And at that moment.

“Ah…”

Her body stiffened.

“Ah, ah, ah…!”

Her eyes lost focus.

The eyes staring into space saw something other than Theodore and became terrified.

And then.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

Katarina, who screamed painfully, convulsed and twisted her body before falling to her side.

“What…?”

Irritated, Theodore looked down at her fallen body.

‘What is this? Did Benjamin do it?’

Theodore, who had suspected him(Benjamin) for a moment, soon shook his head.

‘No, it couldn’t be his doing.’

Theodore took a crystal ball out of his pocket and looked at it.

The crystal ball turned darker than ever.

‘Black magic….’

It was absolutely black magic.

Theodore tried to use his divine powers to detect black magic.

But no traces of black magic was found anywhere around him…….

‘Wait a minute.’

Then, he sensed something.

Theodore paused and took a step closer to the place full of ominous energy.

“Ugh…”

He concentrated with all his might to feel the ominous energy more. But the more he tried, the more his power reflected back on him and strained his body. And in the end.

Bang!

The blackened crystal ball exploded, and the edges of the broken glass gave him a deep whiff of something dripping from his hand.

Theodore muttered blankly, staring at the dripping blood.

“What is this…?”

It was his first time.

The reason why his power became so strong for a moment.

“Someone… is using that woman to make things happen.”

Suddenly, a strong feeling of joy filled him and sent a shiver of delight down his spine.

‘Someone other than Benjamin Ferdinand.’

The feeling of meeting an opponent worthy of him to fight for the first time made his whole body thrilled.

Because Katarina collapsed, the interrogation couldn’t be continued anymore.

Theodore walked out of the dark dungeon.

Just as he was thinking of changing his dirty clothes because he stayed in the dirty dungeon and questioned Katarina all night.

He found a little boy standing calmly in the hallway of the Imperial Palace waiting for him.

“Daddy.”

Black hair and golden eyes.

The imitation of him bent his golden eyes at Theodore and smiled.

At the same time, Theodore twisted his face with the disgusting smell wafting over to him.

“Daddy.”

Something that didn’t even look like a human rushed to Theodore.

Theodore used his divine powers quickly and floated the ‘child’ into the air.

Then, the neck of the ‘child’ was caught by a group of golden lights, and dangled in the air, drooping its arms and legs.

The stench coming from it was the smell of Katarina.

It smelled just like this from Yves in the past. No, from the thing he thought was Yves.

The only difference was that the thing in front of him smelled of Katarina, not Benjamin. And the thing that mimicked Yves in the past smelled heavily of Benjamin.

He remembered blowing up in anger at the deep smell that came from Yves ‘corpse’, as if she became one with him.

Because Theodore didn’t like her smelling like Benjamin.

Because he didn’t want to admit that she smells like Benjamin.

The usual way to fill it with smell is to…… To merge each other’s bodies.

However, it was not something like that.

Because it wasn’t Yves, it was a false creature created by Benjamin with the help of dark magic, so it smelled like him.

Theodore grinned faintly and murmured.

“What a relief, Yves. Knowing that you have nothing to do with that dog.”

He glanced up and looked at the fake ‘child’ dangling in the air.

At first glance, the thing was imitating him perfectly like a real human being. But the way it opened its eyes one by one, it looked sloppy and crude.

“Daddy, Daddy.”

There was only one thing it could say, and its squeaky limbs waved in the air clumsily.

Benjamin’s fake Yves was different from Katarina’s imitation.

‘Is it because her magic is not as good as Benjamin Ferdinand’s?’

Anyway, if he took this thing to Yves and showed it to her, she might believe him a little bit.

“Yves….”

When he thought of Yves, he remembered her turning away in anger when the thing clung to him.

The way she looked, she seemed to despise him very much.

“You seemed very angry…….”

Theodore’s shoulder, who was muttering helplessly, drooped in disappointment.

* * *

It will take some time for the burned-out garden to be completely restored.

Erwin and Odelia looked at me with drooping shoulders at the words Brian said.

“You shouldn’t play with fire from now on.”

“Lia, Lia didn’t play with fire…….”

Odelia protested in a somewhat unjust voice.

But when I raised one eyebrow with a stern look, she immediately lowered her tail like a puppy.

“Uh-Uh-Uhaha.….”

“Being a squirrel warrior is important, but safety is more important than that.”

“It’s not like we were hurt by the fire…….”

When Odelia was about to begin giving excuses again, I gave her another stern look.

But I am in a much better mood now, less unhappy than yesterday. So I patted the child’s head affectionately and kissed her on the top of her head.

“If Er and Lia had been hurt even a little yesterday, I would have been very upset.”

“Lia is fine…….”

“Er too…”

Erwin and Odelia simultaneously dug into my arms and rubbed their heads.

The way they acted was cute and just like little puppies.

However, my calm peace was marred by the subsequent visit of an uninvited guest.

“Lord! Your Majesty the Emperor has come!”

“What?”

I asked back, unable to hide my frowning expression in front of the children.

“Where are you going Mommy?….”

“How dare he!”

The moment I remembered the unpleasant memories I had forgotten because of the fire in the garden yesterday, I shouted.

I felt the servants being surprised at my ugly expression, but it was not the time to care about it.

“Where is the Emperor Theodor?”

“Oh, well, at the front of the entrance…….”

Because I beat him up at the door a few times, the servants told me that they didn’t let him in and told him to stand in front of the entrance.

I strode out toward the place indicated by the servant.

Then, as I walked forward, I could see Theodore really standing at the entrance.

And he was standing with Katarina’s child I saw at Ferdinand’s mansion yesterday.

‘What is it? Are you here to tease me?’

I couldn’t understand the intention of bringing Katarina’s child to this place, so I stared at him with irritation.

“Yves…!”

Theodore, who found me, smiled broadly with a glad face.

But his handsome face didn’t impress me at all.

Thinking of him smiling at another woman with that face made me even more uncomfortable.

“You came again without an appointment, Your Majesty.”

I retorted in a reproachful tone, forgetting even the proper manners.

But Theodore neither laughed nor panicked, rather, he bent his eyes more.

“I’m here to clear up the misunderstanding, Yves. Take a look at this.”

“There is nothing more to talk about with Your Majesty…….”

“I never had any relationship with other women except for you.”

My eyes became colder when Theodore shamelessly lied without even trying to hide it.

However, Theodore insisted on his innocence.








T/N: Sorry for the late update everyone. My finals are knocking at the door so the update will be irregular and less frequent for the next two months. I have to study with a rope tied around my head because I didn’t study in this whole semester at all. Pray for me please.

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