Although he had said that he would stay by her side for two months before that, Rasilia did not believe him.
It must have been a hasty decision before the Blue Moon. Above all, it did not seem possible that the Emperor would disrupt her life for such a long time.
“But just in case, if the Emperor says he will continue to stay in the Empress’s palace even after two days, let’s just say you’re an ordinary bird.”
“Peep!”
The little bird puffed up its little thornlike feathers and raised its voice. It was both cute and worrying to see it throwing a fit with its tiny body, not even two finger joints in size.
“I’m sorry. But I think this is the best option for now.”
“Squawk!”
“I promise. I’ll do my best to make sure the person you have to protect appears.”
“Peep?”
The little bird cocked its head.
“You don’t understand why? I don’t understand what you don’t understand. Anyway, know that I’m trying. Don’t be too angry.”
“Peep.”
The bird said it was too hungry to talk anymore and settled down in one corner of the dressing table. Rasilia took a handkerchief from the drawer, folded it several times, and placed the bird on it.
“It’s not very soft. You need a place to eat and sleep… …Ah!”
She suddenly thought of it.
Within this vast imperial palace, there was a perfect place for a bird to stay.
[Star Icon] [Star Icon]“Uh, but Your Majesty the Empress, how do you know this way?”
Ivette returned quickly with bird food. Fortunately, the Emperor had not come yet.
Rasilia headed for the tower where she had hidden with the Emperor before, with Ivette.
As they moved along the inner corridor, a path rarely trodden even by palace people, Ivette was repeatedly surprised.
“You didn’t lose your memory… …No, no, I don’t mean that,”
“The bird told me.”
“Really? The bird?”
“It seems to know the way well, living in the imperial palace.”
Ivette believed this without any doubt.
“Wow… That’s really amazing. I thought such things only happened in the founding myths… It seems that the old mysterious things still remain in the imperial palace since it’s the beginning of Eliaden.”
“You know Eliaden’s myths well.”
“Ah, yes. Before I came to the imperial palace, I worked in a library, Your Majesty the Empress. I like reading books.”
Somehow the conversation continued, and she learned about Ivette’s ordinary knight family background, how after her father’s early death from chronic illness, she had to find work due to financial hardship, and even about her liking her library job but coming to the wellpaying imperial palace.
“Peep!”
And the bird was right.
Ivette was harmless and knowledgeable, albeit a bit naive about palace affairs.
“Your Majesty, did the bird say something just now?”
Seeing the little bird shaking its shoulders and Rasilia gently stroking its tiny head, Ivette asked with a fascinated face.
“It says you’re a trustworthy person.”
“Really? How can a bird know that? It’s really amazing.”
Her eyes widened in astonishment, indeed looking like an innocent person.
‘……But Flota did the same.’
She had no idea what Flota was thinking. Only in the moment when Flota stabbed her did she feel the betrayal.
‘You mustn’t rely too much.’
Rasilia soothed her sullen expression.
‘The bird said so. That it can instinctively know the good and bad in the person it must protect. So, Ivette is not me, but the real companion who can help.’
The more she thought about it, the more she was chased by the thought that she must find her place quickly.
“This is the place.”
Thud.
Rasilia opened the door leading up to the north tower.
“Heck, isn’t this the north tower?”
Upon stepping out of the hidden passage and into the tower, Ivette recognized the place.
“Do you know this place?”
“No, no. I’ve only heard about it. They say there’s a palace maid in charge of the north tower. I hear it’s difficult, so newcomers can’t even attempt it.”
“The work is difficult……. That could be the case.”
Rasilia, having climbed all the stairs, knocked on the door at the top of the tower.
Knock, knock.
“Shraiden Duke. May I enter?”
A clear answer came.
“Come in, please!”
A blush spread across Ivette’s face. She seemed excited.
“A duke living in the palace tower. It’s so fascinating. It feels like I’ve entered a fairy tale.”
Rasilia smiled faintly.
“Maybe. This place feels different to me too. Shraiden Duke is also very surprising.”
“How nice. Then, shall I open the, the door?”
With a flushed face, Ivette opened the door and politely bowed.
“Her Majesty the Empress is here.”
Rasilia entered first, followed by Ivette, who closed the door.
Thud.
Simultaneously, exclamations erupted from both sides.
“My goodness! Is that person really the duke?”
“My goodness! The king, the king has arrived!”
Shraiden Duke suddenly flew in front of Rasilia.
“King! The king has arrived! The king of the birds! Father of all birds!”
Ivette, forgetting even to breathe, stared at Shraiden Duke and then asked Rasilia in a lowered voice,
“Are you the king of the birds, Your Majesty? Ah, so you understand what the birds say?”
“Well……. He didn’t say that last time.”
Swoosh!
Shraiden Duke, perched on Rasilia’s foot, bowed his head deeply as if a human, and touched his forehead to the floor.
“I am Shraiden the First! I salute the king of the birds!”
The truly astonishing event happened next.
“Tweet.”
As a small bird spoke, Shraiden Duke lifted his head. One wing crossed over his chest seemed to show the utmost respect.
“Welcome. Your Majesty.”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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