The moment Leonia sat down on the couch, the Crown Prince was already by her side. "My Lady, are you okay? Did Michelle Grace bully you? Are you feeling sick?" he asked worriedly, but occasionally, he would glance at Michelle and glare at her.
But Michelle didn't care and just stood with a "gentle smile" by Ivona's side. "Your Highness, how is Lady Leonia feeling?" she asked with a concerned expression, but without anyone noticing, she kept on pouring waves of blood thirst at Leonia.
Seeing Michelle's smile and hearing her words, the Crown Prince, Leonard Wajana, got enraged, thinking that Michelle was only acting like that to get his attention. In his rage, he pushed her. "Michelle Grace, stop pretending to care! You are the one who harmed Lady Leonia, aren't you?!" he roared in anger.
Being a perfect actress, Michelle didn't put up any resistance and fell to the ground, her expression instantly turning confused and hurt. "Your Highness, I..." Michelle spoke weakly, her hands trembling.
She looked highly pitiful and vulnerable, but what others couldn't see was that the moment Michelle fell to the ground, she started excluding mild blood thirst, but she didn't let Leonard Wajana feel it. She created a safe bloodthirsty-less circle around him and filled the rest of the room with blood thirst.
The blood thirst was only one percent of the full one she could exclude, but for her plan, MIchelle could only exclude a little.
When the bloodthirsty filled the room, everyone's attention turned to Leonard Wajana, because he seemed to be the only one not affected by it.
No matter how weak the blood thirst was, it was still a blood thirst, so the weak-minded Young Ladies and children started trembling and some even fainted. And even the other people all felt uncomfortable and terrified.
One of the Young Ladies who fainted was Leonia Phelerion, as she was already in a bad state from what she experienced before Leonard Wajana came, but he didn't even notice that she fainted as he was enraged and all his attention was on Michelle.
He didn't even notice that everyone in the banquet hall was acting strange and looking at him in terror and disgust at the same time. The terror was just a natural reaction to the blood thirst, but the disgust was because from their point of view, it looked like the mighty Crown Prince was oppressing a weak Young Lady, Michelle Grace, and while doing so, he couldn't keep his anger in check and started excluding killing spirit, akablood thirstt, into the whole banquet hall, causing some people to faint.
Michelle perfectly acted like she was about to faint, like she was being affected by the blood thirst too. She kept trembling, and her eyes were wide in "fear". She seemed to be unable to even speak from the terror.
Finally, the one who put an end to it all was Archduke Grace. "Your Highness, Crown Prince, please calm down!" he placed his hand on the Crown Prince's shoulder, bringing him back from his raging stupor. At the same time, Michelle retracted all the blood thirst, making it look like the Crown Prince calmed down.
But the Crown Prince actually didn't know what was going on, he just saw that some people fainted and that the rest of the people were looking at him with disgust.
The Crown Prince was extremely confused when he saw the disgust in everyone's eyes. The only ones who weren't looking at him with disgust were the Archduke as he looked to be enraged and Michelle as she seemed completely terrified, still trembling on the ground.
And there was one more person. Ivona. The moment the blood thirst disappeared, she rushed to Michelle's side and "helped" her get up, but in actuality, she took the moment to pinch Michelle into her arm. "Why didn't you tell me beforehand that you would do it on such a large scale?" she whispered into Michelle's ear, but Michelle just glanced at her, as if telling Ivona that she would explain later, and continued acting weak and terrified.
Suddenly, Michelle felt two gazes on her, each from a different side of the banquet hall. One that she recognized to belong to Alexander Terce who gave her Mare and let her win the bidding for Snow, but the other gaze, which carried similar power as Alexander's, was a complete mystery to Michelle. She just knew that it had to be a person from the same place as Alexander, which spelled trouble for her since she didn't know anything about that place.
Having no idea who the gaze belonged to, Michelle decided to focus on what was happening in front of her, and thinking about it later, since she knew that if the person was as powerful as Alexander, she wouldn't be able to spot them if they wanted to hide from her.
Being "supported" by Ivona, Michelle observed as the Emperor, Maximilian Wajana, walked towards the Crown Prince, Archduke and herself. His expression was sour as he never expected his son to completely lose it like that.