The Goddess Made A Mistake Again

Chapter 83 - 83 - Honor Or Kingdom

Valint

Inside the almost broken mansion of Viscount Haiel, behind an office room.

Haiel walked back and forth before his desk while keeping his face unknown and hands behind his back locked. After he walked for the unkempt time, he stopped and looked at the boy before him.

"How could you do this, Arthur?"

Arthur standing before him, not as guilty as he should be, protested, "My lord, believe me!"

"Believe what? That something else had killed the boy Gekko?" Haiel said sarcastically and before Arthur could nod he spoke, "There are multiple eyes out there that will testify against you."

"But I'm sure it wasn't me… someone had assassinated Gekko. It was done too fast for me to see." Arthur knew he was innocent and he would fight to the death to prove it.

"And who would assassinate him?"

"I… don't know," Arthur quickly replaced by saying, "but there could be a reason to him being killed."

"What would that reason be?"

"I still don't know but if it's not because of him, they might do it against me. You know they would like nothing more than to cut me up and make me disappear."

Haiel wanted to negate every word that came out of Arthur, because to him it all seemed like poor excuses, but he couldn't deny the possibility of the last one happening.

Haiel knew the truth about Arthur, about how he's the king's son and how the current queen has poisoned the king's mind about his family and got them sent off to a faraway place.

It was right about that time when the king started to show signs of weakness and quickly fell to bed. It may not have been suspicious to many people but Haiel knew the king personally and knew that such a man couldn't just contract a disease and fall on his bed, not like that.

He was a man of war and his death should be at the field. Haiel understood this was the working of the inner court and the evil queen, who as regent took the kingdom for herself.

But Haiel was a loyal retainer of his majesty, he knew that if the king couldn't even save himself then what about his wife and heir? He knew of the good nature of both the boy and his mother, so he couldn't let the queen do whatever she wants and hid them away for a few years.

Even then the queen had

"Did you forget that you work for me now or are you too prideful for such work?"

He grumbled before taking one luggage but immediately regretted it, "Why the fuck is this bag so heavy?"

"Ann… that's…" Alice wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it. It was as if something was stuck inside her mouth.

"Oh, that's filled with the girl's clothes." I said and pointed to Alice as Jacob looked at me with a deadpan look.

"Are you serious?"

"Of course."

"But why is it so heavy?"

"I just said it to you, don't you understand?" I said as if it was a matter of fact, "It's filled with not only her clothes but also Anna's too."

Jacob's face was indiscernible but he just creased his brows before silently taking the bag inside. Then I saw Redwick coming outside, almost as if he wanted to greet me first.

"Nice to see you too, Redwich."

"Young master… you must see to this immediately." He handed me a letter, "This came from the capital, from your stepmother."

I take the letter and read it immediately as my face darkens.

'Well, fuck me!'