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

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As soon as he saw Roberto taking care of his wife, Reynolds headed for the emperor’s chambers.

The chair, which was always in front of the table, was unusually placed by the window.

The emperor was looking up at the sky outside the window, leaning on a chair with his skinny body like a bare tree branch.

Inside the room, only one attendant stands against the wall like a shadow.

When Reynolds entered, the attendant bowed silently and then went out.

The door closed quietly, leaving only the two of them in the room.

The emperor asked without looking back at Reynolds.

“Did the child leave?”

“Yes, I just left the prince’s residence.”

The emperor blankly looked at the blue sky. Reynolds ignored the thin moisture in his eyes.

“What about the princesses?”

“I did as you commanded. You won’t be able to hear the words, but you can see them.”

“okay.”

Roberto leaves alone with his wife.

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Due to the abolition of their parents, the princesses, children of Roberto, were also excluded from the Imperial Red Army.

However, princesses occupy an important place in the imperial family. For a princess who has the blood of the imperial family, marriage is an important means of making connections with other countries or families. There is no reason to leak it outside.

For that reason, the princesses of Roberto’s children are left in the imperial palace. Later, the empress or someone else planned to adopt her as a concubine’s child.

It was very likely that Roberto and his wife would never see their daughters in their lifetime.

The fact hurt my heart, so the emperor issued a separate order. Let the princesses wait at the corner of the road where the parents’ carriage passes.

Reynolds lifted a thin blanket from the side of the chair and placed it on the Emperor’s lap.

The emperor, who was still looking at the sky, suddenly opened his mouth.

“Ray, in the distant future, when Rudy takes control of everything and is judged to be out of danger, let him and the princesses meet.”

Reynolds did not answer for a moment.

The previous emperor was not one to say such things.

‘You’ve become weak.’

Had he been an emperor in his youth, he would have stopped making Roberto and the princesses face to face like a knife.

Age and disease eat away at the Emperor.

It was so sad that I felt like crying.

Reynolds knelt beside the chair and looked up at the Emperor’s face.

“Your Majesty, why don’t we meet you even now? Rudi-sama doesn’t have any difficulties with that much. Because Your Majesty and Boris taught you so well. Rudy-sama is just like your Majesty in your youth. Throw it into a storm You’ll get through just fine.”

The emperor, who had raised his head and gazed only at the sky, finally looked at Reynolds.

The moisture that covered his eyes disappeared in an instant, and a bright light poured into him.

“Ray, you think I’m old and weak.”

“Something like that.”

“No, because I think so, I’m trying to appease my feelings. I feel sorry for you, so I recommend you to see your son. How many years have you and I been together? Are you trying to deceive me?”

The emperor continued to speak.

“Think of someone here saying I have lingering feelings for Roberto. I’m obviously taking advantage of him. I look old enough to not even think of that.”

“sorry.”

When Reynolds spoke softly, the emperor smiled.

“Well, I’m not saying it’s wrong. Actually, I must have grown old. I feel sorry for Roberto when I think about it.”

The emperor sighed and looked up at the sky again.

“That’s not necessarily a bad thing, Ray. When you feel sorry for that person, you feel that person’s feelings. Then you see it. How that person will act after this.”

The Emperor’s voice fell.

“Roberto is weak. If someone next to him keeps provoking him, he will drag on even though he thinks no. But if he thinks that he will be able to meet his daughters someday, that will be his support. You can definitely think about the future and calmly quit.”

“Is that why you let me see the princess?”

When Reynolds asked, the emperor gave a small smile.

“It must be half and half. Half of that kind of heart, half of pity. And a little bit of hope that one day, when that happens, Rudy and the child will be able to see the sky and live together.”

After that, the emperor didn’t say anything.

Occasionally press the eyelids with dry fingers.

No tears flowed down his cheeks, but Reynold’s eyes could see that his fingers were slightly wet as they came down.

‘Really, my eyes are still knotholes. Just because Your Majesty is old doesn’t mean you won’t be the emperor.’

Rather, it might be Reynolds himself who has grown old and weak.

Watching the emperor quietly, I gradually felt dazzled.

The bravery of his youth had all but disappeared before he knew it, and the current emperor had surely grown old and shabby.

However, in Reynolds eyes, the emperor looked like a huge, majestically shining old tree.

No matter how desperately you chase, that person’s back is always striding ahead of you.

If you think you’ve caught up now, you’ll drift away again.

Thinking that it would continue until death made my heart dance with joy.

***

[Look west. I may see you again someday.]

That’s all that was written in his father’s letters.

Roberto sat in the carriage and looked at the letter once more.

I don’t know what you mean.

‘Maybe he meant to meet me at least once before he died.’

While thinking about that in a daze, the speed of the carriage that was speeding through the vast space of the imperial palace suddenly slowed down.

smart!

There was a knocking on the wagon.

It seems that the coachman knocked on the window connecting the wagon and the driver’s seat. There was a sound coming from the small window on the driver’s side.

The coachman of the imperial palace rarely did such an act. Maybe it’s when the enemy attacks. It is unusual.

Roberto’s face frowned involuntarily.

There are no servants or maids riding in this carriage. Perhaps because he was in the position of being kicked out, he said it was His Majesty’s order so that only the two of them with his wife could ride.

Roberto had no choice but to speak on his own.

“What’s going on?”

The coachman’s voice was heard through the invisible window.

“This is it. Please look out the window.”

Unsure of what that meant, Roberto opened the window.

there’s nothing.

It was just one of the many roads in the imperial palace as usual.

The coachman’s voice was heard again.

“This is the west window.”

“!”

At that moment, as if struck by lightning, my mind went blank.

‘no way!’

[Look west. I may see you again someday.]

The words written in my father’s letter…

Roberto fell from his chair and opened the window on the other side.

The carriage was passing through one of the many buildings in the imperial palace.

When I open the window, I see the building in the distance.

Several people were standing in front of the building.

The still young princesses are embraced by their nanny and attendants.

“Madam! Madame! Look over there.”

He forcibly grabbed the hand of his wife, who was still lying on the chair and weeping, and brought her to the window.

A scream-like sound bursts out of the wife’s mouth, not knowing what it was.

Roberto wrapped his arms around his wife’s shoulders and looked out the window.

[Father, mother!]

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Daughters are calling

His voice was not audible, but he was shouting with his mouth wide open.

I thought I’d never see you again.

The princesses who are inheriting the lineage of the imperial family are the means of politics. They were beings that would one day be used as arranged marriages.

So Roberto tried hard not to think in that direction.

just gave up

I thought there was no way my father, who puts the country first, would give it up, so I gave up from the beginning. But…

As the carriage slowed down and passed slowly, the daughters gradually moved away.

Children big and small were waving their hands and crying.

[I’ll see you again someday.]

Those words were deeply embedded in my heart.

***

As night fell, Rudy headed for the emperor’s bedroom.

Since he has officially received the title of duke, today he will engrave the successor crest on his body.

The chamberlain led the way and suddenly looked back.

“Your Highness the Duke, have you decided what to do with Mama Nadia?”

“yet.”

When Rudy spoke briefly, the chamberlain smiled.

“If you decide, please tell us at any time. We have prepared not only extensions and building repairs, but also the lady-in-waiting who serves Mama as soon as you say so.”

“Yeah, got it.”

Reynolds said no more.

The shadows of the two sway wildly in the hallway and walk along the body.

Rudy sighed lightly.

upset stomach

Whenever he treated the attendants as arrogantly and coldly as he wanted them to, he felt more punished than satisfied with the increase of his authority.

However, these people beg to be treated more coldly and calmly. And they lowered their waists and treated Rudy politely.

They worry that others will look down on Rudy because he is young.

People tend to determine value by seeing how others treat others.

It is difficult to ask for it from the nobles, no, the emperor is asking for it.

Rudy smiled bitterly.

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During the conferment ceremony, there were a few people who especially had low backs to Rudy. I heard that they are from a family closely related to the imperial family.

I didn’t realize it at first, but I quickly realized that they were listening to orders, not from the emperor.

‘There’s no need to be so impatient.’

Rudy smirked, shrugging his shoulders a little.

The fact that the emperor might die at any moment is what makes the emperor himself and his attendants anxious.

He thought that if the protective shield called the emperor disappeared, Rudy, who was still young, might be in danger. They don’t know Rudy’s abilities yet.

The magic of this world is only focused on making magic tools. I’ve been out and exploring for years, but I’ve never seen or heard of anyone making demonic creatures.

So, the emperor knew that Rudy had a lot of magical powers and that he knew how to see magic ceremonies because he had the Correa crest, but he hadn’t even guessed that he could not only understand the meaning of magic rites, but also do other things.

‘how will we do it. Should I tell you?’

If you don’t know the ability of this side at all, you might make a wrong plan. Rather, it might be a good idea to reveal some of your abilities to the emperor.

But on the other hand, he was reluctant. The ability that no one understands will strike fear in people.

Fear can be a power that dominates people, but at the same time it is a cause of being ostracized. It is a double-edged sword.

With Rudy unable to make up his mind, the figure of the escort began to appear in the distance. They are guards guarding the bedroom of the emperor.

The door opened behind the guard, who stood quietly like a well-crafted stone statue.

The emperor was sitting on a chair placed in the center.

He held out his skinny hand to him.

“Come here.”

A smile appeared on Rudy’s thinned face as he moved closer.

“Did you have fun with Lilitha?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. The princess was lovely as ever.”

The Emperor chuckles and laughs.

“You’ve become good at empty talk about women, too. I heard you stuck like a frog?”

This time a smile appeared on Rudy’s face.

“That part is cute, Your Majesty. If Princess Lilitha had become a calm and beautiful girl like the other princesses, she wouldn’t have been lovable.”

“Your senses are strange.”

When the emperor beckoned the chamberlain, he brought a small, beautifully crafted silver box.

The chamberlain politely set the box down on the table and opened the lid.

A needle with a handle was placed there.

“The procedure for carving the heir’s coat of arms is almost the same for any family. Rudi, take a good look at it and memorize it, and do the same when you have a crown prince in the future.”

“yes.”

The emperor nodded and held out his hand, and the chamberlain pricked a needle in his finger and drew a few drops of blood.

The blood drips onto the surface of the signet ring worn on the other hand.

A few drops of blood spilled over the entire surface of the signet ring.

After that, the chamberlain pulled Rudi’s clothes up to reveal her stomach.

“It doesn’t matter if you put it anywhere. But in case something happens that you shouldn’t reveal your identity, I engrave it in an inconspicuous place. Usually it’s around the belly button.”

The emperor spoke quietly and placed the signet ring near Rudi’s stomach.

“If the place where you put the sentence overlaps, the engraved sentence later moves to the side and comes to mind.”

The emperor pressed the signet ring firmly against his skin and uttered an incantation.

“Connect the traces of blood!”

Maybe it’s because the ring is small, so there’s not enough space to engrave the magic formula. Unlike the others, ordering is simple.

At the same time as the magic spell, the ring shone softly, and the same sentence as the seal appeared on the skin.

The emperor opened his clothes and showed his stomach.

“Compare yours with mine.”

The two crests have the same shape, but Rudy’s only has a line drawn on it. On the other hand, the emperor’s coat of arms is colored.

“All family crests are like this. The head of the family is filled with color, and the heir is drawn only with lines without color. When the head of the family dies, the color of the heir is filled.”

The emperor smiled and continued.

“Remember. The moment the crest on your stomach is filled with color is the time I died.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The emperor looks tired and closes his eyes.

Rudy made up his mind and opened his mouth.

“I have one thing to tell you.”

＜I’ll see you again someday＞

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sorry. The publication time has not been set.

For the time being, I will upload it in the morning before 12:00 noon and try to fix it when the pattern is settled.

11/22 Fixed a typo. thank you

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