Chapter 118 – Episode 118 D-3 Changing Thoughts.

“It’s nice to be together like this.”

Seria leaned over from her sofa to face Siegfried, who was watching him.
It was her father’s gaze she had felt before.
If there is a difference.
Her father her in the past tried to somehow hide her fatherhood her.
As if that were your weakness.
But now.
She did not hide her gaze at her beloved daughter her.

“Are you okay?”
“Okay. After losing it, I knew it was precious.”

Duke Siegfried sighed heavily.
He poured tea into Seria’s glass her.
Duke Siegfried of the world himself!
Musk, who was watching from behind, looked at the Duke with surprised eyes.

“There will be no such thing in the future.”

The duke felt sorry for his daughter, who was still in her maid’s uniform.
Seria, who was the princess of a duchy.
But now she has become an insignificant maid than any princess.

“Sorry. For making you suffer.”
“It’s okay.”
“You will never have to go through that kind of pain in the future.”
“It was a pain…”
“You mean not now?”
“Yes. Not now.”

I could be sure of that.
It’s not painful at all now.
If a little bit of jealousy is pain, I’m feeling it.

Her time her with her her Maurice was bliss for her.
Now is.

“If the imperial faction wins and the emperor reinstates himself, this life will be over forever. You will go under the Emperor.”
“I hate that.”
“For that to happen, we have to win somehow.”

Siegfried was confident of his victory.
Because he could be confident that his power would be 200 percent effective in this situation.

There was silence for a while.
Dalgrak.
Putting down the teacup, Duke Siegfried asked Seria.

“What are you planning to do?”
“Father, what are you talking about?”
“Maurice Dmitri, she hadn’t already had a relationship with him.”
“… Right.”

Why now?
Ceria saw her own father her.
He crumpled his brow and was holding a chanjat.
The hand that was holding the channat was strong.

“Did you not like that?”
“It wasn’t.”

Had it not been for him, he would not have been here.
There was some coercion on her part of her, but there was also her willingness of her.
She also found peace of mind when she was with Maurice.

“If this is done well, you will return to Siegfried. What are you going to do then?”

Return to Siegfried.
That meant several things.
It also meant the complete dethronement of the emperor.
It also meant that the power of the nobility was stronger than ever.
Only Duke Siegfried knows what he meant.

“Did you ask what to do?”

The path to becoming a noble lady in this world is simple.
Or an arranged marriage.
Go to a monastery
Since Siegfried had no successor left, she was able to succeed her.
For the duke, that was the best choice.

“The monastery will not accept women who are not chaste.”
“Yes.”
“What do you think of leading Siegfried after me?”
“No. I am the owner… No, I want to be with Maurice.”
“Does that mean you want to marry into the Dmitri family?”

Seria was still, then she slowly nodded her head.

“Yes.”
“As expected.”

The Duke leaned back on the sofa.
My heart was heavy.
It’s not that he does not know his daughter’s heart her.
I thought I would support you no matter what you do.
But when I heard that I was going to leave, it was true that I felt depressed.

“Are you against me marrying Maurice?”
“I am not against it. That means you’d be better off with something than nothing.”
“There is something.”
“Can you marry Maurice now? The opponent is Solarion. Even if she has a bad relationship with her family right now, she is the youngest daughter who would die for the love of Duke Solarion.”
“Isn’t it the premise of winning this battle for me to marry Maurice?”
“Right.”
“That would mean she could lose her own family line as her as the daughter of Solarion.”
“Well.”

The Duke drank tea.

“Seria, when you look at it, do you think that Dmitri will use the power to execute the daughter of a noble family like the emperor?”

He was talking on the premise that Maurice would win.
It’s as if he’s the one who has all the decision-making power.
It was a kind of test.
I want to see how Seria sees the situation in this country.
You may be wrong now.
If she has the flexibility to accept and correct her words, she will grow further as the head of her family her.

“No. I won’t.”
“Then her daughter of Solarion will not lose her own family line.”
“That… That’s right.”

The Duke smiled.

“Seria, who has no family, and Emir with Solarion on his back her. Who will benefit Maurice more?”

Ceria bit her lip.
She also knew that if she was now, she would never be able to fully defeat the Emir.
She knew how strong Siegfried’s power was.

“I can’t see losing to Solarion. Even if that is her daughter’s marriage her.”

Duke Siegfried paused for a moment before continuing.

“From now on, the empire will revolve around Maurice. And we are Siegfried. It should always be included in the center. I have no intention of becoming emperor. However, it can be located closest to the emperor.”

The eyes of the dead wolf were revived.

“Siegfried will always shine there.”

Seria looked into the familiar duke’s eyes.
Aristocratic eyes burning with passion and ambition.

“And to have that position… Seria, you should be Maurice’s true wife.”
“You say you need Siegfried for that?”
“Okay.”
“…”

It was practical advice.
It was all right.
But what is she worried about?

‘Can that be called true love?’

I do not know.
She has no idea

“Just having Siegfried will help Maurice.”

Seria pondered for a long time.

“I…”

***

Devastated room.
Ruclid, who had lost everything, thought of Solarion, who had not yet arrived in the splendid room.

“It’s the same after all.”

She changed to a nice room, but the fact that she was locked up didn’t change.
None of her could meet her. She couldn’t get out of this gorgeous room.
‘It’s no different from the imperial palace.’
It also felt like a prison to her.

The body was comfortable though.
Her guardsmen who harassed her are no longer coming.
She had no one to bother her with her, so she could afford it.

When she was alone, she thought a lot.

I remembered what happened to her during the day.
She remembers being gang-raped by numerous guards after she was imprisoned.
No one treated me like a human being.

How many days?
No, I don’t even know how much time has passed.

-Look at this year. I guess she doesn’t even know what she’s getting into?
– You are not the emperor. You fucking bitch.
– Do you know how many children died because of you?
– My parents died because of you.

Swear words pouring from all sides.
It was a story he had never heard before when he was emperor.

It was like going back there again.
Suffered in the dungeon.
She became a woman completely and the eyes of the guys who looked at her naked body her and praised her.
Even the one who raped himself while looking at himself with hateful eyes.
Even the one who bullied her in her anger and sorrow.

The hellish things were as vivid as if they were seen right in front of them.
Leuclide hugged him and trembled.

“Hot.”

She came to her senses belatedly of her, as if waking up from her long thoughts of her.

“Haha, haha.”

Disgust and pain.
The one that swept down Ruclid’s body countless times.
The hands of the men who were violently trampling her body her came to mind.

“Damn you bastards.”

It felt like a worm crawling in.
She belatedly realized that she had done the same to the empress.

Was the empress like this?
Could it have been worse?

“Shit.”

At that time, Maurice’s face appeared in Ruclid’s mind.
She felt her senses her, which had been tormenting her just before, subside.

‘… This sucks.’
Relief from the man who made her this way.
It gave me a deep displeasure.

‘You wouldn’t think.’
I won’t take solace in a trash man like Maurice.
I’d rather be more painful.
Giving such a nice room must have had a ulterior motive.
If she loses in the war by any chance, it must be because of the unreasonable expectation of her that she will save him.

Ruclid sneered and mocked.

It was then.

Profit.

“Are you awake?”

Maurice came in.
He was holding a tray.

“What, what’s going on?”
“From now on, I will be in charge of all the food you eat.”
“Why?”
“Shall I make the servants run into you?”
“What? What about me?”
“If rumors circulate that the emperor, who was overthrown by tyranny, became like this, he would stand up to his prestige.”
“Profit!”

Ryuclid reached out and grabbed Maurice by the collar.

“It’s all because of you!”
“Is it because of me?”
“Okay! What made me a woman like this! It was you who did the thing that hit me here!”
“You seem to be misunderstanding.”

Maurice frowned at her.

“You are not here because of me. It’s because of you.”
“What?”
“If you kept the line, if you didn’t touch me and passed on moderately well, if you finished with the status of Seria lowered, if you didn’t pressure the nobles and plan a civil war.”

And even a lot of things he didn’t mention.

“How many nobles have you killed? How many people have you killed?”
“That… That…”

Ryuclid tried to continue the stammering, but.
He didn’t come up

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t recall how many people he had killed.

She put on a devastated expression.

“You understand now? The real reason you’re imprisoned here?”

Maurice put the tray on the table.

“If you weren’t the emperor, you would have already been executed and hung in the street. The reason you’re still alive after doing such a thing is because you were the emperor.”
“…”
“And I’m trying to educate you last.”

Lie.
However, no matter what, the words did not come out of Ruclid’s mouth.

***

I went out of the room, leaving behind the clumsy Lucid.
I don’t know what you’re thinking.
‘I hope you don’t think about killing anyone.’

Response is good.

It will be interesting to see how she will change in the future.
Hopefully.

‘I’ll be able to become a good emperor again.’
Even if I can’t be like the male lead of the romance I saw in the past.