ALL NOVEL Chapter 39
“Your first time should have been given to him.”Who is he?The queen wasn’t even looking at the prince anymore.She knelt down, her elegant velvet dress becoming a mess of dust, and muttered as if she believed it was the end for her.She seemed to be fighting an unseen terror.One might ask, ‘Who is he, and what is she talking about?’ but the prince remained silent.After the queen, who had been struggling for a while, grew somewhat quiet, the prince finally spoke up.“What is the relationship between Kitchener and Mother? What was Mother trying to do?”The direct question from the prince made the queen turn pale. And then, as if resigning herself, she willingly revealed her intentions to move the location of the royal seal.It was her responsibility to change the position of the royal seal when Kitchener was absent.“Did the taste of belated glory become overly sweet? It’s not even truly yours.”The prince spoke coldly, and the queen trembled, wrapping her arms around herself.“Did Kitchener treat you as a queen?”The knight witnessed the prince, who exudes such coldness, for the first time.“Did you drug and persecute a young child for such a trivial position? Did you do that to your own daughter?”“But I only did good things for you. I fulfilled all your desires. Ahh, it’s a big problem. If that person finds out that you’ve been taken away, that person!”The knight whispered to the prince, ‘She’s not in her right mind.’The queen, who had been as beautiful as a porcelain doll just moments ago, now looked disheveled beyond belief.The prince asked the knight to make her faint.As the queen slowly collapsed, the knight restrained her, while the prince took the royal seal and immediately escaped from Lindbergh Castle.It was bitter to think that no one paid attention to the queen, even though she screamed and created a commotion.“Did you know in advance that the queen would give the prince a drug?”When the knight asked, Carl Lindbergh looked like he was going to cry.Just a while ago, he seemed so composed.“In fact, it hasn’t been long.”It must have been about half a year.Since becoming Carl Lindbergh, they had never had any personal encounters, but by chance, they met and acted like the most beloved mother in the world. However, as time passed, there was no news from her.Such a mother sent a tonic to Marco once a week.Even though it was a novel, since he wasn’t an oblivious child who couldn’t tell whether it was poison or not, he rejected them one by one as he received them.“It wasn’t poison, and it was meant to change the scent of pheromones.”He learned this from Leia when she told him about Omega and Alpha. 〈You, your pheromones have changed.〉 Leia said.“What? Why would she do something like that?”The knight asked in confusion, but Carl couldn’t provide an answer to that part either.After that fake tonic incident, the prince paid attention to the relationships between Kitchener, the queen, and the king.The king always looked at the queen with longing, but the queen never distanced herself from Kitchener’s side.Even when the king was sick and bedridden, he saw Kitchener come and go to the queen’s chamber.Outside, Kitchener and the queen were seen as siblings, so no one suspected anything. However, in the eyes of an outsider like Carl Lindbergh, it seemed strange.Although it was only for a moment, he even had suspicions about whether Carl Lindbergh was Kitchener’s child.The relationship between the Queen and Kitchener was more complicated and messy than expected.While it was an open secret that she was a foreigner, nobody knew that she actually came from a Gypsy village where she had been selling her body and skills, and that her father had lured her into becoming Kitchener’s concubine.Despite her beautiful appearance and being a near-dominant Omega but with a physical flaw, Kitchener gave her to the current king, who was a prince at the time.Kitchener had constantly harassed her, finding faults in her royal lineage.It was more akin to gaslighting than mere harassment, and the Queen had reached a state where she couldn’t even sense that she was engaging in an affair.Moreover, the king had been unable to fulfill his role as a man for a long time, and the queen’s heat cycle showed no signs of stopping. So, it was natural that she couldn’t refuse Kitchener whenever he sought her out.Like Marco’s blind loyalty to Carl Lindbergh for saving him from starvation, she idolized Kitchener as if he were a deity, for he saved her from her recurring heat cycles.After she recited her untold story in great detail and fainted, the people tried desperately to unleash magic spells to stop the prince and his entourage from unexpectedly escaping, but nothing happened within Lindbergh’s castle.Interestingly enough, Grand Duke Balvenie had laid traps within the delivery of magic stones to Lindbergh.If someone possessing the magic stones produced and supplied from Heineken was in proximity, it would not activate without direct infusion of magical power.The queen was the only person in Lindbergh who could directly use magic, but sadly, she was in a frail state both physically and mentally.As soon as the news of the prince heading to Heineken with the magic stone was delivered to the other knights, the situation within Lindbergh began to undergo rapid changes.The soldiers of Heineken who had imprisoned the lords of Lindbergh simultaneously opened the castle gates.The people, bewildered yet driven by hunger, focused on filling their empty stomachs first.They donned warm clothes for the first time. In Heineken, the last elite troops were deployed.Though their numbers were large, they couldn’t form magic circles, but they were all skilled riders and crossed the border in just one day.In line with the aim of minimizing bloodshed, they established temporary rulers and planned to conduct a trial, under the supervision of Leia Lindbergh, to determine the guilt or innocence of the nobles.As the prince was escaping from the castle, there was a confrontation between the mercenaries and the knights of Heineken, and there was some bloodshed. The knights, who were disgusted by the mercenaries’ outrageous behavior, took the opportunity to teach them a lesson and engaged in a fierce fight.As they gradually distanced themselves from the castle and started riding away from it, the prince called one of the knights.“Please relay to them that when detaining the royal family, they should treat my mother with leniency.”“Please do not worry, we will only keep her under surveillance until the trial is underway, so rest assured.”The prince could not hide his melancholic expression.The knight looked back at the prince worriedly, who seemed to be uncomfortable even though everything had gone so well. “Carl Lindbergh.”“Sister.”Leia, who had been waiting near the magic circle in Heineken, rushed to Carl’s side.“Kitchener has disappeared.”“Disappeared?”“Yes, those who were investigating Kitchener’s residence reported it. They are searching for him now.”I don’t care about the others, but that bastard must be captured. The prince then pulled out the royal seal from his bosom.“Sister, please take this.”“Why don’t you carry it yourself?”“I have some other tasks to attend to.”“You?”What other tasks do you have after completing everything?Leia tilted her head but didn’t inquire further. And then the prince disappeared.It happened just one day before Adrian Heineken’s royal birthday celebration.The Heineken royal family was thrown into chaos.Normally, Leia was supposed to stamp the document with the royal seal and head to Lindbergh, but found herself tied to Heineken.Adrian felt as if all the blood was draining from his body.The persistent unease was because of this.Although there were suspicions that Kitchener’s disappearance and the prince’s whereabouts were connected, the suspicions didn’t go further.Those who had met the prince directly at the palace knew that he was too innocent to be involved in any foul play, and the prince had disappeared after arriving in Heineken.The notion of being involved in a crime like kidnapping was dispelled when Leia Lindbergh, his sister, calmly stated, “He handed me the royal seal and said he had something to do, then disappeared somewhere.”“Do you really have no idea where he went?”Adrian visited Leia for three days.“I don’t know.”Leia gave the same answer to the same question that had been going on for three days.On that day, the prince hesitated near the magic circle.Sensing something strange, Leia asked what was going on, but he didn’t answer and instead handed her the royal seal.He urged the knights to return to the castle first, sign the documents as soon as possible, and restore Lindbergh to its normal state.And he told Leia that he wanted to go on a short journey.Even when she got angry, asking the prince what kind of journey he was talking about, does he think he was a commoner, he remained steadfast.She thought it was just another one of his daily jokes.While they were running and talking for a while, Leia, who had been running ahead, noticed that the prince’s horse, which had been following behind her, was running alone without its master.“If he had disappeared in a nearby village, it would have been easier to find him, but the problem is that he went missing near the palace.”