The Dragon Queen and her mates.
Chapter 232: Don’t act imprudently in front of me

Chapter 232: Don’t act imprudently in front of me

"Then if that is the case then there is even more of a reason for me to hear what this man has to say," Bree said with a gentle smile on her face while looking at the Duke who was trying his best to get away from the doom that was hovering at the top of his head, she couldn’t care less about how much he was willing to fight with his destiny that he has to face but she was willing to entertain him. " Since you have said that he is presumptuous then I want to see how presumptuous one can be in front of the Queen?"

" You..your majesty, there is no need..." Duke Cilantro started to feel pangs of regret in his chest, after all, if he knew that this man would come to trouble him, he would have definitely not let this man survive now this man was here to make things difficult for him and if he does not deal with him swiftly then he will surely create trouble for him. " There is no need for you to work so hard, just ask the knights to untie my officials, and we will give you a thorough report of everything that has happened."

When he found out that the Empress was coming, Duke Cilantro worked rather hard to make sure that every ledger was carefully prepared there was no way that the people who did not know what was going to happen would have made a mistake, he has made sure that the Empress would not be able to find anything.

" If you have nothing to hide then you do not need to worry my dear Duke," Bree said in an offhand voice as she looked at the Duke whose pupils were dilating, a clear sign that he was lying but since she has suffered so much under this man, she might as well have fun with him. " I do not want to be called a tyrant who does not pay attention to her subjects and makes things difficult for them which is why I will be listening to both sides of the story and you all can make sure that neither of you lies because nothing is more punishable than lying to the emperor."

As she finished speaking, she turned to the head of the rebel army who was kneeling in front of her after walking past the nobles who were tied up. He looked rather scared but Bree wasn’t going to help him if this man was courageous enough to go against the Duke, then he should have the courage to speak to her as well, sure enough, the man summoned his courage and then looked at Bree with his eyes trained on her feet. " My father used to work for the Duke and so did I, but then my father borrowed a sum of money from the Duke and paid it back but after a few months, the Duke came to our house demanding further payments."

" According to the interest that has been written on the contract, our family only needed to pay the Duke a total of a thousand gold coins but surprisingly when the Duke came to our house, the interest doubled and he showed us another copy saying that we did not pay the sum," the man while speaking started to tremble as if what he was saying was making his entire body hurt but he was still pushing himself to say the truth.

" My father couldn’t suffer the betrayal from the Duke and he refused to pay, I, on the other hand, knew that the Duke was a powerful man which was why I agreed to work in his mansion agreeing to pay the sum back, the Duke continued to send me to dangerous places asking me to do illegal things but when I was not here, he actually... he actually went to my house and kidnapped my sister before using her as a means to entertain his guests!"

" He is lying!" Duke Cilantro shouted as he glared at the knight who was speaking, if looks could kill the knight would have already been buried six feet deep by now. " Your majesty," with a quick whirl of his head, the Duke looked at Bree and shouted indignantly, " You don’t need to hear such lies, this is a trivial matter, most probably this man just needs some money and is trying to rip me off——-"

While the Duke was speaking a current of ferocious fire rushed past him and then smashed right next to the space beside him where it set the floor ablaze despite it being a marble.

" Y...Your majesty..." The Duke was stunned he did not think that the Queen would dare to hurt him, even in his wildest dream he didn’t think that the queen who was nothing but a woman who only knew the meaning of pleasure a man could give her would do something like this.

" I hate when people act insolently in front of me," said Bree, her hand still flickering with the fire that was burning in her eyes as she crossed her legs and looked down at the Duke who was acting like he knew better than anyone else. " I will not say this again, Duke. While I am investigating, I need you to stay quiet and if you can’t do that then you might as well let me kill you now."

’ There was no evidence!’ The Duke roared in his head, as he looked at the Empress who was acting like she knew better than he did about his actions. ’ No matter how many times she tries to look for the evidence that he has hidden, she wouldn’t be able to break the spells that he has placed, after all, no one has studied black magic for a very long time.’

The other nobles all looked terrified as well, it was true that their illegal activities would be found out but that does not change the fact that the Empress had them tied on their knees, she must have found out something or else she wouldn’t have done something like this.