007 Her news (1)
“The two robbers, Sinky and Peter, were the same age and build as the dead children. Crucially, the fact that they were twins matched the paperwork, so I had no doubts during the interview. The Imperial Guard speculates that someone working in the Berang family must have received money from Shin-guk to hand over the information on the candidate for the servant.”
“Did you get intelligence on the Verang Twins in the new country and send those who meet the conditions to turn them into assassins?”
“okay. It was planned before you came here.”
money. Selling the lives of 13-year-olds just for money.
I trembled at the exhaustion that touched my skin.
Eun-seo never talked about this aspect of ‘Toegye-gong’.
Is this the original novel? Or is it that only the surroundings of the ‘Sub Namjoo’ are so disturbing?
If that was the case, Eun-seo’s attitude, who was always pitiful for the prince, was understandable.
“I was thoroughly educated to be your servant, so I wasn’t the kid who would fail the exam. They were the faces I had seen since the interview, so neither the chieftain and Benjamin were suspicious.”
Cardinal Boutier concluded his speech calmly.
“So what happened? Did you execute him?”
“Still alive.”
Her eyes looking at me were strange.
“Thanks to you for being so good. I put an oracle on it to prevent it from voluntarily. In the ‘normal’ case, the assassination failed and the caught would take their own life to protect their master.”
“then······.”
“okay. I was caught by the Guards without dying, so I had to reveal everything I knew.”
“Are you tortured?”
I bit my lip.
I never forgave them for what they did to me.
Even though we had been close for a week or so, my hatred and disappointment towards the killers didn’t go away either.
However, the limits of punishment that Koreans in the 21st century could accept were also clear.
It is reasonable for a criminal to go to jail.
You’ll need a newspaper to catch the teacher.
However, it was something I couldn’t easily comprehend to be harsh with people, especially children in their early teens.
“I would have done it if I had been away, but fortunately I am pretty good at it.”
The beige eyes were slightly curved.
“My oracle is very strong. It is not difficult to wash the heads of children who have been brainwashed all their lives.”
That’s good.
After examining my complexion, she laughed out loud this time.
“As you said, he’s a kind kid.”
“No, punishment is absolutely necessary. Even if they were minors, they killed three people, and they tried to kill me too.”
“okay. Since you were targeting the royal family of a foreign country staying in the Imperial Palace, you will be charged with attempting to assassinate the royal family. Even if the Berang and his wife save their lives at your own mercy, they will have to live in atonement for the rest of their lives.”
I nodded.
It was only me who barely lived, but I felt sorry for the two children and the driver who lost their lives like lightning.
“Then can I ask a question now?”
“yes? to me?”
“I don’t think all your questions have been answered. I just want to clear up some of the questions I’ve been getting for the past three days.”
“······ I will answer with all my heart.
I’ve been fainting for three days.
I tried to think only of that, and looked straight into the cardinal’s mysterious eyes.
She opened her mouth carefully.
“You are in the new country… I know I was not respected.”
Well, I knew this too.
This is because Eun-seo mentioned Jesse Penetian’s poor family history, and it was also published in the latest issue of ＜Biweekly Lister>.
Unlike the two princesses born to Kuk-seo, Prince Jesse was said to be the son of the king through an affair with a priest.
“There is no one in the Empire that is unaware that the person who insisted on sending you as a hostage was Berner, the governor of the New Kingdom.”
After all, it seems that the prince was a thorn in the eyes of Jung-sil’s husband.
Then he must be the one who sent the assassin.
I reacted bluntly. Cardinal Bootier continued to speak quietly.
“It is no surprise that he sent you an assassin. If the prince dies as a hostage, he could shift the blame to the Empire, so it must have been a good plan for Guk-seo. This is what the Assassin Brothers also admitted.”
“okay.”
“They said they planned to disguise themselves as suicide after killing you. Just in case you were under investigation for the theft of a temple, I think you were meant to cover it up.”
I wish I had sent him as a hostage, and I wonder if he was even going to kill me, but this has to do with Prince Jesse being the priest’s son.
The position of a priest in the new kingdom is absolute.
The immediate royal family are baptized as soon as they are born and raised as priests.
Whether you grow up to be a swordsman or a wizard, it means that those who are close to the throne unconditionally hold the title of priest.
The only way for a person who was not in the immediate royal family to become a priest was to be born with a strong divine power, but reading history books, it seems that this is not a common occurrence.
In particular, it was said that there is only one case in a generation where a commoner who is not related by blood to the royal family becomes a priest.
So, it was not an exaggeration to say that the king of a new country fell in love with a priest from commoners and had a child called ‘the romance of the century that shook the continent’.
The people of the new kingdom supported the legitimacy of the king’s first child, Crown Princess Elissa, but they sent absolute and fervent love to Jesse, the priest’s son.
A popular prince with purple eyes that only appear in the blood of the gods.
In a way, it was natural for the Crown Princess’s father, Werner Guk-seo, to feel a sense of crisis.
By the way, these are all the contents I memorized while opening a book and drawing someone else’s family tree.
The only thing Eun-seo said was that Prince Jesse was an extramarital child, had purple eyes, and that ‘the atmosphere in the house was just a crisis’.
“By the way, Guk-seo doesn’t seem to have thought that you would have such a strong divine power. Aren’t those two kids your opponents?”
Cardinal Bootier’s eyes widened.
I swallowed my saliva. From this point on, it was something I couldn’t understand.
If you knew that Prince Jesse was a powerful priest, it would have been right to send someone superior to him to deal with him quietly.
But the assassins of Guk-seo were helplessly caught up in the etheric explosion that I had caused, and they obeyed my oracle.
‘Nonsense······. There is no way you have such divine power!’
‘Are you really stealing something new?!’
I remembered the words the two guys shouted to me. The faces that were more shocked than I was at the power I had erupted.
It was strange. Prince Jesse was born and raised in the royal castle of the New Kingdom.
If he had a strong innate power, Guk-seo, the hostess of the castle, could not have noticed it earlier.
Then, is it the divine power acquired after leaving the new country?
whenever? No, is that possible?
Gradually my knee hurt. I just decided to be honest.
“I don’t even know what happened.”
“Hmm.”
“I didn’t know I had such a strong divine power. I just prayed to the Lord, thinking that I could not die like this.”
“Then it turns out that an ether powerful enough to break down the wall has exploded. The sanctuary was large enough to cover the entire room.”
“······yes.”
She tilted her head at an angle.
It was as if a chill was reflected on his face, whose expression had disappeared.
“Have you ever stolen something from the ‘Temple of the Boundary’?”
“no.”
I answered immediately.
I don’t know why the question jumped that way, but since I’m innocent, there’s no need to hesitate.
Then the cardinal slowly closed his eyes.
[Please forgive this child’s lies.]
As soon as she spoke, a huge golden circle appeared on the bedroom floor.
It was a splendid and elaborate sanctuary that could not be compared with the one I had opened.
While being overwhelmed by the dazzling pattern, the circle turned around and quietly disappeared.
It was then that I realized what she had done to me.
“just now······.”
“I used the sacrament of Confession to see through your lies. Sorry.”
she laughed bitterly.
“He who confesses and is forgiven gets a special etheric reaction. Seeing that the sanctuary is silent, it seems that you have no sin for which you are forgiven. I was telling the truth.”
Wow, some people use the sacrament of confession as a lie detector. Can the cardinal do this?
I was purely amazed that the sacraments could be so useful.
I was also relieved to know that Prince Jesse had never stolen anything without my knowledge.
“Then, I’ll get up and see.”
While I was stunned, she got up from her seat.
“There are many more things I want to ask, but there is someone calling me.”
Wait, are you going like this? is this the end?
It was as sudden a declaration of departure as the first time I met her.
“Are you going right away?”
“Mon, Wed, Fri 11am. I’ll leave the door to my office open. Feel free to come and ask any questions.”
It was a line that reminded me of my advisor when I was in college.
I was planning to extract as much information as I could from the cardinal, so it was a very good suggestion for me.
I calmly shook my head.
“Oh, will you congratulate Elizabeth when she comes? It was the first thing I noticed that the twins were suspicious.”
The cardinal spoke one last time before leaving the door.
“If it’s Elizabeth, Sir Frameless?”
“yes. I’m a humble kid, so I wouldn’t say it first.”
*
“When I was young, I stayed with the Crown Prince at Baron Berang. The children of the Baron couple I saw at that time seemed to be identical twins no matter how much I thought about them, but it struck me that they had grown up as twins who did not look alike at all.”
“It is.”
“There must be no such thing, but it must be the sixth sense of the commander of the Imperial Guard. So I hurried to the portal and sent someone to the baron to check the facts. I also sought opinions from the Crown Prince. Indeed, I was right.”
Humility, humility, who said it?
I took a sip of pumpkin tea as I watched Sir Elizabeth recount her saga with a very proud face.
Seeing Canael’s swollen and swollen face from my worries, I asked the kitchen first.
“The baroness and wife had not heard from their sons for a long time, but since portal mail is expensive, they said they waited, believing that the letter would come by carriage mail. I would never have imagined that such a thing would happen to children.”
Sir Elizabeth wrinkled her nose in pity.
Even when we first met, I felt that he wasn’t a very docile person, but he seemed to be a much more diverse and lively person than I had imagined.
Did you pick up the weight because you came for an investigation that day?
“It was at that time that I led the Guards to the Juliet Palace as soon as I received the confirmation from the baron. Sorry for not acting sooner.”
“No, thank you. If Sir Elizabeth had not come then, my life would have been in jeopardy.”
“I just did what I had to do.”
She smiled brightly, her gray eyes twinkling.
“The Juliet Palace is in the most remote part of the Imperial Palace, so access is difficult. The threat was low and sentries were kept to a minimum. It will be different in the future.”
While she was talking about the Juliet Palace’s plans to hire more guards, I wondered if I should ask about his ‘temple treasure theft’.
Now that the cardinal has confirmed that I am not the culprit, it has nothing to do with me.
To be honest, I’m curious about the whole story, but if it was an incident that Eunseo had never talked about, it wouldn’t be very important, but I wondered if there was any need to show interest.
“Ah, when you attend the spring prom, I’ll attach an escort to you.”
“Yes? A ball?”
I asked coldly. All my thoughts flowed out like an ebb.