Ronée Palace was peaceful. It was more private than any other space in the inner castle.
For Ronée, who was easily startled by the sound of people outside, Nabel had specifically ordered it.
And in the tunnels beneath that quiet palace, something covered with a white cloth was being dragged out.
He was originally the chef of Ronée Palace.
Covering his face with a cloth, Nesha silently removed him.
It was around dawn when Ronée and Nabel spent time together.
And that morning, the new chef was particularly nervous.
“Once again, one more time…”
He double-checked whether anything he didn’t recognized was added to the sauce, as if it was a compulsion.
He had a deathly pale expression on his face. Everyone in the kitchen did.
* * * * * * * *
“Your Majesty, this is the information on the matter you ordered to be investigated earlier.”
Nabel received a bundle of reports from his office. It wasn’t long before Ronée Palace became a place almost completely filled with his forces.
After the assassination attempt, he inspected the safety of Ronée Palace, he increased the security and ordered an investigation into the matter.
Nabel opened the first report.
[Count Rieda.]
Count Rieda wasn’t a very meticulous man.
If he had been more meticulous and smarter, he wouldn’t have been so swayed by his wife.
Nabel turned the page.
[Current Countess: Her real name is Sonnette, an orphan from a temple.]
Nabel’s eyes narrowed as he flipped through the documents.
[It is unclear how, Ronée’s biological mother, the former Countess Rieda, died. More manpower is necessary to investigate this. However, it seems certain that it is related to the current Countess of Rieda.]
His eyes follow the words on the documents.
[The current Countess of Rieda approached the Count even before the death of the former Countess. It was confirmed that she learned chess first after finding out the Count’s hobby was chess. She has no connections to anywhere other than the temple.]
“… …”
[It seems clear that the temple sent her out for some kind of purpose.]
He remembered Countess Rieda, whom he had seen as a child.
Considering her aggressive actions towards Ronée, she seemed far from being a mage of the temple.
As if to strengthen her standing in the mansion, she treated Ronée harshly and yelled at her.
“… …”
Nabel’s lips twisted.
In fact, it was Countess Rieda who isolated Ronée from others inside the mansion.
[Count Rieda originally tried to hide the rumors about Ronée in order to benefit from marrying her to another family. In fact, when Ronée was eight years old, there was a marriage arrangement with a family in the Southern Continent.]
The more he read about them, the more worthless they seem.
[However, it seems that rumors spread out outside the mansion because the current Countess Rieda kept getting angry whenever she saw Ronée.]
