CH 60

When Frey got off the stopped carriage, she saw the building of the imperial palace with a familiar scent.

As she smelled this cozy scent, her heart ached as she remembered the days when she used to play in the garden with her mother.

“Wiz, Luke. please.”

She sent Lina and Emma to embrace the sleeping Damon and Arsene, and asked for special security.

As a child of grand duke Prause, they wouldn’t touch them, but didn’t Gelon even murder her mother and members of the imperial family?

Her heart was pounding as she remembered the last image of her mother that she had forgotten for a while.

‘So we can’t relax just because it’s the imperial palace… hmm?’

However, tension was felt in an unexpected place.

It was between my father and Daniel, who had just come out to meet me.

Besides, for some reason, Daniel unilaterally averted his gaze.

‘It’s a little strange that the Grand Duke Prause of the world suddenly does this.’

Even at the wedding, when rumors of a promiscuous man reached their climax, Daniel was confident in front of the emperor.

Frey knew that his rumors were outright lies, but in the eyes of others, he was a shameless man who did not change his face even after doing promiscuous things.

‘I thought He was going to be shameless according to the concept, but why did he suddenly notice my father?’

Originally, Prause had reached the imperial family. That is why the emperors did not use the absolute right of obedience and kept it in order to use Prause as they pleased.

But isn’t it a little strange that he suddenly appears in a low profile?

It didn’t seem like he did anything wrong, so Frey gently blocked her father’s killing spree with her body.

“Father, have you been well?”

“Frey, welcome.”

Her father gave me a warm hug, then turned cold-blooded and continued.

“Duke Prause, you also had a lot of trouble bringing your soul, others, and others.”

“No, Your Majesty.”

For some reason, Daniel started to get very nervous.

After Damon and Arsene fall asleep.

Grand Duke Prause and the Emperor had a late dinner together.

However, the emperor’s expression was not good for being with his beloved daughter after a long time.

‘Fortunately, the mother of the children was not brought.’

He was very dissatisfied with Daniel Prause.

How much pressure did Frey, who doesn’t even like children, to bring the twins to the capital?

‘I haven’t seen Grand Duke Prause like that, but he’s a real person.’

The emperor was well aware that noblemen dated several at once.

However, when the daughter brought the twins, Daniel did not look carefully.

‘To tell my daughter to take care of the children He had with another woman.’

Make one mistake.

The emperor watched Daniel’s meal with fierce eyes like an eagle looking for food to chew.

Frey, who couldn’t see it, opened his mouth.

“Father, are you okay?”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve had a meal with my daughter, so why can’t it be okay.”

“…”

Are you okay with such a sulky face?

‘Is it uncomfortable because I’m with Daniel instead of just the two of us?’

“father. Shall we take a walk together later in the evening? I mean just the two of you. There are issues to discuss regarding divine power, right?”

Even when Frey asked politely, the emperor only shook his head with a smile.

“You must be tired from coming from far, so let’s take a walk later.”

“Um, is that so? By the way, my husband recently…”

Frey naturally changed the topic.

It seemed that the emperor disapproved of grand duke Prause, so it was to give an explanation on his behalf of him.

‘If I think about it, Daniel’s reputation has fallen to the bottom, it’s all because of me.’

Seeing her daughter recounting the help she received from her husband throughout the meal, the emperor somehow hardened his heart.

‘Where did my daughter who said she would live in the imperial palace for the rest of her life without getting married go?’

The emperor kept feeling like Daniel Prause had taken away something he held dear.

After eating.

Just as Grand Duke and Duchess Prause got up from their seats and were about to go to their room, the emperor’s servant spoke to Frey.

“Her Highness the Grand Duchess.”

“Yes?”

“If you don’t mind, you can sleep in Lady Roselia’s room. His Majesty told me to prepare for the Grand Duchess.”

Frey glanced at Daniel.

He seemed to be fine no matter what.

“Then I will. Get ready.”

Frey went to her mother’s room without thinking.

Daniel, who was about to head to the room where he was supposed to stay, felt a stinging stare and stopped walking.

There was an emperor with folded arms and axe eyes.

“your majesty.”

“Yes, Grand Duke Prause. Is it not necessary to visit the children?”

“… … .”

Daniel slowly lowered his eyes.

Imperial fathers tended to treat sons-in-law who took their daughters as thieves, and emperors even more so.

‘If my wife and I have a daughter, I’ll treat the boys like thieves.’

Daniel naturally imagined a daughter who looked half and half like Frey and himself.

In the meantime, he didn’t care much about the personal feelings the emperor had for him.

But now the story was different.

what he thinks of himself, and How her wife’s family evaluates Daniel Prause.

He was secretly interested in those things and wanted to create the best possible image.

‘His Majesty is the father of my wife.’

That extremely obvious fact felt like a death sentence to Daniel.

Look at yourself now with the eyes that stare at you.

Look at the voice full of anger.

The emperor was treating him as an unscrupulous man with no morals and didn’t like him.

Even at the time of the wedding, the feeling of respect for the head of Prause who had protected the north remained.

‘If I leave His Majesty’s misunderstanding as it is…’

gulp.

Daniel swallowed dry saliva and recalled the future of Frey he had peeped at.

[“Frey, you can’t leave me.”]

[“Daniel, before marriage, you were afraid that I would not divorce you, so you used your ability to foresee the future, right?”]

The meaning of what the future Frey said might have been, ‘A husband who treats my father coldly must leave.’

Even if it wasn’t necessary, Daniel had to be careful in everything because she might leave Prause for some reason.

‘Fortunately, my relationship with my wife hasn’t been greatly damaged yet.’

‘If so, I must fix it now.’

The relationship with her wife was also quite satisfactory, and now Daniel enjoyed talking to her face to face.

‘We fit better than I thought, so there’s no need for a divorce.’

‘If I have this kind of heart, but rejected as ruthlessly as if I tried using her future foresight…’

Just imagining it made Daniel dizzy.

Daniel looked at the emperor. Thanks to Frey’s active role, there is no need to maintain neutrality.

‘I should have told them in advance that the children are not my real children and that they are transcendental.’

Sooner or later Daniel will tell his wife about the children’s real parents.

Daniel, who finished his judgment, had a soft smile that was half respectful and half friendly.

“your majesty. I have something to tell you about the birth of our children.”

“That’s strange. I thought Grand Duke Prause would say, ‘I have nothing to say even with ten mouths.’”

“…”

“It’s a joke. Are you sure you don’t intend to recite the birth process of your children in front of me?”

The emperor smiled broadly, but his expression was as stiff as if he would kill a person.

After calming the emperor who was trying to push him, Daniel implied the truth.

“I love Damon and Arsene, but they are not my children.”

“Since you are married to my daughter, does this mean that children born to other women are not children?”

The emperor struggled to bear the contempt.

However, the truth that Daniel spread after hitting the soundproof barrier was bigger than he thought.

“The two children are transcendental.”

“That’s right, it’s your blood, so it’s natural.”

“No. The two children, like Lydia, are chosen children who were born on the day of the prophecy. The children’s biological parents felt the burden and entrusted them to me.”

“What is that…”

The conversation went in a direction the emperor never expected.

“If it’s Prause’s blood, shouldn’t he inherit the power to rule the order of time? Children’s powers are different.”

“What?”

“Damon has very strong physical power, and Arsene seems to have mental power.”

They…”

The emperor closed his mouth like a clam and thought.

There was no way someone the size of Grand Duke Prause would joke or lie about such an important topic. Judging by the serious look on his face and the sound barrier, Daniel’s words were trustworthy.

‘A transcendent? Those little kids?’

Although he had only seen them sleeping, the emperor had a hunch that children had special powers.

But the twins were the chosen children?

‘If the empress and Tahar knew that only Lydia was special, it would be upside down.’

Even if Lydia says she is at an age to play, ‘this child is a chosen one’. 

They were both rigorously trained.

In the Gelon Tower, Lydia is already worshiped as the only savior.

The empress and her aides could not even imagine that Daniel was protecting the other two of the three chosen children. When the thought reached that point, the emperor’s arm gave rise to goosebumps.

“Well then, you deliberately spread such rumors to protect the children…”

Thanks to the noble and clean image that Prause has defended for generations, the emperor was mistaken at will.

Daniel smiled innocently, but he didn’t bother to correct the misunderstanding.

“I wanted to prevent other women from approaching me because I thought protecting my children was my top priority.”

“That means… as expected, you are Prause.”

The emperor’s words were deeply embedded in his conscience, but Daniel did not express himself.

There was no need to confess that the purpose of avoiding Princess Frey, who was notorious for being a fool, was greater.

“I’m glad that the decision I made could help Your Majesty.”

Daniel turned away from his conscience for a while and then drove a wedge.

It was natural for the emperor’s pupils to be greatly shaken.

‘I thought the children’s appearance didn’t resemble the grand duke at all…wait a minute.’

Only then did the emperor feel like he had found the missing piece of the puzzle.

‘Did Frey know this first?’

Seeing Frey’s recent business skills, the nobles said that Frey had sharpened his sword.

Pretending to be an ignorant, stupid princess, reading books, she would have been secret information through her mother.

Then he seized the opportunity to call Daniel Prause and spread her wings.

[“Because it is certain that marrying the Grand Duke will benefit me, I could have asked for the right to absolute obedience.”]

[“but. If I had just had a crush on Grand Duke Prause, I would have given up when it turned out that he was a promiscuous man with a child.”]

‘I didn’t think what she was saying was absurd.’

Could it be that Frey knew everything and moved?

As he reached that point, the emperor thought of Lady Roselia, who used her cleverness and beauty as weapons to make everyone nervous.

‘Roselia. I think our daughter looks more like you. I’m so glad…’

The emperor did not know how much his immature daughter was thinking when she decided to marry the grand duke.

[“Father. I like it even if the Grand Duke doesn’t love me for the rest of his life. I want to have a chance to win his heart.”]

The emperor just remembered the moment when his daughter earnestly asked for a chance just once, and he smiled calmly.

* * *

“Your Highness, Grand Duchess. Can I prepare breakfast for you?”

“yes.”

Emma bowed her head and left.

Left alone in the room her mother used to live in, Frey slowly stretched out of bed and got up. The scent her mother always exuded seeped deep into her lungs.

‘When I was young when I ran and hugged you, it always smelled like this.’

Frey thought that she was somehow fortunate that she seemed to remember her mother’s scent without forgetting it.

At the same time, she remembered the image of her vomiting blood and dying, and her body stiffened.

‘Well, mother…’

Frey threw her gaze out the window to relax. Then she noticed someone looking at her from the other side as well.

It was the royal grandson, Lydia Obelir, who resembled the crown prince couple in half.

‘Why are you staring at this side?’

‘Did you notice that Damon and Arsene, whom I brought with me, are Transcendentalists like you?’

Just as Frey was frowning, Lydia behaved incredulously.