Chapter 79: Trap

    Les went out while Aurora was waiting.

    There was going to be the end year party tonight, so most girls were staying in their dormitory, dressing up to the best they could. They wanted to appear the best and no one dared to neglect in the slightest bit.

    So it was rare that there would be someone making trouble during this time.

    Aurora sighed and after a simple washing up, she changed her clothes. After she came out, Les came back and gave the information.

    "Miss, someone destroy Second Miss Adela’s dress and now, they’re trying to find the culprit."

    "Adela’s?" Aurora blinked her eyes.

    She felt that this sister of hers kept on getting into trouble again and again.

    The past year has been relatively peaceful and there were only some minor conflicts, but most of these conflicts always involved Adela. This made Aurora wonder if Adela had the talent to make trouble.

    Though, this time, it seemed that someone was targeting Adela on purpose.

    "Does she has any other dress?" Aurora asked.

    Les nodded. "Madam prepared several sets of dress for Second Miss."

    There were more than enough money to buy dresses since Aurora had secured many trades with the Red Kingdom and the others during her time as the diplomat. Of course, Aurora’s share was also a lot.

    It could be said that Aurora had amassed quite a wealth enough to buy a territory if she wanted to.

    Of course, she would not do that.

    There was no point in buying a territory.

    It would be better to use the money for more practical and useful things.

    "Then there’s no need to worry so much," Aurora said and then furrowed her eyebrows and turned to look at the window.

    The design of the dormitory was naturally quite spacious and there was a balcony for the students to come out if they wanted to. After all, the students in the Capital Academy were all noble sons and daughters.

    Their treatment was naturally very good.

    After practicing swordsmanships for a long time, Aurora naturally had better hearing than ordinary people. She faintly heard that someone was on the balcony and she silently took her sword and walked out.

    Les saw Aurora’s action and followed carefully.

    Unlike Aurora, Les didn’t practice any swordsmanship and so on. She didn’t have any talent like Aurora and was busy to serve Aurora.

    Tep.

    Stopping at the balcony, Aurora saw that there was a rope extending from the other dormitory towards hers and a girl was struggling, trying to throw something. When she saw Aurora coming out, her expression changed and she turned around, wanting to escape.

    Aurora snorted and ran forward, stepping on the edge and jumped into the other girl’s balcony before grabbing the girl’s arm and slammed her down.

    Bang!

    A sword was inserted right beside the girl’s head.

    The girl nearly screamed out of fear, but seeing Aurora’s cold gaze, nothing could come out of her mouth. The fear completely consumed her, making her unable to move or even speak a single word.

    "What do you want to do?" Aurora asked and her eyes moved towards the thing that the girl wanted to throw over. It was a piece of cloth wrapped in stone to make sure that the cloth would not fly with the wind.

    The girl couldn’t answer as she shivered in fear. "I... I..."

    "So you’re the one who destroy Adela’s dress?" Aurora asked.

    That piece of cloth clearly came from a good dress. There was still part of the stitching and Aurora could see the faint design. Since Aurora herself had many dresses and also bought them herself, she was relatively familiar with the cloth.

    And considering what had just happened out there, Aurora knew that this should be the cloth from Adela’s dress.

    This girl wanted to frame her instead.

    Thinking about this, Aurora’s eyes turned even colder.

    The girl shivered. "I’m sorry, I’m sorry... I didn’t know what I’m thinking, but I don’t want her to perform..."

    Aurora looked at the girl in front of her, her eyes flickered slightly. "Listen to my words."

    "Uh..."

    ...

    Knock! Knock!

    Aurora had already cleaned up when she heard the knock from the door. Her eyebrows arched and she nodded towards Les beside her.

    Les nodded and made her way to the door to open the door.

    In front of the door was precisely Adela and Mirabelle. The two of them often fought against each other, but they somehow got along in this strange combination. Those who saw them going together so harmoniously obviously felt that something was strange.

    But in the end, nobody said anything.

    After all, one was a duke’s daughter and the other one was Crown Prince Edward’s cousin. The two of them have their own backing and these girls didn’t want to dig their own early grave by confronting either of them.

    "Sister?" Adela asked, her voice was somewhat hoarse. It was clear that she was crying for a long time not long ago.

    Aurora raised her head and looked at Adela and Mirabelle. "Is there anything wrong, Adela?"

    "Can you help me?" Adela asked, looking extremely pitiful.

    If other people were to see Adela looked like this, they would have long stepped forward to help. While Adela was not the most beautiful person around, but her appearance could easily invoke pity on others.

    It was even more so when she was crying like this.

    Aurora looked at Adela. If this was a few years ago, she would have agreed right away with her sister. But after seeing Adela’s change, Aurora couldn’t really bring herself to care that much about Adela.

    This stupid girl.

    "What help do you need, Adela?" Instead of answering, Aurora asked again, her tone sounded gentle and caring but none of those emotions truly appeared within her eyes.

    Adela opened her mouth, wanting to say that she wanted to ask Aurora to help looking for the culprit when her eyes landed on Aurora’s balcony. There was a faint strangeness within as if she didn’t expect this situation.