It’s a miracle
“What?”
“Your Majesty…”
Riella could not finish speaking due to the shame that spread to the top of her head.
She’d practiced the words hundreds of times, following Lou’s instructions without a single mispronunciation. When she finally succeeded in making a flirty eye contact at the end of the line, she thought she was done.
But when she stood in front of Herhan, it was difficult to properly raise her head and make eye contact.
“Say it again.”
Herhan immediately grabbed Riella below the waist and lifted her up.
Then the handcuffs fastened side by side on the wrists of the two people made a clanging sound.
Riella unconsciously hugged Herhan’s neck with her free arm, trying not to lose her balance.
‘It seemed like I was irritating him more than I thought, but it felt better because we didn’t have to face each other.’
Thanks to that, she was able to say the last line she had practiced so hard.
“Your Majesty is now in my grasp. So now you can’t go anywhere without me.”
Herhan was dizzy.
‘Riella says such cute things? How dare you put handcuffs on the emperor’s wrists in such a petty way?’
“Looking at you now, it looks like you’ve been captured by me?”
Herhan’s voice was full of heat.
“Oh, no, no, I’m the one who put the handcuffs on you.”
Riella went to bed while being held by Herhan, and soon a soft blanket and pillow touched her back.
Riella continued speaking while staring helplessly at the blue gaze pouring over her.
“It’s true that I captured Your Majesty. Your Majesty was the first to recognize me, the first to save me, and the first to bring me to the empire.…You never treated me poorly, and you always waited for me to make my own choices.”
“……”
“So this is what I decided.”
“……”
“I’m holding on to you because I want to, not because you’ve forced me to.…”
Herhan could not hear any more and collapsed on Riella’s body.
Hot breath leaked out between the two people’s gently pressed lips.
The more persistently he lusted after Riella’s skin, the faster Herhan’s blood boiled. It was only then that Herhan was able to realize the cause of this passion that always surged up whenever he was around Riella.
That was because Riella was half of his soul.
Herhan thought as he looked into Riella’s shyly trembling eyes as she took a moment to catch her breath.
‘’It’s a miracle.’ Asion was right.’
Enril and his lover Ann, from a long time ago in legend, met again as Riella and him.
It is amazing that the incarnation of salvation that people did not even know existed in the world not long ago is now breathing in his arms in a lovely manner.
‘It was truly a miracle.’
Beneath Herhan’s body, Liella sparkled.
The voice that murmured affectionately, ‘Your Majesty,’ finally brought out the joy hidden in Herhan’s deep anxiety.
It was a feeling he had never felt before hugging Riella so deeply.
‘Riella. How on earth did someone like you come to me? I felt so overwhelmed that it was difficult to handle.’
‘My goddess.’
Herhan gritted his teeth and snuggled into Riella.
‘I promised myself that I would have Riella completely and that this miracle would be mine and mine alone.’
Herhan’s movements, which were more violent than usual, must have been difficult, and Riella was breathing heavily and turning over.
“hah…your majesty….Handcuffs are uncomfortable…I left the keys somewhere over there.…”
“I do not need.”
“but….”
“We can do it like this. Just follow my hand and move it.”
Herhan held Riella’s handcuffed hand side by side with one handcuffed hand and pulled it inside his body.
“Your Majesty!”
Riella was startled by the extremely hot touch and tried to pull her hand out of the blanket, but the handcuffs around her wrist were tight and it was difficult.
“You said you captured me. So feel free to have me. Riella.”
‘Because you are my own goddess. Because I belong to you only. I don’t care if the whole world turns against me.’
Herhan’s large fingers tickled Riella’s palm and then soon entered between them.
The two people’s hands, clasped together, pressed down on the pillow.
That night, the metallic sound of the thin handcuffs connecting their bodies continued to echo throughout the room.
* * *
Several days have passed.
Riella dressed up for the morning, surrounded by her maids, like any other day.
Among the many maids at the Lake Palace, only five, including Lou, were allowed to enter Riella’s bedroom.
They were all carefully selected by the emperor himself through ‘vetting’.
“Aide El seems to be busy today as well. I guess it won’t be long before Princess Greta arrives.”
Riella secretly smiled at the words Lou spoke in her ear while pretending to comb her hair.
Fortunately, El’s dismissal ended as an incident. After Riella’s gentle and persistent persuasion, the emperor pretended that he could not win and rescind his orders.
Of course, there were conditions. All business-related matters should be discussed with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, not Riella, and he should not go near Riella’s room.
Because of that, Riella had not seen El’s face for several days, but she considered it a blessing.
“It’s a really nice day today. I saw earlier that there was fog in the lake. How beautiful!”
“Water fog?”
“yes. Have you seen Riella yet? The Lake Palace is always beautiful, but it is truly spectacular when there is fog.”
Riella opened her eyes brightly at what a maid said, but then shook her head with a heartbroken face.
“I’m fine, so everyone, please feel free to go out and take a walk.”
“But how can we—”
“Are you saying this on purpose so that I can hear you?”
It was at that moment that the emperor, who had been looking at documents on the sofa in the left corner of the bedroom, got up and approached her.
The maid who had mentioned the topic of going for a walk bit her tongue and tried to avoid the emperor’s gaze.
Perhaps unfortunately or fortunately, the emperor’s narrowed gaze was not towards the maid, but towards Riella, who was still getting dressed up.
“It’s true that Your Majesty locked me in the bedroom.”
“When did you say you were there because you wanted to be, not because I locked you in?”
“I didn’t mean that I couldn’t even take a step outside the bedroom.”
Riella answered softly.
That’s because Herhan’s overprotectiveness towards her was not decreasing, but was getting worse day by day.
She could understand that the security at the Lake Palace had increased several times and that only those with passes were allowed to enter her room.
But why should she be confined to her room, and why would he, the Emperor, insist on taking time out of his busy schedule to isolate himself with her.
Riella couldn’t understand at all.
“Are you still not relieved?”
‘After all that shameful talk while being handcuffed?’
Herhan burst into laughter at Riella, who looked genuinely sad rather than pouting.
“Of course. What if someone snatches you while I’m not paying attention?”
As the emperor approached, the maids who were touching Riella’s clothes let go and took a step back.
Herhan personally tied Riella’s waist belt, which was not yet fastened, and lightly kissed Riella’s forehead.
Since this was the daily life of the Lake Palace, the maids naturally accepted the sight of the two sweet lovers, even though their faces were blushing.
“Lou. Go out to the lake with Riella today.”
“what? Are you allowing her to take a walk?”
Before leaving the Lake Palace for a moment due to a meeting, Herhan called Lou and quietly ordered her.
“Yes. But not for too long. I’ll give her two escorts, and you can take her out”
“yes! I understand, Your Majesty! Miss Riella will be so happy!”
‘Yes, she will. She’ll be happy, never realizing how much her insides are burning.’
Herhan looked at Liella inside the room with both affection and cruelty.
She was joking around with her maids, unconcerned.
Her voice, her smile, the look in her eyes, everything about her made Herhan’s heart flutter again.
It had been like that for the past few days.
Everything was new to him, as if he had been born again.
It was Riella, of course, who had pulled him out of the darkness and into the light of his predestined death.
‘So please understand. Riella. Because I have to keep you by my side and protect you no matter what.’
* * *
“I will contact the shadow merchant.”
It was Carnel who made up his mind to the emperor.
Herhan crossed his arms and looked at Carnel. Since Jess called him to the isolation room rather than the lab, Herhan thought Jess was up to something unusual, but as expected.
“shadow merchant, you mean one of the traffickers you were investigating earlier?”
“Yes.”
Carnel had once traveled across the Empire, investigating those who sold illegal inhibitors to hiding Abilities.
The medicine Herhan is taking now was perfected by Jess based on the various medicines he obtained from them at the time.
“I heard that the operator there was a priest who was excommunicated from the temple. He might know how to identify a saint.”
It was a dangerous, but trustworthy statement.
“Can I get access, Carnel?”
“I dealt with him before, so I know the route. Of course, they don’t know my identity.”
“We will support the soldiers.”
“No. I don’t want to get caught.”
Carnel’s eyes were tense.
“I will come with you, don’t worry. your majesty.”
Since even Jess had joined in, Herhan could not reject their offer.
“okay. I will trust you.”
* * *
“Eh? Are you looking for my boss? Why him?”
“Why? I originally only did business with him. Don’t we need to see a familiar face before we can trust and buy something?”
“Are you originally a customer of the boss?”
Inside a dark bar in the slums immediately after leaving the imperial castle, Bahaborden.
Carnel, wearing a deep hood and disguising himself as a customer seeking medicine, even succeeded in calling the captain without raising suspicion.
“The boss is no longer here. He got his hands off this.”
“yes?”
It was a disaster.
“But the thing is clear. I definitely received the handover from the boss, so trust me and buy it. If you don’t believe me, go out now.”
Instead of Carnel, who couldn’t make a decision easily, it was Jess who took out the prepared bag.
The man immediately relaxed his guard when he saw the bundle of money in the bag. Jess took advantage of that timing and tried his luck.
“Do you have any medicine?”
“What medicine?”
“The saint…Something like a drug that can identify something.”
That moment. The man, who had loosened his reins and was grabbing a bundle of money, had an evil look in his eyes.
‘Damn, he was too quick.’
Jess thought, biting his lip, and Carnel clenched his fists.
It was a moment later that the man burst into loud laughter.
“hahahaha! Brother. You sound funny. Well, it’s something people who struggle with medicine prices always do. You seem to have a lot of money, so why are you acting like this?”
“Ah, haha. yes…”
Jess followed the man, forced a smile, and swallowed a sigh of ten years of regret.
“Saints are not determined by medicine. I do it with my eyes.”
“What? You do it with your eyes?”
“Yes. I can see it with my eyes. Because there is a method that was passed down to me by the boss.”
‘There was a way!?’
Jess and Carnel looked at each other at the same time and exclaimed in delight.
“What is it? The way?”
The problem was that the man sitting across from them was not easygoing.
A very sinister look in his eyes as if he was going to just tell them that.
Jess held out more of the extra money to him, but the more he did, the more the man just smiled slyly and shook his head.
“Bring it here. Then I will look at it myself and determine for myself.”
The conversation with the man ended there.
After completing a fruitless transaction, Jess and Carnel hid in an alley not far from the bar and exchanged sighs.
“Sir Jess. What do we do now?”
“First, we must report the truth to His Majesty.”
“Can we trust what he says? It seems too dangerous to bring Miss Riella here—”
At that time, Carnel suddenly stopped speaking and took a step back with his shoulders slumped.
Someone was coming towards them
Jess immediately held her breath and hid herself next to Carnel.
Someone walked quickly, looked around urgently, and then entered the bar where the shadow merchant was.
“It must be great to run that business because ther
e is no shortage of customers. Let’s go now, Carnel.”
Jess clicked her tongue and pulled Carnel towards her, but Carnel didn’t move.
“Carnel. what’s the matter?”
“That is…”
Carnel spoke blankly, unable to take his wide eyes off the bar door.
“The person who just entered the bar. It seems like someone I know.”
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