Chapter 222 (2/2)

“Yes, but you need treatment first…”

“I’m fine. Is it for me?”

“Pardon? Ah yes. It was sent by the prime minister.”

The servant hesitantly handed the note to me.

I opened the note with my left hand and read it quickly, controlling my anxiety.

As soon as I read the last sentence, my heart sank. The crumpled note fell to the floor.

Those knights around me murmured something with a worried look, I couldn’t hear anything. My head was messed up.

How can this happen? Everybody was so careful and prudent. Why and how was it leaked?

When I was about to head to the Central Palace in a hurry, someone held my shoulders tight. As I turned my head annoyingly, I saw Carsein with his face hardened.

He said with a subdued voice, “Where are you going, now?”

“Let me go. I have to go to the Central Palace. ”

“Have your hand treated first.”

“I don’t have time for that. I need to check what happened right now. ”

“But you have to get the treatment first.”

“No, I don’t have time now.”

I tried to twist my body out of his grip, but he said coldly, holding me more tightly, “You know what. I could have carried you on my back to the infirmary, but I didn’t. So, go and get treatment first.”

“But…”

“If you leave here like this, they’re going to find fault with you, and you know that. So, stop being so bullheaded.”

“… ”

He pulled a white handkerchief out of his pocket and carefully wrapped the wound with it.

Looking at the handkerchief being stained with blood, I nodded with a sigh.

“Okay. I will.”

“Good job. Let’s go. As I gave you first aid, it won’t take long for them to treat you. ”

“Thanks. By the way, what about your stained handkerchief?

“If you really feel sorry, give me another one.”

I walked with him who said what it mattered now was not the handkerchief.

The cut was deeper than I thought, because the handkerchief around my wounded hand was stained red all over while I was walking to the infirmary. After my hand was treated under his monitoring, I headed to the Central Palace, crinkling up my eyes because of the burning sensation under the bandage.

“What is going on, Tia?”

“Well, Duke Verita sent me a message. It’s about the meeting held today. ”

“So, what happened?”

“On the surface, they convened a meeting to discuss the reorganization of the knights divisions, but in fact they had a separate agenda today. However, before the meeting started, the noble faction brought up a different agenda, and that was…”

“That was…?”

“It’s an agenda to decide the empress, which had been delayed. It was unanimously proposed by all the noble faction members.”

I and Carsein entered the inner palace quickly amid the attention of people walking out in small groups of two and three.

When I entered the Central Palace and walked for a long time, I saw four people standing across the long corridor. When I walked up to him hurriedly, my father said with a deep sigh, “Oh, you are here, Tia.”

“Yes, Daddy. As soon as I received the news, I came running here. What happened?”

“Let’s move to another place because there are many around us here.”

Duke Lars said, nodding to him, “That’s a good idea. But Sein, what are you doing here? ”

“Uh, well, she was hurt a bit. I followed her to the infirmary and ended up being here as she came here.”

At that moment, my father’s straight silver eyebrows trembled. He looked at me sharply and said, “You were hurt?”