Chapter 8
We looked at each other with shaking eyes.
“I’ll have to have so tea with the guest.”
And Claude’s words ca as a great shock to .
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What kind of situation was this?
My back was wet from all the sweat. Was I really in a closed off room having teati with Claude? With this guy who was gonna kill in the future?
Shoot. I made eye contact with him.
I quickly cast my eyes down because I thought he might kill if I didn’t.
Claude was the only one who seed perfectly fine with this situation. The knight oppa [1] shifted his feet and didn’t know where to look.
“I hadn’t heard you were deaf.”
As Claude lifted the cup from the table, I hiccuped from his words.
“It’s not fun because you’re too quiet.”
I thought it would be fun but it’s not, so now I’ll kill you. Is that what he was trying to say?
I didn’t expect a warm welco, but he regarded like I was so kind of object.
Yup. I was drinking tea with him right now, but I could be killed any mont.
“Have you always been deaf?”
“Ati can talk.”
Hehe.
I tried to fix a smile on my face.
What could I do? I had to do whatever he asked of . He wasn’t making any notions to kill , but I was scared from all the stories the maids had told about him.
“Now you speak. Why did you not open your mouth until now?”
He kept on asking these questions like a 5 year old was supposed to answer them. What was I supposed to say, that I couldn’t talk because I was scared?
The knight oppa saved from replying.
“Your Majesty, I’m sorry to interrupt, but I heard children of that age are shy.”
“Really?”
Yeah! What reason needed to exist for a child to be shy! Also, children and adults alike would both be speechless in front of you!
But when our eyes t again, I pretended like I didn’t know anything and just laughed. Just send back please.
Claude leaned back in the chair with his eyes still on my face. He looked like a lion taking a break.
In front of him, I was easily-captured prey. Like a bunny or so other helpless animal.
“Felix.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Leave.”
“…..”
The knight was forced out of the room. It seed like Claude didn’t like how he answered for .
Wait, oppa, you’re leaving in here like that?
But what kind of power would the knight have. Despite my desperate eyes, he just looked at pitifully before leaving. ]
“Seems like Ati is a nickna.”
I didn’t even know what I said earlier, but I guessed I had spoken out of habit the way I converse with the maids.
“Athanasia. Athanasia.”
I beca nervous again when he mumbled my na.
“Do you know what your na ans?
It wasn’t a good sign that Claude was entered in my na. The fact that he had saved because of my na was a double edged sword that might cut
The fact that he would let live twice because of my na was unimaginable. Because even Claude himself didn’t have the na of an Emperor.
That was because Claude wasn’t next in line to be Emperor.He was only Emperor by killing his father and brother.
The past emperor’s na was Aaeboom, and the crown prince was Anastasious.They both had anings of immortality. The first Queen of obelia, ‘Ambrose’ also had that na.
Putting it bluntly, Claude was the only ruler in history to not have the special na.
Hopefully Claude didn’t think that my na was uncomfortable and tried to kill . I tried to make an innocent and helpless face.
I am not harmful to you. I don’t want to be a ruler. I just want to live quietly and die quietly, that’s my goal in life.
My na was overly extravagant, but in reality, I am just a leech mooching off of you.
“What are you doing? Go ahead and eat.”
Claude didn’t seem to want to kill just yet. But he probably wasn’t going to send back to the Euby Palace that easily. I didn’t know if it was a good or bad thing.
But his next words made realize this was a bad thing.
“I intentionally asked them to bring food that children like. If you don’t eat, I have no choice but to punish those you brought these.”
“Thank you, I’ll eat it well.”
This rude bastard just threatened , didn’t he?
I held a fork in my trembling hands. The table was full of delicious looking foods, but I lost the will to eat.
Rather, I felt like I was gonna to throw up. But I couldn’t not eat it because then the servants would be killed, like the massacre that happened at the Ruby Palace. And on the list of people that were killed, my na was probably on it too.
“Tastes good.”
I could tell my face was pale, even without looking in a mirror, but I forced myself to eat.
I didn’t even know what was happening anymore.
“Who taught you manners?”
“Lili taught .”
I was faithfully answering Claude’s questions despite the imnse fear I felt. As Claude answered after thinking for a while, I was surprised.
“You must be aning Lilian Yorke.”
I just said Lili, but how did he know?
“I guess that fearless maid who tried to block 5 years ago is still by your side.”
Lili had that kind of a past? When was 5 years ago? Was it when she t Athanasia? But what did blocking Claude an?”
“I first heard your na through that maid.”
What? Then the person who saved Athanasia was Lili? Since he had only let her live after hearing her na.
Wow, Lili was my favorite character in this damned book
“She and your mother are probably the only people to block and not have been killed by .”
I think I’m going to die. He was definitely speaking in a calm voice but I don’t know why I was still cold.
He quietly looked at eat the cake
“Do you know who I am?”
The mont I heard that I dropped my fork on my plate.
If I wasn’t sitting, I might’ve fallen down. My dry mouth was shaking as I t his eyes again. I wanted to turn away, but I couldn’t.
This was a test.
He didn’t bring here out of goodwill. I had thought it was weird that he brought here. This situation was just a simple change. It was a chance given for amusing him
He was going to decide again today if I lived or not. Did Athanasia from the novel go through the sa thing, even if it wasn’t written in the novel?
His blue eyes peered inside . And there was an elevated boredom in them.
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