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FELT LIKE THE CASTLE WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY.\nA TAILOR CAME BY EARLY THIS MORNING TO DELIVER THE DESIGNS FOR THE BALL DRESS.\n\nIN THE EVENING, THE JEWELER IS SCHEDULED TO SHOW YOU PIECES THAT MATCH THE DRESS.\nI CHECKED THE ROUND HALL, I WENT TO CARLOS'S OFFICE TOO...\nARE YOU LISTENING?\n\nNOW THE ONLY PLACE LEFT IS...\nINSIDE CORNWALL CASTLE - ART GALLERY -\n\nI APOLOGIZE, BUT UNAUTHORIZED ENTRY IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED HERE.\nPARDON? WHAT DID YOU JUST... I AM NOT JUST 'ANYONE.'\nTHIS IS WHERE PORTRAITS OF PAST RULERS OF THE PRINCIPALITY AND THE GRAND DUKE'S FAMILY ARE KEPT.\n\nTHIS PLACE IS-\n\nACCESSIBLE ONLY TO HER HIGHNESS THE GRAND DUCHESS.\n'JIN VERGONA.'\n\nWAIT HERE QUIETLY.\n\nLET'S GO.\n\nWOW...\n\nTHAT WOMAN IS...\n\nDON'T LOOK BACK...\n\nRUN...\nTHEY ARE MY PARENTS.\n\nGRAND DUKE ALBRECHT HANNIBAL AND GRAND DUCHESS ELEANOR HANNIBAL.\nMY MOTHER LOST HER LIFE IN A CARRIAGE ACCIDENT WHEN I WAS YOUNG...\n\nAND MY FATHER, UNABLE TO SHAKE OFF HIS GUILT FOR FAILING TO PROTECT MY MOTHER...\nAND HIS RESENTMENT TOWARD THE KINGDOM...\nCLOSED HIS EYES THE MOMENT I BECAME AN ADULT.\n\nYOUR HIGHNESS... WH-WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE?\nA MOMENT AGO.\nYOU DIDN'T EVEN COME OUT TO GREET ME, SO I WAS BAFFLED AND CAME LOOKING FOR YOU MYSELF.\n\nI-I SHOULD HAVE GONE OUT TO MEET YOU... IT WAS MY FAULT, SINCE THERE WAS NO NOTICE...\n...I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE COMING TODAY.\n\nIT'S ONLY NATURAL THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW.\nPARDON?\nBECAUSE I CAME BACK SECRETLY ON PURPOSE WITHOUT TELLING YOU, JUST TO TEASE YOU.\n\nISN'T IT FUN—\n...YOUR HIGHNESS MIGHT FIND IT FUN, BUT I DON'T. THIS KIND OF PRANK IS GENUINELY UNPLEASANT.\n\nIF IT WAS UNPLEASANT, I'M SORRY. SOMEONE TAUGHT ME A LONG TIME AGO THAT AS LONG AS IT'S FUN, ANYTHING GOES, SO-.\nI DON'T KNOW WHO THAT WAS, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE YOU SHOULDN'T GET CLOSE TO!\n\nHAHA-I THINK SO TOO.\nOVER THERE...\n\nWILHELM HANNIBAL AND HIS WOMAN...\nTHAT'S WHERE THEIR PORTRAITS SHOULD BE HANGING.\nTHEN WHY IS IT EMPTY?\n\nWHO KNOWS...\nYOUR HIGHNESS-?\n...IF YOU'RE CURIOUS, WHY DON'T YOU FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF?\n\nWHY ARE YOU SUDDENLY ACTING LIKE THIS–!\n\nTHIS INSPECTION WAS REALLY COLD.\nAND... IT HURT.\nAH- IT HURT? WHERE-\n'RIGHT HERE.'\n\nI HAD A BATTLE WITH SOMETHING STUPID.\nDON'T WORRY.\n\nBECAUSE I WON.\nHNGH... YOUR HIGHNESS—!\n\nDOES IT HURT?\nIT DOESN'T HURT, BUT... YOUR HIGHNESS'S FINGERS—\nREMEMBER THIS WELL.\nIN THE PRINCIPALITY, THIS IS HOW YOU...\n\n...GREET YOUR HUSBAND.","bubble_count":69,"pages_count":32,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The Witch of Paitan Chapter 10 opens with the Grand Duchess, busy with ball preparations one week after Carlos left the castle, entering the picture gallery.","spoiler_summary":"The Witch of Paitan Chapter 10 opens with the Grand Duchess, busy with ball preparations one week after Carlos left the castle, entering the picture gallery. Stopped by a no-unauthorized-entry rule, the Duchess enters the gallery reserved only for the Grand Duchess accompanied by Jin Vergona and sees the portraits of Carlos's parents, Albrecht and Eleanor Hannibal. 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