Chapter 873 – Day 99 – The Woman Who Loves the Emperor
Everyone said.
It is said that the love that parents give their children is infinite even if it is not reciprocated.
What about other cases? What about ordinary love, not the love that parents give their children?
I hope to be rewarded in the end. And this reward takes different forms.
If there are cases where you want material and direct compensation, there are also cases where you want someone to say you love them in the same way when you say you love them.
When you are in a crisis, there are times when you hope that you can overcome it with feelings of love, and there are also times when you hope that everyone will help you when they criticize you.
─♬
The highest being in this room, where beautiful singing sounds gracefully resonated, did the same.
This girl with beautifully braided light blue hair was hoping that her love would be repaid in some form.
No, this woman’s feelings were not something that could be expressed with the trivial word ‘hope’. I was convinced that it was certain that my love would be reciprocated.
─♪
In front of such a woman.
Women in black dresses were dancing in unison to the sound of the song.
Dozens of young ladies filling the room did not say a single word, but turned and twirled their bodies with their right arms raised.
“Royal Mistress.”
The girl standing on the pure white marble platform turns her head to check the voice calling her.
The woman with her bright red mask was on her knees, as if coming up to her podium seemed blasphemous.
“What’s going on?”
The Royal Mistress’s voice was powerful and calm at the same time.
“Fools who have abandoned the grace of the Great One are storming into the Duchy of Altema.”
“I see. I understand.”
“There is a possibility that things outside can help…”
“Let them go. They can’t do anything anyway.”
The Royal Mistress spoke calmly and began playing the instrument in her hands again.
─♬
As the elegant rhythm fills the room, the girls who had stopped moving begin to dance again.
One, two. One, two.
The girls keep dancing to the exact beat, even with a single finger or blink of an eye.
“Crown Princess Venus Holympia has strange powers.”
“I know very well.”
“The one who lets the nobles outside the castle in…”
“It’s okay.”
At one word from the Royal Mistress, the masked being lowered its head.
“The Cordyceps I created for the Great One has already been activated.”
“Ah…! I didn’t doubt the Royal Mistress’s skills.”
“Yes, there is an old saying that you should beat on a stone bridge before you cross it, right? Your concerns are not wrong.”
─♬
Even while talking, the Royal Mistress does not stop playing the violin.
A beautiful woman with light blue hair.
A seductress wearing clothes so thin that the curves of her body are not obscured at all, and you can even tell what color her flesh is.
“The Duchy of Altema, guarded by the Royal Mistress, will be the last bastion to protect Holympia.”
“That is absurd. You are protecting Holympia. As long as there is a great person, Venus Holympia’s treason is nothing more than a child complaining at the table because he does not want to eat green peppers.”
“… I understand.”
When the girl wearing the mask nodded and disappeared into the shadows, other girls wearing the same mask appeared to take her place.
“Royal Mistress. What should we do with the nobles who come to the mansion?”
“Let them go. They can’t do anything anyway.”
The Royal Mistress, who was playing the violin, slowly puts down her hands.
She waved her hand, which was holding nothing, and the women filling her room suddenly scattered to her left and right, remaining silent.
As if to fill the gap, she calmly walked forward and headed to the balcony where she could see everything about the Dukedom of Altema at a glance.
“Have you finally come here? Venus Holympia.”
The Royal Mistress looked at the land where the Duchy of Altema began and muttered briefly.
There was no worry on her face. The sky was surprisingly clear, as if to say that the judgment was correct.
“It’s a pity that she is the daughter of a great man.”
Another masked woman appears next to the Royal Mistress, who mutters in a cold voice.
“Royal Mistress. The items you prepared have been properly delivered to Director Zodiac.”
“I see. It’s natural.”
“Since you have listened to the request of the Commander-in-Chief…”
“You’re saying something stupid. You’re asking a favor from the Zodiac commander? Would I grant such a request?”
At the words of the Royal Mistress, the masked being been speechless for a moment.
“Then…?”
“It was an order from the Great One.”
“Ahh, I’m sorry. I don’t know the meaning of the Great One…”
“It is inevitable. I am the only one who can know the true meaning of the Great One.”
The Royal Mistress spoke with confident eyes and slowly lowered her eyes.
It was just as the masked women said.
The nobles, who were furious, finally began to struggle to enter the castle where the Royal Mistress was staying.
“You brought something strange.”
The nobles who brought a huge piece of iron were shouting to open the castle door, which was tightly closed.
Their will to get their lovely daughters back was strong.
─Boom!!! Thud!!! Kyaang!! Kang!!
The Royal Mistress sighed as the sound of metal that could not be heard with pleasure continued to be heard.
“It would be better if I stayed still and did nothing.”
The Royal Mistress sighed and very slowly raised her right hand.
─Boom!!!
The nobles, who had no way of knowing this, shouted and knocked on the castle gate.
“Quick! Quick! Smash down this annoying door!”
“My daughter is in here!!”
The nobles, whose faces turned red and shouted, and the soldiers who came with them were desperate.
─Cow…!
“Uh… What is it?”
The nobleman, who was constantly moving the iron battering ram, notices something strange.
The heaviness that should be felt in the hand has disappeared. The recoil of force that should be felt from the door has disappeared.
“What is this…”
─Hwiik!
The ‘battering ram’ held and wielded by nobles and soldiers melts in an instant.
Surprisingly, I didn’t even feel any heat. The iron simply melted like water and began to change its shape at will.
“This! What is this?! How on earth did this happen!?”
“It’s a seductress…! A seductress!! That damn seductress again!!!”
Behind the terrified soldiers, a nobleman pulls out a sword.
“Everyone, don’t panic! It’s only one monster! Everyone, don’t panic, draw your swords and fight back!”
The nobleman, who shouted bravely, runs towards the ‘battering ram’, which has turned into something like a giant snake, before anyone else.
─Whirl! Oh, my!
“Oooh, oooooh, ooh, oohhh!”
“Aaaaah!!! It’s a monster! It’s a real monster! Aaaaah!”
“Baron Elbert.!!!”
A monster in the shape of a snake with a body made of giant molten iron.
Such a being simply swung its tail, and the courageous nobleman called ‘Baron Albert’ was cut in half.
“Uh, uh, uh, ahhh!”
“As expected, it was too much! As expected, it was too much!!”
The nobles standing behind the soldiers also panic and run away.
─Thump thump thump!
“Kyahahahahahaha!!”
The ‘statues’ that were emitting an unpleasant atmosphere suddenly moved and burst into laughter that gave you goosebumps.
They moved their bodies without hesitation and cut nearby humans in half or turned them into minced meat.
“It’s finally starting to get a little quieter.”
The Royal Mistress, who had committed a massacre filled with the smell of blood, turned around with a satisfied expression.
“Let’s proceed with the remaining lessons. There are some things that are more important than anything else in order to become a suitable concubine for a great man.”
“Royal Mistress.”
As the masked woman approached, the Royal Mistress smiled her eyes and raised the index finger of her right hand.
It meant that there was a very important lesson, so don’t disturb it.
“Hedone is coming with Crown Princess Venus Holympia.”
“… That’s a good thing.”
The temptress, raising the corners of her mouth, returns to her white podium and places her hand on the violin she had put down.
“Everyone, we need to get ready. It’s been a while since a worthy guest came to visit me, so I need to clean up.”
“How should I prepare?”
“Tell the servants. Tell the knights.”
Taking her violin to her shoulder and tilting her face, the Royal Mistress speaks.
“Get ready to welcome the best guest.”
─♪
The Royal Mistress, who had been expressionless until now, now has a face that shows genuine happiness.
* * *
“… Uhm…”
Hedone frowned.
“What’s going on?”
These were the words of Elaine, who was standing next to him.
“Oh, that’s… Nothing.”
“It’s nothing, right? It’s 100 years too early to fool me, right?”
Elaine held his bright red hair behind his ear and held his hand.
“It’s not yet the time for the baby to kick the tummy and the stomach isn’t full yet, right? What’s going on?”
“Really… Well, I suddenly felt like skin was growing all over my body.”
“Suddenly? Isn’t it hurting somewhere?”
“Yes, it’s not painful. It’s just…”
Hedone unconsciously looked at the huge castle outside the window.
It had such a grand and artistic feel that it felt like everything in the Duchy of Altema existed for that castle.
“I feel bad. Why is this like this? Is this a woman’s feeling that she is going somewhere she shouldn’t be?”
Hedone has known for a long time.
She realized that there was a secret to the fact that she was born that made no logical sense.
