Rosemond muttered these words in an angry voice, but these were soon buried again by the voices of the nobles that soon followed.
“You mean you’ve found both Majesties?”
“Where are the two of them now?”
“Are both of them alive?”
“Please calm down, Sir. Both are safe. But…”
At that time, there was a disturbance outside, and the knight’s words were naturally interrupted.
When the nobles stepped outside, one by one to see what was going on, they saw the Emperor and the Empress on horseback. The nobles who found the sight of the two were startled, and ran towards them.
“Your Majesty!”
“Your Majesty, are you alright?”
“…”
The Emperor was unconscious in the arms of the Empress, and the Empress holding the Emperor looked very exhausted. She soon opened her mouth and instructed in an urgent voice.
“His Majesty has been poisoned. Call the imperial physician right now! Where is the imperial physician?”
The Empress was a woman who was known to use honorific words without having treated the lower people poorly. For the first time in her life, such a woman was naturally dealing with the nobles, who were neither maids or servants, lowly. It was as if she had always used that tone. Everyone was taken aback by the sudden change of tone, but the first one out of all of them to quickly embrace the change was the Empress’ father Marquis Grochester, and the rest of them soon followed.
“What are you all doing? Without calling the imperial physician immediately!”
As soon as those words ended, the people who had vague expressions began to move again quickly. The knights helped Patrizia and Lucio descend from the horse, and Patrizia gradually felt faint due to the poison that hadn’t been completely neutralized, but focused with all of the might inside of her, to concentrate and not lose consciousness.
As the court guards rushed to look over Lucio, who had already fallen, Patrizia discovered Rosemond, who was standing near the two of them. At that moment, she felt a tremendous amount of anger beyond her control, but she wondered how to best use this situation to her advantage rather than release the anger. After a short period of distress, she decided to make the most sensible, and least regretful choice.
“Why are you here?”
“Your Majesty Empress.”
Rosemond bowed gracefully. The trembling of her body from earlier couldn’t be found with this movement. And it was a very shameless gesture towards Patrizia, who couldn’t possibly know about what had happened in the previous situation. She shed a giggling laugh at the preposterous sight.
“Sure, Lady Phelps. For what reason are you, all the way here?”
“I came here because I wished to meet His Majesty, Your Majesty.”
“It is my job to escort His Majesty and return with the Emperor to court. It is not within your authority as a mistress. Are you daring to challenge the Empress’ authority?”
“That could not be, Your Majesty.”
Rosemond was a woman who did not lose her act at any moment. To be overwhelmed by her emotions, she was beyond too worn out.
However, because she was also a person, she was still sometimes shaken. Of course, it was a rare moment, but it certainly existed. Like…
“You would not have come all the way here to serve His Majesty, right?”
“I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”
“Am I dead or alive. Was that not what you were curious about?”
Like now. Rosemond’s facial expressions cooled down and froze, and she could feel the nobles and knights around her feeling flustered by her own skin.
Patrizia stared at Rosemond with a cool and hard face, and as soon as the imperial physician arrived, she refocused on him. She calmly explained the situation.
“His Majesty was poisoned in my stead. He has consumed the sculler juice, but for some reason he does not wake up. Come on and look closely.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The physician answered with a serious voice and began to examine him, and during that time Patrizia looked around at the nobles who stared at her as if asking for explanation, and began to speak to them with a low voice.
“As you have just heard, I received an assassination attempt. The Emperor was shot by the assassin with a poisonous arrow instead of me, and I held onto His Majesty who fainted and ran away from the pursuit.”
As the attempt to assassinate the Empress became a de facto fact, gossip erupted all over the place. Patrizia did not lose her coolness and continued to speak in a strong voice.
“But eventually I was driven to the cliff, and I almost died in the hands of the assassins with His Majesty. Eventually, I had no choice, so I threw myself down the cliff.”
“Oh my goodness!”
When she spoke this far, some of the nobles cried out with a loud voice. Patrizia remained calm despite the not so bad reaction, and didn’t look away from Rosemond, who had suddenly regained her tranquility, and looked towards the direction of Patrizia and Lucio with a shocked expression as if she knew nothing. A woman who was so shameless that she didn’t even consider herself to be shameful. Patrizia felt her throat struggling to close, and barely managed to talk.
“The survival was close to destiny. It would have been impossible if the Emperor was not a descendant of the Sun.”
“Your Majesty who is not a direct descendant of the Sun like His Majesty, has returned without harm, and so it seems that God’s grace has touched Your Majesty.”
Like it, but not like it praise, but not praise. Patrizia couldn’t stop the chilly laugh that escaped out. She thought she couldn’t stand it anymore, and in fact didn’t even feel the need to endure it, so she shot back directly at that woman.
“Aha, indeed. The Emperor and I were not meant to die from a mere mistress’ conspiracy. If God had determined his and my destiny as such, I would not have been chosen as the Empress in the first place.”
“…”
With these words, the turbulent atmosphere rapidly subsided.