Chapter 21: Final Selection (1)
The head maid, having returned from the monster subjugation mission, could only leave her post after conferring with the senior healers about her supervisory role in the physician’s exam.
She hurried her steps, still concerned about how Asella had collapsed that morning.
“The princess headed to the young master’s room?”
Upon hearing another maid’s report, she changed direction again.
It wasn’t proper for a maid to wander through someone else’s estate without her master, but there was no time to worry about appearances.
When she rejoined Asella’s escort knights, they informed her that the princess had entered Lord Gotberg’s room and hadn’t come out since.
One hour passed, then two.
Even as the sun began to set, her mistress remained inside, and the maid’s anxiety grew.
Lord Gotberg was surrounded by nothing but the worst rumors.
Word had even reached the capital that he neglected his studies, constantly caused drunken brawls, and had been half-exiled to the Gotberg estate.
As the only son of a marquis, he should’ve received countless marriage proposals since childhood, yet Asella was his first match. Anyone could tell something was off.
No head of any house—no matter how politically motivated—would send their daughter to marry a beast who might kill his wife on the first night.