How to Safely Divorce An Obsessive Emperor

Bang!

“Your Majesty the Empress!”

Serven arrived.

Shh!

The sword moved without delay.

“Your Majesty the Empress! Stay back! I’ll take care of it right away!”

Kang!

The intruder, who was frozen in shock, glanced sideways at the charging Serven and easily caught his sword.

“…what?”

Seven opened his mouth as if he was dumbfounded.

“Simply like this…?”

The intruder looked back at Lasilia while blocking Serven’s sword.

“Please! Please answer! Are you Lasilia? If you are Lasilia, why are you here?”

She didn’t hear it wrong. The unknown intruder knew who she was. And Serven also realized that. This was because there was an order from Lescal to find the body of a prophet named Lasilia.

“Lord Sigress.”

Lasilia winked at Serven. It meant to stop fighting.

“But Your Majesty the Empress. We cannot let down our guard without knowing the identity of this person.”

Serven hesitated. Meanwhile, the intruder was surprised once more.

“Your Majesty the Empress… Then it’s not Lasilia…”

Kang!

Perhaps because of his surprise, Serven suddenly pulled out the blades that were intertwined. The intruder suddenly came to his senses and straightened his sword again.

“Stop.”

Lasilia took her step forward.

Then the two people who were in a tense standoff immediately put away their swords. It was because they were worried that Lasilia might get hurt.

“It’s dangerous, Your Majesty.”

Even as Serven said that, he glanced at the intruder. It was as if he couldn’t believe that someone who was an intruder was worried that Lasilia would get hurt in the first place.

Bant!

The intruder lowered his sword upside down and held it out to Lasilia.

“The so-called Empress of the empire cannot be Lady Lasilia of the main kingdom… Still, I cannot deny what my heart is telling me you are her. If you are Lady Lasilia, please take away my sword. By handing over my sword, I will put my life in your hands.”

“…”

As she stared at the intruder, she felt that his eyes were strangely familiar. He had big, clear, blue eyes.

She knew a good person who had eyes similar to those. He was a pretty decent King until his illness began to weaken his body. God must have felt sorry for his death and told him about it in advance. Even though he couldn’t prevent that death. Those blue eyes were those of the Dell’Arta royal family.

“Then.”

Lasilia held out her hand.

“Ah…!”

Then the intruder hurriedly got down on one knee and offered Lasilia a sword with both hands.

“Ecelion Brun Verhoyet of Dell’Arta meets the representative of God.”

Verhoyet, the deceased King of Dell’Arta, had three sons, one of whom survived the rebellion.

Lasilia lowered her body and placed her hand on Prince Ecelion’s shoulder. With her condolences and consolation.

* * *

“Oh, that…”

Serven had a very troubled look on his face as he saw Prince Ecelion holding Lasilia’s hand and kissing her palm. He knew that Dell’Arta had different etiquette than the Empire. And even though he didn’t know what he did, he also knew that the perpetrator, who used a knife like a ghost, had a story. He also noticed that the perpetrator’s name was meaningful to the Empress, who had previously lived a life other than that of an Empress. However, when it came to the Empress, he couldn’t help but feel anxious about Lescal, who was very narrow-minded.

‘If he finds out about this even if it’s too late, he won’t feel very good… But I can’t stop it.’

Maybe he should risk being rude and stop them.

“There are many things I want to ask, Lady Lasilia.”

Serven didn’t like the needless wateriness in the perpetrator’s voice. Why did it seem like every time he said a word, there’s a detailed story that no one else could get into?

“How on earth did you come to the Empire? Rumors abounded in Dell’Arta that Lady Lasilia had left the temple and that she had already been killed by the traitors. I didn’t want to believe any of it.”

“The answer to that will be very long. I will do it gradually when I have time… Oh. Since you are royalty from another country, it would be rude to treat you poorly. Stand up, Your Majesty. You don’t have to kneel to me.”

By saying convey, Serven guessed the identity of the intruder.

‘Ugh, royalty. Then I really can’t stop him.’

As Lasilia corrected her tone, Prince Ecelion jerked his head up.

“What do you mean by that? You mean royalty from another country?”

Next, the burning eyes turned to Serven.

“Are you entrusting yourself to the Empire? If that’s not the problem, it’s the knight’s ears…”

Prince Ecelion seemed to be making a terrible assumption. The power of a prophet was rare. It was possible for the Empire to become greedy there.

Serven, who suddenly received a murderous look in his eyes, strengthened his hand holding his sword.

“What are you saying now! I am not guarding Her Majesty, but rather escorting her. I am just serving her with all my heart, as if I were serving His Majesty, the Emperor of this Empire!”

Serven deliberately added strength to the word Emperor. He just hoped that the needlessly handsome sword-wielding prince wasn’t an idiot who didn’t know the meaning of the word Empress.

‘Your Majesty the Empress. This means that she is married… Oh, but can I say that the two of them are officially married? …? Oh, I don’t know. Still, she is Her Majesty.’

Ecelion did not easily believe those words.

“One word is enough, Lady Lasilia. If you say this is an unwanted situation, I will take you out of the Empire.”

Serven widened his eyes, asking if that was possible when his eyes were open and in black. Ecelion met Serven’s gaze with a very meaningful expression.

There was no way Lasilia could not notice the tension between the two.

“It’s not like that… Lord Sigress, this is going to be a long conversation, so it would be better for you to leave the room.”

Serven looked at Lasilia with a face that made him want to jump.

“Your Majesty the Empress. I’m presumptuous, but I’m still interested… I don’t know his exact identity. I must first know whether I dare to assure Her Majesty’s safety.”

“As you can see from the way he entrusted the sword to me, His Highness Ecelion of Dell’Arta has no reason to harm me. Your concerns are unnecessary.”

“But Your Majesty the Empress. Please consider that I have a mandate from His Majesty the Emperor. I cannot leave a place with a complete stranger and Her Majesty the Empress in one place.”

Ecelion silently raised his body and stood in front of Serven.

“Move her mouth less.”

“…what? What did you say now?”

“Lasilia is the mouth of God. Do not make her speak more by playing with your mouth in front of her.”

“Ha… Then, I have received the Emperor’s orders. What I do is His Majesty’s will, so I cannot stop except by His Majesty’s orders.”

“Who judges human status before God?”

“Ah, it may be presumptuous, but the god of that country is different from the god of the empire.”

“That’s blasphemous. The empire needs to provide proper education to its knights.”

“Isn’t the education you receive as a knight something to put on the sword? I know it won’t help if I ask.”

“Then I don’t have to ask any more. The education of knights in the empire was substandard.”

“Why do you jump to conclusions like that just because I asked how much?”

Serven unconsciously moved his hand and grasped the hilt of his sword. Ecelion followed Serven’s movements with eyes that were completely unfazed.

“Pull it out. I will give you a proper education.”

“Is that okay if you don’t even have a sword?”

“Both of you stop it.”

In the end, Lasilia had to intervene.

“Lord Sigress, I will allow you to remain by my side. Instead, let all the other guards dismiss. There must be no ears to hear. And, Your Highness Ecelion, I would like you to sit down for now. We have a lot to talk about, so let’s talk about it point by point.”

Lasilia moved across the study to where there was a sofa and a tea table. The two people who were glaring at each other awkwardly ended up not being able to do anything and moved after Lasilia.

* * *

The first priority was to reinstate the Royal Guard.

There were three people in Prince Ecelion’s group. Perhaps because they were both unusual people, the Duke’s house continued to be noisy for a while. While the royal guard brought the prince’s group into the drawing room and kept watch rather than watch, in the study, Lasillia and Prince Ecelion began a long, tangled story.

“…I just can’t believe it.”

Ecelion showed confusion in her eyes. Every time he shook his head, his soft silver hair shook dizzyingly.

“How could that… This is ridiculous… Lasilia is Emperor Eliaden’s companion… I never…”

His hand, which was clenched into a fist and placed on his knee, was shaking slightly.

“I haven’t fully accepted it yet. I’m getting used to it little by little.”

Lasilia looked at Ecelion with mixed pity and comfort in her eyes.

“That is… Are you sure? Why does Lasilia have to become the demon’s companion? There is absolutely no reason to do that in the first place!”

“Ha…”

Serven sighed at those words.

There’s no reason for that. There were too many reasons, so it was a disaster. She wanted to show Lescal to that disbelieving prince. Then, he would immediately realize why only Lasilia could be his destined companion.

“I’m still looking for the reason.”

“Saying you are still looking can be the same as saying you cannot find it. Have you ever thought that there was no reason to do that in the first place? Maybe someone is deceiving Lasilia.”

“What a deception. How far are you going to insult the empire?”

Serven could not stand it anymore and intervened.

“Are you saying that His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire is now deceiving Her Majesty the Empress? Are you deceiving someone you have nothing to do with by calling it fate? Is that what you mean?”

Lasilia sighed softly. She guessed that the conversation wouldn’t flow smoothly if Serven was around.

“Lord Sigress. Please give His Highness Ecelion some time. His Highness will need time, just like I did.”

“I’ll give you as much time as I can. However, as a knight of the Royal Guard, I cannot ignore comments that cause division between His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Empress.”

“It is my responsibility to convince His Highness Ecelion. There is no need for you to step forward.”

“Still, Your Majesty…”

Lasilia raised her hand to stop Serven.

“Your Highness Ecelion. I completely understand your disbelief. But I am just looking for a reason, and I have no doubts about the fact that she is the Emperor’s companion. “The first reason would be that I was brought back to life by borrowing the body of the Empress.”

“…yes?”

Ecelion looked as if he had been hit somewhere.

“I was brought back to life by borrowing the body of the Empress… What does that mean?”

Rather, Lasilia did not understand what he was saying.

“I don’t know what you’re asking. Don’t you know that the face you are looking at right now is that of the Empress of the Empire?”

Ecelion continued as he spoke, clenching his fists so tightly that his bones turned white.

“Even though it was only once… I have seen Lasilia’s face before.”

“…?”

“I thought it was a face I would never forget… Especially the purple eyes that are the same as the center jewel of the coronation crown, the jewel called God’s tears.”

 

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