Chapter 59.2

What the servant handed her was a thin, long cylindrical scytale.

Mrs. Grace received and opened the letter wrapping diagonally on the cylindrical stick.

Then the hidden letters appeared.

“Are you going to deny this?”

“This is…”

Yellow marks that seemed to scatter meaninglessly on the back of the paper combined exquisitely and created an archaic form.

The letters were intercepted that she had completed her duty, mentioning a full moon, and moving.

“You were very clever. After reassuring us by saying that we can check the contents of the letter to your parents’ house, you deliver the secret messages in this way.”

“…….”

“Hiding a message with fruit juice in your letter is a common method in your origin, right?”

Write letters with lemon juice on paper and they disappear once the letter dried.

When the person who received the secret letter slightly burned the paper, the message was revealed.

However, this method left a paper-cold mark after drying, and it seemed that there was one more trick that could be used to avoid any possible doubt.

Mrs. Grace cried, frowning as if she was looking at something repugnant.

“I wouldn’t have noticed if my eyesight had become a little bad. If it did, you would have succeeded in returning to your father by now!”

“……I’ve never used a letter like this. Someone is trying to frame me. And if I was going to go back to the capital like this, why would I get married in the first place?”

“Ha!”

Mrs. Grace bursted out laughing as if she were dumbfounded. Then she looked straight elsewhere and shouted.

“Physician, you explain that.”

It wasn’t just the guards and Mrs. Grace who showed up out of nowhere.

A few steps away from Mrs. Grace, an attending physician of the Winterfell family appeared from a place hidden by darkness.

That wasn’t not all. Glenn and Giscard and other major administrators. He was watching the situation with a stiff face.

“Go ahead and tell me. Why did the previous Marquis’ condition suddenly deteriorate?”

“Well, I don’t know the exact reason at the moment. Since this morning, the fever has risen due to an unknown cause….”

The attending physician’s voice was trembling.

At first, it was a very slight fever.

However, he didn’t exaggerate to say that the previous Marquis’ body temperature gradually rose over time, and now it was like his body was boiling.

The problem was that the cause of his sudden deterioration of the condition was unknown.

If the Marquis really died, his safety might be at stake.

Nadia slowly opened her mouth, looking still at the trembling physician.

“…So what do you want to say? Are you trying to say that I tried to hurt him and run away?”

“You already know it well. You have to tell us everything you have to say.”

“It’s a false charge that’s not even make sense. I have no reason to harm him.”

“No reason?Is that all you want to say?”

Her voice was getting louder and louder.

Mrs. Grace pointed a finger at Nadia and looked back to the direction of Glenn and the other administrators.

“Glenn, look at this shameless thing! What could be the reason Isaac’s condition, which had been stable, suddenly deteriorated? A few days ago, she met the Marquis on the pretext of greeting him! She must have done something then.”

“…….”

“She tried to hurt your biological father. How can you keep such an evil wife in this family? Divorce and kick her out now! We should also hold the Duke Balazit accountable.”

Mrs. Grace confronted her nephew.

It was as if she wanted to hear the affirmation that he would punish Nadia and kick her out.

But it was not Glenn who answered him, but Giscard, the Knight Commander.

“Calm down for now, Madam Greenwood. You’re not thinking clearly.”

“Calm down? How could you say that when you clearly saw this? Sir Giscard you are the previous Marquis’ friend! The person who harmed my brother is in front of you!”

“It’s not clear yet, is it? We need to look into it thoroughly.”

“I don’t understand how you could say that even after seeing that secret letter.”

“No, it seems to me that there are many parts that are unclear. Above all, isn’t there no reason for the Madam to harm the previous Marquis?”

“Wha–What?”

Mrs. Grace’s eyes widened.

She never imagined that Giscard wouldn’t think that Balazit’s daughter had no reason to harm the previous Marquis.

Nadia was the daughter of the Duke of Balazit. Wasn’t that enough of a reason?

But Giscard had a different idea.

Of course, to him, the previous Marquis was a lord whom he swore allegiance to, a friend whom he  grew up with, and a best friend above all.

If he could save his best friend’s dying life by throwing away his own life, he was proud that he could do it again and again.

But to the Duke of Balazit, Isaac was just an old man who laid in bed, only God knew when he would wake up.

The Duke of Balazit sent his daughter as an assassin to kill a dying patient who’s no longer a rival?

What could she even gain by winning their trust?

Knowing all Nadia’s contributions, which were not known to the outside world, he could only think of it as a scheme that did not fit the balance.

It was very embarrassing for Mrs. Grace, who did not know Nadia’s hidden credit.

What the hell was wrong with her? Mrs. Grace shouldn’t say that Glenn had to kick her wife out right now because his eyes said the other way around…

Nadia couldn’t walk away from here anyway. She opened her mouth as she looked at Giscard.

“Then what is the code on this letter? What happened to his condition as soon as she greeted my brother? Besides, how are you going to explain that she tried to leave the castle on the night of the full moon as written in this scytale?”

“Well, we’re just here with Madam to see the flowers of the millennium tree!”

“The head maid knows about it. You’ll be able to check it out right away if you call her.”

Nadia’s maids stepped in, ready for a fight. But Mrs. Grace only snorted like it was a joke.

“You stupid things! Flower viewing would be a trick to keep no one looking for her even if she didn’t come back to the bedroom for a long time! The flower of a millennium tree, what a sorry excuse.”

The previous Marquis couple tales were special to everyone here.

And Glenn, their only son, couldn’t help but be emotionally agitated.

She went on talking to shake her nephew.

“Glenn, we must detain and interrogate that woman at once. If you miss this opportunity, the opportunity to relieve the injustice of your dead mother may disappear forever.”

“…….”

Sure enough, Glenn had a ferocious look on his face.

It seemed that the fire was flowing out like a haze.

“That’s enough.”

Mrs. Grace had to endure the desire to laugh out loud.

No matter how much Giscard protected Nadia, if Glenn decided to punish her, he couldn’t defy him.

‘I have won.’

The moment she was sure of her victory, a strange sound came from behind her.

“Ha ha.”

“……?”

At first, Mrs. Grace thought she heard it wrong because it sounded like a laugh.

Who would laugh in this situation?

When she looked back, wondering, it was Nadia holding back her laughter that came into view.

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