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A few days ago, after breakfast, Harriet was dragged to Riana’s room at Riana’s request to talk. She had no choice, and heard a shocking story.
“… Reinhart… isn’t responsible?” Harriet asked.
“Yes.”
The demon attack on Raziern, which resulted in the death of Duke Granz… Riana knew that the Demon King was not responsible for it. Therefore, it couldn’t have been Reinhart that had planned it.
“I only found out recently. No matter how much I thought about it, my mom was acting too strangely, so I kept looking into it.”
“… I see… Then… what really happened?”
“It was the empire that killed my dad.”
“… What?”
Riana’s mother, Duchess Yelena de Granz, did not have a very good relationship with her husband. However, the shock of her husband’s sudden death still affected her.
Why did the Demon King have to do such a thing?
Why did he have to kill her husband? And why at that place?
In the end, Duchess Granz, who knew her husband’s disposition better than anyone, conducted a long investigation of her own.
She found out what her husband had been doing.
What he had been doing, where, and with whom when he died.
This led her to realize that the Demon King had no reason to commit such an act.
And why was the empire so unenthusiastic about investigating the incident?
With these circumstances and by following these questions, Duchess Yelena de Granz realized that the whole attack was a fabrication by the empire.
Knowing this, she told her daughter, who was consumed by a desire for revenge against the Demon King, that the real enemy was not the Demon King, but the empire.
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