How to Safely Divorce An Obsessive Emperor

“Ugh! no! This… ! So, it’s not that I harbored disrespectful thoughts…!”

 

Serven let go of Lasilia’s hand with a shocked look on his face. Actually, it wasn’t that surprising, but his head stiffened thanks to the golden eyes that were staring at him as if they were going to stab him. Embarrassed, Serven hurriedly let go of her hand, causing Lasilia, who had just stepped on the carriage step, to stumble.

 

“Ah, Your Majesty the Empress!”

 

“Move.”

 

Lescal mercilessly pushed Serven away and then grabbed Lasilia.

 

Puck!

 

Serven fell and hit his nose on the carriage wheel axle.

 

“Ugh.”

 

Serven cupped his nose and moaned. But no one asked him if he was okay. This was because Lescal was frozen in place, holding on to Lasilia.

 

“…your majesty. You can let go now.”

 

Lasilia slightly turned her gaze and spoke softly. She was embarrassed. She was so embarrassed that she felt embarrassed. There was a huge difference between treating the emperor with the belief that she was a fake and being held like this, with her suspicions that he might be his real companion. There was a big difference between the gaze fixed on me and the dazzling golden eyes. The same goes for the low breathing sounds and the body temperature transmitted through the skin. The gaze that had been burdensome before now seemed to whisper in a gentle way the emotions he was harboring. When she first saw it, the gold eyes were as cold as metal, but now, on the contrary, they were very hot.

 

“I didn’t know you’d come here.”

 

Lescal gave an odd answer.

 

The central square was busy with post-processing. Everyone was busy cleaning up collapsed buildings, moving bodies, putting out fires, and finding the injured. There was dirt on Lescal too. He had taken off his outer clothing and was wearing only a shirt with the top button undone. She could see sweat beads on the nape of his neck and dirty shoes.

 

“I sent an immature bird. You should return to the imperial palace and stay safe.”

 

“Yes. Pipi gave me your word.”

 

“But why?”

 

“That is…”

 

This was before Lasilia even started saying that she had to come because it seemed like something was going on at the temple for one reason or another. Lescal intercepted Lasilia’s answer.

 

“Are you here to see me?”

 

“…At the temple, yes?”

 

“If you come here, you can see it a little faster. Otherwise there is no reason. You must have heard that demons visited this place. There is no reason for you to come to a place like this unless you want to see me, it is not so?”

 

“No, that’s…”

 

She was robbed of that answer too.

 

“That’s right. You came to see me.”

 

Lescal hugged Rasilia.

 

“That is…”

 

Lasilia was unable to stop Lescal. She could feel with her whole body that he was truly happy about this situation.

 

‘I would have seen him at the imperial palace anyway… I’m glad it’s something he didn’t expect… But you like it so much. It’s not like I did anything.’

 

In fact, it was true that Lasilia did something. This was the first time she had found him on her own without him asking for it. There was a reason for that, but the reason didn’t matter to Lescal now. The Empress, who had tried to leave her, remained by her side. The price was divorce. If I had to choose the most terrible letter in the continental common language, it would definitely be divorce. Of course, there would never be such a thing as divorce, but it was still heartbreaking to hear those horrible words come out of the mouth of her empress. After that, the Empress avoided herself for several days. She couldn’t tell if it was because she didn’t listen to her request for a divorce or if she still wanted a divorce, so every moment was on thin ice. So today’s event was very meaningful to LEscal.

 

“It feels so good.”

 

“Ah…”

 

Lasilia tangled her fingers, unable to tell him to let go. Although the emperor holding her in a suffocating embrace still felt burdensome, it was not as unfamiliar as before. She was worried that she would get used to being held like this.

 

 

‘If I were a real companion, this would be natural… But the emperor is supposed to kill me.’

 

Seeing the emperor so happy, he couldn’t imagine that he would kill him. The sight of him turning away coldly, saying that there was no need for such a fate, did not even come to mind. Still, she didn’t feel like pushing him away now. That was a little scary. No matter what she went through, she felt like that was the fate of a companion, to love someone who had inherited the blood of a demon.

 

“Beep…”

 

Pipi forced herself between the two, telling them not to leave him alone. Lescal grabbed Pipi with one hand and threw him to the side as he was about to crawl into Lasilia’s arms.

 

“You’re out.”

 

“Beep!”

 

Pipi was thrown out in an instant and stumbled without being able to spread his wings.

 

“Your majesty. You did too much.”

 

She was glad she had an excuse to push Lescal away. Lescal said he would never let go unless he was told to stop.

 

“Let go, now. I think Pipi will be angry.”

 

“…Now, should I let go?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“You found me first.”

 

“What does that matter?”

 

“Beep!”

 

Saying that was right, Pipi flew next to him and flapped his wings violently on purpose.

 

“…And that immature bird usually gets angry at any time. There is no need to comfort him again and again. He is going to get angry again anyway.”

 

“Beep! Beep!”

 

Pipi got angry and said, “That doesn’t even seem like something to say.”

 

“Look. It’s like that.”

 

“Beep! Beep!”

 

Pipi’s wings became more flapping. However, even though it flapped its wings with all its might, it was still so small that it was just cute. Lescal, still holding Lasilia tightly, winked at Pipi.

 

“It’s noisy, so be quiet.”

 

“Beep! Beep!”

 

“If you feel wronged, grow up.”

 

“Beep! Beep!”

 

She wondered if Pipi’s neck would be damaged if he did that.

 

“Stop it, Pipi. I know you don’t get angry for no reason. And stop it too, Your Majesty. There is no need to fight against Pipi.”

 

Lescal rolled his eyes. That meant embarrassment. And it also meant to Lasilia that she should not feel too sorry for him.

 

“We didn’t fight.”

 

“You were fighting.”

 

“I was just warning a noisy bird.”

 

“Yes. It wasn’t something like that for Pipi, so it became a fight.”

 

“…That wasn’t my intention.”

 

“I understand. And now please let go.”

 

The eyes rolled slowly again.

 

“Please… Should I let go? You came to visit me.”

 

“Isn’t there still work left to do?”

 

“…That’s right.”

 

Slowly, his hands relaxed. Lasilia walked forward and was met with a scene of miserable destruction around her.

 

“There is a lot of damage. It will take quite some time to resolve.”

 

“No. Just mobilize the wizards. Once we find the injured person, we will use recovery magic.”

 

“Oh, there is a way. Fortunately.”

 

It took another couple of hours to find all the injured. Pipi was able to save a lot of time by calling the birds to find the injured person. After that, all the wizards from the guild came running and drew a restoration magic circle. Thanks to this, the central square regained its original appearance around dawn. However, there was no way to revive those who had already died. In the central square, which looked the same on the outside, sadness and sighs hovered in the air. There were people who moved faster than anyone else. The elite knights of the Royal Guard led by Silver Shield and Liyan headed towards the Temple of Harios. It was a quick response, no different from a surprise attack.

 

* * *

 

The surprise attack was a failure.

 

“I couldn’t believe it. Even when I see it with my own two eyes.”

 

In many ways, attacking a temple was a politically charged issue for the imperial family. The backlash from nobles with connections to the temple would be strong, and it would enrage the people of the empire who sincerely believed in God. Still, she couldn’t ignore the appearance of the demons. They carried out a surprise attack with the belief that evidence confirming the connection between the demons and the temple would be found by searching the temple. But it was a failure.

 

“Those corpses… Is that a demon?”

 

Ryan clenched her empty fists. What was found in the Great Temple of Harios was not a trace of a demon, but a pile of corpses. The priests were dead. There was no way to express the corpses scattered all over the temple except that they were cruel.

 

“I would have taken your consciousness before leaving the temple. To kill and destroy each other.”

 

Decan, who had been to the temple with Liyan, could not erase the shock that remained on his face.

 

“Did they silence you to prevent any clues from being found? …Still, as a human being, it’s something I can’t understand. The way the demons do.”

 

Lescal swept up his disheveled hair. When he thought of the instincts of demons awakening during the blue moon, he could not shake the thought that he, too, was a demon. However, there was an owner in my blood. The thirst for a companion who subordinated oneself suppressed all other instincts. The demon that suddenly appeared seemed to be trying to rid itself of its companion. He could guess it from the way he dragged the Empress in with the accusation from the beginning. He wanted to leave himself only as a demon. He didn’t know the reason yet.

 

“…I will go to the empress.”

 

Just the thought of someone touching his companion made Lescal feverish. He just wanted to keep her body by his side and tie it up somewhere. And he wouldn’t close his eyes. Because one never knew what would happen the moment you closed your eyes.

 

“The Empress Palace is safe. The magic circle has been further strengthened. I also completed the protection spell in two layers.”

 

“Good job. Do everything you can.”

 

But Lescal was already getting up. Ryan and Decan followed Lescal without saying a word.

 

“What else do you want me to do? To track down a place that could be the demon’s base…”

 

“It’s unnecessary. Tracking magic doesn’t work on demons.”

 

“Then do we have to wait for it to show up again like this?”

 

“Maybe… No, go after those damn people. If it’s a human, it will work.”

 

“Yes? People from the demon race? They didn’t kill all the priests.”

 

Lescal’s golden eyes began to glow strangely. Every time that happened, the Shadow Knights confirmed once again that he was half human and different.

 

“Malik’s Knights.”

 

“Oh, yes?”

 

The unexpected words almost made Ryan and Decan stumble in their steps.

 

“Malik’s knights. Aren’t they the remnants of Malik who was fighting against the demons? There would be no reason to join hands with demons.”

 

“It was a long time ago. Seven hundred years is enough time for useless hostility to disappear.”

 

“Even so…”

 

“Check the body again. There must be something to distinguish between the priests and Malik’s knights. If the corpses are all priests, it is a matter of examining the connection between the demons and the knights.”

 

Ryan pressed her eyebrows together and rubbed her chin.

 

“Oh, that will do. All right. But if the snake heads joined hands with the demons… No, of course he may have lost his mind, but doesn’t that mean he might use some strange ancient magic?”

 

Decan added.

 

“We’ll need records. Anything we can learn about ancient magic and Malik.”

 

Lescal nodded his head.

 

“Get the guards ready. Because I don’t know what we’ll face in the future.”

 

“Eww… All right.”

 

At the end of the tense conversation, Lescal also stopped walking. It was in front of the empress’s room.

 

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