Chapter 9

Episode 9: I’ll Help You

Kailos finally took me to the emperor.

He, who said from the beginning that I was bait to catch the emperor, was a terribly cruel man. Standing upright next to him, I thought I was not much different.

The emperor came out with a distorted face in shock and looked at Kailos alternately. Then, he soon burst into laughter as if he had given up.

“That’s a relief.”

At that moment, Kailos’ eyebrows wriggled and moved. The emperor has been an incomprehensible person to me since the moment I first met him. I couldn’t hold back my curiosity and asked, “What?”

To my question, the emperor replied in a peaceful voice.

“My brother won’t kill you.”

It was strange, I was choked up and saddened by the words.

“Aren’t you angry at me?”

“If I’m not angry, that’s a lie, but now what’s the point of considering it?”

“But there’s still you who will cry for me.”

The Emperor’s eyes looking at me still contained affection. The strongest man on the continent who could win even if hundreds of soldiers rushed at once lost everything because of me. Nevertheless, he was still saying that he loved me.

“Stop.”

A hard voice came out and the Emperor stopped talking. Kailos took a step and blocked my view.

“Stop consoling yourself, brother. This was a doll made for you from the beginning, these tears are just cheap sympathy.”

“Let’s go back, Chloe.”

Turning away from the emperor, he hugged my shoulder. Finally, I wanted to look back on the emperor once more, but I couldn’t because of Kailos’ hands that wrapped me tightly.

I missed Estelle. Several days have already passed since Kailos promised to bring me Estelle.

“When can I meet Estelle?”

Kailos glanced down at me and frowned. With his lips shut coldly, he seemed to have no intention of answering, my stomach was burning.

“The day you promised has passed.”

“I still have a lot to finish, so I can’t pay attention to that, so please wait a little longer.”

After answering coldly, he left me behind. Standing there blankly, I went back to the room alone.

Soon after, Kailos became Emperor as he had hoped. On his coronation day, I watched him from afar.

Standing side by side, he and the woman were a beautiful pair no matter who looked at them. As I was watching, I suddenly had a bad thought in my head.

Me, whom he had only taken in so that he could become emperor. I, who was raised to seduce his brother, but now that my use is over, where will be in the future? The place I’m going back to is…… Where could it be?

The Emperor died, Raymond del Astaroth, the former emperor who fell in love and chose a foolish death.

No matter how long I waited, Estelle didn’t come.

“Uncle.”

“No, Chloe. Now you must call me Your Majesty.”

“Your Majesty.”

Kailos looked down at me with his arms crossed.

“Just call me uncle like before, that’s better.”

“…..Uncle, I miss Estelle.”

“”Are you talking about that again?”

“Where is Estelle? Please return Estelle to me.”

“I’m so tired of it,” he murmured with annoyance.

“I’ve been having a busy time and then with the news that you don’t eat properly, but how can you only ask me about that?”

“Please, Uncle. You promised me, if I wait a little bit, I’ll be able to see Estelle.”

“I don’t understand, what the hell is wrong?”

He, who’d had his back to me, turned and wrapped my emaciated face in one hand in the blink of an eye.

“I’ve never taught you mother’s affection.”

His eyes looked through me as though they were looking at a failed work.

“It was like that then, too. I told you not to have compassion for him, but you eventually cried in front of his death.”

“It’s my fault, Uncle. I’m really sorry, so please, Estelle…….”

“Is his child that precious?”

A cold voice cut off my plea as tears were falling down from my eyes, this was also one of the things he didn’t teach me.

Kailos let go of my face with a bitter smile. I was devastated by Kailos’ appearance of shaking my tears from his hands as if they were dirty.

“Uncle, Estelle is…”

I couldn’t reach him anymore. Leaving me crying and hanging on, Kailos turned away coldly.

Just two months after I didn’t see Estelle, I went crazy,

I woke up in a strange place the next day when I fell asleep after crying every day. The wounds I didn’t know I’d had gradually increased, and my body gradually became thinner. The doctor diagnosed that! had a problem with my mind and became ill.

Perhaps he couldn’t leave me as I was, Kailos eventually brought me into the Imperial palace. He, who didn’t show his appearance when I wanted it so much, came to me daily now.

I was definitely supposed to be happy, but I wasn’t happy at all, he said I looked like a broken doll.

“When in the world will you stop talking about the

child?”

I cried and looked at him. Now he gets angry no matter what I answer, so I was afraid of talking.

He frowned as he saw me speechless. The friendly and gentle Kailos disappeared, leaving only the cold Kailos.

“Do you want me to give you a new kid? Will you stop crying then?”

“Uhh…hik”

It was never what I wanted, I shook my head and stepped back, Kailos smiled coldly at my appearance.

“Okay, Chloe, you need a child.”

After grabbing my waist roughly, he kissed me. Kissing with him was always soft and relaxed, but the one kissing me now seemed like a different person. It was hard to breathe at the hasty kiss.

As I barely pushed him away, I saw him looking down at me with a giggled grin.

“Lovely Chloe, have I said this before? I felt very sorry when I sent you in my brother’s carriage.”

His hand grabbed the back of my neck, which left a scratch. The scratch he left on me did not disappear and remained faint.

“I almost broke my plan, you have no idea how many times I endured, but I don’t have to endure it anymore.”

Kailos, who says so, seemed very different from the man I had ever known.

“…..Do you intend to make me your uncle’s mistress?”

The powerless voice that came out of his mouth after a long time was rough and cracked.

“Why don’t you like it?”

“I thought you’d be happy.”

“Or do you want me to riot to make you Empress like that man?”

Kylos smirked, full of ridicule.

“You’ve changed so much, Chloe. You were a good girl who wasn’t greedy.”

“…..I’m not greedy for anything. Just let me meet Estelle, that’s my only greed.”

Again, his expression hardened.

“I’ll call for you tonight, so get ready.”

He turned around with a cold look, I just sat down and shed tears.

That night, Lord Enoch France came to pick me up. Lord France had an unknown look on his face just like when he first met me long ago, and when I took Kailos’ hand and stepped out of the castle.

“His Majesty is waiting for you.”

The maids who failed to decorate me in the room have been fumbling since an hour ago. Sitting on the bed, I was not in a state to serve the Emperor no matter who looked at me.

Lord France, staring at me without an answer, asked the maids in the room to leave for a while.

“Lady Chloe Garnet.”

A low-pitched voice reverberated through the room. I glanced at him and bit my lips.

“…I’m not going.”

A faint voice came out so thin that even I couldn’t hear it well.

“I don’t want another child, I just want to see Estelle.”

Lord France stood in front of me silently for a long time. At the end of a long silence, he broke the stillness.

“I’ll help you.”

“……?”

I couldn’t understand what he said right away. He, Sir Enoch France, knelt on one knee in front of me and reached out his hand.

“I’ll help you get your child back.”

“Why…”

The question of why he helped me soared to my throat, but I tried hard to swallow it. I thought this might also be kailos’ trap. But Sir France’s expression was serious, and he didn’t seem to deceive me. I held Lord France’s hand.

Walking while holding his hand reminded me of the hard hands that escorted me on behalf of Kailos a long time ago. I walked holding this hand that time too.

Strangely enough, his hands always had the power to end my anxiety. With the strange belief that I would soon meet my Estelle again, my mind became more stable.

“This way.”

He carefully guided me to an abandoned castle behind the imperial palace. The thought of meeting Estelle soon accelerated my heart rate.

“Please wait here for a moment.”

The security was tight. The child of the former emperor was only an illegitimate child who was not recognized, with a mother who had nothing.

Lord France hid me for a while and put the soldiers on guard to sleep, then he led me back into the castle, the old door opened with a creepy sound.