Episode 372
Episode 122. Coronation (5)
Heisl vomited everything right away.
Where did he first get involved with the blue dagger, where did he try to hand over the money he had stolen from the nobles, and how did he communicate with them?
However, none of the information was available. He didn’t even know exactly when he got drunk on ‘the rose’.
“Ah, maybe it’s time to have tea with them…
“Tea? Did you drink tea? Heisl I knew you. What kind of group is the blue dagger?”
Heisl couldn’t answer Katherine’s question. As soon as Natalie bit her fingers with a blank face, she screamed and spewed out the truth.
“Ah! Originally, I was just trying to scare you. I didn’t really want to kill it! ”
The fact that Heizl had a plan to do something with Yuma by commissioning them.
However, in the process, he became intoxicated with ‘roses’ and changed his route to a much more radical direction of conspiring to assassinate the coronation.
“I was trying to scare Yuma with those assassins… He’s a very interesting young boy.”
“ha.”
Catherine let out a deep sigh. In the first place, Heisl
knew the identity of the ‘blue dagger’.
No matter how incompetent an idiot he is, Jacques is Jacques. Catherine had tried to spare him somehow if he had been drugged and plotted an assassination against his will.
However, since he found out that Heisl was targeting Yuma from the beginning, there was no way to save him.
“It’s embarrassing to get rid of a member of the family with my own hands, but I can’t help it, Heizel.”
“They probably approached you intentionally.”
“Even if Natalie is, so is it.”
“I am of the same opinion. How will I handle it?”
“As if he was killed by his father for committing evil within the family.”
First of all, Natalie hurriedly sent a dagger to the meeting place between Heizl and them, but all he brought was a trace of a blue dagger.
“You found this at Lake Vile, where Heisl was supposed to meet them?”
“Yes, Lord.”
What Dan brought was a dagger coated with brilliant blue poison.
As if they knew in advance that this would happen, they left the daggers in the open area in front of the lake and disappeared.
“You play with us so much… you bastards.”
said Natalie, fiddling with the dagger.
“No matter how you think about it, there are too many nobles involved. Natalie, you better cover this as much as possible.”
Catherine said, and Natalie bit the pipe.
Nearly twenty aristocratic families were involved in Heisl’s plot to assassinate him. If this incident was raised to the surface and all of them were purged, the already dizzying situation would be irreversible.
“According to Heisl and Bape, it seems that everyone was forced to participate in a situation where their lives were threatened. If all those families are destroyed, the empire will fall into chaos again.”
“The administrative vacuum will grow. Besides, the activities of Yuma and the Zach family will also be limited. But, lady, this problem cannot be covered.”
“Why?”
“Because they were targeted by the blue dagger. The assassination will begin soon. And maybe the middle and middle nobles don’t have the power to stop them.”
“Ah, of course, as the lady is concerned, the possibility of this incident itself being revealed is low. The blue dagger will cut off their throats before they drop their heads in the imperial family.”
“How can I save them?”
“If you don’t know how many, it’s impossible to protect all those families even if we attach escorts ourselves. I don’t think there’s any need to save them. If I had been forced to make a choice, I should have asked for help later.”
“I think you are right, Natalie. But are those blue daggers really that great?”
Whoa…
Natalie’s pipe smoke enveloped the daggers they left behind.
“A considerable number of people entered the capital, but even we hadn’t been able to figure it out until recently. In addition, to the strangeness that suddenly appears in the secret room. The blue dagger that was dismantled 30 years ago was originally great, but this time it seems that even demons are involved.”
“Hoeju, Yuma-sama’s reply just came. It says that it is impossible to move the coronation date.”
Looking at Chen’s reply, Natalie immediately realized Hella’s intentions.
“Yes, you couldn’t have done that as the empress of the empire.
i get it.”
As expected by Natalie, a few days later, the nobles gathered at the Cannons began to die one by one.
However, it was a form of death that could not be considered an ‘assassination’ from a general point of view. Falling off a horse, dying of a heart attack while enjoying pleasure, or stumbling.
Most of them were not very influential people, so it wasn’t a big problem.
However, because of the deaths of the nobles that continued day after day, a disturbing atmosphere continued and strange rumors circulated.
They were all at the hands of the blue dagger.
Natalie did nothing to prevent their assassination except to protect Bape as promised.
Instead, I put more effort into seeing if they left a ‘mark’ on others.
Since the entire Rose Society was tied up, it was too much work just to find additional markers. They hadn’t left a mark on anyone except those gathered at Cannon Street.
In the meantime, the route through which the ‘rose’ was leaked was also being investigated, but no clear results were found. It was only natural for Natalie to witness the moment the terrible drug was discarded.
‘Then, does that mean that one of them knows how to make a rose…
it was impossible.
Before Yuma proceeded to purge the Rose Society, there were a total of five people in the Rose Society who knew the recipe for ‘rose’.
Natalie, the current owner, and Sheila Myomei, Sirgatu Ha Kila, the previous owners.
However, except for Natalie, everyone else is dead. During the Rose Society’s purge, Yuma personally killed Sheila and Myomei Sirgatu, and Hakila, who escaped, was possessed by Rakir and died in the east.
‘There’s no way they leaked the rose recipe. I don’t know if I tried to use it myself. Besides, everyone died then.’
Suddenly, a conversation she had with Yuma during the purge flashed through Natalie’s mind.
-We’re a dark group anyway, so we have the best strength. You just have to press down with force and make them succumb. Taking the Empire’s invasion of Haseo as the justification. Other guys don’t matter. It’s the former party owners that are the problem.
-How many members of the previous generation are there?
-four. There were five until a few years ago, but one is old and gone. He was the most notorious human being. fortunately that
Marca, the most notorious rose owner of all time, died of natural causes from old age.
Marka’s ‘intact’ corpse was only identified by some elders at the time. Natalie, who was the head of the royal family at the time, tried to hold a funeral with the former members of the royal family, but was unable to because she was carrying out King Haseo’s request.
Natalie and the previous members could only see Marka’s make-up.
‘I’ll have to consider the possibility that the old man is still alive. It may have already been a bond with the demons from then on. Deliberately arranging death when we can’t get there right away.’
Catherine reported this to Duran. Although the possibility of his father’s runaway was a concern, it was absurd to deal with such a serious matter without the knowledge of the head of the household.
“It almost became a traitorous family. What about Heisl?”
“I dealt with it.”
“Good job. If I had seen the waiting list, I would have been impatient and would have beaten them all. How come these days, small and medium-sized nobles have been dying in droves, and it was an assassination…
“Wouldn’t he delay the coronation date even if my father went and asked for it?”
“It will. And I also think that the date should not be delayed. Daughter, I will have to stay by your Majesty’s side for a while, so you can take care of the rest. Don’t tell your brothers about this.”
Fortunately, Duran’s anger ended to the extent that Zach destroyed part of the mansion.
In the process, some of Randell’s newly collected collections were destroyed, but he himself was not aware of it because he was tied to the imperial castle.
There was a mountain of work to dig up and organize, but time never waited. Even the whereabouts of the blue dagger have not yet been identified, but the day of the coronation has arrived.
In the end, the Jangmihoe had no choice but to work on the secret escort in a super nervous state.
The imperial orchestra gathered in the imperial garden was playing the national anthem of the empire.
A majestic and majestic tone enveloped the entire garden, and Empress Asuka Rose was at the center of it.
Hela was kneeling in front of her with her eyes closed. Royals and nobles from all over the West, including the Empire, lined up and waited.
“Asuka Rosé, who became the master of all steel in the world under the name of the great Rosé. Jim wishes to pass this honored position on to my daughter today.”
When Asuka Rose stood up, everyone present knelt.
Standing alone in the crowd, Asuka Rosé was still full of dignity, but the traces of the years were clearly visible.
The golden coffin on top of her neatly combed gray hair and her slender neck with slightly trembling hands looked exceptionally heavy.
“This is the opinion of people who have looked at Jim for Tekken. It is made of the blood and iron of my youth, but I have always felt ashamed in front of that name.”
“It’s embarrassing.”
“I realized in my later years that there are many things more important than strength when it comes to governing the land. My daughter will be a superior ruler to me.”
Originally, when the emperor bestowed something, it was the duty of the recipient to move, but the coronation ceremony was the opposite.
It was the law for Asuka to walk directly to Hela.
Yuma thought about many things while looking at Hela’s accession to the throne, which was completely different from before the return. Unlike then, the Rokshire Tragedy occurred, so the coronation ceremony was somewhat reduced.
He, too, had been receiving reports from the Rose Society all along. No one had shown any suspicious movements yet, but even on this auspicious day, I couldn’t help but feel nervous.
“Be good. You will never see your name engraved in history, but I believe you will.”
“Okay, mom.”
Asuka took off the coffin and put it on Hella.
There was no one clapping. It was because it was after Hella’s barefoot tour was over.
“Baron Yuma Drake, please come to the center.”
Yuma was wearing the Nightmare instead of the Chairman’s Armor. It was unacceptable to wear uncomfortable armor in the yard with the threat of a blue dagger.
As Yuma stood beside Hella with modest steps, the royal family bell rang once and the palace gates began to open. The bells were to continue until the end of the barefoot tour.
Then, as per the law, Yuma bent down and took off Hella’s shoes. Chief eunuch Arantino accepted the shoes wrapped in cloth.
“Let’s go, Baron Drake.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
When he called Hella anew, Yuma felt strange.
In this life, with the hope that she will be a sage until the end, Yuma began to follow Hella as she left the imperial castle.
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