The Second Life Liliana
Chapters 172. Bet again
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Max's hands clenched tightly, it felt like he couldn't believe that Aiden was behind it all.
"You didn't lie to me, did you? If he did all this, what does it mean that he remembers everything that happened in the past?" Max asked as he looked at Brieta sharply.
Brieta nodded confidently, smiling. "True, he remembered everything."
"Huh? If he remembered the past, I should have known! Am I stupid?" Max was upset by himself.
If it's true he did all this and made me make a pact with the devil. But...what's his goal until he's this far?.
"You're not stupid, you're just a good noble. You're so good, until you can be rigged like this. King Gallahan, he's not as innocent as he seems..."
"I can't just trust your words. I need to have proof so I can believe what you're saying." As Brieta had expected, take Max not a person who easily believes in others just based on speech alone. He needs a fact right in front of his eyes to see what Aiden's rotten looks like.
Brieta showed her smirk. "Okay, I'll prove it. I'll bet again with you noble, what noble dare?"
"All right." Max responded to what the old woman had said.
"This time I'll ask for something if my bet wins."
"What's that?"
"I want your majesty to hand over the red jewel necklace that is in the noble pocket." Said Brieta while glancing towards the pocket of clothes worn by Max.
Just contact Brieta, inviting a very bad reaction from Max. It was because Brieta wanted to ask for a necklace that belonged to Liliana, a necklace that she had given to Liliana as their first gift for a relationship in the past. "You! Don't you be rude to me anymore! Don't you love your life anymore?" Max asked in a high voice while looking deeply and wrathfully at the old woman.
"I'm sorry, my majesty, I know that it's precious to your majesty. I'm not asking him to have it, I just want to borrow it to recover my strength." Brieta explains that she did not intend to take the necklace and just wanted to borrow it.
Slowly breathing and Max's emotions began to subside after hearing the explanation from Brieta. "Well, you can borrow it."
"So your majesty agrees with my bet, right?" The old woman repeated her question again.
Max's answer is just a nod. "Your highness, tonight Miss Liliana will be present at the festival in the city and she will not go directly to the kingdom of Gallahan. That's where you're the truth about king Rayden." Reveal it again tells.
"All right."
Max does not interfere in Liliana and Aiden's affairs this time, as he believes in Brieta that Liliana and she will meet again. Then Max decided to return to the royal palace that he had not visited for a long time.
In the present, King Alberto is dead because of an illness. King Alberto died from an attack by Lucifer. And in present-day Queen Freya who holds supreme power. Everyone who died in the past, not in the present for example like the figure of Adaire.
"You're back, crown prince?" Welcome Queen Freya with cold eyes looking at Max who was freezing his body while paying his respects.
"Sincerely to my mother."
"Really, Mother's love is matchless to me. But, forgive me. for I cannot accept the kindness of Her Majesty the Queen."
"Why are you rejecting my good intentions? I need to know why." The Queen stared at Max.
In this life, Max doesn't want to be king. He wants to be an ordinary man who is happy with the person he loves. But it turns out that the past and future of this one does not change, because Max still has blue blood and requires him to become a king. He could have rejected the king's position, but if he had refused then the evil Queen Freya would have increasingly taken control of Istvan's kingdom.
"I just want to be given a break for a few days, there is no need for a celebration party and so on." Max looked up at Queen Freya.
"Hem.well if you really don't want to accept this party that I'm going to make. I won't force you, but later at your coronation party as king of this land you can't refuse."
"I understand Her Majesty." Max answered with a faint smile.
"Yes, I agree to have you rest for a few days." Queen Freya gave Max permission to rest for a few days.
Why did this boy look so calm, after he returned from the battlefield? His habits are not like before who always settle me with a hostile look.
Freya was astonished because of Max's unusual attitude, always opposed to saying rude to him. But Max's current attitude looks so calm and doesn't say much. Freya thought negatively, that Max was acting like this to just trick her.
"Thank you for the noble kindness. Then, I'll resign." Max said as he lowered his head. Then he left the queen who was still sitting on the throne.
Queen Freya looked at Max sharply, she was still the same as she used to harbor dislike for her stepson. "Look at Maximillian, once you've become king... I will soon overthrow you from the throne in a disrespectful manner."
In fact, Freya was confused because she did not have a son to be the heir of the Istvan kingdom and finally she had no choice but to accept Max as the successor of that kingdom. She only had Laura, a daughter.
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That afternoon, Max went into his room and laid himself in a bathtub of warm water that had been prepared by the palace ladies. While soaking, Max thinks of Brieta's words about the mastermind behind all this is Aiden, a figure who seeks to profit from all this.
"I know she likes Liliana, but I can't believe she's going to do something like this. All right, I'll come to the festival tonight to prove it. Is Brieta right or wrong?"
Then came that night, where the downtown festival was held. Aiden and Liliana were both without bodyguards around them.
Too bad I can't go straight back to Gallahan, but I want to get him out of here so he can't see King Istvan again.
"Sir, let's take a walk! It'll be so much fun!" Liliana said while taking Aiden around there.
"Yes, I heard there's a park called Sakesfir. It's so beautiful and so many people, let's get there."
"Sakesfir?" Liliana muttered and suddenly she fell silent. Sakesfir's name was suddenly what made him fixated.
Wait, I'm like I've heard of it.
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