I Will Avoid The Death Flag [It's Published]
30. Show Curtain

The party hall in the Cheerful Palace is decorated so beautifully.

It was a party room whose walls were even carved with gold at every corner, had many ancient and rare paintings, vases and urns that seemed to be very expensive, he said, and the carvings that show the nakedness of the engraver.

In essence, the Palace of Joy truly showed its identity as the palace and wealth of the Asher kingdom.

On the floor of the party, nobles gathered everywhere. Wearing clothes made of expensive silk and glittering fancy jewelry.

The noble ladies gossiped with each other, talking about useless things for their personal enjoyment.

"Say the Princess held a party because she wanted to show her holy power?"

"The Princess unexpectedly was a saintess."

"Who's the lucky guy who's going to marry the Princess, huh?"

"No need to be confused, isn't there a lot of men waiting around the Princess?"

The lords talked about complicated business, trying to maintain a household that was already built with sweat and blood, trying to move up to even higher positions than what they currently have.

"The northern region is indeed surrounded by trees, but isn't that a suitable place to be used as an inn?"

"In our region it does have amazing scenery, not even surprised if our area is never deserted by the visitors."

"Building an inn branch there is not a bad idea."

"The northern region is always crowded by people who are on vacation, making the construction of an inn is the right thing."

It is a normal party atmosphere.

Serethy saw everything from the balcony covered by a red curtain on the second floor.

Serethy hasn't shown herself at the party because her target hasn't arrived yet and the party hasn't officially opened either.

Just a moment after, there appeared an emerald-haired woman accompanied by a golden-haired man.

Both are a harmony of being beautiful, making whispers about both airs, accompanied by praise and enthusiasm.

"As usual, Miss Clare and Master Duke Alverro are a great fit!"

"Mr Duke Alverro does have a gentle side towards Miss Clare. Everyone knows that Mr. Alverro loves Miss Clare."

"Unfortunately, Miss Clare is the candidate for Queen Asher. The odds are small for Mr. Duke Alverro's feelings to be avenged Miss Clare."

"really. And hasn't Miss Clare loved Her Majesty since they were little?"

The red curtain on the second floor was closed, Serethy gave a brief grin. It's time for the anticipated show to open.

...***...

My white shoes echoed as I descended the stairs from the second floor. My dress is pink, perfectly fluffy, and has elaborate accessories in it. I love this party dress. Elegant and aesthetically pleasing, matching my taste. My long hair was left like that, only there were violet colored ribbons pinned on some sides.

When the sound of my shoes echoed in the party room, it managed to attract the attention of the entire nobility.

I then stood behind the guardrail that connected the two floors of the party. Behind me stood Sir Derick and Arcelio.

"Thank you to all the nobles who attended the party I held today" I said with a formal smile on my lips.

The party hall was completely silent, the entire person inside gave his attention to me.

"First of all, I must thank His Majesty King Viten, for helping with all the preparations for the feast." I looked at Viten sitting on his throne seat, Cioten on the same stage, but sitting on the lower seat of the king.

Soon, whispers are in the air.

"His Majesty helped with the party preparations?"

"Is this a joke?"

"Your Majesty has never been interested in anything like this."

"Didn't His Majesty love the Princess so much that this would be the case?"

"Then what about her fiance, Miss Clare?"

"Are you kidding me? The engagement was supposed to be annulled with a competition between the two candidates for the queen."

"Enough." One word from me could swallow hundreds of sentences that were airing on the ceiling of the party.

"Honor me who is up here, don't whisper to myself" I continued calmly.

This made the nobles end up not making their voices at all. The silence clutched the room, making me smile with satisfaction.

"All of you must be wondering why I had a party when one week ago, I was attacked by a group of people in an organization or faction, then fell into a coma. I should have locked myself in the palace because of trauma and isolated myself from everyone.

"However, no. I'm not that kind of woman. I'm standing here as the future Queen Asher to greet my people."

The party room is back. It was because I said myself as a candidate for queen, instead of as one of the candidates for Asher's queen.

"That's why, I brought the Cardinal Lord of the Sun God Temple beside me."

I turned my head, smiling a little as a sign for Arcelio to come forward and stand beside me.

Helaan's breath of disbelief the nobles began to clash with each other. Honestly, they are very dramatic. A little surprised, a little gossip. However, they were all candidates for my people, so I had to be patient with them.

"Calm down."

Again, that one word was able to make the nobles shut up.

I smiled with satisfaction.

"I'm going to announce here, that there's cheating in the competition to become Queen Asher."

Silent. The nobles ended up not immediately stirring and tried to listen to my sentence thoroughly first.

"That, what the other candidates for the queen did was a despicable act."

I glanced at Clare who was in the corner of my eye. Good, he looked a little panicked and tried to calm down which failed.

"What Miss Clare did in the competition was an unforgivable act, even by the Sun God himself."

I extended my hand into the air, gave an image, and a glowing golden scroll instantly appeared.

The nobles were shocked again, but I ignored them.

"In this scroll is concrete proof that Miss Clare has been falsifying the words of the Sun God. The word that Miss Clare is destined to be one of the candidates for the queen is a lie.

"Miss Clare paid a little priest an unreasonable price, so the priest immediately agreed to commit the fraudulent act. Too bad, Miss Clare, that priest is in the dungeon."

I glanced at Clare blatantly, making a lot of attention immediately diverted to Clare.

Clare's face was now flushed red and both her eyes were glaring perfectly. She seemed panicked and somehow, seeing Clare's expression sent out a sensation of pleasure within myself.

"Mr Arcelio, please swear on behalf of the Sun God that this golden scroll is real."

I then handed the golden scroll to Arcelio, who immediately accepted it.

Arcelio cleared a small thud and opened the golden scroll.

"Seeing from any side, everything is very original. It was as if the Princess obtained this scroll directly from the Sun God. Even I could feel the majesty and holy power of the Sun God from this paper scroll. It is no wonder for the Princess to get the word of the Sun God directly because she is a saintess, that is, a person chosen by the Sun God personally.

"I will read from here: The Kingdom of Asher has a history of war that has passed for a century, it is my duty to send one ruler into the country to prosper the Kingdom of Asher. Only one queen, only one queen, can nourish the Kingdom of Asher. And I have chosen Serethy Rexanne Asher as someone who deserves to prosper the Asher Kingdom."

For that, Clare was sentenced to a heavy sentence.

The nobles believed in Arcelio. Of course because the man was a cardinal who had sworn to the Sun God not to tarnish Angelina's name.

Arcelio was also believed to be a wise and great man. It is impossible for everyone to believe that Arcelio is lying.

Good, everyone trusts Arcelio.

I didn't care about the party room that came back and opened my lips.

"Miss Clare, with all due respect, I take back my own rights as a destined queen of Asher" I said. "You have usurped that right and made misleading ideas a plot to kill me. On this basis, Miss Clare will be sentenced to a severe punishment."

I'm thrilled. Honestly, I'm happy. Seeing the look of disbelief Clare made something inside me soar. Come on, this is not normal at all. Is seeing the fall of others with enthusiasm normal at first? Sure didn't.

Clare will be punished severely and I'm happy instead? Was I contaminated with those psychopaths until I acted like this?

Well, maybe this happened because Clare had made me restless even when we first met, no, even when I was still reading Clare's name in the letter order in the novel, that woman couldn't stop me from worrying about her crazy plan to torture Serethy.

"For this punishment, I leave everything to His Majesty the King to determine."

I looked at Viten, and we made eye contact.

In the red bead, I could feel a sense of satisfaction within Viten.

I didn't tell Viten about my plan. The only thing I told him was that I wanted to throw a party and Viten prepared it without going back to asking for what purpose I was holding the party.

It's possible that my line just made Viten a little happy. It was because Clare was declared the loser in that self-styled competition and I was the destined queen. Well, counting in return for making me princess and living a luxurious life in the palace compared to a dungeon.

Viten immediately stood up from his throne. His masculine voice finally resounded in the air after a long time he remained silent and enjoyed a performance.

"I admit that Miss Clare's crimes are very serious. Let me reevaluate what your crimes are, Miss Clare." Viten's red bead smouldered while looking directly at Clare who stood stiff. "First, you have faked the words of the Sun God, and that alone is a very fatal mistake. Second, you lie to everyone that you are trusted to be a second queen candidate even though there should only be one queen. Third, you have attempted to kill Serethy, Asher's future queen, and the only way to bury Asher. This mistake of yours will bring the Asher Kingdom into ruin if Serethy does not overcome it all.

"Because of Miss Clare's mistake that has threatened the Kingdom of Asher ...."

Pause.

All the nobles on the party floor waited with a thumping feeling. Moreover Clare was completely at a loss for words to say.

Viten opened his lips to continue, "Miss Clare will be sentenced to death."

The party room is now really excited. Her voice was so noisy that I wasn't sure I could handle this. The hall became increasingly runny when Viten gave a code to the knights who were on guard to bring Clare from the party room.

"Miss Clare! No!"

That one voice was clearly heard in my sense of hearing. His screams were so sad and gave me goosebumps.

Someone immediately ran in the party room and faced Viten. The man with golden hair knelt down in front of Viten while bowing his head deeply.

"Your Majesty! I beg! I'm begging you not to give Miss Clare the death penalty! I beg you with all my heart and soul. I promise I'll give you anything, but please don't sentence you to death, Your Majesty!"

Everyone stared at the man kneeling in front of Viten as if the man had gone mad.

Viten had already established his sentence and Clare was already dragged by the knights, likely to the dungeon, he said, but the man was still willing to defend Clare after being found guilty and had harassed the name of the Sun God and threatened the Kingdom of Asher?

"Duke Alverro," call Viten. Viten's grin on his lips widened. "I heard you were so enamored of Miss Clare and became the woman's loyal dog. Did you also take part in his plan to kill Serethy?"

Alverro would not answer. He just knelt deeper and almost like prostrating.

He did everything for Clare? For the woman?

And I seemed to hear a familiar voice coming out of Alverro's lips.

Well, how could I possibly forget that voice? The A-robed man may have blurred when I released holy power, but I still clearly remember how his voice kept me goosebumps.

It was the voice of the A-robed Man, unmistakable.

The person behind the A-robed Man was Alverro.

My eyes are getting cold. Crazy jerk. Apparently there was Alverro who became Clare's henchman.

The plot of the novel changed significantly after I came here. I thought Clare's henchman was just Lucette Mirele who never showed her face again at the socialite after the incident at Marquis Krone's party, apparently there was still Alverro who became Clare's most loyal minion.

However, I can't be rash either by accusing Alverro of being an A-robed Man.

I don't have any evidence for this. If I were to accuse you, then the show just now would have ended in vain. That's because if I were to accuse without concrete evidence, then the statement just now would be re-questioned the truth.

"Duke Alverro." Viten's cold voice gave me goosebumps. "My answer, did you take part in the attempted murder of Serethy?"

After sighing with a quiver, Alverro nodded slowly. "I'm involved in that."

"What?!"

"How is it possible!"

"Mr Duke Alverro is a friendly and kind man, how could Master Duke do such an unworthy thing?"

"I can't be trusted."

"Her spouse Lord Duke Alverro has hidden his true mask very well."

"I think I heard something break in my heart."

"I'm disappointed in you, Mr. Duke Alverro."

Viten grinned widely, then he gave the knight the code to drag Alverro's body as well.

"Duke Alverro, join the Miss Clare you love." Is what Viten said after Alverro's body disappeared from behind the door of the party room.

Silence dominates, although now still heard whispers on various sides. Some of the nobles seem to feel very shocked at what happened.

Well, I also can't shed the feeling of shock in my heart.

Alverro Cadeearo, I heard that the young Duke was a man who ruled the duchy well, he was also a wise and meek person.

It was unbelievable that his real figure was the A-robed Man. My eyes cooled for a while. The characters in the novel actually have different masks to show to the public. Either Alverro or even the other psychopaths.

"Consider everything." I then tried to regain the attention of the entire nobility. "Master Cardinal, please continue speaking."

Arcelio finally opened her lips again after I let her talk. "With this, I, the Cardinal of the Temple of the Sun God, Arcelio Barnett, guarantee that Princess Serethy is finally declared a Queen in the Kingdom of Asher fairly and without any fraud."

Silence, before finally cheers dominated the party hall.

"Life, Princess!"

"I thought the Princess was going to be Queen!"

"I support the Princess with all my heart!"

I smiled, but still tried to maintain a confident expression on my face.

Look, everything's going according to my plan. Clare was thrown in jail and I'm gonna be. Although I hate to admit it, it is the truth that I must take responsibility and become a Queen.

"Everything." My voice echoed back on the party floor. "Sorry to have postponed the party because of the problems that occurred earlier, this party has finally officially begun."

I started the party and closed the fun show just now.

Without knowing that there were some hearts broken because the statement was apparently so painful for them. However, I didn't realize it.