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“Isabel’s daughter… ?”

Beatrice struggled to stand up straight. Then she saw Louis fiercely exchanging swords with Alex.

“Yeah! You wouldn’t say you don’t remember, would you? You’re the mother who raised you with love, even though you were born a sinner.”

“… … ”

I don’t know.

It was a long time ago that he entered Beatrice’s body. So, he had no way of knowing his biological mother, whom he had no memory of.

If there is anyone who feels affectionate and family love, it is Theo who first came to the unfamiliar room.

“This son of a bitch! She only left out the emperor.”

Louis shouts at the princess who is standing there blankly. She looks unusually agitated.

The duke was also looking at the princess from afar with a dark expression.

Now that I think about it, it’s a name I’ve heard at the Duke’s mansion. A woman that Louis and the Duke met at the academy together. A woman that he treated with affection. And a woman that he sadly missed.

Isabelle.

Didn’t the peacock keep the photo too?

A woman with long, shiny beige hair.

A commoner-born magician who was incredibly beautiful.

“Isabelle married the Emperor and gave birth to me… … ”

Beatrice slowly put the pieces together.

The Duke and Louis, who were competing for a woman, were both defeated in the end because the Emperor of the Empire got involved.

In that case, the two are no different from defeated heroines.

For a moment, I was so dumbfounded that I burst out laughing. I felt a sense of kinship, but I also thought that I should never become like those two.

“Marriage?!”

But what Beatrice said was something that neither of them could tolerate.

“Do you really think I’ll let you ruin Isabelle’s life with words like that!”

I couldn’t stand it, because it sounded like the Emperor and Isabella had loved each other in a normal way.

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Louis tried to push Alex away and rush towards the princess.

‘Huh. Aren’t you tired from fighting the princess? It wasn’t a lie that you became the strongest in the empire.’

Alex was momentarily startled. He couldn’t keep up with Louis’s movements.

When he aimed his sword at Louis again, Louis’ sword was already pointed at the princess.

The princess stared at Louis silently. Louis felt as if the princess’s shining eyes inside her helmet were mocking him.

“!”

At that moment, another troublemaker appeared beside the princess. A masked knight with blond hair fluttering around. She was the woman who had stopped Louis in the palace.

He came between the princess and Louis so quickly that they didn’t even notice he was approaching.

“You, you… ”

“Do not approach Her Highness the Princess any more.”

The third guardian of the imperial family and his retinue, Tres.

Another name is Blair de Dahlia.

Beatrice is someone she feels more attached to than her biological mother, Isabelle, whom she has no memory of.

“Auntie…! Get out of my way.”

It was a nuisance.

Louis pushed Blair hard.

He took all of Blair’s swords, who was called the royal killer. He did not dodge or avoid the sophisticated yet ignorant attacks that only targeted vital points, but instead faced them head-on.

‘How can this happen to an ordinary human being!’

As Beatrice grew stronger, her followers also regained their strength. So Blair felt herself growing stronger day by day.

However, Louis, who is called the strongest player of the present age, was an opponent that even Blair could not overcome.

‘It’s like seeing the ‘first’.’

It reminded me of the man who was the pinnacle of the Guardian Knights.

…no way?

Blair quickly shook her head and stopped Louis again.

It just seems to overlap, but it can’t be. The first one is dead. If it were alive, it would have felt it by now.

In the midst of the fierce battle, the peacock shouted from afar.

“Are you denying it? Or do you not remember?”

“… … ”

The princess turned her head and looked at the duke.

“I definitely saw you as a child. You were held by Senior Isabelle. She raised you with utmost sincerity until she died. You were definitely with her as a child!”

That would have been it.

But the current Beatrice has no way of knowing that.

“But judging from your reaction, it seems like you don’t know anything about her. Am I wrong?”

Beatrice hesitated.

Would it be wise to agree with that statement, or would it be a mistake that would open the way to an uncertain future?

But to the duke, no response was also a response.

“I guess it’s true that you don’t remember. Well, since you found out about such a terrible thing, you probably wanted to erase it from your memory.”

“?”

What a terrible thing, I suddenly became curious.

I became curious about the past of the possessed body.

The princess’s reaction was transmitted even beyond the helmet. The Duke noticed it and smiled bitterly.

“Emperor and Isabelle. Aren’t you curious about who your parents are and how you were born?”

“Stop—!!”

Blair shouted.

Beatrice also looked at Blair in surprise at the loud voice that seemed to rip apart.

“Stop it… Don’t say any more, before I rip your mouth off.”

“B… Blair?”

Magic rose around Blair’s sword.

It is the power of the family and the authority bestowed by the royal family.

She was ready to risk everything to keep Louis and the Duke quiet. She distanced herself from Louis and glanced at Beatrice.

“Your Highness, we can handle this place, so please evacuate first. We beg you.”

“… … ”

I had also considered the worst-case scenario of confronting the intelligence agency like this. And what to do next.

But when it comes to actually moving according to plan, it’s hard to move forward.

It was a shame that the ‘negotiation’ did not go as planned, and I felt angry and wronged seeing the plot against me.

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“You have a deep grudge against me… ”

Beatrice looked at Louis and the Duke with mixed feelings. It was only natural that she would feel bad about the child that her first love had with another man.

But this is…

This is too much.

It’s too much to say that he was defeated in the reverse harem and wasn’t chosen by the female protagonist.

It was surprising that something that happened 20 years ago still haunts the lives of both of them.

At the same time, he was afraid that perhaps the two people’s appearances would become his future if he were not chosen by the sword.

I feel like I can easily empathize with the feelings of the two people, so I feel a sense of kinship…

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It’s a terrible thing not to be able to become the first wife, he said.

*

“Vice President, I heard there was a riot in the ghetto.”

One of the agents from the intelligence agency approached the Duke and whispered. The Duke glanced at his subordinates.

Some of them were receiving reports on the situation throughout the empire through communication magic.

Then, as if he had received an urgent telegram, he opened his eyes wide and made eye contact with the Duke.

“That, that… They say rebels have appeared in various parts of the empire, including the ghetto.”

“Anywhere?”

“Foreigners, mercenaries, traitors from within the Empire…all wearing clothes emblazoned with the Imperial emblem, they are attacking the Imperial forces.”

It also meant that we shouldn’t delay any longer here.

“Shall I take you to the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs?”

“Go to the palace.”

The Duke thought quickly and spoke to his subordinates.

The palace was also recently renovated by the Intelligence Service and used as a base.

And the fact that the Duke is heading to the Imperial Palace instead of the Ministry of Government Administration means that he will handle the situation as the Deputy Director of the Information Bureau, not as the Imperial Special Forces Minister.

The Duke was sorry to have to step down right in front of the princess, but he had to wait for another time.

After all, the princess is an enemy of the empire, and the treason is just beginning.

“Trixie Green!”

The peacock shouted.

Beatrice, who was about to leave at Blair’s request, turned around.

“I will keep the oath I made in front of the dying Isabel. For the sake of the senior who worried about you even as she died… I will definitely eliminate you according to her will.”

“… What?”

Beatrice was confused, wondering what kind of parents would ask their children to die in their will.

“Don’t listen! Lady Beatrice, please… please… I beg you. The author is trying to confuse Her Highness’s heart with wicked schemes. Please don’t fall for his cunning.”

Blair pleaded.

Her tone changed from moment to moment as she expressed her feelings both as Beatrice’s mother and as a member of the royal family.

It also meant that it was that desperate.

“You dirty royal family tries to solve everything with the power of your ugly blood. If you want something, take it. If you want something, take it. Even if that is the heart of a person!”

“I told you to stop!!”

Blair screamed.

But the polite duke continued to speak in a loud voice, as if he would not give in.

“That’s why you don’t know love. You don’t know how to cherish a person’s heart that is sad, anxious, and unpredictable! A person’s heart is more precious because it doesn’t go as planned.”

“… … ”

Beatrice listened to the Duke’s cries as if in a trance.

“You who play with and take people’s hearts with your cursed power cannot be forgiven. Tricky Green, you are a horrible being born because the Emperor made Isabelle a ‘slave’!”

“!?”

“Isabel didn’t want you. It was just the Emperor’s endless possessiveness that tainted her. So your very existence is a sin against the royal family.”

Paaat-

Blair raised his sword high.

A darkness I had never seen before surged into the blade. I drew out all the strength I had as a follower and guardian knight.

“By all means…by all means…say such blasphemous words!!”

Anger and resentment covered the sky. The power that the Green Emperor had left behind, the immense will of the Guardian Knights, was about to pour down.

“Okay, wait! More details—“

Beatrice couldn’t leave easily, curious to see how the Duke’s shocking story would end. But at that moment, Blair swung his sword at his enemies.

Quagmirak-!

A pitch-black sword energy that could shake the heavens and the earth flew fiercely.

Louis turned his back on the Intelligence Service team and drew out the power of the Holy Relic to its limit to counter Blair’s attack.

“I told you it was reckless! It’s my job to clean up the aftermath of a reckless provocation. Hey, take the deputy director and get out of here. I’ll deal with it moderately and then follow you.”

“… I’m sorry. Don’t die.”

The Duke realized that he had been overly emotional and apologized to Louis.

In some ways, the peacock made the situation worse.

“Don’t apologize like this. It doesn’t suit you. Now, hurry up and go, I want to pack up and go wild!”

“Vice President, come this way!”

The Duke left the place, escorted by his agents.

Louis watched them walk away, then drew out the full power of the relic bracelet.

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And finally, the bracelet, which had reached its limit, broke.

“This time… it’ll be a bit difficult, right?”

He smiled bitterly.

I was exhausted, and the power of the Holy Relic was running out. I wondered if I could defeat those monsters.

“Do not disturb!”

Blair squeezed harder. She looked ready to tear Louis apart and go after the Duke.

“B, Blair? Seriously—”

“Your Majesty, please leave this to Tress.”

Alex was worried that Blair was going crazy with anger. So when Beatrice tried to approach her, Alex stopped her.

“The plan is just beginning. There is not much time left to gain by raiding. We must leave quickly so that the main personnel can escape the Empire and Her Highness can finish his work at the Academy.”

“… … ”

Academy.

Alex was right.

The disturbances that occurred in the ghettos and throughout the empire were not full-scale wars, but rather riots that merely served to attract the attention of the empire.

The real goal is to buy time for the Imperial Family’s key followers to escape to the Kingdom of Primira, and to convince those who will join Beatrice before leaving the Academy.

Beatrice looked at Blair, who was already running towards Louis, with worried eyes.

“Before that guy chases you, let’s go quickly. I have to go to the ghetto and command the troops. I will secure the back alley escape route.”

Alex urged. And then he looked at the Guardian called Tres and thought.

‘That’s amazing. If we fight in our current state, having given up the power of the retinue, we won’t be able to win. No, even if we regain the power of the second guardian from the time we were retinues, I can’t guarantee it.’

He tried to recall his memories. He had no idea that the third Guardian Knight he knew, Tress, would be this strong. Perhaps she had become stronger in the current princess era.

What made her so strong?

Alex thought for a moment, then quickly concluded that it was a useless thought.

‘Well, if anyone gets in the way of taking the princess, I’ll just kill them.’

To Alex, the Guardians who were once his comrades are treated just like that.

But without him knowing, the group known as Tres was changing.

It is not the power of authority that sustains and binds the clan, but a deeper and more intense power that makes Blair strong.

Emotions, or the human mind.

The guilt and pain of not being able to protect the prince he raised as his son, and the love that made him willing to sacrifice himself for the princess who was like a daughter to him.

Blind loyalty, an inviolable bond of power, not a heart gained from a new life, gave Blair the possibility to transcend the constraints of her family.

‘The retinue is nothing more than a plaything for the royal family.’

And Alex will never know that it was the mercy of the princess she followed that made it possible.

Beatrice unconsciously sees her followers as her comrades rather than slaves, and so the true individuality of her followers is emerging through the gaps in her weakened power…

Contrary to the Duke’s expectations, the princess was not so wicked as to be ignorant of love.