quarter past two
[Ines, Zhan Xinan:
The flowers in Ypres must be blooming again at this time. I wonder if you can see them when you are in the palace?
I don't think you can see it, the distance is too far, and the flowers you like are planted in the valley.
Last time I heard from you that you can walk like a human being and have become the Queen of Solomon's Empire. I am very proud of you, but I wonder if your tail still hurts after being cut? Will the cut ear fins leave scars?
Hope all is well with you.
——Love you Dexter]
In the palace of Kasai, the capital of the Solomon Empire, Ines, dressed in a gorgeous dress, carefully blew the ink dry, folded it and put it in an envelope, stamped it with wax and sealed it, then folded the letter and placed it on the table, pretending that she had just read it.
She took out another piece of letter paper, stood up with the help of the maid, and rubbed her neck.
Ines no longer had the light red, transparent, thin ear fins like cicada wings that glowed in the dim light, and she also lost her deep red fish tail that was as gorgeous as coral. Instead, she grew human legs and became like a normal human.
After [Dextal]'s death, Inès, who lost her godfather, was no longer the spoiled princess who did whatever she wanted.
She became a rare species to be watched, and after people got tired of watching her, Emperor Bitteray II ordered her tail and fins to be cut off, turning her into a lowly foreign livestock.
There were no beautiful clothes, no gems to play with, no delicious food, and no clean pool built specifically for her. Inès was soaked in dirty water, kept in a wooden barrel, and locked up with those rare and precious animals that others had given her.
Those smelly chickens and monkeys reminded her again and again that she had nothing, and even the slaves who she had killed at will in the past could look down on her.
Later, Inès became the queen of Solomon's Empire because of her beauty.
She had become in line with the aesthetics of the times. Her enthusiastic and lively face had become pale and lifeless, and the healthy blush on her cheeks had turned into a sickly pale color. The healthy body that she had cultivated at Dexstall's place had become much thinner.
Her dull red hair was tied up in a high bun, smeared with sticky, fishy lard to keep it in shape. She also carried many odds and ends to ensure the queen's luxury, which made her neck so sore that she could hardly raise her head.
The corset is so tight that it makes it hard to breathe.
Inès waved away the maid, touched her belly, sat down again, bit the tip of the pen and thought for a while, then continued to write her reply.
[Dear Dexter,
It has been two years and three months since you left. But I am glad to hear from you again. Please don't worry about me. It doesn't hurt anymore.
But I think, when this is over, I will go back to the valley of Ypres because I miss you so much.]
The words that Dexter had asked Ines to learn, but which she had not learned well because of her playfulness, were now so proficient that she could write complete letters one after another. She tried to express herself in a detailed way and continued:
[As for my situation, please do not worry. Emperor Bitre II likes to eat lampreys very much. I heard you say that a king once died from eating this, so I advised him to eat more, preferably raw, so that the meat is more delicious.
He was a stupid guy. All of Silver Lord's followers were so stupid. The more they believed, the stupider they became. Those lampreys were still alive when he swallowed them. They would probably bite his stomach and suck his blood dry. If this continued, he might die in a few months at most.
But if he died too soon, before I could give birth to an heir, the situation would become extremely dangerous.
You should know that nobles like him always have promiscuous relationships with the emperor, and seem to be infected with diseases, and are not very good at this. For this reason, I and many other nobles have participated in many gatherings, and usually summon some clean and young men. Now he is pregnant with an heir, and when the emperor dies, his bloodline will definitely be pure.
Of course, I have already executed all the brothers who are related to the emperor by blood, so it will not affect my plan.
I think you hope that I am pregnant with a girl. I think so too. However, only boys can inherit the throne. If it is not a boy, I can only secretly replace it and hold a boy.
Regardless of whether he is my child or not, while he is still young, I can take power in the name of his mother. When he grows up a little and I have completely taken control of the power of the Solomon Empire, I will kill him, and then the Solomon Empire will be completely mine.
I hope you will come back after I have completely taken control of the Solomon Empire. I will have this filthy place torn down and a palace rebuilt the way you like it.]
Before she finished writing, she heard a series of hurried footsteps. Her personal maid rushed in, holding up her skirt, "Your Highness! It's bad! The body of the Duke of Dextal..."
"What?" Ines glanced at the maid, who immediately lowered her head in fear.
"You said that we should preserve the Duke's body intact. Even though the Duke's body never decayed, we kept it in the underground ice cellar. But the Holy Temple suddenly said that the infection that the Duke had spread and the things that he taught his cavalrymen came from the devil. They wanted to take away the Duke's body for research... and then... purify it with holy fire..."
Bang!
Before the maid finished her words, the furious Ines raised her hand and whipped the maid, leaving her face covered in blood. "Idiot! Why didn't you stop them? And let them desecrate Dextal's body and disturb his sleep!"
The maid's face was covered with tears. She knelt down immediately without caring about the injuries she had sustained. "Your Highness, please forgive me! I can't hold it..."
——Peng!
"Waste!" Ines was so angry that she grabbed a vase on the desk and smashed it on the maid's head.
The precious porcelain from the East was smashed into pieces, and the painted patterns were scattered all over the ground in shapeless shapes.
Blood flowed from the maid's head. She felt dizzy and tried to control herself and crawled on the ground. She didn't want to raise her ugly face and anger Queen Inès again. She trembled and said, "... Please forgive me, Your Highness..."
Ines stood up from the chair, kicked the maid contemptuously, and laughed angrily, "How can they be called researchers? They are plotting to take away Dextal's power. Moreover, now that Dextal's body is in their hands, they can do whatever they want with it, as it is the power of the devil. In the end, it will become a means to attack me, right?
Did you wait until they were all here before informing me? Don't think I don't know what you evil people are up to... you are all the same kind of people."
Where she couldn't see, the maid's pupils widened and her whole body couldn't help but tremble.
Ines sneered and squinted her eyes to look at the maid. Her cold and intimidating feeling was somewhat similar to Wu Ci. "Since you can't do it well, then don't do it. I hope the craftsman can make a beautiful human skin chair tomorrow morning. Go there by yourself and don't delay the working time.
Remember that your parents and sister still have to live, don't do anything stupid... Of course, even if you don't want them, you can't escape from this Kasai City."
"...Yes, thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty."
The maid staggered out of the hall.
At some point, a black knight who had been waiting at the door walked in with a knight's sword with a guard handle, and his iron boots made a dull sound as they stepped on the carpet.
"Ines, this isn't necessary, is it?"
The black knight took off his sealed black heavy metal helmet, revealing the ranger's increasingly mature face.
"You are overstepping your bounds, Isaac. I am the queen, and I saved your life. What right do you have to meddle in my affairs?"
Ines snorted coldly, "A human who looked down on me deliberately allowed Dextal's body to be desecrated by a group of even more disgusting guys, and thought I didn't know and came to tell me at this time.
Do I still want to worship her? In the past, I would have had her limbs chopped off and put her into a wooden barrel full of spikes and rolled into the sea snake trench. "
The Ranger waved his hands helplessly, and finally revealed a bit of his old familiar nonchalance, "Okay, I won't tell you. What are you going to do with Dextal's body?"
"How many new puppet knights has the temple created?" Ines asked.
"I don't know, but it takes half a year to make a batch of these knights. Dextal and I took all the special spirit stones away before. According to actual calculations, there should be no more than 500 puppet knights in the temple now. But it is still a lot. These knights are completely different from ordinary knights."
"I will immediately contact those nobles who have many cavalrymen and fill in all those troops to get Dextal back. You are ready to take over those cavalrymen."
The knight frowned, "Will those nobles who only care about their own interests agree? Ines, what a man says in bed is useless."
Ines sneered and raised her chin proudly. "Of course it's because of this disgusting human bastard in my belly. Those nobles think that this little bastard is theirs. You know, Isaac, they dream of letting their heir sit on the throne of Solomon's Empire and make their family 'glorious'... Threaten them with this little bastard, and they will agree."
"What if it's not? What if they doubt it's their child?"
"There are no ifs and wherefores," Ines interrupted him irritably. "With so many people around, how could I know who this bastard belongs to? It doesn't matter who it belongs to. Anyway, this bastard is a disgusting shame to me. Whenever I think of him, I think of what you humans have done to me.
Anyway...I just had to do this to this bastard for the sake of my rights. If Dextal was still here, he would never let me suffer this kind of injustice.
That's it, Isaac, don't think I can't do it. If Dextal were here, he would definitely ask me to kill this shame."
Inès held her sick cheeks in her hands cruelly and neurotically, "If those nobles disagree, I will dig out this bastard, give a hand to this family, a head to that family, and a leg to another family... I believe those unformed baby limbs are enough to make them regret.
Yes... yes... I can do that. I don't lack this child. If I need one again in the future, I can just hold a few more banquets."
"Ines, you are crazy..." the Ranger sighed, "... maybe you were crazy a long time ago, the day you were captured and taken to the palace after he died."
He said nothing more, but put on his heavy helmet again, stepped on the soft carpet with his iron boots, making a silent thud, and left Inès's queen's chamber.
Inès, who was so innocent and arrogant before, fell heavily from a great height. Considering what she had experienced in Kasai, at the hands of the humans who viewed her as foreign livestock, it was probably not surprising that she had done anything, and no one else had the right to judge.
Besides... Inès has already made her own judgment, so he shouldn't say anything more.
The ranger thought: The most important thing now is to bring back Dextal's body, so that no one can desecrate him and accuse Ines and me of unjustified crimes, and let us all go to hell to meet Dextal.
Ah... I guess Dexter will blame me for not taking good care of his goddaughter Ines... and even ask Ines to save my life.
I guess... Dexter will definitely get angry with a smile like he did before.
Thinking of that situation, Youxia couldn't help but laugh.
That's good too.
I'm so sleepy. I'll correct the typos after get off work tomorrow.
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