Chapter 43
Returning to the Archduchy, Michelle went to see the Archduke first. "Father, what if I got a bit carried away and poisoned the Hillberg siblings?" she asked after she sat down in the office.
When her question fell, the Archduke frowned a bit. "What poison did you use?" he asked after a while. "Can it be cured?" he added worriedly.
Michelle shook her head. "I used a poison I made by myself, so no one other than me can cure it," she smiled lazily.
"Can you be sure of that?" the Archduke was still skeptical. "You don't know how competent the doctors in the middle realm are..."
But Michelle wasn't the least bit worried. "Don't worry, father! I used knowledge from my old world to make the poison, and I've already checked with Alexander Terce that even he had never heard of these techniques and principles before," she said with a lazy smile.
Hearing that, the Archduke was a bit relieved. "That's good then, but you shouldn't have done that. What if their father comes down here to take revenge on you? I won't be able to help you by then..."
"Oh- I've already taken care of that!" Michelle leaned back in her seat. "Thomas Hillberg did come down here, so I forced him to stab himself with mother's knife." She reached into her sleeve, took out the small knife from beaten bones and put it on the Archduke's desk. "I put it to good use."
The Archduke raised a brow as he stared at the small knife. He knew what it was used for, but he couldn't figure out how Michelle achieved that Thomas stabbed himself with it. After a while of silence, he spoke again: "What did you do exactly?"
"Nothing too hard..." Michelle shrugged. "First, I broke the Hillberg sibling's minds by scaring them, so they would tell me the full content of the prophecy. Then, I froze their legs and finally had Ivona Beltrez stab them with the knife. I killed all their servants, leaving only one alive to go tell Thomas that if he wanted to see his children alive, that he should personally come meet me. I used the identity of Michael Grayson. Before he came, I knocked his children out, poisoned them and hid them in an inn." Michelle spoke lazily.