I quickly accepted Merwin’s words and responded.
“Ah… Actually, that’s why I wanted to talk about it.”
“It looks like it hasn’t improved yet.”
Mawyn looked at my thighs and said worriedly.
After asking Mawyn, who was leaving for the North, if there was anyone else suffering from a disease that made them fear their own bodies, he tried to find a way to do it in his own way.
Of course, no solution was found.
I sighed and nodded.
“But now, if I try hard, I can at least try my hand at it.”
“It’s like a trauma, so it won’t get better easily.”
“Thank you for telling me it was a trauma.”
Other people just laugh it off. As expected, Maewin is kind.
Seeing the corners of my mouth slowly rising, Mawyn raised his head with a straight face.
“It’s a trauma. I must have been so surprised. If I thought about something while holding my thigh, it would come true… If it were me, I would have wanted to cut my thigh out.”
“Oh, no. Not to that extent.”
“Lady Sebes said no, but from what I see, this appears to be one of the traumas caused by the war.”
is it.
I never thought that the war with Heaven had left any scars on me, but listening to Maewin’s words, it seemed like it did.
Maewin seriously held my hand and expressed his opinion.
“Originally, a doctor would have to rush in to treat the pain of a knight who fought on the battlefield… but the fact that things are not going well is heartbreaking to the point where I want to cut out my heart.”
“……What did you always like to cut out so much?”
… … Mewyn, you seem to have become a bit rough.
However, Mewin, who lowered his eyebrows and sighed, was still cute, so I smiled and scratched his cheek.
okay. Now that I’m the Duke of the North, what’s wrong with being a little rough?
“Anyway, it’s good that the duke is worried. The captain of Herta….”
“Did you call me?!”
Is that a tiger?
When I turned around, I saw a woman who seemed to be getting thicker and thicker, walking briskly.
He was the captain of Hertha.
Herta, who made a remarkable contribution in the war, was appointed general, but he stubbornly refused the title, saying that he still liked hanging out with new soldiers in the field.
As a result, the recruits’ cries grew louder, and Hertha’s muscles grew proportionally.
Well, it seems like he’s becoming a monster every day.
“Oh, our Empress. Are you here because you want to be trained after a long time?”
I couldn’t hold back and shouted at Hertha’s greeting.
“She’s not the empress yet!”
Hertha have been really good at teasing me lately.
Herta usually never used honorifics, but her attitude changed recently when Klaus started to tease me.
She looked at me with coy eyes and called me empress.
Anyone who watched Hertha for even a day could tell that this expression did not contain the slightest hint of respect or awe.
If I were to interpret Herta’s true meaning in calling me empress, it would be as follows.
‘Klaus likes you a lot?’
And it was obvious that when she became the real empress, she would be called Elena again!
Herta, seeing me disgusted, burst into laughter and then gave me a coy look again.
“Your Majesty is gnashing his teeth to make you empress as soon as he becomes emperor, but why not empress?”
It was like that.
It was because of Klaus that Hertha started teasing me like this in the first place.
Klaus was very upset, saying he would nominate me as empress.
Herta’s expression was purified, and to be more precise, she was planning to make me an empress before she became emperor.
Herta was teasing me by calling me empress, but there was no need to say more since the subjects passing by me were wondering what to call me.
“That’s because your highness is the type of person who, once you’re hooked, needs to see the end to loosen up. I don’t plan on becoming an empress.”
Hertha responded to my explanation, which I repeated countless times.
“Anyway, now that I become empress, I have to use the honorific language too, right?”
“Captain, be honest. You don’t listen to me, do you?”
“It’s good to have an empress, but the honorific terms are uncomfortable.”
No. Isn’t this a monologue or something?
Mewin, listening to this conversation between me and Herta, put his hand to his mouth and laughed.
“Hoho. You two have always been close.”
Does this look familiar, Maewin? He’s not listening to me at all right now?
But I knew very well that saying that meant nothing.
I know that’s Hertha’s expression of affection.
But it’s also a bit embarrassing to hear what Klaus is doing for me through someone else’s mouth.
“Do you know how much your Majesty works hard for the Empress, Peria?”
“Oh, I just recently came to the capital so I don’t know much.”
“Not long ago, he pulled out his sword to cut off the heads of nobles. He even dared to call Elena Sebes’ name in front of him.”
“Oh, so you stopped him well?”
“No? Why should I stop you?”
… … okay. Play well among yourselves.
As I watched Herta happily recounting the many crazy things Klaus had done for me and Mewin listening with interest, repeating ‘Oh my’ to every word Herta said, I just looked away.
right. Now that I think about it, they turned out to be a much better fit than I thought.
“Ah, but why did you come here, Elena?”
After chatting for a while, Herta asked me with a more refreshed face whether I felt refreshed.
I’m asking this too early.
I sighed and asked Hertha a question.
“Hey, boss.”
“huh?”
“You know I still can’t touch your thighs, right?”
“Oh, is that still like that?”
At first, I had no intention of telling Herta about my concerns, but she managed to steal what I was talking about to Maewin earlier.
Anyway, Ogam was a good person.
‘… … The problem is that they don’t come up with a proper answer.’
As I looked at Herta with a distraught face, she patted her chest and spoke confidently.
“You asked me to leave it to you? Where did you learn that, shock lumbar spine?”
what?
“…Shock therapy.”
“Ah, yes. Anyway, they say that if you give it a big shock, it will get better.”
Herta’s eyes were filled with madness as she said that.
Can this be expressed in other words than madness?
I took a step back and protested slightly.
“I’m going to hit you on the thigh.”
“They say it has to be shocking.”
When this person trains his muscles, his brain must also do strength training.
Otherwise, there would be no way for the human brain to be so full of muscles.
It was clear that if I got hit in the thigh by that person’s fist, I would experience other trauma.
Is it a normal human way of thinking to create new trauma in order to eliminate trauma?
I smiled awkwardly at Herta, who was clenching his fists, and carefully stepped back.
“Then, Lady Maewyn. Have a happy time in the capital.”
At the same time, Hertha shouted and chased after me.
“Peria, catch Elena!”
“yes!”
“no!”
I activated Herta-style evasion technique No. 382 and ran forward, screaming loudly.
Herta’s faithful disciple, Mewin, followed Herta’s words and ran after me. Herta’s eyes lit up and she galloped across the training ground faster than a famous horse.
The sight of two people running after me through the training ground was scarier than any scene in a horror movie.
“……Heo-eok, heo-eok.”
After running for a while and escaping from the clutches of Herta and Merwin, I took a deep breath in a corner of the deserted garden.
My heart was pounding like it was going to explode.
If you tell Herta one more time that you are worried about your thighs, they will replace you with mechanical thighs.
‘… … For Hertha, it might be so.’
Would I be happy if I just replaced my thighs?
‘Oh, is this a good technique? ‘Can’t I strengthen my arms with this too?’
It was obvious that he would say such crazy things. Hertha’s voice seemed to auto-play within her brain.
okay. Herta’s favorite movie is probably Terminator X.
If it was possible to transform one’s entire body into a machine and become stronger, Hertha would definitely give up their soul.
I am a fool, I am a fool, for trying to consult Herta about my concerns.
“Oh, I’m really dying….”
It was time to go back to the room with a sore and tired body.
“Lady Sebes?”
I looked up to hear a familiar clear and sonorous voice calling me.
Standing in front of me was Rinoa, an attractive woman with rosy red hair.
Rather than the fancy dress she was accustomed to, Rinoa was wearing the navy blue pants uniform worn by members of the Western Guard.
After living in the capital and seeing noble ladies in dresses for a while, Rinoa’s pantsuit suddenly felt awkward.
Still, Rinoa pulls off everything stylishly.
Rinoa, wearing a white shirt with one button undone and dark blue pants with a loose fit, didn’t seem strange even if she was from a pictorial for a Hyundai magazine.
“It’s been a while, Rinoa.”
When I greeted her in a tired voice, Rinoa raised her eyebrows and tilted her head as if she was troubled.
“What happened? Your face is red.”
“Rinoa.”
I was instantly moved by the worried voice.
Wow, look at this. After all, people who are called social queens are different?
Who has been able to put me in the right mood like this? There was only Rinoa!
I was in tears and hurriedly approached Rinoa.
Seeing me like that, Rinoa rolled her eyes as if thinking about something, then clapped her hands and gave an answer.
“Are you still worried about your thighs?”
“yes.”
As expected, he is quick-witted. Once a social queen, always a social queen.
I sighed lightly and nodded.
“I thought it would get better soon, but there is no progress.”
Rinoa looked up at me and took out a crumpled piece of paper from her back pocket.
Then he handed me a piece of paper with something written on it in neat handwriting.
“What’s this?”
