"Ra, Raphine?"

Sophia was the first to wake up.

She quickly took Raphine and held her in her arms. She then apologized to Zerkan by bowing her head slightly.

"Sir, please forgive the child's rudeness. Raphine is just getting home and adjusting."

"...."

Zerkan raised one eyebrow and looked at Raphine in Sophia's arms.

"Wedding...."

Raphine let out a small mumble, and she let out a smirk from Zerkan's mouth.

To be honest, she was in a situation where she might have doubts, 'Who made it?'

Moreover, Zerkan was the future prince of this empire.

Although it is said that the power of the second prince, who was born by the emperor's concubine, is aiming for the position, the current Crown Prince is Zerkan.

As such, there will be many families who are aiming for the future crown prince position.

But Zerkan never thought that the duke would have such an intention.

In the first place, the duke had strong power and wealth even though he did not aim for the position of the Crown Prince, and also....

Looking at the peacock's face, no one would be suspicious of that.

The Duke of Aston looked as if the world had collapsed, and his eyes were frozen without even blinking.

As if turned into a stone statue.

"Fine. It's just a kid's joke."

Zerkan, unable to see, answered the Duchess in that way, but the Duke was still there.

"Hey, honey...."

Sophia gently tapped the peacock's shoulder.

"Bran, chaff, chaff, grain... Marriage...."

The duke, who had come to his senses only then, muttered a little.

When the peacock spoke the word 'marriage', it was as if he was saying terrible words like 'war' or 'death'.

After staring at her expression for a moment, Zerkan pulled something out of her inner pocket and held it to the Duchess.

"Well, this is... It is a gift that my mother told me to give after hearing the news."

"Oh, your Majesty the Empress? Thankfully... I will visit you soon and say hello separately."

Sophia answered gracefully and accepted her gift.

She opened the box wrapped in velvet, revealing a pretty bracelet studded with blue jewels.

"Oh, you are beautiful! So precious.... Raphine, would you like to try it now?"

Sophia sat Raphine on her chair and tried to put her bracelet on her own.

"...!"

Raphine was also excited about the word "gift" for a moment. With a surprised look on her face, she stared at the bracelet.

For a moment. Hopefully this....

The bracelet was a very unusual design. Especially that blue gem....

It looks like a normal sapphire, but whenever the bracelet moved, a mysterious light was reflected from the inside of the jewel. like an opal.

Such sapphires were very rare.

「Why? Do you know something, baby?」

'No... No, it will not.'

But why is it so creepy...?

Raphine stared blankly at her bracelet, then alternately looked at Zerkan.

Therefore....

If this uneasy premonition is right....

This item was a bracelet that Zerkan would use in the future.

And this bracelet was one of the treasures handed down from generation to generation in the family of Zerkan's mother, the current empress.

'Why the hell are you giving me this precious thing?'

Why do you have to do this!

Spirits were very rare in this world. As such, there were very few people who dealt with spirits.

Some spirits were transformed into old objects or objects used by people and resided in them.

However, most spirits prefer to wander in nature, not to dwell in objects.

It was said that the spirits dwelling in objects were rarer.

The original heroine, Violet, deals with several spirits, but among them, Ruby was the only one who inhabited objects.

That's the teddy bear that Raphine got.

A spirit with immense power.

Except for Ruby, the rest of Violet's spirits were spirits wandering around nature.

And this bracelet....

'It's a bracelet imbued with spirits....'

The original male lead, Zerkan, was not a spiritist who dealt with spirits.

He had other powers.

Awakened as a sword master, Zerkan is transformed into an idiosyncratic while fighting the 'Apocalypse Rift', after which he is able to use the power of darkness.

But it was something that had to be kept strictly secret.

'Because by any chance, you may be accused of heresy or be misunderstood as the cause of the rift.'

In the original work, Zerkan succeeds in hiding this fact from anyone.

'The only spirit that Zerkan dealt with was the spirit in this bracelet....'

It was a spirit that manipulated the power of water.

Of course, the spirits dwelling in objects did not wake up anytime and anywhere.

Only those with magical powers can awaken the spirits, but more important than that was the choice of the spirits.

Even if a person with magical powers touches an object, if the spirit rejects it, the object will remain as an ordinary object for the rest of its life.

Ruby, a baby teddy bear who came to Raphine, should have gone to Violet, who opened up her magic a few years later if it was the original story.

「That's right. But I chose you!」

'But he won't wake up, will he? That would be it... . I'll have to return it to Zerkan later.'

Raphine watched Sophia as she put her bracelet on.

'By the way, Violet and Zerkan.... Why do you keep passing these precious things over to me?'

To be honest, even with Ruby, I really didn't want to own this bracelet.

However, it is a gift from the Empress herself. "No!" And I couldn't let it go.

Then it would be the mother who would be in trouble.

Raphine was still young, so she had to wind the bracelet twice before she could wear it.

The moment I put the bracelet on so perfectly, a cold sensation rushed through my wrist and into my skin.

However, fortunately, only a cold sensation was felt, and there was no reaction from the bracelet.

'Phew.... This spirit must have rejected me. Thank God.'

「Yes, sweetheart. You will suffice with me alone! Because I am the strongest spirit!」

Raphine lightly ignored Ruby's words.

"You fit really well. Do you like it, Raphine?"

"... Yes."

When Sophia asked with joy, Raphine was forced to nod her head awkwardly.

And he showed a slightly forced smile to greet Zerkan.

'Since you said you liked it, you should go to Her Majesty and tell her... ?'

Zerkan looked at Raphine like that and smiled slightly. Seeing that smile, Raphine swallowed her saliva involuntarily.

'How dare you smile like that at such a young subject.'

Raphine felt as if her palms were sweating for nothing.

Is it because she knows that she will become a huge obsession in the future? For some reason, Zerkan felt a little difficult.

「Don't worry, baby. If you change the future, that child won't go crazy, right?」

'Yes, Ruby, you are right.'

"greatness... ."

In the midst of confusion, Violet coughed.

Violet is still "married...." She glanced at the peacock muttering as she murmured, and chinked her to avoid her spot.

"Adrian, Zerkan. Now let's go over there and talk."

Adrian also stood there coldly for a while, then followed Violet's instructions.

Raphine sighed in relief as she watched the three main characters of the original disappearing over there.

Still, at least she seemed to have succeeded in instilling the word 'marriage' in her first meeting with Zerkan.

Although she instilled the word in others, of course.

The Duke of Eston still had his face turned white.

"Honey... Now calm down."

"It's marriage.... Wife! Could it be that Raphine injured her head? I have to call the priest right now, I can't!"

Sophia managed to calm the Duke of Aston as he was about to get up.

Raphine was worried as she watched the couple on a good relationship with her.

'How can I seduce Zerkan?'

Raphine thought more about the story of Zerkan in the original.

First of all, from Zerkan's home environment.

'Zerkan had a resentment towards his father, his emperor... .'

「Why do you resent your father?」

Ruby, who had read Raphine's thoughts at will, asked. Raphine tried to tell Ruby that she never tried and told her not to meddle, but she just explained.

Maybe she'd better take her advice from Ruby.

Ruby was simple, but she wasn't stupid. She had a bit of a misunderstanding on her part.

「Thank you for acknowledging me, baby.」

'Yeah, anyway... Did the emperor have any other wives besides Zerkan's mother, the Empress? That's why I hate you.'

「It's worth it.」

'Yes. Even the emperors and concubines of the distant past were originally brought in, but the system that had disappeared was recreated as a tradition.'

「You are an unscrupulous bastard.」

'That's right. It was an arranged marriage that had been promised since her childhood with her empress. Then she met the empress and saw her second prince.'

「Then, is Zerkan's position unstable?」

'It's not like that. The emperor is trying to hand over the throne to Zerkan unconditionally.'

「Huh? That is surprising.」

'It is a person who thoroughly believes that the throne is maintained only when the throne is descended from the enemy. Even in the original story, Zerkan became emperor safely.'

「Hey, that's weird.」

Ruby didn't seem to understand. Raphine further explained the story in the original.

'The previous emperor was the former Duke of Aston... So, the imperial power grew stronger while occupying the neighboring countries with my grandfather?'

「Therefore?」

'The current emperor has maintained a strong imperial power because he is the only enemy of the former emperor. Thanks to that, I was able to bring her to the pick.'

「Hmm....」

'He had no choice but to give birth to another son, but he must have passed it on to the right eldest son to keep this imperial power.'

「Because people called the Imperial Family are very strange. So, the relationship between the second prince and Zerkan would be the worst?」

'That's right.... Zerkan resents the Emperor, the Empress, and the 2nd Prince for hurting his mother, the Empress.'

「That's why her mother died and went crazy....」

'That's right. In reality, the empress struggles to make her own son, her 2nd prince, her prince, but... All the people in that family are stupid, so every scheme they make will fail.'

However, there was only one successful strategy among them.

He couldn't change the Crown Prince, but it was a ploy that yielded quite a lot of money.

'It was just torturing the empress, who was psychologically increasingly on the defensive.'

In addition, it was also the reason that she slowly walked down the path of decline to the family of the Empress.