Published at 18th of October 2020 04:54:00 PM
Chapter 38: Chapter 38 - The Rose Will Soon Bloom
Chapter 38: The Rose Will Soon Bloom
The knight told Calian .
“The meeting has been extended and the royals aren’t yet at the ballroom . ”
It seemed like Rumein had helped Calian . Calian gave a subtle nod .
He then smelled the Ranieri as he opened the door, and smiled .
The only people who did not attend the royal meeting and at the same time was invited to the feast was Silike and Calian . Since this was a feast that started right after the royal meeting ended, it would start late if the meeting ended late .
That was how Calian got some time to speak with Silike – all by himself .
A servant approached and put down a cup of coffee . Calian said .
“Please give us some space before the others come . ”
The servant nodded and everyone else left .
Silike stared at the sight of everyone leaving since she did not know what was happening and fanned herself as usual .
Calian, seeing that, shook his head .
“Let’s not deceive each other . ”
At those words, Silike froze for a second . Then, she nodded and put down her fan on the table .
“Sure thing . ”
Both Calian and Silike were staring at each other . Although they both seemed calm, they actually weren’t . An impounding silence blasted throughout the room . The second hand of the clock ticking away inside the ballroom sounded like thunder .
Silike spoke first .
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
Calian frowned slightly and held a coffee cup in his hands .
“I told you to not deceive me . ”
Calian’s red eyes moved away from Silike and now looked at the coffe .
“But it didn’t mean we should do away with our respect . ”
Suddenly, Silike’s facial expression changed .
Because Calian was of Royal blood, Silike should not have done away with her respect . Calian was talking about that .
“You have grown much . ”
Silike was still not showing respect .
Calian, having drunk his coffee in a leisurely manner, smiled and spoke .
“That’s not hard to do… is it?”
Then he added with a deep voice .
“Silike . ”
Silike’s beautiful face showed anger . Calian was shocked to see that, and Silike bit her lips .
“Bad lineages are so disrespectful…”
“I think I just told you that you are not showing respect . ”
Calian, after cutting Silike’s words, spoke again .
“If you talk about lineage, what about Viscount Brissen?”
Silike’s eyes turned thin and sharp . She was doing that because she knew that she couldn’t get rid of Calian there and then .
“Anyways, there’s something I want to talk about, Silike . ”
Silike, being called by her name again, didn’t feel like talking with Calian . That was why she stood up .
– Thud!
Calian put down his coffee cup loudly .
“Tea . ”
Calian’s eyes darkened .
He was looking into Silike’s worst .
“I would like to tell you to stop . The scent of the tea is too strong to drink . ”
Like Ranieri .
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Silike slowly slid back into her seat .
To what she heard, Calian had been drinking the tea up to this morning . That’s why she didn’t think Calian knew about the poison . But it seemed Calian knew that she even made the dosage of poison higher .
‘He knew it . ’
It would seem clear why Calian had drunk the poison .
If it had been let out that Calian’s tea had contained poison, Silike would have killed Calian’s maids and servants for trying to kill him . That was because just even handing him the tea would be considered a crime .
Calian was worrying about that .
Silike smiled and spoke .
“You say such weird things . ”
Calian smiled and spoke .
“You don’t know about it . ”
“Yes, I don’t know about it . ”
Calian tapped his coffee cup . Then he took out what he had come with . On the table lay some sugar that looked exactly the same as the substance he came with .
Calian spoke slowly .
“I thought about a lot of things . Whether to use the evidence I got out of Lennon . Or to just capture Lennon and torture him . Or to go into the safety of Alan . Or to tell this to the king . Or whether I should just poison my brothers . ”
Silike’s eyebrows twitched . Calian ignored that and spoke again .
“Using poison wasn’t very striking to me, and for the other ones, you would just squirm out of the situation . That’s why I decided that I would bring your card to my side, so that you can’t do this again . ”
So that Silike couldn’t use poison ever again .
“Then I would have to use something as a bet, but the only thing I have right now is a strong heart . So I decided to put that on bet . ”
Calian showed Silike what he held . Silike, naturally, looked to see what it was .
“Poison . It doesn’t react to silver, and it’s not one that kills so it won’t be found . Well… maybe I should phrase it as medicine since it can save lives in an interpretation . ”
Silike’s hands, which were on her lap, slightly grabbed onto her dress because she coudlnt’ figure out Calian’s intentions . Calian spoke again .
“After you eat this, your heart will stop . It makes people seem as if they are dead, although they are still alive . ”
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It was the poison that Secretia’s spies used to save themselves from danger . Of course it was not used only in Secretia, so even if Silike figured out what the poison was, she couldn’t draw links between Calian and Secretia .
Calian, looking at the substance as if he was viewing something with awe, spoke again .
“Of course, it won’t work on me . Even if I eat it, the Power of Blessing will prevent my heart from stopping . ”
Something that won’t have any use .
Calian responded to Silike’s curious eyes .
“However, it will stop the detoxification process . ”
Like how a mere cut on his hand wouldn’t heal .
The Power of Blessing ignores weaker poison .
Calian couldn’t have been in a more peaceful disposition .
“Then in the time the Power of Blessing gets rid of this poison, the weaker poison I drank every day through my morning tea will disperse throughout my body . ”
The poison he took in in the previous days wouldn’t kill him .
“I won’t die, but I will suffer a bit . ”
He would make sure that his heart wouldn’t stop then he would start the detoxification process .
“However, things would get a bit more bothersome for Silike . ”
A plop sound came from inside Calian’s coffee cup .
“So, the thing is, if you agree to not send tea from tomorrow, I won’t drink this . I’m a bit tired of being sick . ”
Silike figured out what Calian’s intentions were .
Even if he didn’t die, there would be signs of being intoxicated . If he fell down and coughed up blood, then everyone would suspect it to be because of poison . Also, people wouldn’t be able to figure out how much poison he took in, so they would think it was an amount that couldn’t be cured with the Power of Blessing .
Furthermore, Silike was the only person in the ballroom with Silike .
“You’re trying to put blame on me by saying that I gave you poison . ”
“I wouldn’t say it would be putting blame on you . Also, why are you saying this to me? You’re the one who wants to do away with me the most . ”
Silike’s slightly grinned .
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It was like if she had put a foot into a kid’s sand castle . At that happy feeling, Silike spoke in a relaxed voice .
“Do you have your evidence ready?”
At those words, Calian’s eyes widened .
Calian stirred the contents of his coffee cup slowly with a spoon . Then he responded to Silike .
“I’m not trying to get rid of you right now . Of course, Alan is here, but what will I do if the full of Brissen’s army comes?”
“You know well . ”
Silike laughed and responded, and Calian laughed too .
“I’m just trying to stop you from playing with poison, so I don’t need any proof . This time, I’m just going to go the extent where people will always have an eye on you . Fetters are sometimes stronger when they cannot be seen . ”
**just a side note to the editor: the word fetters in here does not have a literal meaning (as in cuffs or legcuffs) but rather some kind of a figurative meaning, in that the fetters is a thing that holds and restricts Silike**
Assumptions couldn’t bring someone to court . Silike was one of the people who knew that too well .
“You can’t hold me in with fetters like those . ”
Fetters that can’t be seen .
Silike had never experienced that kind of thing .
“You know it was constantly done . ”
Silike committed countless crimes and was sitting here, drinking her coffee peacefully .
She then smiled like a pure child .
“I wonder who knows that the person who killed your mother was me…!”
Silike whispered like a bird tweeting away in the early morning .
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