Chapter 320 - The Baroque Imperial’s Tragedy 4 (1/2)

“All of the Emperor’s kids got sick?”

“Yes, and because of that, the entire Imperial palace has been flipped over.”

Luke, who had gone to Nemesis, met with Henry who delivered him a shocking news.

He turned over to Henry, with a stern gaze and asked, “By any chance, is this your doing?”

“Huh? what is that supposed to mean?”

“Sometimes there are such extreme men. Those who commit useless crimes to prove their extreme loyalty to the master.”

There were such guys 500 years back, under Saymon.

Most of the men later joined the Devil king’s legion, but they all did something out of greed and need for attention.

The most common things which happened for it were slaughtering the healthy prisoners, hoarding the supplies or wiping out the civilians, forcibly recruiting young people and sending them as volunteers.

“I didn’t do it! That is the truth!”

“Really?”

And with that, Luke didn’t seem to have any more suspicions, and Henry responded sounding as if he was upset.

“I am being serious! How would I even go through the guards who are always around the Emperor’s family? If anyone does anything suspicious, we will be dragged out right away and tortured till death!”

No matter how high-ranking Henry was in Hydra, the contact with the Imperial family was strictly forbidden.

In addition, the servants and ladies who were taking care of the prince and princesses were already dragged down by the Intelligence service and tortured.

It was because of the onset of the kids’ pain were sudden.

They were concerned if the maids had given access to anyone, or they had any hidden intention for doing that, or if they had used some unknown trick to make the kids sick.

“Understood. Seeing you like this, I guess you really don’t have a hand in this.”

“Of course. But… what is with that unpleasant expression?” Asked Henry.

“Then, should I be acting like I find it nice?”

“Well, it is because the Baroque Imperial and the Rakan are established allies.”

At Luke’s uninterested response, Henry shook his head and spoke with a grin.

500 years back, the Warrior Rakan and Karno de Baroque, the duke then fought alongside for the demise of Saymon, the Devil King.

However, after the death of Saymon’s, the Duke of Baroque turned ambitious and revolted, and Rakan died fighting even while his body was slowly deteriorating to protect the Libiya kingdom.

Since then, the Rakan family had barely maintained their fame and reputation for the following years without being able to garner their past glory.

So Henry knew that Luke would be very glad to hear about the tragedy which fell upon the Imperial family.

“Is there something that is bothering about this?”

“I was already worried that something else was going to happen from what I planned. Could the hearing asked by the noblemen be canceled due to the internal affairs of the Imperial family?” Asked Luke.

“But, it can and it can’t be.”

Noblemen were people who value face and honor.

Even though the Emperor had violated the law of the Empire, it was unfortunate that affairs were happening to the Emperor, and it could be a viable justification for the cancellation too.