Suddenly, the memories of yesterday overwhelmed me, and my cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
“It was risky yesterday.”
I stared at my palm.
“Yesterday, with this hand……”
I recalled the many movements of muscles I had felt with my palm. I learned anew that a person’s body had so many muscles and that there were muscles even in such places…
“No! Why am I recalling this? Forget it! I must forget!”
Even as I said that, the sensation lingered, and I clenched my fist tightly.
……Huh? Come to think of it, I remember the atmosphere getting steamy yesterday, but I can’t remember what happened after that.
At the moment when Levanfell grabbed my hand, which was feeling his abs, and tried to pull it away, I was surprised and touched his chest with my other hand, infusing it with divine power.
His hair, which had turned white, returned to its original state, but my hand did not stop moving down his abs.
And then……
“And then what happened?”
That was my last memory. What followed was a blackout.
“How did I fall asleep?”
I didn’t faint and fall asleep suddenly.
It’s as if someone deliberately made me sleep, and my memory was abruptly cut off.
“It’s strange……”
Then I realized that Levanfell was still asleep. At first, I thought he was pretending, but his face did not change even though I was making a fuss beside him. He was clearly asleep.
So……
“Who poked my cheek?”
There’s only Levanfell and me here.
For a moment, my body shivered, and I recalled picking up a hamster named ‘Mu’ in the palace corridor.
“Wasn’t it that something was crawling on my cheek instead of poking it? Like a bug……”
No! No! I don’t want that! The thought alone made all the hairs on my body stand up.
I brushed off both arms, opening another possibility.
“No! Someone poked my cheek!”
This is scary too! Someone sneaked in and poked my cheek! Isn’t there someone hiding somewhere here?!
“No! It’s not a bug or a person…… just like a ghost……”
No! This is the scariest! Neither human nor bug, but a ghost! I don’t want this either!
I looked around frantically. Then, something small was wriggling at the corner of the bedsheet.
“What’s that?”
Not Levanfell’s hand, not his foot.
I stared intently at the wriggling bedsheet.
Pop!
Then, adorable ears popped out from the edge of the sheet. It was a familiar sight.
“……Mu?”
“Squeak!”
Out from the edge of the sheet came my hamster, Mu. I extended my palm towards Mu with a bewildered look.
“Mu. How did you get here?”
This is the Empress’s palace, and Mu’s house should be in my bedroom in the main palace?
Mu seemed displeased with my question and squeaked for a while, standing with hands on its hips.
……Huh? Wait a minute.
“Standing with hands on your hips?”
Does a hamster stand with hands on its hips? ……Is this really a hamster?
I blinked in disbelief.
“Squeak!”
“Mu. Are you by any chance not a hamster?”
Mu stood tall, and I stroked its head with my finger, chuckling at its cuteness.
At that moment.
“Squeak! You saw correctly. It seems there’s something about us that feels the same energy.”
“Wowwaaahhh!!”
Suddenly, Mu began to speak human language.
What? What? What?!
Isn’t it common to ask a pet ‘Are you a person?’ just as a joke?
It was just a casual question, but my pet answered it!
Certainly, I’ll translate the passage as per your guidelines:
Startled to the core, I staggered back, and Hamster Mu brushed off his short arms.
“What are you so surprised about? Didn’t you already know and ask? You should’ve told me sooner. I thought I was going to die of pain in my cheeks from being continuously fed sunflower seeds that don’t even suit my taste.”
What is this? What is this? Since when do hamsters speak human language? Can a hamster stretch like that by grabbing its neck?
It was a bizarre scene.
Could I be dreaming now? I pinched my cheek at this absurd situation.
“……It hurts. My cheek hurts.”
“Heh. You didn’t even flinch when I slapped your cheek earlier, what are you doing? That aside, I had a lot to say to you!”
“Heh…….”
“Firstly, the pace was too fast yesterday, so I put you to sleep. I broke one promise not to interfere, so I must keep one promise to protect you from a stern guy.”
“What?”
“I will watch with my eyes open from now on. Until dirt gets in my eyes…… Wait. Putting dirt in my eyes doesn’t hurt, so this human phrase doesn’t mean anything to me.”
“No, wait.”
“Fine. Let’s go with ‘until I don’t see dirt in my eyes.’ I won’t allow it until I don’t see dirt in my eyes.”
“Promise? What promise? No. How can you, a hamster, speak?”
“Yes. And that.”
Mu puffed up his cheeks with a more stern expression than before.
“Stop shoving those tasteless sunflower seeds. If I’m not eating, you should guess why. It’s annoying if you coax and plead! And I like a soft bed too! Not torn paper that’s useless!”
“Who are you, no…… What is your identity?”
I rephrased the question, thinking that asking ‘who are you’ would only get the answer that he’s a hamster.
Mu answered with a face as if he wondered why such a question was asked between us.
“Your father.”
……My father is a hamster?
My pupils trembled in shock. Mu didn’t even glance at my appearance and scratched his unreachable head with his short arms, muttering.
“But there’s a fault. You’re not the child I chose, so it’s hard to call myself a parent. Elihu is the child I chose, so I can call him my son…….”
“……High Priest Elihu?”
The words ‘High Priest Elihu is my son’ came out of the hamster’s mouth.
“Yes. But since you have my power, if I can’t be your dad, let’s be satisfied with being your older brother.”
By now, I knew this hamster was not just a hamster. Actually, it wasn’t just a hamster from the moment it spoke.
“……Who are you?”
Mu turned his head again to my question. His deep, lifefilled eyes were radiant.
Mu glowed with his short, plump body and spoke.
“I am the source of your power and the reason for the living beings on this land to breathe, the parent of life and the cause of destruction.”
My eyes went wide as saucers, and Mu smiled solemnly.
“Semula. That’s what you people call me.”
Though it was surely a solemn smile, to my eyes, it was just a short hamster.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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