53 Chapter 52 (1/2)
Although being looked with cold eyes by such beauty was painful, Leon soon recovered when Ren hit his elbows in his stomach. Leon looked at him as if he was about to send Ren to the moon, but he stopped when he saw Ren's earnest eyes.
”Unless you want to lose your eyes, don't look at her ever again like that,” Ren whispered.
”What do you mean by that? I didn't think of anything,” Leon frowned. ”By the way, who is she? Why is there a priestess in the palace?”
”Her name is Yuki, princess Yuki,” Ren added. ”She is the daughter of the emperor... I don't know the details, but it looks like she received the power from the gods to heal sickness, poisons, and even curses. She is doing that right now.”
”What? That is so unfair...” Leon frowned.
”Don't raise your tone...” Ren broke into a cold sweat. ”I'm serious, Leon. Don't even try anything to her. If something happens to her, and the cause is another American... the Emperor won't need to raise a finger, the entire population of Japan will wage war against your country.”
”Dude... I'm here to find a way home, not to find a girlfriend.” Leon shrugged. ”Maybe in the next life, I will have a chance with her, but I understand that we live in different worlds.”
Leon made a mental note not to look at her ever again, she was indeed the most beautiful woman he had seen in the last years, but he wouldn't cause a war because of a single woman... that being said, he didn't see many women in the last few years. Still, it looked her family was also working hard. The people in the queue seemed pretty ordinary, and even past dinnertime, she was helping them.
”Curses… so the monster can curse people, too.”
Making a mental of that wasn't necessary because Leon would kill all monsters before they could try anything against him. Eventually, Leon and Ren arrived at a big hall, where several men were sitting on the floor, and on the other side of the hall, Leon and Ren saw the emperor.
The emperor's name was Makoto, despite being fifty years old, he looked far younger. There was no sign of grey hair in his black hair. Although he had fierce eyes and a trained physique, his facial features were pretty delicate. It didn't look like monsters had damaged him even a single time. At his side, Leon saw a two and a half meters long katana. It was hard to imagine someone wielding that, but it looked very imposing. Leon didn't know Makoto's clothing styles, but his current clothes were rather simple. It was just regular clothes soldiers would wear in those Japanese period dramas.
After Leon checked the emperor with his own eyes, he felt some cold stares. When he looked at Ren kneeling on the ground, he understood why. Although Leon didn't want to put himself in such a defenseless position, he decided to mimic Ren. He was in the emperor's house, so he had to follow his rules.
After a few seconds, the emperor said something and Ren got up, Leon did the same and saw his pale face, and he was also sweating bullets. The emperor said other things, and Ren answered with few words.
”… What are you doing here?” The emperor asked, looking at Leon in the eye.