Chapter 57 · Grave News from Ceres

The next morning, Isadel lay in bed for a long while staring at the ceiling.

Because she had hardly slept all night, she had tossed and turned countless times.

Still, thanks to having dozed off for a little while, the tangled thoughts seemed to have been sorted out to some extent.

Now the first thing she had to do was find Heigan.

When she had briefly encountered him outside the banquet hall last night, he had been wearing the uniform of the imperial guard. Surely he had hidden his identity and infiltrated the imperial palace disguised as an imperial guard.

Perhaps he might be mixed in among the guards protecting this very place, the princess's palace.

But the number of personnel stationed at the princess's palace alone numbered well over one hundred and fifty.

If she went around searching the guard corps recklessly, she would only invite needless suspicion. Nor…