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Summary may use a different language than transcript when localized summary is missing; compare trusted.chapter.summary_language and trusted.transcript.language.","citation_preferred":true,"untrusted_fields_separated":true},"trusted":{"series":{"title":"I Only Need the Duke's Child","slug":"i-only-need-the-duke-s-child-t7h7gek5","original_title":"I Only Need Our Child, Your Grace - 공작님의 아이만 필요합니다 - Gongjangnimui Aiman Pillyohamnida - All I Need Is the Duke's Child - Je n'ai besoin que de l'enfant du Duc - Solo necesito al hijo del duque - Від…"},"chapter":{"number":23,"chapter_key":"23-wpr3qm","release_date":"2026-11-09","last_updated":"2026-11-09T20:22:12.944Z","summary":"I Only Need the Duke's Child Chapter 23 opens with a conversation between His Highness, who is undergoing treatment for memory loss, and Her Highness, who deeply trusts him, and the chapter's turning point is a secret meeting at the theater. First, a report on the mana stone mine in the northwest is seen, followed by a discussion of the late Empress's place in happy memories and the memory loss after the accident at age 11. Afterwards, in the theater that serves as a front for nobles' private meetings, the mansion sale with Aciel, Argenta, and the identity documents are discussed.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"I Only Need the Duke's Child Chapter 23 opens with a conversation between His Highness, who is undergoing treatment for memory loss, and Her Highness, who deeply trusts him, and the chapter's turning point is a secret meeting at the theater. First, a report on the mana stone mine in the northwest is seen, followed by a discussion of the late Empress's place in happy memories and the memory loss after the accident at age 11. Afterwards, in the theater that serves as a front for nobles' private meetings, the mansion sale with Aciel, Argenta, and the identity documents are discussed.","key_events":["Secret theater meeting completes mansion purchase and delivers requested identity documents.","Delivery of wine called Clania's Last Chalice, payment to be sent to guild tomorrow.","Revealed His Highness was badly injured at age 11, lost memory, told loved one tried to kill him.","Healer explains memory treatment starts with happy memories, painful ones not forced.","Late Empress appears often in happy memories, reason His Highness avoids recovering memories.","Report presented that northwest mana stone mine mining is progressing smoothly and reserves discussed.","Post-divorce business plan discussed, capital not yet secured and help requested.","Theater stages Heroic Tale play about last divine beast Helios and human knight Arwen.","Theater revealed as cover for nobles' private meetings, loud battle scenes mask box sounds."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"THIS IS A REPORT ON THE MANA STONE MINE RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN THE NORTHWEST.\nMINING APPEARS TO BE GOING SMOOTHLY.\nTHE ESTIMATED MANA STONE RESERVES ARE...\n\nRATHER THAN FORCE OUT PAINFUL MEMORIES RIGHT AWAY, I AM STARTING WITH THE HAPPY ONES.\nHER LATE MAJESTY, THE EMPRESS, APPEARS VERY OFTEN IN HER GRACE'S HAPPY MEMORIES.\n\nTHAT MUST BE WHY HER GRACE HAS AVOIDED TRYING TO RECOVER THEM.\nSHE TRUSTED AND DEPENDED ON HER MAJESTY SO DEEPLY...\nTHE POSSIBILITY THAT SOMEONE SO DEAR TO HER MAY HAVE TRIED TO KILL HER IS WHAT FRIGHTENS HER.\nEVEN IF THAT DEAR PERSON MAY HAVE BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED?\n\nHER GRACE WAS BADLY INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT.\nWHEN SHE CAME TO, SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER ANYTHING,\nAND EVERYONE AROUND HER WAS SAYING THAT PERSON HAD TRIED TO KILL HER...\nGIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES, SHE MUST HAVE NATURALLY ASSUMED IT.\nTHAT PERSON TRIED TO KILL ME,\n\nAND PERHAPS I LOST MY MEMORIES FROM THE SHOCK.\nAND IF HER OWN MOTHER SAID THE SAME, SHE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT EVEN MORE.\nSHE WOULD NOT HAVE WANTED TO BELIEVE HER LIVING MOTHER WAS A LIAR.\nOF COURSE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE WANTED TO DIG INTO THE POSSIBILITY THAT HER LATE MAJESTY, THE EMPRESS, HAD TRIED TO HARM HER EITHER.\n\nHOW SELFISH.\nYOUR GRACE, HER GRACE WAS ONLY 11 YEARS OLD THEN.\nAT THAT AGE, JUST TAKING CARE OF ONESELF IS HARD ENOUGH.\nAND...\n\nYOU APPEAR OFTEN IN THOSE HAPPY MEMORIES TOO, YOUR GRACE.\nI DO?\nIT MEANS SHE TRUSTS, RELIES ON, AND LOVES YOU THAT MUCH, YOUR GRACE.\n\nSO PERHAPS IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOU TO SPEAK WITH HER GRACE ABOUT THOSE DAYS YOURSELF SOMETIMES.\nI SHOULD BRING IT UP MYSELF...?\n\nSO...\nYOUR GRACE, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LISTENING TO A WORD I SAID, HAVE YOU?\nDO YOU KNOW WHAT PLAY THAT THEATER IS STAGING THESE DAYS?\n\nAH, HEROIC TALE.\nI HEARD IT IS SET IN ANCIENT TIMES, WHEN DIVINE BEASTS STILL EXISTED.\nBUT REALLY, THE PLAY IS JUST A FRONT.\nON THE SURFACE, IT IS A THEATER, BUT IN PRACTICE, IT IS A WELL-KNOWN PLACE FOR NOBLE LORDS TO HAVE \"PRIVATE RENDEZVOUS.\"\n\n...PRIVATE RENDEZVOUS?\nYES. DID YOU NOT KNOW?\nACIEL...\n\nYOU'VE COME.\n\nI HOPE THE JOURNEY WAS NOT TOO DIFFICULT.\n...THANKS TO YOU, IT WAS FINE.\nTHOUGH IT TOOK SOME EFFORT TO CONVINCE THE KNIGHTS THAT I WANTED TO COME QUIETLY.\n\nTHANK YOU.\nTHIS WINE...\nTHEN IS THE PURCHASE OF THE ESTATE IN THE KINGDOM COMPLETE NOW?\n\nGOODNESS, YOU DO NOT EVEN GIVE ME A MOMENT TO BREATHE.\nI AM A LITTLE HURT.\nTO GET STRAIGHT TO THE POINT, THE ESTATE PURCHASE WAS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY.\n\nONCE YOU GO TO ARGENTA AND FIND THE PLACE WRITTEN ON THE COIN, THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE ESTATE SALE DOCUMENTS.\nTHIS IS CLANIAN...\n\"CLANIA'S LAST GLASS\"...?\n\nIS IT A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING?\nAND THESE ARE THE IDENTIFICATION PAPERS YOU REQUESTED.\nYOU'VE DONE WELL. I WILL SEND YOUR FEE TO THE GUILD THROUGH MY MAID TOMORROW.\nI AM GLAD I COULD HELP.\n\nWHERE ARE MY GLASSES...\nIT SEEMS THE PLAY IS ABOUT TO START.\n\nIN THE DISTANT PAST, SACRED ANIMALS PROTECTED THIS WORLD.\nPEOPLE CALLED THEM DIVINE BEASTS.\nTHEY CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLD AND POSSESSED POWER FAR GREATER THAN HUMANS OR DEMONS.\n\nTHIS IS THE TALE OF HELIOS, THE LAST DIVINE BEAST, AND HIS BELOVED, THE HUMAN KNIGHT ARWEN.\nIT IS QUITE AN INTERESTING PLAY.\nYET THEY NEITHER COVETED GREATER POWER NOR RULED OVER THE WEAK,\nINSTEAD DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO THIS WORLD'S BALANCE AND PEACE.\n\nA STORY WHERE HELIOS, WHO WAS HOSTILE TO HUMANS, SLOWLY OPENS HIS HEART AND GROWS CLOSER TO ARWEN.\n\"ARWEN\"...\n\nI THOUGHT I HEARD A WOMAN CRYING.\n...WAIT.\nCOULD THAT SOUND BE...\n\nTHIS IS WHAT THE THEATER IS LIKE.\nA PLACE WHERE SECRET LOVERS MEET AND MAKE LOVE...\nIT SUITS THE DETAILS OF YOUR REQUEST, YOUR GRACE.\nTHAT IS WHY THE PLAY FEATURES SO MANY BATTLE SCENES.\n\nTHE STAGE NEEDS TO BE NOISY ENOUGH TO DROWN OUT THE SOUNDS COMING FROM THE LOUNGE.\n\n\"GOODNESS, HOW COULD ANYONE DO SOMETHING SO INDECENT...\"\nTHAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOUR FACE SAYS.\n\nTO THINK SOMEONE SHOCKED BY SOMETHING SO MINOR IS PLANNING TO CAUSE SCANDALS WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE.\nDO YOU HAVE OTHER PLANS AFTER YOUR DIVORCE?\nWELL, FOR NOW...\n\nLOOK AT ME, NOT OVER THERE.\nFROM NOW ON, FOCUS ONLY ON OUR CONVERSATION.\n\n...FOR NOW, I AM THINKING OF STARTING A BUSINESS.\nI AM STILL DECIDING WHAT KIND OF BUSINESS IT WILL BE.\nON YOUR OWN... YOU MEAN?\nHAVE YOU SECURED THE CAPITAL?\nI PLAN TO SECURE IT SOON.\n\nI NEED YOUR HELP TO SECURE THE CAPITAL.\nIN THAT CASE, WHAT I LEARNED WHILE TRAVELING THROUGH VARIOUS COUNTRIES SHOULD BE USEFUL.","bubble_count":87,"pages_count":29,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"I Only Need the Duke's Child Chapter 23 opens with a conversation between His Highness, who is undergoing treatment for memory loss, and Her Highness, who deeply trusts him, and the chapter's turning point is a secret meeting at the theater.","spoiler_summary":"I Only Need the Duke's Child Chapter 23 opens with a conversation between His Highness, who is undergoing treatment for memory loss, and Her Highness, who deeply trusts him, and the chapter's turning point is a secret meeting at the theater. First, a report on the mana stone mine in the northwest is seen, followed by a discussion of the late Empress's place in happy memories and the memory loss after the accident at age 11. 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