The name Casius called for Lenisha felt unusually soft.

Those who used to call Lenisha like that were no longer by her side.

It felt like she had become something very precious and dear.

No one accused Lenisha of wrongdoing, but deep within her heart, guilt was wriggling.

Lenisha opened the door and let in the shameful beast.

And then the beast finally swallowed Rotera.

She hated herself. She resented herself that day.

But when Casius called her name, it seemed as if all those things scattered.

It felt like she was back as Rotera’s adorable youngest daughter, a beloved noble lady.

“Are you okay?”

Lenisha slowly nodded her head.

She seduced Casius and brought him to her bed.

All this was brought on by Lenisha.

She was confused by the strong force and heat pushing her, as Casius passionately came on to her, but…

She knew exactly what she was doing, who was holding Lenisha.

Lenisha kissed Casius’s cheek with a bossy smile.

“It’s okay.”

In moments like this, she felt grateful and affectionate for Casius who worried about Lenisha.

It was consideration that Lenisha received for the first time.

Lenisha whispered in a voice mixed with laughter.

“My good puppy.”

Casius let out a fake laugh.

Lenisha, who could still afford it at a time like this, was both annoying… and adorable.

Casius rubbed his face with his palm.

“…I’m going crazy.”

He felt like he could lose his mind from the contradictory emotions, and from Lenisha’s fatal words.

“Don’t ever say such a thing in front of other people.”

“Why?”

Lenisha tilted her head.

“Are you embarrassed? It’s okay. People can’t eavesdrop on our conversation.”

“…I’m already humiliated because of Terion.”

The rumor spread widely among the knights the next day.

Whenever they saw Casius, they teased him by calling him ‘delicate lady’, and he had to grit his teeth.

Lenisha let out a laugh.

“You are embarrassed, just like a delicate lady.”

Casius frowned and moved.

He felt he had to somehow shut Lenisha’s mouth.

Lenisha exclaimed as she hugged Casius’s shoulder.

“Please, that mouth…”

Casius muttered in a voice mixed with a sigh.

“You know how to shut it, don’t you, Casius?”

Lenisha smiled.

…She was a truly mischievous woman.

Casius obediently lowered his face.

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The result of impulse was right.

At least Lenisha thought so.

Casius was gentle, gentlemanly, and cherished Lenisha all along.

They were things she had never felt before.

The hot heat that had ignited the two of them still felt residual.

Last night, Lenisha had been the woman Lenisha for the first time in a long while, not the Empress.

Lenisha touched her face reflected in the mirror.

She admits.

She could forget everything last night, including the complicated political situation and revenge.

Casius’s hot flames swallowed Lenisha.

Lenisha only saw Casius.

“It’s my first time for something like this.”

It was somewhat embarrassing.

She thought she was testing Casius, but she became the variable herself.

Lenisha licked her lips.

“Really, it’s my first time for something like this.”

She didn’t know how to deal with it.

She stroked her neck. Where Casius’s breath had dispersed.

Lenisha let out a thin sigh.

What was even more embarrassing was that she didn’t dislike any of this.

“…Linday. Doesn’t my face seem a little changed?”

“You have brightened up a lot. I like the current lady much more. You laugh more too.”

“Is that so…?”

She felt that her expression reflected in the mirror had become much softer.

If she could feel the change herself, what would the others who watch her think?

Lenisha smiled faintly.

‘Not a bad change.’
The flames that Casius held might have melted Lenisha.

The warmth was so warm that it seemed it could even conquer the cold winter wind.

(This is a time separator.)

Sunrise Club.

Casius did not make a mistake this time.

“I was quite rude yesterday, Your Grace.”

“Not at all, Your Majesty. I was thinking that it was a statement that could be misunderstood. I even scolded my aide for it.”

Duke Denvers was young.

But the experience that oozed from him hid even his age.

It seemed to understand why Lenisha referred to Duke Denvers as ‘that child.’

“Lenisha says Canary must become the Empress.”

Duke Denvers naturally pulled Casius aside.

None of the nobles who attended the Sunrise Club were paying attention to them.

Everyone seemed busy with their own affairs.

“The nobles on the opposite side of us are becoming desperate to find a new Empress as a new focal point. They are planning to make their daughters the Empress.”

Duke Denvers spoke quickly then paused for a moment.

“May I use the word ‘we’ to bind you and the Duke?”

He was asking Casius plainly if he was on Lenisha’s side.

Duke Denvers preferred being direct rather than beating around the bush.

Casius nodded slightly.

“A couple is one body.”

“It’s reassuring that the hero of the Empire is with us.”

Duke Denvers smiled slowly.

“Don’t mention it. But is there a way to make that woman the Empress?”

Duke Denvers nodded.