This Villain Wants To Be The Empress
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The sunset followed the orange sky that came down with him and now only a dark blue sky with some star decorations up there. It was as if all that wanted to feel the pain of the death of the Augur temple–nyonya Annalise Persie Barckif–.
"May your spirit be at peace in heaven" said the chief of the temple who was present at the time.
The situation at the cemetery was quite crowded, many were crying sadly and there were also some damn people who even laughed a little because of the death of the Augur.
Estera Barckif, the only child of Miss Annalise and her ex-husband Alberte Barckif, is a village bandit. In retrospect, do people feel disgusted? How could a holy Augur marry a bandit?
Estera screeched and murmured, "look at mother, you are weak, even the husband you flatter doesn't come to your funeral. Luckily I'm already a big boy, so I can do everything myself. Too bad you don't get good memories with that jerk, it's okay, I don't expect you to be happy either".
The temple chief had finished his prayers then turned to face and looked at Esther with a listless smile. "Son, please pour this holy water into your mother's grave, so that she can feel eternal tranquility".
Estera scrunched his forehead, from the look on his face was indeed very stamped words 'why should I?'. To hell with this, Esther turned her face away and said, "just you. Want me to water it once he can't get to heaven".
"God! Watch your talk just now!" shouted one of the priests there.
Why are these people so troublesome? Think Estera.
Not wanting to make matters worse, the Head of the temple was the one who immediately replaced Estera watering the holy water into the tomb of the late Annalise.
Truly a pretty unfortunate sight on this very deep day. People started to whisper and gossip without realizing the place, one of Estera too but he did not care. He just wants to get out of here and meet someone.
But during the sowing of flowers, Estera had heard people say that he was the cause of his mother's death.
Why should I? It's up to my nature because it's my right. But why do these people****** keep slandering me with unreasonable accusations!? inner Estera.
After a few minutes and the show was over. Estera immediately rushed away because he was fed up with the mask of people who pretended to be sad, although he also pretended to be a little sad. While the priests just sighed and stroked the chest. Was that polite at your mother's funeral? Think they.
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Estera stopped in front of the gate staring at the horse carriage belonging to one of the noble families. At first glance the horse carriage was very luxurious, there was a sprinkling of diamonds on the roof. Finally, a man opened the door of the horse-drawn carriage from inside.
"Duke Dante Rigvsen." greet Estera to a man known as Dante Rigvsen.
Duke Rigvsen smiled kindly and reached out his hand to help Estera enter the horse carriage. Of course Estera received it with pleasure, not because he was good but indeed he was a bit unwell always troublesome Duke Rigvsen, Duke Rigvsen himself who asked for it, anyway, it wouldn't hurt if he accepted it too, would it?
After they were in the horse carriage, the coachman immediately whipped his horse slowly to walk back.
During the journey much they talked about, especially about the death of the Augur.
"You know what, miss? There are some people I suspect." Esther raised one eyebrow. Duke Rigvsen then took the paper and read the graffiti on the paper containing the suspect he suspected, "the first was Countess Vereen, the second was Lady Wendy, the third was Duke Harnicst, and the last one is your own father" he summed up.
"Duke Harnicst's? How could Viktor's father be on the list?" ask Estera.
"Oh, that's probably a bit wrong. Just now, during a meeting of the high-ranking officials at the palace, the Emperor announced that Viktor would be elevated, Viktor was appointed head of the Harnicst family and legally obtained the title of Duke. I don't understand exactly what it was like, but his Majesty the Emperor only said that Viktor would replace his father as head of the Harnicst family" he explained.
Without a ceremony or an official announcement? inner Estera.
Estera nodded as a sign of understanding. Viktor is Esther's ex-boyfriend, so he knows Viktor's true nature, and even he is a little suspicious that Viktor is working with Emperor Cassius. Whynot? Viktor could have told Cassius about his goal. But the thing is, how could Verard's father Viktor resign from the head of the family?
Esther again scrunched her forehead. "There is something to hide. You tau? Verard's father Viktor once told me a cocky– more precisely, to me and he said he would not give up his position even though I was married to Viktor though. People know he's stingy, so I think it's kind of weird. Then what do you think?"
"I suspect he's the Emperor's right hand".
Duke Rigvsen gave a piece of paper to Estera. "Shortly from the weight listed there, for my own purposes I am still a bit hesitant but I am sure of what I found. I found a letter and a few drops of liquid in a towel from Miss Annalise's ex. I know that smell, it's poison from the hemlock plant, and only Lady Wendy's family has that plant. I handed the cloth to Paul for further examination".
"Wait first. Why should you suspect Wendy? Why not with her family?"
Duke Rigvsen took out a letter from his pocket, giving it directly to Esther. Without a second thought Estera immediately read the letter.
"What the fuck?" Estera narrowed his eyes, then**************** his letter furiously and threw it on the floor of the car.
"You must have been very surprised by the contents of the letter. But I'm sure, Lady Wendy, helped by others, she wants to poison you in such a way that it's impossible and very risky if she knows what your nature is. Not to mention we don't know what motive drove him to do that?".
Duke Rigvsen looked at Estera hesitantly while Estera just stared dejectedly at the letter. "Miss, there's more to it than that. Empress Brigitta"
Estera was again infuriated, he raised his head quickly and looked at Duke Rigvsen, "really?! God fucking. I was a little surprised, but it's okay. I need your help again". Estera held her breath a little, damn, just killed their son but Brigitta got pregnant again.
"No problem. But this time we have to be careful, his Majesty the Emperor is being worried and will not reveal the matter of the empress' pregnancy this time. He must have been suspicious after the third miscarriage".
"I know. Can you meet Baron Dervixon? Tell him you want to borrow Lady Afta's identity".
In the mind of Duke Rigvsen was guessing the next plan from Estea. "Of course, no problem, he still has a debt of gratitude with me".
"Tell him that your distant cousin wants to borrow the identity of his dead daughter, just tell him to work for your cousin as a palace servant. If he asks why not use his own identity? You can tell that your cousin has just been robbed by the tyrant of the Northern Kingdom and you desperately need his identity to restore your cousin's position, it was risky to buy an identity from the black market to apply to become a servant of the Emperor's family".
Duke Rigvsen nodded in agreement, somewhat reasonable because now there is a rampant massacre and identity theft in the northern kingdom which is indeed the King himself, whether on what basis he did it. "Then what about the test?"
"Don't underestimate me. Oh, yes, one more thing, also tell your friend to make cyanide and give it to me on the night of the selection, the rest just let me. I can guarantee your friend's safety".
"Alright, it seems like it's quite convincing, I'll tell him later".
Estera smiled in satisfaction, feeling that everything would be fine even though the chances were very small. Being Lady Afta is very difficult like her, she knows Lady Afta because people often talk about how quiet she is, not to mention she has also refused the invitation to dance Prince.
"By the way about the Prince. Cassius has a younger brother from his father's concubine, right? Where the hell is he?" ask Estera.
"Rubber, Prince Erlend. I heard he became a shadow killer, but there is no evidence to suggest that it is all true. You know it yourself, right? His Highness the Emperor hated Prince Erlend so much, if he wanted him back, it was likely that he would only make him an ordinary knight. Prince Erlend in the eyes of his Majesty the Emperor is only a hindrance to him." replied Duke Rigvsen.
Estera flicked her clenched finger, "i know, let it go, hehe, I wanted to try to heat up Cassius and the Queen Mother, haha".
After the conversation ended, they went back to silence. Along the way, they were busy with their own business. No one has opened the conversation yet, well maybe because it was night of drowsiness began to creep slowly.
"Miss, would you like to go straight to your house or stop by my mansion? I feel sorry for you, now alone at home. Take it easy, I won't do anything." Duke Rigvsen.
Actually Duke Rigvsen's offer was pretty good, because he could carry out his plan without being interrupted, but it was very risky if Estera wasn't home after the funeral night. "Maybe tomorrow afternoon, there's some makeup I have to prepare myself. And also very risky to raise people's suspicions".
Duke Rigvsen nodded, "alright, I'll pick you up tomorrow afternoon after returning from Baron Dervixon's mansion." Estera smiled as a sign of gratitude.
There was a slight sense of relief and comfort with Duke Rigvsen, not because Estera liked him, but he was happy to get a partner who had the same goal as him.
It was enough that Esther was tormented with her past, enough that she did good and made herself into the fire. Right now he must be born a criminal and beat back those who betrayed him, even though inflicting casualties and getting hatred is okay for him.
TB