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The investigation began before the sun had fully risen.Miran took direct command, in a manner he knew well from his years in the military before standing at Lyris's side. He sent groups in every direction without waiting for every detail to be confirmed, because waiting would only give the existing traces more time to grow colder.Twenty soldiers were sent to the eastern market, where merchants who had been open since dawn might have seen something unusual in the alleys surrounding the palace the previous night.Fifteen were sent to the craftsmen's district in the south, where the tightly packed buildings and narrow alleys had long been known as routes used by people who did not want to be seen moving from one place to another.Ten were sent to the inns in the north, which had served for years as stopping places for Explorers and cultivators who came and went without leaving behind names that could be verified, where someone who needed to disappear after a night like the previous one
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That name was not one she had only just heard. It was a name that had appeared in the reports she had read about murders that could never be traced back to the people who ordered them, about targets who died without witnesses, about someone who would never make a move unless paid a price that not everyone could afford."She doesn't kill without being paid." The words came out on their own, more to herself than to anyone else in the room. "Who paid her?!"Silence.Not because no one knew.But because the people who knew were deciding whether revealing it was an advantageous choice or not, and it took several more seconds for them to reach the conclusion that there was no other option left that was better than telling her.The two Princes were gone.Only one Princess remained.There was no way to survive in this palace except by standing on the side that was still standing.An official from Carath's faction, his face carrying many things at once, stepped forward."Princess Lyris." His v
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The scream came before the palace had fully awakened.It was not a short scream. Not one that could be dismissed as a nightmare or a minor accident in the kitchen. It was the scream of someone who had opened a door to perform a routine task and discovered that inside a room that should have contained a single sleeping person, there was something that could not be explained quickly.The first guard to reach the corridor saw what had made the servant scream and stopped at the doorway for two seconds before deciding that he needed to wake more people.Not because he did not know what he was looking at.But because what he was looking at required more than one person to confirm that it was real.---Lyris arrived at Bravan's room with Miran beside her and three soldiers behind them.Several people were already in the corridor when she arrived. Guards who did not know where they should stand, servants who had stopped crying but whose faces were already far removed from their usual expressi
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Bravan watched all of it.His brother's arm on the floor. His brother's mouth open without a sound. The way Lein stood in front of Carath like someone who had just finished one small task before moving on to the next.And that "next task" was him.Bravan's legs moved before his mind had finished deciding.He turned toward the door, one long step, then two, propelled by his overwhelming desire not to remain in this room for a second longer than necessary, by the survival instinct that had existed for so long beneath all his calculations, strategies, and carefully trained way of speaking.The door was still open.The corridor outside was still empty.If he could reach the corridor, call for someone, create enough noise to draw attention from farther away, then there might still be something he could do to manage this situation.One more step.SRAK.His left leg was no longer beneath him.The momentum built from two full steps had nowhere to go when one of the two points anchoring him to
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No one moved for several seconds.Lein in the chair. Bravan in front of the still-open door. Carath beside him. The corpse on the threshold behind them.And within the silence that had formed between all of it, something was being measured from both directions, from the chair to the door and from the door to the chair, in a way that did not use words because words were not yet enough to capture everything that was there.Carath moved first.Not his feet. His jaw.The fear that had appeared on his face during the last three seconds, genuine fear that even the best mask he possessed could not completely conceal, was pulled back, locked away somewhere deeper, and what replaced it was not courage but something more akin to anger that had decided anger was more useful than fear at this moment."What the hell are you doing here, bastard?!"His voice came out in a way that the Second Prince of the Kingdom of Vaelthorn would never allow it to come out in front of anyone except inside a closed
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His expression had already changed before the door finished moving, shifting from an expression that revealed nothing into something that could not be completely concealed, even by someone as skilled at hiding almost everything as he was—the happiness of someone who had just seen the end of something long and arduous finally within his grasp.His right hand moved naturally, without any instruction from his mind, toward his waist.Making sure once again that the knife was still there.It was.“Come in quickly.” His voice was low, not a whisper, but far quieter than his usual volume. “Make sure no one sees you.”The Silent Reaper did not move.Bravan frowned.One second, two, and the silhouette before him was still standing in the same position, not turning around, not responding, in a manner unlike someone who had just finished carrying out a mission and returned to report its completion.“Damn it.” His voice dropped even lower, but something within it was different from the calmness t
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