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the point.
You personally admitted that the poison belonged to you.”

“How am I obscuring the point by pointing out the vagueness of the investigation?”

Aristine asked calmly and the Queen’s eyes trembled in return.

She really wanted to order them to drag this arrogant thing to her knees immediately.

Right now, it was if the queen was being interrogated, rather than Aristine.

At that moment, Hamill, who had been watching quietly, stepped forward.

“It’s not that a verification was not done.
A witness appeared, who said that the item belonged to the Princess Consort.”

It was only then that Aristine’s gaze fell on Hamill.

When those purple eyes that had been ignoring him turned towards him, Hamill felt like his parched lips were drenched with cold and sweet spring water.

“A witness?” Aristine questioned.

The queen’s face revitalized.

She proudly opened her mouth while inwardly praising her clever son, “Indeed, there is a witness.”

At those words, Aristine’s gaze turned back to the queen, and Hamill felt a greater thirst than before.

He felt anxious seeing Aristine’s expression, like she didn’t care about him in the slightest.

“Lady Dionna.”

“Yes, yes?”

Dionna, who had been silently watching the situation, replied to the Queen’s call with a start.

Feeling countless gazes fall on her, she reluctantly stepped forward.
She never planned to draw attention to herself in this situation.

After all, she was famous for yearning after Tarkan for a long time, so there might be gossip about her ratting out the princess.

“Dionna is the witness?”

Hearing a voice as sharp as a blade, Dionna’s breath caught in her chest.

Tarkan was glaring at her.

No, the look in his eyes couldn’t just be described as a glare.

Even the icecaps of the Icethorn Mountains which were said to have never melted would not be colder than this.

A fiery anger was sealed within his cold eyes that seemed to freeze everything in its reach.

‘How, how could you look at me, Dionna, like that…!’

Was Aristine that precious?

A normal person would have collapsed with shivers the moment they received such a gaze.

However, the anger, betrayal, bitterness, and sorrow made Dionna withstand it.

“Tarkan, are you intimidating the witness?”

“What intimidation.
I merely asked,” Tarkan replied with a chuckle.

The Queen’s eyelids fluttered at his lax attitude.

But she didn’t question Tarkan any further and turned to Dionna.

“Lady Dionna, did you not testify to me that the Princess Consort had poison?”

At the queen’s words, Dionna lowered her head.

She wanted to feign ignorance but after biting her lips, she raised her head.

She couldn’t back down like this.

She was going to make Tarkan regret causing her so much pain.

“Yes, Your Majesty.
I definitely said that.”

The queen turned to Aristine with a look that said, ‘See?’

Since a witness had appeared, it invalidated Aristine’s claim that the Queen didn’t verify anything.

However.

‘She’s smiling?’

Aristine was smiling.
And it was a very satisfied smile at that.

But in the next second, her smile disappeared like a mirage.

‘What was that?’

Although Aristine’s face was expressionless now, as if a smile was never there, the Queen found it hard to believe that she saw wrong.