I Have No Intention Of Training The Male Leads - Chapter 7 Part 2

07. Hunting Competition Begins (2)

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As far as the blue-blooded nobility was concerned, Eve was nothing more than a hybrid, and the result of Rosaline Vermell’s unholy union with a commoner.

What’s more, a spunky young woman who grew up in an orphanage, mingling with commoners, and lacking any semblance of nobility was just fodder for the chopping block.

In the original story, Eve somehow managed to make her debut during a banquet with a Young Countess and Alberic.

She was dressed to the bare minimum.

Unsurprisingly, she is scorned and laughed at by some of the nobles at the banquet, who looked down on her.

Scarred by the sword of these unseen enemies, Eve was appalled by the malice of the strangers and fought back against them.

Eve was undaunted, she then lashed out at the young countess, who insulted her in a low-grade manner by pointing out her dresses and accessories.

So they argued, until the crown prince finally intervened to mediate the situation.

That was when she finally met him for the first time.

The people of the Vermell family didn’t care about her, they found her to be unworthy of their dignity.

However, she is undaunted by their ostracization and stands up to them in a dignified manner.

The Crown Prince finds it refreshing to see such a lonely, and sweet Eve who never cries or grieves, even when everyone is against her, that he begins to care for her.

This was the beginning of the Crown Prince’s route.

‘If I simply ignore that Young Countess’ insults, I might feel a little dirty, but at least I can avoid the Crown Prince route. ‘

If it was an inevitable dinner party, she might as well go, and smash the whole thing to smithereens.

‘Now that I think about it, it’s quite odd that a brawl between noblewomen would be casually interjected by a man with a rank like the crown prince. Of course, I understand that the crown prince’s public image is that of a gentle, kindly saint-like brother, but isn’t that a bit of a stretch?’

‘It’s not like there aren’t any princesses around, and it’s a bit hard to believe that a man would get involved in a brawl with a bunch of girls.’

‘Or Is it because of the setting that his relationship with the current emperor is completely estranged?’

Britannia’s current emperor, Frederick III, was not born the crown prince.

He was the third of the former emperor’s five sons.

He was an unambitious young man who dreamed of inheriting the title of a Grand Duke and living off the modest imperial allowance.

But he had a lover, a viscountess, and an imperial maid, whom he met in secret.

They exchanged rings, and planned to have a small ceremony on the day the crown prince finally inherits the throne and the remaining princes would be granted the title of grand dukes and be driven out of the palace.

The couple spent every spare moment holding each other’s hands, mimicking their future wedding vows, and making plans to travel abroad by ship.

They were happy, dreaming of a future together, until Emperor George IV took an interest in Hestia Clepe, the prince’s lover.

No one knows the details, only that a man whose father had stolen the love of his life from him, swallowed back tears of blood and vowed revenge.

Despite all the odds against him, he actually succeeded.

In fact, His revenge was so perfect, that no one ever dared to speak of it again.

Those who had served in the palace for a long time referred to it as the Night of the Massacre.

That night, the word ‘Carnage‘ was used to describe the blood that flowed throughout the Imperial family and the Imperial Palace.

It was a frighteningly precise and swift rebellion.

Frederick III drank the blood of his brothers and father, and raised their blood-stained coffins to his own head.

That is how Frederick III, the Emperor of the Fallen was crowned.

There was only one person who survived the scene of that senseless slaughter, and it was the youngest brother left behind by the woman he loved so much.

This is the reason why the relationship between the Grand duke and the Crown Prince was quite delicate.

The emperor wasn’t overly fond of the Grand duke, but he was more tolerant towards him, than to the crown prince.

In the end, the true ending revealed this,

The former emperor, who wielded unlimited power, used the marriages of his sons as stepping stones to his own power.

Through a shady arrangement with the Marquis de Casta, a warlord nobleman with powerful military connections, the crooked father pushed the now Empress, Charlotte de Casta, into a marriage with Frederick III.

The marriage led Frederick III to firmly believe that she and his father had harmed his lover.

But the Marquis de Casta and his daughter were more ambitious than George IV could have ever imagined.

The Young Marchioness Charlotte was not satisfied with just the position of a Prince’s wife and later, the Grand Duchess.

So Eventually, the young Charlotte and her family cut ties with the former emperor and formed an agreement with Frederick III to assist him in his rebellion.

The terms of the agreement were that she would become empress and her child would be crowned the crown prince.

The Marquis de Casta, who had a powerful army, was unable to give up on the Empress, and just hated her bitterly.

Empress Charlotte, after ascending the throne, did not blink an eye at her father’s attitude toward her, and continued to find a way to conceive by any means necessary.

The story of how Frederick III had a sudden fit and tried to cut off the life of his own child is a tale that no courtier working in the imperial palace at the time could have predicted.

For him, the Empress was guilty of threatening him, and his firstborn son was the product of that sin.

Rumors of the emperor’s attempt to strangle the newborn prince also circulated in the palace.

Afterwards, Frederick III took his late lover’s sister into his palace, and she bore him a son and a daughter.

And for a long time Elizabeth, became the only woman, who kept him company.

For a concubine, the emperor’s favors meant power.

With the Emperor at her back, Elizabeth soon began to create her own faction within the imperial palace.

Empress Charlotte was unperturbed by the Emperor’s cold treatment towards her, proven by the fact that she still stood by his side in public.

Charlotte did not love the Emperor in the first place.

All that mattered to her was that he would bring her glory, and that he was the only one of the Emperor’s children who had the right to wear the crown and sceptre.

But things began to turn sour little by little after her sudden mysterious death.

Despite his position as the eldest son with legitimate rights, no one was optimistic.

They don’t know whether he can really ascend the throne.

That’s because of the mad emperor and the powerful woman behind him.

No wonder the position of the crown princess is still empty.

It was possible because Elizabeth was afraid that the crown prince marrying a crown princess could reverse the situation.

The nobles didn’t want to be caught up in the dispute, so they stood on the sidelines, while the crown prince had no interest in marrying anyways.

‘But the emperor didn’t like the second son he saw from Elizabeth very much either. It must have been because Reynold, the 2nd Prince, can’t compare with an outsider.’

‘Rather, he was more in favor with the Grand Duke and his youngest daughter Amelia who looked like Hestia. That’s probably why Amelia was able to rise to the throne even though she was a woman. How could a woman come out of this poor sexist country, and rule over it, without the strong backing of the emperor?’

If she wanted to stand in line, she had to choose the side of Empress Amelia.

Eve walked through the rooms the servant had shown her, then stopped in front of the parlor and buried herself in the overstuffed couch.

She then tried to sort out her complicated thoughts.

‘No one pays attention to Amelia now. Even if she was the Emperor’s favorite child, people would completely rule her out of the running for the succession just because she’s a woman.’

‘That’s why while the crown prince and the second crown prince are busy biting and tearing at each other’s throats and getting their asses handed to each other.’

‘This is why, Alberic, you stupid idiot, you’re definitely one of the first people in line for a beheading.’

Eve made a pained, grunting sound, and then, after a long time of collecting her thoughts, she stood up from the couch in the parlor and made her way into the bedroom that connected to the guest room.

She wanted to change and bathe first.

Eve had no desire to get involved in the power struggles of the high and mighty.

To those in power, people like her were nothing more than tools, completely dispensable.

Once the hunt was over, the hounds were the first ones to be eaten.

A sneer crossed Eve’s face immediately.

‘Politics, power struggles, that sort of thing. It’s None of my business. I’d rather pay Octavia a visit.’

“Well, miss.”

“Uhhh what?”

“I’m sorry. It’s just… It’s just that I’m wondering how I can help you change…”

“No, no, no. The clothes are, uh, well. I’ll take it off myself.”

Eve was completely lost in thought, that she had forgotten that there are still maids waiting in the room, and the maid’s face flushed with embarrassment as she realized that Eve was startled out of her thoughts by her sudden voice.

She recognized the maid to be Anna, who had served Eve at the manor the year before.

“Oh, it’s Anna, isn’t it?”

“Yes, miss.”

“And this one?”

“Hello, miss. I’m Mary.”

“Nice to meet you, Mary. And Anna, how nice to see you after all these years!”

“Yes. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you miss, and somehow you seemed taller.”

“Haha. I guess I’m still growing. How’s Anna doing?”

“Well, Okay.”

“Well, that girl you used to work with.. Maria! How’s she doing?”

“Oh. That’s…”

Anna’s complexion suddenly darkened as she smiled gently at Eve’s concern for her maid’s well-being.

Mary’s complexion was not good either.

Anna, who had been hesitating for a long time, finally confessed the situation after much consideration.

“She just disappeared?”

“Yes. The head maid was very puzzled as well, she’s not that type of person so…”

“And she didn’t do anything in particular before she disappeared?”

“There was no foreshadowing. It was a day off for Maria and the other servants, so they all said they were going to go to the workshop street east of the river and went out… Maria didn’t come back with them, so I wondered if something bad had happened to her…”

“Did you call the Bureau of Investigation?”

“I did but…”

After seeing Anna’s complexion grow worse and worse, Eve realized how things were going.

There was no way they would take the disappearance of a young commoner seriously, even if she was the maid of a noble family.

‘Bastards…’

Eve was muttering softly, then patted Anna on the back who still looked worried.

“I’ll try to find out what’s going on. Don’t worry too much. It’s probably nothing.”

“Yeah… Ugh, look at me… Miss, you need to wash up, right? I’ll get the bath ready.”

“Uh-huh, okay. Mary, can you get me a change of clothes?”

“Yes, Miss!”

Once the two paced out of sight, Eve slid her ass across the edge of the bed again.

‘I don’t know about this incident.’

?For Eve? only covered events that happened around Eve and the boys.

But she couldn’t just pretend that she hadn’t heard about it.

Eve knew what it was like to be a powerless, backward girl.

To be marginalized and excluded simply because you were born that way was incredibly frustrating.

Eve couldn’t stand by and watch.

She knew she wasn’t a good person, but she didn’t want to be one of those people who turned a blind eye when they could afford to help.

After deciding that she needed to get to Octavia as soon as possible, Eve finally stood up after hearing Anna’s call that her bath was ready.

As she stepped into the bathroom and stripped down to a raggedy shirt and pants, Eve saw the hesitant look of Anna, and chuckled lightly.

She waved her outside, and slipped into the hot water.

As her body relaxed, sleep gradually poured over her.

She fought to keep her eyes open, but eventually they slid shut.

Only after Anna, who was worried about the young lady who hadn’t emerged from the bathroom after a long time, stormed inside the bathroom did Eve finally come out, after being roused up.

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