Chapter 77.1

After Raynard found this tape, the entire mansion was turned upside down. Upon returning to the capital, Marquis Carthia arranged an interrogation of all servants in order to find the culprit. As a result, two maids were found wearing the same necklaces as Emily, were the culprits.

Reynard and Dave secretly followed the work of the Imperial Knights. Behind all this enterprise was a certain count from the southern edges of the Empire. Or at least he once held the title of count.

No one ever had a chance to reliably find out what his motive was.

It was because he committed suicide by poisoning himself the very night he was captured by the Imperial Knights and imprisoned.

The opinion was put forward that the count was killed by someone who stood an order of magnitude higher, just to cover his tracks. But the investigation declared the incident an ordinary suicide.

No other traces were found either.

It wasn’t possible to reveal the exact thoughts of the count, but everyone agreed that he did this out of dissatisfaction with Marquis Carthia. Around the same time, but last year, Marquis Carthia issued a report to the Emperor, which shed light on the sins of that nobleman. Because of what the latter was deprived of the title.

However, there was another mystery: why was Yurina chosen as a target, and not the Marquis himself? One could only guess: was it done to inflict even more pain on the Marquis?

‘Is it more painful to experience the death of a loved one than your own?’

It was a banal ending, but it ended just like that.

‘And it’s all?’

That night, when all the details were told to her, Yurina couldn’t sleep. The Marquis took her by the hand and said, ‘It’s all right now, so don’t worry’. But she couldn’t shake the anxieties from her heart.

Yurina, now suffering from insomnia, got out of bed and headed to the Marquis’s office. Fortunately, it was still bustling with work, and a faint light seeped through the cracks in the locked door.

Yurina knocked gently and heard a voice telling her to enter.

“Yurina? Why are you awake at this hour?”

Perhaps he didn’t expect Yurina to be his visitor. Marquis Carthia approached her with a look of surprise. He examined her pale face and stroked her daughter’s cheek, as if in sorrow.

“Are you still not sleepy?”

“Yeah.”

“Should I tell the servants bring you a cup of tea that is good for a good night’s sleep?”

Yurina shook her head silently. She didn’t come here for tea.

Reading something in Yurina’s expression, the Marquis sat her down on the sofa. Instead of sitting, as usual, facing his daughter, he sat down next to her and tightly squeezed her cold hand.

“I came here because I have something to say.”

“Yeah. Is your story what keeps you awake at this late hour?”

Yurina swallowed nervously as she looked at the Marquis’ serious face.

“The whole thing smells bad.”

“What exactly do you want to tell me?”

“The one behind this incident.”

In fact, it wasn’t only Yurina who had doubts about the end of this case. And not only the Marquis, but also Yurina’s three older brothers insisted on the need for further investigation, since there were gaps in this story.

However, the imperial family decided to close this case. And this was due to the fact that the count had a fairly good motive to hate the house of Carthia, and teachings about black magic were found in his residence. Although the organizers of the hunting tournament were actively investigating the whole incident, from the point of view of the imperial family, it was nothing more than another petty conspiracy unworthy of undue attention. Even if Marquis Carthia, who was loyal to the family of the ruler, fell under attack.

Marquis Carthia decided to continue the investigation on his own, without the participation of the imperial family. However, he couldn’t find anything on his own. The knights of the Emperor cut all the strings clean. The Marquis faced difficulties from the very beginning.

“You have nothing to worry about. Your brothers and I will take care of you. You can relax.”

Yurina shook her head.

“This is my job too. I can’t just shift everything onto other people’s shoulders and sitting doing nothing.”

Apart from this moment, she was the only one who had a clue.

Yurina took a deep breath and meekly said:

“Marquis De Flon.”

She repeated it again to her father, whose face was now covered with bewilderment.

“Investigate the Marquis of De Flon.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

The Marquis’s voice was calm, though he was embarrassed. Yurina tightly squeezed his hand and closed her eyes.

“When I was little, you once mentioned that you knew Marquis De Flon, didn’t you? I will never forget the face of the Marquis, whom I saw then.”

Before tossing and turning in bed, Yurina thought a lot. Her father and older brothers could only suspect who was behind all this. She asked the fundamental question:

“Why has history been rearranged so much?”

Who would want to encroach on her life, because the plot of the novel has not yet begun?

In the end, only one came to mind.

Marquis De Flon who killed Yurina in the original story.

However, assuming that this is the work of a marquis, the question remains.

In the original story, Yurina was the crown Prince’s former lover, and had all sorts of grudges against him, fought with Lydia for the position of Princess, and eventually fell.

Now everything is different.

Far from being the Prince’s lover, Yurina had never even had a relationship with him. And Lydia De Flon had nothing to do with Curtis. As Yurina knows, Lydia has been living far from the whole secular world since she left the capital seven years ago and moved to the estate of Marquis De Flon.

But the look on his face that Yurina saw in the capital seven years ago…

The hostility of the Marquis towards the Carthia family deepened so much that he couldn’t bear and couldn’t curb his anger even in public.

So, Yurina put forward a certain hypothesis.

‘Maybe Marquis De Flon didn’t kill Yurina because of their rivalry with Lydia.’

Perhaps the two families hated each other so much that they aimed at each other in the neck.