Chapter 10 – Princess Eliza
Princess Eliza
Empress Yuria personally guided us through her empress palace and explained the structure of her palace. Juno, who had followed her and explained things to her, returned to her own palace as it got late, but Isabella and Marie accompanied Yuria and kindly guided her.
“Lastly, this is the room that Eliza will use from now on. And I have told her maids, so if you have anything to do, except Madeleine, the maid-in-chief, you can just tell the maids you see.”
“… Yes, I understand. Mama Empress. Thank you for your deep consideration.”
“There are a lot of things I want to talk about with Eliza, but today was really hard, right? So, let’s get some sleep today and talk about it tomorrow, okay?”
“Sleep well, sister~ See you tomorrow~”
Empress Yuria said that and left Eliza’s room with Marie.
Eliza looked around the room she would be using in the future. The room, which was not flashy, but had a warm vibe to it, appealed to her, and as she lay in bed, she remembered the day she came to the Empire.
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Kwaang!!
“What do you mean? Your Highness! This is not possible!!”
“… I can’t help it. This is better for that child to be safe.”
“Even so, how can we send the princess, who is now 11 years old, to the empire alone?”
“Perhaps that child could catch the emperor’s attention? If so, he won’t mess with the country anymore… Don’t you think the emperor likes little girls very much? If it were our Eliza…”
“Your Majesty… How could you say such a thing…”
The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Leon was opposed to sending Princess Eliza as a hostage, but bowed her knees to the will of Charles IV.
The chancellor tried to ensure the safety of the princess by at least providing her with a strict guard, but Charles IV seemed to think that it would not be a bad idea for her to become the emperor’s concubine.
In the position where she had decided to become her hostage, Eliza was looking at her father with an indifferent expression.
‘That person is no longer the father I knew… Dad is…’
The Charles IV that Eliza remembers was a man like a lion, full of confidence and courage in everything he did. However, after being defeated in the war with the Empire last year, his father returned as a completely different person after losing one of his arms.
He always felt like he was being chased by something and was scared. He also became a person who was stubborn about everything and became violent towards his mother and sisters whenever things went wrong.
Their father, who was not originally a warm and kind father to them, but did not resort to violence, ended up killing his mother while drunk and having a nightmare.
Naturally, her queen’s death was forgotten in secret, but Eliza clearly remembered the sight of her mother being carried in her coffin.
And now the father was trying to sell himself to the emperor.
‘I said it was inevitable that I would go to the empire… But I really don’t want to be married to an 80-year-old emperor… But what should I do…’
Wow!
The time when Eliza came into her room and she was alone and contemplating with her tears streaming down her face. Her door opened quietly and someone came in.
“Eliza, are you sleeping?”
That voice was her own eldest sister, Fiona, and although her mother was a different sister, Eliza, who usually followed her older sister, ran up to Fiona and burst into tears.
“Hehe… Sister… I don’t want to go… I think my dad is trying to sell me to the old emperor…”
She was born a princess, and her arranged marriage could be said to be an inevitable fate, but Eliza’s older sister, Fiona, taught herself martial arts and military science from a young age, and soon became one of only three sword masters in the kingdom, so she could not avoid an arranged marriage.
It was natural that sending the Sword Master, which could be said to be a strategic weapon, to another country would immediately result in a tremendous decline in the country’s military power.
That’s why Fiona felt so bad for her half-brother, who was in a completely different situation from her own, and came into her brother’s room in the middle of the night to comfort her as she became her hostage. Fiona patted Eliza’s back and comforted her, and when Eliza stopped crying a little, she said what she had been thinking.
“Eliza, would you like to hear what her sister thinks? Didn’t she see the emperor from a distance a few times during the last war? That’s what she thinks, and if she’s good, she might be able to avoid being her concubine.” Br〉
“Huh? Sister? Is that possible? I’ll definitely do it! What should I do?”
Fiona asked Eliza to wear her military uniform and assume her stately stance without giving a word to her emperor.
“If you do that, you’ll probably like the Emperor, but he probably won’t see you as a woman. And don’t you have big breasts that don’t suit your age? If you just follow what Sister told you, that lolicon bastard will fall for you. It’s certain to turn off interest.”
Eliza prepared her uniform as instructed by her older sister Fiona and practiced answering her emperor’s expected questions every day.
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And today, when Eliza arrived in her empire and did exactly as she had practiced, the emperor, as her sister had advised, did not pay any attention to her and went away, saying that he was coveting her lover.
Instead, the empress showed interest in her and formed relationships with her own descendants, her second princess, third princess, and her third princess.
Eliza was a little taken aback by the sight of Yuria’s family being warm, treating each other openly, and caring for each other rather than the cocky, cool-headed, and affectionate royal family she had been expecting, but Eliza fell asleep quietly with a premonition that life in the empire would not be as difficult as she thought. I heard this.
In fact, at a breakfast the next day after gathering all the princes and princesses, Empress Yuria told her children that they should think of Eliza as her own daughter while she was in her empire, and that they should speak to each other comfortably in her private settings. Br〉
Eliza was extremely embarrassed by Yuria’s instructions, but seeing Isabella, Juno, and Marie speak to her at ease made her feel even more at ease.
It was Eliza who was able to get to know Yuria’s family a lot as they talked a lot about each other during breakfast.
‘I don’t know about the Emperor, Crown Prince, and Prince Lee… But I think I can trust them… This is the first time I’ve felt this way since my mother passed away… If it’s here, I too…’
She had been in the Empire for less than a day, but Eliza already felt like they were her family. She had no one she could trust other than Fiona and her sister, so she thought she might be more comfortable than in the royal palace in her home country, but those thoughts were shattered in the morning.
“Huff, gasp, gasp… Yuno, how are you doing this?”
Haha, you’ll get used to it right away, right? It’s the first day, Eliza, so don’t push yourself too hard.”
Eliza was to accompany Juno’s training schedule according to the emperor’s instructions, and she had been with Juno since training this morning.
As soon as we finished breakfast at 7 o’clock, Yuno suggested that we warm up with a quick run before the liberal arts class that started at 9 o’clock. Eliza, who always liked exercise, thought it was no big deal and changed into the exercise clothes prepared by her sisters and started her training following Yuno, but she immediately regretted that decision. Br〉
Eliza was confident in her physical strength to some extent, but there was no way that Eliza, an ordinary princess, could keep up with Yuno’s training, which even the trainees of the Royal Guard Knights could barely keep up with, so she barely crawled along the parade ground, barely able to keep up, and ended up with her back on the ground.
It has spread.
“Hehe~ You can’t lie down and rest like this during training. Eliza. When you rest, rest by running in place. Instead, take slow, deep breaths to calm your breathing, and when you feel like you can control it, run again. Come on! Wake up!!”
Based on her experience as a trainer in her previous life, Yuno began to tease Eliza from the morning. Of course, her Yuno adjusted it slowly in her own way out of consideration for the fact that she was a beginner, but because Eliza couldn’t feel that as consideration on her part, Yuno began to look like her devil in her eyes. Br〉
‘Ugh, maybe my eyes were wrong… Then that’s right… There’s no way that the lolicon emperor’s son is normal!!’
Eliza cursed her Yuno inside her, but regardless of her thoughts, Yuno continued to push her Eliza, and eventually by the end of her workout session, Eliza couldn’t rest her feet for even a second.
“Okay~ That’s it for today~ Eliza, you worked hard! You can sit down now.”
As soon as Yuno finished speaking, Eliza lay down on the floor and stretched out. Seeing Eliza like that, Yuno took her water and handed it to her, then grabbed her legs and started massaging them.
“Puuup!! What… What are you doing!! On my leg!”
Eliza, who had never held hands with a man outside of her family, was embarrassed by Yuno’s touch and squirted the water she was drinking, but Yuno continued to massage her legs calmly.
“If you leave this alone, you won’t be able to walk tomorrow morning? I’m letting you go in advance, so you should be grateful.”
“I don’t need it? Ugh, I wonder if he’s really the son of that lolicon emperor… He’s already taken a woman’s leg… Inhale!!”
Eliza immediately realized that she had made a mistake and covered her mouth, but her words had long since reached Juno’s ears.
“Yu… Your Highness Yuno… I mean… That is”
“Oh, it’s okay. Who doesn’t know that my dad exposes young women? Giggle, giggle. It doesn’t matter to my sister, me, and Marie, but we still have to be careful because we don’t know who will hear. Okay?”
Yuno generously forgave Eliza and patted her head.
‘What… Are you really the emperor’s son? He’s kind and handsome… He seems to be training hard… Furthermore, he’s the perfect groom… Huh!! No, no, he is the prince of an empire that is the enemy of our kingdom! You can’t be interested!! Wake! Eliza!!’
However, Eliza’s cheeks were red, and she was only looking at Yuno, and perhaps she knew Eliza’s feelings, Yuno massaged her legs vigorously and stood up from her seat.
“Now, go to the empress’ palace and wash up, then come to the 3rd villa where I live. I showed you the way yesterday, so you know the way, right? If you don’t know, you can ask the maids.”
“Do you know that much? It’s right next door!”
“Yes! I remember it well. Class starts at 9 o’clock, so you have to come on time?”
“It’s 9 o’clock… Hey! It’s 8:20 now, how can you wash so quickly!”
“Huh? Don’t you think 10 minutes is enough to wash? I finished it 10 minutes earlier than usual because I had to think about your arrival time.”
“Do you know that women and men are the same? Ugh!! Really!! So ignorant!!”
Eliza rushed to the empress’ palace, cursing Yuno for not caring at all. Yuno didn’t know why she was being criticized, so she headed to her palace to wash off her sweat.
And at nine o’clock Eliza came to Juno’s study room in Juno’s palace, her head dripping wet. Behind her, her maids were holding towels and wiping her hair, but her dress was half wet because she was dripping wet.
“Do you see my tail? I have to finish a little early starting tomorrow! I just have to finish 10 minutes early, so that’s okay, right? Furthermore, I can’t go around like this all the time, right?”
“Um… Okay, starting tomorrow, I’ll finish at 8:10. Instead, let’s start 10 minutes ahead of the start time. That’ll work, right? I just have to wake up a little earlier.”
Eliza was so shocked by Yuno’s obsession with training that she couldn’t even speak.
‘Why are you saying that reducing the training time by 10 minutes is such a big deal? Is he crazy about training like the emperor is crazy about children?’
In her mind, her evaluation of Yuno continued to go up and down.
However, Yuno pays attention to Eliza and is thinking about how she can sleep during today’s lecture without being noticed. As Baron Kimberly’s history lesson began, she quietly closed her eyes.
