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The next day, something unbelievable happened!

Elbert Clegghorn, the emperor of the San Lorenzo Empire and perhaps the last emperor of the empire, is dead!

His body was found in a separate room adjacent to Charlotte at around nine o'clock the next day, and when found, his body was sitting in a chair with an unfinished glass of red wine on the table. Sitting on the chair, he folded his hands on his abdomen, and although his head was bowed, he looked full of the necessary demeanor and majesty to be a king.

His death was so ceremonial that when the servants invited him to the dining room, they thought that the emperor of the San Lorenzo Empire was resting in his chair with his head bowed.

Mrs. Rebecca went back and forth last night, constantly thinking about how to get Charlotte married as soon as possible, but just after the plan was sorted out, she received the news of Elbert's death!

After hearing the news, Rebecca went limp and almost fainted to the ground. No matter how downtrodden Elbert is, he is also the emperor of the San Lorenzo Empire, and now that he is dead in the territory of Erossa, it is conceivable how much attack Lawrence will suffer.

But she was worthy of being the mistress of the Duchy whom even Lawrence had to concede a few points, and she immediately realized how much the news would affect the war at the front, so she immediately ordered that it be kept secret, and that anyone who dared to reveal the news would be killed.

She even told Evan to take good care of Cynthia, and secretly ordered the royal shadow guards to keep an eye on Cynthia, never allowing her to take half a step out of the manor and not allow her to come into contact with any strangers. Mrs. Rebecca's resoluteness and prudence are evident in this.

Preliminary reports soon came out, and the cause of Elbert's death was poisoning, and the analysis pointed out that the poison was in the unfinished glass of red wine. In other words, it was someone who poisoned Elbert's red wine that led to the emperor's death.

Rebecca ordered the scene to be cordoned off, and Cynthia was unable to touch her brother's body due to the need to cooperate with the investigation.

Cynthia stood outside the room and looked at Albert as if she were asleep, silently looking at her brother's corpse and weeping bitterly. Tears rolled down her cheeks, her eyes were red, her face was unnaturally rosy, but her lips were unusually pale.

In the cold wind, she wore a fur cloak, and looked like a silhouette drawn in a sketch, very thin! But even so, she gave people the feeling of weakness and strength, Charlotte noticed that she did not throw herself into Aivan's arms and weep like an ordinary woman, but wept silently, while Aiwen looked at her silently, quietly by her side.

Charlotte was also very sad and even blamed herself!

He should have thought about the dangers facing Elbert, but the confusion of recent days, and the inevitable relaxation of his vigilance after entering Erossa's territory, had made him ignore the threat from within. So much so that when Elbert's death came, he simply didn't have time to stop it.

He lowered his head, his crimson eyes glittering with the same sparkle. This is the first time he has faced the death of his companion, and it is death in the true sense of the word!

After Elbert's death broke, he approached Evan and asked him to reset the plane, but Evan regretfully told him that he had returned the Eye of Time to Abraham on the night he left the Locente camp alone. In other words, no one can save Elbert now!

Charlotte clenched her fists and watched as the criminal investigation officer trembled and questioned everyone involved. The shrewd-looking man wiped the sweat from his forehead from time to time, and none of the people present could afford to provoke him, which brought great difficulty to his criminal investigation.

He had just finished questioning the cold-faced Neham, and hurriedly ended his inquiry with the more taciturn Claire, and finally wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief on a cold day, and came to Charlotte with a smile.

"Please, pardon, Count, I must ask you some simple questions. ”

"You say. Charlotte's voice was sad, "I must have said everything." ”

"Your Majesty and you are not far away, did you hear any unusual noise last night?"

"No!" said Charlotte, shaking her head, "I stayed in my mother's room until the early hours of the morning last night, and when I came back, I fell asleep and did not hear anything unusual. As for psychic probing, it is impossible for me to detect the movement in His Majesty's room. ”

"About 1:40 a.m. to be exact. Rebecca added, "Charlotte stayed in my room until that time. ”

The interrogator immediately stopped the conversation, realizing that Mrs. Rebecca was already a little unhappy with his questioning. So he nodded pretendly, and by the way, he cleared Charlotte's suspicions, "That is, it happened before 1:40 in the morning, well! ”

"How, Torturer, do you have any clues?" asked Lady Rebecca, her eyes very stern, "I want you to question everyone carefully and harshly, and I will not shield anyone, even if it is my maid who has served me for many years!

"Yes, obey!

"Lady Ferrard, do you have no problem with my transgression?"

At Lady Rebecca's side, the blonde lady was Cecilia's mother, and at such a critical time, of course, she did not dare to have any opinion.

"But by the orders of Her Highness Rebecca!"

Hearing Mrs. Rebecca's command, Neam silently clenched his fists, but Claire grabbed her wrist.

Neam looked at Claire, who shook his head quietly. Neam's forehead was bruised, and it wasn't until Claire snorted Charlotte that the former reluctantly let go of his hand.

Why is he like this?

For Madame Rebecca's tone, though unprecedentedly harsh, used her words to guide the interrogator's follow-up! What she was saying was that she would not spare everyone, even the maids who had served her for many years! In other words, she was asking the interrogator not to pester too much with the nobles present.

With just a few words, she made Charlotte, Claire, Neham, Madame Ferrard, Cynthia, and Evan transcendent. In the eyes of ordinary people, this is normal, because it is indeed impossible to become murderers with the status of these people, but in the eyes of discerning people, such an order has fatal mistakes.

The problem is simple, there are two possible sources of poisoned wine, in addition to the first coming out of the back kitchen, and the other is that someone handed the wine to Elbert.

The question then becomes, who has the ability to make Elbert willingly drink a cup of poisoned wine, or rather, to make him drink it without doubt?

Unless that person is an acquaintance of Elbert!

After a simple criminal investigation, people left the scene of the death in turn. Charlotte whispered to Cynthia, and he looked at the girl in front of him who was about to become his sister-in-law, her weak but strong figure was so heart-wrenching.

"Take good care of her!" Charlotte said to Aven.

At this time, he suddenly realized that the problem! What if the poisoned wine was not supplied in the back kitchen?!

"Stay with her. I've never said that, but I know that your mother's favorite child is you. You've been away a lot over the years, so stay with her tonight. ”

"Sorry, remember what I said last night, the reason why I left the support barracks suddenly. I went to the Eye of Time headquarters and gave the Eye of Time to Abraham. ”

"Aven......" Charlotte's eyes widened.

"What's wrong?" replied in a dull voice.

"......" Charlotte looked at Cynthia, then at Elbert's body, and finally at Evan with a furrowed brow and a sullen expression in front of him.

"Nothing......" he said, and hurried out of the house.

He felt Elbert's ghost looking at his back sadly in the air, like a thorn in his back!

As if to say, we are not only lions, but also sheep in the eyes of others!