Chapter 38: Chapter 38- One bird, two hunters

"Send a message to the Assassin Guild. We want them to kill Saintess Marianne."

'!?'

"Your Majesty, I don't understand. Instead of Princess Olivia, why are we—" The old man's sentence was cut short by Leud's interruption.

"Isn't that girl currently on the borders of the Selvius kingdom, involved in charitable deeds? What if she were to suddenly die there?" Leud was aware of Maria's actions.

Maria, besides staying within the kingdom's borders, had been visiting various places, assisting the impoverished who couldn't reach her.

"There might be a revolt?" The old man began to grasp the implications: the death of a weak, eleven-year-old saintess in the wilderness would render the kingdom, which had restricted religious groups from maintaining their own private armies within its borders, vulnerable and easily susceptible to the overthrow of the royal family.