How About a Refill? ~The Elegant Tea Party of the Grand Witches~ - Chapter 47

Translator: NovelMultiverse | Editor: NovelMultiverse

The Caparoni Marquess’ heir was currently at Beatrice’s manor.

In fact, he was bowing in front of his beloved little sister.

“I’m sorry, Millie! It was my fault, please forgive me!”

“No, brother! In which world is there someone who would monitor his sister and her fiance’s outings? What’s more, asking the Grand Witches to do so!”

Emilio, feeling pity for his friend who was begging for forgiveness from his still angry sister, decided to change the subject.

“Leo, can you tell us about the things you looked into with Lady Beatrice? Miriam, you should be done talking with him, right?”

“My friend…”

Miriam sent a glare to her brother who was quickly getting up to his feet. Or at least she tried; it wasn’t very effective.

‘She’s trying to glare at Leo… Ah geez, she looks like a pouting puppy. Her face is nothing but cute. Would it be alright to bring her back with me? Yes, I should invite her back home. If so she can stay in the room next to mine at the Diamond Palace…”

“Oi, you’re thinking of something sleazy aren’t you!?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

“It’s all because you always sneakily take Miriam out!”

“Brother!”

Emilio glanced away as Leonardo pounced towards him. Miriam grew even angrier at his behavior. The witches laughed as they watched the scene.

“Ah, this never gets old!”

“Haha, they put on a good show.”

“Well, we were able to go help them immediately because we were spying on them. Isn’t it fine? Anyways, it’s always nice to look at a real life love story unfolding before you.”

“Well, novels also have their own appeal.”

Miriam sent a glare to the witches who were talking cheerily even though they had been the ones behind the power to spy on them.

“Ah, so scary. Robin, go take Millie away to play.”

“Yay! Sister Millie, will you teach me about plants again?”

“Of course, Robin! Everyone, this conversation isn’t over yet!”

When Millie and Robin left to go to the garden, the others gathered around the table to listen to Leonardo and Beatrice’s report.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

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“Lady Beatrice and I looked into the entrance record of the Palace.”

“Entrance record?”

“Yeah. The attack was targeted towards Emilio, right? Who would be the one to profit most if something happened to Emilio?”

“It’s the Second Prince’s faction, right. Prince Ivan still hasn’t been stripped of his right to inherit the throne after all.”

“Ah the Duke of Saint Angelo in particular, who has a blood relationship with Prince Ivan, seemed to be working from behind the scenes when His Highness took over the Throne as well. He must be frustrated by the current situation. Frustrated enough to try to get rid of Emilio.” 

Emilio’s brows furrowed at Leonardo’s words and his face turned pensive. 

“So we looked at who else entered the castle on the days when the Duke visited the castle over the past few months. There are several people who always gain entrance on the same day as him. All of them stated they had matters to attend to at Duke Saint Angelo’s office in the Goldfish Palace.”

“Yeah, and it was one of them.”

Everyone looked at Beatrice in shock.

“Saverio Lambert lou Feline. Gilbert’s father.”

“The first time he visited was about 3 to 4 months ago.”

“That was when the True Salvation religion started gaining its foothold in the Capital…”

“Did the Duke and the Count make some kind of deal or agreement at that time?”

Leonardo shuffled through the documents in front of him as he searched for the page.

“We also looked at the people who visited the Duke’s house. Count Feline was one of the people on the list.”

“The True Salvation religion finds us witches to be a nuisance. The Duke of Saint Angelo considers Emilio a hindrance for his nephew to succeed the Throne. And, recently, we spend so much time with Emilio it looks like us witches firmly standing with the First Prince’s faction.”

“Although we only do this because it’s fun to see Emilio interact with Millie.”

Recently, Emilio had been visiting Beatrice’s mansion so much (although it was to see Miriam), that a lot of people had started speculating that the Witches had joined the First Prince’s faction.

Although the Witches never involved themselves in politics, they had a symbolic presence in the Kingdom with everyone knowing them. What’s more, the engagement of the First Prince with a daughter from the Caparoni family had become public. It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say the Duke, feeling threatened, colluded with the organization that already wanted to overthrow the Witches, to take down both the witches and Prince Emilio. 

“Count Feline is always lamenting the fact that his family had fallen from the ranks of a Marquess to a mere Count. He wants to restore his family someday.”

“So they might have made a deal that if Prince Ivan succeeds the crown, the Count’s title would be restored to a Marquess?”

“Yeah, it’s probably that. It’s been on my mind for some time now, but Dino…”

“Did I do something, Leo?”

“Is it really okay for you to interact so much with the First Prince when you’re the aide of Prince Ivan?”

Dino laughed at Leonardo’s words as he scratched his head.

“It just happened. Besides, Prince Ivan himself doesn’t want the throne anymore. I just want him to do what he wants.”

“Is that so…”

Emilio thought of his younger brother at their exchange.

They used to play together a lot when they were younger, not caring about each others’ factions or anything. They didn’t care even if the people around them didn’t like it.

He could be a bit impudent sometimes, but he was an honest and innocent child.

At some point, the Duke started visiting Ivan frequently, and Ivan started confronting Emilio in all matters.

They stopped seeing each other, and the honest Ivan slowly turned more bitter. He began looking at Emilio in an openly hostile manner. He was probably compared to Emilio every day and made to feel scornful for himself.

Emilio couldn’t forgive the Duke for doing all this just for his own gain.

“Then we should first strike on the True Salvation religion, gain more evidence, and then confront the Duke about this?”

Everyone nodded in agreement at Beatrice’s suggestion.

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