Giulia looked at the man with flaming eyes but with her flaming eyes tears also started to flow down to her cheeks as she slowly sniffled.
"You made my early life as a dragon like a living hell. I've always thought that I should've just died along with my tribe if I were to live in a world of human like this. Marquess, it was all because of you!" her voice cracked as it echoed around everyone.
"Your M-Majesty. Please do hear me out, I don't even know who this is! And why are you bringing weird animals around—"
"Weird what?" The trio said in sync making the butler of the Marquess Barlowe gasp as he felt shivers down his spine. Ashleah quickly scoffed sarcastically as she slowly gave Giulia to her Father with a smile that can scare anyone.
"May I ask you a question?" Ashleah said as she slowly took a few steps and faced the Marquess who was currently unstable. "Why do you think that they are weird?"
Marquess Barlowe was about to answer the princess but Nash quickly yet softly held her arm and squeezed it, but it wasn't that hard. "Calm your shi— I mean, let's all calm down and arrest him. Okay?" Nash whispered making Ashleah come back to reality.
"Pardon me, please do continue." Ashleah quickly said as she turned around and gulped slowly as she tightly closed her eyes. Axis smiled and showed her two thumbs up making her smile lightly.
"As I was saying, we have a lot of proofs Marquess Barlowe. Your own butler even talked to us and told us everything he knows about your dirty tricks with the other nobles." Emperor Adler said as he sighed and shook his head afterwards. "I never knew that you'd do this Marquess. My Father trusted you that much to give you a position such as a Marquess, are you really serious?"
The Marquess laughed awkwardly as he slowly shook his head in disbelief. "My, your majesty I never knew that you would believe such persons like him. He is just a mere commoner that works for me, he can even turn everything upside down and make me look bad!"
"Marquess! You are making me look bad, I will never do that to you!" The butler widened his eyes as he was about to take a step closer, Axis quickly held the man's shoulder and he shook his head.
"Please do calm down Marquess. You can come with us for we have the proofs, after that you will be staying at the imperial palace before the trial. And we'll see, yeah? Gab, Kian please do take care of the Marquess and search the mansion." The emperor said and walked away while ignoring the Marquess who was screaming his lungs out while he got dragged away.
The High Priest Rowen chuckled and shook his head. "My, why were you lying to the Marquess? Oh, should I say the Mister Barlowe who used to be a Marquess?" They both chuckled.
The Marquess never knew that there will be no more trials for the proofs were already there and almost everyone who worked for him told the imperial family the truth.
Maids were being molested, young or even old. Men workers were being pushed to torture the poor Giulia. Everything was settled, the only thing that was left.. was..
"High Priest Rowen, have you talked to God about the Marquess' punishment?" Nash said after whispering to Ashleah's ear. The high priest Rowen grinned and soon then answered.
"A life sentence imprisonment for the man." He said, everyone nodded as the Prescott sighed and afterwards started ranting about nonsense.
"Why did I even come here? I wasn't even inside the spotlight! Seriously, everyone took it! Even Princess Izel who became a ticking bomb! Giulia, aren't they unfair?"
For Prescott continued to rant and everyone started laughing at him. "My Prescott, you really were upset aren't you?" Ashleah said while laughing, but then the conversation inside the carriage popped in her mind, she quickly tapped Nash's shoulder and moved her eyes to the other side. Meaning that they should talk further away from the others.
"Please do excuse us, we are... going to talk about something." Nash quickly said and he saw how Axis' brows rose and he gave them a cheeky smile making Nash roll his eyes.
They were now away from the other people, Ashleah then suddenly groaned loudly and ruffled her wavy hair. She bit her lower lips and sighed before facing Nash who was completely confused with what's happening to the woman right in front of her.
"Ashleah, please calm yourself down okay? What's happening to you? Is it because of the Marquess Barlowe? Or are you missing your phone?" Nash sure did said the last part to tease her making her scoff and show her middle finger to him.
"You know what? F for you!—" Nash started laughing. "—But seriously, I wanted to talk to you because of our mission." He quickly stopped and puts his serious expression on.
"Why? Found any leads about it? The magicians? Who casted the spell on him?" He showered Ashleah with questions making Ashleah blink her eyes a couple of times.
"Nash, I think Father is hiding something from me about the magicians. I also think that they are doing an investigation about them—" She stopped for a moment to rub her forehead and sighed again. "—But why? And who? He wanted me to keep safe. And the fact that you are his right hand and he never tells you about the investigation, it's making me anxious and curious at the same time Nash."
"So you are telling me this right now? Why? Did you have this certain conversation today too? Oh fudge. Why is this happening? Did we miss something when we visited the tower?" He said as he then started to ruffle his hair and bite his lips and rub the back of his neck.
"I think that it's not inside the tower Nash, and if it was it would probably create a lot of rumors around the empire. It's really weird!—" She said as she started to tap her heels on the ground. "—And what's ticking me the most was.. Father really had no intentions in telling me who those people were."
"What are you two talking about?"