18 Chapter 18 (2/2)

”That maybe so... but the question you asked was from my point of view!” She smiled happily.

”So does that mean that you do not care about other people? Following me would mean that you will be labelled as a murderer, a killer and you may have to kill people yourself... would you still not regret your words at that time?” Alexis asked her curiously, he wasn't trying to get emotional, he was just genuinely curious about her... afterall, human beings were very fickle creatures...

They pray about peace and love and help others but violently attack and hate those that disagree with them, almost immediately...

”No... the moment I gave my life to you, i stopped caring about such minor things!” She responded and giggled.

”I guess... both you and I are alike... You are devoted to serving me while I'm devoted to developing the world...” Alexis chuckled as he swirled the wine from his chalice and sipped...

”And neither of us care about anything other than doing what we really want to do...” He declared and drank half of the wine from the chalice and released a content sigh.

”...I guess so” Florestine mumbled and went into deep thinking...

”The next step is to start mass producing the rifle, yesterday I recieved a letter from father saying that everything is prepared... We can then start leaking news little by little...” Alexis muttered.

”...Your highness... what if it doesn't... work?” Florestine asked Alexis who immediately went silent.

'Indeed... What if it fails? What if even after doing everything... nothing happens?' He asked himself...

”...Then I can only hope they change their ways...” Alexis answered after a few minutes of contemplating.

”You mean like... adapt?” She asked him in a small voice.

”Correct, considering the fact that in the future there will a great war, it will be easier if the Emperor who comes after it, is a 'kind' person. This will make them accept everything rather than protest against a tyrant...” Alexis explained with a shrug...

”I'd rather not have the army interrogate innocent people because of a rebel army and cause a rebellion once the empire takes over the continent... Once everything is over, I would still need to rule” he said out loud.

'To check up on the other two continents...' he added to himself.

”Until then, continue with the business... gather loyal people, we don't necessarily need generous and kind people, and we need some greedy people who will be promised power once the Empire has taken over everything...” Alexis said and smiled at her...

”And later terminate them before they get out of hand...” He mumbled.

”Ah... everything is so tiring, Maybe I'll just make an heir and give everything to him or her...” He told her and winked with a smirk.

”A-An heir?! I-I don't think I'm r-ready for

s-such t-t-things yet!” She stuttered and turned beet red as Alexis chuckled and stood up walking upto her...

”W-Wait your highness! I-I'm not r-ready yet!” She shouted at him, turning red, her eyes tearing showing a bit of excitement!.

”What are you saying?” Alexis asked her as he sat down next to Florestine and kept her on his lap, he then hugged her and rested his head on her shoulder, he inhaled her sweet smell of flowers and herbs...

”Perfume from the southern kingdoms, is it?” He asked her softly as she nodded shyly but she had a smile on her beautiful reddened face..

[Host, good job!]

He heard the System compliment him and his eyebrow twitched.

'Thank you for the gracious compliment...' He commented sarcastically as he heard the System snort.

[Host, you may not be insulting me but you are very rude to me... I might start being rude to you aswell!]

The System said as Alexis scoffed at the mere fact that the stupid system threatened him.

'I'm so scared~ As if I'll be intimidated by you...' Alexis replied and continued.

'Besides, this whole thing happened because you decided to trick me!' Alexis ended his speech.

[Oh please... Host, if you haven't noticed already, I helped you in your relationship... you can't be blaming me for helping you! Look at you, already hugging her and doing all other sorts of human intimate acts... If it wasn't for me tricking you, you would still be the shy boy who screamed at her for removing her clothes!]

The System retorted as Alexis stayed quiet...

[Hmph! That's what I thought... You meanie!]

'...'

'Y-You are right... I guess I'm s-s-sorry!' Alexis apologised unwillingly as the System gasped.

[*Gasp!* You actually apologised! I guess I can let you off with this one...]

'...shut up' Alexis ended their conversation.

”Y-Your highness...” Florestine mumbled, she felt very happy but what would happen next...

”Hm... What is it?” He asked her gently, Florestine blushed hearing his gentle voice, it made her feel very special considering how he talks to everyone else coldly...

”N-Nothing...” She said and shook her head, Alexis made her turn to him with his hand and stared at her.

”Y-Your highness...” She mumbled and stared into his ruby red eyes expectantly, Alexis felt his throat run dry seeing the emerald green eyes staring into his own...

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The two of them came out of the balneae, Florestine was in another world and had a wide happy smile plastered on her face as Alexis had closed his eyes and had a slight pink hue on his face.

He then cleared his throat as Flroestine turned beet red and hugged his arm effectively covering her blushing face that would produce steam at any moment...

”Well... that certainly went a bit 'too' far...” Alexis said as the two of them walked to his room.

”You can bring your clothes to my room...” Alexis said while moving his eyes around, not willing to look at her...

Florestine gasped in shock and squealed in delight, she hugged him tightly and pecked him in the cheek.

”And Florestine... what happened in the bath, stays in the bath...” Alexis said sternly as she immediately turned bright red and nodded like a chicken pecking on rice...

”You will be staying in my room from now on considering everything that happened, if it's fine with you...” he reminded her as she smiled happily.

”It's fine! It's perfectly fine! I'll be happy to stay with you!” She shouted and ran back to her current room eagerly and quickly started packing her luggage.

Alexis genuinely smiled seeing her excited while she sighed in bliss...