79 – Episode 79.
“You…?”
Dilated red pupils.
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Beautiful hands shaking.
Looking at Theodora’s pale white face, I try to tell her that it’s okay…
“Cough!”
I guess my lungs are damaged and all I can do is cough.
At that time…
-Boom!
“Your Majesty! Are you okay?!”
I can hear the guards arriving.
“Cheet!”
-Slap! Clink.
I feel relief at the sound of glass breaking along with the sound of footsteps, and my legs relax.
“You… Blood… Blood!, Doctor! “Get the doctor!”
You can see Theodora and the guards making a fuss.
“Guard… Guard… Cough!”
It’s hard to talk because I feel like the blood is flowing backwards, but I have to say it right away.
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
“Choke… Guards… Princess Joy has been kidnapped. Come on… Wow… Search and call Agrippa…”
Consciousness is not clear.
My mind goes blank.
“Yes, 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!”
I lie down on the floor and roll my eyes… Theodora holds my hand with her trembling hand, 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…”
I try to make her smile while she is crying.
“Ah… I won’t die… Don’t worry…”
Consciousness slowly dissipating.
I feel the strength gradually draining from my body.
“Grand Duke!”
At that time, Agrippa’s voice was heard from somewhere.
“Wow… you’re here?”
“Your Highness… Your Majesty the Archduke?!”
Agripa, 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 Highness… 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 don’t think I will be able to close my eyes in peace.
“I… Will help you.”
Theodora carefully removes her 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 the Grand Duchess.
“Agripa… Take it…”
“The Archduke?”
“H… Honey?”
Was my behavior surprising?
The two people’s faces look like shocked people.
“If I die… You know? “Bring the emperor’s army to Roman… ugh…”
“You… You won’t die! I won’t die! So don’t say things like that!”
Agripa nods his head with tears in his eyes at my words.
Did he read my thoughts by looking at my eyes?
“Yes. We will force the Grand Duchy soldiers to withdraw from Roman.”
I nodded once.
Gradually losing consciousness.
***
“Grand Duke!”
I shout as I look at the Archduke who has lost consciousness and no energy.
“Doctor! “Where is the doctor right now?!”
If you look at the blood that Debian is shedding, it would already be in a dangerous situation.
“…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 Archduke…”
The court doctor, shaking at my words, speaks.
“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! “Maybe she didn’t get very far.”
“Yes!”
Seeing the soldiers answering loudly, he bows his head to the emperor.
“Your Majesty the Emperor… I will go to catch the seditious group.”
Theodora nodded as if she understood what I was saying.
“General Agrippa… Please… Find Joey… Joey.”
I swallow my tears at those words.
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… I ask for your 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 guards and the giant army right now.”
The guard cautiously steps forward and speaks to me.
“Well… General Agrippa. 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.
“Now you are there! 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 asking what I was doing.
“Isn’t that a ring?”
“This is not just a ring. It is the seal of the Archduke. “As long as I have this, I can exercise my rights as an archduke.”
I speak 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 will call the field commander.
“General!”
The field commander saluting me.
“Have you caught 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 too 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 embarrassed 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 you can come up with an excuse like that.”
The commander looks as if he is not ashamed of my words.
“Bring the soldier who reported that report here immediately! “I will have to check the situation myself.”
I ponder whether I should give an order like that and order the giant army and the capital guard to blockade Roman.
If you go outside the imperial palace, you must block Roman immediately.
And we have to organize a search party and catch them.
It is not easy to catch them who have disappeared in Roman, where there are numerous buildings.
Blocking it off will also have its limits.
Search 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.
“Are you? “Did you see the assassins climb over the imperial palace wall?”
“Yes! You’re right!”
I say this while looking at the guard who answers loudly.
“Tell me in detail what you saw then.”
The guard speaks to me.
“Uh… that’s…”
After thinking for a moment, the soldier cautiously opens his mouth.
“Well… I’m really sorry. “He moved so quickly that I couldn’t catch him.”
I say this while looking at the soldier who says something different from what I said.
“I didn’t call you here to reprimand you. “Please explain the situation in detail then.”
“I saw two people wearing black clothes and their faces covered in the garden.”
“When is that?”
The guard, lost in thought for a moment after hearing my words, speaks.
“Uh… It was a little while after the lights turned on brightly in the imperial palace and the emergency alert order was delivered.”
All the lights in the imperial palace are turned on?
Then Devian gets injured, the guards enter the gold area, and 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, throwing the hook from afar and climbing the wall before I could stop it.”
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 what looked like long tubes on their backs.”
This is ridiculous.
Even though he was a specially trained person, 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 makes his head hurt.
“Are you telling me to report that now?!”
“That… That”
Looking at the soldier who cannot respond, I reprimand the commander.
“What kind of training and military discipline do you think a soldier would do such a foolish thing?!”
The soldier speaks in a trembling voice at my words.
“Well… Now that I think about it. “I think the coffin was empty.”
Are you kidding me?
“Do you think that makes sense now?”
“Oh… No. However… It was so flying that it was probably empty. “Common sense tells me that I don’t think such movements would be possible with such a slender body.”
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.