End War

Chapter 15 : Tragedies Part II

Several days had passed since the intruder's attack. The King was still unconscious. Queen Alice and Princess Jeanne was looked after the King. Prince Julian replaced his father in managing royal affairs while Prince Johan was investigating the perpetrator behind the incident.

Prince Johan was in his room with some nobles. The nobles sat facing each other.  Prince Johan stood up near a window, leaving his chair empty. A guardman was knocking the door and asking permission to enter the room.

"Get in", Prince Johan said.

The guardman entered the room while pushing a wheeled bed. There was a black cloth covering the object on the mattress that seemed like a human body. The guardman pushed it until the bed was in the center of the nobles and lifted a half part of the black cloth. They could see the body of a man from head to chest. His eyes bulged and its color was fade. His mouth wide opened as if he had vomited something. His hair was dark brown.

"This was one of the intruder that tried to assassinate the King. He was killed by Our Highness using His Gift. Our King used the iron pillars in His room to stab him", Prince Johan told who the body was while approaching it.

"There are two big possibilities, either the Exovians did it to eliminate their big threats or our traitors did it to provoke us to start a big war", Prince Johan explain his assumptions.

"Which one have the bigger possibility, Prince?" One of the noble asked him.

"Good question. I wasn't sure until I found this", Prince Johan gave the guard signal to bring in a thing. The guard bring a bucket of water. It was full of foam so it must be soap water.

Prince Johan took the bucket and he pour all the water inside to the corpse's head. The brown hair of the corpses was fade slowly. It turned into light yellow. Suddenly the whole nobles inside the room were surprised.

"This convinced me that the culprit was our traitors", the Prince was sure that it was the Ivra's nobles done because all the nobles had yellow hair showing their royal blood.

"I gather you, the nobles who I trust, to tell me who are the names that have the possibility to be the mastermind of the assasination attempt. I've tried to identify the corpses but they weren't nobles from the capital city. They were from the border, just like Eugene who tried to kidnap my beloved sister."

The room fulled with silence. The nobles tried to think some names but they were clueless. But, one of the nobles seemed agitated. He looked quite old. He dropped some sweats even the room was cold.

"Do you know something, Mr. Eon?" The Prince asked him but he remained silent.

"I asked you, Mr. Eon!"

"I...I'm afraid I can't tell this, my Prince", he answered nervously. His gaze looked down.

"Is it the right time for yo to be hesitant?" Prince Johan keep asked him.

"I...I...I'm afraid my family is o-on danger if this rumour is spread between....between the nobles in the castle, f-forgive me my Prince", Mr. Eon stammered.

"You seem suspicious, Mr. Eon. Do you want me to sign you as a traitor? In the name of The King, My Father, I order you to tell me what you know, Mr Eon!", The Prince was sounded firm. It didn't like the usual when he became so soft with his family. He became aggresive when something dangered his family.

"F-forgive me, my Prince. Before moving here, I was responsible in a small city as its lord. There I heard rumors that...th-that....Prince Julian was one of the group of royal traitor"

"Whattt!!!", the whole nobles were surprised by Mr. Eon's statement.

"....I see...Actually I think that my brother becomes more aggressive when talking about the throne with father lately. But, I've never thought that he would done this far to become the successor of the throne", Prince Johan digested the unexpected information slowly.