Throne For Princes In Novels

Ep. 49 Toxic Wine

The ceremony at the temple that Louisse and Leonard will conduct will begin by drinking a cup of wine produced from selected grapes that only grow in the most fertile region in Eliador as a manifestation of gratitude the God of Earth. What did Louisse just hear? Queen Media told her subordinates to quarrel with the priest there and put poison in the wine cup that Leonard would drink.

"The media wants to poison Leonard? Wasn't it obvious he knew that Leonard wouldn't have been infected with poison. And what's more killing with poison isn't Media-style. Ah... Don't-don't... This is just to test me?! Looks like the media has been suspicious of me, am I still on his side or have I switched sides with Leonard?" Guess Louisse in his heart.

"You must have heard what I was talking about, right?" Queen of Media.

"Of course I heard it because you deliberately said it out loud to the waiter so I could hear it too." Louisse was furious in his heart and wanted to answer him like that.

"So don't be too surprised if there are interesting events in the temple and follow whatever our people say there so that no other problems appear there." Queen's Order.

"Well, I will do as you command Her Majesty the Queen." Louisse replied while hiding his emotions.

"I won't let Leonard drink that poison!" Louisse's heart.

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Eventually Louisse and Leonard reached the temple of the Earth God, but Louisse's face looked so anxious. Along the way Louisse was thinking about something, something about what the Queen had said before she left for the temple.

"It is clear that the purpose of the Media was not to kill Leonard but to ascertain whether I betrayed him or not. If I tell Leonard and Leonard not to drink the wine, he'll be safe. But the Queen will definitely not stay silent against me for thinking I am a traitor. Instead, I will be relieved of the Queen's suspicions if I keep my mouth shut and keep what silence she said. Maybe Leonard is immune to poison, but he will still feel tremendous pain because the poison from the rare Ravless flower is a deadly poison and difficult to get the antidote. Then what if at that time Leonard was attacked when his condition weakened due to exposure to poison? L'm... What do I do?!" Shouted Louisse in the heart.

"Louisse, what are you thinking?" Louisse flinched and regained consciousness from his daydream when he heard Leonard's voice and Leonard's hand on his shoulder.

"Leonard..." Louisse muttered when he saw Leonard's anxious face, and he made up his mind as he recalled the words of Leonard who would never divorce him and always believed in him.

"Leonard, you remember your promise that will always follow all my words, right?" Louisse said with a serious look at Leonard.

"mmm... I, yes..." Leonard hesitated, saying that Louisse would tell him to do things that made no sense to him like last time.

"Alright, you must listen carefully to my words! Never drink the wine the priest will give you during the ceremony! Because there is poison in the wine!! The queen conspired with the God's messenger priest to put poison in your wine cup." Louisse said very seriously.

"What?!" Leonard was shocked to hear that.

"Ba, how did you know that wine has poison?" Leonard asked with a face hook that was still shocked.

"Of course I know... Despite pretending, I'm still the Queen's confidant. He told me because he still thought I was the one on his side." Frankly Louisse did not want to tell more details about the reason.

"Obviously you should never gulp down that wine because it's so dangerous!!" Louisse again stressed his order to Leonard.

"alright... Thank you Louisse." Reply Leonard resigned.

"Whatever hard I think about it is the only way I can do it. I don't want to plunge Leonard again just to save my life." Louisse said firmly in his heart.

The ceremony of handing over the wine to be drunk by Leonard also arrived. After reading the do'a, the messenger priest handed Leonard a cup of wine.

Louisse looked at the cup filled with wine with misgivings, in his heart he said....

It seemed that the plea Louisse had uttered had not gone his way. Right after the priest handed Leonard his wine cup, the First Prince gulped down the wine as his eyes glanced at Louisse. When Louisse's eyes fell, his heart stopped beating, Leonard's movement of drinking poison wine was like a slow motion in Louisse's eyes. Then a second later Leonard coughed and his mouth spewed blood and fell down in front of Louisse. Louisse was so shocked and immediately shouted.

"Yeah...!! Leonaaard..!!"

Looking at Leonard who had fallen with blood in his mouth and the sound of Louisse's startled cry like that, the priest who was conspiring with the Queen ran away from there.

"Ke, why? Why did you drink it? Hix... You promised not to drink it, you already know if this wine has poison, hyks..." Louisse asked as he held Leonard's body in his chest with flowing tears.

"If I don't do this, the media will suspect you." Hearing Leonard's reply, Louisse was again surprised.

"So you already know what the Queen's intention is to do this?" Leonard just smiled I heard Louisse's question. Leonard tried to stand up again.

"If it's only this way I'm okay... uhuk!!" Not done talking Leonard immediately coughed and his mouth again spewed blood.

"What do you mean like this is okay?!!" Louisse exclaimed with a million worries.

"Leo..."

"St!!"

Louisse had not had time to say anything, Leonard immediately silenced his mouth and pulled Louisse to hide. They saw several palace guards coming hastily with swords in their hands.

"Quickly find the First Prince!" Cried one of the palace guards.

"I thought this would be the end. Ughhhh.. Damnit damnit! It turns out the poison is stronger than I thought. If this keeps up then we'll both be in trouble!" Leonard's mind while enduring the pain all over his body.

"Louisse, listen to me carefully! They won't hurt you because as far as they know you're the Queen's confidant. So just tell me you were following the priest who ran away." Leonard said to save Louisse.

"Then what about you?" Louisse asked with eyes still crying.

"I'll run away on my own. So, hurry up and go!" Leonard answered by telling Louisse to leave quickly. Louisse refused it.

"No! I don't want to!" Louisse.

"Basic stupid! How could I leave you alone?!"

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