What Happens When the Second Male Lead Powers Up

s Eunse had told me about this was that Prince Jesse was born from an extramarital relationship, his eyes were purple, and that ‘the atmosphere in his family was terrible.’

“But the Prince Consort must not have believed that you would have such strong Divine Power.
The two children were no match for you.”

Cardinal Boutier’s eyes clouded over.

I gulped.
This was something I could not understand either.

If they knew that Prince Jesse was a strong priest, they should have sent people who were stronger than him to quietly take care of him.

But the Prince Consort’s assassins became powerless at my ether explosion and could only obey my Divine Oracle.

“Unbelievable…… There’s no way you have so much Divine Power!”

‘Did you really steal a Divine item or something?!’

I recalled what those two punks had shouted to me.
They seemed even more shocked than I had been at the amount of power I released.

This was very weird.
Prince Jesse was born and raised in the Holy Kingdom’s palace.

If he was born with strong Divine Power, there was no way that the Prince Consort would not have known about it.

Does that mean it wasn’t innate and that he earned this Divine Power after leaving the Holy Kingdom?

When could he have done that? Furthermore, is something like that even possible?

I was starting to get a headache.
I just decided to be honest.

“Your Eminence, even I do not know how that happened.”

“Hmm.”

“I didn’t know that my Divine Power was so strong.
I just thought that I couldn’t die like that and prayed to the Almighty God.”

“And then ether so strong that it made the walls crumble burst out of your body? Your Holy Domain was also big enough to fill the entire room.”

“……Yes, ma’am.”

Her head slowly tilted to the side.

Her face was stoic but seemed a bit cold.

“Did you steal the Divine item from the Temple of Vigilance?”

“No, ma’am.”

I immediately responded back.

I didn’t know how the conversation ended up there, but I was innocent so I had no reason to hesitate.

The Cardinal slowly closed her eyes.

[May the Almighty God forgive this child for his lie.]

A large gold circle appeared on the bedroom floor as soon as she said that.

This Holy Domain was extremely fancy and exquisite compared to the one I had released.

The circle spun once before quietly disappearing while I was blanking out at the intricate patterns on it.

I finally realized what she had done to me.

“Just now…….”

“I tried to use a holy circle for confessions to see if you were lying.
I’m sorry.”

She had a bitter smile on her face.

“Those who confess and are forgiven receive a special ether reaction.
It looks like you have no sins to receive forgiveness for since the Holy Domain is calm.
You were telling the truth.”

‘Wow, there are people who use confessionals as lie detectors.
Ma’am, is it really okay for the Cardinal to do this?’

I was amazed at the fact that sacraments could be used like this.

I also felt relieved that Prince Jesse had not stolen a Divine item without my knowledge.

“Time for me to get up now.”

She brushed off her clothes and got up while I was blanking out.

“I’m sure you have a lot of questions, but someone is calling for me.”

‘Wait, she is leaving just like this? This is the end?’

Her suddenly leaving like this was as shocking as seeing her as soon as I opened my eyes.

“Your Eminence, you’re leaving right now?”

“Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 11 am.
I will leave the door to my office open.
Feel free to come to ask any questions you may have.”

She sounded like a professor I had in college.

It was an extremely great offer for me since I planned on pulling out as much information as I could from the Cardinal.

I calmly nodded my head.

“Oh right, will you compliment Élisabeth when she comes? She was the first to notice that the twins were suspicious.”

The Cardinal said that as she was about to walk out the door.

“Élisabeth? Are you talking about Vice Commander Moutet?”

“Yes.
She’s a modest child, so she won’t bring it up first.”

* * *

“I stayed with his royal highness, the Imperial Prince at Baron Bellang’s estate when I was younger.
I was concerned about the fact that they grew up to be not identical since I remembered they were clearly identical when they were younger.”

“I see.”

“I’m sure it does happen, but I guess you could call it the intuition of the Vice Captain of the Imperial Guard.
That was why I urgently sent a messenger to the Baron through a portal to confirm if it was true.
I also sought out his royal highness for his opinion on the matter.
My intuition ended up being correct.”

‘Didn’t someone tell me that this girl was extremely modest?’

I took a sip of pumpkin tea while listening to Vice Captain Élisabeth talk about her part in this with an extremely proud look on her face.

I asked for this tea after seeing that Ganael’s face was completely swollen from crying so much because he was worried about me, but it was pretty good with a sweet scent.

“The Baron couple had not heard from their sons for a while but were waiting because they thought the children would have sent letters through carriage mail because portal mail is too expensive.
They could have never imagined for something so horrible to have happened to their sons.”

Vice Captain Élisabeth scrunched her face as if she was feeling emotional.

I thought that she wouldn’t be that calm of a person from the first time we met, but she seems to be more expressive than I thought.

Was she acting tough that day because she came to investigate an incident at that time?

“I brought the Imperial Guard to Juliette Palace as soon as we got the Baron’s confirmation.
I apologize for being unable to respond any faster, your highness.”

“Not at all.
I should be thanking you.
My life would have been in danger if you had not appeared at that time, Vice Captain Élisabeth.”

“I just did what needed to be done, your highness.”

Her grey eyes sparkled as she smiled.

“It is difficult to approach Juliette Palace because it is at the farthest corner of the Imperial Palace grounds.
The minimal number of guards are assigned here because there are not many dangers.
It will change from now on of course.”

I debated whether to ask about that damn ‘Temple Treasure Theft incident’ while she was telling me about the plans to increase the number of guards at Juliette Palace.

It wasn’t related to me now that the Cardinal stepped in and confirmed that I was not the thief.

I was honestly curious about what had happened, but I thought that there was no need to show any interest in it since it must not be an important incident as Eunse never brought it up.

“Ah, we will make sure that you have plenty of guards for your attendance at the Spring Ball as well.”

“Excuse me? The Spring Ball?”

I asked in a cold tone.
All of the other thoughts in my head quickly left like the water during a low tide.

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