Moonlight Ball - Chapter 115

The heat of the summer hunting tournament was becoming more heated as time passed by.

Cottage Restona was the palace of mirth. The place of blood and pleasure. The royals and the nobles were loose at the cottage. There was a masked ball every night and everyone danced with their mistresses and kissed them. They were all touchy. They didn’t even hide in the balcony. They were very open about it everywhere.

Then the King, a man who was tall and had a body like steel, was sitting with disgusted face on his face.

“Oh no, why do you look so sad again?”

Portwall, after enjoying himself for a while, asked while attaching himself to Sidrain’s shoulders. Sidrain was annoyed that he smelled lewd and he annoyingly put him away.

“Go away.”

“Go and enjoy yourself. You know how much the noble ladies like Sid.” Portwall whispered like the devil. But right now, he sounded more like a fly making noise rather than devil’s temptation to Sid. Sidrain growled with warning.

“Portwall.”

Portwall went around the long chair and sat beside Sidrain instead of getting lost. He bit long pipe and lit it up and put it on Sid’s mouth.

“Is the Queen still staying inside her room again?”

The Queen stayed in her room every night saying she was tired since they came to the cottage. Thanks to that, the King was staying alone this entire lewd mirth period. It might be better to fool around as he was being ignored, but he looked like a pet that lost its owner.

“She seems tired.”

Sidrain pushed Portwall’s pipe and responded. He heard that the wizards’ have sensitive nose. Since he never saw Iris biting a pipe, it was likely she was a non-smoker. Rosemary also was a non-smoker. It was a weird point that she did drugs but never smoked.

“What about? Even though she didn’t attend hunting nor parties?” asked Portwall.

“Who knows.”

Portwall glanced around and lowered his voice. “Is she planning something with the Magic Tower?”

“Pow, don’t say such thing.”

“But it’s weird that she’s been staying in the room ever since she got here. Restona is close to the Magic Tower, so maybe….”

That moment, Sidrain begged in spite of himself. It might better if it was that. If Iris was being swayed by Elaine Rosi of Magic Tower, who was using his stepdaughter and planning something…

Just commit treason, Iris Elaine!

That would be less hurtful to Sidrain. Much, much less than avoiding him because she was disappointed after sleeping with him! But…

“I also have couple spies at the Magic Tower, Pow.”

Portwall blew out smoke at Sidrain’s statement. Sidrain quietly continued.

“The Magic Tower is busy with something lately. The master of Magic Tower ordered something out of anger and they’re moving very secretively. I heard they’re planning something so secretive that the spies can’t figure out.”

“See. If he was thinking of bringing the palace from within,” Portwall began.

“For what?”

Sidrain asked and Portwall kept silence. The Magic Tower and the palace were always playing tug-of-war. The Magic Tower wanted the palace to move according to their will, but never wanted them to turnover. If the palace turned over, then the Magic Tower would also be in danger. The turnover in power always bring dangerous situation. The wizards are the one that like stability. They don’t gamble.

“And the relationship between Elaine and Iris is sour right now. Of course, she would do anything for Elaine but he doesn’t want to see her.”

Sidrain was sorry that he gave Iris more pain but he didn’t regret doing it. He wanted to become Iris’s one and only. To become that, he had to get rid of someone to reach that title. That was the way he learned.

Iris had that said he didn’t have to live like that in her arms, but she was ignoring him right now. If it’s not in her arms, there’s no kind world. His kind heart was like a weak sapling; the moment she doesn’t take care of it, it dies.

“Sid, there’s more that we gain from the princess of the Magic Tower becoming our Queen than losses, but this Princess isn’t good at living double life.” Portwall whispered, “This is a game she’s bound to be found out.”

“I know.”

Even though everyone thought it was weird, they were blaming the Haran’s river. It helped anyways, as the result was good, so everyone was turning blind eyes at such a bizarre situation. Still, everyone held suspicions.

Is this Queen really, that Rosemary?