Chapter 016: Threat
The night Esther had been waiting for had arrived. In order to give her small gift to King Lucius II, she had to prepare a few things in advance so that her surprise plan went smoothly. She immediately put on a white dress that was not too fluffy, so it was easier for her to move. After finishing dressing, Esther immediately took a glass bottle neatly tucked away in a small box that she had deliberately placed under her bed. The glass bottle filled with the green potion was immediately drunk in one gulp.
A few minutes later, the reaction of the potion started to work. Esther's originally dark brown hair slowly turned silver, her original hair color. She looked at his reflection in the mirror on the dressing table while admiring himself.
"I'm beautiful," she said confidently.
Having had enough, she took the small dagger she had asked Helena to prepare. She opened the sheath of the dagger and checked how sharp it was with her index finger. It turned out that the dagger was very blunt, so dull Esther's index finger didn't bleed at all when it was stabbed gently with the tip of the dagger.
Esther decided to leave her room while carrying her small dagger. The palace is now very quiet. There are two reasons for the quietness of the palace, namely the first, the workers who originally worked in the palace decided to stop working so that only Anne and Helena were left, who were indeed the ladies-in-waiting she brought himself. It seems that this was because of that bastard Averia. The second reason was that Helena, Anne, and Arthur had fallen asleep in their respective dreams.
Esther continued to walk towards the private kitchen of her palace to take the whetstone there. She remembered the last time he had kept her whetstone there. When there were three more steps to reach the kitchen, Esther's ears heard the sound of footsteps not far from where she was.
Step… Step… Step...
Esther immediately looked back with a dagger ready to kill the owner of the footsteps. Esther thought the footsteps belonged to an assassin who Averia asked to kill herself or maybe Arthur's real target. Of course, she would never let such a bad thing happen.
When she waited for about a few minutes, the owner of the footsteps also appeared. Turns out it was just Arthur who was feeling thirsty and wanted to get some water in the kitchen. Esther quickly lowered her dagger.
It seems that the current situation is more difficult. Arthur stood frozen looking Esther up and down. He did not recognize Esther with her true form, which only differed in hair color from her usual appearance. Esther had already guessed that Arthur would scream any minute. In order to prevent a commotion that was about to occur, Esther immediately shot magic at Arthur so that the child suddenly fell and fell on the floor.
Esther breathed a sigh of relief. She immediately approached Arthur and carried the child to Arthur's own room. After laying Arthur on the bed, Esther immediately returned to the kitchen.
Finally, she found what she wanted. She immediately sharpened her small dagger with a whetstone. After feeling the dagger was sharp, Esther immediately put the dagger back into the black scabbard.
She started his teleportation magic on the balcony of King Lucius II's work space. At only takes a few seconds to get to where it wants to be. From the balcony, Esther could see King Lucius II, who was still busy struggling with his pile of documents. Esther tried to walk towards Lucius II slowly so as not to make any sound.
When Esther got right behind King Lucius II, she took her small dagger out of the sheath slowly and then aimed the dagger straight at Lucius II's neck. Esther deliberately lightly scratched King Lucius II's neck with the very sharp tip of her dagger. The surprised King Lucius II automatically looked behind him and found Esther smirking at him. Fresh red blood oozed from the scratches Esther had on King Lucius II's neck.
King Lucius II groaned in pain, so the doormen outside began to get worried and asked how he was without opening his work space door first.
"What has happened to you, Your Majesty?" asked a guard knight in charge of guarding the door to Lucius II's study.
"It does not matter. I am okay here. I'm just a little surprised," replied King Lucius II from inside his room.
The guard knights returned to their original place and continued their duty to keep watch there.
"What are you doing now, Esther? Are you crazy?" asked King Lucius II, who looked angry because he had absolutely no idea of his mistake, but his life was almost in danger of being lost just now.
"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" replied Esther, who answered King Lucius II's question with another question.
"What do you mean? Can you say it directly and clearly? I really don't understand," said King Lucius II, who was already frowning.
Esther casually sat on the king's desk with her legs facing the King who was sitting in his chair. "You know what that Fucking queen of yours did?"
"What did Averia do? I think she has carried out her duties as queen very well as long as she has succeeded Caroline," replied King Lucius II who stopped all his activities and focused on Esther.
Esther burst out laughing when she got an answer that didn't make much sense to her. "I became very curious. Exactly what kind of magic did that bitch use to shut your mind off?"
King Lucius II raised his right eyebrow and looked confused. "What do you mean?"
"Your Majesty the venerable King Lucius II," shouted Esther suddenly.
"Dousing an ignorant concubine with hot tea, poisoning a concubine on purpose, forbidding a single teacher from teaching the crown prince in preparation for becoming a future king and bribing the crown prince's sword master to teach the crown prince things that are not Importantly, reducing the palace budget of a concubine who had nothing wrong with her, even to the point of reducing the food ration in a concubine's palace to one serving a day. Do you think that bitch is still doing a very good job?" Esther added.
King Lucius II was instantly rendered speechless upon hearing Esther's lengthy report."Is that really what Averia does?"
"Do you think I lied? If I lie is there any particular benefit to me?" Esther replied indignantly.
King Lucius II looked shocked and was almost speechless. "Gosh, I never expected him to do something like that!"
Esther rolled her eyes lazily and replied, "Of course. You only know how to finish these piled up documents and have sex with women with the excuse of multiplying offspring so that this Kingdom will be more successful in the future. What an absurd ideology!"
"Later I will find the best teachers for Arthur and punish Averia severely," said King Lucius II.
Esther got down from King Lucius II's desk and walked over to the balcony. "I didn't expect you to do that. Arthur's education matters, I will take care of it and as for the bitch's business, it's up to you, I don't care. All I want is Don't disturb me, my people, and Arthur. Besides, return my palace budget to how it was."
Before Esther left Lucius II's study, the woman turned to Lucius II with the bloodied dagger she was holding right next to her face. "If you don't grant my little wish, I'll make sure the King of the Nightingale Kingdom is Arthur. See you my dear brother."
Esther immediately jumped from the balcony of Lucius II's study, leaving Lucius II still in shock at her threat. It was a very beautiful night for Esther. For a very long time, she had held back this anger that could finally be vented on the person who was the cause of all her troubles while in the Nightingale Kingdom.