Chapter 109

A Plan (7)

On the way to the end of the meeting, Rowena was able to hear from the palace. She climbed into the carriage in a bright mood, said to cancel the rest of her schedule, and hurried her way to the palace.

Naturally, the speed of the carriage was bound to increase.

The knights surrounding the carriage also sped up. The carriage was running along the capital’s boulevard, and someone blocked the carriage.

“Oh, my!”

The coachman freaked out and stopped the carriage. At that speed, the carriage was able to stop without hitting people because the coachman was skilled, and the carriage of the palace endured the shock.

If something went wrong, the wheel shaft could have been broken and the carriage could have been turned upside down. If it was the coachman of another noble family, they would have chosen to run over and kill the child.

The child who knelt and trembled appeared to be a child in the slum. The clothes that were worn out without shoes flowed.

The knight frowned and got off his horse and approached the child. The child was carrying an unbecoming silver box.

“T-this is to Her Highness the Crown Princess…”

Rowena hadn’t married the crown prince yet, but she only has a month and a half left. The knight didn’t point that out and he first received the box and opened the lid.

The other knight was taking the boy for questioning and asked who had made him do this.

“I don’t know. If I don’t do it, they’ll kill my brother.”

Shrinking his shoulders, the boy looked at his face. They didn’t think that was a lie, but the knight speculated that he would have received some money.

“Look at this.”

The knight who opened the lid of the box changed his complexion and called his colleagues. There was a cut finger wrapped in silk and a note in the box.

“It belongs to the Lord, the youngest of Count Adelia.”

Only a few people knew that Louis Adeliad was staying at the palace. The knight took it to the carriage in contemplation.

The boy realized that something was wrong and tried to run away, but he was firmly caught by the driver.

The carriage door was open. Another knight was asking about Rowena and the maid’s condition. Rowena looked at them suspiciously at the sight of the silver box brought by the knight.

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“Is this a trap that Matthias prepared?”

If Louis had not been taken to the palace, she would have been fooled by the trick. Louis learned the sword and had a wound on his hand, especially a deep cut on his little finger.

There was a similar scar on the finger in the box. But it wasn’t the same.

In an era where treatment by divine power was possible, it wasn’t difficult to make similar scars if you had money.

Rowena went straight back to the palace, but she didn’t meet Louis and called.

“…Go to the Marquis of Rasmine and hand this to Count Adelia and get a reply.”

Rowena held a letter to Paul Adelia in her hand. The letter asked if Louis was safe.

This was a procedure to determine if Paul was involved in the case. If Paul had betrayed her until the end, Rowena would have given up her sense of duty to him as a child.

The servant got a letter from Rowena and left the room. As she left the room, she found Cecil, the crown prince.

Cecil approached Rowena with only his head up.

“Rowena, you got a letter, didn’t you?”

Everything that happened to Rowena was also reported to Cecil.

Rowena didn’t even have a family to protect her at present. She also knew that but didn’t care.

When Rowena looked around, the maid and her attendants escaped from the room. All that was left was Rowena’s closest aides, Pina and Edith.

“…I received a finger. With a note saying Louis’ finger.”

“You must have been surprised.”

Cecil frowned and hugged Rowena. Rowena was able to exhale deeply as soon as she was held in Cecil’s arms. She felt suffocated back in the carriage.

Of course, Louis, who was lying in the bedroom of the palace, was safe. Rowena breathed a sigh of relief when she confirmed through a person.

It was clear that the threat could not reach the palace. The person didn’t know that Louis was hidden in the Imperial family.

“I ordered them to call someone who could find out if the finger was cut from a living person.”

“Why? Isn’t my brother in the palace?”

“We have to catch the criminal. And if these fingers belong to a living person, they’ll have a kid about Louis’ age.”

To some extent, it was like saying that he would move according to the criminal’s will. There was no evidence of this blackmailer at the moment.

The boy who stopped the carriage and handed over the box was not a beggar.

It was a child.

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