“Oh my. There are a lot of people outside. What are you talking about?”
I patted his strong shoulder and tried to stand up, but he didn’t let me go.
“There’s only the two of us in here, what?”
Every time his hand brushed my skin, a cool sensation lingered and disappeared.
“I didn’t come here for this.”
As I said that, I put my two arms around his neck and placed my lips on the nape of his neck, which was tilted at an angle.
“I have a different opinion...?”
A low moan tickled my ear.
“Did you get permission from your friend to move?”
“Friend? Oh, my best friend, Lord of Magic Tower?”
I asked him teasingly, laughing.
His brows narrowed, and he replied indifferently.
“Yeah. And there’s something else I want to ask him.”
“I haven’t been able to ask him yet because I came to see my husband first. I’ll ask later, can I have the child right away...”
When I caressed Linel’s face, his blue eyes sparkled.
“Lady Zelda.”
He called my name with a deep gaze.
“Yes?”
“I’m going crazy.”
“I can see it.”
“My body feels hot. Is this also the effect of the imprint?”
I shook my head at his words.
“That’s probably just because of me.”
“Lady Zelda seems to have become more passionate than before?”
“So you don’t like it?”
“Do you think I'm saying this because I don’t like it?”
He asked, placing my hand on his heart.
I tilted my head back and laughed, then casually asked about my meeting with Prince Tesla.
“What did he say?”
“He threatened to mention the Incarnation Sword at the trial.”
“As expected.”
The Incarnation Sword only had a red jewel left, so it would be impossible to find it even if he tried.
Furthermore, since I had already made a sword similar to the Incarnation Sword, if Prince Tesla were to mistake it for that sword, his argument would lose its strength.
“Rather, it seems like the lineage of the Kingdom of Shattonil will be cut off.”
I tilted my head at his words.
“What are you talking about? Was the death sentence decided before the trial even started?”
“No, it’s just that his testicles burst.”
What burst?
“...Did you check it?”
“Ah, so that’s why the commander stayed up all night in the spire?”
“That’s what happened. I heard it was to avenge Lady Bonis? She lost her little finger.”
My heart pounded at the mention of Bonis’s name.
“Yes... That’s what happened.”
Knock knock-.
The office door opened, and Roxana, wearing a veil, came in.
Roxana, who had entered the office, stopped when she saw me and Linel, who were sandwiched together.
I was sitting on Linel’s thighs, with my head turned away.
When I instinctively tried to get off his lap, he wrapped both arms around my waist and stopped me from moving.
“What are you... doing... in the office, Your Majesty?”
Roxana asked with a voice that contained her anger.
“I was getting a massage because my legs were sore.”
“Does anyone... get a massage with their butt?”
“Here it is. I was experiencing it myself.”
The nonsense flowed through his polite voice.
Roxana glared at me with a dumbfounded expression at his shameless nonsense. I could ignore Roxana’s prickly gaze, but it wasn’t that I didn’t feel embarrassed.
“Oh, and even if you lose your memories, your body remembers, so it’s easier to talk like this.”
Linel went a step further and spoke to Roxana in a languid voice, then turned my face toward him and kissed me softly.
Roxana’s blazing eyes felt like they were slapping the back of my head.
Feeling the back of my head getting colder, I motioned for him to let me go.
He smiled as if to say, “What’s the matter?” and continued to maintain this posture.
“How are you going to deal with the aftermath...”
When I asked him with ventriloquism, his gaze went down to my heart and then up again.
Me?
Do you really believe that I made the incarnation sword and the imprint, and am acting like this now?
“I heard that Prince Tesla broke into Zelda’s residence last night and swung a sword.”
Roxana said in a cold tone, explaining why she had come to the office.
“That’s why I was in the middle of consolation.”
He looked into my eyes and told her.
I saw Roxana’s two hands gripping her dress tightly.
“I was going to visit Zelda’s residence with Your Majesty, and she happened to be here. Contrary to what I heard, she didn’t seem to be seriously injured.”
Roxana looked disappointed at my safe appearance.
“Don’t worry. Just because you weren’t seriously injured doesn’t mean Prince Tesla’s crime is any less.”
He said as if he were determined to upset Roxana.
Her gaze shifted from Linel to me.
“You were stabbed by a sword?”
“Yes, Your Majesty came in at that time, so I wasn’t stabbed too deeply.”
“Thank goodness... I see.”
Her eyes were about to tear me apart, but her voice was brimming with sophistication.
I looked closely at Roxana’s face.
It was strange that she was wearing a veil hat today, just like on the day of the concubine’s ceremony.
Roxana’s eyebrows twitched as if she disliked my gaze.
However, she also looked at my face as if observing me.
‘She is suspicious after all. Whether I have the Incarnation Sword or not.’
“What do you plan to do with Prince Tesla?”
Roxana glared at me and asked him.
“He has committed a crime, so he will receive the appropriate punishment.”
“Why do you think Prince Tesla attacked Zelda?”
“I think he was afraid that she would be favored again since she was the acting Empress and became a concubine. What do you think, Empress?”
Linel asked Roxana as if testing her out.
“Well, personally, the two of you may have some lingering feelings, so Your Majesty’s words may be right.”
“By the way, what are you planning on, Princess Resilia?”
Linel asked about the Princess.
“She’s definitely catching up on the dress-ruining incident, so I’m keeping an eye on her for now.”
Roxana pretended to be a kind and merciful Empress.
“I’m worried that we might end up in war with the Kingdom of Shattonil.”
“If it’s necessary, I have no choice.”
Linel replied in a voice that didn’t seem to care.
“But Empress, is there a reason you started wearing a veil these days?”
He asked Roxana what I wanted to ask.
“...The sun seems strong.”
“Hasn’t it been cloudy all along?”
Linel said it as if it were strange, and Roxana looked slightly embarrassed, mumbled.
I stared at the right side of her face, which was covered by the veil. I could feel traces of the fire energy lingering and disappearing.
It seemed like an ability that arose after the Incarnation Sword and the imprint.
If what I felt was right...
Roxana must have been burned on the right side of her face.
In the same position as me.
“I’ve confirmed that Consort Zelda is safe, so I’ll go back now.”
Roxana turned around as if nothing had happened.
However, her haughty expression collapsed at his last words.
“One side of your vision is covered by a veil, so be especially careful when you go back.”
Joseph, who had come out for a picnic by the lakeside of the palace, spread out the sandwiches and bread that the servant had made on a blanket.
In front of Joseph, Aoshi, and Moiya, who had turned into a pigeon, and Moni, who had turned into a sparrow, were huddled together, each bringing the food they wanted to eat in front of them.
“Child, are you all better now?”
Joseph shook his head at Moiya’s words.
“I’m still cold, but I’ve gotten a lot better since I met Her Majesty the Empress. Before, I was cold to the bone. But now I’m not like that.”
“Our master has become even more amazing, Moiya~.”
“Ah! She even has a sword in her heart, Moni~.”
Aoshi, not understanding what the two baby wyverns were talking about, just blinked blankly until a question suddenly occurred to her.
“Meow? (So which of you two is older?)”
Aoshi asked, kneading hard on Joseph’s lap.
“I’m older,”
Moni chirped back.
“Ow? You might have been born a few years earlier, but I hatched from the egg first, Moiya~?”
“So?”
“Call me brother. Humans call older males that.”
“Why are you brother? I was born first.”
“I hatched from the egg first, didn’t I?”
“Huh, isn’t it funny that even fire is weaker than me~?”
“This is the real deal! You were hatched from an egg because I helped you meet my master!”
“I felt my master’s energy, so I was slowly breaking open the egg? It’s only a little bit thanks to you.”
“Wow, is it because you’ve been living with that Roxana or Maksana? Isn’t that kid so shameless, Moiya~?”
Moiya got excited as he picked out the ham from his sandwich.
“Meow meow. (Then you two breathe fire. Let’s make it so that the baby wyvern with the strongest fire is awesome.)”
“Aoshi, then you go sit under that tree.”
“...Meow meow? (...Why me?)”
Aoshi’s tail stood up at Moiya’s words.
“You’re so furry. Let’s see whose fur will burn first with the flames.”
“Huh? That’s a good idea!”
Moni agreed enthusiastically.
The two baby wyverns worked together to push Aoshi’s buttocks toward the tree.
“Guys, that won’t do. If you do that, all of Aoshi’s fur will burn off.”
Joseph scratched his head and stopped him.
“Hair will grow back. Child, do you want to go and stand instead?”
“Oh, no. I don’t want to die of cold, but I don’t want to burn to death either.”
Joseph moved away from Moiya and Moni.
In the meantime, Aoshi sat down under the tree in a daze.
Moiya shook his neck here and there, then flapped his wings as he watched Emperor Adrian approaching from afar.
“Oooh? Is Silver hairtail awake? He must have come out for a walk with Elan.”
“Silver hairtail, Moni?”
Moni asked, turning her head toward Emperor Adrian.
“There’s someone who really wants to be friends with me. Don’t pay attention to him. He’ll keep talking.”
Moiya happily waved his dove wings toward Empress Elan.
Then Empress Elan looked at him with strange eyes from afar, and when she realized that the dove was Moiya, she shook her head slightly.
Moiya, who did not notice this, thought that Empress Elan did not recognize him, so he flapped his wings even more passionately.
“That old man keeps staring at me.”
Moni said while looking at Emperor Adrian’s silver hair.
“Really? Is he being friendly to you, too? I should shit on his head and come back.”
Moiya flew into the sky.
“I want to shit with you!”
Moni followed Moiya.
“Guys... I’m so scared...”
Joseph, who was left alone, froze as soon as he saw Emperor Adrian’s face.
Joseph was the only one who knew Emperor Adrian’s true identity.
“I hope the Prince is safe...”
As soon as the sun rose, Pesilini received a large sum of money from his father, the Marquis, and bribed the guards in the spire.
It was more than five years' worth of a guard’s salary.
The guards, who moved as a team, secretly let Pesilini into the spire during their shifts.
After Emperor Linel visited the spire early in the morning, Commander Macrom also returned to his quarters.
Pesilini put on her robe and was guided by the bribed guards to the dungeon where Prince Tesla was.
The damp and eerie feeling made her body tremble involuntarily.
Pesilini carefully walked on the slippery floor and placed both hands on her stomach.
“Ouch...”
Her stomach felt like it was pulling more than usual.
‘Don’t be nervous, baby. I’m on my way to see your father.’
I patted his strong shoulder and tried to stand up, but he didn’t let me go.
“There’s only the two of us in here, what?”
Every time his hand brushed my skin, a cool sensation lingered and disappeared.
“I didn’t come here for this.”
As I said that, I put my two arms around his neck and placed my lips on the nape of his neck, which was tilted at an angle.
“I have a different opinion...?”
A low moan tickled my ear.
“Did you get permission from your friend to move?”
“Friend? Oh, my best friend, Lord of Magic Tower?”
I asked him teasingly, laughing.
His brows narrowed, and he replied indifferently.
“Yeah. And there’s something else I want to ask him.”
“I haven’t been able to ask him yet because I came to see my husband first. I’ll ask later, can I have the child right away...”
When I caressed Linel’s face, his blue eyes sparkled.
“Lady Zelda.”
He called my name with a deep gaze.
“Yes?”
“I’m going crazy.”
“I can see it.”
“My body feels hot. Is this also the effect of the imprint?”
I shook my head at his words.
“That’s probably just because of me.”
“Lady Zelda seems to have become more passionate than before?”
“So you don’t like it?”
“Do you think I'm saying this because I don’t like it?”
He asked, placing my hand on his heart.
I tilted my head back and laughed, then casually asked about my meeting with Prince Tesla.
“What did he say?”
“He threatened to mention the Incarnation Sword at the trial.”
“As expected.”
The Incarnation Sword only had a red jewel left, so it would be impossible to find it even if he tried.
Furthermore, since I had already made a sword similar to the Incarnation Sword, if Prince Tesla were to mistake it for that sword, his argument would lose its strength.
“Rather, it seems like the lineage of the Kingdom of Shattonil will be cut off.”
I tilted my head at his words.
“What are you talking about? Was the death sentence decided before the trial even started?”
“No, it’s just that his testicles burst.”
What burst?
“...Did you check it?”
I already knew that his teeth had fallen out. But was there another part that had lost its function?
“Why would I check that myself? I heard it from the palace doctor.”
“Why would I check that myself? I heard it from the palace doctor.”
“But did you attack that part on purpose?”
“It wasn’t me. It was Macrom.”
“Ah, so that’s why the commander stayed up all night in the spire?”
“That’s what happened. I heard it was to avenge Lady Bonis? She lost her little finger.”
My heart pounded at the mention of Bonis’s name.
“Yes... That’s what happened.”
Knock knock-.
The office door opened, and Roxana, wearing a veil, came in.
Roxana, who had entered the office, stopped when she saw me and Linel, who were sandwiched together.
I was sitting on Linel’s thighs, with my head turned away.
When I instinctively tried to get off his lap, he wrapped both arms around my waist and stopped me from moving.
“What are you... doing... in the office, Your Majesty?”
Roxana asked with a voice that contained her anger.
“I was getting a massage because my legs were sore.”
“Does anyone... get a massage with their butt?”
“Here it is. I was experiencing it myself.”
The nonsense flowed through his polite voice.
Roxana glared at me with a dumbfounded expression at his shameless nonsense. I could ignore Roxana’s prickly gaze, but it wasn’t that I didn’t feel embarrassed.
“Oh, and even if you lose your memories, your body remembers, so it’s easier to talk like this.”
Linel went a step further and spoke to Roxana in a languid voice, then turned my face toward him and kissed me softly.
Roxana’s blazing eyes felt like they were slapping the back of my head.
Feeling the back of my head getting colder, I motioned for him to let me go.
He smiled as if to say, “What’s the matter?” and continued to maintain this posture.
“How are you going to deal with the aftermath...”
When I asked him with ventriloquism, his gaze went down to my heart and then up again.
Me?
Do you really believe that I made the incarnation sword and the imprint, and am acting like this now?
“I heard that Prince Tesla broke into Zelda’s residence last night and swung a sword.”
Roxana said in a cold tone, explaining why she had come to the office.
“That’s why I was in the middle of consolation.”
He looked into my eyes and told her.
I saw Roxana’s two hands gripping her dress tightly.
“I was going to visit Zelda’s residence with Your Majesty, and she happened to be here. Contrary to what I heard, she didn’t seem to be seriously injured.”
Roxana looked disappointed at my safe appearance.
“Don’t worry. Just because you weren’t seriously injured doesn’t mean Prince Tesla’s crime is any less.”
He said as if he were determined to upset Roxana.
Her gaze shifted from Linel to me.
“You were stabbed by a sword?”
“Yes, Your Majesty came in at that time, so I wasn’t stabbed too deeply.”
“Thank goodness... I see.”
Her eyes were about to tear me apart, but her voice was brimming with sophistication.
I looked closely at Roxana’s face.
It was strange that she was wearing a veil hat today, just like on the day of the concubine’s ceremony.
Roxana’s eyebrows twitched as if she disliked my gaze.
However, she also looked at my face as if observing me.
‘She is suspicious after all. Whether I have the Incarnation Sword or not.’
“What do you plan to do with Prince Tesla?”
Roxana glared at me and asked him.
“He has committed a crime, so he will receive the appropriate punishment.”
“Why do you think Prince Tesla attacked Zelda?”
“I think he was afraid that she would be favored again since she was the acting Empress and became a concubine. What do you think, Empress?”
Linel asked Roxana as if testing her out.
“Well, personally, the two of you may have some lingering feelings, so Your Majesty’s words may be right.”
“By the way, what are you planning on, Princess Resilia?”
Linel asked about the Princess.
“She’s definitely catching up on the dress-ruining incident, so I’m keeping an eye on her for now.”
Roxana pretended to be a kind and merciful Empress.
“I’m worried that we might end up in war with the Kingdom of Shattonil.”
“If it’s necessary, I have no choice.”
Linel replied in a voice that didn’t seem to care.
“But Empress, is there a reason you started wearing a veil these days?”
He asked Roxana what I wanted to ask.
“...The sun seems strong.”
“Hasn’t it been cloudy all along?”
Linel said it as if it were strange, and Roxana looked slightly embarrassed, mumbled.
I stared at the right side of her face, which was covered by the veil. I could feel traces of the fire energy lingering and disappearing.
It seemed like an ability that arose after the Incarnation Sword and the imprint.
If what I felt was right...
Roxana must have been burned on the right side of her face.
In the same position as me.
“I’ve confirmed that Consort Zelda is safe, so I’ll go back now.”
Roxana turned around as if nothing had happened.
However, her haughty expression collapsed at his last words.
“One side of your vision is covered by a veil, so be especially careful when you go back.”
***
Joseph, who had come out for a picnic by the lakeside of the palace, spread out the sandwiches and bread that the servant had made on a blanket.
In front of Joseph, Aoshi, and Moiya, who had turned into a pigeon, and Moni, who had turned into a sparrow, were huddled together, each bringing the food they wanted to eat in front of them.
“Child, are you all better now?”
Joseph shook his head at Moiya’s words.
“I’m still cold, but I’ve gotten a lot better since I met Her Majesty the Empress. Before, I was cold to the bone. But now I’m not like that.”
“Our master has become even more amazing, Moiya~.”
“Ah! She even has a sword in her heart, Moni~.”
Aoshi, not understanding what the two baby wyverns were talking about, just blinked blankly until a question suddenly occurred to her.
“Meow? (So which of you two is older?)”
Aoshi asked, kneading hard on Joseph’s lap.
“I’m older,”
Moni chirped back.
“Ow? You might have been born a few years earlier, but I hatched from the egg first, Moiya~?”
“So?”
“Call me brother. Humans call older males that.”
“Why are you brother? I was born first.”
“I hatched from the egg first, didn’t I?”
“Huh, isn’t it funny that even fire is weaker than me~?”
“This is the real deal! You were hatched from an egg because I helped you meet my master!”
“I felt my master’s energy, so I was slowly breaking open the egg? It’s only a little bit thanks to you.”
“Wow, is it because you’ve been living with that Roxana or Maksana? Isn’t that kid so shameless, Moiya~?”
Moiya got excited as he picked out the ham from his sandwich.
“Meow meow. (Then you two breathe fire. Let’s make it so that the baby wyvern with the strongest fire is awesome.)”
“Aoshi, then you go sit under that tree.”
“...Meow meow? (...Why me?)”
Aoshi’s tail stood up at Moiya’s words.
“You’re so furry. Let’s see whose fur will burn first with the flames.”
“Huh? That’s a good idea!”
Moni agreed enthusiastically.
The two baby wyverns worked together to push Aoshi’s buttocks toward the tree.
“Guys, that won’t do. If you do that, all of Aoshi’s fur will burn off.”
Joseph scratched his head and stopped him.
“Hair will grow back. Child, do you want to go and stand instead?”
“Oh, no. I don’t want to die of cold, but I don’t want to burn to death either.”
Joseph moved away from Moiya and Moni.
In the meantime, Aoshi sat down under the tree in a daze.
Moiya shook his neck here and there, then flapped his wings as he watched Emperor Adrian approaching from afar.
“Oooh? Is Silver hairtail awake? He must have come out for a walk with Elan.”
“Silver hairtail, Moni?”
Moni asked, turning her head toward Emperor Adrian.
“There’s someone who really wants to be friends with me. Don’t pay attention to him. He’ll keep talking.”
Moiya happily waved his dove wings toward Empress Elan.
Then Empress Elan looked at him with strange eyes from afar, and when she realized that the dove was Moiya, she shook her head slightly.
Moiya, who did not notice this, thought that Empress Elan did not recognize him, so he flapped his wings even more passionately.
“That old man keeps staring at me.”
Moni said while looking at Emperor Adrian’s silver hair.
“Really? Is he being friendly to you, too? I should shit on his head and come back.”
Moiya flew into the sky.
“I want to shit with you!”
Moni followed Moiya.
“Guys... I’m so scared...”
Joseph, who was left alone, froze as soon as he saw Emperor Adrian’s face.
Joseph was the only one who knew Emperor Adrian’s true identity.
***
“I hope the Prince is safe...”
As soon as the sun rose, Pesilini received a large sum of money from his father, the Marquis, and bribed the guards in the spire.
It was more than five years' worth of a guard’s salary.
The guards, who moved as a team, secretly let Pesilini into the spire during their shifts.
After Emperor Linel visited the spire early in the morning, Commander Macrom also returned to his quarters.
Pesilini put on her robe and was guided by the bribed guards to the dungeon where Prince Tesla was.
The damp and eerie feeling made her body tremble involuntarily.
Pesilini carefully walked on the slippery floor and placed both hands on her stomach.
“Ouch...”
Her stomach felt like it was pulling more than usual.
‘Don’t be nervous, baby. I’m on my way to see your father.’
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