Chapter 104 (1/2)

Chapter 104: <Chapter 104>

Stab!

Ksania felt a sudden searing pain on her right chest. She turned around.

“Co… Coronel?!”

Coronel whispered coldly to his aunt, “If you won’t give up your life, I will have to take it myself.”

“You… bastard…!”

Coronel had used one hand to stab his aunt. He then grabbed Ksania’s right hand with his free hand and pulled it towards the dagger. He made her grab it, so it looked like she stabbed herself. He then used both of his hand to twist the knife.

Crunch!

The sound of ribs breaking rang throughout the room. Blood poured out from Ksania’s mouth as she gasped.

“Y, you…!”

Coronel smiled like a beast and replied, “Don’t worry, aunty. Your sacrifice will be forever remembered by Genoa. It will help me greatly as well, so thank you.”

“W, when my brother… finds out about this… you’ll…!”

“Don’t worry about that either. The king will be told that his only sister committed suicide after our country was insulted.”

He laid Ksania down on the floor and turned towards his sister.

“Right, Ludia?” Ludia shuddered fearfully.

She knew if she didn’t agree with her brother, he would not hesitate to kill her too.

Ludia nodded urgently.

***

This was perfect. It couldn’t look any more devastating.

Coronel smiled as he looked down at his bloody clothes. The blood from his aunt.

He was stopped by the royal guards before he reached the castle, but they couldn’t silence him. He screamed as loudly as he could, and it worked.

The emperor came out. Coronel assured himself he finally won.

After the encounter, her highness Ksania’s body was removed by the servants and the maids.

The next step was for Coronel and Lucretius to meet as the representatives of their countries and discuss the funeral arrangement. Lucretius forced his wife Sa Bina to return to her bedroom and met with Coronel in private.

This was exactly what Coronel wanted.

Lucretius picked up one of the wine glasses filled with warm honeyed wine. He was still in his pajamas.

“Drink.”

Coronel didn’t pick up his glass. Instead, he looked at Lucretius angrily.

Coronel didn’t like the emperor at all. Lucretius was only four years older than him, yet he wore the golden crown and sat on the throne of the strongest kingdom in this world.

Coronel respected his father the king, but he hated the emperor sitting in front of him. Cransia was too different from Genoa.

In Genoa, only the physically strongest became the king. However, in Cransia, things were different. Those in power were too weak. This emperor in front of him came into power because he was born into it. Coronel could guess how useless and stupid Lucretius was.

That was why Lucretius couldn’t even get rid of Katleyanira, a mere woman. It would be so easy, just like he took care of his aunt.

Lucretius grinned and asked directly, “What does Genoa want?”

Coronel finally smiled.

He finally had the upper hand.

“Take Ludia as your empress. This will be the only thing that will appease our dead aunt.”

Lucretius laughed out loud. “Haha! Wow, how simple. It’s not even a request. It sounds like an order.”

Coronel smirked and threatened him, “According to Genoan law, a blood debt can be only repaid by blood. If you don’t accept my proposal, Genoa will want blood from Cransia.”

Lucretius asked quietly, “Is that what your king wants?” He didn’t seem nervous or anxious.

Coronel answered vaguely, “In this room, I am the representative of Genoa.”

Lucretius nodded in understanding and laughed. “Oh, I see. How proud you must be.”

Coronel brightened and asked, “So you will accept it?”

Lucretius gave him the biggest smile he could muster and answered, “I refuse.”

Coronel screamed, “Do you want a war?!”

Lucretius emptied his wine glass and put it down loudly on the table.

“Why not.”

“Your highness!”

Lucretius announced, “There is only one woman I would ever take as my empress, and it is not your sister.”

Things were being decided for me without my control.

Lucretius didn’t tell me about his private conversation with Prince Coronel.

He was the emperor and he had all the power. I might have been doing the duties of an empress temporarily, but I certainly didn’t have much decision power.