Not long after, Her Royal Highness's cold voice broke the tranquility.

"coming."

Grace's voice rose slightly, and Avro followed her eyes.

At the end of the snow-covered cobblestones, a maid also holding an umbrella came slowly in the heavy snow. Her figure was blurred, like a silhouette on the wall.

Avro glanced at Grace in disbelief, "Is this really the case?"

Her Royal Highness slowly raised her hand and waved to the maid.

"Are you the fifth princess, Your Highness Grace?"

The maid's voice came from the wind and snow.

"Yes."

The middle-aged maid approached with a strong chill. She came forward and saluted Grace, then took out a ring with a lacquer coat of arms from her pocket and handed it to Grace.

"Your Highness, Victoria, drank a lot today and couldn't come to see you. However, she had a long chat with the Lord Commander of the Guards, the Duke of Winston, and asked me to give this to you."

This is a carefully customized copper ring. In the center of the ring, a lifelike eagle is engraved with golden lines.

It looks like the family crest of the Duke of Winston.

"By the way, Her Royal Highness Victoria also said that you are her favorite sister. If you have any needs, she will satisfy them for you."

Favorite sister?

Avro frowned slightly, his expression subtle.

Grace didn't care about this, took the ring, touched the cold copper ring, and asked without hesitation,

"Can you take me to the dungeon now? I want to see Nurki."

The middle-aged maid readily agreed, "Of course, no problem, Your Highness, but the time limit in the dungeon is only 10 minutes."

"Let's go, Avro."

Grace turned her head and motioned for Avro to move forward together.

Avro lowered her eyes, her instinct prompting her to stay away from Grace. She said somewhat dullly: "You can ask the maid to hold an umbrella for you now. This umbrella is too small."

There was no big change in the expression on Grace's face, she just repeated what she said before in the snowy sky,

"I said, you are the person I trust most, so we have to go together."

30.Victoria is lying to herself

Through that ring, Grace and her group successfully passed the initial inspection by the dungeon guards.

Passing through the long and dark dungeon corridor, we finally arrived at the interrogation room.

Here, the environment is damp and cold, and the sun never shines.

The faint kerosene lamp exudes a dull light, strange unknown black grass grows in the mud between the walls, and a disgusting musty smell floats in the air.

Coldness, depression, suffocation, and despair are all the feelings brought about by this dungeon.

There were various shining silver interrogation props placed on the wooden table stand, with some black blood stains still remaining on them.

Avro's face was pale, she bit her lower lip, a thick cloud hung over her forehead, and her stomach ached with worry.

The bad premonition is gradually becoming reality.

My brother won't... suffer any special punishment.

"Your Highness, I'll wait for you outside, remember it's only 10 minutes."

The maid ordered so and quietly retreated to the outer door.

At the same time, the guard knight wearing knight armor and beard yawned lazily.

Ding-dang-dang, the sound of metal colliding sounded.

He deftly pulled out one from the large bunch of rusty iron keys at his waist, and quickly opened the horrifying chains wrapped around the door of the interrogation room.

With a clang, he pushed open the door, and then a strong smell of blood hit his face.

Grace frowned in disgust.

The knight guard said in a slightly aggressive and rude tone, "Hurry up, don't stay too long. If you are discovered, you will be sent to the water prison."

Grace is physically and psychologically bored with men, and has no patience or tolerance for women.

This is a boredom that is born from birth.

Therefore, she was a little reluctant to chat with this fiancé.

Grace poked Avro's arm with her elbow, "Okay, go in."

Through the wooden door, the sound of chains clashing came from the dungeon, followed by shallow gasps of pain.

The people inside were undoubtedly experiencing great pain.

Avro's eyes were red, his head was lowered, his breathing was heavy, his hands were clenched, and his body was dragging slowly like a zombie.

Grace found that her body was shaking.

She was very scared, afraid of seeing her brother who had been tortured into a human shape as soon as she entered the door.

"Your brother will be released tomorrow. Why not go see him now?"

Grace couldn't bear it and wanted to pat her back gently to comfort her, but finally took it back.

"Um……"

Avro responded with a trembling voice, and she never dared to raise her head.

"Aphro? Is it...Aphro?"

A weak, hoarse voice once again came from the world inside the door.

Grace felt as if Avro's spiritual world was about to collapse, and she was as groggy as a walking zombie that had lost its soul.

"Why don't you watch it?"

"Look."

Her fists were clenched until they turned white, and she summoned up the greatest courage to respond to the person inside the door.

"Brother, it's me."

Grace followed him into the dark and terrifying interrogation room.

The interrogation room was terribly dark, and the terrifying and eerie coldness reached its peak in the dead of winter.

Even though Grace was wearing thick clothes, she felt like her bones were trembling.

Afro's brother, Nurki, was hung up by cold chains by his hands, and his ankles were bound by thick shackles.

On such a winter night, he was only wearing a thin, blood-stained shirt.

His fair and healthy skin was covered with red marks from being beaten, and the parts that had not been tortured were also chapped by the cold. His handsome face and blond hair were covered with black and red blood.

What's even more frightening is that the green eyes seem to have lost all color.

But the moment he saw his sister, he lit up and his voice trembled.

It was the grievance I couldn't help but feel after seeing my family in a desperate situation.

"Afro, it's okay. I don't feel any pain at all. I will be cleared during the trial tomorrow. Don't worry."

Avro's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and her tears were flowing back and forth. She took out the handkerchief from her pocket without saying a word, her lips kept trembling, and she kept using healing magic on her brother.

Can't say anything.

"The Lion Empire is the most powerful country on the continent of Eris, and there will be no misjudgment."

——Nurki showed a forced smile and comforted Afro with words that were lying to children.

"But, Avro, how did you get in?"

Nurki's lips turned white as he looked at his sister carefully, wanting to check every hair strand.

Avro turned his head and focused his gaze on Grace. His voice became extremely hoarse due to sadness, "Her Royal Highness brought me in."

Grace, who had been hiding at the door, had to take a step forward and appeared in front of Nurki.

Nurki coughed, seeming to endure the blood itching in his throat, and then he said breathlessly and weakly,

"Ah, thank you so much, Your Highness. Your Highness, you should know that I will not murder you."

It's really brother and sister.

Grace is a little bored. She doesn't look forward to relationships between humans and doesn't like emotions between humans.

She took a deep breath, looked down at the blood flowing, and asked:

"Getting to the point, when was the last time you saw me at the banquet?"

"Your Highness... I have no chance to talk to you at all. I have been talking about the results of refining the medicine with Mr. Robbie, the second son of Duke Abel's family."

These two siblings are exactly the same, right?

"To get to the point, what was I doing at that time?"

"You...were chatting with Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria. Then I remember that you and Her Royal Highness Victoria went out. When you came back, you kept crying silently and looked very sad."

Grace's eyebrows jumped suddenly. Sure enough, Victoria was lying to herself.

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I'm still coding the last chapter. Wait a minute. It's eleven o'clock now. I've pushed a little bit of the plot. Chapter 12 should be released at 30:5, exchanging collars.

Let’s talk about one thing.

The character of Grace is the master of my XP.

At the beginning of my creation, I wanted everyone who read my book to want to blast her (without mercy).

Amen, wish I could create such a feeling.

Of course, there are no absolute good or bad people in this book, there are only those who deserve to be hyped and those who deserve to be hyped by others.

I hope everyone can respect and understand.

31. Collar exchange ([-]-word explosion completed)

Grace continued to ask, "Then do you still know who Victoria is talking to?"

"Your Highness Victoria... is very popular. She has clinked glasses with different people. But she seems to have had a little dispute with the second prince Carta."

Being constantly healed by life magic, Nurki's condition seems to be much better.

But judging from his conversation, he seems to be a gentle and peaceful person, not a treacherous person.

"Okay, thank you."

Grace glanced at Avro, whose eyes were filled with mist.

Weird.

She lowered her head and thought for a second, then decided to quit and help Avro.

"You guys talk first, I think you... brothers and sisters need some private space."

The girl left the dungeon and slowly opened the copper door.

The knight guard guarding Nurki wisely went out to get some wine. If he wanted to talk to him, he would have to wait for a few minutes.

The dungeon is dark and damp, and any small sound made here will have an ethereal echo.

Therefore, even if Grace's sensitive ears did not want to listen, she had to listen to the conversation between the brother and sister like torture.

Standing outside the gate, she sighed melancholy. There was nothing clean around the dark torture platform, the oil-stained chairs, and the moldy walls.

Grace stood alone.

She thought about it and just covered her ears.

However, even if you cover your ears, the penetrating sound will still be clearly transmitted into your mind.

"Brother, I am really useless...Tomorrow is your birthday, so you should be happy."

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