“I’m leaving now. I’m hungry. Did you sleep deeply and wake up like that?”

She turned toward the bedroom door.

I also slowly turned my body following her movements.

However, the speed of reaching out with my arm was quick.

I grabbed Princess Lesilia’s hair.

“Ahh!!”

The princess’s head jerked backward.

“No conscience, no concept, and you lack so much that you might get hungry.”

I had no regrets about my actions.

I was strong enough to catch, and you were weak enough to be caught.

“Yak! What, what are you doing!”

She screamed, thrashing her body.

“Revenge.”

“What?!”

“Oh, we’re alone now, aren’t we? This is the chance you mentioned, right?”

I mimicked her tone from earlier and whispered the same way.

“Do you think you’ll get away with this? Crazy, you’re a crazy woman!”

“Yeah. I’m crazy, and you’re insane. Like this.”

Holding Princess Lesilia’s hair, I spun around.

She tried to grab my arms with both hands to pull them away, but it was in vain.

“Hey, you! Let go! I’ll tell everything, everything you did just now! Ahh!”

“Oh, will people believe your words? Come to think of it, is my position higher than yours right now? You’re a princess, and I’m the queen. Right?”

“W-what are you talking about!”

Princess Lesilia’s voice trembled.

It wasn’t out of fear but a shivering that came from the shame of humiliation.

“From your goldfish brain, I’ve learned a thing or two about revenge.”

“Ahh! It hurts! You, just let go of my hair! I’ll never let this slide!”

“Just a few strands of hair falling out, and you’re getting so angry. Did you not feel any guilt while watching what you did to my face all this time?”

“I didn’t, what can I do!”

Princess Lesilia retorted.

The grip on my hand that held Princess Lesilia’s hair tightened.

“No regret either?”

“Ha, regret? Well, I did regret. I should have done the same to the other side of your face. But I couldn’t, so I regretted that!”

I’m the same as you.

If I let you go like this, I’ll regret it for a long time.

I slowly released the hand that was holding the princess’s hair.

She bravely fixed her messy long pink hair, glaring at me fiercely.

“Yeah. You haven’t changed at all. So, I’ll tell you in advance, thanks to you, I won’t feel guilty.”

“W-what are you talking about? What guilt?”

She took a step back, startled.

Not the face.

I shouldn’t leave any traces.

I took two steps forward, approaching her, and forcefully struck the side of her head with my fist.

As a result, Princess Lesilia fainted without being able to make any sound.

If she fell to the floor unconscious, her head could be severely injured on the marble floor.

Before her head touched the ground, I slipped one of my feet under her and lifted it with a tap.

Then, with a thump, her body, unconscious, lay on the marble floor.
I lifted her and laid her on my bed.

A moment later, as expected, there was a knock on the bedroom door from outside.

Knock, knock, knock [dash].

“Come in.”

Sharon cautiously entered the bedroom.

“Your Majesty…”

“You heard the noise outside, right?”

I asked calmly.

“Yes… but don’t worry. The other attendants have already been sent out to the corridor, so the sound wouldn’t have leaked that far.”

Sharon looked at the unconscious princess but didn’t ask what had happened.

“Thank you, Sharon. I’ll explain later.”

I said with a bitter tone, and she seemed to have something to say but just nodded.

“Your Majesty, is there anything you need?”

“What do I need? Other than the time for the princess to wake up from her nap, there’s nothing.”

“Then, how about a refreshing cold grapefruit juice that will cool you down to the core? It would be good for you to drink it before the princess wakes up.”

Sharon said with a smile that seemed to hold back laughter.

“Should I?”

After a while, the grapefruit juice Sharon brought was truly refreshing to the core.

I sat on the sofa, cooling off with the cold juice, waiting for Princess Lesilia to wake up.

About 30 minutes later, Princess Lesilia opened her eyes.

“Ah… my head.”

Raising her hand to the side where I struck, she tried to get up but sat on the bed, meeting my eyes.

Princess Lesilia hugged the pillow in front of her like a shield, squinting her eyes.

I put the juice glass down on the table and walked to the bed.

Seeing me approaching, the princess hesitated, unsure whether to get off the bed or continue sitting on it, but she pulled herself up while holding the pillow and sat on the edge of the bed.

“Sit down.”

I placed both hands on the princess’s shoulders and gently made her sit back on the bed.

“You… you… if you know what I did to you, His Majesty won’t stay quiet!”

“Her Majesty will probably be the same.”

“What did I do to you? I didn’t even touch your body!”

“Do you know? There were only two of us there.”

“Well, what…?”

Princess Lesilia looked at me with shocked eyes.

“If I say Princess Chateau Neil hit me, wouldn’t that be enough? And many attendants saw the fact that you freely entered the Empress’s bedroom, so who will people believe?”

“Bad, you’re really a bad person. Sob…”

Princess Lesilia said, tears welling up.

It was absurd.

If someone sees this, they might think I’m tormenting the princess.

“People won’t know. In fact, how scary of a mongrel you are.”

It was quite refreshing to hear the expression “mongrel” instead of being called a viscount’s illegitimate child.

Princess wiped her teary eyes and began to stroke the side of her head that had swollen from the blow.

“Alright, will you leave now? Before I take revenge properly.”

I said, stepping aside.

“Zelda, I will definitely repay today’s incident later! Be prepared when I become the empress. I won’t let you go, just like that!”
“That’s good. We each have things we must settle with one another.”

When I lightly touched Princess Lesilia’s pink hair, she opened the bedroom door and hurriedly left.

“Is it okay?”

My inner deity asked.

“I won’t tell Prince Tesler about today. It’s not beneficial for him either. Even if I say it, as long as I’m in this position, he can’t do anything to me.”

I finished the remaining grapefruit juice while responding to the deity.

“But is Princess Lesilia really stupid? Pretending to be stupid? It’s quite cunning to act dumb. She also has a strong malicious aura.”

“Yeah, it’s confusing for me too.”

The next day.

“It’s time to come in.”

While having lunch with Lionel in the main palace, I glanced at the dining room door.

I wondered if there would be reports about the attendant’s body found murdered in the Empress’s palace by today.

“Aren’t you enjoying your meal?”

Lionel asked with a worried look, seeing my plate that didn’t seem to be emptied.

“No, I’m eating.”

Lost in thought, I picked up something with my fork and put it in my mouth.

Ugh, what is this?

There are many delicious dishes, but of all things, I picked up a piece of raw broccoli.

Lionel looked at me with surprise as I chewed on the broccoli.

It was a gaze questioning why I picked it up, considering it’s for decoration.

With a smile, I chewed on it as if it were delicious.

“The forest is dense.”

He laughed, pointing at my mouth.

At that moment, Secretary Rapha urgently entered the dining room.

“What’s going on?”

“Your Majesty, Her Highness is coming during the meal. An urgent message has arrived…”

Finally, it seems they found the body of the attendant.

I mentally prepared myself.

“Speak.”

Lionel ordered with an imposing voice.

Contrary to my expectations, the news Rapha delivered was completely different.