"Please, I beg you… Have mercy on me. I really don't remember a thing except for a woman's voice I keep hearing inside my head," a man sobbed on bent knees before Nikolai. "She ordered me to do things, it was as if my body was hers to use and command as she pleased."
His body was trembling as he begged, "Please, Your Majesty… I really didn't know what came over me. I have no intention of harming our Princess. Why would I even do that when she's pitiful enough…"
They were currently in the wilderness not far from an inn his convoy occupied for the night.
Taro had called for Nikolai's attention and reported on how the inn's cook had poisoned the dinner prepared for his wife.
Of course, while his servant could easily deal with it, the king wanted to personally interrogate the culprit who was brave enough to do such an atrocious act against their own Princess.
