Chapter 269

Episode 269 Attempt to Poison

Eight kept an eye on him and looked for the perfect opportunity to poison him.

What is one?

As if heaven was helping him, he could see too many gaps in the saint.

At any time, even if I use magic to blow the poison powder, I feel sick to my face and feel like I’m going to vomit blood and die.

But even so, Eight did not move.

From what I’ve heard at first glance, it seems that the saint handles magic very well.

So there was no need to venture out from the beginning.

‘The moment you leave your seat will be your last.’

After holding the bottle tightly in his pocket and being patient, he left for a while.

The long awaited opportunity has finally arrived.

Eight, who had raised his eyes gleefully, quickly opened the cap of the bottle.

As if secretly muttering, he finishes the chant and carries poison powder in the wind.

“Air hand.”

An invisible hand of wind appeared beside him.

The wind carrying the poison powder pours it into Ray’s cup.

More than half of the magic was blown away due to inexperienced control, but that alone could be called a success.

Eight laughed sinisterly.

I poured out the poison I had.

That would be enough to kill a saint.

Soon after, the saint returned to his seat.

After exchanging a few words with Princess Celestia, they raised their glasses.

But something was strange.

Princess Celestia picked up Ray’s cup.

He tilted his head curiously for a moment before grabbing the remaining cup.

Eight felt his hair stand on end while watching it.

‘Oh, no!’

When a person is in a hurry, the body moves on its own.

That is a poison that far exceeds the lethal dose.

It is also one of the most poisonous poisons, which is said to kill you before you even walk ten steps.

If you drink something like that, that day is over.

Uncharacteristically, Eight moved quickly and struck the princess’s hand.

Clink-!

All eyes were on him as the glass shattered and shattered.

Celestia looked at Eight with quite a bewildered face.

“What are you doing!”

“I’m just…”

The surrounding nobles frowned.

How dare you touch the royal family on the subject of a count.

If only the pods were caught, a family of the size of a count could collapse in an instant.

So even those who decided to catch the wind did not step forward.

It seems that yesterday’s friend has become today’s enemy.

Is it self-employed?

While Eight, whose head had gone white, was hesitating about anything, Ray, who was looking closely at the broken glass beside him, muttered.

“Is this poison? The pH is quite low because it smells so sour. If I just drank it, I would be in big trouble.”

If a former saint is poison, that is poison.

Celestia’s complexion, which had almost died a moment ago, turned white.

The surrounding nobles also darkened their expressions just like her.

use of poison.

It was also the cup that Princess Celestia was about to drink.

As of now, everyone in the banquet hall was implicated in the poisoning of the princess.

Eight, who was a criminal until just a moment ago, quickly became a hero who saved the princess from the threat of poisoning.

Celestia apologized.

“I’m sorry… I didn’t even know that and just yelled at you. Thank you for saving me.”

“Oh no.”

In fact, he is the one who tried to poison himself.

However, the situation turned strange and he received an apology and thanks from the princess.

Somehow, this feeling wasn’t too bad.

However, that feeling did not last long.

As the maid tried to put away the broken glass, Ray stopped it and said,

“Eight, how did you know this was a poisoned cup?”

“yes?”

“The smell is definitely sour, but there’s no way you smelled it when you weren’t even nearby. Besides, you threw yourself as soon as Princess Celestia raised her glass. Like someone who knows this is a poisoned glass.”

“…”

That too.

The gaze of the surrounding nobles also changed little by little.

Celestia said with a suspicious expression.

“…the case is not small. Please answer me.”

Eight desperately shook his head.

‘There’s no chance of winning by telling the truth here.’

Having made up his mind, he spoke another word.

“Actually… I was rudely looking at the beauty of the saint and the princess. When the saint left for a while and returned, the cups were exchanged between the two of them. Princess Celestia took the cup of the saint, and the saint took the cup of Princess Celestia.”

Ray also nodded as he was wondering if the glass had been changed.

“Before the saint returned, I briefly witnessed a man passing by and putting his hand over a glass. I was just suspicious of it and tried my hand at it. Please forgive the rudeness.”

“A man…”

Does that mean there is another culprit in the banquet hall?

At his trustworthy words, Celestia looked at Ray and winked.

I guess it’s okay to believe.

Hana Ray still had some unanswered questions.

‘If that statement is true, then the target to be poisoned was me, not Celestia.’

I wouldn’t listen to anything poisonous to myself anyway, but I feel bad.

As he was lost in thought, Celestia looked around and said,

“It’s a big deal that could have caused me and the saint to be poisoned. We do not know what will happen again today, so we will end the banquet here.”

Celestia declared the meeting closed in the name of the princess.

It would be a loss if I took out a sound for no reason and got filmed.

The nobles left the venue without saying anything.

The lobby was empty within minutes.

Ray, who remained there until the end, watched the spot where Eight had disappeared.

“No matter how you think about it, it’s strange. I need to dig a little deeper.”

* * *

When the princess and the saint were nearly poisoned, Viscount Gade was very much about to die.

As the organizer of the banquet, I almost took on all the responsibilities.

He trembled as he imagined that the viscount’s family would explode in an instant.

“I don’t know what kind of guy he is, but I won’t let him go if he gets caught!”

I will put you in a dungeon and give you all sorts of torture.

As he was suppressing his boiling anger, a knock sounded from beyond the door.

Knock— Knock—

“Father, this is Illisia.”

“Come in.”

After permission was granted, Illisia with her long hair bowed her head.

“Sorry for the late evening. The ladies-in-waiting told me that something serious had happened, so I came to hear it myself.”

“There were big things. It’s not something to discuss privately, but the princess and the saint almost got poisoned.”

Poisoning.

Illisia was greatly surprised when a bigger-than-expected matter came out of her father’s mouth.

“Ah, an assassination attempt. If something like that happened in our territory…”

“Yes. There won’t be a single blade of grass left. Perhaps we will take full responsibility until we find the culprit.”

Even the venerable marquis family could stumble, but there was no way the viscount family could handle the responsibility related to the assassination of the princess.

Illisia was seriously struggling while listening to the story.

After thinking for a while, she opened her mouth.

“How about entrusting yourself to the saint?”

“…Dear saint?”

“Only the saint here can handle an incident like poisoning the princess. Besides, the saint is also a victim, so it will be a little easier to talk about it. If things go well, we can get out of danger.”

Illisia’s words were rejected by Viscount Gade at once.

Shaking his head, he scolded Illisia.

“It was a mistake I made in the past to ask the saint to protect the viscount’s family. It is said that shameless blood is essential in the political world, but how can you relieve yourself of responsibility even if you express your gratitude to Eun-gong, who has received grace? Don’t even think like that.”

At her father’s words, she bowed her head.

“yes.”

However, he did not bow his head in sincere understanding.

If the father can’t do it, he does it himself.

That is, if only the viscount could be saved.

* * *

Rain pours outside the window.

Eight, who was quite soaked, grabbed his heart in the private room.

“Heo-eok… heo-eok…”

Sweat flowed down his face like rain from the tension.

His complexion darkened at the thought that if he made one mistake, he would have been executed on the spot.

It was an attempt to kill the saint, but I didn’t know that the princess would change the cup and drink there.

Fortunately, it was blocked, so it was a mess.

‘Evidence must be erased.’

As if he was being chased by something, he brushed the poison powder finely from his pockets and clothes.

Eight, who was moving busily, took out a bottle from his pocket as if thinking of something.

It is a poisoned bottle.

It was the most difficult evidence in the current situation.

After thinking about where to throw it away, he finally made up his mind and left the private room.

Eight, who had climbed the hill behind the garden, dug a small hole in the bush to avoid being noticed.

If you bury it in the ground, you will never find it.

He dug up the ground and threw away the bottle and wiped his soiled hands with a handkerchief.

It tramples back and forth with its feet, leveling the ground and descending the mountain.

If you did this much, you wouldn’t have to worry about getting caught.

When Eight, who showed a sense of relief like the face after going to the toilet, disappeared from the seat, Ray, who had been watching him from beginning to end, appeared from the top of the tree.

As he lightly landed on the ground and dug, he saw a glass bottle.

Looking at the abnormal behavior and the glass bottle shown so far, the culprit is roughly culled.

Ray smiled and moved in the direction Eight had disappeared.

“Hey, let’s talk.”

Eight frowned at the informal call from behind.

What kind of ignorant cubs have been so spoiled by the enlargement.

Eight, who was offended, looked back, and there was a saint with a smile on his face.

“…why did you call me?”

“Would you like to have a dirty talk together?”

“I have nothing to say.”

“okay? Then I should bring this to Celestia as a gift. It must be a meaningful gift because it is a glass bottle that cherishes the memories that almost died.”

When Ray held up the glass bottle and waved, Eight’s face stiffened for a moment.

It’s not Ray who can’t see that short gap.

I was completely convinced of that already.

“Do whatever you want. It is something I do not know.”

The stereotypical answer came back.

But Ray wasn’t happy either.

“Will Princess Celestia really believe what you say? Or will you believe me?”

“…what do you mean?”

“If I brought this bottle to the princess, I would say, ‘Eight was the culprit.’ Of course you would deny it. Aren’t you excited about whose hand Celestia will raise?”

Eight is very quick to grasp the situation.

Saying this when you are already convinced that the culprit is yourself means that you want something else.

He now fully turned to face Ray.

“What do you want?”

When the answer he was looking for finally came, Ray smiled.

“You tried to kill me. But I didn’t try to kill the princess. In fact, when the princess tried to drink my poisoned cup, she threw herself to stop it. I appreciate that.”

“Then are you pretending not to know?”

“Of course. If this is known, I will catch the culprit of poisoning the princess, so things will become more troublesome in the future.”

Looking at Eight, who had a considerably relaxed expression, the rain-soaked Ray spoke slyly.

“So let’s hit a few, you bastard.”