Chapter 50 (2/2)

At least he could still turn his head to look if I would scold him. His eyes were distracting me, so I stared blankly ahead to focus on healing.

I put my hands on his back, reciting the magic of the elemental water world that he had never heard of. As I covered the emperor’s back with lace-like webs of glowing light, I could see a magical glow shining faintly on my body.

It must not have been a pleasant sensation for the wound to heal so quickly that it was visible to the naked eye.

“Are you crying?” he muttered faintly.

As soon as I heard it, the drops fell from my eyes. After a few blinks, my blurred vision barely returned.It was unfair. I didn’t mean to cry, but I couldn’t help my tears. It was my weakness, probably.

He cleared his throat. “There are servants who are angry because they can’t go home because of me, and there are those who have their necks on the line because of me, but there aren’t that many that I cried.” He sighed and turned around when there was no answer. Then he turned around and touched my tear-streaked cheeks with his hand.

I tried to cover my face with my free hands. “Stop.”

“Why?”

“It will dry on its own.”

“Like it would be better if you left my back alone.”

“Your Majesty!”

“Shouldn’t you be angry at me right now? This is strange.”

It was unreasonable how much I wanted to bring him back to his full strength. The stubborn emperor wanted to see my weeping face and gave up taking care of his wounds and stood looking at me, so I had to stand there dumbfounded until the tears finally stopped.

“Now then, your back, please.”

The emperor waved his hand lightly. “That’s enough for today. Apparently, there are quite a few people waiting.”

“Okay, then later…”

“Yeah.”

I caught a flash of the emperor’s back heading to the door.

“Your Majesty, may I speak to Prince Khun of the Empire of Tepoda?”

Somehow I couldn’t get rid of the idea that he seemed friendly to me. Maybe it was because I had to discover what he was hiding, something big enough to involve Instructor Xenon. I wanted to meet and talk to him even just once.

The emperor looked grumpy, but still nodded. “He talks as if he didn’t participate in today’s incident, but we aren’t sure of that either. What are you going to do with someone like that?”

“I want to know why he keeps looking for me. I’m just going to ask him a few questions. You’re very busy, so I think I can go by myself.”

“Well…” The emperor turned around as if he was unwilling. His face drifted closer to mine.

I could feel his gaze slowly moving from my forehead to my nose, from my nose to my cheeks, and from my cheeks to my mouth.

His eyes narrowed, and he smirked. “Do as you wish.”

That was surprisingly easy.

“Alright.” I stood up with excitement and moved quickly.

His gaze continued to follow me, but I had so much to do that I didn’t have time to worry about it.

When I opened the door, as expected, a bunch of servants and knights were standing in the drawing-room. I put them in order of priority and put the most urgent knight in front of the emperor.

“You may now see Your Majesty.”

“I have come to report the results of the interrogation of the madmen in the tower.”

“How is it?”

The knight spoke slowly in a shaky tone as if he was still out of breath from running, “It sounds a bit strange.”“Sounds strange?”

“It’s like they’re part of an armed struggle for justice.”

“The realization of justice while thinking of annihilating powerless civilians. It’s a fun idea.”

“What should I do?”

“How far did you say it was?”

“Not so far yet, but I’m not so sure.”

“Tell me.”

“It looks like he’s not going to talk about the location of his stronghold and what’s next. However, looking at the way he looks and speaks, he seems to be a mixture of Yekatu, Bazan, and Goldina.”

“Find out more.”

“Yes.” Hearing the emperor’s command, the knight began to add something, but then he looked at me.

The emperor nodded. “She is trustworthy.”

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