May Every Wound Be Fatal - Chapter 46.2
Reyna blinked blankly. Tears pushed aside by her eyelids trickled down her temples.
And surprisingly, Reyna moved her eyes slowly as if surveying her surroundings.
“……”
Reyna furrowed her brows subtly. The scenery seemed unfamiliar to her.
In fact, this place was neither the Queen’s residence nor the King’s. This was because the King felt a strong aversion toward the Queen’s palace, where the assassin had hidden, and his own bedroom, from which Reyna had thrown herself.
Allin realized that Reyna had finally regained her full consciousness.
“Oh heavens, my Queen…”
Quickly kneeling, Allin looked closely into Reyna’s face and asked in a trembling voice.
“My Queen, do you recognize me? Are you yourself again?”
Reyna seemed to hesitate for a moment, then slowly moved her gaze to look at Allin. She appeared dazed, as if still trying to grasp the situation.
Even at that faint response, Allin was simply overcome with emotion.
“It is such a relief, my Queen. I knew you would wake up. Ah, I must call the scholar at once.”
Reyna merely stared at Allin intently. Somehow, her gaze was like that of one looking at a stranger.
Only then did Allin realize that Reyna’s reaction was somewhat strange.
“…My Queen?”
At her cautious call, Reyna finally frowned slightly.
“Is there, perhaps, a problem…”
Then, before the flustered Allin could even finish her sentence, Reyna averted her gaze as if annoyed.
“…I have no idea what you are talking about.”
It was an incomprehensible murmur.
“…Pardon?”
However, the words that followed were even more impossible to understand.
“Call another girl besides you. No, call Karla. My body hurts so much. I think something has gone wrong.”
…To call for Karla.
And in that moment, Allin realized that something had indeed gone wrong.
Meanwhile, the pain starting from her right leg was racking Reyna’s entire body. She grew irritated, unable to tolerate Allin’s brief hesitation.
“What are you doing? Can you not hear me?”
Yet Allin still did not know what to say.
The problem was, Reyna did not look like she was babbling nonsense because her leg hurt too much.
‘…Could it be?’
Allin’s face, now certain of something, distorted with sorrow, and tears quickly pooled in her eyes.
Reyna, looking back at Allin with a jerk of her head as if she could no longer endure it, flinched at the servant’s unexpected reaction.
A moment of silence passed, and Reyna’s eyes began to waver with anxiety. It seemed she, too, felt that something was amiss.
Staring at Allin for a while in confusion, Reyna tentatively parted her dry lips.
“…Who are you? And where on earth is this…”
“Oh, heavens…”
A lament escaped Allin’s lips despite herself.
Reyna had not been babbling because she was consumed by fever or intoxicated by medicine.
Barely swallowing the sob that threatened to burst out, Allin whispered softly.
“…I will call the scholar immediately.”
***
The rumor that the Queen had attempted to throw herself to her death spread uncontrollably.
The nobles, sensing an opportunity, gathered at the high citadel of Elmaril.
As if it had all been prearranged, the Archbishop, who had remained quiet until now as if taking no side, sent an invitation to the King.
The message requested his attendance at an upcoming ritual, but his true purpose would be to verify the truth of the scandalous rumors regarding the Queen’s leap.
According to the doctrines of the Order, suicide was a grave blasphemy and a sin.
However, all of this was nothing more than a plausible excuse to break the spirit of the young King.
Elizer had reached the pinnacle of power by killing the Duke, who was once called the King above Kings. But there was no such thing as eternal power, and there were always those who dreamed of the same authority Leonard had held.
Even though the scent of blood had barely faded, they inwardly looked down on the young King.
The reason was that he was an illegitimate child born from the womb of a dancer whose origins were unknown.
For a man with no backing, there were only things he had to protect.
“For the sake of the royal family’s continuity, you must depose the Queen and take a new one.”
Someone’s loud voice rang out powerfully in the hall where the King and the high nobles were gathered.
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