Chapter 123

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty!”

“Welcome back, Jill! …Huh?! What’s with your attire!?”

“There may be a cure for Rho!”

Jill shouted as she rushed towards Hadith’s palace .

Hadith appeared from the kitchen . Probably because he was preparing dinner, a delicious aroma wafted from him .

“‘Cured’…? Is he ill?”

“Ukkyu?”

Rho, who was playing with a ball with Sauté on the floor, raised his face .

After Rho had kicked the ball, Sauté chased it in a hurry . They seemed to have become friends .

“Please listen, actually—”

—Jill recalled it when she was about to explain .

Not only had she grandly confessed to him, she also ran away due to the embarrassment .

“More importantly, what’s with your clothes? They’re cute . Still, for you to jump into the pond again—”

“—I understand! I will try to erase that embarrassing memory by jumping into the pond once again!”

“But, dinner is ready . ”

Jill, who had begun to run, halted instantly .

“Today’s main dish is grilled lamb with bones along with consommé with eggs in a fruit salad . I’m going to pair it with potatoes steamed with butter . ”

It was very effective!

Jill slowly turned around . Hadith was smiling .

“If you eat them now, they’ll still be fresh and delicious . ”

“…W, well, it can’t be helped, then!”

“That’s right . Afterwards, we have a lot to talk about . Like, for example, the man you loved before . ”

“As I thought, I need to jump into a pond!”

“Oh, right, I have to take out the dessert from the oven . ”

“Your Majesty being is sly!”

Before she could complete her reply, her stomach grumbled . Hadith proceeded to lift Jill while she was covering her face .

“Then, let’s have dinner . We also need to talk . ”

“I won’t talk if you’re mean! But I will still have dinner!”

“Older brother Vissel is returning . ”

Hadith sat the shocked Jill on the chair and said that they should have dinner first .

By the end of the dinner, Rho was lying on his back in a wooden box filled with cushions .

Sauté often kicked rocks in the garden overlooked by the terrace of her bedroom . Perhaps, it was his means of exercising . Recently, his appearance had become that of a chicken that would be served on a table . However, Jill felt that he wasn’t just a chicken . Every time Sauté kicked a rock, it would chip . It seemed that the stones would soon be crushed .

While Jill sat on the bed, pondering, Hadith arrived with a comb .

“You are free to do whatever you wish with Natalie and Frida . ”

“I, is that really alright? If I were to recklessly deepen our bond, won’t they be in trouble later?”

“If you’re concerned about my sisters, you can rest assured . In the future, they’ll be overlooked . There will be more people in the royal palace . I probably also won’t be able to move as freely as I used to either . ”

Hadith spoke while combing Jill’s hair . She had just gotten out of the shower .

“Above all, older brother Vissel absolutely won’t acknowledge you . Compared to that, everything else is a trivial matter . ”

She was a little taken aback by how casual Hadith was .

“I didn’t mishear you, right? He absolutely won’t acknowledge me?”

“After all, he told me to choose a princess after careful consideration . I also needed to pay attention to her backing . My brother takes good care of me . The matter of the Dragon Princess is important . I think he’s very angry because I decided on my own . ”

“…He has always been trying to bring back Your Majesty who had been exiled to the frontier . ”

“Yes, that’s right . ”

On the surface, Vissel sounded like a decent guy . However, Jill knew that underneath all that, Vissel was the one who leaked information to the kingdom of Kratos .

However, as for what kind of brother Vissel was to Hadith, Jill didn’t know for certain .

“He’s also not on good terms with older brother Listeard . ”

Jill could somehow understand the reason .

“You must be thinking it’s going to be difficult . ”

What actually happened was, following Listeard, Vissel was also executed by Hadith . While Hadith was fighting the Kratos army, Vissel launched an attack on the imperial capital . As a result, Vissel was executed . His execution should be three years from now on .

Vissel’s plan couldn’t be said to be cowardly . After all, Geraldo was more or less doing the same thing . He tried to use Jill as a means to distract Hadith . At that time, Jill was tasked to lead an army to fight against Hadith’s men .

But, around that time, Hadith shouldn’t be that evil, yet .

Although his stratagems made her grind her teeth many times, he was a respectable opponent .

By the time Jill met Hadith once again, shortly after Vissel’s execution, he had become nothing but a cruel emperor, one who sought to destroy everything .

As I thought, His Highness Vissel plays a major part in Hadith’s life .

When she looked up, she saw Hadith, still holding a comb .

“What?”

“Eh, uh, well, what should I do?”

“Hmm, that’s right…”

Hadith quietly approached her face, as if to tell her a secret .