novelraw Chapter 110
Chapter 110
110~ The Scarlet Phoenix Nation's Runaway Imperial Consort (2)~
"Zzz..."
"Your Highness?"
Awakened from sleep, the little Princess somewhat dissatisfiedly propped herself up.
"What?"
"The soldiers outside are searching for you..."
Her brain, which had just booted up not long ago, became instantly alert upon receiving this news.
Carefully parting the bamboo curtain, there were indeed a group of soldiers outside searching. However, she was somewhat curious.
"If that's the case, then why didn't you expose my location?"
The little Princess looked at the tailor lady meaningfully and asked.
"Well..."
The young woman's evasive gaze made her somewhat helpless.
This tailor lady not exposing her location clearly had ulterior motives, but what those motives were, she didn't know.
As expected, outside she still couldn't trust people.
"Alright, alright. If you don't want to say, forget it. If you're short on money, just ask me for it."
She wasn't lacking money. She still had the over one hundred gold coins the Empress gave her previously. Currently for her, as long as it was a problem that could be solved with money, it wasn't a problem.
What she was worried about was that the city gate exit very likely would be strictly inspected due to the Empress ordering a search for her. She didn't know magic. It would be very difficult for her alone to leave the city.
At this time, she needed someone who could take her to climb over the city wall and jump down while remaining safe. But the problem was she fundamentally didn't know anyone, let alone someone who could take her climbing up the city wall and jumping down while remaining unharmed.
This should be impossible for anyone except mages to accomplish, right?
"So is Your Highness troubled? Troubled about leaving the city?"
"Mm, sort of."
The little Princess propped up her chin.
In any case, this tailor lady also couldn't possibly make any move threatening her safety, so she was quite at ease.
Unless one didn't want their life anymore, or had some tremendous grudge with their family and wanted to use the Emperor's hands to take revenge, they wouldn't lay hands on her.
The Empress was very protective of her own. This point was clear throughout the entire nation from top to bottom. She was the Empress's reverse scale. No one dared touch her.
"Then tell me, what method do you have?"
"I think Your Highness could try figuring out the sewer system. The sewers extend in all directions. There are several passages that can exit the city."
The little Princess thought about it. This was indeed a good suggestion, but the problem was if she had to enter the sewers, that would be no different from killing her.
Sewers bred many bacteria, viruses, and such. The reason she rarely got sick after coming to the Scarlet Phoenix Nation was also because the Empress used Purification Magic on her on time every day. But now it was different. After leaving the Empress's side, she was very easily infected by bacteria or viruses. Entering the sewers, she'd probably have symptoms before long.
Being born with an immune system deficiency wasn't just talk. If infected by that kind of highly toxic virus, even using modern medical equipment to treat her, it would be very difficult to guarantee safety.
Of course, magic was an exception. Magic was still too much of a cheat, belonging to that kind of thing science fundamentally couldn't explain clearly.
The little Princess shook her head, vetoing the tailor lady's suggestion.
So to leave the city, currently the best method was to rely on disguise to fool those soldiers.
"Can you do makeup?"
"Huh? Makeup?"
The tailor lady immediately revealed a sweet and innocent expression.
What the heck is makeup? Why does Your Highness think she can do makeup?
"Forget it, forget it."
At a glance, she also wasn't someone who knew the four great evil arts.
"Then you go rest first. If someone comes to question you, just say you haven't seen me. I won't shortchange you on money when the time comes."
"Okay..."
The tailor lady left the room. The little Princess temporarily couldn't sleep anymore either.
Outside they were going door to door questioning. How could she sleep?
However, at least she could confirm the Empress couldn't directly pinpoint her location anymore. This point was really great!
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"Your Majesty..."
"What is it? Speak."
"I think Your Majesty may have done a bit too much."
Such a large-scale search and dispatching additional guards to watch the city gates, doing it this way fundamentally left no opportunity to secretly slip out.
"If she can't escape even like this, then Mo might as well stay by my side forever."
Not using magic to directly locate her was already quite good. She even gave the little Princess a chance to escape.
Although she didn't know what means the little Princess used to invalidate the magic she'd originally used to locate her position, wanting to relocate her wasn't particularly difficult either.
There was still her residual magic power on the little Princess's body.
"..."
Since the Empress had already said this much, she couldn't say anything more. She could only handle things according to the Empress's wishes.
"But what about Your Majesty's attitude toward Glaze Nation?"
"Keep it unchanged. Also help me arrange an itinerary to visit Glaze Nation, preferably after Mo returns to Glaze Nation on her own."
This trip wasn't to capture the little Princess and bring her back, just purely a visit, incidentally expressing the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's attitude toward Glaze Nation to let the little Princess see.
"Also prepare to receive the equipment provided by Glaze Nation, then head north to first take down Chang'an Nation."
The target wasn't Northern Radiance Nation that the little Princess initially pointed out, but Chang'an Nation which was more toward the south. She herself deduced a bit. Chang'an Nation was easier to take down than Northern Radiance Nation. Although the geographical position wasn't as superior, attacking Chang'an Nation was also good.
"Yes, I'll go notify them immediately."
Only the Empress remained in the Council Hall, gazing in the little Princess's direction, spacing out alone.
With the little Princess not by her side, she finally felt unaccustomed. If it were usually at this time when feeling bored, she could completely call the little Princess over to sit in her lap for a hug. But now she couldn't.
A bird trapped in a cage ultimately still wanted freedom. Her own state also wasn't suitable for keeping the little Princess by her side anymore. She might as well directly release this bird longing for freedom to fly out. But whether she'd be captured and returned to the cage would depend on herself.
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Time came to the next day. The little Princess gradually awakened from sleep. After rubbing her eyes, she pulled open the bamboo curtain to observe the situation outside.
After a night of questioning and searching, the soldiers outside didn't find anyone. They directly began patrolling. Whenever they saw suspicious people, they had to step forward to stop and check them.
"Your Highness? May I come in?"
"Come in."
This was clearly the tailor lady's home, yet she still had to ask her opinion before daring to enter. It was probably because of her identity.
"This is breakfast I made. It might not compare to what Your Highness usually eats, but if you don't mind, you can eat some to fill your stomach before making plans."
The little Princess took the porridge, eating slowly in small bites and chewing carefully. Eating breakfast too quickly in the morning wasn't good. It somewhat hurt the stomach.
However, in the tailor lady's eyes, this series of actions by the little Princess looked like slowly savoring.
Clearly as a princess of Glaze Nation, enjoying delicacies from land and sea every day since birth, yet eating this common people's food without any pickiness at all...
The little Princess's image underwent some subtle changes in her heart.