Why is my husband there, of all places?
No, why am I here?
No, why did Pecilini want to eat wild strawberries?
No, why shouldn’t we have a hunting competition in the first place...
My thoughts kept going back and forth, and in the end, I found myself blaming God for allowing this situation to happen.
Linel’s gaze, now looking at me from afar, looked like a husband catching his wife in the act of having a secret affair with another man.
That gaze was so cold that my sane conscience began to prickle as if I had really committed a crime.
Didn’t I have a reason to wash my hands?
“I feel like I got caught too early. Your Majesty has such good eyes...”
Melanie grumbled and hid behind me, and suddenly the other concubines and servants also started hiding behind me.
If I had fallen to the back, they would have quickly followed me back in a row.
From that side, it would seem as if I were the only one peeking at this sight.
What the heck? Who was that guy who just pushed my back?
Someone shoved me forward from behind. I suddenly felt like the instigator.
When I glared and turned around, everyone looked up at the sky and avoided my gaze.
Wow, is everyone doing this?
I was so disappointed.
Haa, how did I get caught...
I sighed deeply and lowered my head, but there was a woman who was the only one who didn’t hide behind my back.
“I said I’d look at it with my own eyes, so why are you all so scared?”
Only Emperor Katria sat on the gravel floor and openly looked out across the valley.
She even had the luxury of waving to Linel.
Yes, she’s the Emperor.
Even if she gets caught, they’re her mistresses, so no one can say anything.
Power is this scary.
I lost the courage to look Linel in the eye again and turned around, pretending to look into the cloth bag containing the berries, and sat down quietly like Emperor Katria.
What the heck. As I crouched down, everyone followed me and whispered.
“Wow, His Majesty’s body is so beautiful.”
“You shouldn’t monopolize such a magnificent view...”
Following Melanie’s exclamation, Catherine mocked me, pretending to compare it to the valley, but I couldn’t hear anything at the moment.
How do I cover up this situation?
No. It was already wrong to cover it up, and I had to figure out how to get out of here without looking as ugly as possible.
But I couldn’t think of a good way.
At that moment, someone tapped me on the shoulder, and when I looked up, Rosie carefully opened her mouth.
“Your Majesty, the Empress..."
“Why.”
Even though my voice couldn’t reach Linel, I responded to Rosie with only the shape of my mouth.
“His Majesty told you to come over there.”
Rosie pointed to the opposite side of the forest we were in, shaking her index finger.
Damn, X.
“Really?”
“Yes...”
“What was his expression?”
“It was really bad. He was frowning as he left.”
Rosie imitated Linel’s expression, and Melanie chimed in.
“I almost cried because I was scared when I saw that expression.”
Oh my, you’re really angry.
I got up from my crouching position and prepared myself to go listen to the nagging.
“How angry must you have been to go into the forest naked?”
Melanie said to me, glancing at the knights who hadn’t discovered our presence yet.
From what she said, it seemed like Linel got so angry that he stripped off his clothes and went into the forest, but he was only naked from the waist down.
Maybe if Linel had discovered the raspberry expedition a little later, he could have gone into the forest naked like Melanie said, but that kind of luck wasn’t granted to the concubines.
I stared blankly at Melanie’s face, her eyes and mouth playing separately, then walked toward the forest that Linel had pointed to and told me to follow.
“Your Majesty, just deny that you saw anything.”
Sharon spoke to me as if she were giving advice to someone who had committed a crime and was going to be tried.
He wouldn’t believe me unless I rip my eyeballs out...
“Shall we go with you?”
Bonis said, her left eye looking at Commander Macrom in the distance and her right eye looking at me.
He’s not the type of person to let that go...
Sharon and Bonis continued to worry, but I told myself that it was okay and walked alone into the hell of nagging.
At the same time, in the Principality of Aklatto.
Duke Haymitch and Hetor were drinking tea together in the Duke’s office.
“Hector, how was your night?”
“Was it a room you brought in to make you comfortable?”
Hetor said, gulping down the still-warm black tea in one go.
The black tea he had drunk was hotter than he had expected, so Hector frowned as he touched his Adam’s apple.
“Hahaha. She is still lacking in many ways. I asked because I hope you like her.”
Duke Haymitch’s voice sounded like a tenant farmer with no greed, but his eyes, looking down, were filled with greed.
“Maybe because I only see the ripe ones, she is definitely lacking compared to Tanya’s women. The Duke raised his only daughter as a wooden doll.”
That was Hetor’s assessment after spending the night with Roxana.
Duke Haymitch’s smiling face gradually hardened.
Should I bring in a new adopted daughter that the barbarian would like? Duke Haymitch's head started spinning in confusion.
"But, not to the point of being a jerk."
Duke Haymitch's shoulders, which had been tense, sank at Hetor's continued words.
Fortunately, it seemed that Hetor liked Roxana.
"She's such a shy child, so please take good care of her, Hetor. Hahaha. And I... Today is the day the Continental Hunting Competition begins."
Duke Haymitch, who had been laughing, put down his teacup and slyly changed the subject.
"I know. Since you are nobles, hunting is like child's play, right? I would like to invade and annihilate them all right away, but we will wait until we get close to the Valley of Death."
"Yes, yes, of course. It would be easier to wipe them out in the Valley before they cross over to the Southern Continent. In the meantime, think of this place as your home and rest comfortably."
"Think of it? Wasn't it already my home?"
The war between the two island nations was quelled by the marriage vows of Hetor and Roxana.
Internally, the Principality of Aklatto had already been handed over to Hetor.
However, Duke Haymitch would continue to rule the Principality as before.
Duke Haymitch, who had become a puppet overnight, quickly changed his words.
“Ahaha, yes, this is Hetor’s home now!”
“Let’s have the wedding before we go to the continent. It’s better to make sure everything is set.”
Hetor stood up and casually brought up the subject of the wedding.
“The whip I swung at Roxana wasn’t in vain.”
Duke Haymitch wondered what Hetor meant by making sure, and then realized from Hetor’s embarrassed expression that he really liked Roxana.
“I’ll prepare it before we go so you don’t have to worry.”
Hetor nodded briefly at Duke Haymitch’s answer and left the office.
As the study door closed, Duke Haymitch’s mouth twisted in annoyance.
“No matter how much I am ruled, I am still the father-in-law, and yet you are acting so rudely... I wonder if anyone would call you an uneducated barbarian.”
Duke Haymitch sat back down in his chair and glared at the study door, muttering.
“Hmm, you have eyes for it. Thank goodness.”
He had worried that Hetor might not like his blunt daughter, but his worries were unfounded.
Prince Tesla had been keeping an eye on Bellos the whole time.
Just then, Prince Calvain, who had been flattering him, went to where Princess Jasper was sitting and had tea with her.
In the meantime, Prince Tesla got up from his seat and sat down next to Bellos.
“Why didn’t you go to the valley, Master of the Tower?”
Bellos, who had been leaning against the rock and closing his eyes, opened them at Prince Tesla’s voice.
“And you, Prince?”
Bellos asked back with an expression that said, “Why are you asking me about a valley that I haven’t been to?”
Prince Tesla was taken aback by Bellos’s blunt attitude, but he smiled and spoke again, pretending not to care.
“The place I’m sitting is breezy and cool, so I think the heat has gone down a bit, haha.”
“I can control my body temperature.”
Bellos immediately replied and closed his eyes again.
It was a gesture that told him that he should go to sleep now and not talk to him anymore.
‘You cheeky bastard.’
Prince Tesla cursed inwardly and then stared at the Incarnation Sword leaning against the rock next to Bellos.
‘If I get my hands on that sword... what will happen...'
If war broke out with the Southern Continent, the Kingdom of Shattonil would be the first place to be hit geographically.
‘If I get my hands on that Incarnation Sword and can move the Wyverns, no one will be able to look down on our kingdom.’
On top of that, there would be no need to flatter the Emperors of the empires.
'There is a saying that there is a special way to handle the Incarnation Sword, but that is something you can find out after you get your hands on it.'
The most important thing is how to get the Incarnation Sword.
How to handle it was the next question.
As Prince Tesla unconsciously wiggled his fingers and reached out for the Incarnation Sword, Bellos's eyelids slowly opened.
"Well, is there anything else you want to say?"
Bellos looked at Prince Tesla with eyes that asked him not to disturb his nap.
"...Oh, no."
Prince Tesla awkwardly lowered his hand that had stopped in midair, patted Bellos on the shoulder, and returned to his original position.
Prince Norton, who was sitting diagonally from Bellos, pretended to look at the scenery and watched the two of them conversing, and Emperor Adrian, who was further behind, also continued to stare at Bellos.
To be exact, the Incarnation Sword.
As I entered the forest next to the valley that Rosie had pointed out, a sturdy back was waiting for me.
He did not look back at me even though he knew I was getting closer.
His angry back muscles seemed to be warning me that he was very angry right now.
He was already upset because I had caught his first prey, and now he had caught me.
This was a very bad omen.
How can I appease a man who can’t show off his cute expression twice?
Should I gently hug him from behind? I wonder if I’ll get knocked over by him?
He had a shirt and a uniform jacket in his hands. He must have gotten dressed while waiting for me here, but he was still standing naked.
His back muscles were shining in the sunlight. His back muscles moved subtly with his breathing, showing off his presence.
“I’m here..”
Even though my shadow was already cast over him, he still didn’t look back.
“The Empress is here?”
I said cautiously once more, knocking on his back.
But
‘Huh? It’s a mosquito!’
A mosquito had stuck itself firmly to the center of his back and was about to suck his blood.
I took action before I could even think about catching it.
He looked back at me with a simultaneous thump and a thump.
The thump was the sound of my palm sticking to his back, and the thump was the sound coming from his mouth.
Linel stretched his shoulders back and tightened his back muscles as if asking what kind of trouble this was.
He must have stung a lot because I had swung my hand with all my might.
I understood his pain and made an apologetic expression.
“What?”
“A, a mosquito dared to stick to Your Majesty’s back!”
I slowly lowered my hand and spoke like a knight who had killed a traitor.
“So you dared to slap the Emperor’s back?”
“Hmm, because mosquitoes are so annoying...”
“If the mosquito was on my face, you would have slapped it?”
“I’m sorry. When I see a mosquito, my hand usually reacts first...”
“So, did you catch it?”
“Yes, of course!”
“Open your hand.”
“!”
Would the mosquito be dead in my hand?
Or would I die by his hand?
It was a heart-pounding moment.
No, why am I here?
No, why did Pecilini want to eat wild strawberries?
No, why shouldn’t we have a hunting competition in the first place...
My thoughts kept going back and forth, and in the end, I found myself blaming God for allowing this situation to happen.
Linel’s gaze, now looking at me from afar, looked like a husband catching his wife in the act of having a secret affair with another man.
That gaze was so cold that my sane conscience began to prickle as if I had really committed a crime.
Didn’t I have a reason to wash my hands?
“I feel like I got caught too early. Your Majesty has such good eyes...”
Melanie grumbled and hid behind me, and suddenly the other concubines and servants also started hiding behind me.
If I had fallen to the back, they would have quickly followed me back in a row.
From that side, it would seem as if I were the only one peeking at this sight.
What the heck? Who was that guy who just pushed my back?
Someone shoved me forward from behind. I suddenly felt like the instigator.
When I glared and turned around, everyone looked up at the sky and avoided my gaze.
Wow, is everyone doing this?
I was so disappointed.
Haa, how did I get caught...
I sighed deeply and lowered my head, but there was a woman who was the only one who didn’t hide behind my back.
“I said I’d look at it with my own eyes, so why are you all so scared?”
Only Emperor Katria sat on the gravel floor and openly looked out across the valley.
She even had the luxury of waving to Linel.
Yes, she’s the Emperor.
Even if she gets caught, they’re her mistresses, so no one can say anything.
Power is this scary.
I lost the courage to look Linel in the eye again and turned around, pretending to look into the cloth bag containing the berries, and sat down quietly like Emperor Katria.
What the heck. As I crouched down, everyone followed me and whispered.
“Wow, His Majesty’s body is so beautiful.”
“You shouldn’t monopolize such a magnificent view...”
Following Melanie’s exclamation, Catherine mocked me, pretending to compare it to the valley, but I couldn’t hear anything at the moment.
How do I cover up this situation?
No. It was already wrong to cover it up, and I had to figure out how to get out of here without looking as ugly as possible.
But I couldn’t think of a good way.
At that moment, someone tapped me on the shoulder, and when I looked up, Rosie carefully opened her mouth.
“Your Majesty, the Empress..."
“Why.”
Even though my voice couldn’t reach Linel, I responded to Rosie with only the shape of my mouth.
“His Majesty told you to come over there.”
Rosie pointed to the opposite side of the forest we were in, shaking her index finger.
Damn, X.
“Really?”
“Yes...”
“What was his expression?”
“It was really bad. He was frowning as he left.”
Rosie imitated Linel’s expression, and Melanie chimed in.
“I almost cried because I was scared when I saw that expression.”
Oh my, you’re really angry.
I got up from my crouching position and prepared myself to go listen to the nagging.
“How angry must you have been to go into the forest naked?”
Melanie said to me, glancing at the knights who hadn’t discovered our presence yet.
From what she said, it seemed like Linel got so angry that he stripped off his clothes and went into the forest, but he was only naked from the waist down.
Maybe if Linel had discovered the raspberry expedition a little later, he could have gone into the forest naked like Melanie said, but that kind of luck wasn’t granted to the concubines.
I stared blankly at Melanie’s face, her eyes and mouth playing separately, then walked toward the forest that Linel had pointed to and told me to follow.
“Your Majesty, just deny that you saw anything.”
Sharon spoke to me as if she were giving advice to someone who had committed a crime and was going to be tried.
He wouldn’t believe me unless I rip my eyeballs out...
“Shall we go with you?”
Bonis said, her left eye looking at Commander Macrom in the distance and her right eye looking at me.
He’s not the type of person to let that go...
Sharon and Bonis continued to worry, but I told myself that it was okay and walked alone into the hell of nagging.
***
At the same time, in the Principality of Aklatto.
Duke Haymitch and Hetor were drinking tea together in the Duke’s office.
“Hector, how was your night?”
“Was it a room you brought in to make you comfortable?”
Hetor said, gulping down the still-warm black tea in one go.
The black tea he had drunk was hotter than he had expected, so Hector frowned as he touched his Adam’s apple.
“Hahaha. She is still lacking in many ways. I asked because I hope you like her.”
Duke Haymitch’s voice sounded like a tenant farmer with no greed, but his eyes, looking down, were filled with greed.
“Maybe because I only see the ripe ones, she is definitely lacking compared to Tanya’s women. The Duke raised his only daughter as a wooden doll.”
That was Hetor’s assessment after spending the night with Roxana.
Duke Haymitch’s smiling face gradually hardened.
Should I bring in a new adopted daughter that the barbarian would like? Duke Haymitch's head started spinning in confusion.
"But, not to the point of being a jerk."
Duke Haymitch's shoulders, which had been tense, sank at Hetor's continued words.
Fortunately, it seemed that Hetor liked Roxana.
"She's such a shy child, so please take good care of her, Hetor. Hahaha. And I... Today is the day the Continental Hunting Competition begins."
Duke Haymitch, who had been laughing, put down his teacup and slyly changed the subject.
"I know. Since you are nobles, hunting is like child's play, right? I would like to invade and annihilate them all right away, but we will wait until we get close to the Valley of Death."
"Yes, yes, of course. It would be easier to wipe them out in the Valley before they cross over to the Southern Continent. In the meantime, think of this place as your home and rest comfortably."
"Think of it? Wasn't it already my home?"
The war between the two island nations was quelled by the marriage vows of Hetor and Roxana.
Internally, the Principality of Aklatto had already been handed over to Hetor.
However, Duke Haymitch would continue to rule the Principality as before.
Duke Haymitch, who had become a puppet overnight, quickly changed his words.
“Ahaha, yes, this is Hetor’s home now!”
“Let’s have the wedding before we go to the continent. It’s better to make sure everything is set.”
Hetor stood up and casually brought up the subject of the wedding.
“The whip I swung at Roxana wasn’t in vain.”
Duke Haymitch wondered what Hetor meant by making sure, and then realized from Hetor’s embarrassed expression that he really liked Roxana.
“I’ll prepare it before we go so you don’t have to worry.”
Hetor nodded briefly at Duke Haymitch’s answer and left the office.
As the study door closed, Duke Haymitch’s mouth twisted in annoyance.
“No matter how much I am ruled, I am still the father-in-law, and yet you are acting so rudely... I wonder if anyone would call you an uneducated barbarian.”
Duke Haymitch sat back down in his chair and glared at the study door, muttering.
“Hmm, you have eyes for it. Thank goodness.”
He had worried that Hetor might not like his blunt daughter, but his worries were unfounded.
***
Prince Tesla had been keeping an eye on Bellos the whole time.
Just then, Prince Calvain, who had been flattering him, went to where Princess Jasper was sitting and had tea with her.
In the meantime, Prince Tesla got up from his seat and sat down next to Bellos.
“Why didn’t you go to the valley, Master of the Tower?”
Bellos, who had been leaning against the rock and closing his eyes, opened them at Prince Tesla’s voice.
“And you, Prince?”
Bellos asked back with an expression that said, “Why are you asking me about a valley that I haven’t been to?”
Prince Tesla was taken aback by Bellos’s blunt attitude, but he smiled and spoke again, pretending not to care.
“The place I’m sitting is breezy and cool, so I think the heat has gone down a bit, haha.”
“I can control my body temperature.”
Bellos immediately replied and closed his eyes again.
It was a gesture that told him that he should go to sleep now and not talk to him anymore.
‘You cheeky bastard.’
Prince Tesla cursed inwardly and then stared at the Incarnation Sword leaning against the rock next to Bellos.
‘If I get my hands on that sword... what will happen...'
If war broke out with the Southern Continent, the Kingdom of Shattonil would be the first place to be hit geographically.
‘If I get my hands on that Incarnation Sword and can move the Wyverns, no one will be able to look down on our kingdom.’
On top of that, there would be no need to flatter the Emperors of the empires.
'There is a saying that there is a special way to handle the Incarnation Sword, but that is something you can find out after you get your hands on it.'
The most important thing is how to get the Incarnation Sword.
How to handle it was the next question.
As Prince Tesla unconsciously wiggled his fingers and reached out for the Incarnation Sword, Bellos's eyelids slowly opened.
"Well, is there anything else you want to say?"
Bellos looked at Prince Tesla with eyes that asked him not to disturb his nap.
"...Oh, no."
Prince Tesla awkwardly lowered his hand that had stopped in midair, patted Bellos on the shoulder, and returned to his original position.
Prince Norton, who was sitting diagonally from Bellos, pretended to look at the scenery and watched the two of them conversing, and Emperor Adrian, who was further behind, also continued to stare at Bellos.
To be exact, the Incarnation Sword.
***
As I entered the forest next to the valley that Rosie had pointed out, a sturdy back was waiting for me.
He did not look back at me even though he knew I was getting closer.
His angry back muscles seemed to be warning me that he was very angry right now.
He was already upset because I had caught his first prey, and now he had caught me.
This was a very bad omen.
How can I appease a man who can’t show off his cute expression twice?
Should I gently hug him from behind? I wonder if I’ll get knocked over by him?
He had a shirt and a uniform jacket in his hands. He must have gotten dressed while waiting for me here, but he was still standing naked.
His back muscles were shining in the sunlight. His back muscles moved subtly with his breathing, showing off his presence.
“I’m here..”
Even though my shadow was already cast over him, he still didn’t look back.
“The Empress is here?”
I said cautiously once more, knocking on his back.
But
‘Huh? It’s a mosquito!’
A mosquito had stuck itself firmly to the center of his back and was about to suck his blood.
I took action before I could even think about catching it.
He looked back at me with a simultaneous thump and a thump.
The thump was the sound of my palm sticking to his back, and the thump was the sound coming from his mouth.
Linel stretched his shoulders back and tightened his back muscles as if asking what kind of trouble this was.
He must have stung a lot because I had swung my hand with all my might.
I understood his pain and made an apologetic expression.
“What?”
“A, a mosquito dared to stick to Your Majesty’s back!”
I slowly lowered my hand and spoke like a knight who had killed a traitor.
“So you dared to slap the Emperor’s back?”
“Hmm, because mosquitoes are so annoying...”
“If the mosquito was on my face, you would have slapped it?”
“I’m sorry. When I see a mosquito, my hand usually reacts first...”
“So, did you catch it?”
“Yes, of course!”
“Open your hand.”
“!”
Would the mosquito be dead in my hand?
Or would I die by his hand?
It was a heart-pounding moment.
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