Chapter 97
“If that isn’t sufficient, you possibly can inform me all of the jewels you need.”’
The Emperor’s manner of talking was as if he was extending an excellent favor… that flashing gaze.
“I simply need you to take off that bracelet.”’
‘Unfortunate bastard.’
Iellie, recalling that point, bit her lip as Zachary gazed at her.
“Len…”
“Oh, huh?”
She raised her head out of the blue on the name. On the similar time, he might see that her face turned pale.
‘Rattling it. What did that bastard do, Iellie?’
Zachary bit his lip as he clasped her shoulders.
“…It’s okay, let’s have a look and resolve.”
Swallowing a sigh, he opened his mouth whereas Iellie rested her head on his chest.
“Hey, Zachary. Aren’t you indignant?”
“Why would I be indignant with you?”
Anybody who dared to cling to her can be torn to items. As he thought so, he smiled fiercely.
‘Nonetheless, I can’t consider that bastard behaving like this.’
Zachary spat a curse into his mouth. He wasn’t going to show down the combat that got here his manner.
The luxurious peridot bracelet despatched by the Emperor was a bracelet woven with skinny gold chains with jewels elaborately embedded. Along with the valuable jewels, the price of handicrafts should have been monumental.
“….”
Zachary’s temper plummeted to the underside. The colour of the peridot, which resembled the colour of his spouse’s eyes, appeared to disprove how a lot the Emperor felt for Iellie.
“As anticipated, wouldn’t it be higher to return this bracelet?”
With out answering, Zachary’s eyes narrowed as he turned the bracelet round. He uttered out loud.
“No.”
“However…”
“As a result of the truth that we ship this again can itself imply one thing completely different to the Emperor.”
He didn’t wish to give the Emperor any room to consider that he had received, even mentally. Maybe by returning this bracelet, the Emperor would assume that he had returned the present ‘as a result of he was aware of him.’
‘…I can’t do this.’
Zachary bit his lips. A skinny chain clattered in his fingers.
‘Nonetheless, I can’t have Iellie put on this bracelet.’
It was tough for him to make rational choices when it got here to her. Above all, jewellery was normally introduced to a lover or husband. Via this present, the Emperor implicitly revealed that he had not given up on Iellie.
“Len.”
“Sure?”
“That bracelet, put on it.”
When Zachary narrowed his forehead and opened his mouth, Iellie widened her eyes confusingly and gazed at him.
“…Sure?”
“Now that the Emperor has given you a treasured present, you need to totally get pleasure from that honor. As a substitute…”
Actually, the truth that the Emperor gave a present was the dignity of the household. If he refused the present, the Duchy would look slightly shameful.
His eyes shone bleakly as he spoke sternly.
“…I’ll offer you one thing that can in some way make that bracelet look shabby.”
“No, what do you imply by that?”
Flustered, Iellie requested him although Zachary simply continued his phrases with eyes that had an odd sense of triumph.
“To maintain the present from getting the eye with out exhibiting the rudeness of returning the Emperor’s present.”
“Hey, Zachary…?”
“After I gave you the jewellery that overwhelms that bracelet, you simply need to put on it collectively.”
“….”
Iellie, pushed by his spirit, shut her mouth as Zachary stared at her.
“I believe a tiara would look good.”
“…T-tiara?”
“Sure.”
Headdresses within the type of crowns, together with tiaras, have been permitted just for noble girls. In precept, solely girls within the direct line of the imperial household, wives of Dukes and princesses, have been the one ones allowed.
‘Nevertheless, that’s only a rule. Even princesses from different nations chorus from carrying such hair ornaments when coming into the Empire.’
In fact, the ability of the Duchy was akin to that of most royal households, however the Duchy nonetheless held the title of the Lippenberg Empire. Nonetheless, Zachary selected a tiara to match the bracelet. That was…
‘Zachary seems to be like he desires to scrape the Emperor’s clutches in some way…’
As she glanced at Zachary and thought so, even when she stated it, Iellie didn’t assume he would hearken to her.
“…Effectively, do as you want.”
When she finally uttered it with a sense of half-given-up, he smiled a proud smile.
“You’ll be able to stay up for it, Len.”
“Regardless of how a lot my expectations have been, you’ll far exceed them.”
Seeing her reply bluntly, Zachary narrowed his eyes.
Iellie grumbled once more and went on, “You have got already stunned me a number of occasions in preparation for this marriage ceremony.”
“Then, I’ll strive to not disappoint you once more this time.”
After saying that, he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek briefly.
“Then, I’ll go first.”
“Already?”
“Sure. I’ve one thing to organize.”
“Sure, alright.”
Iellie gave a small reply whereas hiding her blushing cheeks. Whereas she was already used to him kissing her unexpectedly, she couldn’t assist her coronary heart beating wildly. Oh actually, when did he develop up like that?
She swallowed a sigh.
The primary individual he referred to as after parting methods with Iellie was the butler. The butler couldn’t cover his bewildered face on the Duke’s sudden summon.
In entrance of him, Zachary made a bombshell comment.
“I’m pondering of utilizing Asha’s tears.”
“…Asha’s tears?”
Because the frightened butler requested him instantly, Zachary replied to him with a puzzled expression.
“Why, is there an issue?”
‘In fact, there are issues!’
The butler barely suppressed his need to protest.
‘Asha’s Tears’ was probably the most treasured jewels handed down from technology to technology within the Duke’s household. It was a pink diamond, in accordance with a romantic legend, stated to have been made by the silver dragon by hardening the tears of the fairy Asha into ice.
“Might I ask what you intend to make use of Asha’s tears for?”
“I’m pondering of adorning the tiara for Iellie.”
“….”
Listening to the assured reply, the butler was perplexed. He knew that the top of the Duchy cherished his spouse very a lot, however wasn’t this a bit an excessive amount of?
Zachary tapped the armrest of the chair in a nervous movement.
“The Emperor gave Iellie a bracelet.”
“…Sure, I heard that.”
Upon listening to that, the butler’s eyes went chilly. He was properly conscious that the Emperor cared about his mistress. Upon these twisted emotions, however how would the Duke really feel?
“Because the butler is aware of very properly, we can’t ship the bracelet again.”
“Your Excellency is correct.”
“It’s a matter of Hessenweitz’s satisfaction. Then…”
Zachary glanced barely. His chilly, shining gaze adopted the butler’s face.
“Shouldn’t we give Iellie one other jewel sufficient to crush the one the Emperor gave us?”
“…Your Excellency.”
The butler tried to cease him in some way. It was as a result of even so, he thought that even in Hessenweitz, it was not a good suggestion to make use of a legendary jewel for a combat of satisfaction although Zachary was nonetheless adamant.
“Generally, a person does one thing even when he is aware of he’s not rational.”
The Duke acknowledged his excessive possessive need for Iellie. The butler seemed on the Duke in silence.
“Asha’s tears… Name in probably the most well-known craftsman and make it right into a tiara.”
“…Are you speaking a few tiara?”
“Sure. To place it on her head on the marriage day.”
Zachary out of the blue considered Iellie. From the second he first met her, she was the one who saved him. Nonetheless, he couldn’t repay even a few of the many issues she had given him.
He continued instantly.
“As a lot as that day… I wish to make Iellie just like the grasp of this world.”
The butler swallowed dryly at Zachary’s alternative of creating a tiara. Not like the earlier Duke, who took a light angle out of concern for his son’s succession to the title, Zachary took a warlike angle towards the imperial household.
‘…However, the Duke won’t ever cease.’
Within the first place, Zachary by no means backed down when it got here to Iellie. The butler lastly nodded his head.
“I’ll take your order.”
“Oh, by the way in which.”
When Zachary out of the blue opened his mouth, the butler, who was about to go away the room, seemed again at him.
“Sure?”
“The form of the tiara…”
He seemed frightened for a second. Clenching his chin, he opened his mouth to the butler in a relaxed tone.
“A flower crown can be good.”
“A flower crown…?”
“Sure. A flower crown manufactured from Asha flowers.”
His beautiful spouse resembled an Asha blossom… similar to Asha’s flowers, no decorations might swimsuit Iellie.
“I’ll inform them.”
Zachary nodded his head.
Because the butler bowed his head and finally left the room, he buried himself deep within the chair. He had already heard what Iellie had been by means of on the New Yr’s ball.
“….”
How dare he to what’s his…
Zachary’s eyes narrowed coldly. He bit his lip annoyedly.
Iellie examined the bracelet given by the Emperor. The pale inexperienced peridot intertwined with a dangling gold chain on her slender, white wrist seemed fairly good.
Seeing that, Zachary was very uncomfortable.
“Len.”
“Sure?”
“…It’s fairly.”
Although he didn’t wish to say it seemed petty, he couldn’t bear to say, ‘Take that off immediately.’
“However, I stay up for your present extra.”
Nevertheless, Iellie, who was fast to note, shortly took off the bracelet. The smile she smiled at him was stunning.
“Even in case you don’t, I have already got a tiara prepared for you.”
“Sure…”
Iellie made a shy face. It meant that she didn’t care concerning the Emperor’s bracelet, however in some way the that means appeared to have been barely misunderstood. Zachary touched her cheek and stood up earlier than he whispered sweetly.
“I can’t wait to see you put on that tiara.”
Iellie quietly nodded her head. It was a bit burdensome to make use of the legendary jewels of the Duchy.
‘Nonetheless… I believe I understand how a lot Zachary cares about me.’
She was glad about that. Zachary smiled on the cuteness of her cheeks blushing.
And some days later, when the marriage was simply across the nook, Iellie was given a tiara as a present by Zachary.
“…Can I actually take this?”
She gazed at her husband with a faint look. No, this was too flashy. Annerose, the Princess of the Empire, didn’t even have such a tiara.
Zachary nodded his head casually.
“Certain, as a result of it was made for you.”
“However…”
Iellie gulped. The tiara in her hand was within the form of a flower crown embodying the Asha flower.
“If you happen to put this in your head… It should really feel like you may have a minimum of one citadel in your head.”
It was a tiara elaborately crafted utilizing platinum. The petals have been expressed with pink crystals, and a diamond referred to as ‘Asha’s Tears’ shone within the middle of the tiara whereas the leaves have been manufactured from emerald.
“What’s unsuitable with that?”
“Uh…”
Iellie narrowed her brows. Anyway, when Zachary was being like this, she normally didn’t pay attention.
“You don’t prefer it?”
Opening his mouth cautiously, Zachary seemed severe as he spoke once more.
“If you happen to actually don’t prefer it, I’ll make it new, so don’t fear…”
“No, no! It’s not like that!”
Startled, she shook her head violently. Her arms have been heavy due to the tiara, and he or she couldn’t bear to shake them.
“It’s not like that, it’s simply because it’s so fairly…!”
“Then, I’m glad.”
It was solely then that Zachary finally smiled broadly. It was towards the regulation to be so good-looking. Iellie calmly checked out him.
“Thanks a lot. I by no means thought I’d obtain such a fairly factor.”
She thanked him wholeheartedly. She actually meant what she stated. Maybe she might discover nothing extra stunning than this tiara, even when she checked out all of the issues she had in her possession. In the meantime, Zachary made a face that stated that was apparent at her phrases.
“As a result of it’s one thing you’ll use.”
“Effectively…”
“Every part about you needs to be one of the best.”
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