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After a while, Ethan returned to the room in the detached palace.
smart.
A servant came in, handed Ethan a letter and disappeared.
Ethan looked at the outside of the envelope.
It was a letter from Jacob.
“Also.”
He wasn’t the type of person to die easily in such a place.
Ethan opened the envelope with a letter knife.
The letter began without clichés.
[Have you arrived in the new empire? Of course, it must have arrived well. Seeing the news of the guy who secretly left is coming all the way here. You did a great job in Pache too.]
Ethan frowned.
It seemed that Jacob had now decided Ethan was the one driving the case.
[Anyway, we are all safe. The princess’s escort knight was also injured, but his life was not affected. and… … .]
and?
[Fortunately, the Holy Father has respected your judgment. At that time, it is said that this place was also busy driving away the solo dance. It was a situation in which anyone would prioritize the Holy Ghost over the princess. If the princess had been murdered here, things would have been complicated. You seem to have taken that into consideration, so there is nothing to worry about.]
Ethan sighed in relief.
Although the pope has thin ears, it was fortunate that there were no frivolous corners.
‘Anyway, the matter over there has been resolved.’
After that, there was a message saying that we would see you again soon.
Ethan, who was about to fold the letter, looked at the bottom and narrowed his brow.
[P.s. Priest Stella heard the news and gave me a message. You’re a scary person when you’re angry. Be careful.]
Ethan groaned and put the letter into the envelope.
‘When did you hear from that country again?’
He was a terrifying human being.
Ethan knew how disgusting Stella’s nagging was.
‘This is definitely five hours of nagging.’
A cold sweat ran down his back.
But Ethan took control.
‘You don’t have to meet that girl anyway. There is nothing to be afraid of.’
After reading the letter, Ethan looked around.
“Where else has this guy gone?”
Fenrir was nowhere to be seen.
Until he returned to his room, he followed him and disappeared suddenly.
‘Did you go to the princess?’
It was obvious that Ethan had gone there since he didn’t even deal with him.
It seems that Cynthia really liked it.
Ethan was lucky.
Carrying a dog was not good because it attracted people’s attention in many ways.
Without Fenrir, Ethan left the Imperial Palace feeling relieved.
‘The reason why the Duchess could not be buried right away in the family grave was probably because of the Magi that was attacked by the Dark Followers.’
So, in order to remove the magic from the corpse, he must have been making a temporary grave for purification.
‘There is no way to change the site of the cemetery so easily, so the location will be the same as it was a hundred years ago.’
His name is the regent’s wife, but he probably wouldn’t have left his mausoleum outside of Velium.
So Ethan went near the only cemetery in Velium.
Then someone spoke to him.
“You are a Parsian priest.”
There was an old man there.
The old man’s back was severely curved and a large lump bulged out.
“Isn’t that the one who came with the princess?”
“How did you know that?”
“Hall hall. Something big happened to this cemetery recently. So it’s been a while since I was banned. If you’re from Belium, you don’t need to come.”
“Is it forbidden to enter?”
Ethan’s eyebrows twitched.
Ethan’s top priority right now was to find a way to detoxify the nameless poison.
So, I was going to investigate the grave of the Duchess, who had been poisoned, but things became a nuisance.
‘Well, since the grave of his wife has been dug up, there is no way for the regent to stand still.’
Ethan asked, pretending he didn’t know anything about it.
There are people who make fun of their mouths, but there was nothing wrong with asking more.
“I’m just here to comfort the souls of those who died in war a hundred years ago, so I don’t know much about what’s going on in Velium. What the hell happened?”
“Recently, something horrific happened when someone dug up the Duchess’s grave. So no one can go in now.”
“My God, Pars.”
Ethan showed the ‘action of the priest when he was surprised’, which he had learned from Nouvel.
The old man seemed to be more excited when he played the match.
The old man looked around and said cautiously.
“People say it was the work of a dark follower. But some people said this. This is what the ‘remnants of the old empire’ did.”
* * *
the next morning.
Cynthia’s face was not bright.
It was because of the conversation I had with my uncle Harold yesterday.
‘What the hell is this that my aunt is dead… … .’
Cynthia looked at her hand.
After returning to the Imperial Palace, she put on the gloves to block magic and magic again.
In fact, she had never really seen her aunt’s face.
Uncle was very sensitive to her magical powers and magic.
Because of this, I never properly introduced my family to my nephew, Cynthia.
Although it wasn’t someone I knew, Cynthia’s mood had to subside because her aunt passed away.
‘Is it because of your mood? Somehow, my fingertips are numb and my body is heavy.’
That was then.
bruise!
Fenrir entered through the window opened for ventilation.
“Fenrir?”
Cynthia was surprised to meet Fenrir.
Fenrir had a ball in his mouth that he had obtained from somewhere.
It was as if he knew her gloom and wanted to comfort her.
“Fufu, thank you.”
After a slight smile, Cynthia threw the ball.
The ball flew in a parabola.
Heh heh heh!
Fenrir teased his short legs and chased the ball hard.
That was when the two of them were spending a lot of time together.
Ethan came to her room.
“what. Where did you go, you were here.”
Ethan looked at Fenrir with a displeased face.
Fenrir, who was biting the ball and looking back, dropped the ball from his mouth.
The tail, which had been waving wildly with excitement, also calmed down.
‘I think something is embarrassing.’
So Cynthia deliberately spoke to Ethan.
“What happened in the morning?”
“I’m trying to find him.”
Ethan pointed to Fenrir.
“I heard that you travel around a lot? Something like a cemetery or a memorial tower.”
“Because there are a lot of people who died in the war. As a priest, if there is a place that comforts people’s souls, you should go there.”
As a result of watching Ethan, he was a very faithful priest.
Cynthia quickly understood.
“If you’re going to visit the castle, would you like to hire someone?”
“no. You don’t have to. All I need is this guy.”
At Ethan’s reply, Fenrir’s ears perked up.
Fenrir looked at Ethan suspiciously.
It’s like, ‘Why all of a sudden?’ seemed to
Either way, Ethan picked up Fenrir with one hand.
Even if people were banned from entering the cemetery, they wouldn’t be able to ban even animals.
‘If you don’t know, you should try using this guy.’
Cynthia waved her hand with a sad face.
“Goodbye, Fenrir.”
Leaving Cynthia behind, Ethan left the room.
widely.
As soon as the door closed, Fenrir looked up at Ethan.
Fenrir’s eyes fluttered.
Ethan looked down at Fenrir and smiled sinisterly.
He had a face like a villain plotting a scheme.
* * *
near the cemetery.
Ethan hid behind a nearby building and looked at the entrance to the cemetery.
The guards stood like this, two at the entrance to the cemetery and two near someone’s grave.
‘That must be the tomb of the Duchess.’
Fenrir was tucked into Ethan’s side in thought.
Fenrir’s eyes had no soul, like those of Dongtai’s.
He seemed to have resigned himself to going like this.
‘When should I release this guy?’
That was when Ethan was worried.
A strange sight entered his eyes.
‘That old man?’
The old man with a crooked back appeared, whom Ethan had spoken to yesterday.
The old man looked around alertly and approached the Duchess’s grave.
Then the soldier guarding the tomb pretended to know first.
“Gary, are you still wandering around here? I don’t have to work as a graveyard now, so I can go home and rest.”
“Heh heh heh. It’s not easy because I’ve been here all my life.”
Ethan’s eyes narrowed when he saw it.
‘no wonder. It was a graveyard.’
The old gravekeeper asked the guard slyly.
“Hmm, but who hasn’t come here today?”
“Well. There are a lot of people coming and going because of the investigation and everything, so it’s hard to say who came.”
Then the old gravekeeper mobilized hand gestures.
“He’s taller than you and has a pretty good physique. His hair is black and his eyes are blue. And at first glance, it looks unlucky.”
“What? What do you mean by bad luck?”
“Literally. Just by looking at it, it doesn’t look cheap.”
The guard scratched the back of the head with a puzzled face.
“I don’t know what you mean, but I don’t think such a person has come.”
“I think that’s what I saw on that lukewarm face.”
The old man at the graveyard was relieved then.
‘Black hair and blue eyes? Is it me?’
Ethan frowned upon hearing their conversation.
It was just a description of himself.
‘Something is winning. You mean to keep me out of the cemetery in the first place?’
If so, what we met on the road yesterday could have been a disguise.
By asking the destination, if they were going to the cemetery, it must have been a plan to block it, or just pretend.
Meanwhile, Gary was relieved and chatted with the guard.
Then something caught Gary’s eyes.
‘I, why is that?!’
A small piece of wood had fallen near the dug up tomb.
“By the way, what is that? No trash.”
“Hahaha, are you protecting the grave even when you are off work? That’s a fragment of a wooden coffin in the Duchess’s grave. I told you not to touch it because it’s still under investigation.”
“Ugh. That’s right.”
Gary looked at the shards of wood as if hesitantly.
‘damn. It’s a pity we didn’t deal with it in advance.’
But the guards were watching, so I couldn’t do anything.
Gary sighed and left the cemetery.
‘I can’t do anything with such small fragments anyway.’
Without realizing that there was a shadow following him.
* * *
late evening.
Lights were lit here and there, but it was still dark around the cemetery.
Ethan was squatting in the shade of a nearby tree.
‘damn. It was just a waste of time.’
During the day, he followed the old gravekeeper, but nothing was saved.
All that was left now was to hope that there were some clues left in the tomb.
Ethan placed his hand on Fenrir’s small torso.
“hey.”
Fenrir looked at Ethan with a dissatisfied expression on his face.
Ethan pointed towards the cemetery and ordered.
“If you go over there, there will be an excavated grave. If there is anything suspicious there, smell it and come back.”
Crumble.
Who are you treating as a dog?!
Fenrir growled low as if saying so.
But Ethan didn’t care.
“Then what was it that you were playing with the princess in the morning? He’s a ruthless dog.”
ok.
Fenrir had nothing to say.
It was all my fault for losing my body in front of the ball.
Only this one time.
Fenrir growled again in that sense.
“Come on, let’s go.”
Ethan patted the white dog’s ass and urged it.
Fenrir approached the cemetery with a grim expression.