Chapter 113

A Plan (11)

A criminal conspiracy against the prospective crown princess and even kidnapping. According to Louis, there was someone in cahoots to help Matthias.

Although Matthias was rough, he couldn’t organize something properly, so Rowena became curious about the person who was attached to Matthias.

“The name Kernan Lambert should be fake.”

The investigator Cecil hired explained so.

“His recent appearance in the capital was only a year or two ago. There is indeed a local lord’s family called Viscount Lambert, but it disappeared eight years ago after he sold his estate with a huge debt. He appeared in the capital city, saying that he had made a lot of money from his business after not hearing from him.”

It was a typical aristocratic impersonation scam.

“We were checking with Your Highness to see who Kernan Lambert was in contact with.”

“Other than Matthias?”

“Yes. He approached Lord Adelia with clear intentions.”

At first, they thought he might be trying to scam the Adelia family, but it was Matthias they got close with, not Paul, the owner of the house. Matthias later became the count’s patriarch, but it was a long time later.

Paul wasn’t the type that was so hard to scam, so they doubted the approach.

“Do you mean there could be someone behind him?”

“That’s right. We’re already collecting evidence about his background, but would My Lady like to forgive him if Lord Matthias Adelia was just a subcontractor?”

“No way.”

Even if he didn’t know it, it wouldn’t be forgiving, and she was shaking with fury at how he tried to persuade Paul first.

“Your Highness is concerned with your family, and the nature of the work is not easy to talk about. He wants to deal with it quietly.”

Rowena also nodded. That was what she wanted too.

She wanted to let the world know of his evil doings so that Matthias could be punished. However, the Imperial family would also be on the lips of the people.

She wouldn’t stay quiet if she was the only one that was going down with Matthias if news got out.

It was unfair, but she had to deal with it quietly. But she would never make Matthias have a smile on his face.

“…And so do I. However, I want those who are guilty to be punished thoroughly.”

At Rowena’s words, the officials exchanged eyes with each other as if they were relieved. One of them stepped forward and began to explain the situation.

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In many ways, it was difficult for Kernan that Rowena didn’t hang out with young ladies of her age. It was not easy to take action because he had to deal with things so that his own identity would not be revealed.

Even a high-ranking aristocrat would not be able to do things to dirty their reputation, what more harm to the prospective crown princess? Even a man with a lot of courage could not cooperate.

In addition, there was a possibility that everything could be overturned if things went wrong.

Most of the meetings Rowena visited were held by dukes. Occasionally, she visited the counts or viscounts with deep ties to the Imperial family, but the visited families found no weakness that he could use.

He wanted to use a duke if possible, but it was not easy to dig up information from a duke with a lot of closed-minded families. There were many cases where the information was fake or the informant was killed.

What about the Marquis of Rasmine?

He wanted to use Paul Adelia one more time, but the latter was a formidable place. In particular, since the Marquis controlled the house tightly, it was practically impossible to commit a crime in the family without his knowledge.

If he had known this, he would have created another status of a local aristocrat, who would have approached the prospective crown princess. It was impossible to suddenly create an aristocratic lady who the crown princess is clueless about her origin.

I should get her help.

The best thing would be to invite Rowena to Hasler’s party, but Emilia was sure to give a cold reception. Kernan clapped his tongue.

“After everything, that girl named Rowena won’t be able to talk, so what am I afraid of?”

Kernan began to think about ways to persuade Emilia, thinking that girls were also small-minded and couldn’t be used for big things.

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