Chapter 176

Insects, Lumberjacks, and Pirates [Part 2]

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“T-They ended up in prison j-just because they threw insects?” Emma looked at the Prince as she said that in a panicked, quivering voice.

“Emma, you don’t have to push yourself like that. You don’t need to pass it off as ‘just throwing insects’. I’m sure that the horror Emma experienced at that time was not an insignificant one. Emma is the biggest victim, even among all the young ladies harmed. I was so, so worried about Emma that I just couldn’t help myself.”)

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‘I-I-I-I-I’m not pushing myself, you know, Your Highness?!!!

I-I was just shaking from joy at that time, though?!?!?!

Eh? Robert-sama... and Bryan-sama... EHH?

Y-You’ll be put into prison just because you threw an insect at a girl?

” “C-Cure...?” “

The brother and sister said at the same time.

The Royal Family kept those insects, not for appreciation or collection purposes, but as a cure.

If they’re related to the life and death of people... then I have no choice but to return them. Haa, even though I finally trained them to do the eight battle formations... Emma thought reluctantly.

“It is the only cure for the disease that was also the cause of death of the Great Magician, Connie Moo. It is a terrible disease that causes subcutaneous bleeding all over the body, old wounds to open, and teeth to rot before dying from madness.”

“Connie Moo... You mean the one in that biography...?”

He was the character in the biography book that Lady Marina brought to House Stuart’s first tea party. He was a famous person who no one in the Kingdom did not know...

“Yes. The biography only described Connie Moo’s life until his return from his adventure to the East. But in reality, he contracted that disease in the middle of his journey. The Royal Family attended his deathbed. It was said that his end was so tragic that the King at that time trembled when he saw it.”

“A-And the cure for that disease is those insects?”

The King had warned the Prince to not say a word about the loss of the insects, the current only known cure for that disease, to others, so as to not cause fear and panic among the citizens, to which the Prince replied with a nod.

“Although that disease was perceived as non-contagious, it was written in the diplomatic records that the exact same symptoms appeared amongst the Imperial people when a large-scale famine broke out in the Empire a few years after Connie’s death. The disease had also made a reappearance during a plant hazard several years after. It always affects many people at the same time. The Royal Family finally concluded that it was only due to luck that Connie’s illness did not spread.”