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Meanwhile in the temporary residence of Princess Monica in the Palace.

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"Monica, this is why I told you to escape in the first place. We should leave right now. You should escape before the Kingdom of Levingstone tells you to go back to that place!" Carsillion was yelling at his sister who was massaging her temple.

"Brother, I also don't wish to go back to that trash place. This Kingdom is better for me. And besides, Duke Keene has promised to propose to me to get me out of here…"

"What preposterous! The Crown Prince just died and you're telling me that you'll get engaged to another man?!"

Carsillion was boiling in anger. 'Why is she doing this to me? Why can she just go with me and live with me?!' he thought.

"I love Duke Keene, brother…"

Hearing this, Carsillion was outraged, this is the first time she heard his sister utter those words.

"Love…?" he was stupefied.

'That can't be…! Monica is mine! Should I kill him? That bastard, how dare he?!!!'

His mind is swirling with vicious thought. Meanwhile, Monica answered him.

"Yes brother, I love him…"

Carsillion can't hear anything and his reason seems to have left him as he snatched Monica's arm and pulled her up to match her eye level. His eyes were viscous as he stared at her eyes.

"You love that bastard? Why?! I'm here! I'm enough, Monica…"

"..."

"I'll kill that bastard!"

"Brother!"

Monica can't understand him, but she's seeing those eyes again. The obsession and greed in his golden eyes. She has been ignoring those eyes for a couple of years, but she needs to put Carsillion to his place now that he just said and uttered cruel words.

"Carsillion! Don't you dare touch him or I won't forgive you!"

"Hah!"

"So, he's that important to you? What about me? This is Ridiculous!"

He gripped his arm harder that Monica felt that it would leave a bruise.

"Let go, Carsillion!"

"Fine…! But I'll tell you this Monica! You will not get rid of me…! Because you're mine my dear young sister!"

He smiled and left Monica's room. But his cold eyes when he turns his back send the servants shivers in their spine.

"I'll get you no matter what, my dear sister." he mumbled only to himself.

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In the present… Carsillion saw the image of Monica from her only daughter, Evelyn.

'Ah… Monica is still here…' he thought as he laughed.

"You Bastard! What do you mean my mother's soul? What did you do?" Evelyn asked.

Carsillion laughed.

'Ahaha… I can see Monica again!"

"You f*cker! What the hell are you planning?!"

Carsillion can only laugh and Evelyn was gritting her teeth.

'Monica… my lovely Monica. I can see my lovely Monica!' Carsillion was repeating these words inside his head.

"I'll f*cking kill you!"

Thud!

"Ugh…Ahaha" Carsillion can only laughed at his situation. As his eyes were losing their light, his eyes were looking at the silhouette of his niece.

He doesn't know when he started to be greedy and he doesn't know when he became this corrupted. He loves Monica not as his sister but as a woman. He can't acknowledge that his sister was loving another man than him, though he knew her love was because they are family.

As he tried to see things through… he never imagined that his greed would lead to his sister's death and his niece's isolation.

"Since when did things go wrong… ugh!" he mumbled as his breaths ragged and heavy.

He knew that the only time he can atone for his sin is through the hands of his own niece, who he snatched her childhood from.

He wanted to atone for his sin and asked for forgiveness from his niece but knew that he couldn't when Evelyn decided to burn the storage and flee to the neighboring kingdom. He knew all of it. He's smart enough to deduce that… besides he's the headmaster of the St. Prisch Academy. He has resources but decided to not find her because he thought that the child was like her mother who wants freedom more than anything else in the world.

He felt that his moments would soon come to an end but before that he thought about Monica.

'Monica… my dear sister I'm sorry… Don't forgive me…'

Carsillion finally has lost his breath while his eyes are wet as a drop of tears roll down in his eyes in his last moment.

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A few days later… The town was bustling with the approaching foundation celebration of the Kingdom of Levingstone.

Evelyn was back to being Adelyn, her disguise. When she came back from her mission, she was always in daze but tried to not let them show in front of Gil and Cassandra.

But the two had known her for four years, they knew that something was bugging her mind. Even if Gil can hear her thoughts if he wants to, he never did that since they have been together and without Evelyn's permission. He knew that she needed privacy.

But this time he knew that he needed to somehow know what happened so he peeked in her thoughts and there he heard what's making her sad.

He decided to talk to her.

"Child, how about you go out and look at the goods that some merchants have been selling?"

He tried to talk to her about the topic but deemed it useless as it was her who needed to figure things out and the only thing he can do is to wait for her before he can give advice.

So, she did. She heeds Gil's advice and walks out of the inn. She needs to have a proper time to think things through and she also must ease her mind from the negative thoughts that are swirling her mind since that day.

She is walking without the masks on and is casually dressed as she scanned the goods that she never saw for a long while. She didn't wear her black cape this time as she wants to blend in the crowd. Besides, her hair and eyes are still dyed.

Besides, the people she knew would be busy in their own territory and would be in chaos because of what happened to the headmaster of the St. Prisch Academy.

Anyway…

The merchants and local stores are busy gaining the attraction of the travelers and the shoppers who came here today in the market.

A few days from now, Silvester will come to pick her up and then, that's the start of the chaos in the noble's society.

She can only have this peaceful time right now and thought that she needed to enjoy this. The news of Carsillion's murder seems to have prevented from leaking out but the nobles knew what happened.

The royal palace can't help but seal the information as the celebration of their kingdom will be postponed if the masses knew this and the cheerful vibe will immediately vanish if the people knew so, they planned to tell the news a few months after the celebration.

But that's not Evelyn's problem anymore.

In one of the vendors who sell cheap jewels, Evelyn found a clip that she thought would be suited to Cassandra's black hair that was always on a bun.

Evelyn became vigilant because she just felt that someone was looking at her, when she turned her head, there she saw a familiar stature. A silver hair under the black cape and his eyes that glows like a ruby.

'It's Cabel…' she thought.

She read the lips of Cabel from far away.

"Eve…" it was like Cabel can't believe his eyes. While Evelyn was still standing there with her stoic face.

She didn't let her emotions show as they intently looked at each other. While the crowd was becoming more crowded, she started to blend in.

When she saw that Cabel was walking in her direction, she timed that the people would block his way and then she vanished.

"Shit!"

Cabel swear… he was too dumbfounded and stupefied when he saw someone who look exactly like Evelyn that he stood there for too long before he decided to move.

"Your grace, what is it?"

One of his knights asked as they saw their master cursed and ran through people like he was trying to catch someone.

"F*cked…!"

He turns his head in all directions, he never knew that in this place where he coincidentally visits before he returns to his duchy, he can see a familiar face. Even though he knew that the hair and eyes color are different, he was sure that it was Evelyn. All he needs to do, is to find the woman and confirm her thoughts.

"I need all of you to split up and find a woman who has chestnut hair and eyes wearing casual clothes and looks exactly like Evelyn!"

The knights are baffled by his order and look at each other. They knew that their master had been trying to find the daughter of the Duke of Emsworth. But they all knew that Lady Evelyn had long been dead.

So, what does he mean?

Before they could assess the situation, Cabel spoke again.

"If you can't find her, then you know what will happen."

They shivered in fright. They all knew that they needed to act fast now.

'Evelyn… please, be her. Please!' he thought. As he remembers the face again.