Edited Novel of IBTMITL (Chapter 201-256)

Chapter 207

"I'll have to stop him."

Empress Lavigne said to Duigi.

Duigi Angenas was more frightened by the calm appearance of Lavigne.

Since childhood, she has had a fiery personality and she would even smash things when she's angry.

But now she looked very calm.

And Duigi thought, she was better off getting angry.

It was because he felt like the bad situation is even more worst knowing how calm Lavigne is.

Perhaps, she's even more angry than what Duigi thinks.

Lavigne, who sat down at her seat looking powerful, was resentful, but now was the time to leave those feelings behind.

"What should I do, sister?" Duigi asked seriously.

"Didn't I tell you? We have to stop him."

Blue veins popped out of the back of Lavigne's hand, clenching her fist.

"That lowly thing..."

Lavigne gritted her teeth thinking of Perez.

She knew that something was up because he was quiet for a while, to think that he was planning such tricks behind her.

"It's obvious that the Second Prince, the Brown and Lombardi family, made up this plan, Duigi."

It was none other than Florentia Lombardi, who held the hunting competition and brought them into the Madman forest.

"I want to cut the throat of that ugly thing with all of my heart."

But she is the granddaughter of the Patriarch of Lombardi and the daughter of Gallahan Lombardi.

I don't know how the Lombardi would react if I touched her recklessly..

Besides, the Imperial Army is not allowed to enter the Lombardi's mansion.

Lavigne, whose thoughts spread to the imperial knights, asked Duigi.

"What about the knights?"

"There's a division within the Imperial Knights."

Angenas occupied the West, expanded their influence, and the Empress bore the enemy.

The 40 years that Angenas had been building up their power were enough to fill and spread their people all over the empire.

And the Imperial Knights were one of them.

"According to the report, it's split in half."

"Half?" Lavigne's eyebrows rose.

"How much money have we poured into the Imperial Knights? But only half?!"

Bam!

Lavigne struck the table with her fist.

"That is... isn't there a current knight commander? Tollian Buckton. It seems that the forces following the Second Prince and the Brown family are united around him."

"If we had a little more time, we could have filled the knights with our people."

If only I had a little more time.

Empress Lavigne kept muttering the words.

Something was strange.

She couldn't describe it in words, but of course the things that were supposed to fit were misplaced.

It was a great sense of incompatibility.

She had a strong feeling that she might have been being played by a single person, which is ridiculous but she couldn't ignore.