I’ll Quit as The Empress

Chapter 31: Poison called loneliness

“What? It’s either a war……or something like that…”

“Hold on.”

In fact, the kings had a different instinct. Evelyn looked anxiously at her father, but Arthur held Evelyn in his hand, and then gave his ear to the officer who ran to report. After a few nods, Arthur regained his composure.

“Your Majesty, what’s going on with this?” It was Miriam’s turn, who was surprised to hear the sound.

Arthur waved twice to calm down. Miriam and Evelyn followed his lead, then settled down and sat while waiting for Arthur to speak.

“The Beacon’s sound has been heard 27 times.”

The beacon, a flare-tower, was designed to send messages quickly from a distance. Therefore, depending on the situation, they sent out different signals and transmitted them.

“What’s number 27?”

As Arthur looked at the officer, the officer picked up a thick book from somewhere, scanned for the page opened it, and placed it on Arthur’s lap.

“No. 27 … … It seems that there’s something happened with his Majesty the Emperor, the greatest ruler of the continent.”

Suddenly, Evelyn’s blue eyes trembled.

“Which means that we are nearest to the Emperor’s position. Order the general and send troops to the Emperor’s place. Do whatever the Emperor’s request.”

“Yes!”

Arthur ordered the chief of staff to open the book again.

“What’s wrong….?”

“I don’t know. The beacon can only convey a simple message.”

Evelyn’s face was pale. No matter how cold Fabian was, he was still her ex-husband. And though she was trying to forget the past, he wasn’t someone else at all.

Meanwhile, while Adrian was still alive, he remained in a relationship with Evelyn.

“But I don’t think the situation is so bad. If the situation was serious they wouldn’t be able to send a fire signal to alert the people around them.”

The worst thing was the Emperor’s death. In that case, it was supposed to be kept secret.

“Let’s wait for the news.”

Evelyn nodded silently. Her father was right. Kept secret…That was the case in all matters concerning the Emperor except for Evelyn’s marriage.

“I’ll go to see Adrian.”

In the worst situations, people would have realized something important because Evelyn had seen it herself.

***

It was raining, really hard. It was spring, but the temperature dropped a lot at night. And when it started to rain, the air would get colder until the breath’s vapor came out.

“Bill…..”

Fabian was trying to push his heavy eyelid up. It took him a long time to make a voice like that.

“Your Majesty, are you awake?”

Serus hurriedly took the bucket and wet Fabian’s dry lips. Fabian was trying to hold his hands to a stop, but he couldn’t move his body.

“What is this?”

It was also difficult to talk longer, so Serus quickly prepared the report.

“Completely different from what was previously known about Twin Fairy. The documents just state that the poison causes itching, but it turns out that they also have paralytic poisons.”

“Huh.”

Fabian blamed himself for seeing Twin Fairy as a weak demon. He forgot that it was a gift prepared by the Pope. He didn’t calculate it this far.

“Fortunately this place is still the territory of the Felice Kingdom. I sent the beacon so the reinforcements will arrive soon.”

“W-Wh…”

Fabian resented his unresponsive lips.

“‘I don’t need that. Why did you ask for help in such a place?”

In a time like this, Fabian’s pride didn’t make sense.

“Thankfully, the poison is only paralyzing, not fatal.”

“……why.”

“The Knights first tried to capture the demons, but they were assaulted first, and then the groups of demons quickly surrounded Your Majesty. Even though I was on your side, I was safe, but please punish me.”

Fabian closed his eyes as if Serus’s words were useless. If this was the Pope’s doing, he would definitely set Fabian as a target. Maybe he had predicted too that Fabian would order to capture the demons alive.

In other words, it was a smart attack.

“If you try to move by force the poison will dig deeper into your body.”

Only

There was nothing he could do about it at all. Fabian was feeling helpless for the first time since he was crowned at the age of 16. It was a great feeling of humiliation and anger.

‘Well, it doesn’t matter.’

Evelyn said she had no feelings. Even though the past relationship was over. Fabian couldn’t laugh so hard without actually forgot everything.

It was a lie if he wasn’t upset. Evelyn was shining with happiness as if their marriage had no meaning.

After all, Fabian was an uncomfortable and suffocating existence for Evelyn. As experienced by his mother and Emperor-father

…That was natural.

Fabian swallowed a poison called loneliness that was more deadly and vicious than the poison that paralyzed his body.