Erphia kept pacing up and down the room in nervousness.
“Your Majesty, don’t worry too much. I’m sure His Highness will understand Her Majesty’s sincerity.”
Said Erpia's maid, offering her her tea.
"Yes? I’m sure the Duke spoke well to Jeremy, right?”
“Of course he will.”
“But where is this bastard Ben? No matter how hard I search, I can’t find him.”
Erphia bit her lower lip. Even if she tore apart Ben's limbs, which had pushed her into a corner, and kicked him to shreds, this frustrating feeling in her stomach didn't seem to subside.
Erpia had no idea that Jeremy had blocked all information going to the Empress's palace.
“Your Majesty, if you care so much, why don’t you go see His Highness right now?”
“...”
However, when she actually tried to face that face, she felt an instinctive reluctance.
Even though he was her son, Jeremy's broken face was so cruel.
At the same time, Dietrich's face came to mind.
Red eyes are located under straight eyebrows. A sharp jawline and a high nose bridge.
Shoulders that fall at a right angle, a large and sturdy physique, and a horse-like body hanging from the lower body...
Erphia's breathing became rough.
She couldn't believe he had betrayed her.
Originally, at this time, it was right to lie down at her feet and bark like a dog.
It's all because of Seliya that her plan went awry and was ruined. He must have been on her tail by giving space to men who were said to be the most powerful men in the empire.
Otherwise, she is an expert and there is no way she would find herself in a corner.
Just the thought of Dietrich and Seliya together made her feel like she was in the mud.
Erphia can't let Dietrich, who perfectly matches her ideal type, be possessed by such a mean thing.
When it was clean and untouched by anyone, she had to tame him to fit her body.
Erphia tried to wait until Jeremy ascended to the throne, but the continued stress was pushing Erphia to the limit of her patience.
Erpia, blinded by her desire, shook her head and said to the maid.
"No. Let’s go to Dietrich’s mansion.”
Her maid gave her a puzzled look, but she soon agreed.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“I was wondering how he was doing.”
Erphia wore a red dress that showed off her cleavage and painted her lips red.
With her corset cinched, her waist was cinched and her breasts plump.
After looking with satisfaction at her reflection in the mirror, Erphia left the palace with her maids.
However, the knights outside her castle stopped her from leaving.
Erphia was dumbfounded and glared at the knights.
Some of the knights were faces that Erphia knew well.
Because they were knights of Jeremy’s palace.
“What on earth is this?”
“....His Highness the Crown Prince told us to stop Your Majesty from leaving the palace.”
Erphia's complexion turned pale at the firm words of the knights.
“Jeremy said that?”
"That's right. I was told to keep an eye on them so that they could not even take a single step from the palace.”
“...!”
Erphia's hands were shaking slightly.
“I am Jeremy’s mother! There's no way Jeremy would do that to me, right? And, even if he did, does he think you guys can stop me? Before I was the Empress, I was from the family of Duke Gregrick.”
The knights glanced at each other's faces.
“Your Majesty the Empress. I’m sorry, but I can’t send it.”
Erphia tried to leave the palace, but she was blocked by the knights.
“Aren’t you afraid of Duke Gregrick’s anger?”
At the mention of Illeon, the knights hesitated.
Erphia felt her stomach twist even as she said it.
She is clearly the one who holds the power in the imperial palace, but doesn't the real power seem to be Illeon?
At that time, a heavy voice fell into her ear.
“Your Majesty the Empress.”
Erphia raised her head and looked in the direction from which the voice came.
There, Balt was standing.
Balt of the Portman ducal family.
“...Why is Duke Portman in the imperial palace?”
“There is nowhere in all of Abelon that I cannot go.”
Balt let out a chuckle.
It was truly a bold statement, but no one could say anything.
Rebelling against the Three Dukes was like rebelling against God.
And, how can a single knight defeat a sword master?
“... I heard that Your Majesty was abandoned by her son.”
At Balt's words, Erphia glared at him with bloodshot eyes.
“Who made up such a rumor? It’s all nonsense.”
"Well. Well, cheer up.”
Balt raised his fisted hand.
"Go for it!"
With those words, Balt gradually moved further away. Erphia slumped down in her seat as her legs gave out.
***
Seliya had a dream. In her dream, there were hundreds of small snakes. The colorful snakes wrapped around Seliya's body tightly, lashing out at her tongue. Seliya used her powers to escape. The scent of her hyacinths spread, and the snakes coiled around her body fell limp.
As she tried to shake off the snakes wrapped around her body and get up, a huge shadow appeared in front of her. It was a huge black snake, with a body dozens of times the size of Seliya's. The bright yellow eyes of a snake covered in black scales flashed sharply.
Seliya exerted all her strength and used her supernatural abilities. Her stomach churned and blood leaked from the corner of her mouth.
Hiss hiss.
The snake flicked its tongue and made a sound. The snake, licking its tongue, looked at Seliya and laughed, its mouth splitting open. ‘It’ in the shape of a snake is spoken in human language.
- Princess Anastasia.
Seliya opened her eyes. The bright sunlight mercilessly pierced her eyes, which had been engulfed in darkness.
When she woke up, her whole body was covered in sweat. It is truly an unpleasant dream. She must have had this dream because bad things happened to her one after another.
Seliya washed her face dry. She looked at the bed, but Dietrich wasn't there.
'It looks like he woke up first.'
When she wondered where he had gone, she heard a commotion outside the mansion through the open window.
“I heard the news. It looks like my brother gave you a lot of trouble. I apologize on his behalf.”
Hearing a woman's voice for the first time, Seliya leaned against the window and looked at the situation outside. Dietrich and a young lady with her pink, wavy hair were talking in front of the mansion.
“There is no need to apologize.”
“Why are you so ignorant of my feelings? I came here because I was worried.”
“I don’t understand why you’re worried about me.”
“...Why on earth do you hate me so much! It’s not like you found someone you really like, right?”
She must have been so sad for the young lady that she cried. Although the sight was a little sad, Seliya felt somehow at ease.
'...Comfort?'
Seliya tilted her head, unable to understand what she had just felt. Then, Dietrich's eyes fell on Seliya on the third floor. Unlike the look in his eyes as he looked at the lady in front of him, the look in his eyes as he looked up at her was soft.
"Yes. I found someone I like. So don’t come to me anymore.”
As he looked up at Seliya, her earlobes turned red as he spoke each word.
‘Isn’t this really crazy? How are you going to take care of it like that?'
Seliya shook her head and flung open the curtains. Reina looked blank, perhaps surprised by Dietrich's words.
She belatedly followed Dietrich's gaze and looked up to the third floor, but Seliya had already disappeared.
“Is that girl you like, Seliya Brillion? Is she, by any chance, at the mansion with you?”
Dietrich smiled silently. Reina's heart seemed to drop as she saw him smiling at her as if he loved Seliya just by remembering her.
“I don’t want any harm to come to my woman.”
“...”
“Okay then.”
Dietrich turned and entered the mansion. Reina stood there still, as if her soul had gone out, and then she walked away in a huff.
Seliya scolded Dietrich.
“What on earth are you thinking when you lie like that?”
“...”
Dietrich, who had been looking at Seliya for a while, opened his mouth.
“Isn’t it better than telling others that you and I are like dog and owner?”
“It’s not like that. Anyway, I am the Crown Prince's mistress now. If you get caught saying something like that...”
"Don't worry."
Dietrich added, wiping the sweat from Seliya's forehead.
“Because I have the power to protect you.”
What Dietrich said was true. He was a sword master, and the current imperial family has lost the hearts of the people. If Jeremy was a member of the royal family, Dietrich had great military power.
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