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Chapter 38 Protecting him is your only task now

The topic suddenly became a bit heavy from the original relaxed farewell chat.

"Your Highness, actually you have been missing since you woke up and fell into coma yesterday, and then I sent you home."

"Have you never seen her?"

Seeing Sirius's surprised expression, Lian also replied with some worry: "Yes, including the person who poisoned... he is also missing."

"Everything has been exposed, that person must have been killed long ago..."

Sirius smiled mockingly. He now felt that the disappeared Nalia should be hiding in the corner at this moment, eavesdropping on the conversation between him and Lian.

The changes in his expression and the glances in his eyes also made Nalia, who was hiding in the shadows, look a little weird.

However, what she wanted to confirm had been obtained, so Nalia jumped directly from the window, hiding all the way until she was on the street leading to the center of the town under the manor, and then slowly revealed her figure.

Perhaps this was the last time she would eavesdrop on Sirius' conversations with others in her absence.

It was not a glorious thing in itself. If it were not to investigate the truth about Sirius's death, she would not do such an unaristocratic thing.

If the purpose of the first eavesdropping is to observe the other party from another angle and determine the other party's identity. Now it is time to confirm whether there is any need to keep this person for your own use.

Luther was the type of person who was definitely untrustworthy, but this man was different. He had an aristocratic demeanor that did not belong to the common people.

Aristocratic style...

Thinking of these four words, Nalia couldn't help but want to laugh. Indeed, these four words seem ironic no matter how you look at them. If the nobles are really elegant, are they still the same group of people in her impression?
  Nalia hated the hypocrisy of these so-called nobles, and felt that her interactions with those people were always full of calculations. But this man who replaced Sirius made her feel that he had a kind of courage and persistence that she had never seen before.

The opponent did not flinch in the face of death, and he would not be afraid even if he escaped from death.

At such an opportunity, choosing to distance Li An from this incident felt like a moth flying into a flame.

At least...she admired this "Sirius" more than Engri.

"Hannah."

"My subordinate is here."

In fact, Hannah has been waiting here for a long time. As the person Nalia trusts the most at this moment, only she can take on the responsibility of entrusting important tasks at critical moments.

As a glorious Imperial Knight, a loyal person who swore to protect the Imperial Princess to the death, she had already regarded all those who tried to slander and harm Nalia as her lifelong enemies.

Even if that person might be the next successor to the empire - the eldest prince Engri.

"I need to find out one thing. Before I come back, you must protect Sirius's safety.

And from today on, your only mission is this, do you understand? "

It is a very sad thing to have lost your name and identity, and also completely lost your original social relationships.

If given the chance, Nalia would still ask the civilian, at least not to bear the name of a dead person for the rest of her life.

"My subordinate understands."

Nalia was not surprised by Hannah's answer. After all, she and Hannah have been together for a long time and are the best and only friends in such a large palace, but this does not mean that the other party will disobey her orders at this time and insist on choosing to protect herself. When the situation is serious, Nalia can always choose to believe in Hannah's execution and loyalty.

"Your Highness Nalia...where are you going now?"

After accepting the order, Hannah couldn't help but care a little more as a friend. However, such "talkativeness" did not make Nalia feel there was anything wrong. Instead, she felt that she was very lucky to have a friend like Hannah.

If Sirius could have had someone worthy of his trust and could entrust everything to him, everything would have been different.

"I... need to find someone who should have the answer I want."

Nalia looked worried, looking towards the end of the street, then walked to the carriage behind Hannah, unhooked one of the horses from the carriage, and then put a saddle on it.
  "..."

Hannah said nothing, but there was still a hint of inquiry in her eyes.

Of course, she had already guessed the final answer in her heart, but she still wanted to confirm it again. After all, the person the answer pointed to in her heart was not something trustworthy.

Unfortunately, Nalia's answer was the same as the person she had in mind.

“I’m going to see Luther, the lord of Ankh.

...Some things should be settled with him.

Currently, the premise is that this guy's cowardice can allow him to escape Engli's assassination. "

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In the Lord's Mansion, the door to Luther's bedroom has been closed for more than three days.

No one knows what he is doing inside, or even whether he is alive, because no one has a spare key, so these family members and servants can only worry outside.

But because of Luther's death order, what they dare not do is disobey the order and forcefully enter, because... they are afraid of death.

Of course, what they didn't know was that Luther was not in the room at this moment. The locked door and the windows were also locked, making it impossible to enter directly from the front door or open the curtains to see what was going on inside. .

All of this was a cover, a last-ditch effort by Luther to protect himself.

After all, he is also a local count. Although Anka is a poor place, it does not mean that their family will be equally poor.

The place where Luther was hiding at the moment was a secret room that only he knew. Although the entrance was in his bedroom, if he didn't know the way to enter, I'm afraid a normal person would never find it in his life. of.

There are piles of gold coins piled up in some small spaces. After all, in his opinion, this is something as important as his own life. If he puts it in other places, he is either worried about being discovered by outsiders or worried about being stolen by his servants.

Only by moving here bit by bit can he truly feel at ease.

There must be more than just some money he has hidden in the secret room. In order to cope with this emergency, he put a lot of food and water in the secret room in advance. The amount can basically support him to live here for a month. Won't starve to death.

Of course, if he hadn't known in advance that the eldest prince was going to kill him this time, Luther felt that he didn't need to suffer so much.

When he thought that his beautiful life here in Anka could never return to the peace of the past because of the royal disputes, he couldn't help but feel sad about his fate.

"MD, I'm not really going to die here, am I?"

(End of this chapter)