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The previous queen had already passed away.
While Marth, the second prince had ran away from the kingdom after the fight for the throne and his whereabouts are currently unknown, thus the remaining royal left was only Vincent and his visit would be foremost be planned.
"Fioria! You have recovered! It's me, me, Oswald, do you remember me?"
The one who had waited in the parlor was a middle aged skinned-boned man. By inferring from his looks, she was able to recognize who it was in a glance.
"It's been a while, Oswald-sama."
Fioria's former fiancé, Oswald di Tristan.
"… I have heard that you are locked in the clock tower though."
"Yeah, and I escaped from it, to find and meet you."
Oswald then tried to approach Fioria with affection and hold her hand but was unable too as Fioria had stepped backwards, thus all he caught was air itself.
"Ain't you acting cold now, Fioria? We were close right?"
"We… Had 'we' ever been so close I wonder."
Oswald had treated Fioria coldly ever since their engagement. On top of that, he demanded the annulment to indulge in Annerose and additionally poisoned her to death. Even the goody old shoes Fioria has a limit and her impression of him had reached a dead pit.
"Are you mad regarding the incident with Annerose? That was- err- I wasn't serious about her! That was a whim on my part you see. T-that happens when you're young right? So forgive me? Even the poison, that wasn't my fault you know? I was duped by Annerose, you understand right?"
"…." Fioria was speechless upon seeing what excuses he had made up as soon as he started blurting out words.
'That happens when you're still young?' Don't make me laugh. That excuse is not something the one asking for forgiveness should speak of.
"I had already repented for 20 long years inside the prison. Look in my eyes! Haven't I turned over a good leaf?"
"… I wonder."
"Of course I had! So just once more, be my fiancé? Else I won't be able to get away from that cursed towe-, no, nothing. I love you! Ever since my younger days, always, you are my first love, so yeah?"
Incidentally, Fioria had the servant who notified her of an audience tagged along with her, and had him bring along a pot and a pumpkin. Fioria then received the pumpkin from the servant and held it in front of Oswald's face.
She was incredibly irriated.
Love? Who, me? First love? Whose mouth did those words come out from?
Even if the first love part was true, the rest were too good to be true.
Those words are a disgrace to Vincent's resolve.
-She then destroyed the pumpkin singlehandedly.
"Would you suppose to close that mouth of yours? Else in 3 seconds you will become this."
"Eeeek!"
Oswald felt his knees wobble and tumbled down the ground with a frightened expression looking towards Fioria.
"I-in-insolence! I am of royalty! Don't think you can get away after messing with a royal!"
"…" The speechless Fioria moved forward approaching him.
"D-Damn it! After all the effort of escaping and meeting you here and now, and you treat me like this?! Don't you like people who work hard?! I did my best! Appreciate it! Help me out here to get outta that clock tower! Why isn't anything going my way?! That's why I hate women, even that Annerose, and even you! Why aren't you women listening to me?! Damn it, I should've just destroyed every-"
"… 3 seconds have passed."
She spurted out a cold statement depicting his execution.
"Why everything doesn't go your way? Of course it doesn't. Me, Annerose and everyone else have their own will, it's not as if you're playing with dolls here. …. What have you really repented on these 20 long years."
Fioria held out her hand and grabbed onto Oswald's face. A cracking sound can be heard whilst Oswald was pleading for his life and eventually stopped. As he had fainted due to overwhelming fear.
"Really, what a boorish man."
If you have such leeway to plead for your life then at the very least you could've tried a punch. Though I will return it back to you. Had you showed some guts I could have showed mercy… Or maybe not this time.
The incident with Annerose, the annulment of their engagement and even the poisoning was trivial. But his words of love and affection which did not came from his heart was unforgivable.
All the more reason for me to shoot down a Divine and eradicate him entirely would have been better, or so was her thought.
"Oh?" And so Fioria had sniffed out a smell of burning iron from Oswald's clothes.
From within his breast pocked was a black coloured jewel shining.
It seems a spell had been assembled with an ominous pulsation.
"Looks like you brought along something disturbing."
After deciphering the spell, she realized it was a high-tiered dark spell which after activation will eradicate everything within a several hundred meters.
As they are currently in the capital, the destruction may bring about immeasurable harm politically and economically.
3 minutes had past before the time limit of the spell activates.
A high-tiered dark magic is difficult to disarm. Even a specialist would require 10 minutes to disarm, nevertheless a normal magician, thus the tragedy is inevitable or so it seems however.
"Glorious"
For there is the natural enemy of darkness magic here, the saint who isn't one, Fioria di Florence.
A purifying light which overflows from her hand, the spell was disarmed within moments.
"… For now, I should report this incident to the king."
Fioria then handed over Oswald to the footman who rushed in disarray.
Not only had he escaped from the clock tower, additionally he started a terrorism. His punishment won't be light, it's beyond the limits of being forgiven due to his royal status.
Though Oswald had repeatedly shouted out 'I though the jewel was a protective charm', 'I'm not in the wrong' or 'that damned Kenneth handed it over to me' which no one had listened to and had his just deserved.
On the other hand, his escape from the clock tower in under investigation. It looks like Oswald had escaped at the same time Fioria was in audience with Vincent, and the act was not done one his own.
There was an accomplice, Kenneth di Branburg.
One of Annerose's cohorts, and a criminal who had helped her escape as well. There were rumors of him hiding underground and it was also his subordinates who helped Oswald escape.
"Him showing off his trails, this is convenient."
Fioria smirked after obtaining the information.
"Though I look to be one who keeps rushing forward, but by no means am I poor at scheming. Then let me show you how it's done."
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