novelraw Chapter 48
Chapter 48
48~ Past~
What exactly should she do...
The little Princess propped up her cheeks, completely not knowing what to do one month later to escape unscathed.
"Your Highness, Your Highness~"
The little loli maid Xiyan tugged at her clothes.
"What are you worrying about?"
"Nothing, just thinking about some unimportant things."
She couldn't exactly say she was thinking about how to avoid having her first blood taken by the Empress one month later, right? Children weren't suitable to hear these things...
"If Your Highness has something unhappy, you can say it out loud."
"Mm... thank you."
As expected, the little loli maid was still so good at caring for people. Unfortunately, right now she seemed to have no solution. There was only the path of accepting reality to choose...
"Your Highness, Your Highness~ Let's go play? Her Majesty the Empress specially permitted me to take you out to play. She said as long as we return before sunset, it's fine."
"Take me out... to play?"
Did the Empress have a change of heart? She actually permitted the little loli maid to take her out to play?
Logically speaking, this shouldn't be right. How could the Empress casually let this little loli maid take her out to play? There must definitely be some conspiracy in this plan!
Last time when she let her go out alone, although the Empress didn't say it and she didn't pay too much attention, Maid Ling definitely secretly followed behind to ensure her safety. After she returned to the palace, when Ling came to receive her, there were still some bloodstains on the hem of Ling's skirt...
Could it be that she wanted to fish again?
The little Princess felt it was somewhat possible. The Empress could always think of some methods of casting a long line to fish out a few nobles who didn't know death was near. Last time when she let her go out to play and the time before that at the banquet, she caught some.
However, this seemed to have nothing to do with her. If the Empress caught fish, it also had nothing to do with her. It wouldn't affect her in any way. Since she said to let Xiyan take her out to play, then let's go. Going out to relax her mood was also good.
"Then shall we go?"
The little loli maid held the little Princess's hand excitedly.
Why so excited? Because she also hadn't left the palace for a while. This time leaving the palace was a rare opportunity. Moreover, it was going out to play together with Princess Mo!
"Wait a moment. Go back to the bedchamber to get something first."
The Magic Storage Ring was still under the pillow. Inside there was still money left over from before that she hadn't used up!
After all, even if it was an alternate world, it was still very realistic. Without money, it was fundamentally difficult to move a single step. If she used force, she might be thrown into prison before long. The patrol corps not only had ordinary soldiers, they would also be equipped with a certain number of mages to deal with different situations.
After taking the Magic Storage Ring, she suddenly remembered something.
"Wait a moment. I need to go find Fei."
"Eh eh?"
She had just come from Her Majesty the Empress!
The little Princess pushed open the door. The Empress seemed to have been waiting inside for a long time, just waiting for her to come.
"What's wrong? Not going out to play with Xiyan?"
"You would just so easily let me go out?"
The Empress smiled without speaking. The expression on her face was enough to explain everything.
"Forget it. Help me remove the collar. Oh right, do you have a way to make others not recognize me?"
The little Princess went straight to the point. Anyway, asking the Empress what exactly her purpose was would either result in not answering her or directly deflecting.
"What do you want to use it for?"
"At the general's funeral that day, the entire nation recognized me. When going out to play, I don't want to deliberately lower my status because others recognize me."
She still wanted to play outside normally! She didn't want to receive any special treatment or attention because of the status of "Scarlet Phoenix Nation Imperial Family Member." She wanted to try the experience of an ordinary person going out shopping. It had already been almost twenty years...
"Granted."
The Empress removed the collar from her neck. Incidentally, she took out a necklace from the drawer and placed it on the little Princess's neck.
"The magic added to this necklace can interfere with the perception of people without magic power. They'll only regard you as an ordinary little girl. How about it, satisfied?"
"Can't this interfere with those with magic power together?"
"Of course. The prerequisite is that you have sufficient magic power to provide the necklace's magic. Then you can interfere with mages, even Great Archmages."
The Empress propped up her chin and smiled.
Regarding this necklace, she hadn't said everything, only said a part of it. As for the remaining part, she didn't plan to say it and couldn't possibly tell the little Princess.
The little Princess swallowed.
This was definitely a test! A test of her! If she used this necklace to try to escape, she would most likely die miserably...
Although the Empress had been very good to her recently, the essence was still unchanged. She was still that Empress with extremely strong possessiveness, an Empress who couldn't tolerate her pet escaping.
This necklace, she absolutely couldn't overly depend on it! Also absolutely couldn't try to use it to escape. The Empress definitely did some measures on this, measures to find this necklace!
"Go play. Have fun, Mo."
"Okay, okay..."
Whether she had fun or not aside, anyway after the Empress did this, her good mood today ended here.
Intuition told her the Empress giving her this necklace absolutely wasn't so simple.
"Let's go, sigh..."
The little Princess proactively held the little loli maid Xiyan's little hand.
Xiyan: "!!!"
Mo, Princess Mo proactively held my hand!
Excited heart, trembling hands. Her little heart was already pounding "thump thump thump" wildly, as if about to jump out.
......
"Your Highness, where are we going to play?"
Just after exiting the Imperial City gate, the little loli maid Xiyan seemed full of curiosity about everything, looking left and looking right, the vivid image of a country bumpkin coming from the countryside.
"How about asking someone?"
"Eh? Your Highness doesn't know the way?"
"I thought you knew..."
Mo: "......"
Xiyan: "......"
After the two looked at each other, both were speechless.
"Your Highness, you... never came out before? Always stayed in the palace?"
"Only came out once."
That meant before this, Princess Mo always lived in the palace?
In Xiyan's mind, she had already imagined countless versions of the little Princess never having seen the outside world due to the Empress's strict protection.
Wuu wuu wuu! Princess Mo is too pitiful! I must definitely give Princess Mo an unforgettable memory!
"Then why isn't Xiyan familiar? Weren't you just recruited into the Imperial Maid Corps recently?"
"Well, that's because I'm not from here. I came from another city. I'm not very familiar with this place. I came here and was recruited into the palace after just two days..."
"I see."
It seemed quite reasonable, but thinking carefully, it seemed not very reasonable. What about her family? They actually let such a tiny little loli travel who knows how far to come to another city?
When the little Princess asked about her family, Xiyan said only she remained in her family. At the same time, she became dejected at a speed visible to the naked eye.
So this little loli maid who smiled cheerfully all day also had a sad past unknown to others?
The little Princess was silent for a long time before barely squeezing out a sentence:
"It's okay. At least you're living happily right now, aren't you?"
Feeling the little Princess's little hand stroking the top of her head, the little loli maid Xiyan nodded:
"Yes, with Your Highness here, Xiyan is very happy~"