Celebrity Lady

Chapter 63

Chapter 63

Crown Prince Lark’s office.

After escorting Rubette to Lubon, he immediately returned to the imperial palace, where Ren was waiting for him in the office.

“How’s the princess? All’s well, I hope?”

“Mm.” Lark smiled bitterly, recalling Rubette.

Other than being close to the capital, Lubon was a very uncomfortable place. It could be called the countryside at the foot of a mountain, and most of the inhabitants were farmers engaged in agriculture...

“The air is really nice. It’s perfect for a year of rest and cooling off my head, isn’t it?”

“... I’m sorry.”

“What are you sorry about? If you’re truly sorry, please abuse your authority as the head of the investigation and come often.”

Rubette, who pretended to be bright, had looked around the villa built on the hillside with a flat road.

Lark’s, who shook his head and sighed, eyes suddenly shone fiercely.

“Let’s work now. I owe the princess not only one or two things, and I’m ashamed of myself.”

“Alright. Please take a quick look at that first.” Ren pointed to the sheets of paper spread out on the desk. “The deeds of the Diollus Duchy’s madam in the past. Starting from when she was still the daughter of Count Bert, her family relationships, past connections, and even the personalities of the aristocratic wives who are close friends in the social world.” Ren added with a grin. “I’ve very much stripped everything out.”

“Good work.” Lark’s eyes quickly scanned them.

“In the future I saw, Dad pass away in three years. I discovered that it was because he continued to take medicines that were not suitable for him. Grandma had bribed the attending physician.”

The death of Duke Diollus, seen in the future. Rubette had discovered a great secret that the duke’s death was a murder and that the culprit responsible for his death was the duchy’s madam, Molga Diollus.

“She didn’t use poison. It was a drug that didn’t have any problems on the outside but was deadly when taken with alcohol. Looking at this, you can tell that this person creates gaps to escape and handles things skillfully, right?”

“So my doubts didn’t just stop there. Grandma—no, since Molga came into our family, my grandfather, my biological grandmother, and my mother died...”

“Of course, these are just guesses without evidence right now, but I don’t feel all those deaths were accidental.”

Lark agreed with the keen Rubette’s guess.

“I’m sorry for asking you to do this, Your Highness.”

“It’s hard to investigate Molga while being isolated in Lubon. Of course, I don’t have any information source, and in many ways, I have a lot of difficulties on my own.”

It was rather good. Lark felt comfortable knowing that he could do something for Rubette. And even if it was not because of Rubette, if all these suspicions turn out to be true... Molga deserved to be judged by the law.

“What’s the best way to kill someone inside a house sneakily?” Lark, who was scanning the paper, muttered and raised his eyes sharply.

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“Poison.”

“Probably poison, right?”

Lark quickly picked up some papers and put them away.

“It’s obvious just by looking at the fact that she bribed the attending physician and laid a hand on Duke Diollus. There’s a high probability that the lives of other members of the duchy were threatened in a similar way.”

“Greg, do the right thing. These things have tarnished my face. Knowing the identity of the esteemed one, they dared to-!”

Right now, in front of me was Count Lubon with a savage-looking navy mustache, his skinny and pale servant Greg, and... two young siblings, who were trembling between them.

Wishit shrugged next to me and replied.

Wishit was startled by my angry voice.

At that time.

“You still don’t want to go away?!” Greg’s hand swung into the air. Towards a girl who seemed to be only six years old.

Swii—!

“Ugh!” The older brother, protecting his little sister, was beaten on the head by Greg’s fierce hand.

Fortunately— no, how could this be called fortunate?

“Hey! I told you not to! Stop it!” I jumped into the mess with my eyes wide open.

The siblings trembled as they hugged each other. The sister was crying, and the brother was gnashing his teeth and glaring at me.

“H-How dare that crazy thing stares at the esteemed one? Greg!”

“Count! I told you to stop! I’m fine!”

“My apologies, Count. This bastard has always been arrogant about everything-”

“No! Hey! What did you say your name was? Greg? Don’t hit him!”

“Punish him heavily! The princess is really angry! Make him crawl at her feet in fear whenever she passes by!”

“Shit! Hey, Count! Please listen to me-!”

“I will do as you command!”

“Hey, hey!”

Greg walked over and grabbed the boy’s hair.

At that moment.

I fully gave up my plan to live quietly for a year while maintaining an amicable relationship with my vassal, Count Lubon, who was the estate’s managing agent.

“Hey!!!”

Suddenly, all of them stopped at the sound of my high-pitched voice.

I strode over to Greg, who looked back at me in bewilderment and kicked him in the shin.

“Ogh!”

“Now you have totally...” Then I turned to Count Lubon, who was sitting on the sidelines, and said, “Ignored me eight times.”