Chapter 343: Train Track (1)
... Empress Sophien closed her eyes, recalling the scene where Rohakan, the Black Beast, had brought her.
“Was it truly you who killed the Empress?”
At some point, during a conversation held in a white vineyard, Deculein—informed by a timeline granted by Rohakan's power to Empress Sophien—inquired about the Empress's assassination, and Rohakan answered.
“If not me, then who else?”
It was a confession of Rohakan's own doing, yet Deculein, looking at him, didn’t seem to believe it at all.
“... I see.”
Rohakan smiled. By that, Sophien realized something and clenched both her fists, knowing without words that the true culprit who had assassinated the former Empress was not Rohakan. In fact, even Sophien had already suspected as much.
“Deculein, you surely trust Sophien, don’t you?”
Suddenly, Rohakan asked Deculein while Sophien watched Deculein's face.
“Yes, of course.”
There was no hesitation in Deculein's answer, and at that, Rohakan nodded with apparent satisfaction.
“Even if I were to tell you that Sophien will one day kill you... you would still remain by her side.”