Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 298

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“What did you say?”

Marquis Micheloain shot up at the news of the Emperor’s awakening.

‘The Emperor has awakened!’

Ruatisha clenched her fist tightly as well.

‘Thank goodness…….’

With the Emperor awake, Esteban wouldn’t be able to run rampant as he is now.

More than anything.

‘The real reason why someone who was so healthy suddenly collapsed and couldn’t get up will also be revealed.’

However, the butler’s following words were completely different from Ruatisha’s expectations.

“Princess Shuriel saved His Majesty!”

What?

Ruatisha unknowingly asked back.

“Princess Shuriel?”

“Yes, Miss.”

At the confirmation, Ruatisha’s face hardened severely.

* * *

The news that the Emperor had awakened, all thanks to Torensia’s Princess Shuriel, spread quickly.

As if it was intentionally spread.

The rumors ended with praise for Shuriel.

I applied for an audience several times, but was rejected.

Count Cheshia whispered to me with a troubled face.

“It’s not a situation I can do anything about. Something… is strange. I can’t even have a private audience with His Majesty.”

‘Even the Minister of the Imperial Household, who is the Emperor’s closest aide?’

It was too strange.

I went to the Emperor’s palace without notice.

The Imperial Knights stood in my way.

‘……What is this? Why are there so many knights?’

It was strange, even if the Emperor was ill.

The Knight Commander bowed politely to me.

“Miss, I understand that His Majesty has not permitted an audience.”

“One of the privileges His Majesty has given me is the right to see him whenever I want.”

“But this is not a normal situation. I have been ordered not to let anyone in.”

“Did the Viscount hear that order directly from His Majesty?”

“That’s…….”

I knew it.

“I am here not as Paeraton’s daughter, but as a Saintess.”

As soon as I finished speaking, the priests who were standing behind me stepped forward.

“The hand of God reaches the lowest and the highest. Are you blocking Her Excellency’s steps to give blessings to the sick now?”

“This is blocking the steps of God!”

The Knight Commander hesitated for a moment and then cleared the way for me.

“Only for a short while.”

I nodded and passed him.

The Knight Commander’s profile looked very uneasy as I passed.

‘……Count Cheshia and the Knight Commander too. It seems like there is a force shaking the Imperial Palace in its grasp.’

I could guess who that force was.

The Emperor was lying on a huge bed. He looked no different from when he was unconscious.

“Your Majesty.”

At the cautious call, the Emperor’s closed eyes opened.

The Emperor’s eyes trembled as he took me in.

“Ru…… Ugh, ah…….”

“Your Majesty?”

The Emperor’s hand twitched. I was startled and grabbed his hand.

“Ugh, hic…….”

The Emperor couldn’t even speak properly. It was as if his whole body was stiff.

The hand I was holding was as hard and rough as a dry piece of wood.

Even though he had regained consciousness, his condition seemed worse than when he was unconscious.

‘The energy of evil…… I still can’t feel it.’

It’s not poison, nor is it a trick using evil energy.

Then, are Clartier and Liliel not involved in this at all?

As I was pondering, I felt a gaze.

The Emperor was still looking at me.

Eyes that would never close, wide open as if they would tear.

So many words contained within.

The judgment was quick.

“Your Majesty, I’m going to ask you some questions. Blink once if it’s correct, twice if it’s wrong.”

Blink…….

Slow, but definitely blinked once, as if it didn’t move well.

“Did you have any underlying illnesses? I’m asking if you suddenly collapsed because of an illness.”

Originally, the Emperor’s health condition is confidential.

Blink, blink…….

The Emperor’s answer is ‘no’.

Then一.

“Is Shuriel the one who made you like this?”

It was the moment the Emperor closed his eyes.

“What are you doing, Miss?”

A sharp voice was heard.

I didn’t turn around. I didn’t take my eyes off the Emperor’s face.

Slowly, the Emperor opened his eyes.

Once.

‘He blinked once.’

I don’t know what trick she used, but Clartier is the culprit.

“Your Majesty needs absolute stability, Miss. Coming in here recklessly like this一.”

“I was just offering prayers for His Majesty’s well-being as a Saintess.”

I got up from the Emperor’s side and turned to look at Clartier.

“If His Majesty’s condition worsens, wouldn’t Her Excellency hear unnecessary things?”

“What do you mean?”

“Don’t misunderstand. Of course, I would never think that way一.”

Clartier chuckled and looked at me.

“Other people might think that way, right?”

“Really? What I’ve heard is a little different.”

You think I’ll fall for this provocation?

I calmly countered and approached Clartier.

“I heard that the Princess is monitoring His Majesty so that he can’t meet with other people.”

“Monitoring! I treated Emperor一.”

“Oh my. Rumors always circulate. Why are you so angry? Perhaps…… do you have something to feel guilty about?”

Clartier’s pupils trembled as she looked at me.

A gaze that couldn’t stand the anger.

How consistent she is, whether it was when she was young or now.

I smiled brightly and passed Clartier.

I opened the door halfway and stopped without going out.

Outside the door, the priests and Imperial Knights were still facing each other.

I said in a loud voice so that they could all hear.

“Ah, His Majesty’s condition is the same as when I first came in. As the Princess can see now. So, if anything happens to His Majesty after I leave, it’s the Princess’s fault for being alone with him, right?”

So don’t play any tricks.

I didn’t listen to Clartier’s answer and left the chamber as it was.

* * *

Crash一!

A national treasure, a vase, shattered in Shuriel’s hands.

“Ruatisha……!”

Whether it was when she was young or now, seeing that pretentious face made her stomach churn.

Even in this situation, she has such a relaxed face!

She ruined her happy life completely!

‘A perpetrator so brazen……! You shouldn’t be happy!’

Shuriel gritted her teeth.

‘I must see that bitch’s face distorted with despair.’

At that time, the door to the chamber opened and a servant and several nobles entered.

They didn’t say anything even after seeing the Emperor’s chamber in a mess.

They just bowed politely to Shuriel.

Shuriel took the medicine from the servant.

“Your Majesty.”

She approached the Emperor with a deep smile.

“Now, it’s time to take your medicine.”

The Emperor didn’t react at all.

No, he was resisting with all his might, but his stiff body wouldn’t move properly.

His pupils were red with pressure and his face was flushed with blood.

Shuriel chuckled as she saw the Emperor refusing to open his mouth.

“How can you not take it because it’s bitter? You have to eat well to regain your strength and get up from your seat quickly.”

Even at those words, the Emperor only glared at Shuriel with fierce eyes.

Shuriel, who had been quietly watching, grabbed the Emperor’s chin forcefully.

She forcibly opened the Emperor’s mouth and poured the medicine in as it was.

“Cough……! Cough!”

The Emperor coughed and swallowed the medicine into his throat.

The hand that twisted his chin as if to break it showed no sign of loosening, and he couldn’t help it because his body wouldn’t listen.

But what was even more miserable一.

The Emperor’s gaze passed Shuriel and went behind her.

Even in this situation, his servants and nobles were standing still without moving.

Thud.

Shuriel, who put down the empty medicine bottle, questioned the nobles in a sharp voice.

“Why was Ruatisha having a private audience with the Emperor? I clearly said not to let anyone in.”

“I’m sorry. The Knight Commander made a hasty judgment一. I think he was trying not to make any noise…….”

“I should have replaced the Knight Commander with our people sooner.”

“But recently, too many people around the Imperial Palace have been replaced. Even if it’s Crown Prince Esteban’s order, if you replace people without any reason, there will be resistance…….”

“No reason?”

Shuriel smiled.

“If someone dies and the seat is inevitably vacant, a new person has no choice but to come, right?”

The noble who understood Shuriel’s intentions praised her.

“As expected, you are brilliant!”

The Emperor, who had heard all the conversation, opened his mouth.

“Kkeu…… Ah, eu…….”

But all that came out was a coughing sound.

His body was stiffer than before.

No matter how much the Emperor shouted with a heart full of blood, no one in the room paid attention to the Emperor.

No, there was only one person who cared.

Shuriel tidied up the Emperor’s disheveled hair and said kindly.

“Don’t worry too much. Your Majesty still needs to be alive. If Esteban ascends the throne suddenly, there will be quite a bit of noise. Well, now that the groundwork is almost finished, you can rest comfortably一.”

Shuriel smiled brightly.

“I’m quite merciful.”

Her light green eyes were stained with madness.

“Although you took Ruatisha’s side, whom I wouldn’t even feel bad about tearing to death, kicked me out of aristocratic society, and made it so I couldn’t even use my family name, making me live a life worse than a dog.”

“Kkeueu…….”

“I’ll forgive you everything. Soon he and I will be married, so we’re practically family, right?”

Tuk tuk.

Shuriel tapped the Emperor’s cheek lightly and smiled deeply.

“Right, Father?”

“Ah, eu, you, you……!”

The Emperor distorted his face and tried to shout somehow.

“The way you’re struggling is like a bug, Father.”

Shuriel got up from her seat.

The biggest reason she kept him alive was because it was difficult to kill him recklessly because of the protection on the imperial family’s blood, but now that she sees it, she did a good job.

Before leaving the chamber, Shuriel bowed deeply to the Emperor.

“Long live the Emperor.”

Because she will give him a life that is better off dead.

* * *

“This is the herb.”

Dad put a small wooden box in front of me.

I hurriedly opened the box.

‘This is the herb that Clartier used.’

Clartier originally said that she had deep knowledge of medicinal arts and treated the Emperor with herbs that only grow in Torensia in an interview.

‘Hmph, treatment my ass [a dismissive expression].’

Now I was going to investigate this herb and find out what she did to the Emperor.

But.

‘Huh?’

A dark shadow fell over the herb box.

When I looked up, Dad was standing one step closer.

An expressionless face.

But strangely, he seemed a little sad…….

“Wow, thank you! You’re the best, Dad!”

I hugged Dad tightly.

“……The best?”

“Yeah, the best! I like you the most in the world!”

“The most in the world……?”

“Yeah!”

A faint smile appeared on Dad’s face.

“……More than that guy?”

“Oh, Dad!”

I chuckled at Dad’s joke.

Even when I looked closely at the herb, I couldn’t feel any special energy.

‘I thought she used evil energy like when Ariel made the fake elixir before, but it’s not that either.’

Hmm……?

‘Herb…… It would have been nice if the ability to make the Black Death cure was still there.’

Unfortunately, was an ability that could only be used once.

‘First, I need to entrust the analysis to the Magic Department and think about what abilities I can use.’

* * *

Duke Paeraton looked at his daughter, who was soon lost in thought.

She didn’t care about him and was only tearing apart the herbs.

He wasn’t trying to show off, but this herb wasn’t easy to get.

But this is all the reaction he gets.

‘I thought she would like it more.’

He looked at his daughter with gloomy eyes for a long time and then left the office.

As he went out into the hallway, his three sons were checking each other and approaching him.

“Get lost.”

“I’m going in first.”

“Who says?”

Each of them was holding a box in their hands…….

‘They brought herbs.’

Zeon, Ares, and Ixion also stopped when they found Duke Paeraton.

“Already?”

“It’s really mean of someone who is a Duke.”

“Monopolizing the youngest’s love alone.”

“……I didn’t exactly monopolize it.”

Even at those words, the sons didn’t believe him. Rather, they only looked at him with more wary eyes.

“If you sow seeds behind my back like that一.”

“It’s not that.”

Duke Paeraton bit his teeth at the rising memory.

“I asked her if she liked me more than that bastard, but she didn’t answer.”

“That bastard?”

“Could it be that bastard?”

“……Crown Prince Sidrian.”

The three princes’ expressions sank endlessly deeply.

With their clever heads, they understood the situation at once.

To dare to monopolize the youngest’s love when they didn’t even bring herbs!

They already had less time to spend with their family!

The men of Paeraton looked at each other.

Unlike before, there was no rivalry towards each other.

Rather, a friendly gaze.

‘Let’s deal with the common enemy first!’