Duty-Bound: Chapter 18
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No one was aware that he was observing everyone's moves in the meeting room. Mikan had asked her Lady Mother to gather the elders after their one-week training ended.
He didn't have the right to hear what they were discussing, but Mikan had wanted him to be present while she spoke with Lady Yuka.
Confusion was clear in Lady Yuka's face. "Gather the elders?"
Mikan nodded. "There's something that I would like to confirm, Lady Yuka."
Before Lady Yuka could utter a word, Mikan added, "I'm simply doing this for my twin sister who passed away before her 24th birthday."
Lady Yuka was surprised at how Mikan had stated everything so precisely. She looked at him, silently asking him if he had told her everything.
Since he didn't, he shook his head.
After they left Lady Yuka's study, he escorted her back to her room.
"I'm going to find them, Natsume," she stated after they were inside her room.
Princess Aida, Mikan's late twin sister, had passed away due to an unknown disease, but in truth, someone had put an unknown poison into her meal. The only ones who knew this fact were his mother Kaoru, Lady Yuka, and himself. When she mentioned 'not until I find them' the other day, he had suspected that she knew what had happened to her twin sister.
Everyone stood up when the door slid open. Before the doorway was none other than Lady Yuka, the lady of the western lands. After Lady Yuka sat down, everyone settled down in their seats. A while later, Lady Yuka nodded her head towards him. He replied by stepping out from the shadows with Mikan, who was hiding behind him the entire time.
Gasps escaped from everyone's lips.
"Princess Aida…" one of the elders muttered in horror.