“Ch, Chamberlain!”
“Where is the closest disaster site to the Imperial City? No, where is the most critical area! Wherever it is, I must go immediately, so hurry and prepare, hurry!”
How could you make the Emperor, who placed the highest value on his safety in the world, change like that, the Emperor who had not gone to the scene of a disaster for 13 years for fear that his precious body would be harmed?
I stood there blankly watching the Emperor flustered, then whispered softly enough for only the Crown Prince to hear.
“Your Highness, you were born into the wrong social status. If you had been born in a low-class family instead of the imperial family and had walked the path of a conman, you would have made a lot of money. I never thought you would have such a bad conscience that you would even deceive your own father.”
“Would you like to be the kind of concubine who turned her father into a slave with just one word?”
“...?”
It was just a pure exclamation, but the voice that came back was extremely cold.
I glanced around and saw the Crown Prince looking down at me with his cold, frozen eyes.
'Ah... I was about to do dominoes when I got caught, really.'
So now is the time to get beaten.
It was only then that I realized the sense of crisis and slowly started to distance myself from him, when the Emperor, who had been constantly harassing the chief chamberlain, suddenly shouted an order.
“Why is the Saintess losing her mind? Why don’t you hurry and prepare!”
“Yes? Me?”
When I opened my eyes wide and asked, puzzled by the sudden call, the Emperor raised his voice again as if he was frustrated.
“What do you mean, me! When I say that, I personally go to the scene, but you, a Saintess, are just going to sit around and do nothing in the palace?”
Yes! That's my dream!
The words that were about to come out instinctively were swallowed down by the Crown Prince's chilling gaze.
I cleared my throat awkwardly, but the Emperornshouted again.
“Why doesn’t the Saintess answer? Are you really going to send me alone into that dangerous place? Why don’t you ask?”
...That shameless person is really.
He was very proud of the fact that he was out in the field on his own, and he wanted to use me as a shield, to see if he would be stoned by angry people.
Even though it was only for a little while, thanks to that I was able to avoid the Crown Prince's punishment.
“Yes, Your Majesty! I, Shayne Veloce, will serve You with all my heart!”
I bowed my head to the Pope, making an exaggeratedly loud pledge, and hurriedly left the audience room.
'Extend your life!'
***
“...What the heck! I thought I was going to die!”
After cleaning up the Denver River scene with the Emperor and returning to the temple late at night, I fell onto the bed as soon as I entered my room.
I felt like my life was shortened by a year because I was more engrossed in my work than usual, keeping an eye on the Crown Prince all day long.
“That’s why it’s better to not rebel at all than to rebel pitifully. Oh my, it’s so shameful.”
As I was pounding my waist with my fist, I suddenly shivered at the thought of the Crown Prince's face.
“I told you, he’s a man skilled at drying people’s blood.”
Even though he was on site all day, the Crown Prince didn't say a word about the dominoes incident.
Just like usual, he'll be following me around and taking care of things I need.
But by never taking his ominous gaze away from me, he showed me that he had not forgotten it.
“It’s so dirty!”
It would be better to just break up once and for all. It was killing me to be worried about when I would get in trouble.
“Are you aiming for this? Then it’s a really high-level move.”
I was biting my fingernails out of anxiety, but soon I let out a deep sigh.
“Ha, I guess I should give up on escaping from the sainthood.”
No matter how I looked at it, I could tell that the Crown Prince was no ordinary person and that it would not be easy for me to escape.
“It would be quicker to figure out how to stop the disaster.”
I made up my mind, crawled to the end of the bed, and stuck my head out.
Under the bed, Delton was sleeping soundly, snoring loudly.
'Did you fall asleep in the meantime?'
Because of my clumsy rebellion, my already narrow position became even more difficult, and I was constantly being dragged around, so it seemed like he was having a harder time than usual.
'Should I just let him sleep?'
I hesitated for a moment, then shook my head. For Delton's sake, the future was more important than a short break.
I gently shook Delton awake.
“Delton, wake up for a moment!”
“Ugh... Why...”
“Hurry up. I have something to discuss.”
“Oh, what is it now!”
Delton sat up nervously, perhaps not liking the intruder who barged in while he was wandering in his dreamland.
“I thought about it, and this won’t do. Even if we run around for a hundred days, the period it will take for the disaster to stop is only a few weeks, so it’s inefficient to run around here and there trying to stop it. It’s just draining our energy.”
“What should I say again?”
Delton sighed and buried his chin in the carpet again. It was obvious that I had woken him up just to say that.
“Then what do you want me to do? That’s all I can do with my power. There’s no other way.”
“That’s why I’m saying let’s discuss it. We may not be able to stop the disaster completely, but there may be a more efficient way than what we have now.”
“How foolish of you. If there was such a thing, I would have used that method a long time ago.”
Delton looked at me with pitiful eyes and clicked his tongue.
'That's not wrong, but I'm still annoyed.'
I barely managed to suppress the fist that was about to reach out to Delton's forehead without me knowing and tried to ask calmly.
“But you never know. There might be a method you haven’t thought of yet. Think about it carefully, okay?”
“Huh, that’s a method I hadn’t thought of. I am a spirit who has lived for over a thousand years and will soon become a god! How could I have missed something... Huh?”
Delton, who had been laughing, stopped for a moment. It seemed as if something had occurred to him.
“Why, did you remember anything?”
“Now that I think about it, it seems like there was a proper way...”
“Really? What is that?”
I smiled and leaned my head in front of Delton.
He must have found it quite burdensome, as he pushed my face away with his large front paw and slowly raised his upper body.
“Hmm, let’s see. What was it?”
He looked very serious, with his arms folded and his forelegs crossed.
But that was only for a moment.
“Oh, I don’t know. I feel like there’s something, but I can’t remember it at all.”
He shook his large head and fell back down on the carpet.
He was yawning with his mouth wide open and blinking his eyes slowly as if he was about to fall asleep again.
“No, how can you do something like this after making people expect so much! Stop doing that and think about it carefully, okay? This is about our future!”
I became impatient and quickly grabbed Delton's mane. Then, I tried to raise Delton with all my might, but the opponent was a lion.
It was a huge beast, more than five times my weight.
“I’m going to die right now, what about the future? Don’t bother me and go away!”
Delton shook me off with just a light nod of his head and fell asleep again with his head back on the carpet.
“Delton...”
Gorororororo.
While Delton was in a deep sleep, I had to sit there for a long time, feeling defeated and helpless.
***
While waiting for Delton to wake up, I changed my mind.
“Yes, let’s give it time.”
Although it was an inevitable choice due to the difference in power between the races, isn't it true that memories aren't something that can be revived just by nagging at them?
I calmed my mind and waited for Delton to come up with a method.
But even after a day, two days, or even a week, Delton still couldn't come up with a solution. Delton's schedule was too tight.
During the day, he had to be led by the Crown Prince's hand and go around the field, and at night, he was busy just falling asleep, so he had no time to think seriously.
Chronic fatigue and lack of clarity of mind may have also played a role.
'This can't go on like this.'
Tired of waiting, I finally decided to take drastic measures.
I informed the Crown Prince of this situation and decided to take a day off.
We've also prepared something extra special for him.
“Delton, wake up for a moment.”
“Why are you waking me up again!”
Delton, who had been sleeping in until the sun rose during his first vacation, shouted in annoyance.
But that was only for a moment.
“Hmm? This smell...?”
He quickly raised his head at the delicious smell that clung to his nose.
“What is this smell? I’ve definitely smelled it somewhere. It’s so nostalgic, and it awakens an instinct buried deep inside my body...”
Delton, who had come towards me as if possessed, soon opened his eyes wide when he saw something filling up the table under it.
“This, this is!”
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