Lord Baby Runs A Romance Fantasy With Cash [EN]: Chapter 302

Runs the Romance Fantasy with Baby’s Cash – Episode 302

☆ Episode 302 ☆

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In the very center of the blood-red jewel, as if stained with blood, were engraved bizarre patterns and letters.

‘How……?’

Shuriel looked at Sidrian with a tense expression.

She never expected it to appear here. Moreover—.

‘I was clearly monitoring Sidrian to prevent him from leaving the palace…….’

She had a more reliable method than simply assigning people to watch him.

Through the butterflies [a form of magical surveillance], she saw that Sidrian was confined to the palace, holding his breath in fear that her anger would spread to him.

Furthermore, that jewel—the core, could never be found by ordinary humans.

It was concealed by multiple layers of barriers, making it invisible and undetectable.

“You know what this is, don’t you?”

Sidrian, who had approached within inches, asked Shuriel.

“I’m not sure…… Isn’t it just a ruby?”

“This has been found buried at every site of disaster. What could that mean?”

Luatisha spoke up at Shuriel’s silence.

“It means someone artificially caused the disasters. Mistaking it for a ruby is a bit of a stretch, don’t you think? It clearly looks like a type of magic stone.”

Shuriel’s eyes narrowed at the sarcastic remark.

She knew she would find out eventually. She just didn’t expect it to be so soon.

‘I’ll give her that compliment.’

But.

‘This is actually better.’

A sinister smile crept onto Shuriel’s lips.

Clatie and Liliel had already been defeated by Luatisha and were in a state of irreversible ruin.

‘There’s no way she would be so naive as to not prepare anything this time, right?’

She thought it was impossible to find the core.

Looking at the actions of Luatisha, the Paeraton ducal family, and Sidrian, it was indeed impossible.

‘But I thought she might find it.’

Because she had always exceeded expectations and attacked her.

So, she was planning to completely plunge Luatisha into hell today before she found it, but—.

‘Having the core here might make it even more dramatic.’

Shuriel changed her expression in an instant.

A face stained with shock, bewilderment, and fear.

“Oh my goodness……! Is that real?”

“Hmm, it is indeed a core used in spellcasting. There are still remnants of its power left,” the Imperial Head Magician, Baron Berten, carefully examined the core and said.

He unfolded a small magic circle and extended his hand, causing a small ripple around the core.

Clang?!

The magic circle shattered from the power emitted by the core.

“Eek?!

People recoiled in horror, and Baron Berten shook his head.

“It is not dangerous now. His Highness Prince Sidrian has done a great job stabilizing it. However, as you can see, it still possesses great power. If the remnants are this strong, it must have been used in a spell of enormous scale. That matches the disasters.”

“S-So, all those disasters that have happened so far were actually deliberately caused by someone? How terrible……!”

Shuriel covered her mouth with a pale face.

She was annoyed to see Luatisha muttering, “What a show,” with a disdainful look, but she didn’t care.

After all, she would be the ultimate winner.

She would crush that arrogant face as much as she wanted then.

Shuriel fluttered her eyelashes pitifully, like someone facing a tragic truth.

“Then— that must be true. I was hoping it was just my misunderstanding…….”

“Do you have something in mind?”

“That’s…….”

“It’s alright, speak,” Esteban urged, and Shuriel opened her mouth with a serious demeanor.

“Actually, I’ve seen the same power as that core before.”

“What?”

At the same time as Esteban frowned, murmurs erupted from the people.

“The same power……?!”

“Where did you see it? Isn’t that a clue about the culprit who caused the disasters?”

“Judging by what you said about hoping it was a misunderstanding, does Her Highness know who the culprit is?”

Shuriel waited until the people’s murmuring reached its peak before slowly opening her mouth.

“……I still can’t believe it. Actually, I found out about this through an internal report from the temple.”

“The temple? So, it’s related to the temple?”

“Then…….”

She didn’t say the rest, but everyone’s gaze turned to Luatisha.

As a saintess, Luatisha was like a symbol of the temple.

“The temple is already so corrupt that it follows a false god and is planning to kill the weakened true god.”

“I knew it. I knew it.”

“Recently, those rumors have been circulating openly, right? That’s why the priests’ divine power is so weak.”

Nobles already deeply involved in the cult nodded in agreement with Shuriel’s words.

“I heard those words, but I couldn’t believe them. There’s no way that Saintess Luatisha would be plotting such wicked deeds to promote a false god.”

Shuriel looked around at the audience with pleading eyes.

“How much has Saintess Luatisha worked hard for the people? I deeply respected her, but it was all a lie……!”

Shuriel, as if unable to bear it, collapsed into Esteban’s arms.

The Crown Prince carefully embraced the back of his trembling bride.

People whispered as they watched the scene.

“Oh my…… She must have been exhausted just from nursing His Majesty and preparing for the wedding, but she’s been worrying about this too. How distressed she must be.”

“But did Saintess really do such a thing? Actually, from my perspective of watching her struggle to recover from the disasters…….”

“That’s what she was aiming for. She caused the disasters herself and then cleaned them up herself. She was trying to gain public sentiment that way.”

“Oh my gosh, it’s a complete setup?”

The murmuring people looked at Luatisha with sullen eyes.

They expected Luatisha to deny it, be embarrassed, or get angry.

But Luatisha had no reaction at all.

She just looked at Shuriel with an expression that said, ‘What a ridiculous performance.’

“Ahem, does the Princess have anything to say?”

“I don’t feel it’s worth responding to such nonsense.”

Seeing Luatisha shrug leisurely, Shuriel said with tearful eyes.

“Admit it now and lessen your sins. If you deny it to the end, you’ll only become more pathetic.”

“Are you perhaps talking to yourself?”

“Crescentio told me that directly. Don’t try to get out of it that way.”

At those words, people murmured again.

“Was the internal whistleblower Crescentio?”

“Indeed, unlike the corrupt priests, he alone followed the true god and possessed such powerful divine power.”

Luatisha chuckled, seeing why she had used Crescentio’s name.

“Is it okay to reveal the name of the internal whistleblower like that? Don’t they usually hide it to protect their identity?”

“I will stop the Princess from harming Crescentio.”

“I can’t stand listening to this anymore. What did you say? Even if it means joining hands with a demon, I will never take your dirty hand.”

“……It’s so sad that you have to say that. You must have been threatened.”

At Shuriel’s signal, an aide respectfully handed her something.

“That’s…… Isn’t that a sacred object of the temple?”

“That’s right. The Princess was holding it even at the Saintess’s inauguration ceremony.”

Shuriel held the sacred object high so that people could see it well.

The sacred object of Aptanes.

It was an object that Crescentio had given to Shuriel to gain her trust.

‘With this, I can perfectly frame Luatisha.’

[Hehe, this is something. Shouldn’t we thank Sidrian and Crescentio? Thank you for helping us.]

At Liliel’s voice, Clatie giggled.

She looked at Sidrian with confident eyes.

‘He must be so excited, thinking that the core he worked so hard to find is the key to reversing this situation. What a pity?’

[He never dreamed that my weakness, which he worked so hard to find, would cut off the breath of his beloved lover instead of me.]

She wondered how Sidrian would despair when that core and this sacred object became evidence and stabbed a knife into Luatisha’s heart.

It was the moment Shuriel was about to open her mouth with a triumphant smile.

“There’s no need to see any more!”

A loud roar echoed like thunder in the hall.

Everyone looked at the source of the voice with disbelief.

“Y-Your Majesty!”

“His Majesty……!”

The Emperor, who had been sitting in a wheelchair, stood up on two legs and glared at Shuriel.

Although his body was emaciated and his cheeks were sunken, his back was straight, and his eyes shone with vigor.

“Not only did you dare to harm and threaten me, but now you’re even trying to harm the Saintess who saved the Empire?”

This was truly unexpected.

‘How……?’

Her trembling eyes scanned the Emperor.

‘He shouldn’t even be able to blink his eyes at will, let alone stand up……!’

Surely, he wasn’t like this even when she entered this hall just now.

“What is His Majesty saying right now?”

“The Crown Princess harmed and threatened His Majesty?”

The murmurs of the people brushed past her ears.

Shuriel clenched her fist tightly.

The video stones [magical recording devices] that the reporters had were filming everything that was happening now.

‘I have to silence the Emperor’s mouth quickly.’

The fanatics who received Shuriel’s signal hurriedly approached the Emperor.

But.

Swiftly, Duke Paeraton stood next to the Emperor.

The young dukes were the same.

‘Damn it!’

It was virtually impossible to plot anything while avoiding the eyes of Duke Paeraton and the young dukes.

The moment she was caught, it would be the same as giving them an excuse to attack.

Shuriel reluctantly opened her mouth to buy time.

“Your Majesty, I am truly happy that you have regained your health like this.”

“Ha! The very person who harmed me dares to utter such words.”

“I have only treated Your Majesty with all my sincerity.”

“That’s right, Your Majesty. The Crown Princess has been working day and night to treat Your Majesty’s illness—”

“Made it worse.”

Luatisha cut off the words abruptly. She held Edel’s grass in her hand.

“I didn’t know there was a grass that looked exactly like this. So, everyone mistook it for Ashica herb.”

‘……She got her hands on that? But humans shouldn’t be able to handle it?’

“Are you saying that what was mistaken for Ashica is a completely different herb?”

At the reporter’s question, Luatisha nodded.

“That’s right. To be exact, it’s not a herb but a poisonous plant.”

“A poisonous plant……!”

“Then, is the Crown Princess feeding the Emperor poisonous plants?”

“Is that why His Majesty is saying such things…….”

“Is this perhaps a conspiracy by Torencia to swallow the Empire?”

“Ha, but I heard that nothing came up in the toxicology test……?”

“Because it’s not poison.”

At Luatisha’s words, the people looked puzzled.

“It’s not poison, but it’s a power far more deadly to humans than any poison.”

“Could it be…… Qi deviation?”

“Bingo.”

Luatisha smiled brightly.

“……!”

“Q-Qi deviation!”

“But I don’t really feel any Qi deviation.”

Everyone could feel the power of Qi deviation [a dangerous imbalance of internal energy].

How could they not know, when just being near it gave them an unpleasant and insect-like feeling?

Didn’t they all feel it when Qi deviation was emitted from Liliel before?

“But if it’s not outwardly 드러나지 [revealed] and inherent inside, you can’t feel it. Moreover, once it goes through a refinement process, it’s even harder to detect. Because it feels like a different power.”

The process of making Edel’s grass into a potion was the refinement process.

“You’re just making up ridiculous stories because you’re cornered! I’ve never heard of such a grass!”

Luatisha chuckled as she looked at Shuriel, who was glaring at her and shouting.

“Really? Then shall we make a potion once? And if it’s a real Ashica herb, it shouldn’t be bad for the body.”

‘Does she even know how to handle Edel’s grass?’

No way.

This really doesn’t make sense.

No matter how much Luatisha is a proxy of Aptanes, Aptanes shouldn’t be able to properly tell her the answer because of karma……!

“Judging by that reaction, it seems to be real?”

Shuriel flinched and came to her senses at the voice heard from the crowd.

But it was already too late.

“Honestly, it was a bit strange. She had an expression like she saw something she shouldn’t have when His Majesty stood up earlier.”

“What does that mean! The Crown Princess saved His Majesty!”

“But His Majesty says no.”

“There must be some misunderstanding!”

The pseudo-believers raised their voices, but there were too many people in this place.

And among those many people, there were quite a few who were not influenced by the cult.

“This is slander! Can’t you see Duke Paeraton next to His Majesty? His Majesty is being threatened by Duke Paeraton right now!”

Shuriel shouted loudly.

However, public opinion was already changing.

“Honestly, it makes more sense that she harmed His Majesty and approached Crown Prince Esteban with the intention of controlling the Empire from Torencia.”

“She was shedding tears, pretending to care about the Saintess earlier, but it was so disgusting. She used to pick fights with her in high society, right? But now…….”

Shuriel clenched her fist tightly at the accusing eyes fixed on her.

The memory of that day comes back to her again.

At that time, people looked at her and criticized her in this way.

‘It’s all— because of Luatisha!’

Luatisha chuckled as she looked at Shuriel, who was glaring at her.

‘You shouldn’t be making that face already.’

There’s still more left.

‘Why do you think I’ve been quietly watching you do whatever you want?’

It’s all because Clatie is digging her own grave.

And now, all that’s left is to neatly put Chulatie and Liliel into that grave.