Chapter 198: Purple Tulip (5)
I blankly blinked.
“Please sit down.”
I had Vice Captain Élisabeth, who looked cold, first enter the room and sit at the couch in front of the furnace. Ganael warily watched before brewing a new pot of spiced flower tea. He then served a cup of cocoa to his fiancee before quickly leaving the area. He must have recognized the serious mood. I quickly whispered once the two of us were left alone.
‘What do you mean by that? What do you mean that the old fortune teller does not exist?”
The Vice Captain’s grey eyes looked perplexed. It looked as if she was having trouble figuring out where to start with the explanation.
I had made a request to the Imperial Crown Prince a while ago. It was during the Madame Victoire incident but had nothing to do with that thief. Last summer, there was an old lady who left an ominous fortune for the crown prince.
“It looks like our esteemed sir will lose a connection once again. How pitiful……”
I had suddenly become curious about her well-being. It was because I heard about how Modeste Bacary lost his memories after foretelling something that did not happen in the original. Seeing the old ladies selling goods in the alley made me think of that fortune teller.
‘I also want to see how she is doing.’