Chapter: 566

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Astelle contacted her father as soon as Florin left.

It was a request to come to the Empress Palace right now.

Not long after, the Duke came to see Astelle.

“You invited me first.”

“Even if I don’t invite you, you come almost every day to annoy Theor and meddle in my business.”

“I saved your life but you don’t even thank me.”

Duke grumbled and drank the tea. Astelle watched her father and spoke frankly, “Father, please be honest with me.”

While drinking tea, the Duke of Reston looked at Astelle.

“Why all of a sudden?”

“Lady Florin said she had kidnapped your servant.”

“My servant? Who?”

When Astelle looked at him in a bewildered way, the duke put down the teacup and nodded as if he had remembered it belatedly.

“Oh yeah. I heard that one of the servants disappeared without a word. So it was her doing.”

“Do I know him?”

“No, you wouldn’t know. He’s a new servant.”

“Did you entrust such a risky task to a new servant?”

Duke Reston raised one eyebrow.

Astelle told her father the stories she had heard from Florin, from the rebellion to the things that happened on the tour.

Everything, including the secret letter that the servant had.

The Duke of Reston listened to Astelle and confessed honestly, “Now that it’s all over, what’s there to hide? What you guessed was right. There’s no such thing as a rebellion plot.”

“You must have been planning the assassination from the beginning.”

“Of course. Knowing the rebellion plot was in progress, I thought Kaizen would linger during the tour. If the emperor is outside the capital, there will always be loopholes.”

The duke grumbled with a sad expression on his face.

“If I did well, I could have succeeded.”