"Yes, learned it by heart." Replied Aryan.

The room and the atmosphere were somewhat getting awkward. Sage Empress was as calm as a river and Aryan was as calm as Mother Nature. The talk came to an end abruptly and the room became silent again. No one was there to break the silence. After enduring the silent atmosphere for some more time Aryan couldn't take it anymore and blurted out something that he had been tempted to ask, "Yui, give me the report of my current status."

"On it master," replied the Sage Empress and closed the distance between her and Aryan.

Aryan was flabbergasted on hearing her reply and took a step back in astonishment. The way the empress replied to him was the same way in which Aryan's system Yui used to reply to him.

The empress closed the distance between them and stood just a hand distance away from him. As he had undergone double ascension and unlocked dormant powers Aryan's height and physical build was the same as the empress. Or to be precise somewhat taller than the empress.

"Master, you still remember me?" asked the empress in a soft voice. This time before asking she removed the veil on her face and let Aryan see her entire face.

Peeping at this scene from behind the door Nagarin was getting choked while swallowing her saliva. Though she wasn't able to hear their voices, she was clearly able to lip-read her empress's chat.

'Why the hell is she calling her master?' pondered Nagarin. Not only that, many other questions like 'Why did Sen ask her about his current status? And why did the empress remove her veil before a male?' Were some of the questions emerging in her mind.

If it were someone else she would have barged into the room and asked out her doubts without any reservation. But this time the person talking with the empress was a knight of the Yang Emperor. Not only that, but she also remembered how the empress lightly scolded at her sometimes ago. For her rude behavior towards Sen.

While she was contemplating about it the Sage Empress opened her mouth and said something to Sen. Like the previous time this time too she lip-read the conversation between them and suffered the biggest explosion of all time.

"My husband, welcome back to the sage world," was what she understood after lip-reading. And as a matter of fact, her reading was a hundred percent correct and genuine. She indeed said that to Sen.

Upon listening to the word "Husband" Aryan was taken aback. Like Nagarin, Aryan too suffered the biggest explosion of his life, when the empress called him her husband.

The room became silent again, and none of them talked anymore. Aryan was still in a daze after listening to the way the empress addressed him.

And the empress was giving him time to recover and digest the current events.

After gaining back his concentration, Aryan swallowed hard and rubbed his ear vigorously to clean out the dirt out of it.

"Ah, Yui or empress, I should say, what did you call me now?" asked Aryan with confusion.

If he wasn't wrong, he heard her addressing him as her husband. And Aryan had no idea why and how in the world he ended up being her husband. Husband of the Sage Empress!!

"Hehehe, '' laughed the empress, in the same manner, Yui used to laugh, and went near Aryan to give him a hug.

Before Aryan did something he found the empress was already there between his hand and before his chest, embracing him tightly, as he was a long-lost member of his family.

Watching this scene from behind the door, Nagarin was completely dumbfounded by the unexpected turn of events. First, the empress called Sen her husband, and now second, she was in his embrace, and that too from her own violation. Sen hadn't forced her in any way, nor had he cast any hypnotizing magic on her.

"Let me stay like this for some more minutes," asked the empress, and tightened her grip around Aryan.

Till then Aryan was in a daze on what was happening around him and why was the empress acting like that?

Somehow Aryan managed to release himself from the tight grip of the empress and made some distance between them. He was about to ask something when the empress pulled Aryan's body against her chest and shoved her small tongue through the small opening between her lips to explore his mouth.

Sucking and nibbling his lips, she continued to kiss him as he left him shocked from the sudden action of her. Aryan was clearly able to sense the grief in the empress's heart and her longingness of years for him.

He was hesitating whether to comfort her or not, but at last, he gave up before her and kissed her back by entangling his tongue with that of the empress.

Meanwhile Nagarin, her breath had already stopped, her heart wasn't beating anymore, her brain had ceased to work~~

Till some time ago she was of the idea that the empress must have been happy when she saw Aryan the last knight of the Yang Emperor and had erected the barrier to talk some secret stuff privately.

But when she saw her embracing Aryan, then forcefully pushing herself on Aryan and kissing him, she understood there was something beyond her knowledge was going on.

The so-called Sage Empress, the one who doesn't even show her face to ordinary citizens and the one who never gets charmed by any man who was forcing herself on someone and kissing him like there wasn't a tomorrow for them!!

"Wtf is going on here?" she murmured in a low voice.

"No idea."

"I don't know!"

"Should we go in and ask?"

"Ah, isn't it rather rude to do that, dad?"

Nagarin heard such questions from her rear. She abruptly turned around and found the entire Zenzeng family behind her, taking a peek inside of that room.

She was unable to think of anything in that situation and snapped her finger to transfer them all out of that place.

Now Sen's entire family and the Nagarin were standing in a garden, staring at each other with different expressions.

For Nagarin she was quite furious on the entire family, and for the Zenzeng's they had been staring at her with a smile on their faces.

Seeing the Zenzeng's weren't initiating the conversation and giving her a reply for their actions, Nagarin took the chance and asked out the question in anger, "What the hell was your entire family doing there, Mr. Hiroki Zenzeng?"

Grand Elder knitted his eyebrows and asked him back the same question that was thrown upon him by Nagarin.

"What the hell were you doing there, Mrs. Nagarin?" asked Grand Elder in a voice of higher authority.

Seeing the head of the family talking to her, the number one retainer of the Sage Empress, she got quite furious and flipped her not so long hair in the air.

"Head of the family, beware with whom you are talking with?"

Grand Elder was shocked by her sudden change of behaviour and asked her the reason for that. But to his disappointment, the answer he got was, "You lowly vermin of lower ranks. You don't deserve the right to question me back."

Hearing her rude reply, the entire Zenzeng family got enraged and began to release their sage pressure on Nagarin.

During the time of Aryan she was able to endure it for some seconds, but this time she fell down instantly and couldn't even resist their sage force.

The pressure was so powerful that not only Nagarin but the other members of the palace were having a hard time breathing there.

"Who! Who are you all?" asked Nagarin with some difficulty. She was trying her best to overcome the pressure on her by unleashing her own sage energy, but before the tremendous powerhouses before her, she was unable to do so even after trying it out for multiple times.

Since she didn't get any answer, even after asking out the question, she tried to ask again, but this time with a different tone of voice.

"Vermins, release me once and I will chop you all down into pieces. Don't you know who am I? I am the number one retainer of the sage empress!!"

This time Grand Elder was the one who got more pissed by listening to her repetitive insults and applied more pressure on her.

Nagarin coughed up blood and began to lose her consciousness.

She was about to faint from losing too much of her blood and continuous sage pressure on her when she heard an answer from the Grand Elder.

"You little vermin of the soil, don't you know with whom you are talking with?"

Nagarin "…"

Till some minute ago Grand Elder was keeping his cool and kept on enduring her insults. But after calling him vermin again and again, he got pissed off…...