Chapter 96

Eventually, as she stood in front of the bedroom door, Sev wiggled.

It poked its head around the neck of Ejed’s shirt.

“Kiing, kiing.”

“Sev, shh.”

“Kiing.”

Creak.

When the old wooden door was opened, Sev flew into the air as if frustrated.

Annie put Ejed on the bed and hurriedly closed the door.

Tak.

“You should be quiet. Come here and be still.”

“Kiing.”

Sev, flapping its wings, sat down by Ejed’s bedside. Annie wrapped the bed sheet up to his neck tightly, who was lying quietly.

She was afraid that the child might catch a cold due to the severe temperature difference. His face was still red.

Her small, white fingers ran through the black hair that was messed up over his forehead.

She couldn’t help but admire the straight eyebrows and features.

‘…They really do look alike. Even between relatives, I don’t think there’s this much resemblance.’

Looking back, even their personalities were similar, so Annie could even have a strange imagination.

‘Maybe His Majesty’s hidden son… No. Hey, no way.’

Regardless of his age, Ejed wasn’t the kind of person. If that were the case, at least he would have somehow properly taken responsibility for his children.

As soon as the child arrived, she could only imagine that he would try to take care of him while he was sick.

Annie grinned as she thought about this and that.

‘That’s amazing…’

Not so long ago, the Imperial family was only seen from afar.

But she met the Emperor regularly, and no matter how far away the Imperial family was, they went to picnics together.

‘As expected… I don’t know what’s going to happen with people.’

As the dark clouds filled the night sky and moved, the moonlight illuminated the room.

But at that moment, Ejed’s body shone more brilliantly.

Riip, riip. The glow stopped with the sound of something tearing.

“…Huh?”

As the child lying on the bed turned into an adult, Annie covered her mouth with her hand. She felt like a scream would leak out if she didn’t.

She barely gave her eyes strength.

‘Hey, what’s going on? His Majesty? Why is His Majesty…’

“Uh… uhhh…”

Returning to his original form, Ejed groaned in pain. His torn clothes were also drenched in sweat.

Annie, staring blankly, hurriedly took a towel from the table and wiped his forehead. Her own confused feelings are a later thing. Now, the patient was the priority.

Sev, too, was whining ‘kiing kiing,’ by his bedside.

At that moment, Ejed’s lips opened.

“Mother… Father…”

“…”

Even the voices intermittently looking for his parents were filled with pain. Annie bit her lip, looking at the closed door and Ejed.

‘Should I call a doctor? No, no. Then His Majesty’s position will be in trouble. Then the aide… But would the aide even know this?’

Annie stopped at the hypothesis that suddenly ran through her mind.

She remembered an incident at the Imperial Palace not long ago.

[This little Imperial family currently has no guardians.]

Doher’s voice, who introduced Ejed as ‘Jade,’ was full of determination.

It was difficult to see that he had lied at all.

‘The aide… He doesn’t know.’

How many people has he been deceiving since when? As she looked at Ejed in a confused mind, his trembling slowly stopped.

‘I-Is something wrong?”

His body was engulfed in brilliance again.

Hwaak-

The child’s body was back. A calmness slowly appeared on Ejed’s face.

Annie let out a thin breath at the sight that was hard to believe even when she saw it with her own eyes.

‘Oh my gosh… What the hell is this…’

Her heart was pounding as if it was racing.

As if Sev was also surprised, it opened its red eyes wide and stared at Ejed.

Annie stuttered and called him.

“Then… His Majesty?”

“…”

“That Jade?”

Annie, who was looking at Ejed, who had been fast asleep, was teary.

***

As soon as Annie arrived at her bed, she slumped to the floor.

‘What did I see a while ago?’

Annie stared blankly at the wall and pressed her palm to her forehead.

“So, His Majesty is Lord Jade. Lord Jade is His Majesty… Magic… Or is it a curse? Aaaah, what is this!”

She didn’t know what’s going on, but Annie sorted out the most urgent parts first. She changed the torn top into clean clothes a while ago.

All she had to do was move her hand, keeping her eyes away as far as she could.

‘I see nothing.’

‘I can’t see anything. I can’t see anything.’

It was fortunate. As she continued to brainwash herself and stick to her purpose, nothing embarrassing happened.

But she wasn’t completely relieved.

She even cleaned up the torn pieces of clothing, but she wasn’t happy at all.

Annie bit her lip.

‘Why was he looking like that? What was he trying to get? And why did he come to our family? I don’t think he ever approached except for dating advice…’

It was purely coincidental that Ejed came to this mansion this time. And he didn’t even try to avoid her as much as possible.

The child who smiled awkwardly and avoided her gaze was vivid in her eyes.

[I can’t cause any more trouble. I will return.]

‘He was uncomfortable… I thought he was like that just because he was uncomfortable and sensible… Is there anything that he can’t say?’

Annie muttered in a subdued tone.

“In the first place… was such an innocent person really a tyrant?”