Of course, dea wasn’t even aware of Lyle’s concerns.
‘You’re an Emperor with all the power and wealth in the world, and you can’t even let go on a trip to nurse my health?!’
After bathing, while receiving a massage, dea continued to worry. She didn’t know that her injury and accident was kept a secret so that she couldn’t use a recovery retreat as an excuse.
‘I still have enough ti. According to the novel, Ian is still safe—for now. Before that incident occurs, I have to sohow make contact with them… …’
The plan to use the recuperation retreat outing as a pretence to visit Seira’s castle and then naturally beco friends was finished. She needed to co up with a new plan.
It was challenging to make direct contact because she was in the Empress’s body.
‘I need an interdiary — a person who can act like my limb.’
Since dea only ca up in the novel through Lyle’s and her brother, Luke’s mories, the description of soone the Empress could trust to act on her behalf was omitted.
Additionally, the novel began shortly after the Empress’s death and the funeral.
‘Luke…. Can I borrow Luke’s power?’
Luke Francis Caird, aka Caird’s heir and Small Duke, was the only person who missed the deceased Empress, dea.
In fact, even though they were raised separately and had few if any mories together, he still cherished her. He had no mories of her, and she had little to do with Luke because she had to go through the rigorous lessons of the Duchess since childhood.
After entering the imperial palace, her father, the Duke, refused to et her, which made Luke misunderstand that Emperor Lyle was using dea as a hostage to seize power.
He also believed that the Emperor spread rumors about dea—a trick to undermine the Empress’s authority.
It was no wonder he hated Lyle.
And frankly, it was true that Lyle used dea as a hostage against Duke Caird.
This happened when he was just crowned, and Lyle’s was in danger. But now that the regi is stable, it is only a seemingly conflicting political, ntal battle.
In this way, Duke Caird and Lyle were looking in the sa direction.
Unlike Duke Caird, Luke would probably be happy to assist his sister and would run to the Imperial Palace.
But what would he say? ‘Want to be Seira’s supporter? Asking to raise Seira as a knight? Hmm…….’
Everyone would be perplexed and wonder why the Empress suddenly thought about it……
The troubled dea rembered that there was one thing that could be used; in the latter part of the work, a mine erged from the mountain range of the estate where Seira lived.
It was a vast mine that hosted quail-sized Velbright grade mana stones, of which it could fetch the sa price as a handful of diamonds in her old world.
Swamps and mountains surrounded the estate where Seira lived; additionally, it was surrounded by fog that made it doubly challenging to farm, but mana stones often appeared.
That’s why her uncle wanted to kill them and take possession of the territory—a fact in which his nieces and nephews were clueless about.
dea felt accomplished and a little bit of pride that she was able to rember this fact through a briefly ntioned conversation of three or four lines revealing that Seira was able to develop the mine with Emperor Lyle’s investnt. And……
‘I’ll be rich! Isn’t that right!’
“Um, your Majesty—Empress?”
dea suddenly leaped up on her massage bed, startling the maid who was massaging dea.
dea apologized for surprising her and ca down from bed, her eyes shining triumphantly.
‘I’ll send Luke to invest in the mine in Seira’s territory. Ha ha ha ha ha! Although Lyle benefits in novels! Here I will benefit! The heroine and and win-win! Hahaha!’
Of course, I laughed inside.
***
dea prepared a letterhead but found out she couldn’t call Luke right away.
dea needed to know if she had enough money to invest, and a number of preparations, such as bringing in soone who knows well about the province where Seira lived.
After being eaten by Lyle last night, this morning, and this afternoon, dea was suffering and needed sleep.
“… … What is this?”
“It’s your pajamas, your Majesty.”
“I know it’s pajamas! But why are they all vaguely see-through and shiny!”
She was trying to change her clothes to go to bed, but the maids were recomnding only negligees that are all pretty and sparkling.
It was very soft to the touch, but the intention was suspicious, dea rejected.
“His Majesty might co.”
dea clenched her teeth. “He will not co! If he has a conscience, he won’t co. My body is already in this state, can’t you see this?” asked dea incredulously, pulling the neck of the dress she was wearing.
All over were flushed traces left by Lyle, who had not cooled down even after the love affair, biting, sucking, and licking dea’s whole body.
‘You are not a beast… … . Why are you leaving so many kiss marks?’
The maid’s cheeks were dyed red and gave soft exclamations, “Oh!”
But dea felt no sympathy from the startled audience; instead, it seed to her that it was evidence or dals of favor from the Emperor.….
“[Sigh]..”
A maid tried to convince dea again, who had her shoulders drooping.
“Now, his Majesty will co in every night. You have to get used to pajamas like this!”
“I don’t like it. It’s too transparent.”
‘Do you want to see wearing this kind of thing? It seems like it will embarrass each other.”
dea’s maid-in-waiting clung to her, pleading, “It’s my lifelong wish,” persuading her to compromise. Well, this was her wish.
“Fine, but instead of wearing it alone, I’ll wear a gown over it. Tomorrow morning, I’ll change my clothes right away, so I’ll bring the right clothes.”
“I hear and obey, your Majesty, Empress.”
The maid’s reply satisfied her even though dea clicked her tongue against the back of her teeth and looked at the maids with a disapproving gaze for good asure.
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