“Yes. I’ll do that. I’ll do that.”

Eventually, when you know everything, you’ll resent me, won’t you? Despite leaving you, with the noble bloodline of the royal family. Nevertheless, even knowing that, I want to say it. Teddy. I won’t abandon you.

Until the day you abandon me.

Sesenia stood up and approached Teddy. Then, she gently stroked Teddy’s head, who was whining like a puppy.

“I find you fascinating, Teddy. You, who endlessly follow me. You just follow me like this, just because I saved you.”

‘Following because you believed in the sponsor who saved you… Was it just because they saved me like I did?’

Sesenia looked at him with numerous questions.

And Teddy, who had been hesitating, opened his mouth in sync with the speed of her strokes.

“I suddenly have such thoughts. I wonder if you ever reached out to me like this.”

“That wouldn’t have happened.”

“Yeah. A noble person like you wouldn’t have had anything to do with me… I just have such thoughts. It’s funny, right?”

“…It’s not funny. Just…”

“Who knows. In the distant past or the distant future. Or maybe it happened in a place we don’t know. Since I spent my whole life locked up… I might have just dreamed it.”

Teddy, seeming embarrassed even though he said it himself, bowed his head deeply, but Sesenia’s expression hardened.

‘No way.’

There were times when she reached out to him. Back in the past, when Sesenia was the queen. She asked to save him.

‘No, it can’t be. That… that’s just… it can’t be.’

It wasn’t anything significant.

That was all the past Sesenia had said to Teddy. It was just something she said because she was the queen. But could that be considered reaching out? Still, without that, there was no part that could be inferred.

“Where did you feel such emotions?”

“I just… don’t know. I’m sorry. Don’t worry too much about it. It’s just… just a dream I made up because I wanted you to be like that. Whether it’s the future, the past, it doesn’t make sense.”

Whether Teddy knew that Sesenia was worrying about it excessively or not, he hastily clapped his hands.

“…A dream…”

“Yes! There, I… sometimes become a beast. And I can’t handle myself. It feels like my blood is boiling up. It’s really unbelievable stuff.”

“No. It can happen. Teddy. So believe in yourself. And if anything else happens, whether it’s a dream or something else, will you tell me?”

“As expected… Master believes in me. Really…”

His sparkling golden eyes stared at Sesenia full of emotion. But trusting him didn’t mean Sesenia was asking him to speak.
A madness that appears in a very powerful royal. A blessing and a curse from the gods. It felt like it was about to manifest.

‘Truly powerful.’

The best way to become the emperor was through this bloodline. No matter how much one soars and strives, there was nothing that could surpass this bloodline.

‘When the belief that one can become the emperor is shining the brightest, finding out that there is a royal stronger than oneself… Helbert. I wonder what expression you would make.’

If he couldn’t become the emperor, Prince Helbert would receive the full return for what he had done so far.

‘The things the noble prince, who believes he can become the emperor, has caused will explode all at once, leading him to ruin. When he boasts that he can become the emperor.’

Sesenia smiled at Teddy sitting next to her.

‘You will be the most precious pawn to me.’

Although Teddy’s reaction as a royal was much faster than in the past, there was no need to pay attention to such things. Sesenia didn’t know when Teddy from the past showed a reaction as a royal. She could do nothing but hope that this moment, where everything was happening quickly, wouldn’t be a big deal.

It was more than thirty minutes after arriving at the mast.

The mast stood firmly between the imperial capital and nearby villages. There was a vast open space around the mast. Shacks of servants who watched over the mast and carried out menial tasks were scattered in the open space, and in front of the mast, people trying to enter were crowded together.

The carriage carrying Sesenia gave up entering and stopped in the open space.

“Miss. It seems difficult to go further because there are many people going to the mast.”

Sesenia, who had been looking around for a long time outside the window, nodded at Lizbet’s words.

“It went well. I was going to get off nearby anyway.”

“Nearby?”

The carriage door opened, and Sesenia held the hand of the groom and got off the carriage. A large open space. Passing through the forest made of trees, the open space gave an unusually wide and cool feeling. Sesenia stood there, took a deep breath, and exhaled.

“The air is good.”

“Don’t you have to stand over there quickly instead of taking it easy like this? There are still more people coming now.”

“Where should I stand?”