My Useless Tamer Skill Tamed the Emperor novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: The Throne Room Floor
The Regent did not go pale.
He went very red, and then very still, and his hand rose to the crown to hold it on.
"An impostor," he said. "A trick of the beast. Guards! Seize that man!"
Nobody moved.
The soldiers along the walls looked at the face on the dais step.
Then at the portrait ten feet above it, and the two faces were the same.
"Seize him!"
"Majesty," said a hoarse voice from the front of the floor.
It was the captain of the guard.
He had no hat, and his sword was already out.
He laid it flat on the marble and stepped back from it.
"The meat in the pen was His Grace's order," the captain said to the hall. "I carried it. I carried the order for the nets as well. I will say so before any court you name."
"You fool," breathed the Regent.
The grey priest was next.
He walked to the foot of the dais with his white glove held up.
He spoke in a thin dry voice that carried to the doors.
"I am the Duke's Rite-keeper, and I lied to this court. I will put my name to the true account, here, before you all." He lowered his hand. "I will say the rest in writing."
A sound went round the Hall.
Valdemar rose.
He stood a head above the dais steps, with the ruined silver collar at his feet.
Ambrose had slung a black cloak around his shoulders.
The red light of the setting sun still caught in his hair.
He did not look like a prisoner.
He looked like the portrait, with the tiredness gone.
"Take off the crown, Uncle," he said.
The Regent took it off.
His hands were shaking so badly that he almost dropped it.
The boy with the cushion ran forward and caught it before it touched the floor.
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