This BL Novel Is Ruined Now - Chapter 239

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Chapter 239

Translator: Yonnee

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The potentially savage ‘dogs and pigs’ comment. In the end, Reina averted her gaze.

‘Conversation is futile.’

Any attempt at further persuasion here would likely just lead to a wasteful contest of insisting one’s values were correct over the other.

Reina closed her eyes as if to refuse any further dialogue. Grace, too, ceased her discussion with her.

“Now that you’ve disappeared, Resa will surely fizzle out. Stay here until that organization collapses.”

It was a somewhat flimsy plan, but it demonstrated a penetrating insight into the essence of ‘Resa’.

‘Most of the schematics in the Rosénia technological records… they can’t be realized without me.’

It was like throwing the sentence ‘the bursting flavor and the refreshing relief that comes with a tingling throat,’ to those who have never tasted a carbonated drink, and asking them to produce one.

‘But…’

Fortunately, it seemed that Grace was aware of only ‘Resa’s’ existence.

That would be because the information shared with the Tusa clan was only of Reina and Lehman’s existence. Support from the imperial family was… at best, superficial backing just to avoid losing it to the Utta temple, maybe?

‘Thread follows the needle, and the needle follows the thread… Ethan might be guessing…’

Unbeknownst to Reina, however, the two members of the imperial family had fully joined the reform, and even Duke Carter was deeply involved.

‘Then now I just need to get out of here safe and sound.’

As she reached this conclusion, Grace silently left the room.

Reina opened her eyes and surveyed the mirror across from her.

‘Is there something acting as a surveillance camera?’

At present, there were neither such devices nor magical tools.

But that didn’t seem to apply to eavesdropping devices.

However, considering that the conversation with Paul had been conveyed in its entirety, Grace must have implanted something akin to a wiretap on him.

‘So that’s why he was so bruised….’

As she recalled the state of Paul’s body when he had visited the Palace of the Thirteenth Moon, her heart surged.

”What exactly was done to him that made him like this…”

Her heart, quiet during her conversation with Grace, suddenly began to boil with emotion.

“Huu…”

Taking a deep breath, Reina once again carefully scanned the room. She needed to escape from here first if she was to hold Grace accountable.

“A cellar?”

Judging by the musty smell and the mold in the corners, it was clearly a cellar, yet the light illuminating the room shone without a shadow.

‘There seems to be no surveillance equipment planted here.’

Originally, she wasn’t shying away from the possibility that an imaging device was here, and in this space, there were only the mirror and the chairs Reina and Grace had sat on, the latter being uncomfortably white.

Having roughly assessed the situation, her shoulders loosened a bit.

‘Then now the key is to enhance that ability…’

Reina muttered to herself and sighed deeply.

‘I’m still not good enough at it…’

The voice of the first emperor, who had hinted at various things, echoed in her ears, making her feel even more at a loss.

“Only the first Chantra could fully harness the power of Bharan. That’s why I, too, can only tell you about how it might feel.”

“Haa… This is driving me crazy.”

If she had known, she would have focused less on ‘Resa’ and studied the power of Bharan first…

* * *

About 2 months ago.

—Pfft, hahaha! That fellow has done another unwise act.

“It’s not funny, Your Majesty… Do you know how troublesome this is?”

Against Tria’s hearty laughter coming through the communication device, Reina’s demeanor contrasted as she propped her chin on the desk and liberally voiced out her complaints.

“He occasionally said things that bordered on obsession, but he was still someone you could have a sensible conversation with. But now… he’s refusing to talk, bringing up nonsensical things.”

—Hmm. Nonsensical, you say? I don’t think it’s quite just that.

Tria muttered as if she was guessing something. Then Reina straightened up and pulled the communication device closer.

“Do you know something?”

—No.

“But you just said, ‘I don’t think it’s quite just that.'”

—I did.

“……Your Majesty.”

—Hahaha! It’s not a lie, I truly don’t know. Just…

“Just?”

—You do know you’re the most famous person in this empire right now, don’t you?

“……”

When Reina didn’t respond, Tria broached the subject again.

—See, my dear. It’s one thing to be treated as a saint, but even the famously reclusive dwarves now regard you as a goddess. Ethan couldn’t have seen this change coming due to his confinement in the Palace of the Thirteenth Moon.

“That’s true…”

—Wouldn’t it be rather surprising for Ethan, suddenly finding everyone coveting you one day?

It wasn’t without reason…

“Still, this is too intense.”

—Yes. I think so too. It’s unlike Ethan. It’s like he’s behaving like a child. Exactly how Benedict was when he was young.

“The Grand Duke?”

—Yes. Like Benedict from about 100 or 200 years ago.

“Was that when he met Rosé?”

—Probably.

“I see…”

Surprised by the unexpected anecdote, Reina momentarily lost focus and nodded her head. Then she shook her head clear and complained to Tria again.

“Anyway, because of Ethan, I feel like I’m going crazy, Your Majesty.”

—Don’t worry too much, it won’t last long. By the way, you said you had something to ask.

“Oh, right.”

The initial intent of the communication, to discuss the message about Bharan’s alter ego or Utta’s will, had drifted off into an update on each other’s recent happenings.

“It’s not about anything else, Your Majesty, but do you know who ‘Ryama’ is?”

As soon as Reina asked the question, silence fell on the other end of the communication device.