The Villain’s Aide Has Run Away - Chapter 112.1
“It’s been a long time since I’ve had a drink, and it feels really good.”
The Emperor rubbed the sagging flesh under his chin, showing satisfaction.
Satisfaction shone in his thin eyes buried in flesh. Even in his drunken state, the taste of the drink must have been really good.
“Yes, I drank this back then too. And I had a very enjoyable time.”
The Empress looked at the Emperor with an expression stripped of emotion and spoke calmly.
“I’m glad it was an enjoyable time.”
When she responded like that, the Emperor smiled as if pleased. His massive body seemed to tremble along with him.
“For me, it was a humiliating night.”
The Emperor looked at the Empress as he swallowed his drink.
For a moment, he thought he had misheard.
The Empress’s face was as composed as usual. Her lips were somewhat red, making her appear even more beautiful.
“You always acted the same. You got excited and enjoyed yourself, and yet when we could not have a child, you blamed yourself entirely.”
“Empress… what are you saying right now?”
The smile vanished from the Emperor’s face. He could no longer take her words lightly, even as a joke.
“I’m saying that every moment I was in your arms was an unhappy one for me.”
“Empress! …Ugh!”
Suddenly, the Emperor grabbed her by the neck. His massive body fell to the floor.
Yet none of the attendants or guards moved. Only the Empress stood and approached the Emperor.
She revealed the resentment she had kept for a lifetime as she looked at him in pain.
“You touched everything covered by skirts, and yet you eventually saw our first child. If you had once said you were sorry, I would not have hated that child so much.”
The child born was innocent.
But no matter how much she understood with her mind, she could not prevent her pride from collapsing whenever she saw her husband holding another woman and that child.
Now that he even threatened her own son, there was no reason left not to hate him.
To the Empress, Kailos was someone she resented, and the Emperor was someone she loathed.
“Yet instead of saying sorry, you scolded me, asking why I could not have a child first. How do you think I felt hearing that?”
“Just because you resent… does not mean… you can do this…”
“If you knew the heart I lived with all my life, you would have cast me out long ago.”
“You… how dare you… what have you done!”
The Emperor’s eyes bulged with veins as he looked around, discovering something.
It was the drink.
The Empress had put something into it.
“W-what…”
Even if he was not as strong as before, the Emperor, protected by the Guardian Spirit, was somewhat resistant to poison. He acted as if he could not understand.
The Empress smiled for the first time.
“I involved a sorcerer.”
“…What? Cough!”
The Emperor let out a painful groan, and something sprang up behind him.
Despite the sudden intrusion, the Empress did not flinch. Instead, she addressed the spirit baring its teeth at her.
“I thought you would understand me.”
The Empress stepped back from the Emperor. Despite its thin, hollowed belly and patchy fur, it was the spirit still guarding the empire.
[No matter the reason, this cannot happen.]
“Really?”
The Empress responded flatly.
“Then what is your purpose? To protect the empire, or to protect the man destroying it? Whose fault is it that your body is in such ruin?”
[Do not be swayed by such words.]
The spirit’s eyes glowed as it grew in size.
Shadows flickered again. As an attendant appeared, the Empress extended both hands toward the spirit.
Chanting a spell at high speed, the spirit was trapped in an invisible net, unable to move.
The Empress had anticipated this and disguised the Shadow Sect’s sorcerer as an attendant. She reversed the situation effortlessly and sneered.
“The Emperor is dying, and yet you are also losing your strength. But what is there to fear?”
Once massive and strong, that was long ago. For a time, the Empress had endured, patiently waiting for the spirit to lose its power.
“You should blame your foolish choice of selecting that man as Emperor.”
***
Leslun ran frantically. He realized he had been discovered faster than expected.
No, it seemed he had awakened sooner than anticipated.
The wind brought rain like a lie, and the ground was slippery. Everything was at its worst. This was not the scenario he had hoped for.
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