It Seems Like The Infamous Trash Can is Right Here! - Chapter 195
But right now, what’s more important than that is getting out of the Imperial Capital safely.
The carriage that left the estate runs along the well-maintained road. The plain carriage, with no family crest or escorting knights, passes straight through the commercial district and heads steadily toward the outskirts of the imperial castle.
Our carriage was to exit through the eastern gate, while Vivian’s carriage would go through the western gate.
When the castle gates guarded by knights and soldiers began to appear in the distance, my anxious heart pounded nervously.
“There’s no need to worry. Unless a warrant has been issued, the inspection for those leaving isn’t strict. And the Imperial Palace should still be waiting for news.”
“I suppose so…?”
Lionel gently covered my hand with his.
“We made the best choice.”
I think so too.
Fortunately, Lionel’s words weren’t wrong.
Whether or not those who instigated the attack on the Luanax estate had heard news of their failure, at the very least, they clearly hadn’t anticipated us leaving the Imperial Capital this quickly.
The soldiers guarding the gates with bored expressions let us pass without even checking inside the carriage.
“There are those who don’t do their jobs properly everywhere.”
It couldn’t have been more fortunate.
Since the soldiers didn’t see Lionel’s face, even if they belatedly realize we’ve left, they won’t be able to figure out which gate we exited through.
“I wish they’d just leave us alone. Don’t they have anything better to do?”
“They might give up on me, but they’ll never give up on you.”
“Why, why…?”
“You’re a saintess, aren’t you? The natural enemy of the foreign deities the Imperial Family contracted with, so they’ll endlessly pressure us. To bring you to them as an offering.”
Foreign deities? Deities from another world?
“The identity of what you called the Imperial Family’s new Shadow is a deity from an foreign world?”
“To be precise, they’re servants commanded by an foreign deity. Through a contract, the Imperial Family has also gained the ability to command them.”
Lionel had told me about this before.
That originally, Solen was the Imperial Family’s Shadow house.
Let me deduce the current situation by connecting it with my divine power, which is at a level favored by the gods.
Like most countries, Lubarque is also said to have been founded with a god’s blessing.
Solen, which shared the beginning with Lubarque’s founding, must have been like a symbol proving the god’s blessing upon the Imperial Family.
When the Imperial Family walked the righteous path, upholding the god’s will and cultivating the world into prosperity, Solen must have been their greatest supporter and fulfilled their role as a hidden blade.
But the Imperial Family betrayed the gods.
Intoxicated by the power they grasped, they began to reveal their cruel desires. They seized and took whatever they wanted, eliminated whatever was in their way.
They fell into corruption, joining hands with outer world gods who wanted to shatter and devour this world, falling for their temptations.
To them, Solen must be an unbearably irksome existence.
Like sunlight that would expose to the whole world their ugly true faces now parasitizing darkness.
“Originally, it should have ended easily. Offer you to the foreign deities and eliminate the remaining Solen, and anything that could be called a natural enemy would be gone.”
In fact, according to Lionel’s past memories that I glimpsed, I was captured by the Imperial Family multiple times.
Sometimes I jumped into traps knowing they were traps to save Father and my brother, sometimes Lionel became my weakness. Naturally, there were times I became their weakness and trap too.
“But why…”
“Crown Prince Axion… refused to offer you as a sacrifice.”
In that moment of speaking, Lionel looked utterly agonized.
“The one who led this affair is Princess Dana. Considering the Princess’s temperament, she probably wanted to eliminate you. Yet the fact that she ordered them to bring you without harming a hair on your head is because of the Crown Prince’s intervention.”
Crown Prince Axion, that man wants to possess me again…?
Even knowing I’m Sasha Dilottete, not Serenia Solen?
