The spirit water in the plate mixed with the green light from the wizard's hand and started to whirl a little.

The wizard closed his eyes and slowly uttered the spell.

"..."

There was little tension in the expressions of the Empress, Sophia, and her handmaiden watching the scene.

Raphine glanced at the empress's face.

The empress had a particularly tense face.

'You must be concerned.'

If she saw Anna as her simply a woman who would marry her youngest and her younger brother, then she wouldn't have to think deeply about it.

However, the Empress was the head of the Lorelian House.

As she is in a situation where the empress always quarrels with the empress, she was in a position where she had to take care of the people who came in for the sake of her family's existence as an empress.

「I think it would be better not to expect too much, sweetheart...」

'... I think so.'

Raphine waited for the story to come out of the wizard's mouth with a frown on her face.

It was then.

"..."

flash! The wizard's pupils, who opened their eyes, instantly changed to a deep blue color.

Then, as if water was flowing, the waves swayed in his eyes. It was a bizarre scene.

"Uh, what..."

The Empress and her Duchess also looked perplexed, and the knights standing on the guard were also tense for a moment.

The wizard's mouth opened. A very low, wet voice came out slowly.

Like the language of a snake whispering.

"She is the source of the seeds of destruction. She is a vicious human who does not hesitate to lie, so she should never let her in..."

At those words, the queen's eyes suddenly changed. she asked with a serious expression.

"What do you mean?"

The wizard spoke with his pupils blue as if still flowing.

"I am Orphana, the Great Spirit of Water, and in her belly is a child of blood from a family other than the Lorelian..."

"What..."

At that moment, the wizard's eyes closed and a small vortex of water splashed into the sky.

"Damn!"

"Oh my goodness!"

The spray grew bigger and bigger, and then it reached the sky and sprinkled on the wizard's head. At that moment, the wizard stretched his body as if he had fainted.

The spirit water, mixed with magic, sparkled in a strange color and permeated the robe.

"Huh!"

The wizard, who had fainted for a moment, woke up with a strange noise. She looked around her and blinked her eyes.

The pupils suddenly returned to normal as usual.

"Your Majesty, maybe I just..."

The wizard looked at the Empress with a serious expression. The Empress had a meaningful expression on her face.

"..."

Sophia was hugging Raphine. She intended to protect Raphine, lest she might be surprised.

But Raphine...

'What...'

「...」 .」

「Whew! How was it, Master?」

Raphine had a shaky expression on her face.

Just what is that... is it binge? What's New? contact?

「There is a story like this in this world. Even if you are not a spirit samurai who has signed a contract with a spirit, it is said that a spirit can reside in a wizard with strong and pure magic. So he believes he can use that power instead!」

'Really...'

「Yes, sweetheart.」

As if those words were true, the wizard's expression filled with emotion.

"your Majesty! I... I! I!"

On the wizard's face, 'Did you see it? did you see Did you see it?"

It was a rare symptom for wizards with high purity and strong magical power, so that wizard was definitely pleased.

「how is it! Are you sure?」

'What...'

Yes, if the Empress really believed that, there was nothing more certain than this.

"It is worthwhile to serve only the water spirit for a long time. It's Orphana, the great spirit of water! These are all the grace of His Majesty!"

"Yeah, that's great..."

At the words of her delighted wizard, her empress also praised her with her happy face.

Orphana, the great spirit of water, was only a legend.

Even in the original story, Zerkan gained Orphana and gained great fame.

Wizard huh! under! He made a strange noise and was drunk with joy.

On the other hand, the empress did not have a happy face. Beneath her empress's expression was her anxiety and displeasure.

It's probably because of the result of the spirit divination.

"Once you have used a lot of mana, go back and rest."

"Yes, Empress Dowager. I will send the Thalesmann to your house for the Duchess."

"Thank you."

"Well then, come on."

The wizard bowed politely to the Empress and Duchess before leaving the drawing room.

「Are you signing a contract with me now? right?」

'Wait quietly for now.'

「It...」

Raphine closed her lips and stared at her deeply contemplating Empress.

At that time, the Empress turned her head and asked, looking at Raphine.

"Dear, does she by any chance remember her older sister named Anna whom she saw when she came to her imperial castle yesterday?"

"Yeah!"

"Yeah, did that sister really push you in the powder room?"

Sophia hugged Raphine and said it was okay, she whispered in her ear.

'Now, I guess you can finally believe what I say. You seem to really believe in the spirit of water...'

Raphine smiled with a smile of conversion on the inside and cried on the outside.

"that's right. My sister patted my shoulder like this! She pushed."

"..."

"your Majesty."

Sophia wrinkled her brow and looked at the Empress. She let out a deep sigh from the Empress's mouth.

Then the Empress called her attendant and gave her orders.

"Bring Miss Anna who is staying in the Sapphire Palace. Right Now."

"I see, Your Majesty."

And he gave different orders to the other servants.

"You go to the infirmary right now and call my doctor."

"I see, Your Majesty."

At those words, Raphine called for joy inside.

'I'm going to call the doctor to make sure I'm really pregnant!'

「I'm the owner! Did I do well? Did you do well? Yes?」

「huh.」

Then, the Empress reached out to her Raphine and stroked her little hand and said,

"You must have been very sick, Raphine. I didn't doubt you, but... I really couldn't have imagined that he would have done such a thing."

"I'm OK."

It was not that the Empress did not understand the heart.

'Because on the outside, a woman named Anna was really pure and good-natured.'

That such a woman deliberately pushed her little child, like Raphine.

It was a story that no one could easily believe.

'When you send it, you should definitely send it out.'

Raphine clapped her hands as if she had suddenly remembered.

"Aww!"

The Empress and Sophia looked at Raphine like that. Raphine said in an innocent voice.

"Yesterday in the powder room, she looked very sad."

"Did she look sad?"

"I was crying, saying, 'I miss Sir Gelsitan.'"

"... Sir Gelsitan?"

The empress's brows were wrinkled. Sophia tilted her head and pulled Raphine up to her lap.

'The Empress will know who Sir Gelsitan is. Because that family is one of the families that help the queen's business.'

The empress's expression turned to anger, and soon her fists began to tremble.

After so little time has passed.

she's smart

"Your Majesty, I have brought Miss Anna."

The servant who had been ordered by her empress brought the woman.

"Your Majesty, did you call?"

Anna, who knew nothing, smiled softly and bowed.

She looked nervous when she saw the Duchess and Raphine, but she soon came and sat across from her with a relaxed look.

Anna, who sat in her seat, clutched the hem of her dress as she looked at Raphine, who blinked innocently in her eyes.

She seemed nervous inside that Raphine might have said something useless again.

"..."

The eyes of the Empress looking at Anna like that shone sharply.

She wouldn't normally have noticed her, but she seemed to have noticed that Anna was nervous as the situation was.

She said, "Raphine says she wants to see Miss Anna again. You must have been sorry that I misunderstood you yesterday, right?"

The Empress gave her a strange look and asked Raphine. She was smart and seemed to think she would understand.

Without a word, Raphine nodded her head.

"..."

But Sophia felt uncomfortable with this situation itself, so she pulled Raphine tight and hugged her.

Anna smiled brightly and said.

"okay... Children of that age often mistakenly think that someone bullied them. Miss Raphine, I'm fine. Thank you for your apologies."

The voice that said that was so gentle that even Raphine almost smitten for a moment.

'It's really shameful...'

Raphine quickly turned her head away. Anna smiled again at that sight.

However, the faces of the Empress and Sophia hardened. When she saw her impudence in her Anna with her own two eyes, she was shocked.

Then, she again heard a knock on the door, she was smart.

"Your Majesty, I have brought Viscount Merion."

The door opened and entered was a middle-aged woman with thick glasses.

She was dressed in a dignified uniform that only a royal doctor could wear, and she looked very nice.

Viscount Merion slowly approached and paid tribute to the Empress.

The Empress smiled, raising the corner of her lips slightly, and she said to Anna.

"Viscount Merion is my doctor. She called because you might be weary of the long journey. Please see her."

"... Yeah?"