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The Queen, who always had only one daughter, gave birth to twins. How big is the embarrassment that the Queen must have felt? Fabian’s mother and former queen Melanie Ardenia panicked.

She first asked the maid and the doctor to tell the nobles that wanted to bring a congratulatory gift to the newly born princess to postpone it because she was ill. Then, she immediately summoned the High Priest to discuss the matter.

Priest Asily, who was astonished and bewildered just like the Queen, carefully assessed the powers of the two princesses and sighed.

“The powers of both are weak, as if the powers were divided. But Princess Fabian has more power than Princess Heila.”

Melanie was rather relieved by those words. If the two daughters have the same level of power, it is difficult to decide who will be the next queen, but if there is more power in one, she is naturally the successor.

“Keep Heila in a private palace and raise her with the nanny. Officially, my only daughter is Fabian.”

She had no choice but to do that. Otherwise, Fabian’s queenship would have been much weaker than it is now. There may have been people trying to satisfy their greed by pushing Heila as the successor, and the bigger problem was that the two Duchies might fight each other in support of different princesses.

However, Heila’s existence was not known to the public, so Fabian was able to win the loyalty of the two Duchies with her weak powers. Once the two Duchies were loyal to the Queen, the rest of the allegiance followed naturally, and she was satisfied with the situation until Fabian succeeded her and ascended to the throne.

Fabian, aware of her twin sister’s existence, was always concerned about Heila, but Melanie deliberately prevented Fabian from meeting Heila. It was because rumors shouldn’t be spread. Thanks to this, Fabian always had no choice but to sneak a peek at Heila. They were twins, but she was much prettier and more slender than Fabian.

The uneasy peace was broken on the day Fabian came to see Liddell, the newborn daughter of Duke Santella. It was customary for the Queen to bestow a blessing upon the birth of the two Duchies’ family, and while Fabian bestowed her blessing, she realized that Liddell had not responded to her powers at all. It was an instinctive realization.

Upon hearing this, Melanie felt intense anxiety. Apart from other things, they had to obtain as much obedience from the two Duchies.

“We must kill Heila. Then the child’s power will return to Her Majesty.”

When the stubborn mother insisted without a single sight of her shaking, Fabian couldn’t say anything. It wasn’t because her mother would back down if she was against it, but it was because she was also anxious. Moreover, Melanie’s opinion was not alone. It was also something that the High Priest had secretly insisted on since they were born as twins.

Even so, Melanie had refused to kill Heila until then because she was the child she gave birth to, but in this situation where the throne itself was shaken, a decision was needed.

“Your Majesty, don’t worry about anything and just focus on running the government as usual. This mother will take care of the rest. The confusion comes from me, so it’s the right thing to do.”

In front of her mother, who was firmly determined, Fabian said nothing and backed away. But she couldn’t help it. Still, she had always felt indebted to Heila, and now her conscience was pierced by the thought that Heila had to die for the sake of Fabian’s power, and she couldn’t bear it.

That’s why she secretly leaked this plot to Raphael, Heila’s loyal escort.

If Raphael didn’t do anything after hearing the story, and if Heila died, it was considered Heila’s fate. There was only so much that a mean and cowardly person could do.

Fortunately, Raphael took Heila and escaped from the palace. Fabian felt relieved and prayed for her sister’s well-being.

But not Melanie. She thought the Ardenian dynasty had been thrown into chaos because of her, and she believed that correcting this chaos was the reason for her remaining life.

The royal dogs pursued Heila tenaciously. How heartbroken Fabian was whenever she heard the news that they were being chased. And one day, Raphael’s body arrived at the palace.

“I missed the target. She disappeared completely…….”

Melanie trembled and collapsed at the words of the assassination team leader, who prostrated himself on the floor and asked for punishment even after suffering a lot, and Fabian, who was supporting it, ordered them to stop chasing Heila with the authority of the Queen. Melanie came to her senses and tried to send the assassin again, but Fabian stopped her mother. She was afraid that even her mother was engulfed in madness.

She didn’t know if Heila had survived, or if she was dead and her death just didn’t give her more powers. So she buried her own guilt and lived on. Until Isaac came to visit her a while ago.

The fact that her younger sister had given birth to a daughter could have been so delightful. If only she could find Heila and see her again, she would gladly kneel at her feet and beg for forgiveness. She sincerely hoped to find Heila and her daughter.

However, in Fabian’s case, Liddell, who had lost her position as queen, had a completely different view.

‘Silver hair, purple eyes, quite a beauty, a fully pregnant woman enough to tell the gender of the baby, and besides, Marais is not too far from Kerouac…..’

Liddell shivered down her spine. The document the Queen had just handed out was nothing more than a description of Lena’s mother. If so, it means that the successor everyone is looking for is Lena, that child. At that realization, Liddell reflexively looked at Gerard’s expression. His expression looking at the document did not change much.

‘It seems that the Luave’s side haven’t gotten a grip on it yet. But it’s only a matter of time before Kacel notices.’

Kahel will also have finished investigating Lena, and if he hears from today’s nobility council, he’ll notice right away. He’ll realize why Lena didn’t respond to his devilish powers.

But Liddell thought Kahel wouldn’t bring Lena straight to the Palace. It wouldn’t be as simple as taking a cheap maid so far. And by now Kahel will be confused because of the man who has appeared as Lena’s father.

‘It would have been dangerous if I had put Viscount Ruban in a little late.’

At a tea party in the Luave family, she was lucky to see a man sneering at Lena. Even at his age, he was still chasing young women, but he had the same hair color as Lena. When Eileen’s items and handwriting obtained from Kerouac were added to that, a very cool plan was devised.

‘By the way, that maid is the Queen’s blood……That’s a big shot?’

It also explains why Heila lived without persecution in Kerouac. Because her power made people moderately submissive.

‘But why did that girl, Lena, live under bullying? Had the Queen’s power continued, she would have been able to subdue those…….’

Liddell pondered for a moment, and soon her eyes began to shine.

‘The Ardenian dynasty ended when the princesses who should have been one were born as twins, and the still weak powers were split in two. One of them never gave birth to a daughter, and the other didn’t even inherit her powers.’

A smirk came out. Come to think of it, she, too, had never felt any traces of power in Lena. Even if they were to find Lena, who would admit, such as a queen with no powers? Having a little power and no power at all were two completely different things.

‘Even so, I can’t let them find the Queen’s real descendants.’

Liddell cleared her hardened face and stepped away from the Palace, acting as if she was genuinely curious about the whereabouts of Heila and her daughter.

After the meeting, Kahel also heard about Heila from Gerard. The sudden bomb declaration was accompanied by the news that made the noble society as noisy as a beehive.

“This is about the lost princess.”

From the moment he heard the story describing Heila’s appearance, an organized document about Heila was placed in front of Kahel, who had a hard face. Gerard had told him earlier that she was a woman with silver hair, clear purple eyes, a thin build, and quite a beauty.

Below that, it was said that the last sighting of her was in a small area called Marais, and that she was in the fifth month of her pregnancy at the time of her disappearance. Information such as the fact that her escort knight Raphael, who is suspected of being the father of her child, had dark brown hair and clear brown eyes, that she was good at embroidery and sewing, and that she had developed considerable culture even while imprisoned was added.

‘No way…… It couldn’t be…….’

Kahel continued to deny it in his mind. However, even if he tried to deny it, the information about Heila was too much consistent with that of Lena’s mother, Eileen.

Kerouac wasn’t too far from Marais, where the assassin released Heila. And Eileen settled in Kerouac while pregnant. It was reported that it was in mid-September and that Lena’s birth date was mid-February, so the story that she disappeared around 5 months of her pregnancy was also quite consistent.

It was also understandable that she wrote H first on her form and then drew two lines. It must have been deleted while trying to write the name ‘Heila’ inadvertently.

Above all, it was able to fully explain the coffin where the body disappeared. She, too, was at the end of her powers, and died, and her body would have dispersed slowly within two or three days of being buried. However, he wondered why she died at such an early age because the blood of the Queen never died until her power was exhausted. No matter how weak she was, it was too early for her to die at the age of thirty-five.

‘Yes. For now…… I can’t be sure.’

But at the same time, the answer to the question he thought was the strangest came to mind. Why Lena didn’t respond to his own devilish powers and how she managed to heal the big wounds overnight without scars…….

If it was the Queen’s bloodline, it was quite possible. The Queen’s power was a divine power that surpassed all magical and elemental powers, and it made self-healing possible. As his anxiety grew, Kahel shook his head again.

‘If she had enough power to self-heal, she would naturally have made Luave and Santella submit. But Lena never tried to subdue me. She also suffered persecution in Kerouac. No matter how weak she was, there was no way she could have lived with such persecution.’

Kahel forced himself to cut off his thoughts. He didn’t want to lose Lena. His heart was not prepared at all, they took Lena from him at this time while she was afraid of him. Then Kahel remembered a letter from Viscount Ruban.

‘Yes, Lena is not the princess. There is someone else who says Lena is his daughter. Lena was just born with a peculiar constitution by chance.’

effe’s commentary:

i really don’t see the fake father plan at all, i thought after everything lena could have some happy things in life, but we’ll seeing how she’s been notioned as having some connection to the queen, she’s destined for something greater.

but still!!

how dare the santella play with people’s hearts like this!!

trampling on the sacrifice her real father had made!!

ready your weapons, let’s isekai to this place and storm the santella >.<