Is this why Persilion’s suddenly disappeared in the second half of the novel?
What is this? Was it supposed to be like this?!
I lamented that the author left no possibility of the ship between Princess Cheryl and Emperor Persillion sailing, but you couldn’t show up just because you became a little boy?!
I wanted to shout at the original author to come out immediately because it totally felt unfair, but this is not the right time to do that. In the meantime, my eyes began to shake like a belly dancer..
Even then, the Emperor still looked at me. He put one arm on the chair and the other on his chin, which clearly portraits his arrogance, but the problem was that he looked cute.
Persilion was clearly a handsome man as portrayed in the novel.
But his little version was really fatally cute.
“You don’t know?”
And in another sense, it was deadly.
Persilion pointed at me with his small hand and commanded, and the knight standing next to him immediately pulled the sword out of his sword.
I shouted, inhaling my breath.
“Oh, no, no, no!”
“No?”
“I’ll figure out right now how to get rid of Your Majesty’s curse! Just give me some time!”
At my urgent cry, Persilion stopped the guard and reached out one hand.
I was puzzled as to why he lifted his fingers and soon found signing the number five.
Oh, you mean time?
As soon as I thought, “Five weeks? Five days? Five hours?” Persillion folded his thumb
Five seconds!
“Wait, wait, wait, wait!”
In the meantime, it was reduced to three. I screamed and uttered words right away.
When a human being is in danger, their instinct to survive is maximized, and their unexpected wit spills out.
“You have to stay with me!”
“……What?”
“I can’t figure out exactly what the terrible accident happened to your Majesty right now, but it’s probably a curse! I can tell with the power of my prophecy is what it truly is but I can only find the clues of the curse only when I’m next to you!”
“Curse… How did you know it was a curse?”
Persilion’s eyes narrowed when I tried calling it a curse, but fortunately it truly seemed to be a curse so he has no reason to believe I’m lying.
He recognized it in his own way and listened to my story, whether he had concluded that it was a curse or not, and I emphasized in front of him why I had to “live” next to him.
“There is a very devious group of men who seek you!”
“…..The recent movement of the aristocracy faction is suspicious, Your Majesty.”
Just in time, the guard next to me gave me strength. Although he was a determined man who didn’t even respond to my elegant full name a little while ago, he continued to talk rather bluntly, raising my respect for him.
“You have to stay with me until you finally can break the curse from the wicked crowd. It takes days, so the exact duration is unknown, but you have to keep me alive. The harder it is to solve, the nearer the solution is. Only by looking I can find the answer!”
“Are you sure your aren’t lying? How am I to believe you?”
“Didn’t you hear rumors about the Prophet Leafy and called me? Your Majesty’s situation is deemed urgent enough to find a street Prophet. If your Majesty had any problems, he would’ve already visited the palace first or at least the priests of the temple but he called me with the as a way of catching straws* because he could not solve the situation.”1
(T/N : To make a desperate attempt at a bad situation.)
I peeked at Persilion’s eyes, which continued to become fiercer as I continued.
My heart skipped a beat when he made a face looking like a baby at the topic in hand. As expected, tyrants are different from normal.
In the meantime, Persilion tapped his fingers on the chair. Perhaps all my predictions were correct.
I opened my mouth with a grim look at the thought of taking the decisive blow.
“In fact…… I know what you did with your Majesty, Princess Cheryl, a month ago.”
“What?”
“When Princess Cheryl got on the boat going to the Alliance Kingdom Envoy, you gave her a red bracelet in the cabin in secret even though there was an imperial event. And the Princess gave your Majesty a cuff button as a gift. I knew it earlier, but as a lowly Prophet I couldn’t just blabber about your Majesty’s private life, so I kept it a secret!”
This was a very secret meeting between Emperor Persillion and Princess Cheryl.
Only the guard next to the emperor would know that he went into hiding, and there is no way he would ever leak out of the cabin what gifts he exchanged.
This is because the Persilion’s cherished the cufflinks so much that he couldn’t even use them, so he just kept them.
I remembered exactly this was my favorite episode in the novel. I even knew the conversation.
“Princess Cheryl received a red flower bracelet and said it resembled the eye color of the Emperor. And your majesty said…”
“That’s enough.”
Persilion cut me off. Hey, don’t be shy. I can’t help but memorize that chapter because I’m a person who once shouted “Persicyl! Set sail.”
Because it’s a rare scene between the two and even the last scene together.
Since then, I have been distressed that the two have not met for a while, but I never imagined that the Emperor was cursed.
Suddenly saddened by the unexpected story, Persilion looked down at me.
There was still a subtle suspicion on his face, but at the same time, he was curious about how I know even the conversation they had.
“You know the scene as clearly as you’ve seen it.”
“Yes, indeed, most of my prophecies are from the scenes that pops into my head!”
Persilion smiled lightly at my words. Looking at that smile, I was confident that I would survive. If you won’t let me survive hen what’s the reason of laughing like that?!
As my expression grew more and more filled with joy, he called me.
“……Yes, yes! Your Majesty’s solution is here!”
“Then what do you see in the future when you survive and I return to my original self?”
“That’s, uh, not yet….”
“Not yet?”
“I can’t see anything about it just yet. It’s all Black”
Persilion grinned. “If you take a long time to see the scene, your future will also turn Black.”1
***
Fortunately, I survived.
I thought I’d die as soon as I was dragged to the Imperial Palace, but after a dramatic survival interrogation I survived.
I never felt the joy of meeting my favorite character in the novel. In fact, from the first impression, my life was almost blown by the little boy’s gesture, so I had to think that he had risen to being the existence of fear.
The man next to the Emperor was his immediate Escort, Millard, and he was the only one who knew the current Emperor’s condition.
I was assigned a room right next to the emperor’s bedroom, where I heard the details from Millard.
It has been ten days since the Emperor became young. As I expected, even they brought in the Imperial Palace’s doctor and priest to see his condition no one found a solution.
On their way out of the reception room, they reportedly ate a food that removes memories from the last two hours.
The Ekehardt Empire had wizards, but they did not enter the Imperial City. For this reason, the simplest reason is that the wizard does not have memory removing drugs, but there was a more complicated reason.
First of all, Persilion de Ekehardt knew how to use magic. Since then, he is a great wizard who is said to be the best in the country, but he is cursed, so it will not solve the condition if he is seen by other wizards.
In addition, all the wizards of the empire were living in the Pagoda, the pagoda was currently in the hands of Grand Duke Difke.
(T/N : Bish, translator translated the pagoda as Horse tower tf)
In other words, it was obvious that the news that the Emperor had become young came into the ear of the Grand Duke when he soon as showed up at the state of the Emperor with a Wizard belonging to the tower.
Furthermore, it was necessary to pay more attention to the fact that perhaps there is a possibility that the Emperor himself was behind the incident of his youth.
“Your majesty has become younger, and magic has become obsolete. Your Majesty had said that he could not awaken back at the time when he was four years old, so he could not use magic.”
“When did awaken his magic?”
“He said he was nine.”
“Five more years of being magic-less until you reach nine years old, you’ll never be able to do that. I’m here to prevent such a terrible disaster!”
As I clenched my fist and shouted in response, Millard’s eyes trembled even more, but in the end, he sighed and continued to explain.
“The Tower and the Great Duke are most suspicious, but perhaps they don’t know the curse because they’ve been silent for 10 days and haven’t moved. When you put a curse on someone, but then you don’t know when or how it’s going to come out.”
Millard shook his head. How is the state affairs going to be resolved? However, the aristocrats suddenly canceled all the official schedules that were scheduled, and the aristocrats began to embrace one by one.
“It’s been 10 days since I was silenced, and I’m slowly telling you this. As Miss Leafy knows, His Majesty has had quite a few enemies.”
Millard called me ‘Miss Leafy’ ever since Persilion put me next to me as a his back-up, or, Yes, as a Prophet. I Kindly reminded him of my graceful full name, but he didn’t even hear it and called me Leafy.
A
nyway, the story that the Emperor had many enemies meant that he had countless enemies intuitively.
The reason why he was notorious as a tyrant was actually because of the disturbance during his ascension to the throne.
Persilion was taken to the throne after killing all four his brothers and sisters. The Emperor suddenly bleeds and his heart stopped, causing him to die. At that time, there were countless rumors about the Sun Emperor and the mighty Persilion.
A blood-stained crown. That was another word for the current Ekehardt who ascended at 21.
Therefore, Persilion has no one to trust in the Imperial City and the nobles are keeping the imperial power in check, so it is natural that he does not want to be seen by anyone in his younger state.
“Your Majesty said that there will be a clue in the imperial city. Since a long time ago, he said that he could not be cursed unless someone has prepared it. Maybe there is something that amplifies the effect of the curse hidden somewhere in the imperial city.”
“I’ll have to find it!”
“Yes. Can you see where it is?”
“……Bird, black, black, black, black, black. -Huh, I can’t see an inch ahead!”
I tried to answer the surprise question, but I didn’t show off as much as possible. He shook his head with a deep sigh while I was pretending to stutter that caused his eyes to narrow.
Fortunately for the past three months, Millard has fallen for it.
“First, I plan to inform the public that your Majesty has gone on vacation. That’s how we’re buy time to find things.”
All of a sudden, I was forced to do the Imperial Palace Treasure Hunt quest.
The reward for success is life, and the penalty for failure is life.
***