The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress
Chapter 41: I want to repeat history.

Chapter 41: I want to repeat history.

Madame Elene paused, reached a hand out behind on one of the shelves and got a small silver flask. She threw her head back and took two big gulps of the liquor inside before throwing it on the ground.

The look on her face was nothing but pure intense anger as if she wanted to kill someone or something.

"He took a good girl, and ruined her and he never looked back after destroying her life." She laughed, a few hysterical like sounds came from her mouth. "Do you know that there were titled young men that were willing to take her hand in marriage?

The son of the vicar, a young marquess from Brackenworth, two earls that needed secondary wives. She could have had her pick of suitors but she turned them all down because she was only eighteen, she wanted to marry at three and twenty.

Risa could have had a good marriage and lived a good life if only the king had not pursued her, promised her glory and compromised her."

Sigrid took a deep breath, "Wow, I feel for her, she was dealt a really bad hand, king Raff is a man that only looks out for his interests. He is selfish and calculative, even if he loved Risa Ann, he never would have married her as his queen.

He, more than anyone else knows the importance of a queen in ensuring that the power of the throne is not shaken and the legitimacy of his children is not questioned. I am not surprised to hear that he did not come back for her." Sigrid sneered.

Madame Elene nodded, "Anyway, my sister and I made it out of Sheepfield, we started this establishment, I work behind the scenes and do most of the heavy lifting while Francis is the face of the business, she recruits the women.

It was her that discovered Rina and me.....I saw an opportunity to make a lot of money and maybe get justice for Risa."

"What happened to the child?" Brolin blurted out a question.

Immediately, he apologized to Sigrid for speaking out of turn but she shook her head and gestured that it was okay.

"I want to know too, if you used that child to threaten the king, you must know where he is."

Madame Elene nodded, "I raised him, he grew up to be sword mage. I guess Risa was truly blessed by God for all the good things she had done because her son was born with magic.

I told the king this, and I told him that if he wanted to know the identity of that child he had to keep me safe and alive.

If I died under mysterious circumstances, there was someone I had entrusted with the information, it would be revealed to him and he would go with proof to make his rightful claim to the throne as the king’s first born son.

The king let me go, he did promise to take my head if that boy ever showed up and made such a claim. I guess he knows that the Kensington family will not sit back and allow an unknown bastard to take what belongs to prince Roland."

Sigrid tapped her fan against her hand as she thought, "Hmm, so you trained Rina to dance that moon flower dance and gave her the name Rina. You must have taught her to behave like Risa too."

Madame Elene nodded.

"Have you ever come across another woman that resembled Risa?" Sigrid leaned forward.

Madame Elene frowned. "No."

Sigrid winced, "Aah, that’s not good, the only reason why I am here is to get you to repeat history for me, create another Rina, or Risa and send her to the king’s bed. If you cannot help me then you are useless and I might as well get rid of you and burn this place to the ground."

Madame Elene shook her head frantically, "Crown princess, this is my life’s work, I implore you not to destroy it. What you are asking for is nearly impossible, people are not born with the same faces."

"Not exactly." Lanai stepped forward and knelt down, "Forgive me for speaking out of turn your highness but there is something that I have heard about in whispers. There is a technique for changing the skin of a person using knives and magic, you can make them look like another as long as it’s done voluntarily."

"Or you can buy a face changing pill from the bank, it’s only one million and nine hundred ninety nine cents." The system chipped in. "That is the equivalent of fifteen gold bars or three hundred eighty gold coins or three hundred eighty ounces of unprocessed gold. Do you wish to make a transaction?"

Sigrid blinked a few times, she weighed the options in her mind, losing one million dollars or going down the magic rabbit hole.

"You have lost your mind, that technique is not only painful and life threatening but it’s also illegal. No sane mage in Eldoria will do it, no matter how much you offer, That is the kind of magic that leads one down the path to being hanged." Madame Elene raised the pitch of her voice to express her dismay.

"Shut up." Lanai replied. "If you are not going to be helpful then don’t say anything."

"Calm down Lanai, I have a way of handling the face changing," Sigrid looked from her maid to madame Elene. "What I need to know is if you can train the new girl to act and pass off as Risa. Clearly, in the king’s heart Risa is a thorn, the woman he has never forgotten."

Madame Elene nodded. "I trained one, I can train another."

"I want the new one to be better than Rina, in every way. She should not just act as Risa, she should become her, her mannerisms and attitude should be innocent just like the original woman."

In her mind, Sigrid sent a command to the system, to check Elene’s loyalty.

Loyalty test.

Subject: Madame Elene

Percentage: 05%

Probability of loyalty switch: 50%

[Use brutal means to conquer or eliminate.]

"Since when do you offer advise on how I should proceed?" she asked.

Sigrid stood up, and approached madame Elene, she grabbed her by the neck and when Elene’s mouth slipped open, Sigrid dropped a pill inside and covered her mouth with her hand.

"Swallow the pill, there is no use resisting," she instructed. "You are not a good person but I also cannot say with absolute certainty that you are bad, but you are not loyal to me.

In fact, even if madame Elene did not swallow the pill, it would end up inside her because it melted as soon as it came into contact with her saliva.

"What have you given me?" she asked between coughing and hopeless attempts to throw up.

"Poison." Sigrid told her calmly, "From now on, I will provide an antidote once a month. It’s the kind of poison that will activate and kill you if you betray me." She shuffled her feet, looking at the door. "I have spent enough time here, my people will be in touch for the follow ups. If you need to see me in person, visit little Thorin and ask for the shopkeeper. If I were you, I would start training Rina’s replacement immediately because I have a lot more poison on me for the rest of your family. You have just one month to present her to me."