Volume 6 - CH 21

“Madam! Madam!”

Camilla, who was preparing to greet her guest from afar, was taken aback by the news which struck her like a bolt.

“Marquis Whiterot and his SS who were coming to propose for a marriage…… the-they’re all dead.”

Hearing the soldiers whispering in the morning, the butler became depressed.

Cedric was about to lead the soldiers to check after receiving a report from a local resident who discovered their corpse near the border.

“What? You’ve got to be kidding me, right?”

“Madam, this is not a joke.”

The butler shook his head in a tearful manner.

Camilla was shocked because she knew he would only react like that when he was serious.

“Unbelievable.”

Just about the time she was looking around the fancy dinner hall.

She prepared a lot of alcohol and meat to retrieve the fatigue for guests from the north……

Camilla sank into the chair and nearly fell over.

“Who…no, how come?”

“I’m still not sure. Lord Crawford has gone to investigate the situation.”

The butler lowered his voice to avoid drawing the attention of other servants.

“According to the testimony of the local resident who discovered it first, headless bodies scattered all over the place. And all of them were naked.”

Those were terrible news for the majestic northern ruler.

“There was no carriage found, let alone a horse.”

“……”

The naked corpses with decapitated heads……

Hearing the situation, it seemed to be the work of savage barbarians.

Shannon’s marriage, as well as the ten-day banquet she had planned, were all in vain.

Camilla had a headache and closed her eyes tightly.

If this tragedy become known in public, Shannon’s marriage would be forever gone.

Who would want to marry Shannon if the man who was going to propose to her died in such a tragic way?

“…… what about Cedric? Did you hear what he had planned?”

“I didn’t Madam.”

“There’s no way Cedric would tell the Marquis Whiterot family the real situation, right? As he is such an upright man. Unless he wants to start a war.”

How will this information be conveyed to the North?

Camilla exhaled a long sigh.

‘I need defense funds from my father……’

Cedric has repeatedly warned her.

That she should write to Duke Maple and ask him to pay for the defense funds so that the territory can be kept safe from barbarians.

Camilla, who was afraid to ask her father for money without repercussions, couldn’t bring it up.

The outcome came back like this.

Even if the guard had been reinforced, it was like repairing the barn after losing the cow.

“…Stop! Stop! All of you, stop!”

Camilla, who was nervous, yelled at the servants who were busy preparing for the banquet.

“I don’t want to see it, so clean it up quickly!”

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Cedric returned after collecting the dead body of the Marquis.

I, Shannon, and Camilla stayed up late waiting for him.

Shannon, who had no idea what was going on, appeared nervous.

“I feel embarrassed. I never expected something like this to happen.”

Cedric, who appeared to be exhausted, opened his mouth in a disastrous tone.

“Since such a disaster occurred on our territory……”

“What do you mean, on our territory? It happened in the border, Cedric.”

To be exact, it happened on the border between Count Crawford’s territory and Marquis Whiterot’s.

“That sort of thing happens all the time on the frontier.”

In half a day, Camilla seemed to have already sorted all of this out in her mind.

I was taken aback by her calm demeanor.

She must have had a huge psychological shock.

‘No. She does seem agitated.’

Looking closely, Camilla’s knees were shaking.

Camilla, who under no circumstances lost her noble grandeur, was shaking her knees.

Camilla would never do something like that, even when we were alone.

“It was his arrogance that caused him to bring so few escorts in the first place.”

Cedric squinted.

“We have confirmed that the number of knights he brought with him was thirty. Thirty people are never a small number.”

Furthermore, they were a member of the Black Bear Knights, a group of outstanding knights, each of whom was worth a hundred.

Cedric’s words were not wrong.

Camilla, who was wrapping her head in her hands, inquired nonchalantly.

“……what about the money?”

“Money?”