Chapter 335 (2/2)

In the burning flames were various clothes scattered along with a charcoal lump that turned black. All kinds of clothes embroidered with family crests.

“What the hell is going on here?”

“Hmm, well, they are…”

“Why are you burning these formal clothes? Besides, these crests are obviously…”

Amethyst tiara and the black roses surrounding it, white lilies, flat-faced black otters, and red quills and scrolls of parchment. They were the family crests of the noble faction including Duke Jenna.

But why are these clothes embroidered with such crests burning in the training field of my house? Besides, they belonged to the heads or successors of the families, given the shapes of the crests.

No matter how hard I thought, I couldn’t understand it. When I was tilting my head, I heard a familiar voice from the side.

“I ordered them to burn them.”

“Pardon?”

When I looked at the side, I saw my father staring at the bonfire, with his arms folded.

“Really? Did you order them?”

“Yes.”

The father, who nodded silently, was unusually dressed in black.

When I looked at him curiously, he smiled lightly and said, “While you were sick in bed, the emperor gave a ruling on all those suspects except for Marquis Mirwa and Duke Jena. Most of them, except those whose criminal evidence was so obvious, were given generous treatment for lack of evidence.”

“I see. Then, what does it have anything to do with them?”

“Well, I know it’s an inevitable decision, given the situation. But the more I think about it, the more upset I am. Hmm, I think they are going to have a hard time trying to order clothes in two days. No, they’ve got one day now.”

“Pardon?”

I still couldn’t understand what he was talking about. It was a little later that I came to know the situation.

I see. I suddenly broke into laughter. At the grand trial on those charged with treason, there would be no criminal suspects who would appear without wearing formal clothes. How embarrassed they would be when they found all their formal clothes were gone! With their formal suits gone, they could not put on casual dresses for the trial. They must be in great confusion over what to wear. Just imagining their embarrassed expressions had me in stitches.

“Oh, my lady?”

While looking at the embarrassed knights, I could not stop laughing. The more I imagined, the more gratified I felt. The knights, who were watching me laughing heartily, even short of breath, said nervously, “Marquis, please calm her down.”

“Well, doesn’t she look good? I’ve never seen her laughing so brightly before.”

“You bet, but I’m afraid she’s going to evoke a gasp if she keeps laughing like that.”

“Hmm, that’s fair. Hey, Tia? Now, calm down.”

With a smile on his lips, my father lightly patted my back. Thanks to his regular patting, I could finally calm down and wipe the tears around my eyelids.

My father would not have confisticated their clothes normally, so he must have sent family knights to steal their clothes. Little did I think my father, not others, would do it.

“Somehow I felt strange because when I came home, I found there were almost no knights around. I didn’t know you were so good at climbing the walls.”

When I cracked a joke, smiling at them, the knights said, smiling faintly, “Well, these days we don’t do it, but climbing walls is our speciality.”

“To be honest, Marquis Monique is the most skillful climber, right?”

“You bet. When he was an ordinary knight like us, he was really good at climbing walls.”

What are they talking about? His speciality? When he was an ordinary knight?

The moment I looked back at my father curiously, something suddenly came to my mind.

His silver hair shining even in the dark.

Blessed thief?

“No way…Is my father the infamous blessed thief?”

I overlooked it while laughing so much, but come to think of it, it couldn’t have been easier to steal those clothes. Then, is it true that despite tight security, they broke into the rebellious noble families’ mansions and stole all those clothes?