Chapter 59 – Episode 59 Emily, No, Ymir. The Man Who Loved Cecilia.

“What happened?”
Emily came to the mansion. It hasn’t even been an hour since I called her.
“Follow me. I have something to show you.”
“Why are you so moody? Awfully.”
He had his characteristic smirk.
I couldn’t answer that.
Did you notice that the atmosphere is different?
Emily closed her mouth and followed me.
“Please say something. For what.”
“You’d better see for yourself.”

I opened the door to the treatment room.
It was a room filled with mana flowing from all kinds of mana stones.
It was made to be used for the purpose of helping the body recover through thick mana.
In the center of the treatment room, Cecilia, the original heroine, was lying.
She took off all the loose clothes she had been wearing when she first came here and changed into high-quality silk underwear.
She looked up at the sky with blank eyes, anxious.

“Count… Celia?”
Emily, perplexed, approached Cecilia, who was lying on the bed.
“Cecilia, what is this?”
He called Cecilia’s name constantly.
But she couldn’t answer.
It was only natural that I couldn’t hear.
“Cecilia, it’s me Ymir… Why are you here? I thought I was living well with the emperor in the imperial palace.”
Emily said her real name from the past and faced Cecilia. But, of course, she didn’t see him.
“Say something. Were you disappointed that I left?”
Emily carefully took Cecilia’s hand.

“Ah…”
Cecilia was started and wary.
Surprised by the sight, Emily looked at me.
“What kind of situation is this? Please explain. What condition is Cecilia in now?”
Her voice was more earnest than ever.
“The emperor blinded Cecilia’s eyes and ears and cut off her tongue.”
There was no answer for a while.

“… Yes?”
“It is as it was said. Now Cecilia can neither hear nor see.”
“Uh, what is that? Did the emperor make her this way?”
I nodded.

“Can you be sure?”
“I heard from the emperor himself. He wants you to heal Cecilia.”
“Ah… Uh, why…”
Emily’s eyes twitched.
Emily’s fists clenched at the sheets trembled.
“What did you say the reason was? Why did Cecilia do this…”
“I can’t say.”
How can he say that he suffered like this because he confessed that it was a world in a novel and that he was a possessed person?

“Leuclid, you damn bastard!”
Emily screamed at her throat.
After changing his last name to a woman, he spat out a curse that he had never uttered.
“It wouldn’t be cool to twist this head off and throw it as a corpse in a back alley!”
Emily’s eyes were bloodshot red. Even the thread veins burst and blood pooled.
“Ah… Cecilia. I gave up because I wanted you to be happy, but I only wanted to be happy with the bastard Ruclid… Why did you appear in front of me like this?”
She cried.
The woman’s way of speaking had long since been forgotten.
Ymir’s way of speaking, which he had seen in the novel, jumped out.

“I didn’t send you for this…”
Emily wept as she rubbed her face in Cecilia’s hands.
Cecilia, started at first, looked where Emily was.
“Hey…”
“Cecilia, don’t worry. I’ll find a way somehow Any way I can help you…”
Emily got up from her seat, wiping away tears.

“Tell me. Can you cure it?”
A harsh male tone came out of Emily’s mouth.
Now she didn’t try to hide her old tone of her own.
“It is possible. But there is a problem.”
“What? What’s wrong money? Don’t worry about that I will make it all for you.”
“Creating artificial tongues, eyes and eardrums with magic is a difficult task, but it is possible. With time, the empress, no, Cecilia will be able to see.”
As the word empress came to her lips, she changed the word to refer to Cecilia at Emily’s fierce stare.

“Everything is possible, what is the problem?”
“It’s a matter of Cecilia’s mind. The psychological impact on her was greater than she thought. This is not something that can be healed overnight.”
“She’s also what she’s been through.”
I kept my mouth shut as I pondered whether to tell the truth about how I suffered from the guardsmen.
“That makes her talk when she gets better. It is a difficult matter for me to say.”
“It’s worse than having your tongue cut out and being blinded.”
Fast!

The sound of Emily grinding her teeth was clear.

“It’s okay. It doesn’t matter how long it takes for Cecilia to get back to normal. ‘Cause I’ll be by your side I will never leave you alone this time.”
“I get it.”
“Then why did you tell me this? Are you asking me to keep it a secret that you are the leader of the Neutral faction?”
“No.”
“Then?”
“Don’t you want revenge?”
“… What?”
“She asked me if I wanted to get revenge on the emperor who made Cecilia like this.”
“Is it treason?”
“Not yet.”
“… Why? You are the Minister of Magic appointed by the Emperor. If there is no emperor, there is no you.”
“Okay. Maurice Dmitry alone. But wouldn’t it be different if she made Ymir, the continent’s best merchant, her assistant?”
“You’re going to make the continent’s best gold on your side?”
“Okay.”
“Do you think I will follow you? To go to the emperor right now and reveal your plan…”
“The emperor sent me directly to treat Cecilia.”
“What is it?”
“They say fresh toys are good to play with.”
“You bastard, Ruclid. Haha.”
Emily, clutching her breasts, sat down in her seat.

“Cecilia will not want to go back to her Emperor.”
“Even if I side with you, Cecilia going back to the Emperor is the same. If I would rather tell her emperors directly not to bother her…”
“I will help you and Cecilia escape to a place out of reach of the emperor.”

She blinked her eyes.
“I’m serious?”
“Okay. If only you want.”
Haha.Haha.”

Emily laughed weakly.

“You’re making a condition I can’t refuse.”
“As a side note, I am a losing business.”

However, in order to obtain a political partner on the level of Emily, he could afford this much.

Emily rose from her seat, grasping her trembling legs.

“Great. She’ll take part in that crazy plan of hers. How is that madness going to start?”
“First of all, we will recruit the aristocrats.”

Siegfried never showed up at the Thanksgiving event.
It was the greatest event in the empire, and a social gathering place.
The aristocrats would have been anxious, and the imperial faction would have been elated.
The reason why the emperor put the empress in front of her and asked me to treat her was probably because he saw that Siegfried, the head of the aristocratic faction, would leave the realm of politics.

‘This Thanksgiving Day was like a feast for the imperial faction.’

So I was careless
That’s why I couldn’t understand my true intentions.

“Would you like to become the new head of the aristocratic faction without Siegfried?”
“I am not right now.”

Count Ronald. And Emily.
These two will be the heads of the new aristocracy.
I’ll be the joker playing tug-of-war between them.
I only started appearing after the neo-aristocrat faction had fully established itself.

“Ha, yes. I guess so. I guess I’m surprised too. If you see that your head is not working properly.”
“I understand.”
“Let me ask you one last question.”
“Tell me.”
“If by any chance, the power of the New Nobility faction becomes stronger than that of the Imperial faction, what will you do?”

Emily looked at me with bloody eyes.

“The nobility faction is stronger than the emperor faction…”

Didn’t think.
It was just a choice for the peace and safety of my body.

“I should try to make it a better ending.”
“It’s the end… Do you have an end in mind?”
“At least you can be sure it will be better than it is now.”

Emily was speechless.
Just look at me for a long time.

“Great. Okay. Maurice, do as you say.”

Emily patted her blooming chest.

“I will be your best partner. Instead, the condition is that Cecilia safely escape outside the empire.”
“Don’t worry.”
“How long will it take?”
“It will take at least three months.”
“In the meantime, the emperor will definitely visit.”
“Know.”
“Are you sure you won’t get caught?”

Emily held out her hand.

“Of course.”

I held Emily’s hand.

“By the way, are you going to stop pretending to laugh and flirt?”
“Is it necessary? Are we political partners now?”

Do you have any intention of reusing the broken mask?
I also didn’t want to force her to pretend to be a woman again.

“Still, be careful at public events.”
“Don’t worry.”

After shaking her hand, Emily looked at Cecilia and asked me.

“Can you give me a moment to be alone with you? Because you won’t be able to see it until the gig is held…”

A lot of emotions were mixed in her eyes.

“I will.”

Knowing Emily’s feelings, I silently left her seat.

The desperate screams and cries of a woman who was a man shook the mansion.
I couldn’t bear to hear it, so I blocked out all the noise that was spreading around the recovery room.
That was the greatest kindness I could do for Emily.

***

Seria went to Cecilia’s recovery room to wash her body.
She saw Emily crying as if she had lost her world too.

‘Poor man…’

Cecilia, like her, was a woman who became unhappy because she loved her emperor.
Perhaps she is even more unhappy than herself for losing her identity.
A woman who has lost all senses to live by the emperor.
Her condition was much more miserable compared to her who had just lost her identity.

‘Not too long ago, they were rivals who fought over one person.’

How did it happen?

Seria didn’t know.
Wouldn’t loving the emperor itself be the seed of unhappiness?
Maybe that’s what made me unhappy.
Seria thought so.
She wiped Cecilia’s body with a towel dampened with cool water.
She was a truly beautiful woman.
Putting aside her jealousy, she looked at Cecilia, who was called the flower of the empire, a woman with a beautiful appearance and body as much as herself.
A symbol of will that rose to the position of empress without any halo.

“Neither you nor I really have eyes for men.”

Seria muttered as she wiped Cecilia’s body from her.
There’s no way she could hear it, though.

‘I won’t make the same mistake anymore.’

Seria made a promise to herself.

***

“Louis.”

I repeated as I watched Emily’s carriage go away.
A gaze felt from far away.
It was Louis, the captain of the Red Ryeondan, the emperor’s assassination squad.

“Have you seen everything?”
“Yes.”
“What are you going to do? Will you report to the emperor?”
“It should be.”
“Even if it kills you?”
“Is there any way I won’t die? If I don’t report, His Majesty the Emperor will kill me.”
“There is only one.”
“Are you saying something?”
“How you don’t die and I don’t have to kill you.”

I turned to Lewis, who was standing behind me.

“Will you trust me?”
“…”

Lewis nodded his head.

“If successful… Would you like to do that at that time?”

It must be talking about the pleasure of the time when Louis’ brain was awakened.

“Of course. I will do it again and again.”
“All right. Then what can I report to you?”
“Report that a meeting was held to purchase an iron mine in the Torimong Mountains discovered by aristocratic nobles.”
“Will that work?”
“The emperor would like it if the aristocrats of the aristocratic faction unilaterally broke the contract. He was also coveted iron mine.”
“… All right.”

Lewis disappeared from his seat.

To live without being swayed by anyone.

‘I need my own power.’

A force so strong that it cannot be touched carelessly.
Crouching is only until then.