683 SEE YOU AT THE PARTY
NEOMA COULD die happily now.
But, of course, she didn’t an it literally.
She was just really happy that Audey, the elf prince, allowed her to et Yurian– the majestic unicorn.
Right now, they were in front of a forest that looked similar to the Hazelden Kingdom’s Frozen Woods. The fairies already left the North, and it was now the elves’ turn to leave. Fortunately, Yurian agreed to et Neoma before leaving.
And the best part?
Yurian allowed Neoma to hug her.
“This is such an honor, Yurian,” Neoma said emotionally. After hugging the beautiful unicorn, she gently ran her hand through Yurian’s silky-smooth and soft mane. “Thank you for letting touch you.”
Oho?
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The unicorn addressed her Mama Boss casually.
“Are you acquainted with my mother?”
She was pleasantly surprised by that piece of information. “Then I can’t address you casually since you’re my mother’s childhood friend. Can I call you ‘Aunt Yurian?'”
“Please just treat as your childhood friend’s daughter, Aunt Yurian.”
Yurian said in a kind voice.
Neoma smiled awkwardly. “I inherited all of my father’s bad genes, Aunt Yurian. But it’s okay because, at least, I received Papa Boss’ beauty genes. Plus, I’m still amazing because I also inherited all of my mother’s good genes.”
She heard the unicorn laugh softly in her head.
“I often hear that, Auntie.”
“Of course, Auntie,” she said while nodding eagerly. “To be honest, I’ve always loved unicorns. It’s my childhood dream to et one, and I’m glad that it finally ca true.”
[I just had to wait for at least sixty years, but it was worth it.]
Yurian said.
Neoma smiled and nodded. “Thank you so much, Aunt Yurian!”
***
“OPPA, I feel bad that I’m leaving all the work to you,” Neoma said to Jasper while he was walking her to the portal where Ruto and Dahlia were already waiting for her. “Toni Crowell and her underlings are still keeping quiet, aren’t they?”
“It’s alright, Princess Neoma,” Jasper oppa said. “I can’t fully exercise my authority here since the crows were caught in Viscount Morrisey’s territory. But I can share how House Hawthorne makes our prisoners talk.”
Oh, it was probably torture.
Neoma would often forget that Jasper oppa was a ruthless person.
[It’s because oppa treats well, and he’s also nice to my people.]
But the Duke Jasper Hawthorne that the empire knew was a cold and stern ruler. It made sense since he beca a duke at such a young age. He had to fight his greedy relatives who wanted to steal his position from him.
[Jasper oppa wouldn’t be the youngest duke in the empire if he was kind-hearted.]
“Oppa, I respect you a lot.”
Jasper oppa looked confused at first, then he laughed softly while shaking his head. “Thank you, Princess Neoma. I won’t let you down.”
“Hey, I’m serious.”
“I know,” he said, still chuckling. “Princess Neoma, when should we report about this incident to Prince Nero? As the Crown Prince, he still has the right to know about the tragedy that occurred here.”
“Nero already knows.”
“Hmm?”
“The last ti I saw Nero, we fought.”
“Your Royal Highness won, right?”
“Of course,” she said proudly. “I didn’t even summon Tteokbokki. It was Grandpa Kingston who fought Zeru.”
“Prince Nero’s ice phoenix?”
“That’s right,” she said, nodding. “The ice phoenix was there, but not Sev– the ice wolf.”
The young duke paused for a mont before he spoke. “Oh. Did Prince Nero leave his other Soul Beast here in the North?”
“Nero has snippets of his past life’s mories,” she said. “He also knows that the North is going to flourish soon. In the first tiline, the North even surpassed the South.”
This ti, her oppa looked shocked. “But the Quinzels are arguably the richest noble household in the empire.”
“The territory was mismanaged in the first tiline,” she said, snippets of her mories as Neoma Quinzel flooding her mind at the mont. “There was a ti when Duke Rufus was sent to several wars continuously. Hence, Duchess Amber was left in charge of managing the territory on her own.”
At the ti, Neoma Quinzel was in charge of the finances of the Quinzel Estate in the Royal Capital.
However, soone else was in charge of the Evedane Duchy.
“Duchess Amber was growing weak at the ti, so she handed her authority to another person,” Neoma said bitterly. “She handed it to Regina Crowell.”
She didn’t care that Duchess Amber handed her authority to Regina instead of her because it happened during the ti she found out about Rubin and Regina’s illicit affair.
Instead of caring about the Evedane Duchy, Neoma Quinzel wasted her ti finding the Black Witch. Shortly after that, she was killed by Nero. That was when the mories of her first life ended.
[The rest was sealed.]
“No wonder the North surpassed the South,” Jasper oppa said while shaking her head. “The crows probably stole from the Quinzels using Regina Crowell.”
“That’s what I thought, too,” Neoma agreed with her oppa. “I wasn’t in my sane mind back then, while Duke Rufus was barely present during that ti. Hence, it would have been easy for Regina Crowell to bring House Quinzel to ruins.”
Of course, she wasn’t so sure about that.
[In the snippets of the past that I retrieved a few years ago, Ruto and my Four Pillars brought back to life. Hence, Hanna could have been alive back then. I’m sure Hanna wouldn’t let her family fall from grace.]
“Princess Neoma, is Prince Nero’s ice wolf hiding sowhere here?”
“I can feel its presence, but it’s hiding really well while watching us from afar,” she confird while nodding her head. “And aside from Sev, I’m sure Count Lucchesi already sent a secret ssage to his son.”
Jasper oppa gasped as if he just rembered sothing important. “Right. Count Lucchesi’s son is Prince Nero’s secretary.”
“Yep,” Neoma confird, smiling. “I bet lvin Lucchesi is already having a breakdown at the mont.”
***
“YOUR ROYAL Highness the Crown Prince, I respectfully resign–”
“Rejected,” Nero said without even looking up to look at lvin, his secretary, who was trying to hand in his resignation letter for the nth ti already. He was already annoyed by the report that he was reading. Hence, his secretary adding to his list of problems wasn’t appreciated. “lvin, don’t annoy . I’m already upset that the woman claiming to be my twin sister has exercised her power on the North as if she was a recognized mber of the Royal Family.”
Yes, that was the content of the report that he was reading at the mont.
The report was sent by Count Tyler Lucchesi, lvin’s father.
But even if the count didn’t send an urgent letter, he would have still found out what happened to the North because Sev was there.
[My ice wolf witnessed everything.]
He was actually about to send Raku and Sanford to the North as reinforcent, but he changed his mind when Sev inford him of the appearance of his so-called twin sister.
“I wanted to know what she’d do, so I let her act as she pleased.”
But now, he was pissed at the result.
“She’s trying to pull the lords of the North to her side,” Nero said bitterly, then he raised his head to frown at lvin who looked depressed after his resignation letter was denied. “It seems like she also knows the secret of the North.”
When he said ‘secret of the North,’ he was talking about how the North would flourish into a rich territory soon.
“Are you talking about the weird dreams that you would often have, Prince Nero?” lvin asked, and he still looked depressed. “The dream where the North surpassed the South when it cos to wealth and influence?”
“You sound like you don’t believe it.”
“Well, House Quinzel rules the South, so…”
He couldn’t bla lvin for thinking that way.
Even so, he also couldn’t ignore his dreams.
.....
[Those dreams also led to Dahlia…]
Ah, he should stop thinking about another woman when his engagent with Hanna would be announced officially soon.
“Prince Nero, what are we going to do about the North?” lvin asked worriedly. “Duke Hawthorne is already there. I can’t believe that the cold and vicious duke is working with the self-proclaid princess.”
“Duke Hawthorne is working FOR my alleged twin sister,” he said, correcting his secretary. “Do you think that woman is the type who would work WITH soone else? Not at all. She looks like the bossy type.”
“Why are you being defensive of her, Prince Nero? If she turns out to be your real twin sister, then she might challenge you for the throne.”
“I’m not defensive of her?”
“You are, Prince Nero,” lvin said in a tired voice. “Please let resign already.”
“No,” Nero said firmly, then he stood up. “Let’s talk about this later– I’m going to visit Hanna first before she forgets what I look like.”
“Your Highness, are you sure we should just gloss over what happened to the North?”
“The Northern Lords haven’t sent a formal report yet, so I’ll just pretend I don’t know anything.”
“We will just let the self-proclaid princess act as if she’s a real mber of the Royal Family?” lvin asked worriedly. “I know I shouldn’t question your decision, Prince Nero. But the self-proclaid princess scares …”
Well, the “self-proclaid princess” was indeed scary.
[She’s scary because I can tell she doesn’t give empty threats– she’s the real deal.]
Even so, every fiber of his being seed to be looking forward to eting the arrogant woman again.
And he knew they would again sooner than expected.
“Don’t worry, we’ll et her again soon,” Nero said while headed towards the door. “I have a feeling that she’s going to crash Calyx’s banquet.”
[I would if I was her– and I have a feeling that we think alike.]
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