Chapter: 171

Astelle is left alone with the Marchioness in the room.

“Lady Astelle, you must know why I suddenly ran into you like this.”

Marchioness, who had watched Theor come out, couldn’t take it anymore and opened her mouth.

“It’s because of Marianne.”

“Lady Marianne?”

“She is my eldest daughter.”

Somehow, she was too outspoken.

“His Majesty the Emperor has been imprisoned her in a Maern Castle’s prison.”

Come to think of it, Marianne is still there.

Astelle remembered the whereabouts of Marianne which she had forgotten for a while.

She hadn’t seen her since then, so she forgot for a while.

The Marchioness burst into anger.

“Marianne has been imprisoned there for more than 2 weeks. My poor daughter……! I wonder how much she suffered in a place like that……”

She said to Astelle, “Lady Astelle, please ask His Majesty to release my poor daughter.”

She was a bit outright.

She said ‘please’, but it was no different from forcing Astelle.

Any parent would feel miserable if their daughter was imprisoned in such a place.

No matter how miserable she felt as a parent, still, this was an exaggeration.

“Excuse me, Marchioness, I am not in a position to meddle in His Majesty’s decisions.”

Astelle, who had been listening quietly, answered calmly and continued, “I was only invited to participate in His Majesty’s party to the capital. I do not have the authority to advise or meddle in how His Majesty punishes criminals.”

“Did you just say my daughter is a criminal?” The Marchioness asked with a sharp voice.

Didn’t this Marchioness know that Marianne was caught while rummaging through someone else’s medicine box and trying to secretly put a suspicious drug inside?

Or did she ignore it because she didn’t think it was a crime?

Either way, she wasn’t the kind of person Astelle wanted to deal with.

Astelle said with an innocent expression, “Isn’t that how most people in prison are called?”