Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first? Chapter 265 - 265 63 Testing the Waters

265: Chapter 63: Testing the Waters 265: Chapter 63: Testing the Waters After sharing several bottles of drink with Hood, Aske staggered out of the tavern and made his way back slowly.

Although as an esports player one shouldn’t drink, this world no longer had esports, so a little alcohol didn’t matter.

Walking down the street, the cold night air sobered him up a bit.

Speaking of which, hasn’t that kid Hood been here for less than a month?

He actually managed to sow his seeds and had a shotgun wedding?

Tsk tsk tsk, who would have guessed he was such a virile young stallion.

As Aske mused, an intuition of impending danger suddenly crossed his mind, and he dodged a bullet aid at his temple with lightning speed.

In the alley to his left, a man stared at him incredulously, his handgun still smoking.

“What are you doing?” Aske, maintaining his tilted head, asked.

“I…

I…” the man stamred, then suddenly bellowed as he squeezed the trigger, “Long live the independence of Bohemia!”

Before his words ended, a throwing knife had pierced his throat, and as he fell, a string of bullets shot skyward from the flaming gun barrel.

“Crazy.” Aske shook his head and continued toward Weisbach Palace.

From a rooftop in the distance, Heinrich and yer watched his retreating figure.

“Did you see clearly?” Heinrich asked.

“‘Intuition’ or ‘Conspiracy’ Sequence, able to sense danger or malice beforehand.” yer frowned, “The knife-throwing was accurate, and the response quite swift, he might also have the ‘Rapid Fire’ or ‘Agility’ Sequence.

Too bad we couldn’t force him to use his swordsmanship.”

“Are you confident?” Heinrich inquired.

“He’s certainly a Transcendent, my lord,” yer bowed slightly, “Unless the Level difference is more than ten, no Transcendent would dare to claim confidence in defeating another, especially when the other’s Sequence is completely unknown.”

“Mmm.” Heinrich nodded, his expression stern.

Unaware, or perhaps indifferent to the knowledge, Aske continued unhurriedly into Weisbach Palace.

“Have you been drinking?” A figure in crimson stood in the corridor, dea squinting at him.

“Just a bit,” Aske admitted.

“The item has been taken care of, handed off to Miel,” dea said expressionlessly.

The so-called item was, of course, that High Rank “Luck” Extraordinary Trait, which had been dissolved in Spiritual Fluid and separated through chromatography, extracting four variants of the Extraordinary Trait from “Luck I” to “Luck IV.”

With the Extraordinary Trait “Luck I” as the main ingredient, and the rest of the auxiliary materials being low-Level Spiritual Materials or industrial products, dea quickly crafted a vial of “Luck I” Magic Potion and gave it to Miel to consu.

“That’s good,” Aske nodded slightly and burped.

“How many drinks did you have to get like this?” dea looped her arm through his, helping him move forward.

“Did you know?” Aske pulled out an invitation from his inner pocket, “Hood’s gotten married.”

“Oh.” dea took the invitation, frowning, “How old is that kid to be getting married?”

“He says it’s the right age for marriage,” Aske shook his head, feeling sleepy.

“He is?

The right age for marriage?” dea sniffed dismissively, “Then I’m an old maid, and yet no heartless Squad Leader has co to propose to .”

“I’m a bit thirsty,” Aske held his forehead, “Got water?”

“Will saliva do?” dea licked the edge of her lips.

“No,” Aske said, “Maintain so dignity, understand?”

Squad Leader seed to be really drunk, his words coming out all slurred.

“You’re smitten again,” dusa said in her heart.

“Indeed,” dea pondered, “Can I take him back to the bedroom and then deal with him right there?”

“I hate pleasure,” dusa said.

“I’m going back to sleep.”

“Then let’s go back to the bedroom~” dea said, supporting Aske’s arm with a coquettish smile.

“No,” Aske said tiredly, “I know what you’re thinking.”

He broke free from dea’s embrace and sat down on the nearby bench, leaning his head back against the pillar as if he had fallen asleep.

“What am I thinking?” dea didn’t get angry, just sat opposite him.

“You know about our team’s Xiao Liu,” Aske said with his eyes closed.

“One night, she purposely stayed late after work and talked to about so things.”

“The next day, she resigned and went back to Imperial City.”

“So, she stayed behind to confess her feelings to you,” dea interpreted his words on her own.

“And you rejected her, so she resigned.”

“Not entirely,” Aske said.

“She originally didn’t want to go back North, but…

after all, her parents are there, getting on in years with no one to look after them.”

“But if you had agreed, perhaps she wouldn’t have left,” dea said.

“Once she got married or even just had the status of being in a relationship here with you, she’d have a reason to stay.”

“So, you’re the one who drove her away,” she said as if summing it up, but also as if stating Aske’s inner thoughts.

“Yes, I drove her away,” Aske admitted, still with his eyes closed.

“Why refuse?” dea asked.

“Afraid of holding her back,” Aske said.

“That’s self-doubt,” dea said bluntly.

“Suppose it is,” Aske opened his eyes, speaking tiredly, “I’m also afraid of holding you back.”

For a mont, dea’s heartbeat seed to stop, but she quickly forced herself to calm down and stubbornly said, “I’m not afraid.”

“But I am,” Aske said with a slight smile, “Maybe you’re right, I just have low self-esteem.”

dea stared at his smile, suddenly filled with rage, and abruptly grabbed his collar, growling:

“Aske!

Listen to !”

“I don’t care if you lacked love as a child or are asexual as an adult, nor do I care where you ca from or where you’re going back to!

My liking you is my own business, don’t think you can just talk into giving up!

If you keep putting on this disgusting facade as if you’ve seen through the world and try to deceive like you do that idiot Nora, sooner or later I’ll take your body by force!”

She left in a rush of fury, Aske slumping against the pillar, watching her fiery red hair and retreating figure.

After a while, he inexplicably began to smile bitterly.

“Aske?” Miel’s voice ca from the other side.

Another one after the last had left?

Aske turned his head, surprised to see Miel poking her little head through the door:

“Haven’t you slept yet?”

“Lying in bed, couldn’t sleep,” Miel pointed to her pointed ears, “My hearing is quite sensitive.”

“It’s just a private matter, don’t ntion it,” Aske waved his hand and staggered to his feet.

“Are you drunk?” Miel ran over, “Let help you back to your room.”

“No need, I can walk on my own,” Aske said, leaning against the wall and slowly making his way back.