.

“Your Majesty!”

Evelyn adopted Fabian’s again, however Fabian raised a hand to cease her earlier than she may catch him.

“Don’t come any nearer.”

His icy-hoarse voice and his grim again appeared like somebody Evelyn didn’t know.

“Your Majesty, please take heed to me. I’m….”

“Cease.”

Fabian’s voice froze the air. It was solely then that Evelyn knew who the person was in entrance of her.

“Neither judgment nor choice.”

It was a sight of an individual who Evelyn knew nicely.

“All the things…I determine.”

The chilly again she had all the time seen all through her earlier life was now in entrance of her.

Evelyn’s hand stopped within the air. She couldn’t get to him anymore as she already knew who he was.

The title of the person was Fabian. The only real Emperor of this Empire.

And a chilly husband, who by no means regarded again at Evelyn.