Chapter 64 A Unique Person
Chapter 64 A Unique Person
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“Whoop.”
As soon as Luke exited, Cecilia caught her breath. It was such a rough breath that her shoulders moved up and down.
Cecilia closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Fortunately for her, her breathing slowly returned to her stability before long.
“… ….”
She slowly pushed her eyelids up.
The spot where Luke had been standing a while ago came into her field of vision.
“It was cute… ….”
Cecilia repeated the words in her little ant-like voice.
At that moment, I felt heat welling up on both cheeks again.
Is it really red?
Feeling the need to check, Cecilia rose from her armchair. The place where her steps headed was in front of the dressing table mirror.
She sat down on the stool rather calmly.
Then she was able to examine her own face in her mirror without hesitation.
“It’s really red.”
Cecilia lightly massaged both of her own cheeks with her right hand.
She made a rather funny face, but no one here cared about that.
“I really… ….”
Taking her gaze away from her mirror, she let out a short sigh.
When was the last time she was told she was cute?
Cecilia briefly recalled her memories of her past.
That was before she was even ten years old.
The image of her father in the garden of her imperial palace, putting her clumsily made garland on her own head.
Looking at herself rejoicing as she ran around wearing her garland,
“My daughter is the cutest in the world.”
The hand of her father who stroked her hair.
And even her mother, who smiled kindly by her side.
“… ….”
A piece of the vague past that can no longer be returned.
‘It reminds me of my mother.’
But she didn’t intend to send the letter. Her mother, Empress Olivia, worked as an agent for the Emperor and was under a lot of stress beyond her imagination.
I wonder if he went to recuperate in the countryside right after seeing me ascend the throne.
Because of this, she has deliberately not sent a single letter.
There is a saying that no news is good news.
But now the thought that it would be better to exchange news from time to time filled her mind.
‘Or, it wouldn’t hurt to take the time to visit.’
However, that time would have to be at least August.
Because there is no time to take a long vacation other than that time.
When she thought that far, she felt strange on the other hand.
Because of the cute word she heard from her secretary, she recalled her past memories as well as her mother.
That wasn’t the only strange thing.
Cecilia watched her carefully as she placed her hand over her own breast.
“… ….”
Heartbeat is not the same as usual.
After letting her rook out, she took a deep breath to calm her breathing.
But strangely, it felt like something in her heart was tickling.
I wonder if it’s because I heard that it’s cute…….
If it stays like this, it seemed like I would keep thinking about it.
“I need to take a bath.”
Cecilia went to the side of her bed and tugged on her sling. After a while one of her maids came to her room.
Cecilia instructed her maid to get ready to go to her bathhouse.
There was a separate bathtub in her room, but today I wanted to use the spacious bathtub.
Cecilia headed to the public bath located on the first floor.
She took off her dress with the help of a maid, and her white jade-like skin was revealed to the world. It was like a porcelain body that was carefully crafted by a master craftsman stitch by stitch.
Her moderately developed chest and pelvic curves were beyond graceful.
When she opened the bathroom door and entered, the warm air greeted her. Cecilia wet her body with water once.
She then slowly slipped her toes into her bathtub.
Eventually, all parts of her body except her neck were submerged in the hot water.
“Haa… ….”
During her picnic, her accumulated fatigue seemed to be relieved at once.
She leaned against the wall of her bathtub and gently closed her eyes, trying not to think about anything.
But it wasn’t long before she remembered her again.
-To be honest…… You were cute, Your Majesty.
“Ugh… ….”
Thanks to this, shame and shame came to me at the same time. Then her heart, which had been beating calmly, suddenly began to beat wildly.
“I’m going crazy.”
Cecilia got into her bathtub at all.
Where she disappeared, only her air bubble was bubbling.
* * *
I was sitting at my desk studying the language of Sergel Kingdom.
I had a great desire to rest because my body was tired, but I managed to endure it somehow.
If you start procrastinating with various excuses, you will end up procrastinating.
You should never do that.
How can I be lazy with a firm goal of escaping from the Eckhart Empire?
“… ….”
But she couldn’t help but feel that her eyes were getting tired as she kept looking at the type.
My neck and shoulders are also sore.
I got up from my chair to stretch.
I stretched my arms upward, stretched them, and turned my neck back and forth.
Well, I feel better now.
Then I sat down again, this time with a yawn.
“What time is it?”
The grandfather clock indicates 11:00 PM.
Anyway, I guess I should stop studying today.
I placed a bookmark between the pages and carefully closed the book. Then I turned off the light and went straight to bed.
“… ….”
As soon as I lay down on the bed, my energy for sleep ran away.
But it’s too much of a hassle to get up again…….
Sometimes there are days like this.
A day when the body is tired but the consciousness is clear.
At a moment like this, it’s not bad to think about a single topic.
I decided to think about ways to build Cecilia’s achievements.
In other words, it meant the same as starting preparations to resume trade with Sergel Kingdom.
‘The most important thing is to exchange letters… ….’
The problem is that we don’t even know who the current king of Sergel Kingdom is.
Do you exchange letters but don’t know the other person’s name?
That is a diplomatic disrespect.
Well, not only the king’s name, but also the route for trade.
“… ….”
As expected, when I think about things related to work, the limit disappears.
Anyway, if I go ahead with this in earnest, my work will increase considerably.
If Sergel Kingdom accepts the meeting, he will accompany Cecilia all the way there.
For me, it is rather welcome.
Because there will be a difference as much as heaven and earth between what you encounter only in books and what you actually encounter.
For example, the intonation of their language.
The style of architecture.
What is the mood of the market?
What level of prices are compared to the Eckhart Empire, and so on.
There is only one reason to find out this information.
Because I plan to settle down and live there later.
So that was enough reason to pursue this project with enthusiasm.
The other day, when Cecilia came to my room, she secretly mentioned trade with Sergel Kingdom.
‘Cecilia probably has a picture in her own way.’
Then when would be a good time to tell this story?
“Hmm… ….”
As expected, it would be better to do it as soon as possible, right?
I’m sorry I didn’t even hear about what happened between her and her father today.
‘At that time, without even realizing it, I said that I was cute… ….’
But I couldn’t help it.
As an emperor, the image of him twitching his butt hard to carry out the punishment was both funny and cute at the same time.
…… Well, that doesn’t mean I’m looking at it as a member of the opposite s*x.
I know my heart better than anyone else.
The fact that the friendship that Cecilia, Flora, and Mulia share now are always friendship as colleagues working in the same space.
“Still, it was quite refreshing to see him being shy after hearing that he was cute.”
I smiled as I recalled what had happened right before I was kicked out of Cecilia’s room.
* * *
Deep dawn.
“… ….”
Ileina was still holding her breath in Luke’s room today.
In order to protect her target like a shadow, she was wearing her invisibility cloak in a corner where not even the moonlight could enter.
‘The captain must have arrived at the mission area by now.’
As soon as Ileina returned to the imperial palace, she was separated from Luna’s leader, Lucia.
Then Lucia spoke to Ilayna.
When she gets back from her mission, she says let’s go fishing right away.
The leader that Ileina knew had the disposition to always follow her words once spoken.
In other words, going to the lake fishing was no different from a fait accompli.
And that fact instilled in her a subtle sense of anticipation. In her heart, where only cold wind blows.
Ilayna stared at Luke, who was soundly asleep.
“… ….”
The world you live in is different from the person in front of you.
As a result, looking at him, there were not just one or two strange things.
Especially today, I felt that feeling even more, when Luke wrote his name with his butt in Cecilia’s room.
Ilayna couldn’t understand the situation at all.
First of all, it was the strange corporal punishment ordered by the empress.
But what was more difficult for her to understand was the secretary’s confidence in putting forward the conditions she wanted in response to the corporal punishment.
The point of being able to do corporal punishment that could be embarrassing with a nonchalant face.
‘How strange.’
From Ilaina’s standards, Luke is a truly unique person.
But lately, watching what he was doing was kind of fun.
He also had anticipation of what he would do.
‘Maybe that’s why I feel anticipation even for trivial things like lake fishing.’
Ileina turned her head away for a moment out of her window.
She was obscured by the clouds, so no moonlight could be seen from her.
If Luke were the moonlight…… She thought that if she continued to assume the role of keeping his side, she would be fine.
But that thought only flashed in a very brief, fleeting moment.
Ilayna closed her eyes for a moment before opening them. Then she focused again on her security duties.
-Continued