The imperial trial was held.
The one standing in court was the stepbrother of the future Empress, Gelard Louvre.
The charge was murder of a maid.
The charge was threatening and attempted murder of the future Empress.
“I did not do that!”
Gelard, who was standing in court, expressed his grievances.
He banged the table and raised his voice.
“How many times have I not told you? His Majesty called me! I only did what Titie’s maid said!”
The Countess Louvre and her husband chimed in on Gelard’s appeal.
“That’s right. There’s no way our son would kill a maid!”
“There’s clearly some misunderstanding, Your Majesty!”
The courtroom was filled with their accusations.
Finally, the Emperor spoke.
“Be quiet.”
At that moment, the hall became quiet.
Rumors were rife that the Emperor was suffering from madness.
Today, for some reason, they attended the trial relatively unharmed, but they never knew when he would change and kill someone.
“A maid, you mean the red-haired beast?”
“...That’s right!”
Gelard brightened at the Emperor’s question.
However, his hopes were soon dashed.
“They say there is no such maid.”
“That can’t be true...! She definitely came looking for me!”
Gelard’s argument was this.
In the middle of the night, a maid who had secretly visited the Count’s family told him that the Emperor was looking for him, so she should visit the Repetto Palace right away and find Titie.
That was the first and last time he met that maid.
But she wasn’t a maid from the Repetto Palace.
“Wait a minute..."
“Titie, speak.”
However, the turn went to his stepsister.
The one who had put Gelard on the assailant’s seat.
At the Emperor’s words, big tears fell from Titie’s eyes.
“In fact... I was constantly being threatened by the Count’s family.”
“Oh my, what do you mean!”
The Countess cried out, almost falling backwards.
Titie only wet her cheeks with fear.
“At first, it was just decorations and dishes. But as time went by, they demanded more and more things, such as a mansion in the capital, a villa, and a hunting ground. When I became the future Empress, they became even more intense.”
Titie had been documenting the things the Count had demanded as evidence.
When she had written down all the valuables they had received from their stepdaughter, the amount was so great that the parchment would drag on the floor.
“Uh, that...”
The Count stammered.
The Countess, who had once harassed Titie to receive a villa, could not hide her embarrassment.
“Hey, that’s what you wanted to give us as a gift, right?”
“My mother was the one who demanded it first. I... as a stepdaughter, had no choice but to comply.”
Public opinion was increasingly turning toward the pitiful government.
Titie, who had barely managed to control her sobs, even began to testify.
“My brother came to visit me at night to threaten me to give him the palace. He said he would create a harem exclusively for him.”
The onlookers murmured at the word they had never heard before.
“Harem?”
“What is that?”
“It’s about gathering many women. Like the King of a country.”
The King of a country?
The nobles murmured at the provocative remark.
Even the expression on the Emperor’s face was slightly distorted as he stood guard.
“How could you do something like that in the sacred palace? When I told my brother that it would be difficult, he drew his sword. The maid tried to protect me and was pushed and killed.”
The maid, who was threatened by the sword, was pushed by him and died with her head broken.
Gellard’s memory of the corpse hanging by his feet made him lose consciousness.
“I never did that! It’s true! That... that... that woman framed me! That woman killed me! It’s unfair. I have been wronged, Your Majesty!”
Gelard shouted, jumping up from his seat.
However, the outcome was already decided.
The Emperor made the decision.
“The crime of killing a maid, and the crime of daring to threaten and murder a member of the royal family. This is equivalent to the crime of the entire family.”
Something was wrong.
The Count’s family realized it, but it was too late.
“Gelard Louvre is sentenced to death, and the Count and his wife are exiled to Northern Lunau.”
Lunau was a territory at the very edge of the north, where high treason criminals were exiled.
Spring never came there.
Eternal winter.
Only endless blizzards and endless ice fields.
“This is ridiculous!”
The Emperor, the eternal idol, sentenced himself to death.
He had been filled with dreams of living a life of luxury as the parents of the Empress!
“Titie, spare us!”
“How could you do this to us! What did we do to you!”
The knights dragged out the Count’s family.
The nobles watched in silence as a family was destroyed overnight.
The Empress-to-be shed pitiful tears as she watched them.
“...Please stop now. At least for the sake of my maid who lost her life.”
Two days later, the scheduled coronation ceremony took place.
“From this moment on, Titie Louvre becomes ‘Titie Drodian’ and establishes herself as the Empress of the empire.”
Demios’ oath.
With countless flower showers falling, Titie became the Empress of the Beastkin empire.
A splendid celebration party followed.
She felt like the main character of this world.
'This is the Empress's throne.'
Demios also stayed by Titie's side.
It seemed that he had not given up on finding the deposed Empress, but it was only a matter of time.
'Just do it moderately, and you will forget about it as time passes.'
Even in the courtroom. Didn't he look fine today?
Now that the Emperor had come to his senses, all happiness was in her hands.
After the coronation ceremony, Titie moved to the Empress's palace.
Both the bedroom and the garden were decorated to her taste.
'I have finally succeeded in getting rid of those annoying parasites.'
And in a clean way without getting her hands dirty.
They would not come to the Empress's palace.
The black snake was right.
Now it was her turn to keep her promise.
Before preparing for the night.
She headed to the Empress's library.
'You said that it was a book that only the Empress could find.'
She was worried that a human woman might have taken the ancient book first, but Blair reassured Titie. That the book was something that could only be found if one knew of its existence.
Titie closed her eyes.
'I am the Empress of the empire.'
That fact was the most important.
When she opened her eyes like that, Titie was standing in front of one of the many bookshelves.
A clear attraction that she felt for the first time.
When she opened her eyes, a black book was floating in front of Titi.
'It's true.'
A book that only the Empress could find.
Titie held half of the book floating in the air in her arms.
'But what is this book used for? It looks very old.'
Curious, she opened it briefly, but the old pages were filled with unknown gore and drawings.
She was staring intently at the unique patterns.
"Hello, my dear Empress."
She almost screamed. She barely covered her mouth and turned around to see Blair standing there.
"...Lord Blair? How did you get here?"
Instead of answering, the black snake glared at her.
Titie gathered her thoughts. Then, she confidently handed over the book.
“Here’s what you were looking for.”
Whatever this book was, it wasn’t what she needed.
Blair smiled as she watched Titie readily hand over the book.
“Yes, it’s what I wanted.”
It was the first time she had seen him smile so contentedly.
Blair, holding the half-book in her arms, kissed Titie’s forehead.
“I hope you give birth to a grandson safely. Then the name will be yours.”
“Thank you for the kind words.”
His kiss was like a blessing.
From now on, Titie’s future would be filled with flowers. After handing Blair the book, Titie began preparing for the first night.
A bathtub filled with flower petals and fragrant bath salts.
The highest-quality perfume was something she had used when she was a government official, but today it felt different.
“It finally feels real.”
She would officially become his wife, and the child in her womb would become the Crown Prince.
She waited for the Emperor in the bedroom with her hair tied up with various accessories.
The hour signaled the first night.
Demios, wearing only a gown, came in.
“Ah, Your Majesty.”
His pure white hair flowed down his shoulders.
His embrace was now familiar.
But now that it was real, everything felt like the first time, and she was excited and even embarrassed.
'I will continue to be happy.'
It definitely would be.
The hot early morning led to the dawn of passion.
The first morning as the new Empress dawned.
When she woke up, the seat next to her was empty.
If it had been before, she would have felt regret, but not anymore.
'Well, it doesn't matter.'
Now, she was the only female he had.
He didn't like the idea of the Emperor looking for a human woman, but that was only for a moment.
Now, she was even glad that she had disappeared on her own.
It was when Titie was leisurely enjoying breakfast.
The newly assigned maids came to her with various documents.
"Do I have to do all this?"
"That's... the Empress's job."
They were all carefully selected families, but they were not satisfied at all.
"Let's start next month."
The maids looked troubled, but they couldn't say anything rash.
Titie snorted.
'Who would say anything if I told them to wait?'
Titie said that she had to find new people to direct her work.
After enjoying a light breakfast and taking a walk, she definitely needed to drink water. She couldn’t sleep enough to maintain her beauty.
However, the maids were interrupting even this precious time.
Titie, who was lying on the rocking chair and enjoying a pleasant sleep, opened her eyes in irritation at the maids’ whispering.
“What’s the fuss?”
“That’s....”
The maid hesitated and handed her something that looked like a document.
“What is this?”
“It’s an indictment.”
Did she hear something wrong just now?
“Who’s?”
“The Empress’s....”
With a feeling of being completely awake, Titie read what she had received.
She first checked the name of the person who had sent the indictment.
“...Bitean Gitik?”
Where had I heard that before?
As she thought about the name carefully, memories came to her mind.
‘That’s the maid’s family, right?’
The lioness she had pushed to death.
That maid’s family had fallen and come under Titie’s control.
'That maid's brother accused me, the Empress? On what grounds?'
The culprit was concluded to be the successor of the Count's family and was scheduled to be executed soon.
Titie, who was reading the reason for the accusation after the name, dropped the accusation.
'What, how?'
In the center of the fluttering document was written:
The name the Empress had was fake.
The one standing in court was the stepbrother of the future Empress, Gelard Louvre.
The charge was murder of a maid.
The charge was threatening and attempted murder of the future Empress.
“I did not do that!”
Gelard, who was standing in court, expressed his grievances.
He banged the table and raised his voice.
“How many times have I not told you? His Majesty called me! I only did what Titie’s maid said!”
The Countess Louvre and her husband chimed in on Gelard’s appeal.
“That’s right. There’s no way our son would kill a maid!”
“There’s clearly some misunderstanding, Your Majesty!”
The courtroom was filled with their accusations.
Finally, the Emperor spoke.
“Be quiet.”
At that moment, the hall became quiet.
Rumors were rife that the Emperor was suffering from madness.
Today, for some reason, they attended the trial relatively unharmed, but they never knew when he would change and kill someone.
“A maid, you mean the red-haired beast?”
“...That’s right!”
Gelard brightened at the Emperor’s question.
However, his hopes were soon dashed.
“They say there is no such maid.”
“That can’t be true...! She definitely came looking for me!”
Gelard’s argument was this.
In the middle of the night, a maid who had secretly visited the Count’s family told him that the Emperor was looking for him, so she should visit the Repetto Palace right away and find Titie.
That was the first and last time he met that maid.
But she wasn’t a maid from the Repetto Palace.
“Wait a minute..."
“Titie, speak.”
However, the turn went to his stepsister.
The one who had put Gelard on the assailant’s seat.
At the Emperor’s words, big tears fell from Titie’s eyes.
“In fact... I was constantly being threatened by the Count’s family.”
“Oh my, what do you mean!”
The Countess cried out, almost falling backwards.
Titie only wet her cheeks with fear.
“At first, it was just decorations and dishes. But as time went by, they demanded more and more things, such as a mansion in the capital, a villa, and a hunting ground. When I became the future Empress, they became even more intense.”
Titie had been documenting the things the Count had demanded as evidence.
When she had written down all the valuables they had received from their stepdaughter, the amount was so great that the parchment would drag on the floor.
“Uh, that...”
The Count stammered.
The Countess, who had once harassed Titie to receive a villa, could not hide her embarrassment.
“Hey, that’s what you wanted to give us as a gift, right?”
“My mother was the one who demanded it first. I... as a stepdaughter, had no choice but to comply.”
Public opinion was increasingly turning toward the pitiful government.
Titie, who had barely managed to control her sobs, even began to testify.
“My brother came to visit me at night to threaten me to give him the palace. He said he would create a harem exclusively for him.”
The onlookers murmured at the word they had never heard before.
“Harem?”
“What is that?”
“It’s about gathering many women. Like the King of a country.”
The King of a country?
The nobles murmured at the provocative remark.
Even the expression on the Emperor’s face was slightly distorted as he stood guard.
“How could you do something like that in the sacred palace? When I told my brother that it would be difficult, he drew his sword. The maid tried to protect me and was pushed and killed.”
The maid, who was threatened by the sword, was pushed by him and died with her head broken.
Gellard’s memory of the corpse hanging by his feet made him lose consciousness.
“I never did that! It’s true! That... that... that woman framed me! That woman killed me! It’s unfair. I have been wronged, Your Majesty!”
Gelard shouted, jumping up from his seat.
However, the outcome was already decided.
The Emperor made the decision.
“The crime of killing a maid, and the crime of daring to threaten and murder a member of the royal family. This is equivalent to the crime of the entire family.”
Something was wrong.
The Count’s family realized it, but it was too late.
“Gelard Louvre is sentenced to death, and the Count and his wife are exiled to Northern Lunau.”
Lunau was a territory at the very edge of the north, where high treason criminals were exiled.
Spring never came there.
Eternal winter.
Only endless blizzards and endless ice fields.
“This is ridiculous!”
The Emperor, the eternal idol, sentenced himself to death.
He had been filled with dreams of living a life of luxury as the parents of the Empress!
“Titie, spare us!”
“How could you do this to us! What did we do to you!”
The knights dragged out the Count’s family.
The nobles watched in silence as a family was destroyed overnight.
The Empress-to-be shed pitiful tears as she watched them.
“...Please stop now. At least for the sake of my maid who lost her life.”
Two days later, the scheduled coronation ceremony took place.
“From this moment on, Titie Louvre becomes ‘Titie Drodian’ and establishes herself as the Empress of the empire.”
Demios’ oath.
With countless flower showers falling, Titie became the Empress of the Beastkin empire.
A splendid celebration party followed.
She felt like the main character of this world.
'This is the Empress's throne.'
Demios also stayed by Titie's side.
It seemed that he had not given up on finding the deposed Empress, but it was only a matter of time.
'Just do it moderately, and you will forget about it as time passes.'
Even in the courtroom. Didn't he look fine today?
Now that the Emperor had come to his senses, all happiness was in her hands.
After the coronation ceremony, Titie moved to the Empress's palace.
Both the bedroom and the garden were decorated to her taste.
'I have finally succeeded in getting rid of those annoying parasites.'
And in a clean way without getting her hands dirty.
They would not come to the Empress's palace.
The black snake was right.
Now it was her turn to keep her promise.
Before preparing for the night.
She headed to the Empress's library.
'You said that it was a book that only the Empress could find.'
She was worried that a human woman might have taken the ancient book first, but Blair reassured Titie. That the book was something that could only be found if one knew of its existence.
Titie closed her eyes.
'I am the Empress of the empire.'
That fact was the most important.
When she opened her eyes like that, Titie was standing in front of one of the many bookshelves.
A clear attraction that she felt for the first time.
When she opened her eyes, a black book was floating in front of Titi.
'It's true.'
A book that only the Empress could find.
Titie held half of the book floating in the air in her arms.
'But what is this book used for? It looks very old.'
Curious, she opened it briefly, but the old pages were filled with unknown gore and drawings.
She was staring intently at the unique patterns.
"Hello, my dear Empress."
She almost screamed. She barely covered her mouth and turned around to see Blair standing there.
"...Lord Blair? How did you get here?"
Instead of answering, the black snake glared at her.
Titie gathered her thoughts. Then, she confidently handed over the book.
“Here’s what you were looking for.”
Whatever this book was, it wasn’t what she needed.
Blair smiled as she watched Titie readily hand over the book.
“Yes, it’s what I wanted.”
It was the first time she had seen him smile so contentedly.
Blair, holding the half-book in her arms, kissed Titie’s forehead.
“I hope you give birth to a grandson safely. Then the name will be yours.”
“Thank you for the kind words.”
His kiss was like a blessing.
From now on, Titie’s future would be filled with flowers. After handing Blair the book, Titie began preparing for the first night.
A bathtub filled with flower petals and fragrant bath salts.
The highest-quality perfume was something she had used when she was a government official, but today it felt different.
“It finally feels real.”
She would officially become his wife, and the child in her womb would become the Crown Prince.
She waited for the Emperor in the bedroom with her hair tied up with various accessories.
The hour signaled the first night.
Demios, wearing only a gown, came in.
“Ah, Your Majesty.”
His pure white hair flowed down his shoulders.
His embrace was now familiar.
But now that it was real, everything felt like the first time, and she was excited and even embarrassed.
'I will continue to be happy.'
It definitely would be.
The hot early morning led to the dawn of passion.
The first morning as the new Empress dawned.
When she woke up, the seat next to her was empty.
If it had been before, she would have felt regret, but not anymore.
'Well, it doesn't matter.'
Now, she was the only female he had.
He didn't like the idea of the Emperor looking for a human woman, but that was only for a moment.
Now, she was even glad that she had disappeared on her own.
It was when Titie was leisurely enjoying breakfast.
The newly assigned maids came to her with various documents.
"Do I have to do all this?"
"That's... the Empress's job."
They were all carefully selected families, but they were not satisfied at all.
"Let's start next month."
The maids looked troubled, but they couldn't say anything rash.
Titie snorted.
'Who would say anything if I told them to wait?'
Titie said that she had to find new people to direct her work.
After enjoying a light breakfast and taking a walk, she definitely needed to drink water. She couldn’t sleep enough to maintain her beauty.
However, the maids were interrupting even this precious time.
Titie, who was lying on the rocking chair and enjoying a pleasant sleep, opened her eyes in irritation at the maids’ whispering.
“What’s the fuss?”
“That’s....”
The maid hesitated and handed her something that looked like a document.
“What is this?”
“It’s an indictment.”
Did she hear something wrong just now?
“Who’s?”
“The Empress’s....”
With a feeling of being completely awake, Titie read what she had received.
She first checked the name of the person who had sent the indictment.
“...Bitean Gitik?”
Where had I heard that before?
As she thought about the name carefully, memories came to her mind.
‘That’s the maid’s family, right?’
The lioness she had pushed to death.
That maid’s family had fallen and come under Titie’s control.
'That maid's brother accused me, the Empress? On what grounds?'
The culprit was concluded to be the successor of the Count's family and was scheduled to be executed soon.
Titie, who was reading the reason for the accusation after the name, dropped the accusation.
'What, how?'
In the center of the fluttering document was written:
The name the Empress had was fake.
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