“Okay.
I’ll contact you as soon as I find her.”

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“Time is running out.
If they don’t see you for a long time, they may get suspicious, so go back first.”

“Yes.”

Roland left first.

Agnes went around leisurely and returned to the place where he split up with Matron.

“Madam!”

Matron, who belatedly discovered Agnes, rushed toward her.

“Where did you go?”

“Where did I go? Where can I go in this small garden? Where is the water? Why are you empty-handed?”

Rather, Agnes shouted loudly.
Matron was embarrassed and sweated.

“Let’s go back.”

“Yes, Madam.”

As I entered the banquet hall, Laslo was the first to approach.

“Where did you go? I’ve been looking for you for a long time.”

“Well, Sir Sandor said he had something to show me, so we went out to the garden together, and it was nothing.”

“What did he…….?”

Laslo could not finish talking.

This is because the Marquis tapped the glass on the podium to draw attention.

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of you who are here to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Kiske family.”

The marquis lifted the glass high.

The servants hurried to distribute drinks as they passed among the people.

“For the prosperous and shining Kiske!”

The Marquis shouted vigorously and emptied the glass.

Agnes and Laslo also drank with others.

“I have several children, and the one you probably know best is my eldest son.”

The Marquis shouted with a face full of alcohol.

“Milan! Come up here.”

He beckoned at his eldest son.
When his father called him, Milan went up to the podium.

“My son.”

Marquis Kiske said, clenching Milan’s shoulder.

“You’ve already grown up this much.”

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“It’s all thanks to you father and mother.”

“Hahaha.”

They smiled and exchanged words of blessing.
The atmosphere went warm.

“Are you enjoying the banquet?”

Erica appeared with a drink.

“I’m enjoying it enough.”

Laslo replied bluntly.

“Shouldn’t you be on that stage too?”

“No.
I can see it the best here.”

“What?”

Erica smiled beautifully instead of answering.
It was right after I learned the meaning of the smile.

“Sir Milan”

“How can you do this? How should we live our lives?”

Nearly ten leaders flocked from the entrance of the banquet hall.

They were uninvited merchant class people.

They shouted at the podium with distorted faces.

“My daughter is sick.
I can’t even call a doctor!”

“Please help me.”

“How dare you here! Guards! Get them out right now.”

Marquis Kiske jumped on the spot.
The nobles did not know what was happening, so they whispered among themselves.

“I trusted you, you said you’d pay back.
Did you betray us just like that?”

“Didn’t we write off all the gambling debts? You said you will bring light to us?”

They shouted with veins popping in their necks.
The voice was so desperate that the listener felt pitiful.

Merchants’ words spread widely.

“Gambling? light?”

“Sir Milan?”

Marquis Kiske stared at his son with a fierce face.

“What are they talking about? Wasn’t that resolved a few days ago?

“Oh, that, that.”

Milan’s face turned white.
He stuttered in embarrassment and soon pointed his fingers at the merchants.

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“T, they’re making up a lie to slander me!”

He urgently made an excuse.
Unfortunately, those words have been hit by a headwind.

“Hmm? Sir Milan? How can I slander you Sir? Do you know how much money I lent him!”

“That’s right! You called us to do business together but now you’re leaving all the responsibility to us.”

They all roared in the same voice.

“What are you doing?”

Marquis Kiske’s face was completely distorted.
He seems to have realized the whole story only then.

“It seems that Lord Milan has quite a lot of debt.”

Laslo, who was watching all those things, said a word.

“I guess so.”

Agnes watched the situation while sipping alcohol.

The guard called by the marquis arrived at the scene very late for some reason.

“Let go of me! I can’t leave like this!”

“My daughter has been sick for days, please help me!”

Since there were ten people, the disturbance grew and grew.

Eventually, the situation ended only when all the family knights and servants were mobilized due to the shortage of soldiers.

Even after the merchants left and the doors were closed, the nobles’ complaints did not decrease.

Rather, it is bigger than before.

“I’m so sorry for making you see something unpleasant.
Now, forget about what just happened and enjoy the banquet again.”

Marquis Kiske said, trying hard to smile.

“I think I should go to my father.”

Erica politely bowed to the duchess and disappeared.

Milan went down to the podium as if running away.

The marquis tried hard to lighten the mood, but in fact, the banquet ended with that.

The Marchioness collapsed on a chair after seeing what happened.

“Hmm.
Shall we go now?”

“Let’s do that.”

The nobles gathered at the banquet hall crept away.

Agnes, who was seated properly, took Laslo’s hand and left the banquet hall.

“Are you okay?”

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“Huh? What?”

He said, helping Agnes get on the carriage.

“It was a banquet you wanted to come to, but it ended badly.”

“I liked it so much.”

“Hmm?”

The servant closed the carriage door.
Laslo sat across from her.

“It was very exciting and fun.”

“Was it fun?”

Laslo has a strange face.

“Okay.
It’s a good thing we came here.”

Agnes smiled satisfactorily.
It’s a good thing I came.

She muttered the words to herself once again.

She wasn’t expecting anything when she handed Erica the information about Sir Milan.

I never imagined she’d do something like this.

Now it was obvious what reputation Milan Kiske would have among the nobles.

Marquis Kiske will also think twice on setting him as his successor.

‘That’s what Erica wants.’

Maybe she will be the youngest female marquis.

I wasn’t very sure while helping her, but now I realized that choosing Erica was the right decision.

“You must have really liked it.”

Laslo said, looking at Agnes’ face.

“I really like it.”

Agnes smiled.

“By the way, Duke.
You’re not going to tell me what you talked about with the king when you went to the palace?”

“I’ve already said that.
It was just useless chatter.”

“The Duke went to the palace instead of me, and Sebastian chatted uselessly?”

He’s not like that at all.
Agnes looked at him with suspicious eyes.

“I don’t believe you, there’s no way.”

On the other hand, Laslo acted as if nothing happened.

No matter how much Agnes questioned, he remained silent.

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After he went to the palace, the king was too quiet.

They sent medicinal herbs because of her excuse that she was sick, and said that they would see each other when she’s healed.

“Suspicious.”

Obviously, he made a deal with Sebastian, but his mouth was shut.

“Can I tell the butler to get ready to go back to the territory?”

“Of course.
By the way, there’s going to be a guest tomorrow.”

“Guest?”

Laslo asked, blinking his eyes.
Agnes laughed instead of answering.

* * *

“My princess.
How have you been?”

The old man smiled kindly and did not take his eyes off Agnes.

“I’m always at peace.”

“You look much brighter than before leaving the palace.”

“It’s all thanks to the Duke.”

Agnes smiled and looked at Laslo sitting next to her.

Then the old man’s face on the opposite side became scary.

“Hmm…”

“I’m still lacking, but Agnes……….”

“I’m glad you know you’re lacking.
Duke of Arpad.”

He replied coldly.

Laslo opened his mouth to say something but he closed it silently.

“…I am trying to make her stay comfortable.
Marquis Songrad.”

“Isn’t that obvious? She is a princess.”

Marquis Songrad opened his eyes wide and shouted.

“She grew up eating only the best and most precious things in the palace.
Do you know how I raised the princess?”

“Oh, of course, I know that the marquis’ hard work is deep.”

“You know that? But how can you neglect our princess like this?”

“What do you mean?”

“This outfit that the princess is wearing is definitely custom-made for her birthday two years ago.
But why is the princess still wearing this?”

“Grandfather.”

Agnes held the marquis’ wrinkled hands with a soft face.

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