Elizabeth had been despondent for a full day after seeing the shocking search results.
In the assigned ‘Sky Room,’ Elizabeth’s maid, Lina, approached Mihail, who was closely examining the water gun and sprayer Elizabeth had given him.
“Sir Mihail, the Duke has called for you urgently.”
“Me?”
“Yes. He told me to bring you quietly, so let’s hurry to the office.”
Although he didn’t know what it was, everything Elizabeth had done so far had been beneficial; there had never been any harm.
“Understood, I’ll go right away.”
Leaving the crossbow he had used last time during the zombie cleanup unattended, Mihail followed Lina.
As they walked down the corridor, Mihail soon ran into the wizard, Rus.
“Oh, Knight Mihail.”
Rus, with the guidance of the butler Patrick, was heading to the Duke’s office.
“……Wizard, it seems you have also been summoned by the Duke.”
“That’s right, well. Who else would be worthy of being called for an urgent matter except you and me?”
Beneath his teasing words, an attitude of arrogance in his own abilities was evident.
Rus Cricheren, a wizard of Chatteris’ magic tower, and a promising wizard who is gaining attention as the next tower master.
Even in the conservative circles of the nobility, his reputation had been widely known.
‘…An unpleasant person.’
Even when they had been involved in a strange mental battle over Siena, or since Rus had firmly stated that Siena must have already been dead, the relationship between Mihail and Rus had grown more distant.
Whenever they were close, it felt like a cold wind was blowing, so the servants also kept their distance from them.
Perhaps even Duke Elizabeth Keaton knew this, as she never specifically asked the two to cultivate camaraderie.
“We’ll have to hear what it’s about.”
With that, Mihail fell silent.
Rus also just followed the butler, arms crossed.
Lina and Patrick felt such a terrifying presence from behind that it seemed they would collapse, but they endured and led the two men to the Duke’s office.
“Duke, as you ordered, I have brought Knight Mihail and Wizard Rus.”
“Send them in.”
With permission granted, Mihail and Rus opened the office door and entered without regard to who was first.
A woman with silver hair, taking in the sunlight through the large window, greeted the two.
“Welcome, Sir Mihail, and Wizard Rus.”
Her bright eyes captured the silhouettes of the two.
“What’s the urgent matter you called us for?”
As Rus inquired about the matter, Elizabeth first offered them seats.
“It seems like it’s going to be a long story, so shall we have some tea first?”
The places she indicated had tea set out for Mihail and Rus.
“……All right.”
They sat down and sipped their tea.
Judging by Elizabeth’s somber expression as she weighed her words, they guessed that she was going to ask them for a difficult favor.
‘Why is she so serious about what she’s about to say?’
Next to Mihail, who was holding back the immediate question, Rus frowned in arrogance.
It was because of the tea Elizabeth had prepared.
“Ugh, this tea is too bitter for my taste. Where’s the sugar?”
The researchobsessed wizards, who would even work all night, enjoyed coffee.
But unlike them, Rus Cricheren preferred sweet drinks.
He couldn’t drink the bitter tea, and as he fumbled for sugar, Mihail found it strange.
‘Didn’t they always serve sugar or milk with the tea just until yesterday?’
But now, in this office, there was only tea, nothing else prepared.
The venerable Keaton family, with its long history, could not possibly be ignorant of such etiquette.
As Mihail pretended not to notice and quietly enjoyed his tea, Elizabeth slowly opened her mouth.
“We can no longer freely use sugar in the Ducal estate. It’s almost all gone.”
The expression on Rus’s face, who had been waiting for sugar, hardened.
“……The sugar is running out?”
“Yes. So, for the time being, I can’t provide sugar to sweeten the bitterness of the tea. I’m sorry, Rus.”
“……It’s fine. I’m not so reckless as to ask for the sugar that’s all gone.”
She spoke lightly, but Ruth’s expression was as grave as if the sky had fallen.
He stirred the bitter tea with a teaspoon and eventually gave up drinking it.
Since Michael had become able to eat anything without choosing while going around performing the knight’s duties, he simply drank all the remaining tea.
It was something possible for Michael, who could silently eat and drink something as bitter as soot.
Even Elizabeth herself did not drink all the tea and left it.
Elizabeth sighed deeply.
“Not only the sugar, but the food supplies in the food warehouse are gradually being depleted.”
“Is it because of the last party?”
“No. The fundamental problem is that the Duke Keaton estate is isolated because of the zombies outside.”
Limited food within the isolated space.
‘It was an inevitable thing one day.’
It just had happened now.
Elizabeth had predicted it with the sugar cubes in the tea.
To make Michael and Ruth realize the crisis that had struck the Duke’s estate more clearly and intuitively.
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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