The SSS-rank Guide Doesn't Need Saving novel Chapter 81

Chapter 81: Aisha is Not My Daughter!

After Dominick delivered his words, people became even more confused. They wondered what he was talking about. Why should Irene be engaged to Prince Soren instead of Aisha?

He even made it sound like Irene was being wronged for the accusations she received today.

Dominick was unafraid of the consequences of his words, even as Irene stared at him with terror.

He continued, "Aisha is not my daughter. She was adopted by my wife years ago!"

"What?"

"Does that mean she’s not a real Novalis?"

"Then where did she come from?"

Hearing the murmurs of the people around him, Dominick replied, "We found her in the lowest sector. She was barely able to crawl when my wife saw her. My wife has been wanting to have a daughter, but sadly, we only had two sons back then. So, I allowed her to adopt a stranger’s child. However, a year later after we took her in... My wife ended up giving birth to our first daughter, Irene."

As he continued, the hall became even louder. But Irene couldn’t hear a word of their conversation as she stared in shock at her father, who had revealed a secret she couldn’t believe!

"M—mother, is what father said true?" She turned to her mother, who sighed after she was unable to stop her husband from stepping forward and revealing the secret they had been hiding.

"That’s right. Aisha isn’t your real sister. She was never part of our family."

Theon looked more shocked before he scoffed, "How is it that I don’t know anything about this?"

Erika looked at him and replied, "You were only two years old when we took in Aisha. And ever since, we’ve made you call her sister."

Theon fell silent. It would make sense if he didn’t know about this since he was only two years old back then. But how could his parents hide this from him for several years?

"Does eldest brother know?"

Erika nodded.

Although he didn’t like Aisha because of what she did to Irene, he felt uncomfortable that this happened in front of everyone.

Theon frowned. He turned his head below the throne where Aisha and the prince were. Hearing their father claim she was adopted, how would Aisha take this?

Without realizing, he stopped breathing.

Aisha’s face was akin to a lake undisturbed. Her calm composure despite what had just been revealed made her look even colder and more menacing, as if she didn’t take the words that came out of their father’s mouth as something shocking at all.

What was stranger was the slow curl that rose from the tips of her lips as her eyes looked at their father, as if she was looking at a puppet show and finding it amusing to watch.

Theon suddenly wanted to stop their father.

"It’s all because I indulged my wife that Aisha ended up becoming engaged to His Highness. I hope this misunderstanding will clear everything up! My daughter, Irene, did nothing wrong. She was only taking what was hers in the first place!"

Dominick declared it so loudly and righteously that people even thought that he sounded convincing.

But they weren’t fools.

And the person who couldn’t accept this either was someone else that no one dared to look at right now.

"Do you know that it is a capital offense to lie and deceive the crown?"

The emperor’s words fell and made them want to hide.

Dominick wanted to stand firmly and face the emperor’s wrath, but just one look at the emperor sitting on the throne made him lower his gaze instantly.

"Tha... That." Unable to properly form a response, Dominick stammered in fear. "Your M—majesty, I didn’t lie to you. We... we took in Aisha as our own daughter and became a part of our family."

"That doesn’t answer my question." Emperor Nikulaus’s face darkened in anger. "You adopted someone else’s daughter and gave birth to a daughter the next. So, why did you allow your adopted child to become my son’s future consort? I will hear your excuses. If it is not satisfactory, I will have you and your entire family punished!"

It was unacceptable for anyone to deceive him. Even if it was done to fulfill a promise that the previous consort had given to her benefactor, these people should have known that they should’ve never used a stranger’s child to fulfill it.

Dominick’s forehead had a sheen on it. He tried to wipe it, but he couldn’t even bring himself to lift a hand, too afraid of the emperor. He knew he had made a mistake by stepping forward and revealing everything, but he could no longer take back the words that left his mouth.

If only Aisha hadn’t taken out that device and he didn’t recognize his own daughter’s voice in that recording, how could he have revealed everything?

He regretted it belatedly as he thought of a way to escape the punishment that the emperor would hand down if he didn’t say anything!

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