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Kaoru again summoned the old woman Benn. She gave him a testament that proved that Kaoru was a son of Kashiwagi. Benn was a daughter of his nurse. When Kashiwagi died, he asked her to keep a role of paper relating the affair with the Third Princess. After twenty years, the musty documents were finally handed down to Kaoru, the illegitimate child of the Third Princess. It would have been a disaster if someone had founded out the truth. Trembling inside, he received them with outward calm.
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