Rose finally found out the tiny vessel, quickly pick it up to drink it but he liquid did not fall. She looks at the vessel closely, to only see a warn in it.
Inject the liquid in the vein.
Her eyes widen in shock, but she doesn't waste her time in reacting, quickly opens a portal on the ground leading her towards the Nursery.
***
The nurse could finally feel her body reacting, the tiny bottle empty on the table with pills laying on, the syringe on her arm, and the nurse laying on the chair.
Catching her breath after long minutes without her lungs working, she started to ponder.
"She... Amethyst, is a apothecary. How strong is her immune system? This makes harder to kill her with any venom, toxin, or drugs." She murmurs, sighing.
"Should i send a shinobi to kill her?" She ponders. "It's my only but risky option. She seems to not get out too much of the palace, i don't even know about her family or connections because she's too intelligent in the topic of 'hiding personal information'. The only way is if the murder happens in her own room, while sleeping... No, that would make the others assistants start an investigation in no time. but what about a suicide scene?"
Nurse Rose keeps for a very long time thinking, pondering about possibilities and how to execute it. She came with an conclusion.
"It's better i start to investigate my target. If i want to eliminate her, them it must be with a way that seems to be logical without involving hint that another person did it." She stands up. "Who is known for doing everything to satisfy its curiosity and haves a hobby of studying? The fourth princess."
Nurse Rose takes one of the pills of the table, munching it while walking.
"She's the only who haves the strong will and ability to take information from everyone, everywhere at every time, she must have information about Amethyst." Grabbing a cloth, and soaking it with ethyl alcohol, she starts cleaning the needle of the syringe. "If any outsider knows about The Garden, then must this outsider be silenced."
***
The third day day starts, with the sun rising in the sky along the clouds, and princess Dunishia was already up, with her golden yellow hair tied up in a bow form, her red ruby eyes shining like the own gem. She was walking with Wunxule b her side, heading towards her brother office to pass time and in one time or another annoy him, when Nurse Rose appears, searching for the little 10 year old kid.
"Your grace, good morning." Greets the nurse, bowing politely.
"Nurse Rose, good morning!" The princess greets back, with a small bow. Wunxule bow too. "Is there anything you need?"
"Yes, your grace." The nurse then starts. "I would like to ask if your grace haves any information about their highness' assistants?"
The princess tilts her head, confused. "Why? Is there an need to it?"
"Is for... medical documents renewal."
"Isn't that work of the physicians? They are the responsible for such work, not the nurses, if i remember properly." The princess places her hand on her chin.
"Yes is it, your grace, but one of them entrusted me of it. So, I wanted to ask, does your grace have information about them?" The nurse ask nicely. Too nicely.
"Sorry, but I don't have it." She responds.
"Oh... It's fine. Thank you for your time, your grace." The nurse bows before leaving, disappointed and angry.
The princess continue her way, walking until she goes on a turn.
"Your grace, why did you lied?" Lady Wunxule says, surprised, but in a low tone. "You even had details of the details about them."
"Lady Amethyst once told me: Never give information about someone to another one without a reasonable reason." *The princess responds confidently, but also in a low tone.
"But that was a good reason." Says the lady.
"Lady Wunxule, Physician Guilherme would never entrust this type of work to anoter person who isn't from the pharmacy. And even, did you notice the orange rock in the nurse's ring?" The princess point it out.
"That's actually a rock that help the user to read minds in a distance of 3,6 meters. It also have a very small frequency of lie detector but is not too efficient. If she put on, then that means that she would know that i have the information by my thoughts before responding." The prince explains.
"Then that was the reason why the answers were so quick, as if you did not thought much about?
The princess nod in response.
"very well then. You're becoming sharper and smarted these weeks." The lady praises.
"I am? Yay!!!"
***
In the prince office, the prince was relaxing in his office, seeing his assistants interacting with such enjoyable face for not only that but also that he has no works to do.
"I am the smallest between my parents and siblings." Amethyst says casually.
Aya jaw dropped on the floor, gasping loudly in shock. "What you mean the smallest?!? You're literally 1,75cm height!!!"
"2cm shorter than me." Says Tulipa with a giggle.
"You're the smallest, I am a what? An ANT?! I'm only 1,57cm height" She exclaims out, with an angry face. "How tall is you're family, Lady Amethyst-- Lun Re don't look at me with that face!!!"
Lun Re was with a cocky smirk in his face, a face that tells 'It's funny seeing short people complain' ,which annoys her even more.
The prince stands and goes to Aya, to annoy her more, he bents down.
"C'mon Lady Aya, don't be angry, being short also have its benefits." He reassures. "Even thou everyone here is tall, don't let that stress you out. Now Lun Re, come over here."
Without missing a beat, The prince holds Lun Re by his arms and sink his face in Lun Re's chest, after that day he would never lose an opportunity to do so. Lun Re was stands just there, accepting his fate. He couldn't blame the prince either, he is gifted with those airbags, who wouldn't?
***
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The princess arrives at the office, going directly to her brother. "Brother!! Brother! I want to tell you something." She starts, tucking on his clothes. "Did you notice how there is only one Nurse that doesn't use the crisp of the nursery?"
Wow, the kid notice!
"Sit down, we all must talk about this!!"
The assistants didn't question, and sit on their knees in the carpet forming a circle, the prince also sits but confused by the sudden 'secret meeting'.
***
"What if the nurse Rose is actually a spy from the other kingdom? She never used the nursery crisp, instead, she would use that rose coat of arms, of hers." The princess point out, showing a drawing she did of the object.
Right now, at this moment, I'm in a internal debate if I should tell them further or not, about some night researches, about the copy, the discovery I did...
The princess is already talking about this topic, then why wouldn't I?
"I have something to show about this."
Taking an object wrapped around a cloth from her uniform and put in the middle of the circle they did. The cloth start to open showing the copy Amethyst did of the coat of arms.
"I had founded the exact same object in the day we hunted the monsters on the cavern, but since I predicted that probably the owner would grab it back, I decided to make a copy." I explain.
The others gasps in surprised, the prince gives a nod for me to continue.
"I could precisely copy the object, but not the mana it possessed. That was my parents job, and was a success." Leaning closer, I form a triangle around the coat of arms with a red chalk.
Saying a specific phrase, the red triangle shines, showing the proliferation of mana the object possess. It was like a big black smoke, forming skull forms in the air. The smell was horrible, and nautious.
"Doing some researches and investigations, there's only one organization with one same symbol as this. The Garden is the name. Original from the other Kingdom Koraia."
"If one member of them is working here, them they must be into something." Says Lun Re, his eyebrows furrowed.
"Then we must be prepared for any attack of them. Lady Amethyst, the five days before the apparition of Madam of Magic in this kingdom are the most vulnerable to everything happen, correct?" Asks the prince, his tone serious.
I nod in response. "Yes it is. Everything can happen, reason why many magical spirits sended by the Dionisias will patrol around the kingdom."
"But we can't just give the alert like it's something casual, besides, Nurse Rose can notice our sudden movements." Exclaims Tulipa, before Aya gives an suggestions.
"What if this work not be executed by us, but by others 'common figures' of the palace?"
Everyone look at her in surprise.
"Lady Amethyst, even thou you're... Uhm... I don't know what word to describe you."
"Mad?"
"It can be that. You're also good at making connections very quickly. You were from the kitchen area before ascend to the job titles you have today—don't you have any ally or friend or connection from there?"
I ponder for a second before quickly noodling in response. "Yes I do, three actually. Natsumi, Opaka and Penny."
"Send them here, you will go along Lun Re." The prince was already writing a letter about the summon of the trio, assigning with his pen and giving the paper to Lun Re.
Sir Lun Re bows politely before standing up with me and leaving the office, both of us heading towards the kitchen.
***
As we go, I take my clock and start to move the arms of it, waiting for a brief moment until the phone appears.
"Who you are calling?" Lun Re tilts his head.
"We must also have a very close friend of mine aware this, he will be important to if the attack truly happens. I will also send him to the prince's office." I respond while bringing the phone to my ear.
Lun Re simply nods in agreement.
The phone rings for brief 30 seconds before him answering the phone. "Amethyst! Hi hi my darling. Did something happen?"
"Sume, good morning. I need you to come to the palace. As soon as possible."
***
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Nurse Rose was on the nursery, drinking juice and eating a sandwich, next to her a small black phone. Her hand hovers on the phone, waiting.
Once the phone rings, she immediately answers the call, bringing to her ear.
"You found it?" Aks Rick.
"Yes I did. Did you contract them?" Rose asks back.
"Yes I did. 5 Shinobis, four for the empress, one for our target. I liked the idea of distracting others with the empress attack while secretly happening a murder on the other side of the palace." He chuckles.
"Truly, but we are risking of happening an investigation and discover our organization."
"Don't worry about that, I founded an enemy of the estate and asked for him to do the contracting. If they investigate, he will be on the blame and not us. You know the deal."
"I'm trusting you, Rick. May this killing starts tomorrow, one day before the Lion gates shatter completely."
They both laugh, Rose laugher being subtle, but full of venom. Tomorrow would be a day full of surprises for the palace itself.
...crack...