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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 24
Chapter Title: A Useful Pawn
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“What about that child?”
“I have returned her to the East Tower where she was staying. What are your orders, Your Majesty?”
The attendant who had gone to fetch Lellia reported, bowing his head before the emperor. Raidios narrowed his eyes and tapped the armrest of his chair with his fingertips.
“Let her live for now. She may be useful again. Station soldiers at a distance so she doesn't notice, and report if you see anything unusual.”
“Understood, Your Majesty.”
She was just a child who could be killed at any time. It would be a waste to kill her so easily, especially since another occasion might arise to have her act as the Crown Prince's double.
‘Still, she’s royalty. If I keep her alive, she’ll surely be of some use.’
Or perhaps it would be good to have her continue to stand in for the Crown Prince at official events until she was a bit older.
For the past three years, Crown Prince Leo had lived safely under Raidios’s shadow.
Officially, everyone believed the Crown Prince had gone to the neutral zone, and there was no evidence of the information having been leaked.
But Raidios could not yet rest easy.
‘Why do I feel so uneasy…?’
He was certain his brother, Perseus, and his brother’s two sons were all dead.
Had he not killed Perseus’s wife with his own hands? And the child she carried in her womb had died as soon as it was born.
They were all dead. He had killed them all, so why did this unsettling feeling remain?
He soon shook his head. It was a useless worry. They were all dead and gone anyway.
Never to return.
