Surviving As The Protagonist

Chapter 32: The Suspicion All along

The hunt that was originally held to be happy ended in tragedy. Strangely...why did this incident have to happen to Lucy with Sheyra alone? Then what is more suspicious is why is only Lucy who was seriously injured to shake the inner pressure, while Sheyra only lay for a few days because of poisoning, even now she only lives with ordinary?

If you think about it, Lucy's incident during the hunt last year was really similar to Lyonora's accident huh? It is typical with a dry body. It's just that she's gone because her heart exploded.

Lucy just assumed that their case really had something to do. “Again, after His Majesty did the investigation, the fact is that the magic power of Miss wants to be forcibly whipped, but it has not been completed because according to the tower magician, you put up a resistance with all your might,” was obviously the man who was starting to feel suspicious.

Then, he said there was one thing even stranger. After Emillo searched the ins and outs of the poison consumed by Sheyra and Lucy from the same pot, he said it was Batulinum Toxin.

“Where after we consume the poison, will lead to muscle paralysis which eventually leads to paralysis of the respiratory system, which inevitably leads to death,” its clear success makes Lucy look at him with a look of disbelief.

This point certainly will not be so suspect because he has obtained a cure from Lucy before, but the suspicious of this problem is..

“How can Sheyra who has no magic power still survive to follow me who tried to escape into the hutam?!” she asked him who could barely speak.

Lucy's reason for going into the woods is because she tried to neutralize the poison secretly. If he uses his magic power in public, it will only cause suspicion and misunderstanding. But he felt that something was still stuck here.

Was their accident really just because of the Viscount? Then if he just wanted to frame Lucy, why didn't he let Lucy go out in the woods alone? That way Sheyra can pretend to faint because she has been poisoned while drinking tea in the same teapot with him, after all who will be the main suspect when it is not Lucy herself?

“There is no need to think complicated Miss, besides if the woman is just a human without magic power, she will not be able to follow Miss into the forest, because she herself at that time must have been dying first,” thought if following a sense of logic.

“It's true.” Lucy was currently seen thinking hard while biting her own thumb. Her brown net seemed to shake, suddenly she remembered a script that told the reason for Lucy's execution at her own wedding.

Sheyra, who sat in the audience seat, was dying on the floor because of the dark magic that attacked his body and soul. Lucy, a witch, became the prime suspect in the attack and was eventually sentenced to death.

“Wait..”.

“Have my suspicions been correct all along? Didn't I almost die because my power was almost completely snatched away by the dark magician? If I had gotten this way, why would Sheyra who was with me at that time still be okay? Would a dark wizard be fine just to let that helpless human be without killing him?” ask the woman to feel that something is wrong here.

Isn't the reason Sheyra was dying in the novel also because she said she detected the rest of the dark magic on her body? Don't assume that it was Lucy's act but think about it! That since the beginning of the darkness magic was already in his body!

What if the real Lucy met in the forest was not a witch of darkness, but Sheyra who was pretending to be dying from poisoning? At times like this, Lucy only berated herself because she only felt a faint feeling when trying to remember about the hunt in the past year.

“Conclusion that I can make, is Sheyra actually allied with the dark wizard?” ask Lucy with an unconvinced feeling.

Sir Emillo also seemed hesitant to answer. He assumed that this could not be decided as easily as a snap of a finger.

“Sir, we should look again at the guest list at His Majesty's 17th birthday party, is there Sheyra's name as an invited guest or not?” the question is to ask for help in his direction.

“Good, I'll try to find it. Looks like the bookkeeping was held by the Chief Maid of Philia's palace,” his nod that received Lucy's request without complaint.

Lucy was a little suspicious of that woman, did you kill big brother? I know that I only witnessed the incident through a dream, but the perpetrator of the sister's murder was a young woman! It does sound like granny, but it never hurts to make sure it goes deeper?

“Before I thank you very much for your help, Sir. But—” the girl seems to stop her speech, after which she moves her wrist to remove the barrier magic that is coiled between them.

“I'd better go back, if it goes too long then people will suspect me.” saying goodbye before turning themselves around. But Sir Emillo is now seen clutching his wrist tightly.

“Wait a minute Miss. Previous about His Majesty—”

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At this moment Lucy seemed to have returned to the party hall in a hurry. The place was still crowded with nobles like before. Then all Lucy will do now is approach Reygan and ask him to return to the palace immediately. But the scene he witnessed at this time was enough to make the girl feel upset and finally the woman went up.

Look, you guys are having fun behind my back?! After what Sir Emillo said about His Majesty earlier, I am not so worried about him. But the problem is that the noble's opinion of their relationship will become stronger!

His gaze was now fixed on Sheyra who was laughing anxiously in front of His Highness the Crown Prince. You devil of allurement! Maki the girl is in my heart.

A deliberate swiftness of steps accelerated to make all the eyes of the nobility now fixed on him. Sheyra and Reygan who were feeling approachable now looked at Lucy with a strange feeling. “Your Majesty, why does your fiance look angry at me?” sheyra asked nervously, her hands trembling when she saw Lucy with a terrible look coming towards her.

“Anu.. The Muli—”

Plakk!

A loud slap now landed on his white cheek. Sheyra looked sculpted with one hand raised to hold her cheek that looked swollen. Lucy appears to have slapped Sheyra with her magic powers as a form of evaporation of Lucy's anger at her.

“What kind of impolite performance is this?!”