The Labyrinth of Marielle Clarac [Complete] by Haruka Momo

Author:Haruka Momo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, comedy, romance, nobility, j-novel heart, protagonist with secret life, lighthearted, strong heroine, royalty, josei, historical
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

Chapter Nine

His Highness the Grand Duke had allegedly consumed an opiate.

That alone wasn’t too surprising. Considering he had drunk it, the substance was most likely laudanum, a drug that could have previously been purchased at any given pharmacy in town. Nowadays, it was harder to get due to regulations, so one could only viably obtain some by having a doctor prescribe it for them. The person delivering this news to us was a proper doctor himself, so talk of an opiate wasn’t strange.

“Did you ever prescribe one to my father?” Prince Liberto asked.

“No sir, I did not. I determined that it was not necessary for him—I prescribed a different drug for when his symptoms worsened.” According to Dr. Corsi, he didn’t want to use laudanum very often. He shook his head at the prince and told him that he wouldn’t give a patient laudanum for light headaches or coughs. “And typical side effects of laudanum wouldn’t cause a person to enter a coma. The person would have to drink a large amount of it at once or drink a more dense version of it.”

“In that case, there’s a low chance that my father consumed it willingly.” Prince Liberto wasn’t asking but making a statement.

Perhaps the drug had been mixed with alcohol? But when the grand duke had been found, he’d still been responsive and not in a coma—had we found him just after he’d ingested it? It seemed impossible that he’d been in another location when the drug had been administered.

Had the figures I’d seen forced him to drink it? Those people had moved as one, not individually. Was that because they’d been holding His Highness down? Was that how they’d been able to force the drug into his mouth? I had to shudder at the thought. Chills raced down my spine thinking about how such a horrible thing had been happening in front of me, yet I’d just stood there without realizing it. Would I have been able to save the grand duke had I known? If only I hadn’t been so unaware...

I could feel blood draining from my face. I had to put both my hands on my cheeks as I wobbled.

A worried Lord Simeon put his warm arm around my shoulders. “Are you all right?”

“If only I’d kept running instead of stopping right there. The culprits might have released him and run off...”

“Marielle.”

“I made the wrong decision...”

Lord Simeon vehemently denied this. “No, you were right to stop. You would have only gotten involved with whatever they were up to. Those people wouldn’t have run away once they realized you were a lone woman—they would have tried to seal your mouth shut. Your judgment was correct.”

Prince Liberto confirmed this. “It’s just as the vice captain says: The fact that you didn’t get involved is the silver lining to all this. Had that happened, I wouldn’t be able to make it up to the princess or Angelo. As far as I can tell, the culprits wanted to take my father to a remote place.

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