Chapter 1145 – Afterword ─ Pandora and Venus ~ Minos Thinks
“Hmm…”
Minos Holimpia was moaning with a brush in her mouth.
“His Majesty Minos…”
“Just stay still! I think the best work will come out in just a little while!”
“You said that half a day ago, but…”
In front of Minos, there was a noble girl standing with a face on the verge of tears. She was wearing strange lingerie that showed all of her skin, making her look better naked.
On the contrary, there was a large canvas in front of Minos, and around it were a mountain of paints and brushes.
“In the first place, art is not achieved all at once. Please give us a little more strength.”
Minos, who even winked cutely, hummed at her and moved her brush widely. It was a bold brush stroke that seemed to have not been her thoughts at all, but the result was completely different.
The paint scattered in large chunks created a huge river, and the delicately swung brushstrokes expressed human skin in an elegant and deep way. The picture, which exudes profound and subtle colors that could not be created by ‘photography’, a technology of the demons, was steadily created by Minos’ fingertips.
“Minos, did you see Lady Arrenno…”
Ceres, who entered Minos’ atelier with a knock, subtly furrowed his eyebrows when he saw the naked ‘lady’.
“Minos?”
“Lady Arrenno is busy because she has something to talk about with Minos~”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Baron Arenrenault said with a tearful face that he thought his daughter had gone missing.”
Ceres pinched Minos’ buttocks with her hands and bowed her back to him with a sigh.
“I’m sorry, Lady Arrenno. It seems that Her Majesty Minos played a bad prank.
“Minos has never done anything like that?”
“… Minos Holympia.”
When Ceres called him by his last name, Minos swallowed his saliva and moved his brush faster. Afterward, he carefully grabbed the canvas and twirled it around to show the finished painting.
“Could it be possible that Minos was grumpy? It’s just that his artistic soul burns when he looks at Lady Arrenno’s beautiful body.”
“Wow… My Highness Minos! It’s truly a beautiful painting. How did you draw this when I’m just standing here?”
Lady Aren Renault, who was full of dissatisfaction, ran over to him, covering his chest and groin with both hands, and examined the painting. The beautiful work of art created from the fingertips of Minos depicts a naked daughter reaching out to a bird flying from the sky, leaving a pure white deer behind her in the middle of a forest soaked in sunlight.
“You gave Minos some good inspiration, right? Thank you.”
“No, it was an honor for me.”
“But you worked as a model in front of Minos all day without even being able to go to the bathroom, right? I’m really grateful, but…”
Minos stroked his own chin with his thumb, then reached out and opened the wardrobe that was placed in the corner of the atelier. Surprisingly, the closet was a kind of portal leading to a huge wardrobe.
“I told Pearl. You can take one of the dresses I made.”
“Yes? Yes? Really? Ha, but how dare I wear the dress that Your Majesty made…”
“His Majesty is now giving a reward to Lady Arenrenault. So feel free to wear it and take whatever you want.”
At Minos’ smile, Lady Arrenno covered her chest with her hand and bowed. After that, the young lady walked out of her closet, held the hand of the maid, and went inside.
“Please don’t call me grumpy.”
“Isn’t this mean? They were the ones who made the mistake first. I think Minos was quite lenient.”
Ceres bent his eyebrows.
“Why? That’s what I did in the first place… Ouch!”
“You must not use such words. His Majesty Minos acts too emotionally when it comes to matters related to you.”
“Is Minos bad? Lady Arrenno foolishly seduced Abama at the last party. She was already so worried, but she gave her loose pussy… Yay!”
Ceres pinched Minos’ butt again, and Minos pouted his lips with a dissatisfied expression.
“Still… Minos thinks he showed lenient treatment.”
“Since you did not punish me and gave me a dress as a gift, I am sure you will behave yourself as you are the daughter of a baron.”
“Minos didn’t take care of the women he met so far, did he?”
Ceres sighed, but it was undeniable that after somehow seducing Venus, there were many noble women who wanted to become pregnant with her seed and become another marriage partner.
“Still, the gift of the dress was sincere, and I drew this picture with love and hate.”
“I know that well. If you had painted a picture in terrible taste, it wouldn’t have ended with you pinching your butt.”
“Kyaaang – Ceres’ great mother is popping Minos’s sleep-“
When Ceres was startled, Minos burst out laughing and began to gently shake his body and organize his paints and brushes.
“Your Highness Minos, there is something you need to check.”
“What happened?”
“Count Camoy, Baron Latine, and Countess Dutley would like to have dinner with His Majesty Minos.”
After putting away his paints and brushes, Minos let out a snort and touched his chin.
“It’s because of Pandora’s work.”
“I understand that the theme of the dinner is His Majesty Minos’ opera.”
“The daughter of Count Dutley was a supporting character, right? But Minos knows. Those three people’s estates are located near the noisy territory of Pandora.”
Minos walked to a corner of the atelier, grabbed his handle embedded in the wall, and turned it. With a loud mechanical sound, the wall flipped over and a shelf full of alcohol popped out.
“I think Pandora’s story will be the main story.”
“Tell me you’re not participating.”
“Are you okay?”
Minos nodded and began making cocktails very skillfully.
“Yes, Minos is not interested in such things.”
“If His Majesty Minos helps them, the commotion might stop.”
“Minos doesn’t know how to do that. How can Minos do something that even Abama doesn’t do?”
Minos poured a glass of pink liquid, sniffed the scent, and smiled with satisfaction.
“Minos can never be like Abamama. So, he won’t do something stupid like intentionally interfere with the situation that Abamama is watching over.”
“As expected, you knew.”
“Yes, Minos knew even before Ceres’ eldest mother noticed.”
Minos, who was enjoying the faint scent of fruit, neatly poured the liquid down his throat.
“Minos is not interested in such political matters. He understands the pain and suffering from his people and the importance of life, but he does not have the strength to handle them all.”
“Some say that waiting and waiting will cause further damage.”
“What are the chances that a child who knows nothing about painting will use fancy brushes and precious paints to create a picture that will be loved by aristocrats?”
Minos rubbed his chest a little with his left hand.
“There is a possibility. The child could be a genius. He could draw a perfect picture. But if the materials for the picture that Minos will draw are the blood, flesh, and fate of the people, I don’t want to gamble.”
“… This is a wise decision.”
“I think the other younger siblings are similar. The only ones who think that Abama is incompetent and not doing anything are the nobles who are talking darkly in a corner of the council.”
Minos pressed his right hand to his groin a few times, then dropped his hand and sat cross-legged on his sofa.
“Elesis and Garnet have generous personalities, so they might fight. You have to go through trials to become like Abamama, and you have to accomplish tasks to become as great as Abamama, but this fight isn’t like that.”
“If a fight breaks out, would you be willing to help?”
“Minos doesn’t know about that.”
Minos, who smiled beautifully, lay down on the sofa. Then he looked up at his Ceres with sparkling eyes.
“… With the power of Ceres, you can kill Pandora overnight.”
“This is completely against Your Majesty’s wishes.”
“That’s why Minos doesn’t do anything either. And…”
Minos blinked his eyes slowly.
“Pandora used to be quite nice and cute.”
“His Majesty Minos…”
“It’s true. When we went to the academy together, he would sometimes cover his erection with his hands and apologize while taking a bath.”
Minos burst out laughing.
“Even after forming the club, he was a pretty good kid. He was very popular with both men and women.”
“I remember those days too.”
Minos wiggled her toes and looked into Ceres’ eyes.
“So? What do you plan to do, Abama?”
“It seems like they are watching.”
“What next?”
Ceres vaguely knew what Minos was talking about.
“… A father always wants his child to succeed.”
“But it’s hard to think that Pandora will succeed. And the good emperor said to Minos himself that he should always consider both failure and success?”
“Your Majesty seems to think that Pandora should know how to take responsibility for herself.”
“Huh, Hanako? She ruined Pandora like that. Still?”
Ceres nodded his head without any hesitation.
“Advice is just advice. Even a whisper is just a whisper. It was Pandora who listened and acted.”
“… So what is the punishment?”
“Either beheaded or…”
Ceres rolled his eyes and pretended to cut something with his index and middle fingers.
“… The idiots who swear at Congress in parliament don’t know anything. “You’re so angry.”
