Crown Prince Carlos fell silent.
Clearly, the First Knight weighed heavily in his memory, while Ian, though outwardly in silent mourning, was inwardly extremely alert.
——What's Carlos up to? Is he truly lamenting history, or is he testing me?
Ian didn't know how Teacher Hiliard was poisoned back then… He only knew that it was because he was betrayed by a friend at a gathering, which led to the poisoning by the 'Ice Prison Calamity Ash,' capable of dissolving the Origin Structure of a Fifth Energy Level Sublimator… This Originium Plague is theoretically easy to avoid, according to his premonitions.
But due to reassurance, negligence, and the first encounter with a friend's betrayal using such a technique… he made a miscalculation, committing an irreparable mistake.
Even though the enraged Hiliard immediately killed all the betrayers present and rushed back to the Imperial Capital, it was still too late.
