Chapter 1. The Flower of Prison.

The Hadellamide royal family is doomed. It was also scuffed to see the dirty sight of treason.
Eve, the seventh princess, could easily predict her fate.
It was no wonder that today was the day of his execution.
"Sigh, I knew this day would come someday.’
Rebellion was self-inflicted by the foolish imperial family.
The imperial family used the forbidden alchemy "Homunculus" to establish an absolute imperial power.
Homunculus was a human being who was born with outstanding talents in magic and sword art.
They were indoctrinated to be loyal to the imperial family, and were put on all kinds of dangerous missions in the name of the Empire's peace and prosperity.
It was common to lose one's life while fighting on the front line, or to be exploited for forced labor at Ma Jeongseok mine.
Homunculus, who was appointed as a knight in recognition of his excellent talent, was well served, but they had to serve as slaves for the royal family.
The imperial court called them "Imperial Guard knights," but they were only false names.
It was natural for Homunculus to hold a grudge against the imperial family amid absurd reality.
This in turn led to the result of treason.
"That's why I've long asked my father to reform the Homunculus system, and he only listened to my third sister.’
If Desmond II had left the situation in danger, Bridget, the third princess who was named the Empress, made the situation worse.
Ever since Bridget began to wield power as the Crown Princess, the exploitation of homunculus has intensified.
Homunculus outside the palace lost their life’s in dangerous fighting and heavy labor, and Homunclus Knight in the palace was trampled on his pride as a knight by being drafted into Harlem, which Bridget made.
Eve, who had not been able to see this, secretly began to learn about the process of excommunicating the Crown Princess.
But by then Bridget was already planning to marry off Eve into a distant kingdom.
Eve's political marriage was chosen as imperial order because it was obvious that the fate of the powerless princess was destined.
However, it has not been implemented. In just a week, "The Man" gathered all the articles of the Imperial Palace's Homunculus and caused a rebellion.
'Sir Agnito...…
Eve's expression, which reminded him, became bitter.
The traitor, Michaelis Agnito, was the 'King of Homunculus'.
He was born with the ability to nullify the imperial obedience brainwashing and reign as an absolute over homunculus.
He struck the neck of Desmond II, who was careless in his brainwashing, and became the new emperor of the empire.
The new emperor ordered the purging of all the blood of the Hadellamid family. Even the married royal family was no exception.
If there was any blood from the imperial family, all of them were called and put on the execution site of execution.
Just by looking at this, it was understandable how much the new emperor hated and the imperial family, which had been trampling on him and his own kind for a long time.
Eve, who faces execution with imperial karma, let out a sigh of remorse.
If I knew it would be like this, I would have turned it upside down.’
The Throne, it was a position that he should not dare to overlook. But now that the imperial family has collapsed, I think they were underestimating themselves.
'If I did it, I wouldn't have screwed it up like my third sister.’
I've thought this a thousand times in the past month.
This gave Eve political confidence, which borders on self-brainwashing.
If I will give a second life, I was confident that I would be able to run for the throne with confidence.
Of course, it was just a futile escape from reality for those who were about to die. Eve escaped delusion and faced reality.
"Rosenite will be the only royal family left."
The new emperor decided to keep one of his daughters alive.
This is because taking over the sovereignty of the empire as a marriage dowry was the quietest way to seize power.
Also, the symbol of the emperor, the Philosopher Stone, only responds to the blood of the emperor.
To gain the power of the Philosopher Stone, the new emperor needed a woman with Hadelamide's blood.
I'm afraid I didn't get a chance to save my life.
Eve did not conform to the obedient and stupid image of a woman that the new emperor wanted.
The new emperor has chosen Rosenite, the eighth empress who has a crush on him and have a full of love.
'I didn't even want to survive like that in the first place. If you're going to regret it, you should regret not being a princess."
It was then. I could hear footsteps in the hallway.
Who's this at this hour?’
Soon, a person who seemed to melt out of the darkness appeared.
"You're awake, Seventh princess."
"Sir Agnito...…?”
I doubted my eyes, but he was obviously right there.
A beautiful man with black hair who is dressed in an ascetic knight's uniform but has a fascinating atmosphere with his whole body. Such a man was unique to the empire.
Michaelis Agnito.
Eve's half-sister, 8th Princess Rosenite's immediate pro-crisis.Now there was a traitor in front of him, who was in a position of survival to control the empire.
"You look like you've seen anyone else."
Michael, who once had to serve Eve and all other imperial families, was no longer honored by Eve as emperor.
Stuttering.
Michael opened the bars and came inside without hesitation.
"What are you doing here, Lord Agneto?"
"I'm here to make sure you're doing well, Empress Princess."
They didn't deserve to worry about each other's Perhaps the right interpretation was to want to see the death row ahead of execution.
Eve, who had no intention of meeting his expectations, smiled back.
"You'll have time at dawn to see me. It hasn't been long since you took possession of the empire. Isn't it hard for a man who's never even learned to study imperialism to suddenly become a ruler?”
"Ah, actually, I've been out of my mind for a month. I've finally had time to come and see you."
Michael's reply was plain because it was too weak to be sarcastic.
There was no reason to be considered 'sorry for being late' by the sound of it. Eve felt at the bottom of Michael's attitude. This is because he felt that he was not worth mocking.
"It's too cheap of you to come to see. But I don't really need Lord Agneto's care.”
Eve expressed rejection, but Michael did not back down. On the contrary, he came a step closer.
"Eve."
Eve flinched. It was the first time she was called by a name, a pet name.
It was too early to be surprised by the informal call. Suddenly Michael leaned over the back of the wooden chair where Eve sat.
A handsome face suddenly came close.
“It looks because you been trapped all this time. It seems you’re quite angry. It fine to resent me however, it isn’t as though we have nothing we need to say to each other"
" I understand, so step back a bit”
"You should have chosen me"
"What?"
I wondered what it was all of a sudden. Michael growled to embarrass Eve.
"If you had chosen me as your immediate knight, this would not have happened."
"...."
Eve's eyes grew bigger when she had never imagined it before.
The Imperial family chooses one of the Homunculus of the Imperial ProCrisis Division as their "direct knight".
The immediate knight must give his absolute allegiance to the princess or the to prince who chose him.
At first glance, the direct article system seemed very romantic, but the imperial family could change the direct article at any time, so they often treated it like consumables.
So Eve rejected the system and never had a direct article in her life.
Thanks to this, he was criticized by the royal family for ignoring the tradition of the imperial family as an uncivilized royal woman.
Rosenite, on the other hand, fell in love with Michael and mercilessly thrown his original direct knight and chose Michael as his direct knight.
And when Michael ruled as emperor, Princess Rosenite was recognized for her use as a blood of the imperial family and avoided execution.
"In fact, you were trying to use Rosenite from the beginning.
It would be closer to the truth that Rosenite did not choose Michael, but that he chose Rosenite, which was easy to use.
"Michael."
He called himself first by name, so did Eve.
"Did I, uh, choose you?"
Eve let out a small laugh.
"Yes, if I had played Rosie, at least I would have saved my life like her.
Michael, you didn't have to be with Rosie anyway, you were blinded by love and needed a stupid empress to do whatever you wanted."
"……I won't deny it."
I got a pure confession. Eve smiled satisfactorily and said.
"Yeah, you should have changed your charm enough to seduce me."
"Ha."
It was a minor provocation, but strangely it worked. Michael , who usually doesn't show his emotions, seemed to be in a bad mood now.
"You're so...…
I anticipated the extent of the assessment of blindness. However, the words that were added soon with a despondent smile were different from what was expected.
"You are a difficult woman."
Only then did Michael widen his distance from Eve.
It was around that time that I heard the distant stomping footsteps. Soon a soldier rushed in and reported to Michael.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty, your Highness, is looking for you."
"What's going on? If you're not in a hurry, wait, tell me."
"It's like a baby in her stomach has an abnormality...…
Their conversation was also well heard by Eve.
'Baby?
Michael was embarrassed by narrowing his forehead.
"……the imperial blood is precious, so I must go. See you later, Eve."
Michael gave a glimpse of his reluctance and left.
Eve was left alone again in a cold prison. Michael's "Review" greeting lingered in her head.
'I'm going to see Michael again...You mean the execution ceremony.'
There has never been a man in history who has lived out of a confined prison called the Bedroom of a Cage.
Eve, therefore, spoke to Michael and thought he would be executed today.
I thought I had already gotten used to fear and solitude, but my fingertips trembled a little.
Again, again.
Around that time, the sound of heels heralded another visitor.
The latest visitor was a blonde woman with a fur robe over her luxurious dress.
She approached the front of the bars with a proud walk.
"Long time no see, sister."
"……yes, Rosie. Long time no see."
Rosenit's beauty, which has been praised as the "white rose of the empire" since she was young, was still beautiful enough to be blinded.
While the Hwang family collapsed and the neck of parents and siblings fell off, the depression was nowhere to be found in Rosenit's face.
On the contrary, he seemed happy to have the whole world.
Eve didn't even want to point out anything because she was like a yellow woman who lived in a flower garden centered on Michael all her life.
It just so happened to find Rosenit's maternity dress and a slightly swollen belly and all that attention was paid to it. Eve opened her eyes wide.
"Oh, my God. Rosie, it was true that you were pregnant."
"Yes, it's Michael's child."
"Michael's child?"
Eve was readily unreliable. Alchemy-given life, Homun Klus had no reproductive capacity, although he could.
That's why direct knights are preferred as sexual predators of the imperial family and are often abused.
Rosenit reacted sensitively to Eve's mysterious glare.
"You don't seem to believe it, do you? So you think I'm having an affair with a man other than Michael?"
"Oh, no, I didn't think of that. I was just surprised because it wasn't what I knew.”
"Then you should take this opportunity to know. Nothing is impossible with the omnipotent power of the wise man's stone. The child in my stomach is Michael's and I. Our love has finally paid off."
"Yeah, you might have had another man's child instead of..."
"Oh, no, I didn't think of that. I was just surprised because it wasn't what I knew.”
"Then you should take this opportunity to know. Nothing is impossible with the omnipotent power of the wise man's stone. The child in my stomach is Michael's and I. Our love has finally paid off."
"Yeah, you might have had another man's child instead of..."
"Oh, no, I didn't think of that. I was just surprised because it wasn't what I knew.”
"Then you should take this opportunity to know. Nothing is impossible with the omnipotent power of the wise man's stone. The child in my stomach is Michael's and I. Our love has finally paid off."
"Yes…… As if to treat a rival, Rosenite's tone and eyes became virulent.
Eve, depressed by the momentum, reluctantly gave a positive answer.
Eve said to change the mood.
"If you're looking for Lord Agneto, he went to you earlier. I guess the roads are crossed."
"No. I'm here to see my sister."
"Me? For what?"
"I heard today is the day of my sister's execution. I came here because I was worried."
Contrary to words, Rosenite was not a worried face at all.
"As expected, it was today...…
Eve, whose execution date was confirmed, was in shock at heart, but Rosenit continued without hesitation.
"Sister, do you happen to know how your father and your brother were executed?"
"Why do you have to...…
"You don't know. Aren't you curious? Can you guess?”
"Do you think that's what you're saying in front of me?”
"Oh, my God! Why are you so angry? The baby in your stomach must be surprised. I'm here to give you some information."
"I'm not curious."
"You'd better know, sister."
Eve decided to shut up. Either way, whether she reacted or not, Rosenite was raving about what she wanted to say.
"So far, it's the knights who have executed my sisters and brothers.
Michael has done his kind a favor so that he can kill the most reprehensible object with his own hands."
"The immediate knights themselves...…?”
"Yes, it's revenge. It turns out that until now, the execution of the imperial family has been brutal. For one thing, Bridgette was burned at the stake."
"What do you mean burn...…!”
Burning to death was the most painful death for humans.
Eve's shoulders began to tremble noticeably. I was determined to pay for my crimes as a member of the imperial family.But I couldn't keep my aloof.
Eve's agitated appearance made Rosenite laugh and whisper.
"Our innocent Eve. I'm sure you only imagined the guillotine being decapitated cleanly. That must have been a shock. Are you all right?"
There was no consolation in the voice, and in reality Rosenite's intentions were not consolation.
Eve struggled to speak after a deep breath.
"I…… never had a direct article.”
"But that doesn't mean you don't have a single homunclus knight holding a grudge against you?"
"……not like that."
"Yes, I should. In fact, we have a homunculus to lead her to the execution site."
At this point Eve had no choice but to ask Rosenite first.
"Well, who is it?”
"Michael."
Eve's heart as soon as she heard the name.
I felt this thumping.
"Is he ••••• me••••••?"
He hated Michael so much that he wanted to kill himself.
Eve was shocked and soon convinced. Michael, who deeply hates the entire imperial family, thought Eve might have been the exception.
Eve may have seemed even more detestable to Michael in that he pretended to be different from the rotten royal family by not having a direct article, and did not actually improve the system. Hypocrisy was more reprehensible than pure evil.
"Yes…….he hated me a lot."
"……yes, Michael hated you. Very, very much."
Rosenite's eyes sank darkly.
Instead of clenching her fist, she clenched a small porcelain bottle she had hidden in her arms and opened her mouth.
Do you know what brother you're going to get on death row today?"
"Let's stop, Rosie. I don't want to hear any more."
"No, you have to listen. She's going to get a real brother."
".....!"
The actual punishment of the Hadelamid Empire was barbaric and brutal.
The blade of an axe for a true man is very blunt. When he hit the death row's neck with a blunt axe, which was practically a blunt instrument, his throat could not have been cut off at once.
The number of hits was five or six times, and sometimes there were cases where the death row's breath was attached even though it exceeded ten times.
It was never a punishment that a man could bear with his mind.
"Ah••••••I don't like it•••••••
Eve's whole body trembled with fear. That look pleased Rosenite. Rosenite whispered affectionately, under an angelic mask more than ever.
"Don't worry, sister. That's why I came to help her. Take this."
"Is this……?"
Rosenit handed Eve a porcelain bottle as if it were very precious.
Soon, Rosenite's voice, which went beyond tenderness to sweet, fell to Eve's ears.
"It's Belladona's poison. If you drink it, it's painless and quick to breathe." "....!"
"Wouldn't it be better to drink poison and commit suicide than to die painfully in a true way?"”
6C... 99
Rosenite's "Senior" Eve's heart beat fast.
It was only after three deep breaths that Eve managed to open her mouth.
"Thank you, Rosie."
"Don't mention it."
"I have a kid in my stomach, and I'm sorry I made you do this. I'll take care of the rest. It's my choice to drink poison, Rosie, so don't feel guilty."
"……Of course, you wouldn't have that."
Rosenite's last reply was scathing but Eve didn't notice. It was because the time of long confinement and fear of death weakened her mind and attention.
"Then take care, Rosie."
"Yes, sister."
Despite saying goodbye, Rosenite stood in place and watched Eve.
"Hey... don't you go back, Rosie?"
"What are you talking about? How am I supposed to leave here when my sister hasn't had poison yet?”
Rosenit reacted strangely impatiently and angrily.
"Someone should be watching your sister die."
Rosenit reached into the cage and even opened the cork of the vial himself.
"Come on, drink up, sister."
"Come on."
Rosénite, as if pressed for time, or as if the target was right in front of her, was in full swing.
The usual Eve would have noticed a quirk at this point. But not now that I've lost my composure.
"Ah……
From the soft medicine bottle with the cap, a sweet, pleasant scent pierced the tip of the nose. It was a tempting aroma that I couldn't resist without drinking.
Enchanted by the temptation, Eve immediately kissed her lips to the snout of the vial.
Gulping, the brown liquid ran down my throat.
Flop!
"Ugh!"
Belladona's poison, which had been purified and purified, quickly captured Eve's body.
'It's good to be fast...'…
It was around the time when I lost sight, my amber eyes became murky, and my breathing almost stopped, and my movements disappeared.
Eve, who is not dead yet but looks nothing more than a corpse, has lowered her posture.
"Sister, do you know what Belladona means?"
Eve knew the answer. Belladona's flower words, which are essential as poison, fit well with 'I curse you'.
'Why are you talking about flower language now...…?’
In the midst of death, a wonder crossed Eve's mind.
It was then.
"Are you dead?"
"Are you dead?"
"Oh, finally, he's dead.”
It was certainly a joy in the voice.
"Ha, ha, ha...
"Hahaha, that's it.
Since you're dead, there's no more distractions. It's just me now!
Michael, your seat, it's all mine! Ahahaha!"
Rosenite's frenzied laughter rumbled through the prison.
'Rodge•••••••?!'
It wasn't until then that Eve felt something was terribly wrong.
But Belladona's poison gave her no more time.
"Thank you so much for dying, silly Eve."
Eve's soul was permanently separated from her body, ending in hearing a greeting full of malice and venom.
Half-sister caught in a trap and killed by alcohol.
That was the death of 25-year-old Ivien Rose Cloel Hadelamide.
Empress, imprint the traitor.

Chapter end