novelraw Chapter 289
Chapter 289
289~ Something's Off!~
"Mo, don't worry. I'll protect you."
"Alright, alright! Stop being so cheesy!"
She was really about to die from the cheese!
No matter what, this honeymoon plan simply wasn't something she could resist. As soon as she said she was unwilling, the Empress would come over and pour toxic chicken soup into her.
Of course she knew her Father the King had been working hard to clear her name, but the problem was she was currently extremely disappointed with Glaze Nation and simply didn't want to go back.
She didn't want to face that kind of gaze from the world, treating her as a freak. She'd clearly given so much for them, yet became the object of everyone's fear and rejection.
The more she thought about these things, the less she wanted to go back. The less she wanted to go back, the more the Empress poured toxic chicken soup into her. The more toxic chicken soup was poured into her, the more she recalled these things......
And so a wonderful cycle began.
"It's alright, Mo. Just properly enjoy the ease of sailing at sea."
While speaking, the Empress had already pulled out a swimsuit from somewhere and put it on, then tossed one to the Little Princess.
And so, the Little Princess's current outfit became: upper body wearing a swimsuit covering the entire key area, then semi-transparent silk fabric from the swimsuit's tail end, that is, the lower chest area, covering all the way to the lower abdomen. The lower body was a pair of plain blue and white striped triangle swim bottoms. Different from normal ones, the blue and white striped triangle swim bottoms had a hole cut in the back for her to let out her cat tail.
"......"
The Empress definitely already knew, right!?
Now, without even needing to verify, she could already guess the Empress absolutely knew something! And it was that secret she'd been hiding!
"I feel like something's still missing."
The Empress looked the Little Princess's current outfit up and down, still not very satisfied.
After thinking carefully, she pulled out a ribbon from somewhere and tied a bow on the Little Princess's cat tail.
"Wuu meow......"
She only felt her cat tail was like it was restrained, very uncomfortable.
"Perfect!"
Little Princess: Summer Cat Girl Limited Edition!!!
To prevent anyone along the coast from being able to see the current Little Princess through some means, she even specially arranged an additional Concealment Magic on the ship. Unless you were an Archmage-level mage, there was no way to see this ship from shore.
Mm, the Little Princess's shy appearance could only be seen by her!
And the Little Princess hiding under the sun umbrella, lying on the lounge chair like a real cat, had already become completely numb.
Whatever the Empress wanted to do was fine. In any case, she couldn't resist. Better to just not resist at all. Saving some energy would be more comfortable.
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"Your Majesty?"
"Your Majesty is currently out on vacation with Mo."
"Vacation!? When?"
"Yesterday."
The maid Xiao Bai held the still-unconscious girl in her hand. She was about to go numb.
She'd hauled the City Lord manor's young lady, Evelina, back from neighboring Suxing City, preparing to report the situation to the Empress. Yet the Empress had already gone on vacation with Princess Mo?
And in the entire Imperial Palace, the only person currently left with authority was actually just Xiyan alone?
"Well, not exactly. There's also part of the Scarlet Maid Corps......"
This part of members was responsible for maintaining the Imperial Palace's operations when the Empress, Maid Ling, and Red Leaf were all absent.
Maid Ling and Red Leaf went out to conduct the Great Purge. The Empress and Little Princess went out on vacation. Then who would review the memorials?
Of course, it was the many maids in the Scarlet Maid Corps specifically responsible for this area! Their duties were basically to filter out unimportant memorials. Those requiring the Empress's approval were kept. Those not very important, they approved. Then those completely unimportant could be directly handed to the Council.
"Then I'll leave her to you. You must keep a close watch before Her Majesty and Princess Mo return."
"She is......?"
"Suxing City's City Lord manor's young lady, Evelina."
Evelina!!!
She knew about this! Before she'd been recruited by the Empress into the Scarlet Maid Corps and became the Little Princess's personal maid, she'd once met Suxing City's City Lord manor's young lady.
Reportedly, she was a young generation member with extremely outstanding abilities, the young lady most likely to inherit the City Lord position!
However, being brought to the Scarlet Imperial Palace now, had something happened?
"Suxing City's City Lord has already been executed on the spot by Lady Ling."
"Eh!!!???"
The City Lord was executed on the spot? Didn't Lady Ling not have the qualifications to execute a City Lord? Shouldn't he be brought back to Scarlet City to be personally executed by Her Majesty?
"Suxing City's City Lord manor harbored remnants of the previous dynasty and continuously sent them resources. The crime is already sufficient."
Ling was the Great Purge's head person in charge, and was personally appointed by Her Majesty. As long as an appropriate crime was found, even Scarlet Army generals could be directly executed.
"Mmm......"
She didn't understand what crimes Xiao Bai was talking about. After all, she was just a little maid and simply wouldn't come into contact with these things.
Seeing Xiyan still had a bewildered expression, Xiao Bai simply gave up on explaining. She tossed Evelina to Xiyan and directly left.
This trip, she was just ordered to bring back Evelina, who'd executed the sinner who secretly communicated with remnants of the previous dynasty, and deliver her to Princess Mo. After the handover, she still had to go back and continue investigating the private networks of various nobles. She didn't have so much time to waste here.
Since Princess Mo wasn't here, directly handing her to Xiyan, who was Princess Mo's personal maid, was the same.
In any case, just get Evelina settled properly!
"Then I won't disturb you, Lady Xiyan."
"Oh, oh!"
Lady Xiyan was always this adorably silly...... Being carefree was truly nice.
It was probably precisely because of this kind of personality that Her Majesty arranged her by Princess Mo's side, right?
She also didn't know how Her Majesty and Princess Mo's honeymoon was going.
After thinking for a bit, she shook her head.
Now wasn't the time to think about these things. It was time to go back and continue working.
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Several days later, somewhere on the sea surface.
"How much longer do we have to drift at sea?"
The Little Princess propped up her chin, turning toward the Empress to ask.
"Soon."
In the distance, Glaze Nation's border could already be faintly seen. Estimating based on the current speed, it would probably be evening when they could make landfall.
"Mm......"
The Little Princess boredly swayed her glass. Inside the glass was orange juice.
Having drifted at sea for two days, no matter how big this ship was, no matter how many entertainment facilities there were, she'd still feel bored.
The main thing was still the lack of electronic devices! No way to go online and play games!
If she were given a phone and internet, plus sufficient battery power, these past few days would definitely have been comfortable!
But reality was there simply weren't any of these things belonging to the modern era. All there was was the Empress treating her as a dress-up doll every day.
Ascetic cat girl loli, summer swimsuit cat girl loli, wedding dress cat girl loli, semi-transparent gauze dress tempting cat girl loli...... Basically all types of clothes had been tried on once! And the further it went, the more off those trial clothes became. By the end, even the parts that should be covered were semi-transparent!
She knew it! Saying they were coming out on vacation to play, but actually, the one being played with was her!!!