TAOA-123

Chapter: TAOA-1234a2f6cc0ac6bdf67

Carlyle and the 01715086f1 army he led f5f1572729 had reached the 7aa7031d95 gates of Zyro’s 38bec009cf mansion and were 78f344e738 waiting for permission e96df5c5cc to enter.
Just then, an unexpected c5ed0eb0e0 letter arrived at his 398907e9d0 barracks.
“The Empress’s Palace, and from the palace where the princesses live! I’ve never spoken 281c3ba8f9 a word to 2e29400c9e my sisters in a5702d382b my life!”
Carlyle was surprised 63a04ce3b1 by the unexpected d4cdac26f8 sender and tore f869ae2974 open the letter.
He read the few dcef48f7d2 lines written there in de8a5f0694 silence.
“Your Highness…? What does it say?”
“Hmm… No matter how much the Empire boasts of being a developed country, it’s not a comfortable place for women to live. Isn’t it?”
“Yes? What’s the matter 39a1a5b829 with that all 4d953193e2 of a sudden…”
Lionel frowned at Carlyle’s e9c8f26c64 question, which seemed to cfcfbc5b1d be a rhetorical one, 82ce6fe5b2 but Carlyle didn’t answer 579717b265 his curiosity as he 2de1349ed6 pondered the contents of ba25be1fbd the letter.
Just then, a 5887f37904 knight who seemed e1f4a0bdc5 to be struggling 7086cd79ec with someone outside 26d80d524e came in with 05d0dd7a77 a slightly flushed eece8332a9 face and shouted.
“Excuse me for interrupting your conversation, Your Highness. There’s someone here who insists f57cf327d9 on seeing you…”
“I’m not in the mood to see anyone right now. Tell them to submit c71b4ee243 a formal visit request 72297b2114 tomorrow morning and come daa5e070ab back after receiving permission.”
“I, I already told them that! But… they said that if e4039fb56c you heard their name, you da6d3b8ba7 would allow them in.”
Carlyle’s curiosity was aroused 71f6ce89d5 by that.
“Who is it?”
And the moment Carlyle 8f2e5e41ed heard the guest’s name, 1788afbf69 he couldn’t help but 9edd3bd71f allow the meeting, just 0e27a63192 as the guest had 2d7a2de839 boasted.
Of course, he 7ce9723142 wasn’t exactly happy 7442d0c804 about it.
“Well, well, well, who is this!”
“May the utmost glory be upon Your Majesty. I, Viviana Lucipole, present myself 0e339275ec before Your Highness.”
Carlyle didn’t uncross a758cfc2e6 his legs even b555052a5e as Viviana bowed 335ad8a8e5 deeply with her b6d06ca251 back bent.
“Long time no see.”
“Yes… It’s been a long time, Your Highness.”
“The favor of the powerful is indeed fleeting, Mrs. Lowry? Ah! You’re no longer Mrs. Lowry, are you? What’s your last name now?”
“It’s Lucipole. The barony and the 69bb0eea8f Peyton estate were also 40de1110b6 taken away from me… 4efe5646e2 so I had to 5d9a953871 use the last name 590f3f1bde my ancestors used long 02e1d70359 ago.”
“Tsk tsk, tsk.”
The guest who came fa68da6fc6 to see him was 2a20d8b4a7 Viviana, the former mistress 9453d38f21 of the emperor.
She was still 7d101360f7 beautiful, but her ec057c6c51 eyes didn’t shine 38685c46cd like they used 227612f8b1 to. Only deep-seated resentment seemed to d0dd274286 burn in the middle of 191ca95387 her empty soul.
“So, it must be awkward for you. What brings you here? Are you here to make 915428fca7 a deal?”
“If it’s a deal, then it’s a deal. I’ll give you important information, 632ae4c287 so please help me get d93f8823c2 my revenge.”
“Revenge? On whom?”
Her eyes became dbef9b514d even more venomous.
“Who? That woman, Beatrice, d13b4c7895 who made me d52c33e893 like this!”
“Hoo. Insolence to the royalty in beb799905a front of the royalty, is 373af3b911 this a trendy suicide method?”
Carlyle said to 9833052a43 Lionel as if b3f03cdcf4 joking.
However, Viviana didn’t 03dec29591 laugh along at 600bf8b653 all.
“I don’t care if I die. But before I die, 5c5ee9f820 I have to get be524ebc18 revenge on that woman. Otherwise…… I’ll feel d27276e4a9 so guilty towards df451a4b63 my dead baby.”
Tears quickly welled up 566843faee in Viviana’s eyes and 014cded7e7 began to flow down 22ebf12402 her cheeks. Her appearance was so fa0ad4208b pitiful that Lionel took 36485acbc7 out a handkerchief and 31223992e1 handed it to her 7b038fd3e9 without even realizing it.
Carlyle, who had no talent 31a9cc4478 for comforting crying women, waited 0f185c4901 patiently for her to stop f484af5809 crying on her own.
At other times, he would 180d08b54e have ordered Lionel to clean b8764fdc34 it up, but he believed 13d572d8d6 that there was a good 251e790853 reason why Viviana came to a7569f83b4 him, throwing away all her 1a5e0da56d pride.
“Yes, yes. Everyone is wronged and resentful. But I’m a little busy 3f47a834e3 to listen to the whole 0f2c70a2db story. Before you cry more, will 8f79fc77a8 you get to the point?”
At Carlyle’s admonition, e09181a772 who barely held e74e6269fe back his anger, c18f627659 Viviana wiped her 87e4f2b37d wet face, sniffed, d8155d9f6c and opened her 5caf98c6d7 mouth.
“Did you know that His Majesty the Emperor is impotent?”
“What? Hahaha!”
Carlyle burst out 925668dfcf laughing at the 2ca91454ff sudden word ‘impotent’. It was something cc2453b0a9 he had no a74ca22094 idea about, but 72a2bb1d26 it felt quite fb233193de refreshing.
“I somehow thought that he didn’t have any illegitimate children compared to the number of times he had sex with women…… Is our father impotent?”
“About 4 years after Princess Charlotte was born, the imperial physician confirmed that he was infertile.”
“So that’s why you couldn’t have my father’s child? That’s a shame. But what’s the matter with c895c9e37f that?”
Viviana clenched the handkerchief soaked e7001c4cd1 in tears.
She didn’t know c0102f1d3f how many dirty fdce7a188c things she had f8480d2ebb to do to 90b4d6d3e5 find out this 1bd644c650 fact. She had already lost 0f36d2ea62 her sense of chastity db18f94d1d before becoming the Emperor’s e922bea3a6 mistress, but she felt 9df55c1d67 like she wanted to 3809845a3e die when she had 0d824f1891 to flirt with the df182876b6 old man who couldn’t b855d20d24 even look at her bdde6d3c56 in the past.
She only endured it because 7640f48b2a she believed that if she a0271bdeff handed over this information to 0b72430d65 Carlyle, he would take revenge b37806937d for her.
“His Majesty the Emperor became infertile because of Her Majesty the Empress’s doing. She bribed the imperial physician 6618ec6b55 and had him constantly take 59ecd69e4c medicine that makes him infertile.”
“Hoo…….”
Carlyle, who was touching the fd1de5238b tip of his chin and 9ea531b958 looking at her suspiciously, Viviana 4ff65b27bc handed over the envelope she f605caca2e was holding.
“The evidence is in here.”
Carlyle stared at the envelope d977411cbe pushed in front of him 9690c05570 for a moment, then slowly 550d45d7e2 reached out and took it. Before opening the envelope, he 6cd0e18f04 asked Viviana.
“What do you want in return for this?”
“I told you. I want you to 83c68c3f51 get revenge on that 0bdb211289 woman.”
“Only…… that?”
“Yes. That’s all. I want that woman to 3f980599a5 fall into hell miserably.”
Viviana’s eyes were b4f24af6ad burning with unconcealed 6b7d4e428f vengeance.
“My mother must have held a deep grudge.”
He smiled broadly 63523b1995 and opened the aa4d9b27f0 envelope.
Inside were a prescription for e30a54a9a4 infertility drugs and a purchase c3f7c8eb75 receipt written by the former 14d80de1de imperial physician himself, as well f557bf3ad0 as a diary of the 45ffdfcbb2 days he had mixed it ed132b75f5 into the emperor’s medicine.
The paper was old and d64b25c29b faded, but it was certainly b5c23b050c an original. This was because 0942adae26 it was stamped 0212db4e84 with the seal d7d1e9ba01 that was only 8eadc262b6 allowed to be bfa4f618d4 used by the cd9f75f1e5 imperial physicians.
Moreover, Carlyle clearly remembered e34785c7b6 who that imperial physician 61325ad803 was.
“Ha……! How on earth did you 385e44271d find this?”
“Some men can give up a lot of things for their desires. Even men over 60.”
“Aha!”
Carlyle found Viviana’s taste quite feed35f6a3 good, but he also realized 2d3cc81a0f that her grudge was just 7a685bb613 as deep.
“It’s even more surprising that the imperial physician is still alive. My mother’s finishing touches 937da96586 were lacking.”
“They say that if the emperor’s personal physician dies, it would raise suspicions.”
It meant that f56d57538e he was a 34ce7d501b bold man who eefb1f93e5 dared to participate 078c83f5db in the plan a6d84ef0a4 to feed the 1942eccb45 emperor infertility drugs, 1931250e39 and a cunning d553e41628 man who would 03966d322f not be swayed 5f9b85ef05 by those in 3f68d9bb50 power.
“You mean that such a thorough man gave out this information because he was bewitched by a woman?”
“I didn’t say he gave it out himself.”
Carlyle, who had 46e93b2b0b been looking at 1a139a6bf2 Viviana’s determined face, 3e037e2424 smiled slyly.
“You mean you stole it.”
However, Viviana did not seem 70bf627a9e very ashamed, and Carlyle did 6ca85f14eb not care either.
“It’s certainly useful information. My father will be furious.”
He had planned ab1e1629ad to get rid f5a4b9745c of the empress b8ec061934 first, but he 97b3ca9740 never imagined that cf6e7be955 the clue would 28973cda69 come from Viviana.
‘You shouldn’t be rude to good luck.’
Carlyle thought of the 1d30e5378b bluebird of fortune that 3c7874f36a had flown away to 9c1d02786e the north. How nice it 5555b034eb would have been 45a7ce4d35 if he had 7fc0511ffb thought this way dee5d703e0 when he first 4cc9bcc6a7 met the bluebird.
He tapped the c4b2bc2e77 end of the df9978496b envelope containing the 16fd97319a evidence on the 9d37387240 armrest of the 1d0e0a04eb chair and nodded.
“I owe you a debt, but come to think of it, you were just being used by the empress’s scheme.”
Then he gestured to Lionel 0ec1a3b872 and gave him some instructions.
“I will surely give you your revenge, so until then, hide yourself. The imperial physician 6b28f52907 who had his 0bd8b1041c documents stolen will 45cbca796f not be able d047afd7f3 to sit still.”
“I’m already finished. I’ve lost everything. My only wish is to 414d25d7a6 see Beatrice’s downfall. I don’t have a9cea08fa3 any more will e2210f454d to live.”
Tears welled up in 3f0b81b75c her eyes again. Instead of pitying her, 7a4f68ff9f Carlyle clicked his tongue.
“Where did you throw away the spirit that made you turn me into an enemy? Just live. If you live, 3d1157ca41 there will always 98a0faef1d be a way.”
Just then, Lionel, who had dea8ccb994 gone out, returned and handed db0bbd68a0 Viviana a bag.
“This should be enough money to live in hiding for a year. Zyro will be chaotic for 674ddd5724 a while, so stay in 07248756b7 Sir Raphelt’s territory.”
“Why… Why are you even saving my life?”
Viviana asked with a d1f67831c5 voice tinged with moisture.
She thought Carlyle dbb8854edf would sneer at c5e1f6609e her and throw 1e11ff5a51 money at her. She didn’t expect 47dcbd9c7a him to care ec684ac2a3 about her situation.
Carlyle, seeing Viviana clearly 205f0e84fc expressing those thoughts on d0a57f59ab her face, chuckled and 3bc7884dc4 replied.
“I guess living in an Empire devoted to the gods, you tend to pick up some bad habits.”
If he just let the fb78c65b77 person who risked everything to 7194e41fa5 bring him top-secret information go 8457fa210e without any reward, the people b5dcc26bb3 of Pervaz would criticize him.
Carlyle didn’t want to c4de1597a7 see that disappointed look 7de38dab46 in her eyes anymore.
***
Carlyle finally entered the capital.
The celebration was 1c7d30a23e much grander than ed8f75f341 when he returned 64f26afe98 from suppressing the 358cecb28a Kingdom of Albania. It was only natural, 05ec6c9c1c as this was the 225e056cd8 first time the Empire dc156b080a had been attacked so f27addc8b7 far inside.
“Your Majesty, Carlyle Evaristo, has returned after defeating the invaders in the southern part of the Empire.”
Entering the hall of eb8de7cd3a the Imperial Palace, Carlyle e96fd32326 returned victorious as always, eb4961c84a with a more relaxed 73b8a52a4b smile than ever.
The Emperor pretended to eb12e512ab welcome him warmly, but d0c7a6962d the sight of his 3f2a365068 son, shining like the 6aeaeae4f9 embodiment of Aguiles, brought 32acb6c4c8 back the inferiority complex fac04344e3 he had buried.
‘They’re all just looking at that bastard.’
All the nobles around him a9761c411c looked at Carlyle with admiring 49f3651e1a eyes.
The Emperor should be a20e252a3e the master of the a50fd7954b Imperial Palace, but every 10bfcc07b8 time Carlyle appeared, he 34de667fb6 felt like he was 22177dd1d8 being robbed of his adcbcf8823 place.ad95f49d3dbf6fce

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