chapter 2 The world after the roses have gone down.

"What the hell happened?"
Michael's voice was so low that he couldn't flow to the floor that it seemed to permeate the underworld. All the knights and soldiers around him trembled because of his life.
"Why on earth...…
Less than half an hour later Michael, who revisited the cage bedroom, could not believe the situation in front of him.
This is because Eve, who had talked to him a while ago, had become a soulless shell.
'It's all over now, why...…
Eve en Rose Chloe Hadelamide, the Empire's seventh empress. It was already five years ago that Michael decided to get her.
Eve's existence was famous among Michael's own people.
This is because the imperial court had no precedent in the history of the empire, as it insisted on improving the treatment of Homunclus and rejected the deep-rooted evil practices of the imperial court.
There were quite a few Homunclus who liked Eve and wanted to be her immediate knight, one of whom was Michael.
Eve, however, did not give up the position of direct knight to any homunculus.
Michael also approached Eve several times to talk about whether he had any intention of having a direct knight or appealed his strength, which was not comparable to other homunclus, but Eve's attitude was simply an iron wall.
Even after giving up being Eve's direct knight, Michael couldn't stop caring about Eve and chasing her with his own eyes.
Whenever Eve was treated unfairly and despised for not following the imperial vices, Michael found himself rarely emotional.
It was not known when Eve's tactless and upright side became attractive.
By the time he came to his senses, he had already fallen in love with Eve. It was a terribly different love.
However, Michael did not conform to fate, and after years of planning, he overthrew the imperial family.
Originally, it was intended to take a few more years to take control of the imperial palace, but as Brigitte's tyranny intensified, Dive's political marriage was set as Hwangmyeong, it had no choice but to go back in a radical way.
Whatever the process, treason succeeded.
Michael, who became emperor, had nothing in the way. I thought all I had to do was keep Eve around.
But at this moment, with the goal just around the corner, everything went up in smoke.
"...."
Michael looked down at Eve with stunned eyes. The slender body felt neither breath nor pulse like a doll.
Michael's purple eyes were bathed in rage for an instant.
"Isn't your luggage asking? What the hell is going on?"
"Your Majesty...
It was time for armed soldiers, as well as their closest subjects, to be suppressed to live.
There was a brave man in front of furious Michael. It was none other than Rosenite.
"She killed herself. He said he would take responsibility as the blood of the imperial family and atone for his death."
"Did you commit suicide?"
"Yes, I drank Belladona's poison."
"How do you know that?”
"I've seen it myself."
Rosenit touched Michael's shoulder and spoke in a soft, seductive voice.
I didn't forget to pat Michael's bulging belly when he gave him a look.
"Did you poison her?"
"The empress, again and again. It's the queen now. And I told you to call me by my first name."
Instead of answering the question seriously, Rosenitte complained.
Michael, who is cold to everyone, but Rosenit himself was the exception.
So I didn't shrink even though I faced my dark purple eyes head-on.
He could even confidently confess what he did to Michael.
"Huh, scary eyes. Okay, I'll answer you first."
"Yes, that's right, Michael. I helped my sister with her atonement. You I don't think you've made a decision over your sister's execution, so I made the right decision instead as your companion."
"The blood of the Hwang family, which is not cooperative with you, will be the seed of disaster at best." You know that, don't you? I've been and always will be, and I'm the only one who's ever since.
"Shut up, mister."
"Gee, geek, geek, geek?"
Michael's life was focused on Rosenit.
I've never seen Michael this cold and scary. Rosenit stammered in great bewilderment.
"Mi, Michael...…. What's wrong with you?
Yo...?"
"Don't touch it."
"....!"
Michael struck down Rosenite's hand as if it were an unpleasant worm.
It was a rejection that didn't feel any pain, but Rosenite's response resembled a man who had been slapped.
"What have you done to me just now...…
Tears suddenly filled up in the pink ruby-like eyes.
Rosenit pretended to be the most pitiful and pitiful woman in the world right now.
But Michael seems to have no regard for her tragedy.
Turn around.
" Eve••••••
Only after seeing Eve lying on the floor did the ferocious flesh that had been swirling in her purple eyes die down.
Michael scanned Eve's pale cheeks with his hands. She still had warmth, but if she stayed in this cold place more, it would quickly cool down.
Michael held Eve's body preciously in his arms.
"Michael!"
Obstacles stood in the way.
"Are you ignoring me? How could you do this to me?"
"Don't ignore me! It's me! Your companion, Rosenite!"
"Get out of the way, mister."
Michael's eyes looking down at Rosenit were like a well-drawn blade.
It was only Rosenite who lost her nerve that she couldn't read the dark life.
A homunclus driver who did not see this dissuade Rosenite.
"Your Majesty, I think you are ill at ease. Back off now, self-respect...…
"Get out of the way! How dare you say it's safe! The slaves don't know the subject!"
Of course it didn't work. On the contrary, only the dirty personality hidden behind Rosenite's angelic face was revealed.
There were more than ten close aides of Michael from Homunclus around.
It was time for them to give Rosé Knit a betrayed look.
Rosenit, who blocked the entrance to the prison with his arms, shouted with a poisoned face.
"Michael, if you keep doing this to me, you'll regret it!"
"……regret? Is it possible to regret more than now?”
"Oh, you're saying that now? Did you forget? I have your child!”
Looking at Michael, who was silent, Rosenit rejoiced inwardly, 'Yes, it is.' Although it was not a life made by sharing physical love like a normal lover, but by using the power of alchemy, it was still the fruit of love with him.
Michael was no less devoted to the baby than she valued.
Isn't it just yesterday that he took a close look at the safety of his stomach and his precious blood?
There was no way a person would change overnight. •
But after a while, Michael thoroughly broke Rosenite's complacency.
"A child?"
There was a deep sneer mixed with the retort.
Michael, who soon disappeared from laughing while Rosenit was embarrassed, said in a soulless voice.
"The mass of cells in your stomach, made from the stone of a wise man?"
"What, what? lumps?"
"I think she's mistaking 'experiment' for 'pregnancy' now."
"Poetry, experiment?"
"The stone of the wise only responds to the blood of the imperial family, and I can exercise control over Homunculus. So I was going to borrow your womb and make a half of the Imperial Man and the Homunclus to bring me control of the wise man's stone."
It was never like the fruit of love. Rosenit cried undauntedly in contemplation.
"Well, it doesn't change that the baby in my stomach is you and me! It's the fruit of our love!"
"Our child...…
Michael's repeated voice was twisted.
In fact, Michael's dominance was expressed only when he was a homoon clus, so the love of the homoon clus that Rosenit had in his stomach didn't have to be Michael's.
It was just a pity that I couldn't remind you of the truth because I had a lot of ears to listen to.
But there was still more to shock Rosenite.
Michael opened his mouth cruelly.
"The word 'child' is too generous. What's in your stomach is an unproven alchemy experiment. A mix of humans and homunculus is unprecedented. So who knows if it's a human being or a monster when it's out there?"
"....!"
Rosenit's eyes are wide open to the limit.
"Monster, monster! To my child...…! Uh, uh, how could you say such a mean, harsh word?…!”
"That's what your imperial family always told us. You're exaggerating.”
After a pejorative remark, Michael drew his gaze from Rosenit.
"Get the Empress out."
"Yes!"
"Mi, Michael...…!”
As soon as Michael's orders were issued, the Homunclus knights pulled Rosenite out of the doorway like a pack.
This, too, has never been treated as a Rosenite before.
Rosenit saw Michael walking slowly across the hall, abandoning himself.
Beyond the wall-like back, I saw his half-sister cherishing him.
The sense of victory that I enjoyed by succeeding in poisoning just a moment ago was overshadowed.
Rosenit screams, glaring Michael's back as he drifts away with bloodshot eyes.
"Can't you stop there?" How could you do this to me?!
"What the hell is she doing to make me so miserable!" Rosenite's footsteps echoed. But there was no one to listen.
Empress, imprint the traitor.
Episode 4
The place where Michael carried Eve's body was the "Emperor's Room." The center of the hall where the haze is mysteriously shaking.
There were huge obelisk-like structures made of red mineral gemstones.
It was "The Stone of the Wise," an artifact that only responds to Hadelamide's blood and makes everything possible with alchemy.
It was like an instinct for a person who desperately wants a miracle more than anyone else to visit the stone of a wise man.
Michael laid Eve down nicely and used her thighs as a pillow.
Shaking light like a water plant. Michael and Eve in it at first glance looked like lovers taking a sweet break.
A despondent voice came from Michael's mouth.
"You never allow me to be with you in my life...…
Michael remained motionless in the emperor's room, completely destroyed.
Worried about this, one of the henchmen asked for an audience in the emperor's room.
It was the first time in three days.
Eve's body was not corrupted at all because magic stopped the passage of time.
Michael greeted the Privy Council chairman with Eve still alive.
Before the Privy Council chairman could say anything, Michael said his business.
"Call both the Empire Wizard and the Alchemist. Let them save Eve. It doesn't matter how much time and money it takes, or what material it takes."
"Ha, Haona, it is impossible to save the dead...…
"Isn't it the wise man's stone that makes the impossible possible? Oh, yeah. The use of the wise man's stone will require imperial blood. Bring Rosenite with you right now. I'll have to slit my throat and draw every drop of that blood.”
"Your Majesty!"
Michael's purple eyes glistened with madness. The chairman of the Privy Council freaked out and dissuaded him because he was clearly willing to do as he said.
"Calm down, Your Majesty! 8 Her Majesty is the last surviving descendant of the Emperor Hadelamid. wise man's stone
Weren't you going to let it live until you gain control?"
"Why should I do that?"
"Example••••••?"
"Yves is dead, and I don't know what it's worth to be an empire or a wise man's stone to me now.”
"....!"
Michael was serious.
At this moment, the chairman of the Privy Council realized that his lord's obsession with Eve was beyond imagination.
It occurred to me that perhaps the driving force behind him to ascend to the throne was Yves-en-Rose, a naughty empress.
"Go ahead and carry out Jim's orders."
Soon after, Rosenit was taken to the emperor's room, locked in a beast cage.
His clothes were so scruffy and his hair was so messy that he could not believe he was a noble figure.
"Oh, it's Yvesien Rose's fault! She took everything I had! You ruined my happiness! Ah, it's unfair! Ugh!"
The venomous murderer, who poisoned his blood, showed no remorse.
Rosenit, who was struggling with self-pity and even pretending to cry, discovered Michael.
The tearful eyes instantly turned into those glistening with venom.
"Michael, Michaelis Agnito!
You, you, you...How could you do that? How dare you hold her in front of my eyes!"
"Get her out of my sight and kneel before me! Do you know how much you're doing that you're gonna regret? Who made you emperor! I have a baby in my stomach!"
In fact, there's nothing in Rosenite's stomach right now.
Rosenit, who was dragged out of prison that day, fell on the floor after hurting herself and running wild to attract Michael's attention, and the
"Homunclus' affection" in her stomach was extinguished.
Rosenite, who was the only one who didn't know about it, continued to rant with evil.
"I have your baby in my stomach! I have your baby, not her!"
Michael did not give Rosenite a single answer. His purple eyes had completely lost their human light.
Rosenite was left in the corner muzzled.
The emperor's room was accompanied by the monarch of Homunclus, an uncorrupted body, and an empress blinded by jealousy.
At the same time, the whole empire was notified of recruiting talented wizards and alchemists.
Many people supported the withdrawal task of "resurrection of the dead" like bees.
Most were intended to siphon off imperial monopolies of alchemy and magical knowledge or to access the stones of the wise.
The only person interested in the study itself was a suspicious female pensioner who covered her face with a mask in the form of an owl.
She called herself the 'sage of the family tree forest'.
"I was told you had a way to save Eve."
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, you will get a doll that can only breathe if you resurrect the dead. Her soul has already been completely separated from her body and scattered. It is outside the realm of alchemy and magic that finds the soul and binds it back to the body. So the true meaning of the lion's resurrection is impossible."
"That's no different from all the chidren I've ever posted to Jim. Are you trying to waste your time, too.
"No, Your Majesty. I would like to propose another way to you."
"What if it's any other way?”
"It's about turning back time."
Michael's purple eyes, which had been as murky as ever, were striking when he discovered a new possibility.
"Is that possible?”
"Of course, but the price is high. We have to burn out half the stones of the wise."
"I don't care, the price."
Michael said firmly. The alchemist tightened his head.
"Then let's get ready."
The wise man in the spruce forest spent a full week painting alchemy gin in the emperor's room.
It was not until the floor, as well as the walls and ceilings, were filled with soft resin that the ceremony of time regression was finally held.
"Oh, my lord. I forgot to tell you one thing."
The alchemist, who put his hand on the wise man's stone, suddenly opened his mouth as if he remembered.
"From now on, the magic and alchemy are sacrificing the stones of the wise man's stone. And since the stone of the wise is a relic attributed to the blood of the imperial family, the central axis of the time regression will not be Her Majesty, but Her Majesty the 7th Empress."
"...!"
The suspicious man who covered his face with a mask was not a good match to trust.
The alchemist has only now spoken about the important fact of the Eveman time regression. It was a fraudulent hand.
Michael seemed quite shocked when he heard the truth just before his consciousness.
But he quickly regained his composure and calmly responded.
"Then I can't meet her, but she can meet me."
"Yes, it is."
"She doesn't choose me again, and I'm frustrated again, and I'm going to make a bad choice."
"That's, I don't know."
Soon Michael, who made up his mind, issued the order.
"I don't care. I'll perform the ceremony."
"All right, Your Majesty."
Michael held Eve in his arms while the alchemist uttered a spell to invoke Yeon Sung-jin.
The contact was more affectionate than ever, knowing this would be the last hug.
Michael whispered as if to kiss Eve's lips.
"Yves, when you come back to life, you'd better either kill me or choose me.”
At the end of the request, a red light spread through my vision.
It was a miracle light created by the wise man's stone, the Lapis Philosopo
Room.
The Hwangnyeo imprints a traitor in
Episode 5.

Chapter end