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I don’t remember when I stopped paying attention to her. The affection I must have had for her at first had cooled off by the time we got engaged. When an innocent saint candidate approached me, she became ridiculously angry. When I saw that…… I was disgusted beyond relief. After that, a lot of things happened, and I had become completely distrustful of women―― …….
“…Anastasia-sama, Anastasia-sama!”
The one glaring at me was the handmaid that Anastasia, my wife, had kept close to her. Her name was Nina, I believe. This maid was loyal to Anastasia alone and hated me for disrespecting her, but the fact that she was coming to me meant that something terrible must have happened to her.
“What happened?”
When I calmly replied, the maidservant intensified her glare towards me as if to say this was my fault. I’m sure I could have accused her of disrespecting me, but I had no intentions of doing that. In the end, I guess it’s all in the blood of the good-natured royal family, even if they called me the “Ice Crown Prince.”
“Anastasia-sama has been poisoned. Her life is in danger.”
That’s all the maidservant said before running away from me. At that moment, for some reason, I felt a significant pain in my chest. I had given up on Anastasia a long time ago. I couldn’t be sad about Anastasia. If so, it should just be because she was connected to her brother, the Duke of Strauss.
(…It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter.)
I kept telling myself this. Anastasia had a caustic personality, that’s for sure, but was she truly like that? A high-ranking noble could have a lot on their mind. Even the Duke of Strauss, with who I was close to, was like that. Moreover, Anastasia was the real sister of the Duke of Strauss. Visit novelping . com for the full chapter.
“…Damn.”
Even if I assume that, my mind was still buzzing. Thinking back, I guess Anastasia’s actions were mostly based on favoritism. In the first place, wasn’t the reason why I stopped liking Anastasia was because I felt betrayed? Didn’t I just become paranoid that my first love would betray me? These thoughts suddenly rushed through my mind, but I couldn’t come up with an answer.
(I could say that the crown princess being poisoned was a bad scandal.)
I desperately told myself that and went to the royal family’s apothecary for the time being. I needed to have an antidote made. The maidservant might have been already working on it, but I knew more about poisons than she does. From an early age, the knowledge and tolerance of all kinds of poisons have been planted on me. But… Why was Anastasia poisoned?
(If they wanted to kill her, it would have been better to make it look like an accident. In the first place, the mortality rate was low, even with poison in this country. So, was the real purpose killing, or something else?)
There were saints in this kingdom, so the possibility of death by poison was low. But, that maidservant said that her life was in danger… I’m sure that there was some kind of poison that could make you wander between life and death but will never kill you. No way…
“…She’s resented by many people.”
That’s what I told myself. You don’t need to make any strange assumptions just because you were almost killed by poison. Yes, that’s right.
“Brother.”
As I was headed towards the pharmacist when I thought this, I suddenly heard a cheerful voice. The voice was a bit high for a man, and there was only one person in the world who called me ‘brother.’ It was the second prince, Jeremy.
“Jeremy, I’m busy. I don’t have time to deal with you.” New chapters come out on g.com first.
With that, I turned to walk past Jeremy. Jeremy had his usual good-natured smile on his face. You don’t know what people could be thinking. I thought about this and glanced at Jeremy’s expression as I walked past him. At that moment… an unfathomable chill ran down my spine.
(Was this guy the kind of person who would have this expression on his face…?)
Jeremy always had a nice smile on him. Jeremy, who was known to be the kind and ideal prince. That was the only face that I’ve ever seen on my brother. So――…
“It’s going to be interesting, brother.”
This was the first time I’ve seen him say those words and smile wickedly. His expression looked like a demon’s. Even so, I persuaded myself to think that it was just because of my imagination. Perhaps it was because we were family that I decided to believe that, and maybe it was also because of my belief that this guy would never do such a thing.
“…I’m going to destroy everything. I’ll even take her away from you, brother.”
I didn’t hear a word of it. If I had been aware of this person’s insanity at the time… his plot would have failed. When I thought about it, all that came up later was intense regret.
The appearance of the final boss (the mastermind) of this story (´ ・ ω ・ ｀) is finally here. Jeremy becomes the so-called ‘yandere.’ How he will be related to the story was yet to be seen.
Also, the second chapter will start soon (o_ _) o))