After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 105

105~ Crosser~

So what exactly was going on here?

Xuan continued sensing everything from the outside world. After confirming this time layer had no dangerous factors, she continued sleeping.

She had been awakened by this massive-scale time rule. With the Empress's existence, she didn't need to worry this time layer would have anything that could harm the little Princess.

After reading part of the little Princess's memories, she was still clear about the Empress's current strength. Although rather extreme, she could protect the little Princess well before she recovered to normal from this state requiring long-term hibernation.

At least the main reason was this...

...

"..."

Maid Ling leaned against a tree, looking at the small cabin by the lake.

She could confirm the Empress had brought the little Princess inside. Although she couldn't lock onto the Empress's position, relying on the contract she could still lock onto the little Princess's position. The place where the position sensing finally disappeared was right here.

She of course knew this small wooden cabin. Once upon a time, she too had lived in this place.

"Your Majesty..."

Your Majesty, what exactly do you want to do bringing Princess Mo here?

She couldn't enter the other time layer this small wooden cabin linked to. The result of opening that wooden door was only one: being randomly thrown into a time layer with random timing that could disappear and be destroyed at any moment. The probability of being thrown into the time layer where the Empress and little Princess were located was much smaller than the probability of picking up a dying Lord of Extreme Cold.

This small wooden cabin linked to only two fixed time layers. One was the current time layer. The other was before the founding of Scarlet Radiance Nation...

Of course, the two time layers didn't interfere with each other. Anything done inside wouldn't affect the current time layer.

She didn't dare rashly enter. If she entered a chaotic time layer, she basically would never be able to return.

Finding a tent and some other things from her Magic Space Ring to casually set up, she planned to wait here until the Empress and little Princess returned.

The other time layer...

"What does Mo think of this place?"

"The people here are very carefree."

Giving her a feeling of being completely isolated from the world. Although Scarlet City hadn't been established and Scarlet Radiance Nation hadn't appeared yet, at least this place should still be governed by other countries, right?

"Wait a moment..."

The little Princess's eyes narrowed slightly. She seemed to have seen something incredible...

What was just carried over was... a spinning jenny???

Mo: "???"

Why would a spinning jenny appear in this time period?

After being slightly puzzled, she quickly figured it out. It seemed there was no problem with a spinning jenny appearing? After all, by the time of Scarlet Radiance Nation, things like electronic computers had already appeared...

In other words, transmigrators or crossers appeared before Scarlet Radiance Nation was established?

There were almost no historical records about before Scarlet Radiance Nation's founding, so it couldn't be investigated. But the Empress had now brought her back to the time before Scarlet Radiance Nation was founded...

"What's wrong, Mo?"

"Nothing, nothing..."

She didn't need to deliberately disguise herself, because the Empress knew she understood an enormous amount about some things regarding Scarlet Radiance Nation.

"That's the spinning jenny Mo mentioned to me before."

"Y-yes..."

The little Princess's mouth twitched slightly.

"So doesn't Mo want to find the person who invented these things? She's inside this village."

The Empress's words tempted her like a devil's whisper.

"This is what I spent a lot of time finding. Doesn't Mo always want to find the builder of that underground chamber? Perhaps it's that person, who knows?"

Yes, she really wanted to find that person...

"What do you want?"

The little Princess asked straightforwardly.

Going to such great lengths to do these things, she definitely wanted her to agree to some condition in exchange. Whether it was the Empress in this currently abnormal state or the Empress in her normal state, both were like this.

"I want..."

The Empress whispered a few words by her ear in an extremely faint voice that only the little Princess could hear.

"No! Absolutely not!"

The little Princess refused with a completely flushed face.

This condition absolutely wouldn't work! She wouldn't do it even if beaten to death!

"Then I can't let Mo go over?"

Even after being refused by her, the Empress didn't have even half an appearance of wanting to be angry. Instead, she continued tempting her.

"Mm..."

Although she truly, truly hated the Empress, and she herself was forced by necessity to choose to continue staying in the Scarlet Phoenix Nation, she really, really wanted to meet that person who came from the same world and era as herself...

"How about we both take a step back?"

"Oh?"

The Empress seemed to become interested, indicating the little Princess should continue speaking. She wanted to hear what the little Princess's so-called taking a step back meant.

"Like this, you give a little, at least not like that... then I'll agree. How about it?"

"Like what? If Mo doesn't say it, I won't know."

Mo: "..."

Playing word games with me, huh?

"It's that..."

"That what? Mo, speak up."

The Empress stared at her with a beaming, cunning appearance.

In the end, she still endured the embarrassment and said those few words. The Empress also kept her promise, pointing out which room it was, then released her, letting her go over herself.

She of course wouldn't fear the little Princess would escape. If the little Princess wanted to return to the original time layer, she had to go through that small wooden cabin, and she had to connect to the original time layer.

The little Princess came to the small wooden cabin the Empress pointed out and gently knocked on the door.

"Hello? Sorry to disturb you, is anyone there?"

Somewhat excited, yet somewhat anxiously uneasy. She didn't know what this person from the same world and era as her would be like. A boy or a girl? Seeing her, what expression and action would they make?

After roughly ten-some seconds passed, after she knocked on the wooden door again, the person inside finally responded. It was a girl's voice!

"Coming, coming. Wait a moment."

Accompanying the wooden door opening, she finally saw the person she dreamed of seeing, the person from the same world and era as herself...

"Eh? You are...?"

The girl inside was slightly puzzled. Although the little Princess's attire was very beautiful, it absolutely wasn't something people here could afford to wear. The fabric alone was worth a fortune.

The little Princess froze for a while. Only when the other party touched her forehead did she come back to her senses. Immediately after, she subconsciously blurted out:

"Are you an individual trainee with two and a half years of practice time?"

"Damn, even in another world there are still haters?"

Suddenly, she reacted. How could anyone in another world possibly know this meme?

"You're also a crosser?"

"Uh... should count as one?"

She came to this world when her mother gave birth to her from the womb. She should count as a transmigrator. But calling her a crosser also didn't seem wrong...

"Tsk... Outside isn't suitable for talking. Come inside to talk."

The girl grabbed the little Princess's hand and pulled her inside the room...