episode_0079

“You…?”

Big red pupils.

Beautiful hands shaking.

Looking at Theodora’s pale face, I try to tell her that it’s okay…

“Cough!”

Maybe my lungs are damaged, but all I can do is cough.

at that time…

-bang!

“Your Majesty! Are you okay?!”

You can hear the guards arriving.

“Chiit!”

-Slap! Clink.

When I hear the sound of glass breaking along with the sound of footsteps, I feel relief and my legs relax.

“You… blood… blood!, doctor! Bring the doctor!”

I see Theodora and the guards making a fuss.

“Kyeong… Guard… Cough!”

It’s hard to say because I feel the blood flowing backwards, but I have to say it right away.

“Are you sure you’re okay?”

“Choke… Guard… Princess Joy has been kidnapped. Come on… wow… search and call Agrippa…”

Consciousness is not clear.

My mind goes blank.

“Yes!”

Then I lie down on the floor and force myself to endure the pain.

“Haa…haa…”

“You… aren’t going to die, are you? You can’t die!”

As I lie down on the floor and turn my eyes… Theodora holds my hand with trembling hands shedding tears.

“Ah… there are a lot of things I haven’t done yet… I can’t! I haven’t told you that I love you yet. Ugh…”

I try to smile and say to the crying girl.

“Ah… I won’t die… Don’t worry…”

Consciousness slowly dissipating.

I feel the strength gradually draining from my body.

“Great Duke!”

At that time, Agrippa’s voice came from somewhere.

“Wow… you’re here?”

“Great… His Highness the Archduke?!”

Agrippa, kneeling next to me, speaks with a vain look on his face.

“Are you okay?”

“No…”

It’s hard to hold on any longer.

With my trembling right hand, I try to take out the ring on my left hand.

“What are you doing?! Stay still.”

“Your Majesty… Just stay still! The wound opens up.”

Ignore their words and take out the ring.

If I don’t do this… even if I die, I won’t be able to close my eyes in peace.

“ too… I will help you.”

Theodora carefully removes the ring from my left hand and places it on my hand.

It is a ring symbolizing the Grand Duke and the seal of the Ryan family.

I need this seal to create documents in my name.

In other words… if I die, Mary will have the power to rule the Grand Duchy as my regent until she becomes Grand Duchess.

“Agripa… take it…”

“Arch… Archduke?”

“Woman…Honey?”

Was my behavior surprising?

The two people’s faces look like they are shocked.

“If I die… you know? Bringing the emperor’s army to Roman… Ugh…”

“You… won’t die! I won’t die! So don’t say things like that!”

Agrippa nods his head with tears in his eyes at my words.

Did he read my thoughts by looking into my eyes?

“Yes. We will force the Grand Duchy soldiers to withdraw from Roman.”

I nod my head once.

Gradually lose consciousness.

***

“Great Duke!”

I shout as I look at the Archduke who is unconscious and without energy.

“Doctor! Where is the doctor right now?!”

If you look at the blood that Devian is shedding, he is probably already in a dangerous situation.

“’s… The doctor is here!”

When I confirm that the court doctor next to the guard has arrived, I hold his hand and say.

“Please save His Highness…”

The court doctor, shaking at my words, says:

“Choi… I will do my best.”

After hearing that, I nod my head and give orders to the guards.

“Right now! Wake up the guards! Attach escort troops to His Majesty the Emperor, His Highness the Grand Duke, and the Empress Dowager, and everyone search for Princess Joy! Probably didn’t go that far.”

“Yes!”

Seeing the soldiers answering loudly, he bows his head to the emperor.

“Your Majesty… I will go to catch the seditious group.”

Theodora nodded as if she understood what I was saying.

“General Agrippa… Please… find Joey… Joey.”

Those words make me cry.

I struggle to open my mouth as I watch the doctor carefully remove the dagger from Devian’s body, which is bleeding profusely.

“I will definitely… bring Princess Joy. So… please ask His Majesty the Archduke…”

I come out of their room, seeing the emperor weakly nodding at my words.

And soon we head to the garden of the imperial palace.

“I will summon the capital guard and the giant army right now.”

The guard cautiously steps forward and speaks to me.

“That… General Agrippa. That… In order for the Giants to move, they need permission from His Highness the Archduke…”

It’s busy right now. I yell at the soldier who speaks leisurely.

“You are now! What are you talking about? Don’t you know what this is?”

When I showed the ring on my palm, the guard looked at me as if wondering what I was doing.

“Isn’t that a ring?”

“This is not just a ring. It is the seal of the Grand Duke. As long as I have this, I can exercise the rights of the Archduke.”

I say this to the soldier whose eyes light up at my words.

“Right now! Receive the regent’s order and tell them to gather at the imperial palace.”

“Yes!”

And I’ll call the on-site commander.

“General!”

Field commander saluting me.

“Did you catch the assassins?”

He shakes his head at my words.

“I haven’t found it yet, but there was a report a while ago that a soldier saw two people climbing over the wall of the imperial palace. I think he may have already left the palace.”

damn…

Are you now reporting to me that the soldiers just watched the assassin cross the imperial palace?

I was angry to hear that the initial response to the assassin was so inadequate.

“Are you asking me to report that now? Are you saying that the soldiers guarding His Majesty the Emperor and His Highness the Archduke watched the assassin climb over the wall like this?”

The commander speaks as if he is perplexed by my words.

“That’s because they move so quickly. In the blink of an eye, two people fell through the hook.”

I saw two people climbing over the wall of the imperial palace. How come the soldiers failed to properly stop them?

Could it be that Princess Joy was smuggled out of the imperial palace?

It’s been a while since I arrived in Roman, so I haven’t come up with a plan to deal with the assassins yet.

What should I do…

“Is that an excuse for seeing with your own eyes that Her Royal Highness was kidnapped? I’m surprised that you can make such an excuse.”

The commander looks embarrassed by my words.

“Bring the soldier who posted that report here immediately! I will have to check the situation myself.”

I ponder whether I should give such an order and order the giants and the capital guard to blockade Roman.

If you go outside the imperial palace, Roman must be blocked immediately.

And we have to organize a search party and catch them.

It is not easy to catch them hiding in Roman, where there are numerous buildings.

Blockade may also have its limits.

Searching also requires a lot of manpower and time.

However, it is difficult to blindly blockade and continue searching.

In order to maintain this huge city, food must be procured.

But what if you didn’t go outside the imperial palace?

You miss the golden opportunity to catch them.

If only we knew how many people had infiltrated…

At that time, a soldier walks towards us and salutes.

“Is this you? Did you see the assassins climb over the imperial palace wall?”

“Yes! That’s right!”

I say this while looking at the guard who answers loudly.

“Tell me in detail what you saw at that time.”

The guard speaks to me.

“Uh… that’s…”

After thinking for a moment, the soldier cautiously opens his mouth.

“That… I’m really sorry. It moved so quickly that I couldn’t catch it.”

I say this while looking at the soldier who disagrees with my words.

“I didn’t call you now to reprimand you. Please explain the situation in detail then.”

“That… I saw two people dressed in black and with their faces covered in the garden.”

“When is that?”

The guard, who thought about my words for a moment, spoke.

“Uh… It was a little while after the lights came on brightly in the imperial palace and the emergency alert order was delivered.”

Are all the lights in the imperial palace turned on?

Then Devian gets hurt, the guards enter the gold area… I guess about 5 minutes have passed.

“Then tell me about what happened after that.”

“Two people ran very quickly into the garden, hooked a hook on the wall, and climbed over the imperial palace wall in the blink of an eye. It was really fast to throw a hook from far away and climb the wall before it could be stopped in the middle.”

I feel puzzled by those words.

“Weren’t those two people carrying or carrying someone?”

The guard shakes his head at my words.

“Uh… both of them were carrying something that looked like a long tube on their backs.”

This is ridiculous.

No matter how specially trained he may be, the thought of him just watching with his eyes open until a person carrying an adult on his back crossed the wall of the imperial palace gives me a headache.

“Are you telling me to report that now?!”

“That… That”

I reprimand the commander while looking at the soldier who cannot answer.

“What happens to the usual training and discipline, so that soldiers do such foolish things?!”

The soldier speaks in a trembling voice at my words.

“Well… now that I think about it. It seems that the coffin was empty.”

Is this guy kidding me?

“Do you think that makes sense now?”

“Ah… no. However… it was so flying that it was probably empty. Common sense tells me that such a slender body would not be able to move like that.”

I am lost in thought.

It may be a knight who knows how to manipulate mana, but there is no way such a knight would be an assassin.

At the end of the discussion, I made up my mind.

“I see… All troops, search the imperial palace!”

This is definitely a deception. The princess is still in the imperial palace.