Chapter 92
Eventually, after kicking the last doctor out in frustration, an emergency meeting was held among her ‘husbands.’
“You were with Eugenie, and you let her slip away so easily?”
The first to lash out angrily was Carter. His target was none other than Cassius.
Cassius scowled irritably at the other ‘husbands,’ who were glaring at him.
‘So now, you all want to point fingers?’
After all, he had been there with Eugenie until she disappeared. Although he felt some guilt and answered, his mood was sour, and his usual soft smile was gone.
“Four family’s manpower is all over the place, and the priests from the capital were right next to us. Who would have thought something like this could happen?”
“You’re the one using dark magic, so strange things must have attached themselves to you. How can you deny it?”
“Ha, such a pretty way of speaking, Priest!”
Bang.
“Enough, everyone.”
At that moment, Percival slammed his hand gently on the table to stop the noisy argument.
“Arguing among ourselves won’t wake her up. We need to solve the bigger problem.”
Percival turned to Alfred.
“Are you sure she used magic?”
“Yes, Duke.”
Alfred recalled the situation and rubbed his chin.
“I shot Tristan’s heart, and he came back to life…”
He paused, then slowly continued.
“…No, not exactly came back to life, but something is different.”
“Different?”
“Tristan’s clothes also returned to their original state.”
It was as if only Tristan’s time had been reversed…
Percival, who was about to speak up, closed his mouth. Considering the magical contract that bound them all together, it was hard to doubt the possibility.
“If that’s the case, then the reason she hasn’t regained consciousness is…?”
“It’s because the Madam suddenly used magic.”
Cassius shrugged lightly.
“She’s never used magic before, right? So if she used a time-reversing spell right from the start, the impact would have been huge.”
It was like taking a baby who had just learned to walk and making it run in a high-altitude mountain range.
At that moment, the man who had been silent until now spoke up.
“…We never succeeded when practicing together, but now, suddenly?”
Magnus had remained silent for a long time. From the moment he had taken Eugenie out of the hunting grounds, he had been arrogantly looking down, but now he was unusually quiet.
And when he spoke again, his pale green eyes glistened with a dull sheen.
“If she used magic for the first time, there must have been a trigger. Can’t you guess anything?”
“How would I know?”
Cassius shot back with a mocking tone and a twisted smile.
“Maybe Madam was in such a hurry because she thought Wilberforce was going to jail.”
“…”
“Ah, it must be nice to be so favored, Wilberforce. I’m so jealous, it’s making me sick.”
The atmosphere in the drawing room, which had seemed to calm down, instantly turned tense again.
They were men who had once been the most highly respected in their own circles, after all. Now, being forced into a ‘level’ position in one room together had stirred up a strange discomfort, and everyone was gritting their teeth.
Magnus shook his head and turned toward the door.
“I don’t want to associate with scum like that.”
“First time I agree with Napier.”
As Carter left, he shot a fierce glare at Alfred.
“That stupid Marine who just shot the Crown Prince…”
“Livingston—”
“Should’ve just shot him and ended it.”
If that had happened, no matter how much of a bastard the Crown Prince was, Eugenie wouldn’t have fallen into a critical state, unable to wake up.
Percival sighed as he watched the others leave.
The sweet honeymoon… He felt sorry for his wife, but it seemed like it would end far too soon.
* * *
The two men left the meeting room and walked down the hallway in silence for a long time. They were alumni, but they hadn’t been close, so the silence was more comfortable.
Magnus kept glaring at the darkness across the hall as if he was watching an enemy.
“Maybe Madam was in such a hurry because she thought Wilberforce was going to jail.”
Hearing that made an unknown heat rise within him, and he felt unnecessarily stirred up against Cassius Lyssander.
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