Miss Most Perfect Beauty
The Queen is Behind the Bars
“KYYAAAAAAA!! T-PLEASE! HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS HAS KILLED THE EMPEROR!”
A servant who accidentally witnessed the murder committed by the empress to the emperor cried out hysterically and in fear. The knights ran to the emperor's room, they found the empress holding a piece of glass in her blood-stained hand. While the emperor was lying lifeless on his bed with a trace of giggling and a few marks on his chest.
“Y-the M-noble you..”.
The look on the empress's face was like a daze, she seemed to be unaware of what she had done. Then the empress looked at her bloodied palm, she turned to the emperor's bed and found the emperor was not breathing.
“T-t-no…. I-i'm…. It wasn't me doing it!”
The empress threw herself on the floor, she inched back and was about to escape but her steps were held back by the guard knights.
“You must not flee Your Majesty, you must take responsibility for your own actions,”
“LEAVE ME! IT WASN'T ME WHO KILLED THE EMPEROR!”
The empress thrashed with all her might asking to be released, but the knights did not let her escape.
“What is going on here?” stella asked who entered as soon as she heard the commotion coming from the emperor's room.
“Your Highness it...”
Stella was in shock when she saw the emperor, she ran to the emperor's bed and checked his pulse. There were no signs of life from the emperor that he felt, he tried to examine it once again but the results were not the same.
“Haha is this what Sia meant? Though I wanted to kill the emperor myself but it seemed like he did it better than me, Stella's inner” grinned.
Stella let out her fake tears, she made herself seem saddened by the death of the emperor.
“Who did it? WHO KILLED THE EMPEROR?” shouting Stella.
The knights were jolted by Stella's cry, they replied that the one who killed the emperor was the empress herself. Then Stella rose from her position, she approached the empress who was still thrashing.
Plakkk
Stella slapped hard on the empress' cheek, she vented the anger she had been holding herself.
“HOW DARE A LOWLY WOMAN LIKE YOU SLAP ME!” bentak empress.
“For the man who killed the emperor, do you deserve to call me a lowly woman? Your Majesty, it seems that you have lost your mind. You will not be able to escape punishment, NOW TAKE THE EMPRESS TO THE PRISON CELL!” stella's orders.
“NO! UNTIE ME! I AM NOT THE ONE WHO KILLED THE EMPEROR! I'M THE EMPRESS WHERE I MIGHT DO SUCH A THING!”
Stella smiled with satisfaction as she watched the empress being dragged forcibly into the holding cell. The situation in the palace after that suddenly became uncontrollable, the death of the emperor caused by the empress was a fact that could not be denied anymore. This news reached the ears of Eldrick and Scarlesia, and the other nobles were like that. Even this news had reached the ears of ordinary people, once they knew it they felt disappointed and regretful for believing that the empress was a good person.
“Hahaha finally the poison acted perfectly,” Scarlesia laughed.
“Actually what kind of poison did you give to the empress?” ask Carlen.
Scarlesia was currently gathering with her brother as well as Xeon and the other men in the space they used to talk about something.
“Poisons made of rod wals,” replied Scarlesia stopped her laughing voice.
“Rod wals? Isn't it just a useless plant? It was growing everywhere,” Aldert said.
“But how does the poison work?” carlen asked once again to be taken in by the others because they were also curious about it.
“First, the poison will cause rashes and spots on the face of the victim. For a woman who is very caring for her beauty like the empress of course this will make her disturbed. The spots on her face from day to day will get worse so it will make the empress become stressed because she cannot find an antidote,”
“Then?”
“The queen's excessive stress coupled with her threatened position problems adds to her stress levels, eventually triggering this poison to become a hallucinatory poison. Which, the victim will hear whispers telling him to kill someone. When he killed this man, he was not in a conscious state. The murderous act he committed was completely controlled by the poison,” Scarlesia explained.
Prok prok prok
The sound of their clapping was dedicated to Scarlesia's intelligence in using a deadly poison that no one knew about.
“Woah steady Sia. You are amazing!” cape Elios.
“Then about the rumors of the empress exposed to the curse was also yours?” aldert asked with eyes full of search.
“Hehe yes, that was my plan. The soothsayer summoned by the empress was a fraud so I all punished her for having dared to deceive many people,”
“It seems like there is nothing you can't do in this world huh Sia,” Oliver chirped.
“As you guys saw yourself haha,”
“Nah Aldert, now we have to go to the palace too,” Carlen invites.
“Alright, do you want to join Sia?” tanya Aldert took Scarlesia.
“Iya, I want to come too. All of you just wait here and don't make trouble,” Scarlesia's message to her men.
“Oke ready to do!”
After that, Scarlesia headed straight for the palace along with Aldert and Carlen. Scarlesia went to the palace to attend the emperor's funeral as well as to visit the empress who was entangled in a holding cell. Upon arrival at the imperial palace, the atmosphere there was not as usual, there were some of them who cried even to the point that the empress should be put to death.
Giana and Vincent are also saddened by the death of the father coupled with the fact that the one who killed his father was his own mother. Giana was unceasingly crying beside the stiff body of the emperor and Vincent was silent looking down at his father's face. There was also Stella who was exploring her sad role, when in fact she was not sad over the death of the emperor.
It didn't take long, the emperor's funeral ceremony went smoothly without any obstacles and obstructions.
“Should I now visit the empress?” scarlesia muttered with a smile.
“Sia,” call Stella pat her shoulder from behind.
“Your Majesty Concubine! I...”
“No need to greet me. I want to visit the empress, do you want to come with me?”
“Iya Your Majesty,”
The two of them walked together towards the prisoner cell located in the basement of the palace. The place is dark, narrow, and moist, there is not even a gap for the sun to enter. The empress was placed in the very end of the holding cell, a cell that was dirtier than any other cell.
The condition of the empress is really bad and not maintained, but not yet 24 hours after the incident. The empress remained silent while pensively thinking about her next fate, she seemed to lose hope for life.
“Halo Her Majesty The Empress, how does it feel to stay inside the prison?”