Silvester let out a chuckle as he saw the eyes of Gab wandering around past his shoulder.

'He can't see Evelyn if she's disguised as Adelyn. Even I had a hard time finding it out, without the help of that strange fountain.' Silvester thought.

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While Silvester is getting the attention away from Evelyn, she saw this opportunity to make an excuse and get there out first.

"I will go take a break for a bit…" She said to Sir Izzy who is focused on Silvester's action.

"Huh? What?"

But before he could turn his head towards Adelyn, she was gone.

Commander Gabriel whose attention was swept by Silvester looked back again at the spot where he smelled the familiar scent.

He was sure that he knew that scent. He squinted his eyes and scanned the crowd, but he didn't see the chestnut hair lady that wore the knights uniform of the Perspiru Kingdom. By then, he mumbled to Silvester.

"Who was that lady?"

Silvester inwardly cursed Gab for being sharp when it comes to Evelyn.

"I don't know… whose lady?"

Silvester just shrugged. He still followed his instinct that he needed to hide Evelyn for now, and when he glanced at the back, he saw that her cousin had escaped. He let out a laugh that almost like a sigh.

"Ha..ha!"

"The lady… haa, nevermind." Gabriel answered.

Gab saw this and thought that Silvester isn't like what he used to know and felt like something was missed. Still, he focussed his mind and sense of smell to that scent.

Gab felt like it was too familiar although the scent is weak and there's also a smell of blood, and herbs mixed in. There was still the ascent of the rose.

He stared back at Silvester. He didn't know that the second they meet is in the castle of the royal palace of the Levingstone Kingdom with their respective titles that they got and achieved for the last four years that Evelyn was gone.

"Haaaaa…"

Evelyn heaved a sigh of relief when she looked back and saw that Silvester succeeded in stopping Gab in reaching her, resulting in her having an opportunity to escape.

'I'm not afraid that Gab will know that I'm here. He knew that I'm alive. But still, that look earlier was scary, I couldn't think straight and just thought to escaped'

She seriously was scared when she saw the fire in his eyes when their eyes met, the emotions that were hiding in those golden orbs felt like a wave of water, ready to sweep her in.

Evelyn started to walk in a direction that goes to an open balcony to get some fresh air while she waited for Crown Prince Edickart's arrival.

In that moment…

Thud…!

"Aww…!"

She looked back when she felt that someone hit her at the back.

What she saw unexpectedly made her laugh inwardly. Then, Evelyn heard a click of a tongue coming from the lady in front of her who was bowing her head while clutching it.

Evelyn tried hard to suppress her laughter and immediately let out a voice that sounded apologetic and sincere.

"Did you get hurt, your holiness the Saint?" The disguised Evelyn said as she extended her hand like a true knight to Elise.

Elise smiled beautifully like she didn't click her tongue a few seconds ago in annoyance. She extended her hand to the lady who was wearing a black mask and has a crest of the royal family from the Perspiru Kingdom.

She immediately knew that the lady with a black mask must be an envoy serving the Crown Prince Silvester and so, she put on a happy smile.

"I'm sorry, I was in a hurry and bump into the esteemed knight. I apologize for my clumsiness." Elise said.

Evelyn disguised as Adelyn is amused when Elise changes when she sees the crest in her collar and acts polite and of course like a saint.

"It is me, your holiness, that made a blunder, forgive me. Did you hurt yourself, your holiness?" Evelyn sounded so sincere that she also thought that she could pass an oscar award if she was an actress.

"I'm alright... "

"Oh where's my manner. I'm knight Adelyn from the Perpiru Kingdom, your holiness." Evelyn bowed like a knight as a show of respect and to also act her part.

"Oh my… You're Sil's companion…"

Evelyn knit her brows.

'Sil? Did she just address a Crown Prince publicly without a title?' Evelyn is flustered at how Elise called his cousin.

Then, she heard Elise again.

"Oh my… I'm sorry, I just called Sil… I mean the Crown Prince Silvester without his title. I apologize. It became a habit when we were in the Academy. We are close, you see." Elise explained and smiled like she was reminiscing a happy past.

Evelyn snickered inwardly.

'She can really be thick-skinned sometimes…' She thought and agreed to Elise.

Evelyn then hears a voice coming from a far calling Elise with her title.

"Your Holiness, Saint Elise."

Elise flinched a little but Evelyn saw it clearly since they are close to each other and she also saw the panic in Elise's eyes that made her voluntarily turn her head to where the voice was coming from.

"Saint Elise, I've been looking for you…" He said to Elise before he acknowledged Evelyn's presence.

"Greetings, Sir Knight, I'm Prince Adley's aide, ishid… I need to discuss something with her holiness, may she be excused?" The crimson hair that close to the shade of darkness fluttered as he bowed slightly to Evelyn. His eyes with the same color of his hair were sharp and Evelyn felt shivers in the back of her neck.

"Of course…" Evelyn replied with respect and also lowered her head a bit.

She watched as Elise reluctantly followed Ishid's footsteps like she was being forced. Evelyn also observes the sharp gaze that Ishid gave when he turns his head back to see if Elise was following him.

'This is weird… Why does she look like she was going to her execution?' Evelyn thought and dismissed it because she heard the trumpet noise indicating that the royal family is here.

She quickly glanced to where Silvester was and when she saw that Gab wasn't there, she immediately went back to her post, beside Silvester.

Tooot

Tooot

The trumpet started to make noise and the royal family didn't appear at the golden door, but behind the stage that was higher than the ground and could overlook everyone. It was a simple sign that they are showing that they are above everyone that is present here.

Evelyn tried hard not to roll her eyes and she heard Silvester's quiet voice.

"Where did you escape?"

She clicked her tongue inwardly. Silvester was really sharp and knew that she escaped when she saw Gab striding their way.

"I just walked around…" She replied.

"Did you meet someone along the way?"

"I did"

"Who?"

Silvester was persistent to find out because he saw her cousin's unusual smile. A smile like a goddess that was annoyed and ready to punish someone. Silvester turned his head when he thought that Evelyn wouldn't answer him.

"A green tea b*tch" she snickered while Silvester was baffled with the term.

Silvester just shook his head and focused on the speech of the King of the Levingstone Kingdom.

Evelyn and Sir Izzy also do the same, but Evelyn's eyes were searching for someone. She's searching for a blond man who tried to make her his bride. But after searching on the platform she saw him, smiling but the corners of his mouth are twitching.

'Seems like he's in pain' she thought as she remembered the contents of what Erick, the Monterio Guild Master gave to her.

'The Crown Prince is in critical condition after he got ambushed and was struck by a dagger with poison.'

It was one of the few things that she found out because of Ericks information.

Now, that she saw Edickart who is fine and can attend the foundation celebration means that he passed the critical part. She felt relieved.

Even though in the original novel, the Crown Prince was the one who executed Evelyn it didn't happen to her, and even though he was still a sc*mbag, she knew that there was a time where she saw the sincere concern of Edickart's emerald eyes towards her.

By the time that Evelyn finished her thought, she felt the gaze coming from two opposite directions. There wasn't evil intentions but it was enough intensity for her to feel it.

She unconsciously glanced at her left and right without turning her head.

Evelyn felt like she needed to sighed aloud for the heaviness in her shoulder to disappear.

Then a question came out of nowhere and the voice came from in front of her.

"What is it, Miss Adelyn?"

She heard the sincere worried voice of Silvester. She replied with a tired voice.

"It's nothing…"

'Just the sharp gaze of Cabel and Gab from my left and right…"

Of course, she never said it out loud, she was afraid the two would read her lips and find out that she knew them.