After spending the night exploring Reneve, as morning came, Icarus found himself repeatedly drawn to her.

It had been quite some time since the two had gotten married, but Icarus gazed at Reneve’s face, peacefully asleep, without realizing how much time had passed.

“Now, I really should wash up….”

He had thought about that about 15 minutes ago.

He knew it was better to take care of morning tasks briefly before the meeting.

However, the problem was that it was just too difficult to get up from the bed.

“Just, 10 seconds more….”

Making such a resolution, Icarus finally got up, not after just 10 seconds, but a bit more.

Even with a sense of regret, he didn’t forget to gently kiss Reneve’s cheek.

“Mmm….”

Reneve’s peaceful forehead slightly wrinkled.

Finding it too cute and lovely, Icarus chuckled and gently traced her eyebrows with his index finger.

Then Reneve blinked her eyes.

“Good morning.”

Smiling with narrowed eyes, Icarus softly pressed his lips against Reneve’s. He decided to deal with morning tasks after the meeting.

“…?”

But there was a slightly salty taste.

Icarus, who had separated his closely pressed face and gently touched Reneve’s face, felt her cheek was slightly wet.

The calm expression of Icarus that was pleasant a moment ago suddenly turned stern.

“…Reneve?”

Staring blankly for a moment, Reneve finally stammered.

“Well, um…”

Icarus licked the wet cheek of Reneve and urged her with a look that asked her to quickly explain why she was crying.

“Icarus, do you remember the dream I told you about before?”

Icarus, who had slowly nodded, delicately wiped away the tears on Reneve’s eyes with his thumb.

“After that… I got to know in detail what happened after I died.”

“Is it a dream that continues the story from the dream you had a while ago?”

“That’s right.”

“I’m curious.”

Icarus said dryly.

It was an indifferent attitude, as if he had no interest in how the world would go on without Reneve.

However, when Reneve lightly kissed him and faintly smiled, Icarus immediately changed the subject.

“I can’t help but wonder what happens next in that dream.”

From a little while ago, Icarus’s slow touch on Reneve’s body had become somewhat sticky.

“I-it tickles…”

Reneve laughed pleasantly.

“In that dream, the Cael who I thought had died turned out to be alive.”

“Oh…”

“Cael was saved by Icarus.”

One of Icarus’s eyebrows twitched.

Perhaps he judged that there was no way he would make such a laborious and sublime sacrifice.

Due to the dim light, he could have mocked the somewhat disorganized words spilled out because of her drowsiness.

However, Icarus took her words seriously.

And with a pensive expression, he simply stared into her eyes.
“And this is just my speculation, but it seems that, with the power of the artifact shaped like a pocket watch that Icarus gave to Cael, I have come back to life once again.”

By making a different choice than before, Cael ceased to exist in this world.

Still, she wasn’t sad.

It was difficult to understand all situations returning with just a brief dream, but there was something she had learned.

The possibility of another world existing besides the current one where Reneve belongs.

So, the stories that happened after she died also happened even if she made a different choice and went back to before her engagement with Lucius.

Thinking that Cael might be living happily in another world even now, her heart swelled with emotion.

Was it because of that?

Love for Icarus surged within her.

Even if Icarus, who saved and embraced Cael, and the Icarus by her side now were different beings.

“Icarus, I love you. Very much….”

Reneve hugged Icarus’s neck and whispered in his ear.

In an instant, his body stiffened.

“Ah….”

Soon, a low sigh mixed with a lament flowed into Reneve’s ear.

Although Icarus’s talkative lips softly brushed against Reneve’s neck, making the words muffled, she could still hear them clearly.

Because he repeated endlessly how adorable and maddening she was.

After the passionate time confirming their love for each other, which they put aside their morning tasks, a lively meeting had just begun in the palace.

The agenda that had just come up made the meeting room noisy.

Because the agenda was to follow the educational policy for the emperor’s children.

Reneve was silently furious.

‘Insane, completely insane!’

However, she couldn’t utter those words out loud.

Whether she liked it or not, Basuker’s Emperor was Icarus’s father.

Opposing his policy meant opposing Icarus’s father.

Reneve was the Empress of Basuker, and her words had tremendous repercussions.

A casually spoken word could lead to strange rumors.

So, it was not an easy task to blindly oppose the education policy for Leo, the only precious imperial grandson.

“It’s the one and only precious imperial grandson. But to send the Crown Prince outside the palace? That’s insane.”

Dean supported Vain’s straightforward words.