“Mourning, you say? I’m eating right now.” Rowell calmly ate a piece of at from the bowl while staring at Ardion. He didn’t like the cold gaze looking down at him, but he could tell why his brother had co all the way here.
“You seem to have co to ask a favor, but judging from your attitude so far, I don’t really want to listen to you.”
Ardion clenched his fist. “You’re making a mistake right now. Release Laila imdiately.”
“A mistake… We only caught His Majesty’s murderer. How is it a mistake?”
“You know that’s not true! How long are you going to pretend like that?”
“So shallow. You take after your mother a lot when you get angry first.”
“…” Ardion glared at Rowell. Before he knew it, mana light was surrounding his arm.
Rowell stared at him with a sharp gaze. “How dare you use force in the palace. When I beco the emperor, I will have to correct your misbehavior first.”
“That is if my brother is still alive.” Ardion got up from his seat and approached Rowell. Mana light circled around him and entered Rowell. In an instant, various lights enveloped his neck and suffocated him.
“Ugh, ugh!” Rowell glared at Ardion stubbornly.
With a blank expression, Ardion said, “Please release Laila and remove the unjust cris.”
“I won’t release what’s already in my hands.” Rowell smiled.
Ardion’s face darkened, and his eyes began to look more and more murderous.
Before he could take action, Rowell glared at him and slowly spat, “Do you think you can… kill ?”
The mana light on Ardion’s arm seeped in even more.
Rowell grabbed his neck. “Hah, Ardion! How dare you…”
“I wonder why you think it’s impossible for to kill you. You can’t kill easily because of the oracle, but I can kill you.”
“You… Ah!”
“Did you think I’d tremble and beg again if you locked Laila up in prison?”
“…”
“Like when I begged for Laila’s life back then…?”
Rowell looked at Ardion with a hardened face. Ardion’s face seed to be out of focus, dangerous. His eyes seed to be glowing, and the smile on his lips was cruel and creepy.
“There’s one thing you’ve overlooked, Brother.” Ardion snickered.
Rowell's face turned red as he grabbed his neck and trembled.
"It's my nature. When I was young, you naturally saw as soone who would tremble in front of my brother, right?"
Rowell's eyes turned red, his glare full of malice.
Ardion continued speaking calmly. "So you only saw as soone who couldn't kill a single person. Why didn't you think of that when you sent to the frontier?"
"Huh… Ugh!"
"You've always been like that, Brother. You know one thing but not the other."
Rowell laughed at Ardion's words. "Heh… Even so, you can't kill . If you kill ... I'll kill Laila too."
Ardion's face, which had been calm the whole ti, hardened in an instant. "What do you an?"
“I gave Laila a magical drug when she fainted. The magical drug will activate automatically when I die.”
“…”
“Kill , and you’ll be killing Laila too.” Rowell looked at Ardion triumphantly. The mana strangling him disappeared in an instant, and he touched his throat.
“I… know one thing but not the other?” He exhaled and laughed. “That must be you, stupid punk. Laila is likely suffering even now. It’s the interrogation room of the most notorious prison.”
Rowell’s laughter rang out cruelly.
Ardion clenched his fist and rushed at Rowell. “What the hell did you do?! A magical drug? Are you crazy?”
Rowell looked at Ardion arrogantly. "I was already out of my mind when you ca to the palace and went to the temple after a few months. The world that had always revolved around started to turn away strangely after that oracle."
"…"
"I’ve hated you so much since then. You suddenly appeared as an illegitimate child and shook my life."
Ardion grabbed Rowell's hem.
Rowell gazed coldly at him.
"Get rid of the magical drug right now. Otherwise…"
"Ardion, isn't there a quicker way right now?" Rowell sneered as he watched Ardion tremble once again. "Kill and kill Laila. I'm fine either way. And Laila doesn't have a good reputation in this empire anyway, so people won't be sad if you kill her."
Ardion clenched his teeth, and tears landed on his trembling hands. “You dare to touch Laila?”
His green eyes glead ominously.
One of Rowell’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. “How can you say I touched her when it was just a magical drug? It’s rely in her body…”
Ardion struck Rowell across the face. Rowell fell to the side of the table and spat out blood. His face distorted for a mont.
“Shut up. I’m at the limit of my endurance now.”
Rowell took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his mouth as if he were wiping sothing dirty.
Ardion grabbed the hem of Rowell’s shirt again. “Tell . What’s the magical drug you gave Laila?”
Even as he spoke, his voice trembled endlessly.
But his brother only snickered in elation. “It’s so nice to see you trembling. Why don’t you try kneeling down and begging again?”
Ardion let go of his hem, and Rowell straightened his clothes.
He looked at Ardion, who still had his head down and was shedding tears. “You idiot. That’s why you shouldn’t have touched and left alone.”
Rowell clicked his tongue and rang the bell on the table. Soon later, there was a knock on the door.
“Co in.”
The door opened, and servants ca in.
“Yes, Your Highness?”
“Get him out of here. I detest seeing him crying so suddenly. It’s ruining my good mood.”
The servants looked at each other. Ardion was the prince, so it was difficult for them to approach him. In addition, there was the mana light circling around him.
“Why are you still standing there? Are you disobeying ?”
“N, no!”
They hurriedly approached Ardion.
“Your Highness, let’s go.” The servants carefully grabbed Ardion’s arm.
Ardion, whom they expected to react harshly, surprisingly let them grab his arms. They looked at him in surprise. He still had his head down, and he looked as if he had lost his mind and was in another world.
The servants brought Ardion out.
“Are you okay, Your Highness?”
“…”
Ardion was still silent. The servants looked at each other and left him in front of the door.
“I’ll call a healer, I guess…”
“I’m fine.”
Only then did Ardion raise his head. His deep green eyes looked hollow, as if they had lost their life.
“But in this state…”
“I said I’m fine.” The low voice was full of threat. Before long, the mana light began to circle around more of Ardion’s body. The servants hesitated for a mont before retreating. They quickly lowered their heads and left the hallway.
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“You can talk to rats…”
A voice ca out of nowhere.
Everyone looked at her and laughed heartily. For so reason, I felt thrilled whenever people paid attention to like this.
“Didn’t you see her use water magic earlier? She’s a mage.”
“I know that, but she’s a mage who can communicate with rats.”
“How is that possible?”
I replied, “I gave mana to Derol before. That’s how Derol barely ca back to life and started talking.”
“So you can talk to rats?”
“Yes, but strangely enough, Derol can talk to the prince too.”
“It’s no surprise since the prince’s mana is connected to all the elents,” the physician spoke softly.
There was silence for a mont, and then suddenly questions bombarded .
“Did you train that rat?”
“Isn’t that rat disgusting?”
“Does that rat eat at?”
Countless questions rang in my ears.
In response to the storm of questions, I started explaining, “First of all, this mouse’s na is Derol, and he doesn’t eat at but nuts. He sotis eats alworms, but he’s not a dangerous mouse.”
A few people sighed in relief.
“And Derol behaves well on his own even if I don’t train him. He likes clean things, so he’s good at cleaning.”
“What a strange rat.”
At that mont, I heard a sharp sound of soone scratching their ear. I looked into the hallway beyond the iron bars. Fortunately, the guards weren’t in sight.
“Any more questions?” I looked around the iron bars, intending to answer them all at once.
But seeing that there were no more questions, I turned my head away and stepped back.
“Then can’t we ask the other rats not to co here anymore?”
“Oh, is that possible? How can that little rat…”
At that mont, Derol squeaked. “Master, I t a strange rat on my way here. So I told it…”
“Eww! A rat, a rat!”
The reactions were even more intense than before. In surprise, I went to the iron bars and saw people running around inside the cell, stamping their feet.
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