The Emperor’s Lady-in-Waiting Is Wanted as a Bride: Volume 1 by Kanata Satsuki

Author:Kanata Satsuki [SATSUKI, KANATA]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4: The Situation Keeps Deteriorating

Lyse woke up the next morning feeling refreshed and sat bolt upright in bed.

“I...”

She could remember her laughing fit from the magic. She knew it wasn’t her fault, but she’d behaved like a drunkard.

“Hnnngh!”

The mere thought of it was humiliating.

Lyse quickly made her way to her own bedroom. It was unseemly to wear the same dress two days in a row, so she put on something fresh and fixed her hair. As she groomed herself, she found herself recalling the gentlemen’s conversation she’d briefly overheard the evening before.

“What did they mean by using me?” she wondered.

Lyse possessed mana, but she couldn’t cast any magic. So how could they even use her? She couldn’t imagine the answer. There was something bothering her even more, however...

“Alcede said the soldiers were falling under the same effect too.”

The soldiers weren’t nobility, but some of them possessed mana of their own. And now even that had begun to warp.

“This means it’s not just His Majesty anymore...”

Lyse began to worry about Sidis and Alcede. Moreover, why wasn’t she affected when she apparently had mana herself?

All such thoughts were banished from her mind when she returned to the emperor’s quarters.

“All right, Miss Lyse, ready yourself,” Alcede warned her before nodding to an attendant on standby. Sidis, too, looked as if he was steeling himself for something.

Lyse wondered what in the world was going on. Had something happened to the emperor? After heeding Sidis’s request to preemptively clasp her hands over her mouth, she nervously peeked into the next room. And there she saw it...

“Khhhhn...” Emperor Egbert whined.

He’d gotten much better at making whining noises—but that was only natural, for he now had the head of a dog.

Lyse was glad that she’d preemptively covered her mouth, because she nearly screamed in shock.

The emperor heaved a troubled canine sigh. Now that his head had transformed too, he couldn’t show his face at all—literally. Lyse, however, had an idea.

“Can’t you hide this with magic?” she asked.

She knew the emperor could use magic. It had been a hundred odd years since she’d last lived in the empire. Surely they’d come up with all kinds of new spells since then.

“We could use an illusion, but that would only work on people close by. The range isn’t good, so anyone at a distance would still see his true form,” Sidis replied grimly.

“We need to get to the bottom of what’s causing the warping, and fast...”

In reply, Sidis turned his attention to the ongoing investigation of the attack in the gardens the other day: “I’ll ask the imperial troops to step up. Olwen is formally handling the matter, but they’re just too slow.”

“I’ll send a message to the prime minister, then. You’re just His Majesty’s knight right now, after all. Give me a moment to write up a missive to make things easier,” Alcede asked.

He then moved over to the emperor’s desk and took up a pen. He quickly scribbled out a note, completed with his signature, and handed it over to Sidis, who rolled it up and left the room.

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