The handsome black-haired young man walked to the balcony with his female companion, and the people next to him noticed it and cast a tacit look.

The man put his arm around his female companion's waist, lifted the curtain, and walked to the balcony, where there were no stars or moons in the night sky, and the black sky quietly watched everything on the ground.

Guards patrolled under the balcony, and a neat procession walked across the balcony.

The man rolled up his sleeves, and the woman took out the magic scroll and tore it open, and the invisible magic was cast on them. The man stepped on the railing of the balcony first, grabbed the decorative carvings of the exterior wall, and climbed up the wall, followed by the woman.

They avoid windows and enter a room with no lights. The room was dressed in the mansion's most ordinary lounge, with the man spinning the vase on the coffee table and the fireplace parting in the middle, revealing the staircase shrouded in darkness below.

The man pulled a dancing flame from the void and illuminated them ahead. They descended the stairs and followed the path they had explored earlier.

"We can hide things so well," the woman said, leaning down as five arrows flew over her head, the arrows shining coldly.

These are arrows that can ignore most defensive spells.

The woman looked at the heavy mechanism in front of her, and felt a headache for the first time in a long time.

"Something that kills your head if you accidentally find it, you can't hide it too tightly." The man bent down to dodge one arrow and jumped to the side, dodging the other three.

"I really hope this stuff will satisfy me, after all, this is something we've been tracking for so long." The woman dodged the arrow sideways, her hand tearing open a magic scroll, and the fire dragon roared and rushed in the direction from which the arrow came.

The men and women who speak are none other than [Wind Wanderer] and [Daily Baby].

……

In the basement illuminated by magic lamps, countless defensive magic and gravitational magic are embedded in the walls, ceilings, floors, and rooms surrounded by magic

The woman in a black robe, with brown hair tied into a ponytail, was dressed in an experimental outfit that made it easy to move, and her brown eyes were blazing, and she was bent over to stare at a strand of hair in front of her.

She took out a potion bottle, uncorked it, and the evil aura came to her face, and the woman with all kinds of protective magic did not change her face, and poured a drop down.

Before the drops touched the hair, the potion was directly evaporated by the invisible force around it.

"It's really powerful, so how about trying this." The woman beckoned, and a book made of leather flew in.

Boom –

The room's defensive magic lit up layer by layer, the center of the explosion, the smoke cleared, and there was chaos, but the woman in it was unscathed. She didn't care at all about the mess around her, her eyes lit up, and she looked at her hair suspended in mid-air, surrounded by a circle of light.

"What an amazing strength, excellent experiment!"

Antonia's eyes were filled with the frenzy of encountering the object she wanted, and she pulled a wand from the void and chanted a long incantation, the power of which turned into a powerful shield of protection.

"Let's see your limits!" She picked up her wand and aimed it at the hair in front of her.

……

Although April and Mary are roommates, their work content is still a little different.

Because of Mary's disappearance, her work has become much less, and now she spends most of her time taking care of her indoors with Nina.

After Aprili finished her own work, she took a break and joined the maids next to her to chat.

Mary was always at the center of the conversation, and this time was no different. But, as Aprili listened, a bad premonition came to her heart.

According to them, Mary cut out all the pink roses that were in bloom and distributed them one by one to the surrounding guards and maids.

"Everyone received her tweed."

How did Mary give away all the roses? That person, did she send it?

April felt that she was thinking too much, and she did not dare to deny her own conjectures. So, after finishing work, I took a special detour. Pass by the spot where their afternoon tea was held.

April saw the guard over there, the blonde-haired and blue-eyed guard, with a pink rose pinned to his chest.

April's heart screamed.

Mary, how dare you?

Back in the house, April saw Mary, who was humming and watering the flowers, with visible pleasure.

"I heard you gave the roses to someone else."

"Yes, I love the way flowers bloom and I hope others will reap the same joy as I do."

April knew that there were some things she couldn't say, not even if she wanted to, and she sighed silently.

Hopefully, you'll be able to figure out what the consequences of your decision will be.

April went back to her room, and there was the pink rose Mary had given her in the vase, and she looked at the rose in the vase, her eyes full of worry.

Later in the day, April went out again, and after thinking about it in the room for a while, she decided to vaguely warn the guard that there was no need to be so public.

April went to the place where she had afternoon tea with Mary, pretending to pass by unintentionally, and out of the corner of her eye, she swept to the guard, and the pink rose on the chest of the blonde and blue-eyed guard was gone.

Fortunately, knowing not to be so conspicuous, Aprile breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

However, the next time she passed by that place, she found that the guards were gone.

April's heart was shocked, and she hurried forward to inquire with the guards around her, and according to them, she was called home as if something was wrong.

Is it a coincidence?

April enlists the help of her group members and gets the exact news. I went home on a blind date. Then he got engaged quickly, and has resigned, and should never come to the palace again.

Or was it discovered......

After that, I heard that the guard and his fiancée traveled abroad together, and I don't know when they will return to the White Empire.

Aprili looked at Mary now, her eyes glazed over, as if nothing was interesting.

Mary sat on the sofa in the living room, as if she were in the middle of a funeral. It was lifeless.

She wanted to open her mouth but stopped talking, what position did she have to open her mouth?

The light in Mary's eyes vanished. She still smiled elegantly, and did her best to complete the work, still so quiet and elegant.

But Aprile knew everything had changed.

Mary no longer took care of the flowers, but let Nina leave them all behind.

She didn't make an appointment for afternoon tea, but hid in her room.

In the middle of the night, April saw Mary standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room, staring at the moonlight, her eyes dead silent.

She treats April like a friend, but that friend can't do anything for her.

Mary's love was destroyed, she collapsed in silence, her soul went to her lover with the wind, and only her shell was left to wander in the world.

Day by day. Mary accepted this fact, or did not accept it.

But she still has to live in this fucking world, but life goes on.

Duke Margaret did not let Mary go home, so she stayed in the palace and never went out again.

……

Claude walks on the stone path. April hadn't talked to him lately, and she seemed to really enjoy the job of a maid.

At this point, he stopped, and the place in front of him seemed to be the garden that April had spoken of.

Claude stood quietly for a moment, lifted his feet, and went in the direction of the little garden.

Go see where she likes.

Mary plucked a rose and discarded it on the ground. Countless rose corpses were scattered on the ground.

Someone came, and she rolled her eyes and looked up at the black-haired young man in the distance.

There is no one in the palace who does not know his appearance, and no one in the palace will mistake his appearance, it is the supreme master of this empire, the emperor of the day - Claude.

Mary was suddenly struck by a strange feeling, and she stared blankly at Claude, at her father by blood, at the people who were surrounded by everyone.

Nina also saw Claude coming, and she whispered, "Miss." ”

Mary came back to her senses, and at this moment, a decision formed in her mind.

She looked at Claude and shouted, "Father! ”

……

Antonia's research into the dark arts has yielded some results.

That book "The Secret Art of Witches" helped her a lot.

Before she entered the palace, April gave her the Witch's Secret and the few hairs she had gotten from Mary.

She was sure that the strange feeling in Mary's body was indeed dark magic, and it was in Mary's blood, because one of her blood parents was a dark magician.

There is no doubt that it is Lilith Margaret.

She is a witch, but the children born to witches normally do not have dark magic in their blood, and it can only be said that Mary's birth is most likely not a normal natural reproduction.

The Witch's Secret Art records how a man's blood and his own blood were used to create a child, but the child would collapse and die a few days later, becoming a useful ingredient for medicine.

But Mary has been living peacefully for so many years, and she is sixteen this year.

Antonia speculated that it might be because of the blood of the other party in her.

Through Mary's hair, Antonia determined her physical condition that black magic would indeed pollute the soul and destroy the body.

But there is a magical power in Claude's veins, which fights against dark magic and sustains Mary's body to the present.

The royal family of the White Day Empire is said to be the descendants of the gods, and looking at this powerful force that can fight against black magic, I am afraid that what is said is not false.

Antonia said that no one had been able to get the bloodline of the royal family to study before, that was basically fighting against the royal family, and the emperor's anger was not something that anyone could bear, so the power of the royal bloodline was unknown.

This time Antonia got Mary's hair, and after a study it found out that it was so miraculous, it was repairing Mary's body and reversing her early death.

All members of the royal family of the Empire possess a great talent for magic, but Mary has not yet shown that she understands magic.

Antonia also contacted her, and found that she really didn't know magic at all, and thought that she just hadn't awakened yet, hadn't waited for the day when she could magic, or was just an exception in the royal family.

Now that she knows, the power of the bloodline can be used against her other bloodline, and it is good that she can live safely, so don't think about cultivating magic.

However, Antonia finally tells April that even so, according to her research, Mary's body is almost at its limit, and she is likely to die without the help of others to remove the dark magic from her body.

It's only a year at most.

April has mixed feelings, does Duke Margaret know about this? Does he know about Mary's physical condition? Does the Duke know that she is going to die in a year?

Can the royal family fix this? If he could, that might be the reason he had Mary present at the palace now.

But why not tell the emperor directly who she is, or has she already said it?

A bunch of questions piled up in April's mind.

She wanted to try to knock Mary on the side, did Mary know her physical condition?

But somehow why Mary disappeared, April asked the squires around her, and they all said she couldn't figure out where she had gone.

But Nina also disappeared, did they go back to the Duke's Palace?

April wondered, Anna came looking for her, why?

Aprili was surprised and followed Anna away.

"It's been a long time since you've been back, I miss you so much, everyone misses you so much." Anna replied to her.

"Is that so?"

Is it because of this that Anna came to me?

Looking at Anna's loving gaze, I didn't know what to say.

"There's also news, forgive me for taking matters into account, I think maybe you should want to know about it."

"What's the matter?"

"His Majesty the Emperor let a girl live in the Sofia Palace, and told the people in the palace to take care of her and serve her like the master of the palace."

"What?! Who is that girl? April had a bad feeling in her heart.

"According to the squire's description, it was most likely Miss Mary Margaret."

"What?!" April exclaimed in surprise.

April immediately wanted to ask the Emperor, but thought of what Anna had said, "I make my own decisions."

"Doesn't Daddy know you're coming, Anna?"

"I have obtained permission from Your Majesty to talk to you about whether the palace wants to buy new bouquets, and the Floral Research Institute has cultivated new flowers."

“…… I understand. Aprile closed her eyes.

"Is Mary in Sophia Palace now?"

"Yes." Anna glanced at her.

"What's the matter—" April's flash of inspiration dawned on her, "Daddy is with Mary now, isn't he?" ”

Without Anna opening her mouth, she already understood everything from her expression.

……

Duke Margaret's house, where the Duke paced back and forth in his study. Mary has not responded in the palace for a few days, and his tentacles can't reach too deep in the palace, so he can only hope that Mary hasn't done anything wrong. She's got into enough trouble.

What a disobedient thing.

The little Duke Margaret stopped outside the study, not knowing whether to go in or not, he knew that the Duke had been troubled by Mary's affairs, and he missed Mary too.

The first time he saw Mary, he knew she was the only love of his life.

But she is the adopted daughter of the duke, he is the duke's son, and they can't be together, so he has been silently guarding.

Until the banquet, Mary and Arthur looked at each other.

When the Duke broke them up, at that time, his heart was actually secretly happy.

But he still wants Mary to be happy.

So when Mary wondered why they couldn't be together, he almost told Mary everything.

Because you are the child of the emperor, with the blood of the Margaret family and the daytime royal family, you are one of the powerful and important people in the family.

He had sent several letters to the palace, but had not yet received a reply from Mary.

Mary, are you okay? He looked out the window at the sky, hoping nothing would happen.