The Emperor turned his beady eyes on his attendants, who remained impassively still.
What are you doing?
“Uh, where are you~”
“Oh, that’s strange. Where could she have gone~?”
“Did I lose my sight?! Ugh, my eyes are weird. I can’t see the Empress!”
A strange game of hide-and-seek that began with the emperor’s mistaken identity.
Juicy’s little jaw dropped as she became an invisible white tiger.
“What the hell!
***.
The Penterin Emperor’s brilliance and belligerent nature was one reason he was able to keep the Sioux in line and build his empire.
But there was another thing.
There was also a strange obsession, a maddening concentration on something.
An eccentricity that could hardly be called normal…….
‘Yes, the Penterin royal family is abnormal.
That’s what Juicy had concluded from the information she had gathered.
Her own father, Emperor Rithain, was a Penterin.
He had been strongly blessed by the Goddess Ganash and distinguished himself from an early age.
He was so gifted that he was crowned crown prince over his older brother.
However, his strong blessing also meant that he had a more belligerent personality.
In other words, a greater tendency towards madness.
Yes, Emperor Li Tain was a little bit crazy. The problem was that the target was…….
Juicy deliberately lunged at Emperor Litain to end the situation.
“Kaaahng!!!”
“Whoa, my little one, there you are, I got you!”
Looking up at Ritain, who was gently picking her up with a sweet voice, Juicy secretly sighed.
“Why is he so crazy about me?
Juicy was just relaxing in the corner, trying to calm down.
But Emperor Litain thought they were playing hide-and-seek.
So he summoned all of the palace’s hired help, including all the attendants he had brought with him, and forced them to play a mad game of hide-and-seek for 1:35.
It’s a bizarre set-up, with the young empress saying, “I can see you very well, but I can’t see you at all.
Everyone struggled with the hide-and-seek, which required a high level of acting skills.
To save them from exhaustion, juicy sacrificed herself, charging at the emperor once more and forcibly ending the game.
“Juicy won, so let’s do it again, shall we?”
Smirking, Emperor Ritain laughed.
“Enough, please.
Juicy grunted.
There was only one way to stop Emperor Ritain.
So Juicy deliberately bit down on the Emperor’s index finger, and then his middle finger, and then his ring finger.
The emperor’s golden eyes widened and curved in an arc.
It was a sight to behold, the muscles of his face flexing in a way you wouldn’t expect from the hard, scary face of an emperor.
“Oho. Are you hungry, my dear?”
Juicy stopped biting Ritain’s fingers and nodded her head, ears perking up.
Emperor Litain raised his hand and said solemnly.
“No more hide and seek.”
The Emperor clicked his tongue as he looked around at the exhausted Sui.
“I am disappointed in you. Poor acting.”
“We apologise, Your Majesty.”
“We apologise, Your Majesty.”
The hired help and the emperor’s staff tightened their belts. Soon the troupe’s actors would be called in for acting lessons.
“The worst actor today is you, Emperor.
juicy clicked her tongue, remembering Emperor Li Tain, who had given the most awkward performance.
But there was no way she could tell him in her tiger cub form.
Besides, he was the emperor.
‘Status and power are the best.
After another day of pondering and learning about social life, juicy was really hungry, so she was carried by the maids and sucked on her bottle.
She glanced over at Emperor Litain, who had called the archivist to read her growth journal today.
A handsome man, but arrogant and overbearing. That terrifying tiger Su Yin is really my father.
I couldn’t believe my eyes.
At that moment, Emperor Li Tain, who was reading the growth journal, let out a small laugh.
“……ha. My taste is indeed discerning.”
He wiped his forehead and shook his head in disbelief.
“So you’re saying that rattle made of Arpina gold and silver was Juicy’s favourite?”
The archivist nodded and detailed the circumstances, and suddenly Emperor Ritain’s expression grew serious.
“It’s a good thing we captured the craftsman in the village of Raccoon. He likes this too……. Didn’t you say that there was also a fox craftsman in the Western Tiobe Desert who was famous?”
“Yes, that’s right, but he loves the desert and is famous for staying there and not moving.”
“How can I defy the Emperor?”
Emperor Ritain said grimly.
“If she refuses, I’ll send an army to get her. You must make toys for the Empress like the Raccoon Sioux craftsmen.”
The Emperor’s tone was light, but his words were heavy and eerie.
A hush fell over the room at his irresistible decree.
If the Emperor says bring her, bring her, bring her.
‘Surely those mad fox beasts will fight to the death.
The Tiobe fox beasts were vicious and would fight to the death.
Even if they won, there would be a lot of discontent with the cruel emperor.
Emperor Litain, though belligerent and fearsome, ruled the empire with great stability once he ascended to the throne.
But in the end, the obsession and temper of those Penterin imperials has brought about this death sentence.
Lythein snatched the archivist’s pen from his hand and began scribbling orders on a blank sheet of paper.
The attendants looked on, scratching their heads in disbelief.
A click.
Empress juicy strode over, clutching an Arpina gold rattle, and stood before the Emperor.
Leetain’s facial muscles, which had remained expressionless until now, automatically and gently relaxed.
“Why, daughter?”
He dropped to one knee to get to eye level. As her eyes locked with Juicy’s, a small smile crept across Litain’s face.
It was hard to recognise him as the same man who’d just given her a bizarre, eccentric proclamation.
Rattle, rattle.
That’s when Juicy made a bell-like sound and bravely placed the rattle on top of her head.
It looked so cute and adorable, as if she was wearing a tiara, that Leetein couldn’t help but giggle.
Everyone stood transfixed, staring at the cute little trick that was almost a feat of the White Tiger Empress.
Taking advantage of the moment, Juicy lunged forward and snatched up Litain’s order to raid the Fox Village in Western Tiobe.
“Juicy!”
Litain called out in panic, and Juicy lifted her head and gave him a dirty look.
It didn’t tear, as she’d bitten it with her gums anyway, but the spit-covered order sheet was a mess.
Ritain hurriedly snatched the order out of Juicy’s grasp and threw it away, wiping the black ink from her pink tongue with his handkerchief.
“That’s not eating.”
“It’s incense.”
“……No way. Are you saying you don’t need an artisan from Fox Village?”
Juicy nodded at Emperor Ritain, who understood immediately, and nudged his cheek with her forepaw.
Then she grabbed the Arpina gold rattle that had fallen from her head and jumped around excitedly.
“I see you like that rattle.”
“Well, I guess so!”
“Hmmm. I see that Raccoon Suyin has found the Empress’s taste just right. I will supply you with plenty of materials in the future, but you must make them of the finest quality.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“And see to it that the archivist is supplied with a safe, edible substitute for ink, for we do not know when the Empress will be sucking on paper again.”
Juicy shook her head in pity for the raccoon, Suin, who would now be confined to the workshop.
But so be it.
Penterin royalty is prone to strange bedfellows, and Emperor Rithain had no idea that his daughter, Fool, was so insane.
I’m glad it’s over.
Actually, Emperor Rythein wasn’t the only one obsessed and clingy with Juicy from the start.
In fact, he wasn’t even a father at first.
It was more like he had been hated and abandoned by her before.
For the first month or so after her birth, Juicy lived in a place completely different from the palace.
The shabbiest room in the annex of the Penterin Imperial Palace.
The conditions were abysmal, unworthy of the white tiger that had been so long desired by the imperial family.
