This Three-Year-Old Is A Villainess - Chapter 88
Joshua had collapsed.
Balzac and I turned pale and rushed over to him.
As we got closer, Joshua’s condition seemed even more serious.
His face was completely pale, and his veins were standing out all the way to his neck.
Balzac quickly removed his twin’s shirt.
“……!”
“……!”
His body was covered in black spots.
His veins were all protruding bluishly, and it seemed like his breathing would stop at any moment.
Balzac muttered in a very panicked voice,
“What, what is this……”
“A cuwse.”
“What?”
“It’s a cuwse pattown.” (It’s a curse pattern.)
It meant that someone had cursed Joshua.
***
As soon as the news spread that Joshua Astra had fallen under a curse, the castle was thrown into chaos.
All doctors and mages within the castle were summoned, and a letter was sent to the main ducal residence requesting healers.
Daymond walked down the corridor with a hardened face.
He strode in and flung open the door.
Officials already summoned were gathered inside.
“General.”
“Fathew.”
Balzac and Erylotte, who had been by the bedside, turned their heads toward Daymond.
Without a word, Daymond approached the bed.
Joshua was deathly pale, his breathing sounding like scraping metal.
Daymond looked at the mages.
“What’s going on?”
“The Young Master fell due to a curse.”
“Who would do such a thing?”
“After trying to trace it, it seems to be a curse from someone with a powerful blessing.”
“Tell me something I don’t know!”
Daymond bellowed.
The mages, startled, replied with sweat dripping down their brows,
“We’re not healers, so we can’t completely dispel the curse. We’ve cast a spell to weaken it. The Young Master should wake up soon.”
The officials erupted in anger.
“Who dares to commit such a heinous act against Astra’s kin!”
“It’s obvious. It must be one of the other second generation (children of the duke).”
“How could they do such a thing to a child…!”
“We must inform the capital, and the perpetrator who dared do this to Young Master Joshua must be executed.”
Daymond’s expression turned icy, and the officials’ eyes sharpened.
Joshua was officially adopted by Daymond.
Attacking Joshua was nothing short of a declaration of war against Daymond’s jurisdiction.
In that moment,
“Master.”
Michelan entered the room.
“What is it?”
“The gardener insists on delivering a message. It seems related to Young Master Joshua, so I brought him here.”
Daymond nodded slightly. When Michelan said, “Come in,” and a middle-aged man timidly entered the room.
It was the gardener who had been kicked by Baron Zahavin earlier in the day.
“I… felt I needed to tell you because things seemed odd these last few days…”
“What is it.”
“Baron Zahavin, sir. Out of nowhere, he ordered us to upturn the garden. Claiming it was Young Master Joshua’s order…”
“…”
“I said we can’t do that, that if we really have to, we would report to the master first, but he just beat me up…!”
The fuming gardener looked at Erylotte.
“The Young Miss saw it, right?”
All eyes turned to Erylotte.
Daymond knelt to match Erylotte’s gaze and asked,
“Is what the gardener said true?”
“…Ywes.”
Erylotte’s testimony emboldened the gardener to continue,
“I was so frustrated and angry that I complained to those around, and as I talked, it seemed there weren’t just one or two strange things concerning Young Master Joshua.”
“What happened?”
“Last night, he met Baron Zahavin late into the night. It seemed like he was being threatened.”
The room’s inhabitants frowned and muttered,
“Threatened?”
“Yes. ‘If you want to live, do as I say’ – he was threatening the young master. That’s what Denny from the laundry overheard.”
Enzo, who was in the room, frowned and said,
“If what’s being said is true, it’s certainly strange. How dare anyone threaten the kin of Astra.”
Everyone knew that Baron Zahavin had risen to prominence through the power of Deacons, which made the situation even more peculiar.
“What will you do?”
“We need to verify it. Bring Baron Zahavin here.”
Soldiers immediately set off to the evaluator’s lodging.
It took less than twenty minutes for Baron Zahavin to be brought in from his room.
Baron Zahavin was made to kneel by the soldiers.
“What is the meaning of this!”
“Joshua has been cursed.”
“…What?”
“Was it your doing?”
Baron Zahavin, still on his knees, jumped up and exclaimed,
“How can you say such a thing! If I touched the direct line of Astra, not only would I die, but my entire family would be wiped out!”
“Then why did you order the garden to be upturned?”
Baron Zahavin’s shoulders twitched.
“That was, umm…!”
He stammered with a panicked face,
“It was under the orders of Young Master Joshua!”
“What orders?”
“Well, he said he hated the roses…”
Snickers and sardonic laughter broke out from all corners.
Such an absurd statement.
Joshua, who had never said anything about the roses until now, suddenly hates them, then he just so happened to get cursed?
Make it make sense.
“So what about the rumors that you threatened Young Master Joshua! One of the employees heard everything you said!”
“It’s because the Young Master is in a bad state. He needed medical treatment to survive!”
