Chapter 260: The Royal Conference (5)
Second Prince Rakan felt his jaw ache just from thinking about Keter. It was the spot where he had been struck by Riri, his strict swordsmanship instructor and warm lover. After hitting him, Riri had left the royal palace.
Afterward, Rakan learned that she had gone to Liqueur. However, he could neither follow her nor hold her back. He knew well that the Kadia she searched for her entire life was in Liqueur, and that once she entered Liqueur, she would never be able to come out again. Even though Rakan knew everything, he had no choice but to pretend he didn’t.
“I was trying to find a way out of Liqueur. I was planning to tell you the moment I found it!”
Rakan tried to reasonably persuade Riri, but he failed, and he was knocked unconscious for two full days by her rage-filled fist. When he regained his consciousness, not only had Riri, his seven-star swordsmanship instructor and precious lover, disappeared, but the royal palace was also in chaos due to the king consort who escaped and a dark wizard’s infiltration.
While dealing with the chaos of the palace and suffering the pain of heartbreak, Rakan thought of one person.
“Keter...!”
Riri discovered Kadia’s location as soon as she met Keter. Rakan hadn’t heard their direct conversation, but it could only be that Keter had told her. He had no idea how Keter knew the whereabouts of Kadia, a high elf, but Rakan’s lie had been exposed and he had lost Riri because of that. In truth, it was Rakan’s fault for deceiving her, but he didn’t think that way.
“I was going to tell her when the time was right, but this troublemaker ruined my plan...”
In truth, it was Rakan’s fault for deceiving her, but he didn’t think that way, and his anger turned directly toward Keter’s family, Sefira.
Shaking his head to clear his thoughts and return to reality, Rakan cornered the deputy patriarch of the Sefira family, Hissop.
“Deputy Patriarch Hissop, I would like to ask you about that man named Keter. Who is he?”
The other family heads also listened carefully as rumors had spread that Keter was a secret weapon raised for a long time by Sefira.