***
"...."
For a moment, there was a brief silence in the room.
'She had her child on the verge of her death?'
Theo felt an unknown, terribly strange feeling.
"Don't lie."
"Shall I bring the doctor?"
Ernst's voice as he asked such a question was very serious. It was plain as if there were no lies.
"I have a doctor who examined her pregnancy."
"....."
"On the day that rumors spread inside the Imperial Palace that brother's fiancée was pregnant, I called a doctor to examine Yves, who was not feeling well, and he found out she was pregnant."
If that day...
Wasn't it just three days before Yves's death?
For a moment, a voice whispered in Theo's mind.
[What if I have Your Majesty's child?]
Yves said so...while looking at him with earnest eyes... ... .
'No way. It's not.'
Even though he thought so, he asked.
"The child's father......?"
"Well. Who was it?"
But Ernst asked him a question instead of giving an answer.
After Ernst left, Theodore, who was left alone and his heart started racing.
Thump, Thump, Thump....
Thump, Thump, Thump, Thump...!
He couldn't stand it anymore, so he ran into the bedroom.
There he hugged Yves's cold body, who still didn't look at him.
"Yves, Yves...."
He placed his hand on her flat belly.
A swarm of golden light flowed from his hand, seeping over her belly.
"Yves, it's not true, is it? Yves... . please......."
He mumbled desperately, pouring out his power.
However, no matter how much energy he poured out, he couldn't feel the slightest energy in her belly.
There was no feeling of anything that should have been felt if life had taken place.
"Yeah, that bastard lied."
Theodore chewed the cursing towards Ernst. But his heart, which was still jumping violently, did not stop.
He gradually fell into a fear of the unknown.
"No. I don't think so."
If Ernst's words were true, it would be terrible.
Died while carrying her child to escort the fake pregnant fiancee of the man she loved?
He, of course, didn't even love Katarina, she wasn't his real fiancee, and, moreover, she wasn't pregnant with his own child.
But... the dying Yves didn't know that...
Theodore shook his head vigorously to shake off the horror of climbing on his skin. However, the fear did not go away and he sobbed and begged Yves.
"No, Yves?"
"Tell me it's not true. Say it with your mouth."
"Tell me that bastard Ernst was talking nonsense."
"That dog bastard confuses you with Yvonne, and now he's really crazy."
In the end, Theodore, unaware that it was not Ernst who had gone crazy, but himself, called Yves's name desperately, sinking into endless despair.
"Why, no answer?"
"Yves ..."
"Yves....Yves..."
***
The emperor was crazy. But his personality was still bad. And no one could handle that bad personality.
In the end, it was Armin who came out as the representative.
"Your Majesty, Sir Yves Llewellyn is dead."
Theodore looked at him with fierce eyes at the words Armin had given his life as collateral.
"I know."
"Yes?"
It was Armin who was rather puzzled by the docile admission.
"Well, Your Majesty. Then... "
"I'll save her."
...The emperor was really crazy. Raising the dead was an impossible realm.
However, instead of pointing it out, Armin brought up another issue.
"......okay. Then why not bury Sir Yves's body in the bedroom?"
One of the biggest reasons people mumbled that the emperor was crazy was because of the corpse he had been hugging all day.
But as soon as Armin spoke his words, Theodore was furious with fire.
"now...what do you mean to bury Yves? You want me to bury her in the cold, dark ground?"
"No, Your Majesty. That's not it......"
"I can't just bury Yves there alone."
Theodore said in a determined voice.
"If you don't want to be buried instead, you'd better never say that again."
Theodore's obsession with Yves as if she was a living person made Armin's bones shiver with a chill.
And even scarier than that...... ... Yves Llewellyn's body was never decomposed.
Just like the body of a living person...
However, Armin didn't want to be buried in the ground in place of the dead Yves Llewellyn, so he never brought up the same subject again.
At this rate, he was worried about whether the emperor was really about to do something. However, one day, Yves Llewellyn's body suddenly disappeared. It was the day the emperor visited Ferdinand.
***
Benjamin decided to call Theodore out of the palace in order to destroy Yvonne's scarecrow that Theodore had taken.
To do that, he had to get Yvonne out of the mansion first.
The emperor was a person who had good sense, so if the two of them were in the same room and Yvonne was found alive, it would be very difficult.
Besides, what the emperor showed was undoubtedly an absolute obsession. Towards Yves.
Clearly, it was an obsession that stemmed from affection.
Or, it seemed that love resembled an emotion.
Even though the emperor had lost his memories of half a year, he still liked her and was obsessed with her.
But now was the time to end that stupid obsession.
Benjamin made preparations to welcome Yvonne to the island owned by Ferdinand in the south.
And he took her there.
"Take a break here. I'll bring you back when Emperor Theodore forgets you."
The splendid villa above the sea seemed impossible for anyone to visit.
"Thank you, Benjamin."
While Yvonne looked around the room he had arranged for her, Benjamin said.
"Between friends, that's it."
Benjamin smiled softly at her.
Then he took her hand and escorted her around the island.
"Then I will help protect your family. I will use everything Ferdinand had so that the child is born and grows up safely."
Fortunately, Yvonne accepted his words which would help her until the child grows up.
She wouldn't have had a choice, either, but it worked out well.
When Benjamin glanced at Yvonne's belly, it was a little obvious that she had a child now.
'The child of Emperor Theodore... ... .'
Benjamin clenched his fists and chewed the soft flesh in his mouth.
He has been with Yves for over 10 years.
And six months after losing her, Yvonne was pregnant with someone else.
'How in those six months...'
He wanted to rip and kill the man who had possessed her in only six months of her life.
Benjamin wanted to return the misery he felt to Theodore, but only found that a few words would not discourage Theo.
However, Benjamin has long been a man who knew better than anyone how his opponent will be hit the hardest.
"Rest comfortably. It will definitely take a while."
Benjamin thus left Yvonne on the island and returned to his capital's mansion.
'The purpose of Emperor Theodore's visit to Ferdinand is not just to meet Katarina.'
Benjamin already knew that the two (Theo and Katarina) were plotting something. Stupid Theodore.
Without knowing that Yves Llewellyn was Yvonne Chernicia, he (Theo) just joined hands with Katarina.
He (Theo) didn't even know how much pain and distrust he would have left with her (Yvonne/Yves). Benjamin snorted inwardly at Theodore and began to write a letter.
***
Benjamin Ferdinand sent a letter.
<Katarina has recovered to some extent.
If you come to visit, it will be a great honor not only for Katarina but also for Ferdinand.
Please come to Ferdinand and give her strength.
-Benjamin Ferdinand.>
Theodore immediately made preparations to visit Ferdinand.
It was today that he would meet Katarina and set his feet on that damned place of black magic.
"I'll be back, Yves."
Theodore smiled sweetly and turned to Yves.
"Don't make that face. I'm going there not because I like that woman."
However, looking at the cold look on her face toward him, his voice persuading her gradually weakened.
"I'm going to check. And... I'm going to save you."
Yves was only cold at his sincere and tender appeal.
"Really, believe me."
Theodore still stared at her hair, which had not grown at all from that time.
Yes, it was reasonable that Yves did not trust him. Didn't he even pretend to kiss that woman in front of her as if she was nothing? So this was all the mistrust he planted.
[No, don't go.]
It was clearly Yves's unheard voice.
But for some reason, the voice telling him not to go seemed to be chasing after him. Theodore closed his eyes tightly,then opened them, and turned around.
"I'm sorry...... I'll be back."
****
Meanwhile, Katarina was waiting for Theodore's visit.
She was sure that Yves Llewellyn was in the mansion, but when she was released from custody, Yves was nowhere to be seen.
'Benjamin would never have freed me with good intentions...'
Katarina thought, biting her lip.