Chapter 26 · The Calm Before the Storm

The moment Isadel stepped into the room, she irritably tore off her lace gloves and threw them aside.

"A wicked bastard... His life thread is disgustingly long."

Though she had left a bold warning for Marquis Valdema, the unpleasantness clinging to a corner of her chest would not go away.

"To think he didn't die on the day of the coup. Truly a tenacious man..."

As Isadel murmured low, her voice suddenly cut off.

An unidentified sense of incongruity swept chillingly down her spine.

"Wait, Roshe."

Roshe, who had been organizing outer garments in the corner, turned to her with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, Your Highness?"

Isadel pressed her forehead and recalled the scene of the night the coup had broken out.

Then, with her extraordinary memory, she began to pick out the figures in the banquet hall one by one.

At the head table was Heigan. Behind him, Duke…