Roxana's body also became tense as she felt Linel's firm body behind her.
"Can I check it out, Empress?"
A playful, low voice tickled Roxana's ears.
Emperor Linel thought of her as Empress Zelda.
It was a natural mistake for her.
'I'm so glad. I have a similar body type to the Empress.'
Roxana thought as she looked down at the dress that fit her body perfectly as if it were hers from the beginning.
Once again, a serious voice was heard along with sensual breathing.
"Do you want me to love you like this by continuing to turn around?"
Roxana felt his affectionate hands on the soft fabric.
He stroked her back.
Roxana was momentarily moved.
Has anyone ever touched her back so affectionately?
His hands were definitely cold, but Roxana's back, which had only been touched by the whip, felt warm for the first time in her life.
But Roxana grabbed the amethyst around her neck with her hand, feeling a sense of crisis that he might turn her back.
'You said I only had to press it three times, didn't you?'
Roxana swallowed as she recalled the words of the witch Kaline.
"I wish we could just eat dinner here and rest early."
Linel pressed his face against Roxana's shoulder and inhaled.
"But... Zelda, did you use a different soap? The scent seems different."
Roxana flinched.
"This is it. Your Majesty."
The room that Emperor Adrian had been assigned was on the far right side of the second floor.
"It's the last room, but the stairs are right next to it, so it'll be easy to get to and from the first floor. It's the room closest to the dining room."
As the attendant had said, the stairs were right next to the door. In addition, there was an outdoor terrace space before going down the stairs.
Emperor Adrian nodded and made a satisfied expression.
He had been hoping that it would be a location that wouldn't be easily noticed by other guests.
As Emperor Adrian was about to step into the room, Bellos was coming up the stairs.
Bellos’s attendant, who had come up the stairs first, greeted Emperor Adrian politely and opened the room where Bellos would stay.
It was the room next to Emperor Adrian’s.
“Right next to the Magic Tower Master.”
“...Oh, I see. It is an honor, Your Majesty Emperor Adrian.”
Bellos nodded to Emperor Adrian and passed him by.
‘It is clear that you do not recognize me.’
Philike, who was living in Emperor Adrian’s body, had always been wary of his old master Bellos, who had suddenly entered the Continental Hunting Competition.
Even though he had used black magic to enter someone else’s body, he was afraid that Bellos, the Magic Tower Master, might recognize him.
However, even though he was a Magic Tower Master, he could sense a strange energy from him, and it was not easy for him to grasp his true nature while in Emperor Adrian’s body using black magic.
“Where are you feeling unwell, Your Majesty? Your hands seem to be shaking.”
Bellos, who was about to enter his room, looked down at Emperor Adrian’s right hand and said.
“Ah, I guess it’s because of the heat, but I’m craving alcohol... Let’s go out and have a drink together later.”
Emperor Adrian hid his right hand behind his back and pointed to the terrace with his left.
“Yes, that’s right. Then rest, I’ll go in now.”
Bellos glanced at the terrace and replied, then entered the room.
“Yes.”
Emperor Adrian stared intently at the Incarnation Sword that Bellos was wearing on his back.
‘You really don’t know who I am. If that’s the case, it’ll be easier to approach the Master. Once I get my hands on the Incarnation Sword, I’ll get rid of that damned Linel’s right arm.’
He gritted his teeth as he recalled the scene three years ago in the Valley of Death where Linel had blown his right arm down the valley.
Although he entered the body of Emperor Adrian, he had already lost his right arm before, so the shell of Emperor Adrian's right arm was like a decoration.
Sometimes, when he used his right arm or hand, his magic power was consumed.
However, there was another bigger problem than the problem of his magic power being consumed.
Since he was maintaining the form of Emperor Adrian by using black magic, he had to drink human blood periodically.
For this reason, after entering Emperor Adrian's body, Philike created a harem in the 'Worni' palace of the Tebello Empire, had many Empresses, and had them regularly compete in martial arts to get blood.
He drank the blood of the Empresses who lost their lives in the competitions as much as he wanted.
If he drank the blood of a living person, he could fill his intake with much less than that of a dead person, but since he couldn't drink the blood of a living person every time, he had no choice but to drink a large amount of blood of the dead.
Even at the banquet for the guests of the Lapion Empire, their Empresses had a martial arts showdown.
At that time, he had sucked the blood of the Empress who had died after being defeated by Empress Elan, but now it was time to replenish her with new blood.
Otherwise, Emperor Adrian’s face and his original face would appear ingeniously mixed together.
The pain he felt in his body was also severe. The feeling of his bones and skin twisting had also gotten stronger since yesterday.
‘The symptoms are getting worse.’
Emperor Adrian’s face distorted as he looked down at his trembling right hand.
“I think your original scent was better. Go wash yourself again. This is an order.”
Although his tone was serious, she could feel Emperor Linel’s strong affection for Empress Zelda from the two arms that were embracing her.
Roxana squeezed and released the amethyst twice.
If she put her strength into her hands one last time, her form would disappear.
‘Will Emperor Linel think he saw something? Will he think I’m a ghost?’
Even if he searched everyone in the villa, he wouldn’t find Roxana.
All she had to do was press her hand once, but for some reason, she couldn’t press the amethyst any harder and just stayed there, risking her life.
Knock knock-.
Then there was a knock.
“Who is it?”
Linel released the two arms that were holding Roxana and turned toward the door.
“It’s Stiane, Your Majesty.”
“What’s the matter?”
“I have something to discuss with you about the dinner table arrangements.”
“You’re bothering me. I’ll go out and hand over the throne to Stiane, so just wait a moment.”
Roxana continued to nod with her back to him.
“But I’m still the Emperor, so can you answer me?”
“...”
“Ha, you’re really tired since you’re not even answering me. I’ll have to ask the incarnation.”
Linel smiled, kissed Roxana’s shoulder, and left the room.
Roxana flinched her shoulder and moved her eyes here and there.
‘Does Emperor Linel know about the incarnation? What does the incarnation have to do with Empress Zelda...?’
As he left the room, Roxana let out the breath she had been holding and sat on the edge of the bed.
Her sigh of relief was short-lived. Perhaps already forgetting the danger of being caught, Roxana was relieved that she had not suddenly disappeared like a ghost in front of Linel.
‘I have to disappear quickly now.’
Before he returned to the room, before Empress Zelda came out of the bathroom.
But for some reason, Roxana’s footsteps did not move easily.
She felt regretful. When she realized that feeling, she felt ridiculous.
Did she really lose her heart to a man she had just seen today?
To a man who mistook her for his wife and whispered sweet words to her?
‘That’s ridiculous.’
Roxana shook her head and decided that her heart must have wavered momentarily because of Emperor Linel’s appearance.
The sound of water was heard again in the quiet bathroom.
Roxana walked to the front of the bathroom without realizing it.
Clank-. Roxana opened the bathroom door slightly.
‘Come to your senses. What are you doing now!?
She knew it was crazy. But she was very curious about the real Empress Zelda.
No, she suddenly became curious.
And what kind of scented soap did she use?
She convinced herself that since there was an amethyst anyway, she could just disappear if she got caught.
Empress Zelda was washing her body with bubbles in the bathtub.
“It’s late! Don’t even think about coming into the bathtub. I’m going to leave now. Could you hand me a towel? Then I’ll let you see my back.”
Zelda, who had been speaking sarcastically, burst into laughter, got up from the bathtub, and stood with her arms spread wide.
She’s crazy.
Roxana gaped at Zelda’s bold actions.
“Why are you doing that? What’s so funny that you keep laughing?”
Roxana snorted softly as she stared at Zelda’s back, who was laughing as if she had lost her screws.
The bathroom smelled of lilac.
No, it seemed like there was a little rose scent mixed in there, too.
Roxana took several deep breaths to remember this scent.
Looking at the back of Empress Zelda, her body shape was really similar to hers.
“Now, I will give you the honor of wiping it for me. My husband Linel won’t do it. So, Your Majesty, the Emperor, please wipe it for me.”
Zelda spoke nonsense again, and this time she laughed while holding her stomach.
The Empress of the Lapion Empire was not normal.
‘What is the Empress doing to lower her status?’
Roxana silently clicked her tongue and shook her head.
She felt even more affectionate towards Emperor Linel, who was so affectionate to such a frivolous woman.
But Empress Zelda's crazy talk continued.
"You're not going to wipe me with the clothes you're wearing in the cave during the day, are you? You'd rather not wear pants, Your Majesty? What are you doing?"
Zelda lowered her outstretched arms and tried to look back.
Roxana quickly grabbed the amethyst three times and disappeared.
This time, she didn't feel any regret at all.
'How funny.'
A couple mistakenly thought they were different people.
Roxana returned to the witch Kelly's house again.
"Are you okay, Miss?!"
Nancy hugged Roxana, who had reappeared in the magic circle, and quickly scanned her body to see if she was hurt anywhere.
Roxana, who had moved around naked, returned wearing a luxurious house dress.
"Thank goodness you found clothes? I was so worried that our young lady would be walking around naked all the time! By the way, whose dress is this?"
"Empress Zelda."
"Yes? How did you get that? Did she give it to you?"
Nancy asked, thinking that it couldn't be true, but still not quite understanding. Roxana smiled and replied.
“I stole it.”
“...You didn’t get caught?”
“I did. By Emperor Linel.”
“Oh my! How great! T-That’s why?”
“God helped me. Emperor Linel saw my back and thought I was the Empress, so he didn’t suspect anything. I even had a towel covering my head.”
Roxana explained what had happened when she was moved to the Emperor’s chambers.
“Oh my, it was a stroke of luck!”
Nancy brushed her chest.
“I guess Empress Zelda’s height and body type are similar to yours.”
The witch asked Roxana.
“I think so. Even the dress fits so well.”
Roxana walked over to the mirror and examined herself in Zelda’s dress, lost in thought.
If there really were so many similarities, wouldn’t I be able to have what she had?
Even in terms of origin, she was superior to her. They say Empress Zelda was the daughter of a Count of the Kingdom of Shattonil, but she remembered hearing that she was an illegitimate child.
Roxana hugged her body with both arms.
When Emperor Linel wrapped his strong arms around her body, the feeling still remained.
Her heart pounded again.
After returning safely, calming her mind, and looking into the mirror again, she remembered the scent that Emperor Linel had given her.
The sound of his breathing was so lovely that she didn’t know what to do.
The whisper was both affectionate and strange.
Emperor Linel had mistaken all of this for Empress Zelda, but Roxana felt as if he had done it to her.
“My Lady, have you ever heard the story about Empress Zelda from the Lord of the Magic Tower?”
The witch asked casually, returning the crystal ball to its original place.
“What?”
Roxana grabbed her arm and asked back at the witch’s somewhat meaningful voice.
"Can I check it out, Empress?"
A playful, low voice tickled Roxana's ears.
Emperor Linel thought of her as Empress Zelda.
It was a natural mistake for her.
'I'm so glad. I have a similar body type to the Empress.'
Roxana thought as she looked down at the dress that fit her body perfectly as if it were hers from the beginning.
Once again, a serious voice was heard along with sensual breathing.
"Do you want me to love you like this by continuing to turn around?"
Roxana felt his affectionate hands on the soft fabric.
He stroked her back.
Roxana was momentarily moved.
Has anyone ever touched her back so affectionately?
His hands were definitely cold, but Roxana's back, which had only been touched by the whip, felt warm for the first time in her life.
But Roxana grabbed the amethyst around her neck with her hand, feeling a sense of crisis that he might turn her back.
'You said I only had to press it three times, didn't you?'
Roxana swallowed as she recalled the words of the witch Kaline.
"I wish we could just eat dinner here and rest early."
Linel pressed his face against Roxana's shoulder and inhaled.
"But... Zelda, did you use a different soap? The scent seems different."
Roxana flinched.
***
"This is it. Your Majesty."
The room that Emperor Adrian had been assigned was on the far right side of the second floor.
"It's the last room, but the stairs are right next to it, so it'll be easy to get to and from the first floor. It's the room closest to the dining room."
As the attendant had said, the stairs were right next to the door. In addition, there was an outdoor terrace space before going down the stairs.
Emperor Adrian nodded and made a satisfied expression.
He had been hoping that it would be a location that wouldn't be easily noticed by other guests.
As Emperor Adrian was about to step into the room, Bellos was coming up the stairs.
Bellos’s attendant, who had come up the stairs first, greeted Emperor Adrian politely and opened the room where Bellos would stay.
It was the room next to Emperor Adrian’s.
“Right next to the Magic Tower Master.”
“...Oh, I see. It is an honor, Your Majesty Emperor Adrian.”
Bellos nodded to Emperor Adrian and passed him by.
‘It is clear that you do not recognize me.’
Philike, who was living in Emperor Adrian’s body, had always been wary of his old master Bellos, who had suddenly entered the Continental Hunting Competition.
Even though he had used black magic to enter someone else’s body, he was afraid that Bellos, the Magic Tower Master, might recognize him.
However, even though he was a Magic Tower Master, he could sense a strange energy from him, and it was not easy for him to grasp his true nature while in Emperor Adrian’s body using black magic.
“Where are you feeling unwell, Your Majesty? Your hands seem to be shaking.”
Bellos, who was about to enter his room, looked down at Emperor Adrian’s right hand and said.
“Ah, I guess it’s because of the heat, but I’m craving alcohol... Let’s go out and have a drink together later.”
Emperor Adrian hid his right hand behind his back and pointed to the terrace with his left.
“Yes, that’s right. Then rest, I’ll go in now.”
Bellos glanced at the terrace and replied, then entered the room.
“Yes.”
Emperor Adrian stared intently at the Incarnation Sword that Bellos was wearing on his back.
‘You really don’t know who I am. If that’s the case, it’ll be easier to approach the Master. Once I get my hands on the Incarnation Sword, I’ll get rid of that damned Linel’s right arm.’
He gritted his teeth as he recalled the scene three years ago in the Valley of Death where Linel had blown his right arm down the valley.
Although he entered the body of Emperor Adrian, he had already lost his right arm before, so the shell of Emperor Adrian's right arm was like a decoration.
Sometimes, when he used his right arm or hand, his magic power was consumed.
However, there was another bigger problem than the problem of his magic power being consumed.
Since he was maintaining the form of Emperor Adrian by using black magic, he had to drink human blood periodically.
For this reason, after entering Emperor Adrian's body, Philike created a harem in the 'Worni' palace of the Tebello Empire, had many Empresses, and had them regularly compete in martial arts to get blood.
He drank the blood of the Empresses who lost their lives in the competitions as much as he wanted.
If he drank the blood of a living person, he could fill his intake with much less than that of a dead person, but since he couldn't drink the blood of a living person every time, he had no choice but to drink a large amount of blood of the dead.
Even at the banquet for the guests of the Lapion Empire, their Empresses had a martial arts showdown.
At that time, he had sucked the blood of the Empress who had died after being defeated by Empress Elan, but now it was time to replenish her with new blood.
Otherwise, Emperor Adrian’s face and his original face would appear ingeniously mixed together.
The pain he felt in his body was also severe. The feeling of his bones and skin twisting had also gotten stronger since yesterday.
‘The symptoms are getting worse.’
Emperor Adrian’s face distorted as he looked down at his trembling right hand.
***
“I think your original scent was better. Go wash yourself again. This is an order.”
Although his tone was serious, she could feel Emperor Linel’s strong affection for Empress Zelda from the two arms that were embracing her.
Roxana squeezed and released the amethyst twice.
If she put her strength into her hands one last time, her form would disappear.
‘Will Emperor Linel think he saw something? Will he think I’m a ghost?’
Even if he searched everyone in the villa, he wouldn’t find Roxana.
All she had to do was press her hand once, but for some reason, she couldn’t press the amethyst any harder and just stayed there, risking her life.
Knock knock-.
Then there was a knock.
“Who is it?”
Linel released the two arms that were holding Roxana and turned toward the door.
“It’s Stiane, Your Majesty.”
“What’s the matter?”
“I have something to discuss with you about the dinner table arrangements.”
“You’re bothering me. I’ll go out and hand over the throne to Stiane, so just wait a moment.”
Roxana continued to nod with her back to him.
“But I’m still the Emperor, so can you answer me?”
“...”
“Ha, you’re really tired since you’re not even answering me. I’ll have to ask the incarnation.”
Linel smiled, kissed Roxana’s shoulder, and left the room.
Roxana flinched her shoulder and moved her eyes here and there.
‘Does Emperor Linel know about the incarnation? What does the incarnation have to do with Empress Zelda...?’
As he left the room, Roxana let out the breath she had been holding and sat on the edge of the bed.
Her sigh of relief was short-lived. Perhaps already forgetting the danger of being caught, Roxana was relieved that she had not suddenly disappeared like a ghost in front of Linel.
‘I have to disappear quickly now.’
Before he returned to the room, before Empress Zelda came out of the bathroom.
But for some reason, Roxana’s footsteps did not move easily.
She felt regretful. When she realized that feeling, she felt ridiculous.
Did she really lose her heart to a man she had just seen today?
To a man who mistook her for his wife and whispered sweet words to her?
‘That’s ridiculous.’
Roxana shook her head and decided that her heart must have wavered momentarily because of Emperor Linel’s appearance.
The sound of water was heard again in the quiet bathroom.
Roxana walked to the front of the bathroom without realizing it.
Clank-. Roxana opened the bathroom door slightly.
‘Come to your senses. What are you doing now!?
She knew it was crazy. But she was very curious about the real Empress Zelda.
No, she suddenly became curious.
And what kind of scented soap did she use?
She convinced herself that since there was an amethyst anyway, she could just disappear if she got caught.
Empress Zelda was washing her body with bubbles in the bathtub.
“It’s late! Don’t even think about coming into the bathtub. I’m going to leave now. Could you hand me a towel? Then I’ll let you see my back.”
Zelda, who had been speaking sarcastically, burst into laughter, got up from the bathtub, and stood with her arms spread wide.
She’s crazy.
Roxana gaped at Zelda’s bold actions.
“Why are you doing that? What’s so funny that you keep laughing?”
Roxana snorted softly as she stared at Zelda’s back, who was laughing as if she had lost her screws.
The bathroom smelled of lilac.
No, it seemed like there was a little rose scent mixed in there, too.
Roxana took several deep breaths to remember this scent.
Looking at the back of Empress Zelda, her body shape was really similar to hers.
“Now, I will give you the honor of wiping it for me. My husband Linel won’t do it. So, Your Majesty, the Emperor, please wipe it for me.”
Zelda spoke nonsense again, and this time she laughed while holding her stomach.
The Empress of the Lapion Empire was not normal.
‘What is the Empress doing to lower her status?’
Roxana silently clicked her tongue and shook her head.
She felt even more affectionate towards Emperor Linel, who was so affectionate to such a frivolous woman.
But Empress Zelda's crazy talk continued.
"You're not going to wipe me with the clothes you're wearing in the cave during the day, are you? You'd rather not wear pants, Your Majesty? What are you doing?"
Zelda lowered her outstretched arms and tried to look back.
Roxana quickly grabbed the amethyst three times and disappeared.
This time, she didn't feel any regret at all.
'How funny.'
A couple mistakenly thought they were different people.
***
Roxana returned to the witch Kelly's house again.
"Are you okay, Miss?!"
Nancy hugged Roxana, who had reappeared in the magic circle, and quickly scanned her body to see if she was hurt anywhere.
Roxana, who had moved around naked, returned wearing a luxurious house dress.
"Thank goodness you found clothes? I was so worried that our young lady would be walking around naked all the time! By the way, whose dress is this?"
"Empress Zelda."
"Yes? How did you get that? Did she give it to you?"
Nancy asked, thinking that it couldn't be true, but still not quite understanding. Roxana smiled and replied.
“I stole it.”
“...You didn’t get caught?”
“I did. By Emperor Linel.”
“Oh my! How great! T-That’s why?”
“God helped me. Emperor Linel saw my back and thought I was the Empress, so he didn’t suspect anything. I even had a towel covering my head.”
Roxana explained what had happened when she was moved to the Emperor’s chambers.
“Oh my, it was a stroke of luck!”
Nancy brushed her chest.
“I guess Empress Zelda’s height and body type are similar to yours.”
The witch asked Roxana.
“I think so. Even the dress fits so well.”
Roxana walked over to the mirror and examined herself in Zelda’s dress, lost in thought.
If there really were so many similarities, wouldn’t I be able to have what she had?
Even in terms of origin, she was superior to her. They say Empress Zelda was the daughter of a Count of the Kingdom of Shattonil, but she remembered hearing that she was an illegitimate child.
Roxana hugged her body with both arms.
When Emperor Linel wrapped his strong arms around her body, the feeling still remained.
Her heart pounded again.
After returning safely, calming her mind, and looking into the mirror again, she remembered the scent that Emperor Linel had given her.
The sound of his breathing was so lovely that she didn’t know what to do.
The whisper was both affectionate and strange.
Emperor Linel had mistaken all of this for Empress Zelda, but Roxana felt as if he had done it to her.
“My Lady, have you ever heard the story about Empress Zelda from the Lord of the Magic Tower?”
The witch asked casually, returning the crystal ball to its original place.
“What?”
Roxana grabbed her arm and asked back at the witch’s somewhat meaningful voice.
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