He comes running.
I have to tell him that I’m okay...
I had to tell him that I’m not dying right now.
However, I couldn’t make a sound.
I felt the heat of the body that the incarnation had dragged in beforehand swirling around the incarnation sword.
“This crazy...!”
Prince Tesla took his hand off the handle of the incarnation sword and glared at me.
I raised the corners of my mouth with all my might and smiled. My mouth was trembling, but Prince Tesla’s expression, filled with surprise and fear, was quite something to see.
I could clearly see Prince Tesla racking his brain to figure out how to get out of here.
If he gets caught like this, his mask is taken off, and it’s revealed that he’s Prince Tesla, it’ll be hard to survive.
It’ll be like trying to assassinate me, the former Empress and concubine of the Lapion Empire.
It’ll be a shock to Linel, but it’ll probably make things easier.
“Zelda!”
At Linel’s shout, Commander Macrom, who had been waiting outside, rushed in.
The moment Prince Tesla, who was flustered, tried to pull out the incarnation sword stuck in my heart.
Bam-!
Linel ran toward me, kicking Prince Tesla’s side with his foot.
“Ugh!”
Prince Tesla let out a gasp and flew away.
Linel ran to me, leaving Prince Tesla, who was lying on the floor in a mask, behind, and looked at me with trembling eyes.
He looked as if he had been stabbed by a sword.
Prince Tesla grabbed his stomach, got up, and hurriedly ran out the terrace door.
“Catch him! Never kill him, but capture him alive!”
Linel shouted, pointing at the fleeing Prince Tesla.
“I will end his life with my own hands...!”
His sharp eyes flashed in the dark room.
“I will catch him, Your Majesty.”
Commander Macrom, who had been waiting outside, immediately chased after Prince Tesla.
“Zelda, I promise. Oh, nothing will happen.”
He whispered in a trembling voice and knelt down in front of me.
Then he turned around and shouted.
“Call the Magic Tower Lord right now! Right now!”
“Yes, yes! Your Majesty!”
As soon as Stiane entered the bedroom, he ran out again in a hurry.
“It’s okay. It’ll be okay. The Magic Tower Lord will be here soon, so nothing will happen.”
He whispered while carefully touching my face with his trembling hands.
My voice still didn’t come out.
If I hadn’t been panting, I could have calmed him down a little bit, but the unfamiliar sensation was still circulating through my heart, so I couldn’t help but breathe raggedly.
The sound was almost like the sound of my breath stopping, so his face turned pale as he looked down at me, and his facial muscles froze.
I’m okay...
I could only convey it with my eyes.
I barely raised my hand.
Linel grabbed my hand and brought it to his cheek.
“Hmm... You know... Zelda... Keep looking at me.”
A groan of anger leaked out through his parted lips.
He was already crying with his whole body.
Sharon, who came in late, saw me and collapsed on the spot.
“Oh, oh, Your Majesty the Empress!!”
Before Prince Tesla appeared, I belatedly told Sharon the details of the plan.
Sharon, as I had guessed, strongly opposed it.
However, she knew very well that she could not stop me.
Even Sharon, who had heard in advance how the imprint with the Incarnation Sword would work, was shedding tears like that...
I wondered how much more painful this man, who knew nothing, must have been.
When I saw his disheartened face as if the world was ending, a pain greater than the pain from the Incarnation Sword piercing my heart just now surged through me.
I could only hope that the imprint would end quickly; there was nothing I could do.
The moment the red jewel on the Incarnation Sword’s handle was pierced into my heart, it began to emit light as the imprint began.
Linel’s face, which had been blank when she recognized the Incarnation Sword, became even more disfigured.
“The assassin... is he one of Roxana’s confidants?”
He muttered to himself, narrowing his eyes and clenching his molars.
But what was important to him right now was not the Incarnation Sword, but my heart.
As I looked at his face, which was suppressing his anger, I wanted to lose consciousness for a moment.
I couldn’t look at his eyes, which were filled with despair.
“Ugh, just hold on a little longer. Don’t lose consciousness... Got it?”
He spoke earnestly, crumpling his collar as if squeezing his heart. His sad face was much more painful than the incarnation sword being stuck in my heart.
Fortunately, the pain in my heart began to change into a sensation like pleasure.
“Zelda, the imprint is complete.”
The incarnation inside me spoke in a joyful voice.
Now it was time to pull out the incarnation sword. As the imprint was complete, a voice began to emerge.
“Your Majesty, please... pull out the sword, please?”
With each word, hot breath escaped from my mouth.
“Zelda, wait a moment. If you pull out the sword recklessly, your condition could get worse. It would be better to pull out the sword when the magic tower master comes.”
If it were a normal sword, his words would have been correct.
However, what was stuck in my heart right now was the incarnation sword.
There was no need to keep the incarnation sword, which had been imprinted, stuck in like a straw until the magic tower master came.
“Your Majesty... Yes, I’m fine. Nothing will happen.”
“Yes, you will definitely live. So, Zelda, keep looking at me.”
He took my hand to his cheek and spoke in a tight voice.
I felt like he was going to lose his mind... His face, holding back tears on purpose, looked unrealistically beautiful. If I touched his cheek even a little, tears would fall down.
He desperately held back tears because he thought it would make me suffer more if he showed tears.
‘Zelda, we don’t have time to wait until the Magic Tower Master comes. You have to draw the Incarnation Sword and let out the dead heat inside you.’
The Incarnation spoke seriously.
‘What should I do? Linel is right here?’
‘You just draw it.’
He’d be surprised, wouldn’t he?
The Incarnation read my thoughts and added an explanation.
‘You have to let out the old heat inside you? If you block it with the Incarnation Sword, it won’t be able to erupt and will spread through your body again.’
“I’ll explain, but first, please remove your hand.”
I opened my mouth, hitting the back of his hand.
“There’s a reason why this has to happen.”
As I tried to calmly continue my explanation, a crack suddenly appeared on his face.
His eyes shook anxiously as if someone had shaken them violently.
“Li, Linel...? What’s wrong? Where are you uncomfortable?”
He looked down at the two palms that were blocking my heart, then suddenly his face distorted and he made a pained expression.
I thought he was angry at my behavior, but that wasn’t the case.
“Ah... My head hurts again... Ugh!”
Linel pressed his temples with his palms and lowered his head.
“Your head hurts like last night?!”
He had been holding his head like that last night and was in pain.
Could it be that he was remembering me again today?
Linel felt like his heart had stopped as soon as he saw the sword stuck in Zelda’s heart.
No, maybe his heart had really stopped for a while.
The situation unfolding before his eyes felt unreal, and he couldn’t come to his senses at all.
“Zelda!!”
Only after he shouted her name loudly did he notice the dark object standing in front of her.
The object that he had thought was darkness quickly turned in his direction and moved.
He could see two eyes piercing through the black mask.
Why was the assassin in her bedroom?
Why was he targeting her heart?
The assassin was taken aback when he realized that he was the Emperor.
He fidgeted for a moment and tried to pull out the sword that was stuck in Zelda's heart.
At that moment, Linel moved his body and flew at the assassin, kicking his feet.
He wanted to twist the assassin's neck right away, but Zelda came first.
He could kill an assassin like that any time later.
'He won't die peacefully.'
Linel made up his mind.
He struggled to stand up, holding his hand on the side where the assassin had kicked him, opened the terrace door, and jumped down.
Commander Macrom and the knights followed him.
Since Commander Macrom was following him, Linel didn't have to step forward himself.
He approached Zelda.
He didn't know what to say, whether to draw her sword or leave her alone.
He had seen this kind of case countless times on the battlefield, but he couldn't bear to open his eyes and watch the woman he loved suffer.
"I'm okay. Nothing will happen."
Zelda said that even though the long sword was clearly in front of her.
Was it an illusion? Or did he want to believe it?
Even though she was panting, her face gradually became more lively.
"I must be crazy."
Linel rubbed his eyes hard with his hand several times as he thought that.
At that moment, Zelda grabbed the sword with both hands and pulled it out.
It happened without him having time to stop it.
He tried not to tremble, but his mouth would not close as he saw the red blood gushing from her heart.
However, Zelda spoke again.
“Don’t worry... It will get better soon.”
Her relaxed appearance actually amplified his anxiety.
“I called the Magic Tower Master, so he will be here soon. So just hold on, just hold on for a little while...”
Zelda smiled at Linel’s earnest request. He absolutely could not show his tears in front of her.
He gritted his teeth and held them back.
Whenever tears welled up, he turned his head and quickly wiped them away.
When he choked up while speaking, he briefly closed his mouth and suppressed the intense emotions that were rising.
He stopped the blood flowing from her heart with both hands.
However, Zelda became serious.
“Your Majesty, I have to let the blood flow. Please take your hands off me!”
He looked at her with a puzzled look.
He wanted to ask her what she meant, but he felt that he shouldn’t tell her now.
He had no choice but to slowly remove his hands from her heart.
“...Ah!”
Linel’s face distorted.
His head hurt so much it felt like it was going to burst.
He had this headache yesterday too, but this was incomparable to that. He lowered his head, not wanting to show his pain in front of the person whose heart had been stabbed with a sword.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty? What’s wrong?”
Zelda’s worried voice was heard.
Who is worrying about whom right now?
He couldn’t raise his head because his head felt like it was going to burst, and he raised one hand to show that it was okay.
A few seconds later, Zelda’s face appeared vaguely in Linel’s mind.
“I’m not the real Empress.”
He saw her face, confessing with tears in her eyes. She was wearing a crown on her head, so it seemed like she had been the Empress when she was.
Lost memories kept coming back to him along with his headache.
You confessed to me with such a sad face...
She confessed to him that she was the ‘acting Empress’ with a painful expression that was not much different from now.
The scene changed.
“Oh? I greeted you kindly, waving my hand, and now you're sticking a sword in my face when we first met? You're as cold as I thought, Master. Right, Master?'
A wyvern? A baby wyvern was sitting on Zelda's shoulder and glaring at him. It was surprising that there was a wyvern in the Lapion Palace, but how could he call Zelda Master? In his memory, he was drawing his sword at the baby wyvern. Then Zelda calmed him down. The baby wyvern, whom she called Moiya, approached him, twisted its body, and asked shyly,
I have to tell him that I’m okay...
I had to tell him that I’m not dying right now.
However, I couldn’t make a sound.
I felt the heat of the body that the incarnation had dragged in beforehand swirling around the incarnation sword.
“This crazy...!”
Prince Tesla took his hand off the handle of the incarnation sword and glared at me.
I raised the corners of my mouth with all my might and smiled. My mouth was trembling, but Prince Tesla’s expression, filled with surprise and fear, was quite something to see.
I could clearly see Prince Tesla racking his brain to figure out how to get out of here.
If he gets caught like this, his mask is taken off, and it’s revealed that he’s Prince Tesla, it’ll be hard to survive.
It’ll be like trying to assassinate me, the former Empress and concubine of the Lapion Empire.
It’ll be a shock to Linel, but it’ll probably make things easier.
“Zelda!”
At Linel’s shout, Commander Macrom, who had been waiting outside, rushed in.
The moment Prince Tesla, who was flustered, tried to pull out the incarnation sword stuck in my heart.
Bam-!
Linel ran toward me, kicking Prince Tesla’s side with his foot.
“Ugh!”
Prince Tesla let out a gasp and flew away.
Linel ran to me, leaving Prince Tesla, who was lying on the floor in a mask, behind, and looked at me with trembling eyes.
He looked as if he had been stabbed by a sword.
Prince Tesla grabbed his stomach, got up, and hurriedly ran out the terrace door.
“Catch him! Never kill him, but capture him alive!”
Linel shouted, pointing at the fleeing Prince Tesla.
“I will end his life with my own hands...!”
His sharp eyes flashed in the dark room.
“I will catch him, Your Majesty.”
Commander Macrom, who had been waiting outside, immediately chased after Prince Tesla.
“Zelda, I promise. Oh, nothing will happen.”
He whispered in a trembling voice and knelt down in front of me.
Then he turned around and shouted.
“Call the Magic Tower Lord right now! Right now!”
“Yes, yes! Your Majesty!”
As soon as Stiane entered the bedroom, he ran out again in a hurry.
“It’s okay. It’ll be okay. The Magic Tower Lord will be here soon, so nothing will happen.”
He whispered while carefully touching my face with his trembling hands.
My voice still didn’t come out.
If I hadn’t been panting, I could have calmed him down a little bit, but the unfamiliar sensation was still circulating through my heart, so I couldn’t help but breathe raggedly.
The sound was almost like the sound of my breath stopping, so his face turned pale as he looked down at me, and his facial muscles froze.
I’m okay...
I could only convey it with my eyes.
I barely raised my hand.
Linel grabbed my hand and brought it to his cheek.
“Hmm... You know... Zelda... Keep looking at me.”
A groan of anger leaked out through his parted lips.
He was already crying with his whole body.
Sharon, who came in late, saw me and collapsed on the spot.
“Oh, oh, Your Majesty the Empress!!”
Before Prince Tesla appeared, I belatedly told Sharon the details of the plan.
Sharon, as I had guessed, strongly opposed it.
However, she knew very well that she could not stop me.
Even Sharon, who had heard in advance how the imprint with the Incarnation Sword would work, was shedding tears like that...
I wondered how much more painful this man, who knew nothing, must have been.
When I saw his disheartened face as if the world was ending, a pain greater than the pain from the Incarnation Sword piercing my heart just now surged through me.
I could only hope that the imprint would end quickly; there was nothing I could do.
The moment the red jewel on the Incarnation Sword’s handle was pierced into my heart, it began to emit light as the imprint began.
Linel’s face, which had been blank when she recognized the Incarnation Sword, became even more disfigured.
“The assassin... is he one of Roxana’s confidants?”
He muttered to himself, narrowing his eyes and clenching his molars.
But what was important to him right now was not the Incarnation Sword, but my heart.
As I looked at his face, which was suppressing his anger, I wanted to lose consciousness for a moment.
I couldn’t look at his eyes, which were filled with despair.
“Ugh, just hold on a little longer. Don’t lose consciousness... Got it?”
He spoke earnestly, crumpling his collar as if squeezing his heart. His sad face was much more painful than the incarnation sword being stuck in my heart.
Fortunately, the pain in my heart began to change into a sensation like pleasure.
“Zelda, the imprint is complete.”
The incarnation inside me spoke in a joyful voice.
Now it was time to pull out the incarnation sword. As the imprint was complete, a voice began to emerge.
“Your Majesty, please... pull out the sword, please?”
With each word, hot breath escaped from my mouth.
“Zelda, wait a moment. If you pull out the sword recklessly, your condition could get worse. It would be better to pull out the sword when the magic tower master comes.”
If it were a normal sword, his words would have been correct.
However, what was stuck in my heart right now was the incarnation sword.
There was no need to keep the incarnation sword, which had been imprinted, stuck in like a straw until the magic tower master came.
“Your Majesty... Yes, I’m fine. Nothing will happen.”
“Yes, you will definitely live. So, Zelda, keep looking at me.”
He took my hand to his cheek and spoke in a tight voice.
I felt like he was going to lose his mind... His face, holding back tears on purpose, looked unrealistically beautiful. If I touched his cheek even a little, tears would fall down.
He desperately held back tears because he thought it would make me suffer more if he showed tears.
‘Zelda, we don’t have time to wait until the Magic Tower Master comes. You have to draw the Incarnation Sword and let out the dead heat inside you.’
The Incarnation spoke seriously.
‘What should I do? Linel is right here?’
‘You just draw it.’
He’d be surprised, wouldn’t he?
The Incarnation read my thoughts and added an explanation.
‘You have to let out the old heat inside you? If you block it with the Incarnation Sword, it won’t be able to erupt and will spread through your body again.’
He said that if that happened, I would have no choice but to continue suffering from the fever I had suffered from once in a while.
Knowing all too well the pain of being thrown into a pit of fire, I immediately grabbed the Incarnation Sword with both hands as soon as I heard those words.
“Zelda...? What are you doing! It’s dangerous if you touch it...!”
“Ugh, ugh!”
I quickly pulled the Incarnation Sword out of me before he could stop me.
As the Incarnation Sword was pulled out, blood poured out of my heart, and I felt the old heat that had been tormenting me drain away.
The wound where the sword had stabbed me felt cool, as if it had been wrapped in mint.
Linel urgently blocked the blood from my heart with both hands and raised his voice.
“Why... Why... Are you doing such a dangerous thing!”
Knowing all too well the pain of being thrown into a pit of fire, I immediately grabbed the Incarnation Sword with both hands as soon as I heard those words.
“Zelda...? What are you doing! It’s dangerous if you touch it...!”
“Ugh, ugh!”
I quickly pulled the Incarnation Sword out of me before he could stop me.
As the Incarnation Sword was pulled out, blood poured out of my heart, and I felt the old heat that had been tormenting me drain away.
The wound where the sword had stabbed me felt cool, as if it had been wrapped in mint.
Linel urgently blocked the blood from my heart with both hands and raised his voice.
“Why... Why... Are you doing such a dangerous thing!”
“I’ll explain, but first, please remove your hand.”
I opened my mouth, hitting the back of his hand.
“There’s a reason why this has to happen.”
As I tried to calmly continue my explanation, a crack suddenly appeared on his face.
His eyes shook anxiously as if someone had shaken them violently.
“Li, Linel...? What’s wrong? Where are you uncomfortable?”
He looked down at the two palms that were blocking my heart, then suddenly his face distorted and he made a pained expression.
I thought he was angry at my behavior, but that wasn’t the case.
“Ah... My head hurts again... Ugh!”
Linel pressed his temples with his palms and lowered his head.
“Your head hurts like last night?!”
He had been holding his head like that last night and was in pain.
Could it be that he was remembering me again today?
***
Linel felt like his heart had stopped as soon as he saw the sword stuck in Zelda’s heart.
No, maybe his heart had really stopped for a while.
The situation unfolding before his eyes felt unreal, and he couldn’t come to his senses at all.
“Zelda!!”
Only after he shouted her name loudly did he notice the dark object standing in front of her.
The object that he had thought was darkness quickly turned in his direction and moved.
He could see two eyes piercing through the black mask.
Why was the assassin in her bedroom?
Why was he targeting her heart?
The assassin was taken aback when he realized that he was the Emperor.
He fidgeted for a moment and tried to pull out the sword that was stuck in Zelda's heart.
At that moment, Linel moved his body and flew at the assassin, kicking his feet.
He wanted to twist the assassin's neck right away, but Zelda came first.
He could kill an assassin like that any time later.
'He won't die peacefully.'
Linel made up his mind.
He struggled to stand up, holding his hand on the side where the assassin had kicked him, opened the terrace door, and jumped down.
Commander Macrom and the knights followed him.
Since Commander Macrom was following him, Linel didn't have to step forward himself.
He approached Zelda.
He didn't know what to say, whether to draw her sword or leave her alone.
He had seen this kind of case countless times on the battlefield, but he couldn't bear to open his eyes and watch the woman he loved suffer.
"I'm okay. Nothing will happen."
Zelda said that even though the long sword was clearly in front of her.
Was it an illusion? Or did he want to believe it?
Even though she was panting, her face gradually became more lively.
"I must be crazy."
Linel rubbed his eyes hard with his hand several times as he thought that.
At that moment, Zelda grabbed the sword with both hands and pulled it out.
It happened without him having time to stop it.
He tried not to tremble, but his mouth would not close as he saw the red blood gushing from her heart.
However, Zelda spoke again.
“Don’t worry... It will get better soon.”
Her relaxed appearance actually amplified his anxiety.
“I called the Magic Tower Master, so he will be here soon. So just hold on, just hold on for a little while...”
Zelda smiled at Linel’s earnest request. He absolutely could not show his tears in front of her.
He gritted his teeth and held them back.
Whenever tears welled up, he turned his head and quickly wiped them away.
When he choked up while speaking, he briefly closed his mouth and suppressed the intense emotions that were rising.
He stopped the blood flowing from her heart with both hands.
However, Zelda became serious.
“Your Majesty, I have to let the blood flow. Please take your hands off me!”
He looked at her with a puzzled look.
He wanted to ask her what she meant, but he felt that he shouldn’t tell her now.
He had no choice but to slowly remove his hands from her heart.
“...Ah!”
Linel’s face distorted.
His head hurt so much it felt like it was going to burst.
He had this headache yesterday too, but this was incomparable to that. He lowered his head, not wanting to show his pain in front of the person whose heart had been stabbed with a sword.
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty? What’s wrong?”
Zelda’s worried voice was heard.
Who is worrying about whom right now?
He couldn’t raise his head because his head felt like it was going to burst, and he raised one hand to show that it was okay.
A few seconds later, Zelda’s face appeared vaguely in Linel’s mind.
“I’m not the real Empress.”
He saw her face, confessing with tears in her eyes. She was wearing a crown on her head, so it seemed like she had been the Empress when she was.
Lost memories kept coming back to him along with his headache.
You confessed to me with such a sad face...
She confessed to him that she was the ‘acting Empress’ with a painful expression that was not much different from now.
The scene changed.
“Oh? I greeted you kindly, waving my hand, and now you're sticking a sword in my face when we first met? You're as cold as I thought, Master. Right, Master?'
A wyvern? A baby wyvern was sitting on Zelda's shoulder and glaring at him. It was surprising that there was a wyvern in the Lapion Palace, but how could he call Zelda Master? In his memory, he was drawing his sword at the baby wyvern. Then Zelda calmed him down. The baby wyvern, whom she called Moiya, approached him, twisted its body, and asked shyly,
'Your Majesty! I want to spend the night with you, Moiya~ Can I sleep over tonight?'
Before the shock had even subsided, his memories naturally flew to another day. The memory began with him holding Zelda in his arms in what seemed to be a wine cellar. As he was about to go out toward the large wooden door, a fire monster was flying toward his face.
'No! Ha, aaaah!'
The fire monster was about to cover his face, but she blocked it with her hand. And in the connected scene, she was groaning in bed. She had been infected by the evil spirit instead of him. When the fragmentary scenes unfolded, Linel could naturally understand the situation without having to explain it in detail.
Why did she do such a reckless thing!
As his heart was pounding, another day's Zelda appeared, shyly grabbing his sleeve.
'You know, Linel... '
'Ues?'
'When we meet again in the Tebello Empire, then...'
Before she could continue, her words first came to his mind. She said she wanted to have a child...
'Let's have our child.'
As expected, the girl in his memory said that.
Zelda's face, smiling beautifully and clinging to his arm.
Her face, filled with anticipation, was so lovely.
When he blinked, he saw his own tearful face.
He was crying as he watched her leave on horseback, perhaps on the day he sent Zelda off to the Tebello Empire.
Why did he lose his memories of her after that? Was it because the breakup was so heartbreaking and shocking?
No, that didn't make sense.
His head rang, and his memory was cut off.
He raised his head and looked at her.
The Zelda in his memories she were always beautiful.
In his memory, there was never a day that wasn’t love.
It felt like quite a bit of time had passed.
Why did she do such a reckless thing!
As his heart was pounding, another day's Zelda appeared, shyly grabbing his sleeve.
'You know, Linel... '
'Ues?'
'When we meet again in the Tebello Empire, then...'
Before she could continue, her words first came to his mind. She said she wanted to have a child...
'Let's have our child.'
As expected, the girl in his memory said that.
Zelda's face, smiling beautifully and clinging to his arm.
Her face, filled with anticipation, was so lovely.
When he blinked, he saw his own tearful face.
He was crying as he watched her leave on horseback, perhaps on the day he sent Zelda off to the Tebello Empire.
Why did he lose his memories of her after that? Was it because the breakup was so heartbreaking and shocking?
No, that didn't make sense.
His head rang, and his memory was cut off.
He raised his head and looked at her.
The Zelda in his memories she were always beautiful.
In his memory, there was never a day that wasn’t love.
It felt like quite a bit of time had passed.
“How long was I... like this?”
“Hmm, it didn’t even feel like a minute.”
“Oh, really?”
All those memories came to mind in under a minute.
Linel made a dejected expression.
The door opened wide, and the Magic Tower Lord came in.
“Your Majesty, the Empress!”
“The Incarnation Sword stabbed jer heart.”
Linel got up from the floor and said to Bellos.
“Magic Tower Lord, I’m okay.”
“You can save her, right? You’re not just a wizard, you’re a Magic Tower Lord.”
Linel said as if he was sure Bellos would save her.
Before meeting Stiane in the middle, Bellos said,
“Master made an imprint with the Incarnation Sword, Moiya~.”
“Hmm, it didn’t even feel like a minute.”
“Oh, really?”
All those memories came to mind in under a minute.
Linel made a dejected expression.
The door opened wide, and the Magic Tower Lord came in.
“Your Majesty, the Empress!”
“The Incarnation Sword stabbed jer heart.”
Linel got up from the floor and said to Bellos.
“Magic Tower Lord, I’m okay.”
“You can save her, right? You’re not just a wizard, you’re a Magic Tower Lord.”
Linel said as if he was sure Bellos would save her.
Before meeting Stiane in the middle, Bellos said,
“Master made an imprint with the Incarnation Sword, Moiya~.”
He had already heard the situation from Moiya and was on his way to Zelda’s residence in a hurry.
Even Bellos, who had held the Incarnation Sword for so many years, didn’t know how the imprint with the Incarnation Sword was done.
'The Avatar must have told Zelda.'
A mixture of relief and emptiness tormented Bellos's mind throughout the journey to her palace.
Wielding the Avatar Sword was the job of the chosen ones.
He felt ashamed of himself for trying to take Zelda as his companion to make the Avatar and the Avatar Sword his own again, without even knowing that.
The Avatar had disappeared from his body long ago, so he must have instinctively known that he was not the master he should serve and left.
'I thought the Avatar and the Avatar Sword were originally mine...'
It was nothing more than a vain delusion.
The Magic Tower Master turned his gaze from Zelda to Linel.
The Emperor's calm face, which did not look like it would bleed even if he stabbed him, was filled with fear and anxiety.
"Her life will be in no danger. The Avatar Sword and... are imprinted."
"...Imprinted?"
Linel looked at Zelda and then turned his gaze to Bellos.
"Your Majesty has lost your memories, so you may not know, but Your Majesty, the Empress, possesses the power of fire. If the Incarnation Sword meets the power of fire...”
“Wait, you’ll explain later. With the Incarnation Sword and the seal, is there no danger to his life?”
Linel interrupted Bellos and grabbed his arm tightly, asking.
“Yes, not only is there no danger to her life, but her stamina will also become stronger, so don’t worry.”
Linel recalled the baby wyvern calling her master.
He thought that the wyvern, the Incarnation Sword, and the fire power she possessed were all related.
He had known for a long time that both the wyvern and the Incarnation Sword were powered by the power of fire. He thought he now understood why he felt particularly drawn to Zelda.
Not only did he react in the same way when he was under the hypothermia curse, but Joseph also reacted in the same way.
Even Joseph, who was trapped in the cursed ice, had said that the cursed ice began to crack after Zelda left.
“Zelda, I’m going to step out for a moment. Don’t lose consciousness until I return. It’s the Emperor’s order.”
Linel leaned down and whispered, caressing Zelda’s forehead.
It was too affectionate a voice for an order.
She smiled and nodded.
“Please stay by my side until I return. Please.”
“Yes, Your Majesty...”
Zelda’s heavy breathing had calmed down, so he was able to leave her in the care of the Magic Tower Master.
Linel stared at her face for a moment, then jumped out the terrace door in one breath.
Now, it was time to deal with the assassin.
Even Bellos, who had held the Incarnation Sword for so many years, didn’t know how the imprint with the Incarnation Sword was done.
'The Avatar must have told Zelda.'
A mixture of relief and emptiness tormented Bellos's mind throughout the journey to her palace.
Wielding the Avatar Sword was the job of the chosen ones.
He felt ashamed of himself for trying to take Zelda as his companion to make the Avatar and the Avatar Sword his own again, without even knowing that.
The Avatar had disappeared from his body long ago, so he must have instinctively known that he was not the master he should serve and left.
'I thought the Avatar and the Avatar Sword were originally mine...'
It was nothing more than a vain delusion.
The Magic Tower Master turned his gaze from Zelda to Linel.
The Emperor's calm face, which did not look like it would bleed even if he stabbed him, was filled with fear and anxiety.
"Her life will be in no danger. The Avatar Sword and... are imprinted."
"...Imprinted?"
Linel looked at Zelda and then turned his gaze to Bellos.
"Your Majesty has lost your memories, so you may not know, but Your Majesty, the Empress, possesses the power of fire. If the Incarnation Sword meets the power of fire...”
“Wait, you’ll explain later. With the Incarnation Sword and the seal, is there no danger to his life?”
Linel interrupted Bellos and grabbed his arm tightly, asking.
“Yes, not only is there no danger to her life, but her stamina will also become stronger, so don’t worry.”
Linel recalled the baby wyvern calling her master.
He thought that the wyvern, the Incarnation Sword, and the fire power she possessed were all related.
He had known for a long time that both the wyvern and the Incarnation Sword were powered by the power of fire. He thought he now understood why he felt particularly drawn to Zelda.
Not only did he react in the same way when he was under the hypothermia curse, but Joseph also reacted in the same way.
Even Joseph, who was trapped in the cursed ice, had said that the cursed ice began to crack after Zelda left.
“Zelda, I’m going to step out for a moment. Don’t lose consciousness until I return. It’s the Emperor’s order.”
Linel leaned down and whispered, caressing Zelda’s forehead.
It was too affectionate a voice for an order.
She smiled and nodded.
“Please stay by my side until I return. Please.”
“Yes, Your Majesty...”
Zelda’s heavy breathing had calmed down, so he was able to leave her in the care of the Magic Tower Master.
Linel stared at her face for a moment, then jumped out the terrace door in one breath.
Now, it was time to deal with the assassin.
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