Capitulo 116
Arc 13. Infighting
Episode 116
At Marquis Henry’s, where I arrived at Helena’s invitation, it was truly unique. I looked up at the mansion with a blank face.
It had been in many noble families, but this was the first time I had seen such an unusual place.
«Aesthetically beautiful, but a bit…»
It was very modern and unique.
That’s why it didn’t fit in with the surroundings at all and it bounced.
hahaha. isn’t the house a bit special?
Helen scratched her cheek in embarrassment and mumbled.
I smiled looking at her like that.
No. It’s very nice.
If it had been in my previous life, it would probably be called a landmark in that area.
After all, the princess knows how to recognize beauty.
Marquis Henry suddenly appeared from behind and spoke to me.
Isn’t it great? I designed it myself.
The Marquis?
Yes. It was designed together with Her Majesty the late Empress.
When he mentioned Aster’s mother again, my body contracts.
By the way, Marquis Henry was never married.
The Marquis refused to marry and chose to adopt the children of the collateral family.
Some thought it was because he could not forget the empress, whom he loved.
Come on in. It’s even more amazing inside.
He smiled and led me in.
The interior was also quite modern.
The more I looked around the mansion, the more confident I became with Aster’s mother, Selena.
Maybe she was a transmigrated person like me.
«So, the bracelet only comes down to those who possess it?»
I thought it was just a relic of the past, but I didn’t know that the situation as it is now has existed for a long time.
When we sat down at the table, the maid brought the tea down.
Helen, would you mind leaving us alone for a moment?
Helen nodded and walked away.
Marquis Henry smiled and sat down across from me.
I thought about it earlier, but the princess doesn’t seem too surprised to see the inside.
Yes?
The marquis smiled and opened his mouth.
Are you from another world too?
I closed my mouth at his smile.
It was a personal matter I had never told my family.
However…
Did Her Majesty the Empress also come from another world?
Because I knew you would find out. That’s right. She is also from another world. I was the only one who believed Selena’s story.
Marquis Henry, who thought she was a light person, looked a little different.
If someone had made such a confession to me, no matter how harsh, I would not have believed it easily.
How did she live here?
How have you been. She met a lot of people and studied a lot. She also found someone she liked.
A bitter smile appeared on the marquis’s face and then disappeared.
Selena’s end was not very good.
She died after giving birth to a child at a young age, and the emperor, who thought it was love, had had a child with another woman.
It was Andrew’s mother who gave birth to a son in a monogamous empire on the pretext that Selena, who was weakened, could not see the work of the empress, and Andrew’s mother became the first empress.
If she really loved him, she would surely have been hurt.
But after the marriage, everything changed. I had to see the man I thought would make me happiest, going crazy.
It was the Emperor’s story.
I thought Marquis Henry might be able to tell his story.
A true story that no one has ever told.
I want to hear your story.
The marquis laughed as if he knew it.
And he began to tell his story.
* * *
Selena was a commoner, but she was an extraordinary magician.
The fact that she had the unusual winter magic and the amount of powerful magic placed her in the ranks of the Candidates for the Companion.
Your mother, Freya, was a rival. Unlike you and the Grand Duchess, our relationship wasn’t that bad.
And she said she met Aster’s father at the academy.
They were attracted to each other as fate. Selena was swayed by Marquis Liberty until the end, but in the end she chose the Emperor.
Marquis Liberty and Selena were childhood friends.
It was a relationship Selena had when she was sponsored by the Marquis.
I said it wasn’t Selena, but they must have been each other’s first love. Of course, the problem was that they were not just in my eyes.
Selena, who became Empress, and Marquis Liberty formed a political alliance.
It was natural for Selena to have the support of a marquis.
They often had public conversations in private places.
If we didn’t know anything, we would only see each other as perfect political alliances. But the Emperor already knew what kind of relationship the two of you had in the past.
It was starting to worry you more and more.
It would be good if you would just pay attention.
Marquis Henry was thirsty for tea.
He began to doubt and obsess over Selena. He planted people around her and began to monitor everything. Selena, who was free, was getting more and more difficult in the situation. And then there was an incident that set off the already sensitive Sun Emperor.
The marquis frowned as he had never frowned before.
Just thinking about that moment seemed painful in itself.
Marquis Liberty had crossed the line.
Selena, who was a commoner, had little power.
At the Empress’s headquarters, nowhere else.
She needed political training and could never leave the Liberty family behind.
Not as much as before, but they had to meet very rarely. He had to avoid the gaze of the people the Emperor had planted, so they had to meet in a more private place.
And there, the Marquis of Liberty left a small footprint.
It wasn’t great either.
He also hid tea leaves of a unique brand that Marquis Liberty drank, or a handkerchief he carried.
And as the emperor found it again and again, Selena felt more and more lost.
Oh my God…
The worst happened when the maid thought that the belongings left by Marquis Liberty belonged to the emperor and took them to the couple’s bedroom.
Because she even thought that the child that was in the womb at the time was not hers.
Of course, after the child was born, that doubt would have disappeared.
If you looked into Aster’s eyes, anyone could see that he was a son of the imperial family.
But that made them both deeper, and the Emperor even met another woman to hurt Selena.
It was the worst way to arouse jealousy.
And the princess will know what’s behind it. The Archduke was born and Selena died soon after. The Marquis of Liberty… He regretted that joke for the rest of his life. Because sometimes he would come to me and tell me that he had killed Selena.
I didn’t think there was anything wrong with him. But, even though they were childhood friends and close friends, if he really thought about his partner, he shouldn’t have done that.
The Emperor, Selena and Aster were also unhappy with the little prank that Marquis Liberty played.
The Emperor’s obsession was also a problem, but the Marquis using it profusely despite knowing what was going on was the worst.
He. Marquis Henry said, taking the cup of tea and burying himself in the back of the sofa.
Well, I’m not talking about building a house based on what she told me.
Even as adults, they could not free themselves from the intense memories of their first love.
If not a lover, even as a friend, she circled around wanting to be by his side.
Once the imperial family crosses that line, they can’t stop. I know this well because I have seen the Sun Emperor up close.
He asked me as a warning.
Are you prepared to stand next to such a man?
As if Aster could also change like the Emperor.
I remembered what he had done to me so far.
Aster was a man who didn’t know what he was doing.
He wanted to get close to me, but sometimes he acted like he wanted me to run away.
He was incredibly sweet and devoted, but at times he seemed unimaginably dangerous.
However, having met Andrew, who had already gone insane, I could be sure.
His Majesty, Aster is different from His Majesty the Emperor.
Aster was harder on himself than anyone else.
Don’t you think you’ve seen him wrong?
Aster didn’t hide his weakness from me. He even sent me back if he thought I was dangerous.
I remembered the image of Aster I saw in the barracks during the hunting competition.
They were the eyes of a beast that seemed to devour me at any moment.
But he backed away.
When I lost control of myself, he had the mental strength strong enough to send me back.
Selena once spoke like you.
Marquis Henry asked me tenaciously, as if taking an exam.
Do you love the Emperor? Are you prepared for all this and will you stand by his side?
No. I do not love His Majesty enough to give everything.
The Marquis’s eyes looking at me curved as if I were ridiculous.
But I believe in Aster and I like him.
The only person who came to me when I was crushed by the order of this world.
Seeing his parents who were on the brink of catastrophe because of love, he told me about his love.
And in time, one day it will become a feeling of love.
Now is the time for me to move on.
I will no longer hide my feelings.