Chapter 81 : Chapter 81
Chapter 81 You Don’t Know?
‘Dwight is deceiving her well.’
The 3rd Queen seemed unaware that I was the one who made Hans a cripple. If she knew, she would have sent people to capture me.
“5th Prince.”
She urged for my answer.
Everyone’s gaze focused on me. So, I put on a very bright smile.
“Yes, I am looking.”
At my answer, the 3rd Queen furrowed her brow deeply. She looked as if she was wondering what on earth she had just heard.
I shot a sparkling gaze at such a 3rd Queen and nodded my head diligently.
“5th Prince? What are you doing right now?”
“You said let’s see, so I am looking.”
The 3rd Queen’s gaze turned ferocious. It was clear that her insides were boiling over.
However, she couldn’t openly say anything. With so many eyes watching, she seemed to be mindful of them.
“……5th Prince. That is not what I meant by let’s see.”
Having managed to control her temper somehow, the 3rd Queen put on a smiling face.
I also put on a smiling face just like her.
Seeing this, the corners of the 3rd Queen’s eyes trembled. Her mouth corners were also riding waves, going up and down.
She’s trying hard to hold it in. Trying hard.
“5th Prince. Surely you aren’t mocking me, are you?”
“Eyy, who am I to mock Your Highness? That makes no sense.”
“Then what is this attitude?”
Her voice was soft. But the atmosphere conveyed to the surroundings was not soft in the slightest. The people looking at her and me must have felt this too, as they wore tense faces.
“An affectionate attitude towards Your Highness?”
I looked at the 3rd Queen with even clearer eyes than before, wearing a broad smile.
A spasm occurred on the 3rd Queen’s face.
“Perhaps you didn’t mean see in this way, but that you wanted to talk secretly? Is it something like that?”
“……5th Prince.”
“Eyy, then you should have said let’s talk instead of let’s see. I injured my head a lot, you know? I still don’t know who made me this way, but…….”
I paused for a moment and examined the 3rd Queen’s expression. Discomfort brushed over her eyes that were filling with killing intent.
‘So she knew.’
That her son tried to kill Maximilian Caesar. She probably thought it was fine if he died, considering him like dust. Yet she comes here asking for a conversation?
‘She must intend to ask how I woke up.’
She must have scraped together information from various sources to save Hans, whose Mana Circle was shattered. Among that, there must have been content regarding me.
“Anyway! There are things I don’t know anymore.”
“……R, really. Then let’s talk separately.”
“Yes, then do so.”
I placed my hands on my waist and nodded as if to say I would listen to anything.
Astonishment filled the faces of everyone around. Since they all knew the weight of the 3rd Queen well, this reaction was natural.
The 3rd Queen glared and bit her lip. She bit it so hard that the colour was draining from it. It seemed her patience for minding the surrounding gazes had reached its limit.
“Ah! Are we doing it elsewhere? Then how should I do this, do I ride behind Your Highness on the horse? Or where to? Do I walk and follow? Don’t horses go fast? can a person chase a horse?”
The 3rd Queen’s jaw muscles bulged significantly. She jumped down from her horse.
“Let’s go.”
The 3rd Queen walked ahead without even checking if I was following. She didn’t even seem to wonder where she should go. She walked confidently as if roaming around her own home.
Surrounded by her escort knights, I walked chasing after the 3rd Queen.
‘Even if you ask for a hundred days, you won’t gain anything.’
Because I have no intention of telling the 3rd Queen anything she wants to know.
***
Dwight was reading documents.
“Unlike before, we start with 64 people.”
Gabriel, who brought the documents, began to explain the contents.
Dwight nodded and put down the documents.
“It is scheduled to proceed simultaneously in four stadiums. Once 8 people are culled, it will be held only in the central stadium.”
“How many days will it take?”
“A total of 5 days.”
“Just right. I’m meeting that bastard Maxim in the finals, right?”
“We placed him on the exact opposite side, so yes, but I wonder if you aren’t paying him more attention than necessary.”
At Gabriel’s words, Dwight let out a snort and shook his head.
“Do you think I’m paying needless attention?”
Dwight’s eyes were savage.
“That is not the case.”
Gabriel put on a smile.
At that, Dwight abruptly grabbed his face!
“Don’t try to fathom my will with your clumsy brain. Just do the work you’re told to do properly. Don’t act like a cripple and ruin it.”
“U, understood.”
Dwight pushed Gabriel’s face away.
“Prepare the drug without fail too.”
Gabriel, who had fallen backward, answered, ‘Yes, I will do so without forgetting,’ and raised his body.
Knock, knock, knock.
Someone knocked on the door amidst the heavily darkened atmosphere.
“What?”
At Dwight’s word, the door opened. And a man consumed by fear stood there.
“What is it, acting like that?”
“The 3rd Queen has dragged Ma, Maxim away, they say.”
At the man’s words, Dwight’s eyes grew more than twice as large.
“What happened?”
He asked, looking at Gabriel.
“I was here.”
“…….”
Dwight’s face distorted viciously. As Gabriel said, he had come straight to this room after finishing the work ordered of him. There was nothing to gain by informing the 3rd Queen about Hans and Maxim’s matter.
“How did she drag him away?”
Before going to where the 3rd Queen was, he thought he needed to know the situation in detail.
“I don’t know well. She suddenly came and…….”
“Suddenly came? You mean Mother is already here?”
“Yes, she arrived just a little while ago.”
“Lead the way.”
At Dwight’s words, the man looked at Gabriel with eyes that needed interpretation. However, Gabriel only showed a strange smile.
“Did you stuff your earholes? I said lead the way to where Mother is!”
“Ah! Yes, yes.”
The man ran out urgently.
Dwight let out a long, hot sigh and followed him.
And Gabriel let out a snort that felt contemptuous as he looked around the room. Very leisurely at that.
***
“You don’t know?”
Anger filled the 3rd Queen’s eyes. It was an intensity that felt like she would twist my neck if I didn’t say I knew. But what to do? Even if someone else came, I had absolutely no intention of telling the truth.
“Does it make sense that you know absolutely nothing about how you woke up or how you healed your Mana Circle?”
“Yes.”
The 3rd Queen’s face went beyond turning red and looked like it would explode. The knights who came with her seemed to read the unusual atmosphere and didn’t know what to do.
“H, how can you not know? How?”
“Because I simply opened my eyes. I suddenly woke up one day and the sunshine was warm, the birdsong was beautiful, and the air was fresh. Does Your Highness desire that feeling as well?”
The sound of the 3rd Queen grinding her teeth grit, grit pierced my ears.
“Fine. I understand. Since the 5th Prince doesn’t know, I have no choice but to call others. I suppose I can call Count Dorléans or the servant who was with you, those children, and ask them.”
A kind voice and eyes that were not; anyone could see it was a threat.
“Do so. Though they will say they don’t know anyway.”
“Will they really?”
“If forced to speak, they might say something. But would words heard that way be helpful?
They are people who asked me what happened when I woke up?”
“…….”
The 3rd Queen closed her eyes. It seemed to be severely painful as her faint hope collapsed powerlessly.
It’s funny. Erasing what her son did lightly, while shouting at the victim who suffered to hand over the cure. Even if she begged for help, it would be a question of whether to give it or not, yet here she is making threats.
Bang!
“Mother!”
The door opened and Dwight entered.
“3rd Prince. How are you here?”
“I heard the news that you came to the school early.”
Dwight’s gaze brushed past me as he approached the 3rd Queen.
‘He ran over afraid his plan would be ruined.’
The blood seems thick. Seeing how both mother and son do whatever it takes for their own benefit.
“What were you talking about?”
“I heard the 5th Prince was very sick and then got up. So I am asking how that was possible.”
Dwight turned his head to look at me.
“Would that guy answer properly? His memory isn’t even intact.”
“It seems so. That is why I decided to ask others.”
“Mother.”
Dwight knelt before the 3rd Queen. He looked up at her with desperate eyes.
“Do not overexert yourself. I am looking into everything.”
“The 3rd Prince is? Preparing for the martial arts tournament must be tight enough, yet you are doing that. Do not do so. This mother will do it all.”
“Mother. Even if you investigate the 5th Prince or search his surroundings, nothing will come up. I have already done it all. There was nothing useful. I only obtained that he doesn’t know.”
The 3rd Queen held Dwight’s hand tightly with both hands. Then she buried her face in his chest and began to shed tears.
“What do I do about Hans? What must I do to wake my child?”
Dwight patted the 3rd Queen’s back and looked at me. His eyes were sharp. It felt like it contained the will to make me pay the price for making his mother cry soon.
Then I have something to say too.
“If the story is over, may I go?”
The 3rd Queen looked at me with a face that had become a mess. It was an expression saying, ‘What kind of thing is that?’
Dwight also looked at me with a feeling of absurdity.
Even the knights who had turned their backs to avoid seeing the 3rd Queen weeping were glancing at me with eyes saying, ‘What on earth is that?’
So, I decided to say one more word.
“No, since it looks like you have nothing to do. Can I not?”
No more wasting time.
Watching the tearful mother-son reunion continuously is also torture. To them, it might be genuinely sad, but to me, it’s no different from crocodile tears.
“Yo, yo, you…….”
The 3rd Queen pointed her finger at me and tried to say something.
Dwight stopped her. He comforted her saying, ‘You must not lose your elegance, Mother.’
“I endure because of the 3rd Prince. So please win this martial arts tournament. The 3rd Prince is all I have left.”
“Understood. I will certainly do so. So please do not hurt too much and rest. I will take care of everything.”
The 3rd Queen wiped her flowing tears and answered, ‘Alright. I trust only the 3rd Prince.’
Dwight approached me.
“Let’s go.”
The cold voice sounded good.
Bang!
When we left the place where the 3rd Queen was and entered the hallway, Dwight’s hand grabbed my neck.
“Just because you have a mouth, you spout whatever you want?”
“This is a funny guy, isn’t he?”
“What?”
I pushed Dwight’s hand away with force.
“Mother, Mother, while acting like you care, acting like you cherish her. Yet hiding the truth.”
“……I let you live, yet you don’t know gratitude!”
“Ewh, I’m so grateful, what to do? Shall I wash my neck and offer it?”
Dwight glared and cursed, ‘Crazy bastard.’
“You knew I was a crazy bastard? But why do you pretend not to be? A bastard worse than me.”
“Do you want to die?”
I sighed and looked straight into the guy’s eyes.
“There isn’t a single guy who stayed intact after saying that to me, what to do? Shall I give you some time to withdraw it?”
“Your arrogance pierces the sky.”
The guy sprayed killing intent unsparingly as if he wanted to kill me right now.
So I approached Dwight closely. Smirking so the guy would feel offended.
“Why? Should I pierce somewhere else? Is there a place you want?”
“Ha!”
“Don’t fall for me, though. Sodomy is a bit much, but if you want, I’ll consider it.”
Bewilderment dwelt in Dwight’s eyes.
I naturally placed my hand on Dwight’s chest.
“How dare you!”
The guy freaked out and swatted my hand away.
“Wasn’t it because you got tired of women?”
“Shut up! I won’t leave you be. Definitely.”
The guy, having vomited out anger to the fullest, walked away. It seems he understood that continuing to exchange words would only make him angry.
“It’s become thick.”
It was only for a very brief moment, but the mana I pushed into Dwight’s chest told me. The third circle, which had been thin, had taken its shape perfectly.
It’s excessively fast growth. After having a big fight in the bathhouse, he must have found and consumed an elixir.
“I need to do something too.”
Since he says he won’t leave me be, I can’t stay still either.
Because I have to make the martial arts tournament interesting.