Chapter 505: I Will Let You Go
"I... I did not intend to do that, Your Majesty. I simply had no choice but to punish Ivan. He is a cheater. He cheated during the selection. He should not be your assistant. He doesn’t deserve to be in his position, so I was trying to remove him so Your Majesty would not be troubled," Narcissa changed her story this time.
’You are the one creating trouble for me,’ Arabella internally facepalmed.
[Instead of apologizing for her actions, she’s shamelessly shifting the blame?!] Rowan frowned.
"What do you mean a cheater?" Arabella asked to see what Narcissa would say.
"I believe he cheated during the selection. How else could he have answered and done everything so quickly and perfectly? It was too suspicious."
"No one would be able to do any form of cheating during the selection. His Majesties knights were there to ensure that didn’t happen. His Eminence was also there to watch over everyone to ensure nothing of that sort happened," Arabella reminded.
"I think he must have done something to get to know the tasks for the selection beforehand. Thus, he already memorized and practiced it all before the selection," Narcissa insisted with her conspiracy theories. "I heard he was born poor so how could he have had the resources to study and learn about all those?"
"As you have said, he was indeed from humble beginnings. Thus, he didn’t have the resources or connections to be able to steal questions and tasks for the selection," Arabella pointed out.
"Then he must have worked with someone else. Maybe, he worked with Nadia and Odette. It was also suspicious how they were able to pass the test even though their homelands were going through hardships that they wouldn’t have had the chance to study. Nadia is learned with the sword," she said confidently despite learning about Nadia’s ability with the sword just earlier.