The fever doesn’t subside easily. Lu sometimes mumbled nonsense, occasionally wet with cold sweat.

“It’s tough, I want to stop…….”

The person next to her is Hayden, so he understands, but most of her words were incoherent and incomplete, almost mumbling.

“Heyden, hey…….”

“Why.”

The one called out, seeing something between the eyelashes, responded. But Lu didn’t call him anymore. As if unable to call, she remained silent as if dead.

Now, the words saying it’s too hard to continue. The person who left abruptly, dealing with everything even though he couldn’t come up with proper words, is now wiping his sweaty face gently with a cool wet towel.

He gave her separately obtained medicine, alleviated the pain, and even though Hayden was handling the remaining pain, she showed no signs of waking up.

“Why, Lu.”

There was no conversation in the bedroom. Only the sounds of groaning in pain and the voice responding to it floated in the air, disappearing. She didn’t respond to his words.

She was wandering beyond consciousness. She opened her eyes once and saw him, but she didn’t know if she recognized him or not. She just hoped the fever would drop and the bones he had attached would heal well.

“I’m waiting for you again.”

Even though she was brought back, Lu hasn’t returned. Did she not open her eyes because she hated seeing him after looking at him for a moment? With all sorts of thoughts in his head, he bowed his head.

Hayden has been handling most things from this position lately. He waited while Lu was waiting for her to open her eyes, and he took care of her condition all day long, and the empire also took care of her. Of course, whether Lu opens her eyes or not, even if a war or civil war breaks out, he could sit here and command everything.

“I wish she would acknowledge that.”

Feeling frustrated and annoyed, the wind shook his hair that was loosely tied today. But more than anything, Hayden had great patience.

He endured and survived against Carlos, who tried to destroy him and kill him miserably. So he just waited. Until Lu opens her eyes again.

“Your Majesty, monsters have attacked the south again!”

Today, the Cattat Palace was chaotic again. Just as the southern sage had briefly set foot in some southern village, trouble broke out. The monsters, which had been kneeling under the feet of Carlos for 430 years, creating a huge monster wave by entwining the manas that longed for the sage, were barely stopped. But it happened again.

Carlos’s forehead wrinkled fiercely.

“How many?”

“It’s a bit smaller than last time, but this time, it’s coming from the sea!”

The emperor of the vast sea that connects Carlos’s south and east was Delgaw, the marine monster who lost his life to Lu last time. Did that guy disappear because of Carlos’s foothold, so did this happen?

“Mobilize the Imperial Knights.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

Another monster wave, huh.

‘That damn Bella, did that damn Emperor Perseta bring Rustica to the south again?’

So is that why the south is demanding the sage? Now, irritation even overflowed onto that land.

Should I step on everything and burn it all down quietly? Annoyed, Carlos reached out and touched his only weapon, planted in Perseta.

After attacking Emperor Perseta enough times to satisfy him, he is now absorbing the emperor’s power. With a chilly smile, as if asking when he got annoyed, Carlos smiled.

Yeah. It’s okay if he already took this much.

‘I can absorb him until he becomes a dry corpse.’
He stood up from his seat and moved forward. It was time to face the monsters once again referred to as demons. In Cattat, preparations for a war that no one knew about were in full swing. Soon, the battleships of the Kaletta Empire would appear in the waters off the eastern front of Perseta.

“She’s awake.”

The gray eyes in front of him blinked prettily. A large hand touched Lu’s forehead as she lay there, still and unresponsive.

“The fever has subsided. It’s better to have a meal first.”

What’s going on? Lu, without even thinking of organizing her muddled thoughts, lay still and received pouring attention and care. She couldn’t refuse. She was currently in a state where she couldn’t move on the bed, suffering from severe injuries.

“Three ribs are broken, and the spine is also broken. Of course, I did that. Thigh, calf, ankle, all broken. So, you shouldn’t move, right?”

The fact that her spine was broken made her head dizzy. If she couldn’t use her body properly, it would have been a tremendous burden on her family, who already had enough problems. The next emotion she felt was a sense of relief.

‘Thank goodness.’

If she was this injured, she probably couldn’t attack Hayden. She couldn’t wield a sword, couldn’t stab him, and couldn’t get close to him since she couldn’t walk. It was really fortunate. It felt so fortunate that tears were about to fall.

‘But why can’t I see my family…? Why are they smiling?’