Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 167

Baby Runs the Romance Novel with Cash – Episode 167 (167/353)

☆ Chapter 167 ☆

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A while ago.

The day after Ruatisha became a member of Metis and attended the club for the first time.

Aizel Young Lady, having left the Imperial Palace, received a secret summons from Ruatisha.

“Lady Chavonne is Mrs. Sarah.”

“Pardon?”

“I met her at Metis.”

Aizel Young Lady was slightly surprised by the abrupt statement, but she soon calmed herself and began to listen attentively.

“It was exactly like the ear features you told me about. Actually, I was more certain because of the brooch than that.”

“Brooch?”

“The brooch shape was different, but the jewel was the same. It was so unique that I remembered it.”

Aizel Young Lady also remembered the brooch.

Mrs. Sarah always wore the same brooch.

The clothes and veiled hat changed every time, which she found strange.

So she paid attention to the brooch herself, but the important thing was the jewel set in the brooch.

Well, unless you specifically ask for it, you wouldn’t usually wear brooches with the same design.

“Listen carefully. I’m going to get very close to Lady Chavonne from now on.”

“Is that keeping your enemies closer than your friends?”

“Well, it’s similar but different. Lady Chavonne hates me very much, so that strategy is impossible.”

“Then?”

“It just needs to look like we’re close on the surface. If I approach Lady Chavonne for no reason, she’ll be wary. But I happen to have a good excuse.”

Ruatisha frowned as if she was unpleasant just thinking about it, and puffed out her cheeks.

“Lady Chavonne is treating me like the most rude person in the world because I looked at the brooch on her chest.”

“Ugh, over something a child saw?”

“I guess I was already an eyesore, so she’s taking the opportunity. Anyway, I’m going to follow Lady Chavonne around, pretending I want to apologize.”

“Even if we don’t know the inside story, it will look like you two are always together on the outside.”

“The members of Metis don’t talk about what happens inside the club outside. It’s perfect.”

Ruatisha grinned.

Then, she rested her elbows on the table and said with a slightly mischievous face.

“Before you sent the Young Lady out last time, Mrs. Sarah put a potion bottle on the table, right?”

“Yes, is it poison again?”

“Well, I don’t know, but does it matter?”

“Does it not matter? Isn’t the identity of that potion the most important thing?”

“……!”

“Whether it’s poison or not, it still has to be put in something to eat.”

“And its effects probably won’t be good for us.”

That was true.

“It would be nice to know the details of the Empress and Mrs. Sarah’s schemes, but it’s possible to interfere just by looking at the overall flow.”

“…….”

“It’s easier to interfere than to make the original plan succeed.”

Tap.

Ruatisha took out a small block from the ornament on the table.

Whirr一.

The work of art, which had been showing off its balance due to tension and attraction, collapsed in an instant.

“Even if just one thing goes wrong, the whole thing collapses like this.”

Aizel Young Lady stared silently at Ruatisha, who was wearing a faint smile, for a long time.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

She shook her head, feeling her ears getting hot.

*I want to be like her.*

“This time, the target is Prince Sidrian.”

“Prince Sidrian is definitely the biggest eyesore to the Empress right now, but can you be so sure?”

Normally, she would have just nodded and not asked again.

But she wanted to ask.

*I want to see Ruatisha’s thoughts a little more.*

“I’m sure, but I’m sorry. I can’t tell you why. I have to talk about someone else’s past.”

“I understand.”

Seeing the sullen Aizel Young Lady, Ruatisha took her hand.

“You’re the only one the Empress will order to put in that potion.”

“Only me?”

“She was badly betrayed last time, so she wouldn’t trust anyone she planted outside, even if she had one.”

“…….”

“She can entrust transportation or miscellaneous tasks to other people, but she will definitely entrust the act of putting in the medicine, which is the Empress’s definite weakness and evidence of the crime, to the Young Lady.”

Thump, thump.

Aizel Young Lady felt her heart beating.

“We don’t know when, where, or how that medicine will be used, but we don’t care.”

Ruatisha’s words, her actions一.

“It’s very simple. The Young Lady just has to not put in the medicine.”

She was saying that the most important key to this plan was herself, not anyone else.

“…….”

*Has she ever been so useful to someone?*

*Even if it’s not such a huge event, even if it’s a very small thing一.*

*Has she ever been an important role that was indispensable?*

Thump, thump, thump!

The sound of her heart grew even louder.

“And there’s someone to pin it on, just in time.”

Ruatisha smiled brightly.

“Mrs. Sarah, I mean.”

Ah.

Aizel Young Lady felt a slight thrill.

*So that’s why she emphasized her trust with the Empress so much.*

She thought it just meant to be careful not to get caught because she was a spy.

But Ruatisha’s thoughts were beyond that.

Because she had the Empress’s full trust, she could steal the potion and turn Mrs. Sarah against her.

*When she said to prioritize gaining trust over extracting information, this hadn’t even happened yet.*

It was a conclusion drawn by combining quests, existing information, and so on.

But in Aizel Young Lady’s eyes, the insight and wisdom of the young Ruatisha were simply amazing and wonderful.

* * *

Everything after that went according to Ruatisha’s words.

The Empress, who deeply trusted Aizel Young Lady, ordered her to put in the potion.

Thanks to this, Aizel Young Lady was able to steal the potion very easily.

In the first place, there was nothing wrong with the juice.

“Lady Chavonne is Mrs. Sarah?”

Aizel Young Lady swallowed hard at the Empress’s question.

*This is the real thing from now on. I have to do well.*

“Yes, when she came last time, I saw her adjusting her hat as she left.”

“……You saw her adjusting her hat?”

The Empress asked with a somewhat suspicious face.

Mrs. Sarah was a very cautious woman.

She had known her for over ten years, but she had never revealed her face by mistake.

*But she adjusted her hat and happened to have her face caught by Aizel Young Lady?*

A sharp suspicion settled in the Empress’s eyes.

Aizel Young Lady felt her mouth dry.

Cold sweat flowed down her back, soaking it.

“Aizel Young Lady, why do you think I chose the Young Lady as my person among the Empress’s many maids?”

“Yes? Well……. Because I seemed easy to win over?”

“Hmm?”

“Why, when I saw the Princess in the Empress’s palace……. I was a bit.”

“Ah, only the Young Lady was fooled by my teasing, and then she said I was a scary child.”

“Ugh, but……. She was cute.”

“That’s wrong.”

“Yes?”

“I bet on the Young Lady’s potential. The Young Lady seemed to have the most potential to me.”

“……Potential?”

“The most likely to work hard and be easy to use…… Cough, cough! The potential to become great.”

It was the first time.

Her father had mobilized all his connections to get her a position as a maid of the Empress, but that was it.

Her father didn’t expect her to become the Empress’s real confidante either.

The Empress herself had said it, hadn’t she?

That she was clumsy and foolish and didn’t trust her much.

Finding a good marriage prospect using her career as the Empress’s maid.

She thought that was the best future.

Her father, her mother, and even Aizel Young Lady herself.

*But now I’m deceiving the Empress to steal the medicine and trying to turn her against Mrs. Sarah.*

She had done something huge.

She wouldn’t have thought she could do something like this just a few months ago.

“Aizel Young Lady?”

Thump, thump.

Her chest throbbed with excitement.

Actually, she still didn’t know if she was doing a good job.

Isn’t that a story for smart people?

If it weren’t for Ruatisha’s instructions一.

“Believe me. In the end, it was the Young Lady who won the Empress’s favor, and it was also the Young Lady who recognized that the portrait I showed and Mrs. Sarah were the same person.”

Squeeze.

Aizel Young Lady clenched her fist.

The Empress’s eyes were sharp like a honed blade.

It felt like she would be cut right away if she showed even a little gap.

“It may be my mistake. I just slightly twisted the brim of my hat. I only saw it for a moment, so my judgment may be wrong.”

A calm and composed voice came out that surprised herself.

The view looking at the Empress was also clear and bright.

“That’s why I didn’t try to tell you from the beginning.”

It’s strange.

In the past, she used to tremble and make mistakes whenever the Empress acted violently.

The Empress was lost in thought for a moment and then opened her mouth.

“No. Keep talking for now.”

“If it’s really Lady Chavonne, I thought it was strange.”

“It would have been strange. What in particular did you think so?”

“Isn’t it much more beneficial to see Your Majesty in her original status than to meet His Majesty as a woman whose identity is unknown, Mrs. Sarah?”

“That’s right.”

If she had joined hands with Lady Chavonne, she would have pushed her and her family hard.

She could do much more for Lady Chavonne than for a woman whose foundation and identity were unknown, Mrs. Sarah.

Although not now, until a year ago, the Empress was the mother of the only prince.

“I became suspicious and attached people around Lady Chavonne. I requested it from the information guild [an organization that gathers and sells information].”

“What?”

“I was going to report to Your Majesty when it became certain.”

“Ha! I didn’t know the Young Lady had such a bold side!”

The Empress laughed loudly.

“I didn’t know either.”

Attaching people was a blatant lie, but this was sincere.

She really didn’t know she had such a bold side.

“So? What’s the result?”

“I couldn’t find clear evidence that she was Mrs. Sarah because she was a flawless person. Nothing came out.”

“Hmm…….”

It was a disappointing statement, but the Empress’s thoughts were a little different.

Rather, she trusted Aizel Young Lady’s words more.

Because she knew how careful Mrs. Sarah was.

“Instead, I found out who Lady Chavonne has been close to recently.”

“Who is it?”

Swish.

Aizel Young Lady took out a few *croquis* [quick, informal sketches] from her arms.

The Empress quickly accepted them.

“These are the pictures drawn by the information guild for my request report.”

“This is…….”

The Empress’s eyes trembled as she checked the picture.

“Princess Paeraton and Young Master Kaishen……?”

It was a quickly drawn picture, but it was certain.

The child with curly hair and chubby cheeks was Princess Paeraton.

The handsome face, even with just a few lines, was clearly Young Master Kaishen.

“……Come to think of it, all three of them are members of Metis.”

A low voice leaked from the Empress’s lips.

The image of Young Master Kaishen she saw at the party a little while ago came to mind.

*He certainly had an attitude that he knew there was something in the drink.*

Although she mistakenly thought he was aiming for Princess Paeraton.

There are only a few people who know about tampering with drinks.

Herself and Aizel Young Lady, and

*Mrs. Sarah.*

The Empress’s eyes shone sharply.

Aizel Young Lady only found out right before the party started today.

After putting the potion in the drink, she had been attending to her throughout the party, so she had no time to have a secret conversation with Young Master Kaishen separately.

Then一.

*There’s only Mrs. Sarah!*

Did she leak the information that something was in the drink and that Princess Paeraton could be in danger?

Using the insane Sidrian to endanger Princess Paeraton was also part of the plan.

The Empress’s eyes wavered.

Saying it to one person means she can say it to another person.

“No way!”

Thump!

The Empress jumped up from her seat and shouted.

“Mrs. Sarah was the one who suggested this!”

“Have you forgotten?”

Aizel Young Lady’s calm voice reached her ears.

“After the dawn festival, Your Majesty continued to send letters to Mrs. Sarah, but she never replied even once.”

“……!”

“Then suddenly she came with this plan.”

“She used me, this one, as a pawn?”

“If Empress Your Majesty gives a hint to the other party that she has a plan to harm Prince Sidrian.”

“…….”

“And if that evidence comes out.”

Aizel Young Lady’s tongue moved slyly.

“Mrs. Sarah will be able to gain the other party’s definite trust.”

Crackle!

The *croquis* crackled harshly in the Empress’s grip.

Veins stood out clearly on the back of her hand.

“The other party would have checked if Mrs. Sarah’s words were correct.”

“…….”

“Everyone knows that I only follow Empress Your Majesty’s orders, right? That would have been enough evidence.”

Wobble.

The Empress, unable to overcome the sudden rise in blood pressure, staggered, feeling a dizzying sensation.

*When I received the report that the potion had been put in and I was happy that things were going well according to plan一.*

Mrs. Sarah would have been laughing at her while participating in the party as Lady Chavonne.

Not even knowing that she was being used to connect with others, she was so excited一!

Gritting!

*How dare she not only betray me but also use me?!*

A red flame flowed from the Empress’s eyes.

“Muriel Chavonne, you wench!”