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For a moment, it felt as though cold water had been poured over my head. His purple gaze carefully scanned our pale faces, one by one, and then it stopped at Lethias's wide-open eyes. "First of all, I asked them to take all the necessary measures, so we'll have to wait and see, but I think you should prepare yourself mentally, just in case." What on earth is he saying with such a serious tone? Hey, male lead, what are you talking about? Prepare ourselves mentally! Our Estelle just has pneumonia! Yet, in some ways, it might have been an inevitable outcome. Estelle has always been frail. Besides, given our confined life in that cramped and poorly ventilated space, along with her prolonged illness in such a poor environment and a nutritionally deficient diet, this situation was likely to happen. Perhaps unconsciously, I might have sensed it already. I might have been trying hard to deny it, frequently reassuring myself that it was just a symptom of a cold. Still, even so...

 𝕍𝕠𝕝𝕦𝕞𝕖 𝟞: 𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 ℝ𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕨 The knights who discovered us that day led us secretly and unnoticed to the Imperial palace. The chapel with the bell tower was situated far away from the main house, and since it was April Fool's Day, the guests at the banquet wouldn't have suspected what had actually transpired while they were occupied with their festivities. I learned the details later from Lethias and Benya, and the circumstances leading up to this were roughly as follows: As far as I recall, it was known to the world that the Serpente siblings were studying abroad at the Royal Academy in Fzeia. They were well-known children of the Serpente family within the Empire. Additionally, the mystery surrounding the reason why some nobles had left to study in the same place we had fled to during the Great Plague two years ago was now unraveled. The cause of this curiosity was Assad di Romena de Avalonia, the Emperor's eldest son and the Crown Prince of the E...