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“That damn dragon!”

I stomped my feet towards the place where Lerhagen had been until just now. Of course, to no avail.

‘As expected, I picked the wrong father.’

I muttered and touched my forehead.

* * *

The southern tip of the continent where the gentle breeze blows.

A dragon is so rare that anyone who is not allowed can not even discover it.

Lerhagen appeared with Hasis in a place that was completely white, like a temple that enshrined a god.

“I just have to go in. Don’t touch me, I’m tired.”

Hasis replied bluntly to the words that other people would have gotten scared and backed off.

“I know you are not really tired. The one who doesn’t even sleep in the first place.”

“You are too arrogant towards your master.”

“They call me the master who pinned me to the wall.”

“Little boy. I just have something like that.”

“When I was being beaten, you just watched, and then I… Didn’t he appear as soon as he pointed his sword at the kid?”

“well.”

“Don’t pretend you don’t know.”

A look of bewilderment was evident on Hasis’ face.

That would also be true, but Lerhagen was not the type to step forward directly. He was a person who usually looked at Hasis, who was messed up while dealing with outside intruders, with a sour face.

On the other side of his dislike of being bothered, there was a terrible coolness with no interest in others.

At least, it seems that he is interested in his disciple.

“What the hell is that kid?”

“I am the emperor of Arsis.”

“Somehow, I have a normal temperament… … No, but why is it the way it is?”

“If I had known why, I would have gone back a long time ago. to its nature.”

“Master, do you know that little boy well? Someone who doesn’t normally pay attention to a summons accepts it.”

Lerhagen was silent at Hasis’ question. and how long has it been? He smiled vaguely, then shook his hand and disappeared.

Left alone, Hasis clicked his tongue. I didn’t think that Lerhagen would give me an easy answer.

“You dragged me in. What the hell are you doing?”

I tried to say so, but there was no answer.

* * *

the next morning.

I slept one night and woke up to be an adult! Nothing like that happened.

I stared blankly at the child in the mirror with a magpie on my head.

Maybe it was the aftermath of last night, I was still tired even after a good night’s sleep.

‘No, it can’t be like this already.’

I have an important presentation today, but I couldn’t attend with this kind of mentality.

I shake my head to regain my senses, but Regan enters with a familiar knocking sound.

“Your Majesty, you coughed- uh.”

As soon as he saw me sitting on the bed, he took a step back. Of course, I calmly closed the door and entered my cold eyes.

“What happened last night?”

“There was. That is a very big deal.”

“When I checked earlier, the knights said nothing had happened.”

“Ah, it’s because I blocked the sound with magical power. Originally, I was going to tie it up and call it a knight.”

“Who… Were you trying to arrest me?”

“My half brother.”

“……?”

Regan’s face subtly changed. He didn’t seem to understand what the hell I was talking about.

I added a comment.

“Lerhagen’s apprentice accidentally entered my room last night. It looks like you got the coordinates wrong.”

“How could that be?”

“Yeah, how could that be?”

Even if I let them in, in the first place, entering the emperor’s room recklessly is a felony. It was a problem that could lead to extinction according to imperial law.

It’s just that the dragon is too selfish.

‘Yes, if you’re strong, you’ll do it.’

Thinking so, I touched my temple, but Regan asked quite seriously.

“Are you not hurt?”

“Are you okay. But for some complicated reason, he figured out that I wasn’t a child. That’s why I tried to tie him up next to me as a half-brother.”

“ah.”

“Because it’s the best excuse to have him tied up next to me. I also pamper and eat.”

“Pamper it… … .”

“Anyway, prepare another room next to Lerhagen-nim’s room. Because the number of military family has increased.”

“All right.”

Regan made a grim face. However, he soon lost his expression and handed me the bundle of papers he had been holding in his arms earlier.

“This is the summoning order for the meeting to be held at noon today.”

On the paper, there was something to be announced regarding the matter of His Majesty the Emperor and the successor, so it was written to order an urgent convocation. After confirming that there was no problem with the content, he nodded.

“The faces of the nobles are clear before my eyes. Go on like this. I need to wash up first.”

“I will ask Sela to wait on you.”

“No, this is definitely the emperor’s room. It is strange that there is no emperor. All the more so if no one saw the Emperor leave this room.”

“Are you okay by yourself?”

“What are you looking at me for? How many years have you lived without a lady-in-waiting?”

Naturally, no one wanted to wait on the princess, who was hated by the emperor.

The person who was forced to wait on me according to the order did his job just enough to not be punished, and I, who noticed them, naturally developed a habit of doing anything myself.

Knowing this, Regan slightly hardened his mouth uncharacteristically, and then spoke again while hesitating.

“Then I will ask you to serve breakfast.”

“okay.”

* * *

After washing up, Regan must have left breakfast and her dress on the table.

After a light breakfast and changing clothes, I took a deep breath and reached out my hand.

[Mellieus Viet (Marionette).]

Just because I became a princess doesn’t solve everything. Estria still needed to stay healthy in front of the nobles, and even had to walk around as normal.

The best way to do that is puppetry.

It was different from the offensive or defensive magic I often used, but it wasn’t that difficult if I handled magic delicately.

Soon, a familiar In-Young slowly appeared along with the magic circle.

Tall, slender body, white face.

As I watched a familiar figure appear before my eyes, I lowered my gaze and opened my mouth.

“You are the ‘Emperor of Estria’ from now on. talk like me, act like me Instead, don’t think about it.”

When the doll starts to think, it becomes difficult. Since no two souls can exist in this world, once the doll has thoughts, the doll will replace me as Estria.

Of course, I die.

‘I won’t let that happen.’

Not long after, the ‘doll’ opened its eyes. My doll has the same face as mine, but without a soul.

She made a face satisfied with the cold air flowing from her eyes, but then a voice came from behind.

“Puppetry. It’s fun.”

I said I got used to it to some extent, but was it my mistake?

I flinched at the sudden sound and turned my head. Sure enough, Lerhagen was sitting on the windowsill just like yesterday.

“You are here.”

“Didn’t you ask me to come today?”

“I thought you wouldn’t come because you disappeared so arbitrarily last night.”

Of course, one of the terms of our deal was that he would do his duty as my father, so he had to come.

However, when I thought about what happened last night, it seemed that he looked down on me as the emperor, so he only looked at me sarcastically out of embarrassment.

Perhaps recognizing that, Lerhagen turned his head.

“You have a troubled face.”

“Heartache!”

“Is it still because you gave the wrong coordinates?”

“There is that, and you left without even answering me properly.”

“ah.”

I clicked my tongue at Lerhagen’s attitude.

Even my heat against that dragon seemed ridiculous now.

I crossed my arms and asked him.

“Tell me, did you do that on purpose?”

“well.”

“I want to have Hasis next to me and act like a servant, but I didn’t allow it, so it’s because?

“…….”

Although he didn’t answer, there was an affirmative answer on his face as he looked down at me with his mouth closed.

I shook my head as if I knew that.

Until yesterday, I had been a little afraid of him, but now even that fear has been replaced by anger and absurdity.

“You are really selfish.”

“I am like that.”

“That’s not bragging.”

“But it is true that you benefited from it. Eyes that see the truth, if used well, are medicine.”

“It’s not wrong, but it’s definitely against the summoning conditions for a strange person to come into my room in the middle of the night and expose my identity.”

“So you said you would listen to your request? Stop nagging me.”

“no, I do not want to. And a request is a request, and what is wrong is wrong.”

No matter who heard it, my words were almost forced. Even so, he spoke confidently, but for some reason, at that moment, a faint smile appeared on Lerhagen’s lips.

‘uh?’

I opened my eyes wide, wondering if I was seeing it wrong. But then, with a knock, Regan entered the room.

“Your Majesty, your time is up.”

Regan hesitated when he saw me in the room, the ‘doll’ in front of me, and Lerhagen on the windowsill.

However, as befits my aide, he immediately captured his expression.

“The senate has been summoned.”

“good. Lerhagen, let’s go.”

“Should I go too?”

“Of course. Because that’s what I came for in the first place.”

Soon, the ‘doll’ rose up with my instructions. Following him, I left the room and stared at my room through the crack in the closed door.

and-.

bang.

The door is closed.

* * *

I’m not proud of it, but I, who had enjoyed the suffering of the Senate for a long time, was living the happiest moment of my life.

“Lung, Your Majesty, what the hell is this?”

As soon as they showed up in the audience room following the ‘doll’, they looked shocked, but they looked as if they were about to collapse when Lerhagen appeared relaxed as if they were at home.