The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

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11/12 Rudy is a co-emperor in the capacity of the princess’s husband.

＜ One autumn day when I was 7 years old ＞

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Time passed in an instant while going back and forth between the office, the training ground, and the mansion.

Snow falls even in the Empire, but it rarely piles up to the waist. It hadn’t rained so much since Rudy came here.

However, on the first day of the new year, when I turned 7, it snowed as if the sky had fallen. It was to the point of thinking that no one would be able to move at this rate.

On the day when the snow covered the whole world and the world turned white, Rudy grew one year older with the princess in the mansion.

Marie declared that she would not age because she was a slave, and her nanny said that she would not age because she was still a woman.

Nadia Mama was rarely sane.

He smiled at Princess Lilitha and said she was a pretty child, but he was confused about how old he was. She ate the age of last year once again this year.

The age was wrong, the nanny did not correct it. You just got one year older, congratulations, he said.

In a warm atmosphere, Rudy and the women had a modest New Year’s celebration.

Last year, barely out of desperate poverty, I couldn’t even think of celebrating.

This year is much richer thanks to Marie.

On the table, chickens and ducks that had been playing in the garden were caught and roasted whole, cheese made from goat’s milk and oven-baked bread were placed on the table.

Rabbits also played a part. It was stewed with dried herbs grown in the back of the mansion to make a soup.

People who have not experienced it do not know how grateful they are for the environment where they can catch chickens, ducks and rabbits. It is such a thankful thing that tears come out of seven-year-old Rudy’s eyes.

At first, it was difficult because the number of livestock did not increase at all. Most of the chicks born in difficult times were caught by mice and eaten up to the bones without leaving a single feather.

The chick, which was alive and well until yesterday, leaves only a few drops of blood and disappears without a trace the next day.

Princess Lilitha cried while calling the chicks, and Marie and the nanny were furious.

So was the rabbit.

Since the firebird was suitable for researching magic tools with Rudy even at night, it was not in a situation to properly block mice in the early days.

The number of livestock increased to a certain extent and it became possible to eat them.

This year’s New Year’s table was supplemented with small gifts from housekeepers.

For example, snacks that are popular in the city, candied fruits that seem to have been secretly stole by the attendant who delivers snacks to the office, fine wine, things like that.

The women were very happy.

The table for Bhimama was set separately, but the seat of the princess was with Rudy and others.

Princess Rilisha picked up a snack and stuffed it into her mouth before everyone was seated, and was caught by her nanny. Of course, the princess was scolded for saying blah blah blah.

“Lou… Lou…”

Lilitha calls him and cries while hiding behind his back. Do you think it’s like a princess to eat sweets while crying?

Rudy, who was stuck in the middle, also thought it was okay to eat snacks before eating, but when he saw the princess eating snacks, the words came to his mind.

It was because they looked so happy when they puffed out their cheeks and ate snacks. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen someone laugh while crying in real life.

It was a noisy New Year.

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The nanny must have been a bit sad that Mama Nadia was not invited to the New Year’s banquet this year.

Later, I was crying silently by myself.

It is unclear whether the reason why she was not called was because she thought Bhimama’s mental side was unstable or because the emperor’s interest was in the empress.

However, people had heard that the relationship between the empress and the emperor was unprecedentedly friendly.

In fact, the empress had visited several times when Rudy was in his office, and the relationship between the two seemed very peaceful.

Thanks to that, the bullying towards Nadia Mama also stopped for a while.

The laundry came to be delivered a little more often, and the amount of food and supplies that came to the mansion was somewhat larger.

Surprisingly, a little after the New Year, another fire magic tool was sent, which had not even been exchanged for several years.

I heard that a lady-in-waiting with magic tools came when Rudy was gone. It is said that the nanny welcomed the lady-in-waiting, but she just sent it back.

I’ve lived without magic stones for a long time, so I’m used to starting a fire with firewood.

As a nanny, she seems to have bluntly spit out her unfair feelings, but it is a foolish thing to do.

Seven-year-old Rudy has to go out now…

But for some reason, the nanny seems to think that Rudy will live here instead of Prince Enrico.

A few days later, a mountain of firewood, soaked in water due to bullying, arrived.

Unlike the ones made by Rudy, the heat magic tools used in the imperial palace do not have a very large flame. It was convenient to carry only one small magic tool, but to heat the mansion, you had to use firewood as an aid.

For that reason, even if you prepare firewood before winter, you have to supplement it once or twice every two months. Most of the concubines are like that.

Firewood is not only used in the middle of winter.

Because the wind blows in from the walls of the building, we had to cut firewood continuously from fall to early spring.

If you can’t use fire magic tools, you often use them to heat bath water or cook food even in midsummer. It would have been difficult if I really couldn’t use magic tools.

The nanny was angry with her cheeks trembling, but she was self-sufficient. It would have been better if the lady-in-waiting had quietly received the magic tool when she presented it.

It would have been possible to fully guess that his response would receive that much, or even more, retaliation.

It’s not likely that the empress gave instructions every time, but the court ladies who harassed them must have adjusted the degree according to their master’s mood.

If the empress was in a bad mood because the emperor didn’t visit her, it wasn’t enough to wet the firewood. I got into a much more difficult situation.

Can I leave the mansion, leaving these people behind? Involuntarily, a sigh came out in succession. I’m really worried.

Rudy brushed his hair.

It’s useless to groan over something that can’t be helped. If you can’t avoid going out, you have no choice but to prepare hard.

Rudy had been preparing to move out of this mansion step by step since last fall.

The most troublesome thing was the problem of supplementing the mana to the magic stone. If you don’t have confidence, you won’t be able to use heating or water in the mansion.

There was no well nearby, so if the empress’s ladies-in-waiting interfered with bringing water, it would be a truly miserable life.

Still, if you’re in a hurry, it’s a law that works. After many trials and errors, he finally found a way to replenish his mana.

It pours its own magic power over the body of a demonic creature. And to have the demonic creature transfer its magic to the magic stone or the same demonic creature that Rudi pointed out.

Since the demonic creatures don’t have a lot of magic power, you have to repeat the same thing several times using this method.

maybe instead It didn’t matter much if Rudy and the mansion were far apart.

The movement of the disembodied demon creature was quite fast, so it moved from one side to another in an instant.

In the future, even if Rudy can’t approach the mansion and is away, he will do his job well enough.

Even if they leave this mansion at any time, the lives of the women living in this mansion will not go back to their miserable ways.

The worst was averted. There are still a lot of problems, but the most important one has been solved. Thinking like that made me feel a little better.

Besides, while working in the emperor’s office, it seems that he finally got a sense of how to live in this world and in the imperial palace.

Even when she entered the imperial palace, this world was too unfamiliar.

In fact, people are dying in front of our eyes, and slaves openly exist at the bottom of society.

I fell into a world where people were treated worse than dogs and pigs, and I didn’t know what to do. I was at a loss, and whenever my identity was revealed, I felt uneasy every second of every hour.

Even the emperor, who is said to be the most powerful person in the imperial palace, is a madman who gives a knife to a child who has just turned five and tells him to kill people.

There was also a precarious mother and daughter who seemed like they would collapse and die at any moment if they didn’t have their young self.

It felt like standing on a thin thread and doing acrobatics with a handstand.

However, when I worked in the emperor’s office, I somehow lost my pulse. Here, too, there was nothing different from Earth’s work life.

Although it is a world where you become crocodile food if you fall off the tightrope, a familiar society unfolds in front of you, where you just have to work hard, build relationships with colleagues, and pay attention to your superiors.

I was relieved that I could do this.

Even because he is young, his work is easy, and almost everyone in the office treats him favorably. I think it might be easier than Earth. It felt like life on Earth was only now barely helpful.

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The slave trader’s visit, which he had previously applied for, was still not granted even after the New Year and towards the end of winter.

I even thought that Buradov might have forgotten. As I was thinking about whether it would be a good idea to ask, I heard that the emperor had not allowed it. It seemed that he was reluctant to stand out in the eyes of the empress.

Inevitably, Rudy used all the cheap magic stone necklaces he had and installed heating and CCTV throughout the mansion.

If something happens when you’re not confident, you have to deal with it using demonic creatures. CCTV was prepared for such a time.

The work of creating demonic creatures to transfer mana continued at the same time. I had to pay enough attention to creating the monsters.

If the creature’s body is large or if the original name has a huge setting like a phoenix, the magic power used will increase.

So, all the monsters placed in the mansion were small and insignificant.

Squirrels, sparrows, parrots, ladybugs, mice…

It fills the inside and outside of the mansion with small and large monsters.

If it was the same distance as the imperial palace or city, they would go back and forth between Rudy and this mansion in an instant.

Some of the demonic creatures were planned to be used to transfer magic to the magic stone, and some were just to be used to protect the people of this mansion by receiving magic from Rudy.

‘Yes, that’s all right. With this, I can protect it no matter what happens.’

Perhaps because of that, there might be someone from the imperial palace who thought it was strange. In that case, there was a possibility that the fact that he possessed magical powers and that he had the power to create demonic creatures would be discovered.

Why was there no hesitation?

I thought and thought about it several times, but the conclusion was the same. The face of the princess who completely trusted herself blinked in front of her eyes, smiling brightly.

It seems that once people take responsibility for something, they eventually go all the way. The child has become attached. Can not help it.

A person’s life is something that cannot come back once it crosses over to the other world.

I decided that if there is someone I need to protect, I should do my best even if it is a little overworked.

I protect the women in this mansion.

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During my free time in the middle of the night, whenever I had time, I called out the monsters one by one and talked to them or sent them a message.

It is also important to share sympathy when creating a creature. If you don’t do it right, there will be a situation where you can’t use it at the most important time.

Rudy often talked with even a single bug on the palm of his hand.

When he came to his senses, his surroundings were crowded with small light-emitting demon creatures, and later he was confused about how many he had created.

Spring came while I was spending time going back and forth between the emperor’s office and mansion.

In the meantime, most of the Dicoquaria rebellion had been suppressed. A neighboring country gave some money, but that was the only support.

Since the aristocrat who was the leader of the rebels was famous for his bad politics, it seems that the reaction of the people of Dikoquaria was just that.

Without proper soldiers or a central point, the rebels smoked here and there and gradually faded away.

At the end of the road from spring to summer, all the heads of the rebels were decapitated and their heads hung at the gates.

Having served the emperor for a while only in the office, as the summer deepened, he came to attend occasionally when the emperor went to other places.

As each month passed, I clenched my fists, wondering if they were telling me to leave, but the order to leave seldom came.

Just when I wondered if I would be able to stay in the mansion for a few more years, an order came to Rudy.

Rudi, the golden slave, was told to leave the concubine and move next to the emperor’s bed.

It was just the beginning of autumn.

＜ One autumn day when I was 7 years old ＞ End