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Catlena suddenly turns her head at the voice calling her name.

There stood a female student whom I had never seen before.

“Yes, I am Katlena. What brings you here?”

“Hello, Katlena. My name is Cassandra. I am a secretary for Noblesse and I have come to tell you the story of our faction’s leader, Elastine.”

A woman named Cassandra who speaks politely about Katlena’s question.

Before Katlena could ask for details, Zeros stepped forward and questioned her.

“Why are you looking for Katlena in Noblesse?”

Although they were nobles who could be considered followers of Maeb, and considering their relationship with Maeb, there was room to view them somewhat amicably.

However, before that, Zeros was paying attention to the woman named Elastine, not to mention the woman named Cassandra in front of him.

The reason was. It was because of one important fact that even Katlena did not know, but that I, as a reader of the original work, knew.

‘Elastine… Aside from the name that reminds me of a shampoo company, he is the person who must be most guarded within the Academy… In the original, he was Katlena’s colleague, but before that, he was one of Saladin’s underlings. Why on earth would a guy like that suddenly come looking for Katlena?’

With that fact in mind, Zeros asks with caution.

Cassandra said this while looking at Zeros and Katlena with a polite attitude.

“I don’t know the details. I just received a request to bring you here because there is something very important.”

“Are you going to call the princess for no reason? I’m sorry, but I can’t do that..”

“Zeros, step back for a moment.”

“Yes?”

“Please do that.”

Katlena speaks to herself in a voice that is extremely calm.

At this, Zeros felt a little embarrassed, but he followed his master’s orders and took a step back.

“Elastine is looking for me? Where is it?”

“The Noblesse faction’s corruption.”

“Okay, then let’s go.”

“Katlena?”

Katlena accepts the invitation more readily than expected.

However, unlike usual, she was acting with the authority of a princess.

At this, a look of bewilderment began to appear on Zeros’ face.

And then…

Looking at such Zeros, Katlena spoke in a calm voice.

“It’s okay. I’ve met you before, and Zeros will be going with you, so there’s nothing to worry about, right?”

“That’s… um… ”

Zeros looks slightly embarrassed by Katlena’s words.

After smiling lightly at his appearance, Katlena spoke to Cassandra again in a calm tone.

“Then let’s go. I’ll guide you.”

“Yes, Katlena.”

*

A small business that can be said to be the stronghold of the Noblesse faction.

There, in a place that was too large and fancy to be called a mere student faction’s clubhouse, Elastine was sitting on a chair waiting for Katlena.

“Welcome, Katlena. It’s been a while.”

“I see, is this the first time you’ve seen it since the last time you were at the cafe?”

With those words, Cattlena sits down in front of Elastine.

Behind her stood Zeros with a slightly cold look in his eyes, but Elastine paid no attention to Zeros and spoke to Katlena with a calm smile.

“I apologize for interfering with the grand opening. However, I have something I really want to say to Lady Katlena, so I have taken the trouble to make this arrangement. Please forgive my rudeness.”

“Well.. If there’s something important, then that’s possible, so? Why did you send someone to find me like this? Is there something related to Princess Maeb…”

“No, this incident…honestly, it has no direct relation to the princess.”

“Is that so?..”

Elastin, speaking bluntly.

While Katlena looked a little surprised at her words…

Zeros’ face began to turn even colder.

‘A story unrelated to Princess Maeb coming out of Elastine’s mouth. That means… the matter I’m going to talk about this time is…’

Zeros looks even more wary as he thinks about that.

Meanwhile, separate from the situation with Zeros, Princess Katlena asked Elastine with a question.

“If it’s not related to Princess Maev… Elastine, do you have something to tell me? I can’t really imagine it.”

If it were in my previous life when we were best friends, I wouldn’t know.

In this life, Katlena and Elastine were literally acquaintances by face, and in that sense,

Katlena thought that the only contact between the two was limited to Princess Maeb.

and..

Looking at such a Catlena, Elastine realized the truth that she had been hiding.

He began to tell a story that had never been revealed in Katlena’s previous life.

“The reason I wanted to meet Lady Katlena is to convey her instructions… the instructions of Prime Minister Saladin Azak.”

“What…what..you said?”

Elastine brings up an unexpected story with a calm face.

At this, Katlena began to feel as if she had been hit in the head with a hammer.

“Sa..Saladin..Ajak.. Tell me about your grandfather? Why are you?.. What kind of relationship do you have with him?

Katlena asks with shock and bewilderment.

In response, Elastine began to blurt out what she had prepared, thinking that her reaction was more dramatic than she had thought.

“I’m confessing this now, but… I… no, to be exact, my family has been sworn to loyalty as the Prime Minister’s right-hand man since long ago. And I, too, have lived as a loyal servant of Prime Minister Saladin since birth, although I have never shown it on the outside.”

“That.. That.. How.. That kind of nonsense..”

Cattlena answers Elastine’s words with a trembling voice.

It was certainly quite surprising, but even taking that into account, it was still a fairly large reaction.

In response to this, Elastine, thinking that Katlena was not easily believing her words, took out an object in front of her to confirm that she was a loyal servant of Saladin.

“I prepared this just in case. This is the confirmation letter that the Prime Minister gave me. Will you believe me with this much?”

“… ”

Catlena is unable to speak anymore even after being presented with clear evidence.

After such a brief moment, a heavy silence flowed…

Katlena asked her in a voice that was even heavier than before.

“… So? Someone who has received the Prime Minister’s will… Why did you come to me? Surely you didn’t come here just to tell me this fact? ”

“Of course. The reason I revealed my identity like this is because there is something I must convey to Lady Katlena according to the Prime Minister’s orders.”

“..What is that?”

Katlena asks in a cold voice.

Elastine, thinking that it was simply because she recognized the seriousness of the matter, began to speak seriously as the Prime Minister had commanded.

That’s right..

“This is a story about Katlena’s birth.”

“!.. You..”

“Zeros!”

He tried to stop her by stepping in urgently, but Katlena immediately stopped him with a firm voice.

“Ha..but..”

“It’s okay. Stay still.”

“Huh..”

Zeros backs away, biting his lip slightly at Katlena’s words.

Then, Katlena looked at Elastine in front of her and spoke in a cold voice.

“Okay, let me tell you. The secret of my birth? What on earth do you want to talk about?”

“Yes, Katlena.”

As soon as Katlena gave permission, Elastine began to speak in a quiet voice.

The story of Katlena’s biological mother, a story that has always been taboo in the duchy and the empire.

That she was not the daughter of the Duchess of Rosetta, but the blood relative of Cassio, the daughter of Saladin’s vizier.

“That is, your real mother is Miss Cassio, who died giving birth to you. Duchess Rosetta… She simply took her as her daughter in order to use Lady Catlena.”

“..That’s right..right?”

“Yes, the princess has been deceived by the false love of that wicked woman. Otherwise, why would Duchess Rosetta, who has always been displeased and mistreated Lady Cassio, be kind to you? All of this is a scheme by that wicked woman to take advantage of your command as the daughter of the Imperial Chancellor.”

“… .”

Catlena begins to tremble in anger as she hears Elastine’s words.

Meanwhile, listening to this story from the side, Zeros had to do his best to suppress his emotions with an angry expression.