There was quite a distance from Dietrich's mansion to the Empress's palace.
Because the area of the imperial palace was so large, it was inevitable that we would encounter palace people along the way.
The gardener who was arranging the twigs of the leafy trees and the chattering maids all stopped what they were doing and looked at one particular place.
“!”
That was a very rare sight.
The man with ebony black hair had a flawless and very beautiful face.
His smooth forehead, sharp bridge of the nose, tightly clenched jaw, and mouth that did not seem to know how to smile went beyond his indifference and at first glance seemed stoic.
His broad back and strong, rock-like body made them want to jump into his arms right away.
It was Dietrich.
Among the maids working in the imperial palace, there was no one who did not admire Dietrich. But he, quite honestly, paid no attention to anyone.
As rumored to be the Emperor's mad dog, he only stayed by the Emperor's side.
Even when holding a banquet at the imperial palace, he would keep his mouth shut even though many noble ladies expressed their interest in Dietrich.
It was a famous anecdote that Illeon's younger sister expressed a crush on Dietrich but was harshly criticized. Like this, he never gave up his side even if the opponent was a member of the Three Dukes.
The handful of maids who served Dietrich were congenitally blind women who had been abandoned by their families.
There was even a foolish woman who stabbed herself in the eye, hoping that he would hire her if she couldn't see. Of course, there was no such thing as Dietrich hiring the woman.
Dietrich was walking, matching his stride with a woman.
People could not believe what they were seeing before their eyes. Their gaze naturally shifted to a slender woman next to Dietrich.
She was a woman dressed in a dull, unsophisticated gray dress that contrasted with the golden palace.
Under the shattering sunlight, Seliya's long silver hair fluttered in the light breeze.
Her cheeks were as white and transparent as snow, with faint dimples, and the way her delicate eyelashes, like the flutter of a butterfly's wings, closed and opened to reveal fresh green eyes was truly out of this world, beautiful.
Although they had never seen her before, they immediately recognized the woman as the Angel of Brillion, a criminal who had been imprisoned for murdering the Emperor.
It is incorrect to say that her clothes are wings. Any clothing worn by an angel looks like wings.
Even those who had snorted after hearing the rumor stared at Seliya with blank faces.
She assassinated the Emperor with that fragile body that seemed ready to break at any moment?
The gardener who was arranging the twigs of the leafy trees and the chattering maids all stopped what they were doing and looked at one particular place.
“!”
That was a very rare sight.
The man with ebony black hair had a flawless and very beautiful face.
His smooth forehead, sharp bridge of the nose, tightly clenched jaw, and mouth that did not seem to know how to smile went beyond his indifference and at first glance seemed stoic.
His broad back and strong, rock-like body made them want to jump into his arms right away.
It was Dietrich.
Among the maids working in the imperial palace, there was no one who did not admire Dietrich. But he, quite honestly, paid no attention to anyone.
As rumored to be the Emperor's mad dog, he only stayed by the Emperor's side.
Even when holding a banquet at the imperial palace, he would keep his mouth shut even though many noble ladies expressed their interest in Dietrich.
It was a famous anecdote that Illeon's younger sister expressed a crush on Dietrich but was harshly criticized. Like this, he never gave up his side even if the opponent was a member of the Three Dukes.
The handful of maids who served Dietrich were congenitally blind women who had been abandoned by their families.
There was even a foolish woman who stabbed herself in the eye, hoping that he would hire her if she couldn't see. Of course, there was no such thing as Dietrich hiring the woman.
Dietrich was walking, matching his stride with a woman.
People could not believe what they were seeing before their eyes. Their gaze naturally shifted to a slender woman next to Dietrich.
She was a woman dressed in a dull, unsophisticated gray dress that contrasted with the golden palace.
Under the shattering sunlight, Seliya's long silver hair fluttered in the light breeze.
Her cheeks were as white and transparent as snow, with faint dimples, and the way her delicate eyelashes, like the flutter of a butterfly's wings, closed and opened to reveal fresh green eyes was truly out of this world, beautiful.
Although they had never seen her before, they immediately recognized the woman as the Angel of Brillion, a criminal who had been imprisoned for murdering the Emperor.
It is incorrect to say that her clothes are wings. Any clothing worn by an angel looks like wings.
Even those who had snorted after hearing the rumor stared at Seliya with blank faces.
She assassinated the Emperor with that fragile body that seemed ready to break at any moment?
The rumors heard outside the imperial palace that were dismissed as nonsense might actually be true.
Outside, they could hear people saying that Seliya had been falsely accused by someone who wanted to kill the Emperor and that she had not actually murdered the Emperor.
An extremely beautiful woman who got caught up in a whirlwind battle in the imperial palace.
But, why is that woman walking side by side with Dietrich?
He was Dietrich and no one else.
A woman accused of assassinating the Emperor and two people who are the Emperor's mad dogs.
People looked at the two as if they couldn't understand them, but thought they looked extremely good together.
Because both of them were unrealistically beautiful.
The men looked at Seliya and lusted after her, and the women stared at her with her eyes mixed with envy and jealousy.
The men stared at Dietrich with eyes filled with envy and jealousy, and the women thought that they would have no wish to be held in Dietrich's arms.
“Why are Duke Calypso and that woman together?”
“...I heard from my friend who works at the Empress’s palace that Her Majesty had called that woman aside.”
"Oh my God. She committed the crime of assassinating the Emperor, but was released without any charges?”
“I don’t know either. But she’s as pretty as a real doll.”
The maids lowered their conversation volume and looked at each other curiously.
“But what on earth are these two talking about?”
The maid lowered her voice as much as possible, but Dietrich could hear very well, perhaps because he had sharp ears. Dietrich looked down at Seliya with her dry face.
“Why don’t you walk faster?”
“...Are you bragging about having long legs? Can’t I at least hold your hand?”
Seliya held out one of her hands. The pale hand held out in front of him was much smaller than Dietrich's hand. Dietrich's brow furrowed when he saw this.
A momentarily forgotten memory of his came to mind. The hand that grabbed his face as he tried to move away and wouldn't let go was that hand.
His discomfort soared as he recalled the sight of her smiling happily while sucking on his lips so vigorously that it made them tingle.
“...”
Dietrich did not hold Selya's hand. He instead began to lead the way without saying a word.
“Follow me. Unless you want to get lost.”
“!”
Dietrich had already gone far away. His legs were so long that Seliya had a hard time just keeping up with him.
Dietrich returned to his normal stride, but it was too fast. It definitely looks like he's walking, but why is he going so fast?
Seliya started running to catch up with Dietrich. Seliya ran until she was out of breath and barely caught up with him. A wide lamp stopped in front of a large palace could not have looked so unlucky.
“You bastard.”
Seliya leaned against his back and muttered a small curse. At this, the corner of Dietrich's mouth lifted and a mocking smile appeared on his face.
The knights guarding the Empress' palace froze on the spot because it was their first time seeing Dietrich smile, even if it was a mockery.
Dietrich had almost no expression. He was expressionless every day, so much so that some knights even wondered if he actually had no emotions.
But the smile on Dietrich's face disappeared when he closed his eyes. The knights tilted their heads, thinking they had seen something wrong.
Immediately, a maid came out from the Empress’ palace.
“Your Excellency Duke Calypso, Her Majesty the Empress is waiting in the drawing room. I will guide you.”
Dietrich and Seliya followed the maid.
The maid stopped in front of a large room. There was a red ruby embedded in the very center of the golden door. Seliya thought that the red ruby was somehow similar to the color of Dietrich's eyes.
“Her Majesty, I have brought Your Excellency Duke Calypso and the criminal.”
“Come in.”
When the maid opened the door, her eyes caught the sight of a woman sitting on a soft sofa.
The Empress, with voluminous blonde hair and plump eyes, looked younger than her age, perhaps because she took good care of herself, even though she was middle-aged. However, traces of age were clearly visible in the wrinkles around her eyes and nasolabial folds.
The Empress's expression immediately hardened when she saw Seliya standing next to Dietrich, but she kept a faint smile on her lips as if it had never happened before.
“You are the sinner.”
Seliya instinctively knew that the Empress disliked her very, very much.
“I was curious to see if you were as beautiful as rumored, so I called you ..”
The empress's eyes swept over Seliya. A beautiful woman with long silver hair that looked like stars embroidered on her, white and soft skin, and fresh green eyes, she could be called everyone's first love.
Seliya was very beautiful. The light seemed to emanate from her whole body. However, no matter how beautiful Seliya was, it did not change the fact that she was a sinner.
Even though she escaped prison with the help of many men, she will forever live as a criminal who murdered the Emperor.
She was sure that the Empress herself would make it so.
The Empress lifted one corner of her mouth and laughed openly at her Seliya.
“Looking at you this way, the rumors about you being an angel and many man first love are all exaggerated.”
“...”
“It’s truly nothing short of ordinary. What do men lack? They are blinded by a sinner who is not that pretty... Tsk, tsk.”
Seliya agreed with the Empress. In fact, she was exactly what Seliya herself thought. She's been like that since she was young.
Even in the days when Seliya was the Princess of her kingdom of Shan, there were those who coveted her. It was truly a terrible thing for her that there were those who tried to do something to her when she was not even ten years old.
She said that once when the disgruntled Seliya complained to her mother, the Queen, she gave a truly outrageous answer of her own.
- Asha, it's because you are so beautiful.
Asha was Seliya's nickname when she was a Princess. Seliya's real name was Anastasia.
- Mother, is it okay to be greedy just because you’re beautiful? Do you know what happened just this morning? Well, my popo!
Popo was the name of Seliya's parrot. Seliya loved the parrot, which had red feathers and could easily repeat her words.
She loved Popo so much that she always took Popo with her when she went out.
His beloved youngest Princess loved the red parrot that her father, the King, gave as a birthday present, to the extent that no one in the royal family knew about it.
But one morning, Popo suddenly started shouting strange words that he had not taught.
- Princess Asha loves blue eyes! I love blue eyes!
For a moment, her heart seemed to sink.
Since Seliya always had Popo with her, people had very limited access to Popo.
The culprit was quickly caught because no one except her escort knight and her maid was allowed to touch it.
The culprit was her escort knight, Dylan. Dylan had blue eyes.
She couldn't believe that it was none other than her own guard, the knight who used to fight off men whenever they approached her, who had done such a thing.
Dylan spoke very little and did his job very well.
Believing that he was different from the men who used to throw lustful looks at her, Seliya would safely leave Popo to Dylan, never thinking that he would do such a thing behind her back.
Because of this, Dylan was forced to resign from his position as a guard knight, but Popo continued to speak.
- Princess Asha loves blue eyes! I love blue eyes!
Popo just kept repeating what Dylan taught it over and over again.
Her mother said, looking at Seliya, who was looking depressed, as she ran her fingers through her hair.
-...Don't worry. Someday, a true mate will appear who will protect you.
Seliya retorted, pouting her lips.
- Mom, what if that partner is weaker than me? Yesterday my father taught me how to use a dagger, and he said I was more talented than he thought.
- No, did he teach you that?
-Oh, my father said it was a secret.
-Dangerously! Do that to a kid!
It was her mother, making a fuss and checking her own hands. Once she was sure that Seliya's hand was not hurt, her mother let go of her hand and added,
- Keep this in mind. Your partner will protect you. From all dangers that threaten you.
Her mother spoke with confidence. Her green eyes, which she had inherited, twinkled, and her mother said what she said would never come true.
As Seliya expected, her mother's words did not come true.
Her once peaceful kingdom was reduced to ashes by the damned Abelon, her sweet mother and father were beheaded, and she herself was still the object of men's desire.
Seliya killed the Emperor 'alone'.
She came to Abelon after the kingdom was destroyed, hiding her identity and stuffing her body in luggage.
By the time she gets used to life in the back streets, she is adopted by the Brillion family, and she goes through all hardships until she enters the imperial palace, she has endured all this time to seek revenge on her own.
Even if the 'mate' her mother had mentioned would miraculously appear now that her body was in ruins and her life was terminally ill, it was a refusal on Seliya's part.
Seliya's mood immediately subsided as she recalled her old memories.
Seliya hid her emotions by lowering her gaze so that the Empress could not see her. Dietrich was staring at Seliya, who was staring at the floor with her cold face, her mouth twisted.
The Empress followed Dietrich's gaze and bit the delicate flesh inside her mouth. The Empress smiled a fake smile and ordered Dietrich to be congratulated.
“Duke, let’s go now. I have something to say alone with this sinner.”
Outside, they could hear people saying that Seliya had been falsely accused by someone who wanted to kill the Emperor and that she had not actually murdered the Emperor.
An extremely beautiful woman who got caught up in a whirlwind battle in the imperial palace.
But, why is that woman walking side by side with Dietrich?
He was Dietrich and no one else.
A woman accused of assassinating the Emperor and two people who are the Emperor's mad dogs.
People looked at the two as if they couldn't understand them, but thought they looked extremely good together.
Because both of them were unrealistically beautiful.
The men looked at Seliya and lusted after her, and the women stared at her with her eyes mixed with envy and jealousy.
The men stared at Dietrich with eyes filled with envy and jealousy, and the women thought that they would have no wish to be held in Dietrich's arms.
“Why are Duke Calypso and that woman together?”
“...I heard from my friend who works at the Empress’s palace that Her Majesty had called that woman aside.”
"Oh my God. She committed the crime of assassinating the Emperor, but was released without any charges?”
“I don’t know either. But she’s as pretty as a real doll.”
The maids lowered their conversation volume and looked at each other curiously.
“But what on earth are these two talking about?”
The maid lowered her voice as much as possible, but Dietrich could hear very well, perhaps because he had sharp ears. Dietrich looked down at Seliya with her dry face.
“Why don’t you walk faster?”
“...Are you bragging about having long legs? Can’t I at least hold your hand?”
Seliya held out one of her hands. The pale hand held out in front of him was much smaller than Dietrich's hand. Dietrich's brow furrowed when he saw this.
A momentarily forgotten memory of his came to mind. The hand that grabbed his face as he tried to move away and wouldn't let go was that hand.
His discomfort soared as he recalled the sight of her smiling happily while sucking on his lips so vigorously that it made them tingle.
“...”
Dietrich did not hold Selya's hand. He instead began to lead the way without saying a word.
“Follow me. Unless you want to get lost.”
“!”
Dietrich had already gone far away. His legs were so long that Seliya had a hard time just keeping up with him.
Dietrich returned to his normal stride, but it was too fast. It definitely looks like he's walking, but why is he going so fast?
Seliya started running to catch up with Dietrich. Seliya ran until she was out of breath and barely caught up with him. A wide lamp stopped in front of a large palace could not have looked so unlucky.
“You bastard.”
Seliya leaned against his back and muttered a small curse. At this, the corner of Dietrich's mouth lifted and a mocking smile appeared on his face.
The knights guarding the Empress' palace froze on the spot because it was their first time seeing Dietrich smile, even if it was a mockery.
Dietrich had almost no expression. He was expressionless every day, so much so that some knights even wondered if he actually had no emotions.
But the smile on Dietrich's face disappeared when he closed his eyes. The knights tilted their heads, thinking they had seen something wrong.
Immediately, a maid came out from the Empress’ palace.
“Your Excellency Duke Calypso, Her Majesty the Empress is waiting in the drawing room. I will guide you.”
Dietrich and Seliya followed the maid.
The maid stopped in front of a large room. There was a red ruby embedded in the very center of the golden door. Seliya thought that the red ruby was somehow similar to the color of Dietrich's eyes.
“Her Majesty, I have brought Your Excellency Duke Calypso and the criminal.”
“Come in.”
When the maid opened the door, her eyes caught the sight of a woman sitting on a soft sofa.
The Empress, with voluminous blonde hair and plump eyes, looked younger than her age, perhaps because she took good care of herself, even though she was middle-aged. However, traces of age were clearly visible in the wrinkles around her eyes and nasolabial folds.
The Empress's expression immediately hardened when she saw Seliya standing next to Dietrich, but she kept a faint smile on her lips as if it had never happened before.
“You are the sinner.”
Seliya instinctively knew that the Empress disliked her very, very much.
“I was curious to see if you were as beautiful as rumored, so I called you ..”
The empress's eyes swept over Seliya. A beautiful woman with long silver hair that looked like stars embroidered on her, white and soft skin, and fresh green eyes, she could be called everyone's first love.
Seliya was very beautiful. The light seemed to emanate from her whole body. However, no matter how beautiful Seliya was, it did not change the fact that she was a sinner.
Even though she escaped prison with the help of many men, she will forever live as a criminal who murdered the Emperor.
She was sure that the Empress herself would make it so.
The Empress lifted one corner of her mouth and laughed openly at her Seliya.
“Looking at you this way, the rumors about you being an angel and many man first love are all exaggerated.”
“...”
“It’s truly nothing short of ordinary. What do men lack? They are blinded by a sinner who is not that pretty... Tsk, tsk.”
Seliya agreed with the Empress. In fact, she was exactly what Seliya herself thought. She's been like that since she was young.
Even in the days when Seliya was the Princess of her kingdom of Shan, there were those who coveted her. It was truly a terrible thing for her that there were those who tried to do something to her when she was not even ten years old.
She said that once when the disgruntled Seliya complained to her mother, the Queen, she gave a truly outrageous answer of her own.
- Asha, it's because you are so beautiful.
Asha was Seliya's nickname when she was a Princess. Seliya's real name was Anastasia.
- Mother, is it okay to be greedy just because you’re beautiful? Do you know what happened just this morning? Well, my popo!
Popo was the name of Seliya's parrot. Seliya loved the parrot, which had red feathers and could easily repeat her words.
She loved Popo so much that she always took Popo with her when she went out.
His beloved youngest Princess loved the red parrot that her father, the King, gave as a birthday present, to the extent that no one in the royal family knew about it.
But one morning, Popo suddenly started shouting strange words that he had not taught.
- Princess Asha loves blue eyes! I love blue eyes!
For a moment, her heart seemed to sink.
Since Seliya always had Popo with her, people had very limited access to Popo.
The culprit was quickly caught because no one except her escort knight and her maid was allowed to touch it.
The culprit was her escort knight, Dylan. Dylan had blue eyes.
She couldn't believe that it was none other than her own guard, the knight who used to fight off men whenever they approached her, who had done such a thing.
Dylan spoke very little and did his job very well.
Believing that he was different from the men who used to throw lustful looks at her, Seliya would safely leave Popo to Dylan, never thinking that he would do such a thing behind her back.
Because of this, Dylan was forced to resign from his position as a guard knight, but Popo continued to speak.
- Princess Asha loves blue eyes! I love blue eyes!
Popo just kept repeating what Dylan taught it over and over again.
Her mother said, looking at Seliya, who was looking depressed, as she ran her fingers through her hair.
-...Don't worry. Someday, a true mate will appear who will protect you.
Seliya retorted, pouting her lips.
- Mom, what if that partner is weaker than me? Yesterday my father taught me how to use a dagger, and he said I was more talented than he thought.
- No, did he teach you that?
-Oh, my father said it was a secret.
-Dangerously! Do that to a kid!
It was her mother, making a fuss and checking her own hands. Once she was sure that Seliya's hand was not hurt, her mother let go of her hand and added,
- Keep this in mind. Your partner will protect you. From all dangers that threaten you.
Her mother spoke with confidence. Her green eyes, which she had inherited, twinkled, and her mother said what she said would never come true.
As Seliya expected, her mother's words did not come true.
Her once peaceful kingdom was reduced to ashes by the damned Abelon, her sweet mother and father were beheaded, and she herself was still the object of men's desire.
Seliya killed the Emperor 'alone'.
She came to Abelon after the kingdom was destroyed, hiding her identity and stuffing her body in luggage.
By the time she gets used to life in the back streets, she is adopted by the Brillion family, and she goes through all hardships until she enters the imperial palace, she has endured all this time to seek revenge on her own.
Even if the 'mate' her mother had mentioned would miraculously appear now that her body was in ruins and her life was terminally ill, it was a refusal on Seliya's part.
Seliya's mood immediately subsided as she recalled her old memories.
Seliya hid her emotions by lowering her gaze so that the Empress could not see her. Dietrich was staring at Seliya, who was staring at the floor with her cold face, her mouth twisted.
The Empress followed Dietrich's gaze and bit the delicate flesh inside her mouth. The Empress smiled a fake smile and ordered Dietrich to be congratulated.
“Duke, let’s go now. I have something to say alone with this sinner.”
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