Chapter 338 (2/2)

How much time passed? After looking at me for a long time as if he was agonized, he asked with a sigh slowly in a subdued voice, “Lady Jena, do you know what that bottle is?”

“…”

I remained silent. Somewhere, I felt sad and irritated at the moment. What the heck was he doing to me when I had to commit suisuide soon? I felt indignant not only at Aristia who left a poison bottle behind and him who knowingly asked me what it was.

Did he read my mind? Unlike a moment ago when he seemed to treat me gently, he was now back to his cold attitude with an indifferent look.

“You don’t have to look at me like that. It is poison, but it’s not.”

“What do you mean?”

I asked, frowning my eyebrows.

What is he talking about? Does it mean that the bottle is a legendary medicine that if one drinks just a drop, it becomes a good medicine, but if one overuses it, it acts as poison? Or is it a medicine that can hold one’s breath temporarily, just like the one Juliet drank?

But Rublis remained silent with a pensive look, and said nothing. He was still silent when I asked again, just in case he didn’t hear it.

I felt irritated again, which I took pains to calm down until now, but I tried to speak to him as if it’s not a big deal. Anyway, it was me who was disadvantageous now.

“Please tell me, Your Majesty. What do you mean when you say it’s poison, but it’s not?”

“…”

“Your Majesty!”

“…”

“Would you please tell me?”

The moment he rejected my earnest request, I unwittingly lost my temper and stared at him fiercely. As I was to die anyway, I had nothing to fear.

“Are you kidding me?”

“… What did you just say? ”

“I asked if you were kidding me. Don’t you think you are so mean and cruel…Oh shucks!”

While screaming at him at the top of my voice in a fit of anger, I suddenly stopped when I felt something cold touching my neck. The man in a black robe was pointing the sword at my neck.

Rublis sharply looked at me when I was shuddering with fear.

“I’m fine. Just go back, Marquis. ”

“But Your Majesty…”

“I said I’m fine.”

“… Yes, Your Majesty.”

When the man reluctantly bowed out, Rublis said in a casual voice, as if nothing happened, “Go ahead. What did I do to you?”

I touched my neck gently and stared at Rublis again. Although I was very surprised, I didn’t want to back out. In that case, I would not have dared to speak out to him from the beginning.

“What I said was not entirely wrong, right? Are you and Aristia playing games with me? She left the bottle behind, telling me she didn’t want to see me die in front of her, and you came here suddenly and said something beyond my understanding. Is it so fun to play the fool with me? A traitor like me doesn’t deserve any human rights?”

Although I spoke out without reserve in a fit of anger, I felt like crying because I was more and more upset while speaking to him.

Controlling my tears, I stared at him with glaring eyes fiercely. I could never let him see me crying.

“As for the treason charges against me, I can’t accept it. Who first told you about the raid? It was me. Why should I die because of Duke Jena? I saved Aristia who was slowly dying, and this is how you repay me? You want to use me fully, then dump me? Don’t you feel any guilt? Aren’t you sorry for me?”

“Why should I feel sorry?”

“What the heck?”