Chapter 778 – 90 Days – What Happened in the Aubert Family
“You’re not Venus Holimpia?”
Hedone answered Jad Ober’s question by calmly nodding his head.
“I’m sorry, Miss Jad Ober. You did your best to prepare, but this person is not the princess. She is so amazing and powerful that it reminds me of the princess, and she has the same personality, but…”
Bitterness was dripping from Hedone’s expression as she spat out the words.
“You are not the princess.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes, I really want to find the princess. I really want to find the person who is struggling outside of her at this very moment.”
Jad Ober looks at Hedone, who speaks calmly, without saying anything for a long time.
‘That can’t be possible…’
She clenches her fists and looks into Hedone’s eyes.
‘There is no way the princess is not the princess. In her empire where the sun never sets, the only person who can stick her head into the middle of her enemy’s camp without fear of her demons is her princess!
There was a lot of evidence that Leonie said.
The woman’s senses were screaming.
Jad Ober, with countless thoughts filling his head, clenched his fists and trembled.
‘I can’t do this. This can’t be happening! The Crown Princess is not lying right now. Then, the conceivable possibility is…’
Jad Ober bit his lip tightly and his body trembled.
As expected, Jupiter Holympia was not only thorough, but surprisingly cruel.
‘As someone who announced to the entire empire that his child was dead, he prepared very thoroughly for this part.’
We can’t just let Hedone return to the imperial palace like this.
Jad Ober, who had been thinking that the princess might not be the princess until now, became convinced after seeing Hedone’s reaction.
It is true that Venus Holympia is a princess. There must be some reason why you don’t recognize her.
“I am truly sorry for taking up the Crown Princess’s time.”
“No, Jad Aubert. You are the one who understands my desire to find the princess better than anyone else. You have nothing to be sorry about.”
“Oh, no, sister! You shouldn’t say that!”
Leonie, startled, looks at Hedone.
“Hedone! There’s no way she’s the princess, right? Everywhere I look, she’s the princess? There’s so much evidence!”
“Stop it, Leonie. Who knows him better than the Crown Princess?”
In response to Jad Aubert’s kind words, Hedonet held the teacup with trembling hands and drank her tea, just to erase the bitterness.
“Thank you for your kind words. However, Queen Dowager? Since you are quite late today, how about staying at my mansion tonight and leaving for the imperial palace tomorrow?”
Hedone thinks for a moment. She wanted to return to the imperial palace as soon as possible, but there were maids who followed her. They also need time to sleep and rest.
In particular, it was quite a distance from Holimpia to the southern part of the empire where the Auvers family was located. Hadon, who knows that horses and horses have time to rest, says she’s neatly empty teacups.
“We will leave tomorrow, before lunch. Thank you for providing us with a place to stay for the night, Miss Jad Ober.”
* * *
The Aubert family’s party ended without much fuss.
The reason for holding the party in the first place was not to celebrate the return of Léonie Aubert, but as an excuse to invite Hedone here, so there was no reason to make it special.
A group of people were heading towards the Aubert family mansion.
“… Even though there was a party yesterday! How dare you tell me that so quickly!”
Jad Aubert’s face was filled with embarrassment as she hurriedly put on the dress with the help of her maids.
She said she prepared her plate perfectly, but there were variables she couldn’t even consider from the beginning.
“Sorry, ma’am, but we didn’t expect the matriarch to return so soon…”
“I’m not saying anything to you, I’m just saying it’s ridiculous, so move quickly!”
Jad Aubert shouted and ran to the dressing table as soon as he finally confirmed that the back strap of the dress was perfectly fastened. She looked around at her own face in her huge mirror and grabbed some cosmetics to use.
As soon as she can finish that urgent action, Jad Aubert points his finger at the maids around her and runs out of her room, making a noise that is almost like a scream.
“Emma! Emma! Quick! Go to the room and wake up Leonie! Dad and Leonie are meeting for the first time in two years, and we can’t let them meet half-awake!”
Jad Ober, who ran down the stairs screaming loudly, seemed really in a hurry.
“… What’s going on? Is there something going on?”
There was no way Hedone, who had just finished breakfast and was getting ready to leave, would not know that.
“It is said that the head of the Aubert family, who finished the war in the South… Jad Aubert’s father is returning to the mansion.”
“Oh my god… It really feels like God decided the timing.”
Hedone felt that it might be later than expected to return to the imperial palace, but she did not feel bad.
After the war, her father and her daughter are reunited. It was basic etiquette for a woman who would become an empress to congratulate her even if it was just empty words.
“What was your father’s name? Was it Leo Ober?”
“Yes, that’s right, the Crown Princess. He is the famous Duke Leo Aubert, who is known to have a hard time counting the achievements he made in the South with just ten fingers.”
Hedone nodded her head.
‘How great it would be if someone like this could become the princess’s strength.’
The princess really had many women.
In particular, Princess Hailey and Queen Hestia of Gregory, who would become the queens of Galagon, possessed such great power that it was appropriate to say that they gave their princesses wings.
However, even though the power was strong, it was too strong. Since they were two kingdoms called Trinity, there were too many restrictions on using that power itself.
Just as you can’t kill a chicken with a cow-killing knife, you also need someone who can provide strength to the princess at any appropriate time, and each one of the women the princess has dated so far has tremendous power.
─Crash, clang!
The moment a loud metal sound is heard, Hedone looks down at the huge hall from the third floor.
“Abama! Abama!”
Jad Ober, who screams loudly in surprise, forgets that he is wearing high heels and runs towards the man entering the mansion.
Haha! Jad!!! My lovely daughter!”
The man who burst into laughter vigorously was Leo Ober. He was a dashing man with a surprisingly good physique and a nice orange beard.
“Father, you had a good conversation with Jad even on the battlefield.”
“I can’t help it. My father likes me.”
Behind Leo Aubert stood two men with decent faces and a sense of honor.
“It looks like those two are the eldest and second sons of the Duke of Auvers.”
“Yes, that’s right. It is rumored that he did quite a good job in this war.”
Hedone nodded his head. It was truly heartwarming to see her father, her daughter, her older sister, and her younger brother reunite after two years and make noise.
“… I’m glad. It’s a very happy thing to meet family again whom I haven’t seen before.”
“You will definitely find it.”
When her maid bowed her waist and spoke, Hedone nodded her head once to indicate that she was truly okay.
“Then let’s go back to our room and rest a bit. I don’t want to interrupt the family meeting until M. Jad Ober makes formal introductions.”
When she returns to the imperial palace, she may become a sack of barley.
Still, someday I will be able to meet my beloved princess. With that thought, Hedone turned her body.
“Yes, Dad… I did my best to help my mother… Oh, huh? Wait, what?”
At the moment when Hedone was about to return to her room, Jad Aubert was chatting excitedly with the Duke of Aubert. However, this precious conversation was interrupted by a maid who looked very troubled.
Since such cases were rare, Jad Ober concentrated on what he heard and couldn’t help but be surprised.
“The princess…”
─Good luck…!
As soon as she finished speaking, the huge door opened again, and the princess, wearing a different dress from last time, slowly entered the Aubert family mansion.
Behind her stood the knights who guarded her and the maids who did chores.
“Ms. Jad Ober. How are you? I have a gift for you…”
The princess, who smiles and speaks her words, has only one reason to come here.
She gave Jad Ober a chance. There was no way she would leave Madame Aubert, the princess who had fulfilled the ‘wishes’ of the many nobles who had clung to Eternity, after taking poison and lying down.
The maids standing behind her were holding a bag containing medicine, and the princess had planned from the beginning to give the medicine to Jad Aubert as a gift.
“This person…”
“Ah, ah… No, Abama. This is Venus Holimpia. There have been some circumstances in our family for a few days…”
Jad Aubert’s conscience was pricked immensely, but he forced a smile and spoke.
“As your daughter said, I came here briefly to give you a gift because I owe you something here.”
The princess spoke her words calmly and greeted the Duke of Auvers.
“Venus Holympia?”
The Duke of Aubert takes one look at the princess and then looks at Jad Aubert.
“… Was there some kind of misunderstanding? This is not the princess.”
“Yes…?”
Jad Aubert, who had a perplexed expression, looked at the princess in surprise, and Hedone, who had heard the whole story, came down the stairs from where she was standing on the third floor.
“The princess…?”
When Hedone came down the stairs in such a hurry, the Duke of Auvers wondered what was going on, but that was not the point.
Hedone, who had a dazed expression, looked at the princess for a long time, and the princess also looked at Hedone.
“Nice to meet you. Do you know me? I’m sorry. I’ve recently lost my memory for various reasons, so I may not recognize you.”
Looking at the princess speaking calmly, Hedone blinks and covers her mouth with her hand.
Woman with beautiful blonde hair. Tall and tall. The more Hedone looked at her appearance, which had a strange charisma that captivated people, the more distressed it was.
“I’m sorry. I guess I mistook someone. I’m sorry, Duke of Auvers.”
Hedone, covering her breasts with her hands, endured her distress and apologized. Hedone slowly retreated behind her.
Her princess was in front of her, but Hedone could not think that the princess was her princess.
It was the same for Duke Leo Aubert. He had met the princess when she was attending her academy. It was the princess who appointed him as commander-in-chief before the war in the south began in the first place.
“… It can’t be like this… Wow, the princess is not the princess…”
Jad Ober was embarrassed and couldn’t say anything.
In this awkward and awkward moment when no one can smile and say anything.
There was Sitri, who saw an opportunity in the crowd of people.
