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The emperor suggested walking after dismissing the carriage waiting in front of the main palace. After dismissing the maids and knights as well, he offered his arm. Patricia held the emperor’s arm with her hand as they walked.

“Your Majesty, aren’t we returning to our respective palaces?”

“Why, don’t you like going to Aster Palace together?”

“Shouldn’t you be attending to state affairs normally starting tomorrow?”

“Since it’s where we spent our wedding night, perhaps memories of me will come back. State affairs are done in the office, and I can go there on time.”

“Your, Your Majesty. Just for a moment.”

Aide Philip, who had been following from the main palace reception room, could no longer hold back and spoke carefully.

Harchen had long been aware of Philip’s presence following anxiously, but Patricia didn’t know. She turned around with round eyes to look at the aide.

“Oh my, it seems you have urgent business to attend to.”

“I apologize, Your Majesty the Empress. If I could just review the ten most urgent documents…”

Harchen frowned and rubbed his brow bone with his gloved hand.

“Philip, you must have heard me say I’ll be in the office starting tomorrow.”

“Please go ahead.”

Patricia looked up at the emperor with a clear expression.

“We were delayed in Pana Castle because of me. I’ll go ahead and look around Aster Palace.”

Patricia wanted to go to White Palace, the empress’s palace, if she could.

Her belongings from Tane would be there, and if she was to properly attend to her empress duties, she wanted to make plans and carefully examine her own spaces like the empress’s office and study.

Harchen turned to look at Philip and made a chin gesture telling him to look away. The sharp-witted aide turned his body and gazed at distant mountains.

“Then, why don’t you go ahead and look around Aster Palace and get washed up? Look at the ceiling of the bath and bedroom.”

Harchen grinned and leaned down to whisper in Patricia’s ear.

“You’ll see my face on the ceiling.”

“W-What? Alright.”

Patricia was not used to the emperor suddenly leaning down every time. With that unreal face, it felt like she would have to obey even if it were a bad order.

The emperor swiftly mounted the warhorse Calip had brought and rode towards the main palace.

Calip also rode a brown horse following behind, and the aide bowed his head several times to Patricia in gratitude before departing on a small carriage used for travel within the imperial palace. Patricia smiled and turned around.

Patricia had lost all memories of people, but memories of objects, habits, and clear phenomena remained. When she associated unconsciously, objects came to mind one after another.

A poplar tree, a poplar tree by the water.

That woman crying with her hand stretched out to the tree trunk.

There was a Botanic Garden on the way to Aster Palace. A poplar tree by the artificial lake next to it.

“Eva?”

Patricia realized that woman was Eva, whom Annie had explained about several times. Not by memory, but by unconscious instinct.

The woman looked at Patricia with a posture as stiff as a tree, then pulled up the hem of her white linen apron to wipe her tears.

As Patricia approached, she gracefully lifted the hem of her dress and bowed.

“Rising morning sun, Eva Tenessi greets Your Majesty the Empress. Did you have a good trip?”

Some people felt as familiar as family from a past life even without memories. Patricia’s heart fluttered at Eva’s affectionate gaze.

Eva looked at the empress she had washed, fed, and raised with her own hands thousands of times with moist eyes.

Has Your Majesty forgotten all the vows I made dozens of times?

“Sometimes you meet someone and instantly feel they’re unconditionally on your side, that they’ll unconditionally love, forgive, and cherish you. Such bonds can’t be severed even by the crossings of life and death.”

“Like Eva is unconditionally on my side?”

“Yes, and even when I grow old and die someday, Your Highness won’t be alone. I’ll watch over you by your side before I live my next life, alright?”

“Eva, don’t get sick, don’t die. Live long by my side.”

“Yes, I won’t die even if I die. I’ll only die in peace when I see my princess living comfortably and happily.”

Eva looked down lovingly at the girl sleeping with her blonde hair tousled on her apron.

The girl, Patricia’s golden hair, Eva stroked with her fingers as if selecting light from it.

How many times had Eva waited for the princess returning from the battlefield, burning her insides black with countless anxieties?

Such Eva had not swallowed food or drunk water since hearing that the empress had been hit by a poisoned arrow from Hungzok hunters.

If the empress did not regain consciousness, if she crossed over to the world of death, Eva had decided to follow right away, waiting leaning against the poplar tree.

Eva spread her arms and ran towards Patricia, who was approaching her with quick steps.

Without a single piece of memory of the woman running with her arms spread like dry tree branches, Patricia ran into her embrace.

“…”

“It’s Eva.”

“Yes, yes, Your Majesty.”

“I was curious what you’d look like, but I recognized you the moment I saw you.”

“How is your shoulder?”

“All external wounds have been treated. There will be scars left though.”

“This is Aster Palace. His Majesty the Emperor said he wanted to stay quiet, so I sent the maids to the empress’s palace. Please come in.”

Patricia looked around the small garden and entered the white circular palace.

“Eva, give me some water.”

While Eva went into the dining room, Patricia looked around inside and sat down on a heavy wooden chair at the circular table. Puzzled by the light pouring onto the table, she looked up.

Wow.

There was a circular glass in the high ceiling, and the deep blue sky could be seen. She suddenly recalled what the emperor had whispered in her ear and blushed.

What is he saying, that the emperor himself is the sky?

She stared blankly and reached her arm back, touching the space between the chair and backrest.

“Ahh!”

Eva came quickly with a glass of water at Patricia’s scream.

“Your Majesty, what’s wrong?”

“No, it’s fine.”

Patricia looked at the tip of her ring finger with a drop of blood, then turned to examine the space behind the chair. A golden hairpin had fallen. It was a thin pin the same color as her hair.

“Ah!”

For a moment, Patricia imagined someone pulling pins out of her hair one by one.

Who was it?

She frowned and concentrated, but couldn’t recall.

“You’re bleeding.”

Eva brought a box with disinfectant and bandages. Patricia unconsciously put her fingertip in her mouth at Eva’s words to disinfect the wound.

The moment her fingertip touched her tongue, her heart ached with emotion.

Ah, why am I like this? It doesn’t hurt, but a tingling, lonely sensation passed by fleetingly.

“This looks like a hairpin, doesn’t it?”

“It seems to be a fixing pin used for the wedding hair decoration. Why is it fallen here?”

Eva casually wrapped the pin in the gauze soaked with disinfectant used to clean the wound.

Patricia touched the tip of her ring finger as she entered the bedroom and looked up at the ceiling, exclaiming in admiration.

“Eva, look at this.”

Eva, who followed in, laughed softly and said the entire ceiling of the bathroom was glass.

“I’ve drawn the bath. Would you like to wash up first?”

“No. By the way, if I were to assassinate someone.”

The bath was a very large space, but one side was decorated like a greenhouse garden. The floor had thick soil, and broad-leaved tropical plants were densely packed like a jungle forest.

Patricia sat on a large rock placed in the garden area and looked straight at Eva.

“Who do you think that person would be?”

Patricia could guess who would be worthy of the word assassination from what Eden had told her on the castle wall of Pana Fortress. Eden avoided answering. He was awkward at lying and couldn’t hide it.

Eva sat down next to Patricia.

“…”

“…”

They sat side by side on the flat rock and looked up at the sky without speaking. It was quiet all around.

Even as the time of silence grew longer, neither of them felt uncomfortable. They weren’t even thinking about anything in particular. Without thoughts, without words, they just looked at the sky.

Eventually, breaking the silence, Patricia turned her head to look at Eva.

“I, I think… it might be Empress Pamila.”

After a long silence, Eva raised her head.

“Yes, I think so too.”

She added in a clear voice.

“Don’t you think there must be God’s will in how things have turned out like this?”

“Eva, you believe in God.”

“Yes, I believe in the gods of Mount Hesperos. I believe in the gods of sun and moon, sea, wind, and even the tiniest gods hidden under stones. I also believe in the helping hands of those who died before, and I don’t take dreams lightly either. Still, danger lurks right behind, nearby. Forget such dangerous thoughts on this occasion.”

Eva spoke as if reciting a book, outwardly calm while holding back tears inside.

‘So if I die first, I’ll come to you, Your Highness, and stay by your side. Yes, I’ll be in a state of not being dead even when dead.’

Clack.

“So you waited for me without washing?”

Harchen loosened his cravat as he entered the bath and stood in front of them sitting side by side on the flat rock.

Eva calmly stood up and greeted with proper etiquette.

“Your name was Eva, right? You may go now.”

“Your Majesty, there are seven empty rooms in Aster Palace. I will stay in one like a stone.”

“For what?”

“I have firmly resolved to never leave Her Majesty the Empress’s side, whether alive or dead, from now on.”

Harchen tilted his head slightly and laughed as if finding it ridiculous.

“Hah, that sounds like you’re criticizing me for failing to protect the empress while being right next to her in Pana Lake?”

“I apologize.”

“Are you admitting it?”

“…”

Even now, when Harchen closed his eyes, he could see white birds flying and the moment the arrow pierced Patricia’s shoulder. He felt dizzy and cold sweat ran down.

If someone else had said that, Harchen would have accused them of insulting the emperor and drawn his sword. But.

“Strange, it doesn’t bother me. Escort her to the garden.”

Harchen gestured for Eva to leave and turned to Patricia with a wide smile.

“Look for my face in the sky visible through that glass ceiling.”

As soon as they exited to the palace garden, Harchen turned to Eva.

“Eva, let me ask you one question.”

“Please inquire, Your Majesty.”

“Patricia’s eyes have changed, haven’t they?”

Eva slightly raised her head to examine the emperor’s expression and said.

“It’s not that they’ve changed, but rather that they’ve returned to their original gaze, as if she’s regained her true nature. Her eyes were exactly like that before she put on armor and went to the battlefield. Her personality was bright and bold, and she was very curious, asking questions about the whole world. Then as she went to battlefields, layers of fear, terror, sadness, and regret piled up.”

“Yes, I understand exactly.”

“Have a peaceful night.”

“Keep your promise to stay closely by Patricia’s side.”

“I will keep Your Majesty’s deep intentions in mind.”

“You may go. Calip! Escort her to White Palace.”

Calip quickly emerged from the darkness of the garden.

“As you command.”

Harchen turned to enter the palace but stopped in his steps.

“I have firmly resolved to never leave Her Majesty the Empress’s side, whether alive or dead, from now on.”

“Impressive.”

And Harchen gritted his teeth. Emperor Kazan, you are mine.

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The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)

Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.

The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”

Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!

Warnings:

  • Male pregnancy.
  • Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
  • Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.

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